Patch Management Contracts in the UK excluding London

Patch Management
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 275 330 362
Rank change year-on-year +55 +32 +24
Contract jobs citing Patch Management 61 69 101
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.48% 0.33% 0.42%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.53% 0.39% 0.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 38 79
10th Percentile £188 £287 £200
25th Percentile £264 £334 £210
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 £450 £350
Median % change year-on-year -22.22% +28.57% -6.67%
75th Percentile £438 £538 £473
90th Percentile £555 £623 £584
UK median daily rate £425 £483 £400
% change year-on-year -11.92% +20.63% -11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 1
10th Percentile - £54.13 -
25th Percentile £77.50 £58.44 £51.25
Median hourly rate £85.00 £66.25 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year +28.30% +26.19% +180.00%
75th Percentile £92.50 £73.44 £53.75
90th Percentile - £77.38 -
UK median hourly rate £57.00 £23.80 £52.50
% change year-on-year +139.50% -54.67% -12.50%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 11,543 17,602 21,544
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 90.42% 84.74% 89.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,249 10,520 14,947
10th Percentile £235 £250 £255
25th Percentile £375 £380 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £483 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.50% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £662 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 825 2,048 1,307
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.33 £11.00
25th Percentile £17.30 £15.28 £16.00
Median hourly rate £27.50 £37.34 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.35% +3.72% +80.00%
75th Percentile £64.50 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £72.98
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

Patch Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Patch Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Patch Management in the UK excluding London

Patch Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Patch Management in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Patch Management in the UK excluding London

Patch Management
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Patch Management in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Patch Management in the UK excluding London

Patch Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Patch Management in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Patch Management in the UK excluding London

Patch Management
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
North of England +31 21 £325 +66.67% 25
North West +31 15 £350 -9.68% 11
South East +31 13 £425 -15.00% 40
Midlands +19 10 £210 -40.00% 30
West Midlands +11 10 £210 -40.00% 20
South West +46 7 £313 -3.85% 27
Northern Ireland - 4 - - 3
North East +1 3 £195 - 3
East of England +22 2 £350 +2.94% 26
Scotland +13 2 £675 +39.90% 7
Yorkshire +4 2 £268 +37.18% 11
Wales - 2 £425 - 3
Patch Management
UK

