Security Patching Contracts in England

Security Patching
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Security Patching skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Security Patching over the 6 months to 29 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 472 605 718
Rank change year-on-year +133 +113 -141
Contract jobs citing Security Patching 71 43 65
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.19% 0.085% 0.091%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.22% 0.094% 0.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 55 27 49
10th Percentile £207 £218 £185
25th Percentile £354 £290 £238
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £400 £425
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -5.88% +14.86%
75th Percentile £580 £530 £525
90th Percentile £588 £573 £588
UK median daily rate £500 £425 £425
% change year-on-year +17.65% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Security Patching 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 England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 32,201 45,536 64,490
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.52% 90.24% 90.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,119 31,974 45,794
10th Percentile £300 £325 £331
25th Percentile £413 £445 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +9.14%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £766 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,240 1,592 1,770
10th Percentile £12.91 £10.87 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.83 £37.50 £24.48
Median % change year-on-year -4.45% +53.20% +1.99%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £63.75
UK median hourly rate £35.50 £37.30 £25.00
% change year-on-year -4.83% +49.20% -

Security Patching
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Security Patching in England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Security Patching in England.

Daily rate trend for Security Patching in England

Security Patching
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Security Patching in England over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Security Patching in England

Security Patching
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Security Patching in England.

Hourly rate trend for Security Patching in England

Security Patching
Contract Job Locations in England

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 England region over the 6 months to 29 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
London +116 26 £475 - 5
South West +35 26 £570 +42.50% 2
South East +19 10 £350 -12.50% 4
North of England +24 2 £250 -19.35% 5
East of England - 2 £344 - 2
Yorkshire - 2 £250 - 2
Midlands +27 1 £425 +6.25% 1
West Midlands - 1 £425 - 1
Security Patching
UK

