Security Patching Contracts in the South East

Security Patching
England > South East

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

6 months to
2 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 184 210 237
Rank change year-on-year +26 +27 -34
Contract jobs citing Security Patching 10 9 20
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.18% 0.16% 0.26%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.21% 0.17% 0.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 7 15
10th Percentile £167 £245 £181
25th Percentile £300 £323 £185
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 £400 £193
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +107.79% +10.00%
75th Percentile £525 £494 £438
90th Percentile - £565 £490
England median daily rate £500 £400 £425
% change year-on-year +25.00% -5.88% +14.86%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South East

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 the South East with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,700 5,156 6,968
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 84.75% 89.24% 89.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,740 3,588 4,724
10th Percentile £243 £250 £225
25th Percentile £400 £405 £397
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £510 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.91% +2.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £623 £619 £593
90th Percentile £700 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +8.59%
Number of hourly rates quoted 437 224 288
10th Percentile £13.00 £18.25 £12.21
25th Percentile £18.20 £22.34 £15.50
Median hourly rate £47.50 £50.00 £21.99
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +127.43% -20.05%
75th Percentile £62.50 £64.72 £48.62
90th Percentile £76.86 £74.55 £62.48
England median hourly rate £36.00 £37.34 £24.30
% change year-on-year -3.59% +53.69% +1.23%

Security Patching
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing Security Patching as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Security Patching in the South East

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Security Patching in the South East.

Daily rate trend for Security Patching in the South East

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Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Security Patching in the South East over the 6 months to 2 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Security Patching in the South East

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Security Patching in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for Security Patching in the South East

Security Patching
Contract Job Locations in the South East

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 South East region over the 6 months to 2 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
Thames Valley +6 5 £300 -25.00% 1
Buckinghamshire +25 2 £155 -36.73%
Surrey +16 2 £500 -9.09%
Berkshire -14 2 £300 -25.00% 1
Hampshire -1 1 - - 1
Kent - 1 £400 - 2
Oxfordshire - 1 £350 -
West Sussex - 1 £500 -
Security Patching
England

Security Patching
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 2 (20.00%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (20.00%) Oracle Cash Management
1 2 (20.00%) Oracle EBS
1 2 (20.00%) Oracle EBS R12
1 2 (20.00%) Oracle Payables
1 2 (20.00%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 3 (30.00%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (20.00%) Azure
3 1 (10.00%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 3 (30.00%) DHCP
1 3 (30.00%) DNS
1 3 (30.00%) TCP/IP
2 2 (20.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (20.00%) Oracle Database
General
1 3 (30.00%) Front Office
2 2 (20.00%) Finance
2 2 (20.00%) Organisational Skills
2 2 (20.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (10.00%) Banking
Job Titles
1 4 (40.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Analyst
2 2 (20.00%) Consultant
2 2 (20.00%) Functional Consultant
2 2 (20.00%) Oracle Consultant
2 2 (20.00%) Oracle Functional Consultant
2 2 (20.00%) Senior
2 2 (20.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Service Analyst
2 2 (20.00%) Service Desk Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Active Directory Administrator
3 1 (10.00%) Administrator
3 1 (10.00%) Azure Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Exchange Administrator
3 1 (10.00%) IT Administrator
3 1 (10.00%) IT Systems Administrator
3 1 (10.00%) Microsoft 365 Administrator
3 1 (10.00%) SCCM Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Systems Administrator
3 1 (10.00%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (30.00%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 2 (20.00%) Video Conferencing
2 1 (10.00%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 7 (70.00%) Windows
2 3 (30.00%) Linux
2 3 (30.00%) Ubuntu
2 3 (30.00%) Unix
3 2 (20.00%) Windows 10
4 1 (10.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 4 (40.00%) Customer Service
2 4 (40.00%) ITIL
3 3 (30.00%) Batch Scripting
3 3 (30.00%) Computer Science
3 3 (30.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 3 (30.00%) Customer Experience
3 3 (30.00%) Line Management
3 3 (30.00%) Project Delivery
3 3 (30.00%) RBAC
3 3 (30.00%) Release Management
3 3 (30.00%) Roadmaps
3 3 (30.00%) Root Cause Analysis
3 3 (30.00%) Security Hardening
3 3 (30.00%) Service Delivery
3 3 (30.00%) Service Delivery Management
3 3 (30.00%) Software Delivery
3 3 (30.00%) Software Deployment
3 3 (30.00%) Software Distribution
3 3 (30.00%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (30.00%) PowerShell
1 3 (30.00%) VB.NET
2 2 (20.00%) C++
2 2 (20.00%) PL/SQL
2 2 (20.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (30.00%) Degree
1 3 (30.00%) ITIL Certification
1 3 (30.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (10.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (50.00%) SLA
2 3 (30.00%) ISO 9001
2 3 (30.00%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 6 (60.00%) Active Directory
2 3 (30.00%) Hyper-V
2 3 (30.00%) Virtual Machines
2 3 (30.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (30.00%) vSphere
3 2 (20.00%) BitLocker
Systems Management
1 4 (40.00%) WSUS
2 3 (30.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 6 (60.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (30.00%) VMware
3 2 (20.00%) HP
3 2 (20.00%) McAfee
3 2 (20.00%) MobileIron
3 2 (20.00%) Oracle
4 1 (10.00%) Qualys