Patch Management Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Patch Management
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 255 327 403
Rank change year-on-year +72 +76 +129
Contract jobs citing Patch Management 49 18 74
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.49% 0.12% 0.29%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.54% 0.13% 0.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 17 59
10th Percentile £314 £316 £270
25th Percentile £351 £400 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% +5.26% +2.70%
75th Percentile £580 £680 £558
90th Percentile £608 £703 £600
UK median daily rate £425 £483 £400
% change year-on-year -11.92% +20.63% -11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £77.50 - -
Median hourly rate £85.00 - -
75th Percentile £92.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
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
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 9,021 13,483 23,229
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 91.08% 87.87% 89.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,191 8,996 16,418
10th Percentile £340 £325 £363
25th Percentile £419 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -2.78% +2.86%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £763 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 224 579 532
10th Percentile £14.20 £15.17 £19.00
25th Percentile £19.56 £25.25 £30.54
Median hourly rate £39.52 £43.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -8.09% -21.82% +57.14%
75th Percentile £66.13 £60.00 £68.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.25 £80.23
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

Patch Management
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Patch Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Patch Management trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Patch Management
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Patch Management.

Patch Management daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Patch Management
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Patch Management over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Patch Management daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Patch Management
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Patch Management.

Patch Management hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Patch Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 4 (8.16%) SharePoint
2 2 (4.08%) Anypoint
3 1 (2.04%) CMS
3 1 (2.04%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (2.04%) OpenStack
Applications
1 1 (2.04%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (2.04%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 16 (32.65%) Azure
2 10 (20.41%) Entra ID
3 7 (14.29%) AWS
4 5 (10.20%) Amazon EC2
4 5 (10.20%) Microsoft 365
4 5 (10.20%) Route 53
5 3 (6.12%) OneDrive
6 2 (4.08%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (4.08%) IaaS
7 1 (2.04%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 1 (2.04%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 1 (2.04%) Azure Key Vault
7 1 (2.04%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (2.04%) Datadog
7 1 (2.04%) GitHub
7 1 (2.04%) PaaS
7 1 (2.04%) Power Automate
7 1 (2.04%) Power Platform
7 1 (2.04%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 13 (26.53%) DNS
2 12 (24.49%) DHCP
3 10 (20.41%) Firewall
4 9 (18.37%) VPN
5 8 (16.33%) WAN
6 5 (10.20%) LAN
7 3 (6.12%) SD-WAN
8 2 (4.08%) Ethernet
8 2 (4.08%) Internet
8 2 (4.08%) MQTT
9 1 (2.04%) Cisco IOS
9 1 (2.04%) Cisco Nexus
9 1 (2.04%) Intrusion Detection
9 1 (2.04%) Network Security
9 1 (2.04%) NX-OS
9 1 (2.04%) SSL
9 1 (2.04%) VLAN
9 1 (2.04%) VSAN
9 1 (2.04%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.04%) DTS
1 1 (2.04%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (4.08%) Git
2 1 (2.04%) Jenkins
2 1 (2.04%) JIRA
2 1 (2.04%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 13 (26.53%) Social Skills
2 4 (8.16%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (6.12%) Finance
4 2 (4.08%) Military
4 2 (4.08%) Public Sector
5 1 (2.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (2.04%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 14 (28.57%) Architect
2 6 (12.24%) Security Architect
3 5 (10.20%) Active Directory Architect
3 5 (10.20%) Administrator