Security Patching
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 3 (4.23%) IIS
2 2 (2.82%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (2.82%) Tomcat
3 1 (1.41%) Apache
3 1 (1.41%) nginx
3 1 (1.41%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (4.23%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (2.82%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (2.82%) Oracle Cash Management
1 2 (2.82%) Oracle EBS
1 2 (2.82%) Oracle EBS R12
1 2 (2.82%) Oracle Payables
1 2 (2.82%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 12 (16.90%) Microsoft 365
2 8 (11.27%) Azure
3 6 (8.45%) AWS
4 4 (5.63%) Amazon S3
5 3 (4.23%) AWS CloudFormation
6 2 (2.82%) Amazon EC2
6 2 (2.82%) Amazon ECR
6 2 (2.82%) Amazon EKS
6 2 (2.82%) AWS Lambda
6 2 (2.82%) Route 53
6 2 (2.82%) Serverless
6 2 (2.82%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 1 (1.41%) Entra ID
7 1 (1.41%) Kong
7 1 (1.41%) Power Platform
7 1 (1.41%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 13 (18.31%) Network Security
2 7 (9.86%) DHCP
2 7 (9.86%) DNS
3 6 (8.45%) Firewall
4 4 (5.63%) LAN
4 4 (5.63%) Wi-Fi
5 3 (4.23%) TCP/IP
6 2 (2.82%) Internet
6 2 (2.82%) Kerberos
6 2 (2.82%) MPLS
6 2 (2.82%) VPN
7 1 (1.41%) Fibre Channel
7 1 (1.41%) Intrusion Detection
7 1 (1.41%) Unified Communications
7 1 (1.41%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (2.82%) Amazon RDS
1 2 (2.82%) MongoDB
1 2 (2.82%) Oracle Database
1 2 (2.82%) SQL Server
2 1 (1.41%) MySQL
2 1 (1.41%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (1.41%) Power BI
2 1 (1.41%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 1 (1.41%) GitLab
1 1 (1.41%) Jenkins
1 1 (1.41%) JIRA
General
1 19 (26.76%) Finance
2 10 (14.08%) Public Sector
3 9 (12.68%) Marketing
4 8 (11.27%) Electronics
4 8 (11.27%) Manufacturing
4 8 (11.27%) Telecoms
5 7 (9.86%) Social Skills
6 3 (4.23%) Banking
6 3 (4.23%) Front Office
7 2 (2.82%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (2.82%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (1.41%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 11 (15.49%) Platform Manager
2 9 (12.68%) Analyst
2 9 (12.68%) Change and Release Manager
2 9 (12.68%) Change Manager
2 9 (12.68%) ITIL Change Manager
2 9 (12.68%) ITIL Manager
2 9 (12.68%) ITIL Release Manager
2 9 (12.68%) Release Manager
3 8 (11.27%) Vulnerability Specialist
4 7 (9.86%) Unix Specialist
5 6 (8.45%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 6 (8.45%) Infrastructure Specialist
6 5 (7.04%) Administrator
6 5 (7.04%) Linux Specialist
7 4 (5.63%) Data Analyst
7 4 (5.63%) Market Analyst
7 4 (5.63%) Market Data Analyst
7 4 (5.63%) Support Engineer
7 4 (5.63%) Systems Administrator
7 4 (5.63%) Systems Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (4.23%) .NET
1 3 (4.23%) LDAP
2 2 (2.82%) Web Services
3 1 (1.41%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 15 (21.13%) PKI
2 5 (7.04%) Management Information System
3 3 (4.23%) Data Centre
3 3 (4.23%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 3 (4.23%) Security Posture
4 2 (2.82%) Linux Command Line
4 2 (2.82%) Video Conferencing
5 1 (1.41%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (1.41%) Mainframe
5 1 (1.41%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (1.41%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 38 (53.52%) Windows
2 14 (19.72%) Linux
3 11 (15.49%) Unix
4 6 (8.45%) Windows 10
5 5 (7.04%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (7.04%) Windows Server
6 4 (5.63%) Ubuntu
7 2 (2.82%) Windows Server 2012
7 2 (2.82%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (1.41%) CentOS
8 1 (1.41%) SUSE
8 1 (1.41%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (42.25%) Change Management
2 22 (30.99%) ITIL
3 15 (21.13%) Release Management
4 12 (16.90%) Vulnerability Management
5 10 (14.08%) Vulnerability Remediation
6 9 (12.68%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 8 (11.27%) Business Intelligence
7 8 (11.27%) Configuration Management
7 8 (11.27%) Digital Marketing
7 8 (11.27%) Patch Management
7 8 (11.27%) Programme Management
8 6 (8.45%) Customer Service
8 6 (8.45%) Root Cause Analysis
9 5 (7.04%) Problem Management
9 5 (7.04%) Roadmaps
9 5 (7.04%) Software Deployment
9 5 (7.04%) Vulnerability Assessment
10 4 (5.63%) Risk Assessment
10 4 (5.63%) Stakeholder Management
10 4 (5.63%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 9 (12.68%) PowerShell
2 4 (5.63%) SQL
3 3 (4.23%) Python
3 3 (4.23%) VB.NET
4 2 (2.82%) C++
4 2 (2.82%) PL/SQL
4 2 (2.82%) VBScript
5 1 (1.41%) Go
Qualifications
1 17 (23.94%) Security Cleared
2 15 (21.13%) DV Cleared
3 5 (7.04%) Degree
4 4 (5.63%) Microsoft Certification
5 3 (4.23%) ITIL Certification
5 3 (4.23%) SC Cleared
6 2 (2.82%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (1.41%) AWS Certification
7 1 (1.41%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 1 (1.41%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (1.41%) CCNA
7 1 (1.41%) CCNP
7 1 (1.41%) CEH
7 1 (1.41%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (1.41%) CISSP
7 1 (1.41%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (1.41%) MCITP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (16.90%) SLA
2 5 (7.04%) QA
3 3 (4.23%) ISO 9001
3 3 (4.23%) ISO/IEC 20000
4 2 (2.82%) Actionable Recommendations
4 2 (2.82%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (1.41%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 1 (1.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 14 (19.72%) Active Directory
2 9 (12.68%) Virtual Machines
3 8 (11.27%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (5.63%) vSphere
5 3 (4.23%) Hyper-V
6 2 (2.82%) BitLocker
7 1 (1.41%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 12 (16.90%) Ansible
2 6 (8.45%) Progress Chef
3 5 (7.04%) Puppet
3 5 (7.04%) SCCM
4 4 (5.63%) WSUS
5 3 (4.23%) Microsoft Intune
5 3 (4.23%) Salt
6 2 (2.82%) Kibana
6 2 (2.82%) logstash
7 1 (1.41%) Terraform
Vendors
1 15 (21.13%) Qualys
2 12 (16.90%) Microsoft
3 10 (14.08%) Red Hat
4 9 (12.68%) SAP
4 9 (12.68%) VMware
5 4 (5.63%) Bloomberg
5 4 (5.63%) Citrix
5 4 (5.63%) Refinitiv
6 2 (2.82%) AppDynamics
6 2 (2.82%) Commvault
6 2 (2.82%) HP
6 2 (2.82%) Juniper
6 2 (2.82%) McAfee
6 2 (2.82%) MobileIron
6 2 (2.82%) Oracle
6 2 (2.82%) Rapid7
6 2 (2.82%) SaltStack
6 2 (2.82%) Splunk
7 1 (1.41%) Cisco
7 1 (1.41%) Veracode