Security Patching Contract Job Trends in Yorkshire

Security Patching
England > Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Yorkshire requiring Security Patching skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 101 102 111
Rank change year-on-year +1 +9 +38
Contract jobs citing Security Patching 13 1 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Yorkshire 0.84% 0.065% 0.39%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.93% 0.078% 0.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 1 7
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £375 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £250 £350
Median % change year-on-year +60.00% -28.57% +45.08%
75th Percentile £545 - -
90th Percentile £588 - -
England median daily rate £495 £450 £400
% change year-on-year +10.00% +12.50% -15.79%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,401 1,277 1,838
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 91.03% 83.52% 89.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 896 765 1,191
10th Percentile £261 £315 £300
25th Percentile £375 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £550 £584 £625
90th Percentile £625 £660 £700
England median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 58 50 35
10th Percentile £15.00 £12.15 £12.00
25th Percentile £18.16 £12.55 £16.13
Median hourly rate £22.14 £15.09 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +46.77% -24.58% +6.10%
75th Percentile £25.15 £26.50 £25.27
90th Percentile £81.25 £39.75 £44.30
England median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £42.19
% change year-on-year -41.51% +1.92% +49.35%

Security Patching
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

Job postings citing Security Patching as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire.

Job vacancy trend for Security Patching in Yorkshire

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Daily Rate Trend in Yorkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing Security Patching.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing Security Patching

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Daily Rate Histogram in Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Security Patching in Yorkshire over the 6 months to 1 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Security Patching in Yorkshire

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Hourly Rate Trend in Yorkshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing Security Patching.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing Security Patching

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Contract Job Locations in Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 1 September 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
West Yorkshire - 13 £400 - 3
Security Patching
England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Yorkshire 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:

Applications
1 3 (23.08%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (23.08%) Microsoft Office
1 3 (23.08%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 12 (92.31%) Entra ID
2 3 (23.08%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (7.69%) AWS
3 1 (7.69%) Azure
3 1 (7.69%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 3 (23.08%) Wi-Fi
2 1 (7.69%) SSL
General
1 12 (92.31%) Social Skills
2 2 (15.38%) Finance
3 1 (7.69%) Banking
3 1 (7.69%) Retail
Job Titles
1 10 (76.92%) Support Manager
2 2 (15.38%) Mac Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) IT Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Operations Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (23.08%) iPhone
1 3 (23.08%) Mobile App
1 3 (23.08%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 12 (92.31%) Mac OS
2 1 (7.69%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (92.31%) Customer Service
2 9 (69.23%) Service Delivery
2 9 (69.23%) Service Desk Management
3 4 (30.77%) Incident Management
3 4 (30.77%) ITSM
4 3 (23.08%) ITIL
4 3 (23.08%) Mobile Device Management
4 3 (23.08%) Service Management
5 1 (7.69%) Change Management
5 1 (7.69%) CI/CD
5 1 (7.69%) DevOps
5 1 (7.69%) Performance Analysis
5 1 (7.69%) Security Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (7.69%) Bash
1 1 (7.69%) PowerShell
1 1 (7.69%) Python
1 1 (7.69%) SQL
Qualifications
1 12 (92.31%) ACSP
1 12 (92.31%) ACTC
System Software
1 12 (92.31%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 12 (92.31%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 13 (100.00%) ServiceNow
2 12 (92.31%) Apple
2 12 (92.31%) Microsoft