Patch Management Contracts in the East of England

Patch Management
England > East of England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East of England with a requirement for Patch Management skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Patch Management over the 6 months to 30 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 102 107 125
Rank change year-on-year +5 +18 -22
Contract jobs citing Patch Management 10 16 21
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 0.52% 0.77% 0.82%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.61% 0.89% 0.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 7 17
10th Percentile - £234 £175
25th Percentile £293 £284 £193
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £340 £298 £350
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -15.00% +12.00%
75th Percentile £441 £309 £413
90th Percentile £536 £318 £473
England median daily rate £488 £400 £433
% change year-on-year +21.88% -7.62% -1.03%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 0
10th Percentile £54.13 - -
25th Percentile £58.44 £51.25 -
Median hourly rate £66.25 £52.50 -
Median % change year-on-year +26.19% - -
75th Percentile £73.44 £53.75 -
90th Percentile £77.38 - -
England median hourly rate £23.80 £52.50 £72.50
% change year-on-year -54.67% -27.59% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
East of England

Patch Management is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the East of England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,644 1,800 2,260
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 86.12% 87.12% 87.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 703 1,064 1,273
10th Percentile £207 £200 £185
25th Percentile £339 £313 £338
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year - - +11.76%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £550
90th Percentile £675 £700 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +8.59%
Number of hourly rates quoted 607 340 385
10th Percentile £14.16 £13.41 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.39 £14.25 £13.25
Median hourly rate £40.00 £24.62 £15.50
Median % change year-on-year +62.47% +58.84% -15.16%
75th Percentile £62.50 £65.00 £39.55
90th Percentile £75.25 £70.00 £58.75
England median hourly rate £36.00 £37.50 £24.50
% change year-on-year -4.00% +53.06% +2.08%

Patch Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Patch Management in the East of England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Patch Management in the East of England.

Daily rate trend for Patch Management in the East of England

Patch Management
Daily Rate Histogram in the East of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Patch Management in the East of England over the 6 months to 30 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Patch Management in the East of England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Patch Management in the East of England.

Hourly rate trend for Patch Management in the East of England

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Hourly Rate Histogram in the East of England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Patch Management in the East of England over the 6 months to 30 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Patch Management in the East of England

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Contract Job Locations in the East of England

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 East of England region over the 6 months to 30 April 2024. 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
Bedfordshire -2 6 £375 - 2
Hertfordshire +2 2 £600 +242.86% 2
Cambridgeshire -2 2 £305 +2.52% 3
Patch Management
England

Patch Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England 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 (20.00%) Apache
1 2 (20.00%) Tomcat
2 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 2 (20.00%) Azure
2 1 (10.00%) AWS
2 1 (10.00%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (10.00%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 2 (20.00%) Kerberos
2 1 (10.00%) DNS
2 1 (10.00%) Firewall
2 1 (10.00%) MPLS
Development Applications
1 2 (20.00%) JIRA
General
1 2 (20.00%) Banking
1 2 (20.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (10.00%) Finance
2 1 (10.00%) Legal
2 1 (10.00%) Manufacturing
2 1 (10.00%) Military
Job Titles
1 2 (20.00%) Administrator
1 2 (20.00%) Consultant
1 2 (20.00%) Management Consultant
1 2 (20.00%) SCCM Engineer
1 2 (20.00%) Unix Administrator
1 2 (20.00%) Windows Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) Citrix Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) Citrix Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) Cybersecurity Manager
2 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure Consultant
2 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure Management Consultant
2 1 (10.00%) Linux Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) Security Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) Security Manager
2 1 (10.00%) Systems Administrator
2 1 (10.00%) Unix Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (20.00%) LDAP
1 2 (20.00%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 3 (30.00%) Management Information System
2 1 (10.00%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 5 (50.00%) Windows
2 3 (30.00%) Linux
2 3 (30.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (20.00%) AIX
3 2 (20.00%) Solaris
3 2 (20.00%) Unix
3 2 (20.00%) Windows 10
4 1 (10.00%) CentOS
4 1 (10.00%) Oracle Linux
4 1 (10.00%) Ubuntu
4 1 (10.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (40.00%) Vulnerability Management
2 3 (30.00%) Information Security
3 2 (20.00%) GAP Analysis
3 2 (20.00%) High Availability
3 2 (20.00%) Incident Management
3 2 (20.00%) ITIL
3 2 (20.00%) Risk Management
3 2 (20.00%) Tech Ops
3 2 (20.00%) Vulnerability Assessment
4 1 (10.00%) Biotechnology
4 1 (10.00%) Computer Science
4 1 (10.00%) Containerisation
4 1 (10.00%) Incident Response
4 1 (10.00%) Information Assurance
4 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 1 (10.00%) Key Management
4 1 (10.00%) Mobile Device Management
4 1 (10.00%) Project Delivery
4 1 (10.00%) Roadmaps
4 1 (10.00%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 2 (20.00%) Python
2 1 (10.00%) Bash
2 1 (10.00%) Korn
2 1 (10.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 2 (20.00%) Degree
2 1 (10.00%) CISSP
2 1 (10.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (10.00%) DV Cleared
2 1 (10.00%) Linux+ Certification
2 1 (10.00%) LPIC
2 1 (10.00%) RHCE
2 1 (10.00%) SC Cleared
2 1 (10.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (10.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (10.00%) JSP 440
1 1 (10.00%) NCSC
1 1 (10.00%) NIST
1 1 (10.00%) NIST 800
System Software
1 3 (30.00%) Active Directory
2 2 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (10.00%) Docker
3 1 (10.00%) Firmware
3 1 (10.00%) KVM
3 1 (10.00%) Oracle RAC
3 1 (10.00%) Xen
Systems Management
1 3 (30.00%) SCCM
2 2 (20.00%) Ansible
3 1 (10.00%) Kubernetes
3 1 (10.00%) Progress Chef
3 1 (10.00%) Puppet
Vendors
1 3 (30.00%) VMware
2 1 (10.00%) Cisco
2 1 (10.00%) Citrix
2 1 (10.00%) Fortinet
2 1 (10.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (10.00%) Oracle
2 1 (10.00%) Qualys
2 1 (10.00%) Red Hat