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 23 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 275 319 357
Rank change year-on-year +44 +38 +15
Contract jobs citing Patch Management 67 72 87
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.53% 0.36% 0.38%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.58% 0.42% 0.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 43 41 63
10th Percentile £192 £275 £200
25th Percentile £264 £313 £275
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 £388 £375
Median % change year-on-year -9.68% +3.33% -
75th Percentile £438 £525 £500
90th Percentile £570 £600 £596
UK median daily rate £400 £450 £413
% change year-on-year -11.11% +9.09% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £77.50 - -
Median hourly rate £85.00 £80.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% - -
75th Percentile £92.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £57.00 £23.80 -
% change year-on-year +139.50% - -

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 11,541 17,047 20,456
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 90.66% 84.14% 89.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,211 10,194 14,065
10th Percentile £231 £250 £260
25th Percentile £375 £380 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +3.73%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £650 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% +3.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 817 2,072 1,252
10th Percentile £14.09 £12.34 £10.63
25th Percentile £17.25 £15.29 £15.25
Median hourly rate £25.15 £38.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -33.82% +8.57% +75.00%
75th Percentile £62.24 £61.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £73.75
UK median hourly rate £27.50 £36.05 £37.00
% change year-on-year -23.71% -2.58% +44.08%

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 23 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 23 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
South East +40 18 £425 -15.00% 91
North of England +24 18 £325 +66.67% 64
North West +21 14 £350 -9.68% 24
Midlands +12 10 £220 -30.98% 67
West Midlands +7 10 £220 -30.98% 39
South West +37 7 £340 +8.80% 38
Northern Ireland - 6 - - 3
Scotland +9 4 £588 +21.76% 16
North East +1 3 £195 - 12
East of England +24 2 £350 +2.94% 61
Wales - 2 £425 - 8
Yorkshire +10 1 £340 +74.36% 28
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 12 (17.91%) Microsoft Exchange
2 6 (8.96%) IIS
3 4 (5.97%) SharePoint
4 2 (2.99%) Confluence
Applications
1 7 (10.45%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 15 (22.39%) Azure
2 13 (19.40%) Microsoft 365
3 12 (17.91%) AWS
4 7 (10.45%) Entra ID
5 3 (4.48%) Amazon EC2
5 3 (4.48%) Amazon S3
5 3 (4.48%) OneDrive
5 3 (4.48%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 2 (2.99%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 2 (2.99%) AWS CodeBuild
6 2 (2.99%) AWS CodeCommit
6 2 (2.99%) AWS CodePipeline
6 2 (2.99%) AWS KMS
6 2 (2.99%) GitHub
6 2 (2.99%) GitHub Actions
6 2 (2.99%) Power Automate
6 2 (2.99%) Power Platform
6 2 (2.99%) PowerApps
7 1 (1.49%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (1.49%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 15 (22.39%) DHCP
1 15 (22.39%) DNS
1 15 (22.39%) Firewall
2 4 (5.97%) SAN
2 4 (5.97%) VPN
3 3 (4.48%) LAN
3 3 (4.48%) Network Security
3 3 (4.48%) VLAN
3 3 (4.48%) WAN
3 3 (4.48%) Wireless
3 3 (4.48%) WLAN
4 2 (2.99%) Cisco Nexus
4 2 (2.99%) EIGRP
4 2 (2.99%) HSRP
4 2 (2.99%) HTTP
4 2 (2.99%) NAS
4 2 (2.99%) OpenLDAP
4 2 (2.99%) OSPF
4 2 (2.99%) SSL
4 2 (2.99%) VRRP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (4.48%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 2 (2.99%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (2.99%) Power BI
3 1 (1.49%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (5.97%) Git
1 4 (5.97%) Jenkins
2 2 (2.99%) JIRA
2 2 (2.99%) Maven
2 2 (2.99%) Sonatype Nexus
2 2 (2.99%) Subversion
General
1 18 (26.87%) Social Skills
2 7 (10.45%) Public Sector
3 3 (4.48%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (2.99%) Automotive
4 2 (2.99%) Finance
5 1 (1.49%) Banking
5 1 (1.49%) Legal
5 1 (1.49%) Military
5 1 (1.49%) Retail Banking
5 1 (1.49%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 15 (22.39%) Support Engineer
2 12 (17.91%) Administrator
3 8 (11.94%) Desktop Support
3 8 (11.94%) VMWare Administrator
3 8 (11.94%) Wintel Administrator
4 7 (10.45%) 2nd Line Desktop Support
