Security Patching Contracts in the West Midlands

Security Patching
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands requiring Security Patching skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Security Patching 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 93 110 -
Rank change year-on-year +17 - -
Contract jobs citing Security Patching 4 1 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.30% 0.051% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.34% 0.061% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £325 £425 -
Median % change year-on-year -23.53% - -
England median daily rate £490 £500 £400
% change year-on-year -2.00% +25.00% -5.88%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Midlands

Security Patching 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 1,188 1,636 2,114
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 88.33% 84.03% 88.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 786 1,083 1,452
10th Percentile £195 £275 £263
25th Percentile £381 £375 £401
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £512
Median % change year-on-year - -2.34% +5.03%
75th Percentile £588 £625 £600
90th Percentile £675 £750 £694
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 59 115 45
10th Percentile £12.62 £11.09 £12.20
25th Percentile £14.14 £14.00 £13.31
Median hourly rate £18.00 £22.50 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +26.98% +4.24%
75th Percentile £23.99 £41.13 £23.75
90th Percentile £38.19 £57.75 £51.25
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

Security Patching
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Security Patching in the West Midlands

Security Patching
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Security Patching in the West Midlands.

Daily rate trend for Security Patching in the West Midlands

Security Patching
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Security Patching in the West Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for Security Patching in the West Midlands

Security Patching
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 Security Patching within the West Midlands 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
Birmingham - 2 £325 - 1
Coventry - 2 - - 1
Security Patching
England

Security Patching
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 2 (50.00%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (50.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
1 2 (50.00%) OneDrive
1 2 (50.00%) Power Automate
1 2 (50.00%) Power Platform
1 2 (50.00%) PowerApps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) Power BI
General
1 4 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Audio Visual Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Collaboration Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 2 (50.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 2 (50.00%) Data Loss Prevention
1 2 (50.00%) Data Modelling
1 2 (50.00%) Patch Management
1 2 (50.00%) Preventative Maintenance
1 2 (50.00%) Proactive Maintenance
1 2 (50.00%) RBAC
1 2 (50.00%) Workflow
2 1 (25.00%) Data Protection
2 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (50.00%) Cyber Essentials
1 2 (50.00%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) Microsoft