3 5 (10.20%) Wintel Architect
4 4 (8.16%) Security Solutions Architect
4 4 (8.16%) Security Technical Architect
4 4 (8.16%) Solutions Architect
4 4 (8.16%) Technical Architect
4 4 (8.16%) Technical Solutions Architect
4 4 (8.16%) VMWare Administrator
4 4 (8.16%) Wintel Administrator
5 3 (6.12%) Analyst
5 3 (6.12%) Developer
5 3 (6.12%) SCCM Engineer
5 3 (6.12%) Windows Engineer
6 2 (4.08%) Active Directory Support
6 2 (4.08%) MuleSoft Developer
6 2 (4.08%) Operations Engineer
6 2 (4.08%) Windows Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.04%) OpenTelemetry
1 1 (2.04%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 5 (10.20%) PKI
2 3 (6.12%) Management Information System
2 3 (6.12%) Operational Technology
3 2 (4.08%) Cyberattack
3 2 (4.08%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (4.08%) Industrial Internet of Things
3 2 (4.08%) IoT
3 2 (4.08%) SCADA
4 1 (2.04%) CMDB
4 1 (2.04%) Data Centre
4 1 (2.04%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (2.04%) Legacy Applications
4 1 (2.04%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (2.04%) NHS
4 1 (2.04%) Onboarding
4 1 (2.04%) Private Cloud
4 1 (2.04%) Product Ownership
4 1 (2.04%) Security Operations Centre
4 1 (2.04%) Security Posture
4 1 (2.04%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 21 (42.86%) Windows
2 13 (26.53%) Windows Server
3 10 (20.41%) Linux
4 6 (12.24%) Windows Server 2019
5 5 (10.20%) Windows Server 2012
5 5 (10.20%) Windows Server 2016
6 3 (6.12%) Mac OS
6 3 (6.12%) Windows 10
7 2 (4.08%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (2.04%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (26.53%) Migration
2 10 (20.41%) Security Patching
2 10 (20.41%) Vulnerability Management
3 9 (18.37%) Incident Response
4 8 (16.33%) Cybersecurity
5 7 (14.29%) ITIL
6 6 (12.24%) Root Cause Analysis
7 5 (10.20%) Data Protection
7 5 (10.20%) Disaster Recovery
7 5 (10.20%) Problem-Solving
7 5 (10.20%) RBAC
7 5 (10.20%) Security Monitoring
7 5 (10.20%) Task Automation
8 4 (8.16%) Customer Service
8 4 (8.16%) DevOps
8 4 (8.16%) Infrastructure as Code
8 4 (8.16%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 4 (8.16%) Threat Intelligence
8 4 (8.16%) Vulnerability Assessment
8 4 (8.16%) Vulnerability Remediation
Programming Languages
1 13 (26.53%) PowerShell
2 5 (10.20%) Python
3 2 (4.08%) Bash
3 2 (4.08%) SQL
4 1 (2.04%) C
Qualifications
1 15 (30.61%) Security Cleared
2 14 (28.57%) SC Cleared
3 5 (10.20%) AWS Certification
3 5 (10.20%) Azure Certification
4 2 (4.08%) CCNP
4 2 (4.08%) Cisco Certification
4 2 (4.08%) Degree
5 1 (2.04%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (2.04%) CCIE
5 1 (2.04%) CCNA
5 1 (2.04%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (2.04%) DV Cleared
5 1 (2.04%) Network+ Certification
5 1 (2.04%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (8.16%) NCSC
2 2 (4.08%) Actionable Recommendations
2 2 (4.08%) NIST
2 2 (4.08%) PMO
3 1 (2.04%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (2.04%) GDPR
3 1 (2.04%) HIPAA
3 1 (2.04%) JSP 440
3 1 (2.04%) NIST 800
3 1 (2.04%) SLA
System Software
1 16 (32.65%) Active Directory
2 8 (16.33%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (14.29%) Hyper-V
4 6 (12.24%) VMware ESXi
5 3 (6.12%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (4.08%) Veritas Cluster Server
6 2 (4.08%) vSphere
7 1 (2.04%) Ceph
7 1 (2.04%) Docker
7 1 (2.04%) Firmware
7 1 (2.04%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (2.04%) Virtual Servers
7 1 (2.04%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 11 (22.45%) SCCM
2 5 (10.20%) Ansible
2 5 (10.20%) vCenter Server
3 3 (6.12%) Microsoft Intune
3 3 (6.12%) WSUS
4 2 (4.08%) CloudHub
4 2 (4.08%) Prometheus
5 1 (2.04%) FortiGate
5 1 (2.04%) Grafana
5 1 (2.04%) Kubernetes
5 1 (2.04%) Nagios
5 1 (2.04%) Nessus
5 1 (2.04%) NetBackup
5 1 (2.04%) Progress Chef
5 1 (2.04%) Puppet
5 1 (2.04%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (2.04%) Terraform
5 1 (2.04%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 13 (26.53%) Microsoft
2 9 (18.37%) VMware
3 5 (10.20%) Cisco
4 4 (8.16%) ServiceNow
5 3 (6.12%) Palo Alto
5 3 (6.12%) Red Hat
6 2 (4.08%) Ivanti
6 2 (4.08%) MuleSoft
7 1 (2.04%) Commvault
7 1 (2.04%) CrowdStrike
7 1 (2.04%) Dell
7 1 (2.04%) F5
7 1 (2.04%) HP
7 1 (2.04%) Juniper
7 1 (2.04%) NetScout
7 1 (2.04%) Qualys
7 1 (2.04%) Remedy
7 1 (2.04%) SolarWinds
7 1 (2.04%) Veritas