4 7 (10.45%) 2nd Line Desktop Support Engineer
4 7 (10.45%) 2nd Line Engineer
4 7 (10.45%) 2nd Line Support
4 7 (10.45%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
4 7 (10.45%) Desktop Engineer
4 7 (10.45%) Desktop Support Engineer
5 6 (8.96%) IT Support
5 6 (8.96%) Mobile Engineer
6 5 (7.46%) Support Officer
7 4 (5.97%) 3rd Line Engineer
7 4 (5.97%) SCCM Engineer
8 3 (4.48%) Linux Engineer
8 3 (4.48%) Windows Engineer
8 3 (4.48%) Windows Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (4.48%) Software Packaging
2 2 (2.99%) LDAP
2 2 (2.99%) YAML
3 1 (1.49%) 802.1X
3 1 (1.49%) REST
3 1 (1.49%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 4 (5.97%) Replication
2 3 (4.48%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (2.99%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (2.99%) Legacy Applications
4 1 (1.49%) Blockchain
4 1 (1.49%) Clustering
4 1 (1.49%) Cyberattack
4 1 (1.49%) Data Centre
4 1 (1.49%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (1.49%) Industrial Internet of Things
4 1 (1.49%) IoT
4 1 (1.49%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (1.49%) Management Information System
4 1 (1.49%) Operational Technology
4 1 (1.49%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 46 (68.66%) Windows
2 20 (29.85%) Windows Server
3 14 (20.90%) Windows Server 2016
4 13 (19.40%) Linux
5 8 (11.94%) Windows Server 2012
5 8 (11.94%) Windows Server 2019
6 5 (7.46%) CentOS
6 5 (7.46%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 5 (7.46%) Unix
6 5 (7.46%) Windows 10
7 4 (5.97%) Solaris
7 4 (5.97%) Ubuntu
8 2 (2.99%) AIX
8 2 (2.99%) Apple iOS
8 2 (2.99%) Debian
8 2 (2.99%) HPUX
8 2 (2.99%) Mac OS
9 1 (1.49%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (28.36%) ITIL
2 13 (19.40%) High Availability
3 9 (13.43%) Problem-Solving
3 9 (13.43%) Root Cause Analysis
3 9 (13.43%) Service Management
4 8 (11.94%) Vulnerability Remediation
5 7 (10.45%) Disaster Recovery
5 7 (10.45%) Vulnerability Management
6 6 (8.96%) Performance Tuning
7 5 (7.46%) Data Protection
7 5 (7.46%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 5 (7.46%) Migration
7 5 (7.46%) Resource Management
7 5 (7.46%) Vulnerability Scanning
8 4 (5.97%) Cloud Security
8 4 (5.97%) Customer Service
8 4 (5.97%) Data Loss Prevention
8 4 (5.97%) Incident Response
8 4 (5.97%) RBAC
8 4 (5.97%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 9 (13.43%) PowerShell
2 8 (11.94%) Python
3 6 (8.96%) SQL
4 4 (5.97%) Bash
4 4 (5.97%) Perl
4 4 (5.97%) Shell Script
5 2 (2.99%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 19 (28.36%) Security Cleared
2 13 (19.40%) SC Cleared
3 8 (11.94%) Degree
4 5 (7.46%) DV Cleared
4 5 (7.46%) HND
5 3 (4.48%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 1 (1.49%) AWS Certification
6 1 (1.49%) Azure Certification
6 1 (1.49%) CCNP
6 1 (1.49%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (14.93%) SLA
2 4 (5.97%) GDPR
2 4 (5.97%) NIST
3 2 (2.99%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (2.99%) NCSC
3 2 (2.99%) QA
4 1 (1.49%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (1.49%) JSP 440
4 1 (1.49%) NIST 800
4 1 (1.49%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 34 (50.75%) Active Directory
2 16 (23.88%) VMware Infrastructure
3 11 (16.42%) VMware ESXi
4 9 (13.43%) Hyper-V
5 5 (7.46%) Virtual Machines
6 3 (4.48%) Firmware
6 3 (4.48%) vSphere
7 2 (2.99%) Docker
7 2 (2.99%) KVM
8 1 (1.49%) Veritas Cluster Server
8 1 (1.49%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (1.49%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (1.49%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 11 (16.42%) SCCM
2 10 (14.93%) vCenter Server
3 7 (10.45%) WSUS
4 6 (8.96%) Ansible
4 6 (8.96%) Microsoft Intune
5 5 (7.46%) Microsoft Clustering
5 5 (7.46%) NetApp OnCommand
5 5 (7.46%) Puppet
5 5 (7.46%) vMotion
6 4 (5.97%) Nessus
7 3 (4.48%) Cisco Prime
7 3 (4.48%) Terraform
8 2 (2.99%) Progress Chef
8 2 (2.99%) Red Hat Satellite
8 2 (2.99%) SCOM
8 2 (2.99%) SELinux
9 1 (1.49%) FortiGate
9 1 (1.49%) Nagios
9 1 (1.49%) NetBackup
9 1 (1.49%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 31 (46.27%) Microsoft
2 18 (26.87%) VMware
3 7 (10.45%) SolarWinds
4 6 (8.96%) Qualys
5 5 (7.46%) Red Hat
6 4 (5.97%) Cisco
7 3 (4.48%) Symantec
7 3 (4.48%) Veritas
8 2 (2.99%) Ivanti
8 2 (2.99%) McAfee
8 2 (2.99%) Oracle
8 2 (2.99%) Sophos
9 1 (1.49%) AirMagnet
9 1 (1.49%) Apple
9 1 (1.49%) Aruba
9 1 (1.49%) Citrix
9 1 (1.49%) CyberArk
9 1 (1.49%) Dell
9 1 (1.49%) HP
9 1 (1.49%) IBM