Patch Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 13 (21.31%) Microsoft Exchange
2 6 (9.84%) SharePoint
3 5 (8.20%) IIS
4 2 (3.28%) Confluence
Applications
1 6 (9.84%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (3.28%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 14 (22.95%) Microsoft 365
2 13 (21.31%) Azure
3 10 (16.39%) AWS
4 6 (9.84%) Entra ID
5 5 (8.20%) OneDrive
6 2 (3.28%) Power Automate
6 2 (3.28%) Power Platform
6 2 (3.28%) PowerApps
7 1 (1.64%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (1.64%) Amazon S3
7 1 (1.64%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (1.64%) Nutanix
7 1 (1.64%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 16 (26.23%) DNS
2 14 (22.95%) DHCP
2 14 (22.95%) Firewall
3 6 (9.84%) VPN
4 4 (6.56%) SAN
4 4 (6.56%) SSL
5 3 (4.92%) Network Security
5 3 (4.92%) TCP/IP
5 3 (4.92%) VLAN
5 3 (4.92%) Wireless
6 2 (3.28%) HTTP
6 2 (3.28%) LAN
6 2 (3.28%) NAS
6 2 (3.28%) OpenLDAP
6 2 (3.28%) WAN
6 2 (3.28%) WLAN
7 1 (1.64%) BGP
7 1 (1.64%) EIGRP
7 1 (1.64%) Ethernet
7 1 (1.64%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (3.28%) Power BI
2 1 (1.64%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (6.56%) Git
2 2 (3.28%) Jenkins
2 2 (3.28%) JIRA
2 2 (3.28%) Maven
2 2 (3.28%) Sonatype Nexus
2 2 (3.28%) Subversion
General
1 17 (27.87%) Social Skills
2 6 (9.84%) Analytical Skills
2 6 (9.84%) Public Sector
3 3 (4.92%) Finance
3 3 (4.92%) Legal
4 1 (1.64%) Banking
4 1 (1.64%) Law
4 1 (1.64%) Military
4 1 (1.64%) Retail Banking
4 1 (1.64%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 11 (18.03%) Administrator
2 10 (16.39%) Support Engineer
3 8 (13.11%) 2nd Line Support
4 7 (11.48%) VMWare Administrator
4 7 (11.48%) Wintel Administrator
5 6 (9.84%) 2nd Line Desktop Support
5 6 (9.84%) 2nd Line Desktop Support Engineer
5 6 (9.84%) 2nd Line Engineer
5 6 (9.84%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
5 6 (9.84%) Desktop Engineer
5 6 (9.84%) Desktop Support
5 6 (9.84%) Desktop Support Engineer
5 6 (9.84%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 6 (9.84%) Mobile Engineer
6 4 (6.56%) IT Support
6 4 (6.56%) Windows Engineer
7 3 (4.92%) 3rd Line Engineer
7 3 (4.92%) Linux Engineer
7 3 (4.92%) Support Officer
7 3 (4.92%) Windows Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (3.28%) LDAP
1 2 (3.28%) YAML
2 1 (1.64%) 802.1X
2 1 (1.64%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 3 (4.92%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (3.28%) Data Centre
2 2 (3.28%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (3.28%) Management Information System
2 2 (3.28%) Replication
2 2 (3.28%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (1.64%) Blockchain
3 1 (1.64%) Clustering
3 1 (1.64%) Cyberattack
3 1 (1.64%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (1.64%) Industrial Internet of Things
3 1 (1.64%) IoT
3 1 (1.64%) Legacy Applications
3 1 (1.64%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (1.64%) Operational Technology
3 1 (1.64%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 43 (70.49%) Windows
2 23 (37.70%) Windows Server
3 11 (18.03%) Linux
3 11 (18.03%) Windows Server 2016
4 9 (14.75%) Windows Server 2019
5 8 (13.11%) Windows 10
6 7 (11.48%) Windows Server 2012
7 5 (8.20%) CentOS
7 5 (8.20%) Unix
8 4 (6.56%) Solaris
8 4 (6.56%) Ubuntu
9 3 (4.92%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 2 (3.28%) AIX
10 2 (3.28%) Debian
10 2 (3.28%) HPUX
10 2 (3.28%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (29.51%) ITIL
2 9 (14.75%) High Availability
2 9 (14.75%) Problem-Solving
3 8 (13.11%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 8 (13.11%) Service Management
4 7 (11.48%) Root Cause Analysis
4 7 (11.48%) Vulnerability Remediation
5 6 (9.84%) Disaster Recovery
5 6 (9.84%) Vulnerability Management
6 5 (8.20%) Data Protection
6 5 (8.20%) ITSM
6 5 (8.20%) Migration
6 5 (8.20%) Performance Tuning
7 4 (6.56%) Change Management
7 4 (6.56%) Continuous Improvement
7 4 (6.56%) Incident Management
7 4 (6.56%) RBAC
7 4 (6.56%) Resource Management
7 4 (6.56%) Software Deployment
7 4 (6.56%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 8 (13.11%) Python
2 6 (9.84%) PowerShell
3 4 (6.56%) Bash
3 4 (6.56%) Perl
3 4 (6.56%) Shell Script
4 3 (4.92%) SQL
Qualifications
1 20 (32.79%) Security Cleared
2 15 (24.59%) SC Cleared
3 8 (13.11%) Degree
4 4 (6.56%) DV Cleared
5 3 (4.92%) HND
6 2 (3.28%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (1.64%) Azure Certification
7 1 (1.64%) CCNP
7 1 (1.64%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (11.48%) SLA
2 4 (6.56%) GDPR
3 3 (4.92%) NIST
4 2 (3.28%) NCSC
4 2 (3.28%) QA
5 1 (1.64%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (1.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (1.64%) JSP 440
5 1 (1.64%) NIST 800
5 1 (1.64%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 35 (57.38%) Active Directory
2 15 (24.59%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (16.39%) Hyper-V
3 10 (16.39%) VMware ESXi
4 4 (6.56%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (4.92%) Firmware
5 3 (4.92%) vSphere
6 2 (3.28%) Docker
6 2 (3.28%) KVM
7 1 (1.64%) Veritas Cluster Server
7 1 (1.64%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (1.64%) Virtual Servers
7 1 (1.64%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 11 (18.03%) SCCM
2 9 (14.75%) vCenter Server
3 6 (9.84%) Ansible
4 5 (8.20%) Microsoft Intune
4 5 (8.20%) Puppet
4 5 (8.20%) WSUS
5 4 (6.56%) Microsoft Clustering
5 4 (6.56%) NetApp OnCommand
5 4 (6.56%) vMotion
6 3 (4.92%) Nessus
7 2 (3.28%) Cisco Prime
7 2 (3.28%) Progress Chef
7 2 (3.28%) Red Hat Satellite
7 2 (3.28%) SCOM
7 2 (3.28%) SELinux
8 1 (1.64%) FortiGate
8 1 (1.64%) Nagios
8 1 (1.64%) NetBackup
8 1 (1.64%) Terraform
8 1 (1.64%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 27 (44.26%) Microsoft
2 17 (27.87%) VMware
3 6 (9.84%) SolarWinds
4 5 (8.20%) Red Hat
5 3 (4.92%) Cisco
5 3 (4.92%) HP
5 3 (4.92%) Qualys
5 3 (4.92%) Symantec
5 3 (4.92%) Veritas
6 2 (3.28%) Ivanti
6 2 (3.28%) McAfee
6 2 (3.28%) Remedy
6 2 (3.28%) Sophos
6 2 (3.28%) Tanium
7 1 (1.64%) Citrix
7 1 (1.64%) Commvault
7 1 (1.64%) Dell
7 1 (1.64%) Ekahau
7 1 (1.64%) IBM
7 1 (1.64%) Zscaler