Security Patching Contracts in Scotland

Security Patching
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 11 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
11 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 118 166 167
Rank change year-on-year +48 +1 -12
Contract jobs citing Security Patching 9 4 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.42% 0.15% 0.20%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.47% 0.16% 0.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 3 7
10th Percentile £544 £253 £340
25th Percentile £563 £273 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 £310 £400
Median % change year-on-year +89.52% -22.50% +14.29%
75th Percentile £600 £458 -
90th Percentile - £543 £430
UK median daily rate £506 £450 £425
% change year-on-year +12.50% +5.88% -2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £23.86 -
UK median hourly rate - £23.86 -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,916 2,542 3,190
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 88.38% 92.54% 93.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,164 1,810 2,261
10th Percentile £225 £262 £250
25th Percentile £375 £406 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £472
Median % change year-on-year - +0.64% +11.06%
75th Percentile £575 £556 £550
90th Percentile £656 £650 £625
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 90 54 49
10th Percentile £12.30 £10.63 £15.04
25th Percentile £15.75 £11.51 £17.80
Median hourly rate £19.34 £16.25 £37.43
Median % change year-on-year +18.98% -56.59% -6.43%
75th Percentile £46.24 £44.55 £48.75
90th Percentile £60.93 £66.09 £55.75
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.40 £25.68
% change year-on-year +0.29% +41.73% +4.82%

Security Patching
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Security Patching in Scotland

Security Patching
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for Security Patching in Scotland

Security Patching
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Hourly rate trend for Security Patching in Scotland

Security Patching
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

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 Scotland region over the 6 months to 11 May 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
Glasgow - 4 £575 -
South Lanarkshire - 4 £600 -
Edinburgh +35 1 - -
Security Patching
UK

Security Patching
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 6 (66.67%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (55.56%) Confluence
3 1 (11.11%) Apache
3 1 (11.11%) JBoss
3 1 (11.11%) Tomcat
3 1 (11.11%) WildFly
Cloud Services
1 1 (11.11%) Azure
1 1 (11.11%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (11.11%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (22.22%) SQL Server
2 1 (11.11%) Oracle Database
2 1 (11.11%) Oracle Database 11g
Development Applications
1 5 (55.56%) JIRA
2 1 (11.11%) JUnit
2 1 (11.11%) Maven
2 1 (11.11%) Subversion
General
1 3 (33.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (66.67%) Exchange Engineer
2 4 (44.44%) Senior
3 3 (33.33%) Senior Exchange Engineer
4 2 (22.22%) DBA
4 2 (22.22%) SQL DBA
5 1 (11.11%) Developer
5 1 (11.11%) Full Stack Developer
5 1 (11.11%) Full Stack Java Developer
5 1 (11.11%) Java Developer
5 1 (11.11%) Senior DBA
5 1 (11.11%) Senior SQL DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (11.11%) AngularJS
1 1 (11.11%) Hibernate
1 1 (11.11%) Java EE
1 1 (11.11%) JPA
1 1 (11.11%) JSP
1 1 (11.11%) JSTL
1 1 (11.11%) OpenJDK
1 1 (11.11%) Servlets
1 1 (11.11%) Spring
1 1 (11.11%) STL
1 1 (11.11%) XML
1 1 (11.11%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 2 (22.22%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 8 (88.89%) Windows
2 3 (33.33%) Linux
3 1 (11.11%) AIX
3 1 (11.11%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (88.89%) Capacity Management
1 8 (88.89%) High Availability
2 7 (77.78%) Agile
2 7 (77.78%) Problem Management
3 4 (44.44%) Identity Management
4 2 (22.22%) Disaster Recovery
4 2 (22.22%) Roadmaps
5 1 (11.11%) Case Management
5 1 (11.11%) Cybersecurity
5 1 (11.11%) DevOps
5 1 (11.11%) Epics
5 1 (11.11%) Full Stack Development
5 1 (11.11%) Migration
5 1 (11.11%) OWASP
5 1 (11.11%) RBAC
5 1 (11.11%) Storage Management
5 1 (11.11%) UML
5 1 (11.11%) Unit Testing
5 1 (11.11%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 8 (88.89%) PowerShell
2 2 (22.22%) SQL
2 2 (22.22%) T-SQL
3 1 (11.11%) Java
Qualifications
1 7 (77.78%) Security Cleared
2 6 (66.67%) Degree
3 5 (55.56%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (11.11%) Disclosure Scotland
1 1 (11.11%) NCSC
System Software
1 6 (66.67%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (44.44%) Active Directory Federation Services
Vendors
1 4 (44.44%) Atlassian
2 1 (11.11%) Microsoft
2 1 (11.11%) Oracle
2 1 (11.11%) VMware