Patch Management Contracts in the Thames Valley

Patch Management
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley requiring Patch Management skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Patch Management over the 6 months leading up to 19 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 106 128 140
Rank change year-on-year +22 +12 +37
Contract jobs citing Patch Management 7 4 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.42% 0.15% 0.37%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.45% 0.18% 0.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 3 10
10th Percentile £281 - £398
25th Percentile £386 £363 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £375 £400
Median % change year-on-year +53.33% -6.25% -33.33%
75th Percentile £594 £388 £519
90th Percentile £598 - -
South East median daily rate £425 £500 £400
% change year-on-year -15.00% +25.00% -1.84%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Thames Valley

Patch Management falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,542 2,197 2,686
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 92.11% 84.60% 90.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 923 1,201 1,828
10th Percentile £300 £255 £313
25th Percentile £400 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £513
Median % change year-on-year - -2.44% +2.50%
75th Percentile £599 £608 £615
90th Percentile £675 £688 £700
South East median daily rate £500 £513 £515
% change year-on-year -2.44% -0.49% +3.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 104 153 83
10th Percentile £14.20 £13.50 £16.25
25th Percentile £14.75 £19.25 £21.45
Median hourly rate £24.91 £49.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -49.17% -2.00% +194.12%
75th Percentile £55.00 £67.50 £66.33
90th Percentile £82.10 £86.73 £75.59
South East median hourly rate £22.29 £54.36 £50.00
% change year-on-year -59.00% +8.72% +122.22%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing Patch Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for Patch Management in the Thames Valley

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Patch Management in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for Patch Management in the Thames Valley

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Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Patch Management in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 19 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Patch Management in the Thames Valley

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Patch Management in the Thames Valley.

Hourly rate trend for Patch Management in the Thames Valley

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Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Patch Management within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 19 July 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Berkshire +27 6 £575 +53.33% 4
Buckinghamshire - 1 - - 3
Patch Management
South East

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 2 (28.57%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (14.29%) Anypoint
2 1 (14.29%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 2 (28.57%) Azure
1 2 (28.57%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (14.29%) Entra ID
2 1 (14.29%) Mimecast
2 1 (14.29%) OneDrive
2 1 (14.29%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (28.57%) Firewall
1 2 (28.57%) VPN
2 1 (14.29%) DNS
2 1 (14.29%) MPLS
2 1 (14.29%) NAS
2 1 (14.29%) SAN
2 1 (14.29%) TCP/IP
2 1 (14.29%) VSAN
General
1 2 (28.57%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Finance
2 1 (14.29%) Legal
2 1 (14.29%) Retail
Job Titles
1 2 (28.57%) Architect
1 2 (28.57%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Deskside Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Deskside Support
2 1 (14.29%) Deskside Support Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Desktop Support
2 1 (14.29%) Integration Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Lead
2 1 (14.29%) Security Architect
2 1 (14.29%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (14.29%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Data Centre
1 1 (14.29%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 3 (42.86%) Windows
2 2 (28.57%) Linux
2 2 (28.57%) Windows 10
3 1 (14.29%) Android
3 1 (14.29%) Apple iOS
3 1 (14.29%) CentOS
3 1 (14.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (14.29%) Ubuntu
3 1 (14.29%) VMS
3 1 (14.29%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (28.57%) Cloud Security
1 2 (28.57%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 2 (28.57%) Vulnerability Scanning
2 1 (14.29%) API Management
2 1 (14.29%) Architectural Design
2 1 (14.29%) Budget Management
2 1 (14.29%) Business Case
2 1 (14.29%) Business Strategy
2 1 (14.29%) Collaborative Working
2 1 (14.29%) Data Loss Prevention
2 1 (14.29%) High Availability
2 1 (14.29%) Identity Access Management
2 1 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (14.29%) Project Delivery
2 1 (14.29%) Roadmaps
2 1 (14.29%) Root Cause Analysis
2 1 (14.29%) Security Operations
2 1 (14.29%) SIEM
2 1 (14.29%) Technology Roadmap
2 1 (14.29%) Translating Business Requirements
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (14.29%) NIST
System Software
1 4 (57.14%) Active Directory
2 3 (42.86%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (14.29%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (14.29%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (14.29%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 3 (42.86%) SCCM
2 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (14.29%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 4 (57.14%) Microsoft
2 3 (42.86%) VMware
3 2 (28.57%) Qualys
4 1 (14.29%) Citrix
4 1 (14.29%) CyberArk
4 1 (14.29%) IBM
4 1 (14.29%) MuleSoft