Patch Management Contracts in the West Midlands

Patch Management
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands 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 3 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 86 102 121
Rank change year-on-year +16 +19 +37
Contract jobs citing Patch Management 11 14 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.78% 0.72% 0.44%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.88% 0.87% 0.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 5 8
10th Percentile - £299 £309
25th Percentile £220 - £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £253 £300 £388
Median % change year-on-year -15.67% -22.58% -22.50%
75th Percentile £337 £356 £409
90th Percentile £427 £413 £486
England median daily rate £400 £438 £425
% change year-on-year -8.57% +2.94% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Midlands

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 West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,247 1,612 1,976
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 88.94% 82.88% 87.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 807 1,074 1,343
10th Percentile £200 £263 £263
25th Percentile £375 £373 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £520
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -3.85% +5.05%
75th Percentile £585 £625 £613
90th Percentile £663 £746 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +0.92%
Number of hourly rates quoted 65 116 49
10th Percentile £12.62 £11.09 £12.50
25th Percentile £13.78 £14.22 £13.70
Median hourly rate £22.05 £22.50 £20.97
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% +7.30% +23.35%
75th Percentile £31.00 £40.81 £28.75
90th Percentile £50.00 £58.75 £48.75
England median hourly rate £28.18 £37.50 £37.15
% change year-on-year -24.85% +0.94% +48.60%

Patch Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Patch Management in the West Midlands

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Patch Management in the West Midlands.

Daily rate trend for Patch Management in the West Midlands

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Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Patch Management in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 3 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Patch Management in the West Midlands

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Patch Management in the West Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for Patch Management in the West Midlands

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Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

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 West Midlands region over the 6 months to 3 June 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
Coventry +4 7 £220 - 10
Solihull - 3 £220 - 5
Birmingham - 3 £475 - 16
Warwickshire +2 2 £220 -42.30% 2
Patch Management
England

Patch Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 3 (27.27%) Confluence
2 2 (18.18%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (18.18%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 5 (45.45%) AWS
2 2 (18.18%) Azure
2 2 (18.18%) Entra ID
2 2 (18.18%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (18.18%) OneDrive
2 2 (18.18%) Power Automate
2 2 (18.18%) Power Platform
2 2 (18.18%) PowerApps
3 1 (9.09%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 1 (9.09%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (9.09%) Amazon ELB
3 1 (9.09%) Amazon Glacier
3 1 (9.09%) Amazon S3
3 1 (9.09%) AWS KMS
3 1 (9.09%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 3 (27.27%) DNS
1 3 (27.27%) Firewall
1 3 (27.27%) HTTP
2 2 (18.18%) DHCP
2 2 (18.18%) OpenLDAP
2 2 (18.18%) SAN
2 2 (18.18%) SSL
2 2 (18.18%) VLAN
3 1 (9.09%) FTP
3 1 (9.09%) SMTP
3 1 (9.09%) SSH
3 1 (9.09%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (27.27%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 2 (18.18%) Power BI
3 1 (9.09%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 3 (27.27%) Git
1 3 (27.27%) Jenkins
1 3 (27.27%) JIRA
2 2 (18.18%) Maven
2 2 (18.18%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (9.09%) Vagrant
General
1 6 (54.55%) Social Skills
2 2 (18.18%) Automotive
3 1 (9.09%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (27.27%) DevOps Engineer
1 3 (27.27%) SCCM Engineer
1 3 (27.27%) Support Engineer
2 1 (9.09%) 3rd Line Engineer
2 1 (9.09%) 3rd Line Support
2 1 (9.09%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
2 1 (9.09%) Administrator
2 1 (9.09%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (9.09%) Linux DevOps Engineer
2 1 (9.09%) Linux Engineer
2 1 (9.09%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (9.09%) Linux/Unix DevOps
2 1 (9.09%) Network Engineer
2 1 (9.09%) Wireless Engineer
2 1 (9.09%) Wireless Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (18.18%) LDAP
1 2 (18.18%) Software Packaging
1 2 (18.18%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (45.45%) Replication
2 2 (18.18%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (18.18%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 7 (63.64%) Windows
2 3 (27.27%) Linux
3 2 (18.18%) CentOS
3 2 (18.18%) Debian
3 2 (18.18%) Ubuntu
3 2 (18.18%) Windows Server
4 1 (9.09%) Amazon Linux
4 1 (9.09%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (36.36%) RBAC
2 3 (27.27%) DevOps
2 3 (27.27%) ITIL
3 2 (18.18%) Business Intelligence
3 2 (18.18%) Capacity Management
3 2 (18.18%) Continuous Improvement
3 2 (18.18%) Data Loss Prevention
3 2 (18.18%) Data Modelling
3 2 (18.18%) Data Protection
3 2 (18.18%) High Availability
3 2 (18.18%) Identity Management
3 2 (18.18%) Infrastructure Management
3 2 (18.18%) Log Aggregation
3 2 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (18.18%) Process Improvement
3 2 (18.18%) Risk Management
3 2 (18.18%) Roadmaps
3 2 (18.18%) Security Patching
3 2 (18.18%) Server Management
3 2 (18.18%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 6 (54.55%) PowerShell
2 3 (27.27%) Python
2 3 (27.27%) SQL
3 2 (18.18%) Shell Script
3 2 (18.18%) VBScript
4 1 (9.09%) Groovy
4 1 (9.09%) Java
4 1 (9.09%) Perl
Qualifications
1 3 (27.27%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
2 2 (18.18%) Security Cleared
3 1 (9.09%) Degree
3 1 (9.09%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (27.27%) SLA
2 2 (18.18%) GDPR
2 2 (18.18%) NIST
3 1 (9.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 3 (27.27%) Active Directory
1 3 (27.27%) Docker
2 1 (9.09%) DFS Replication
2 1 (9.09%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 3 (27.27%) SCCM
2 2 (18.18%) Nessus
2 2 (18.18%) Puppet
3 1 (9.09%) Grafana
3 1 (9.09%) Prometheus
3 1 (9.09%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (18.18%) Microsoft
1 2 (18.18%) Sophos
1 2 (18.18%) VMware
2 1 (9.09%) Aruba
2 1 (9.09%) ServiceNow