Security Patching Contracts

Security Patching
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 27 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 502 650 790
Rank change year-on-year +148 +140 -137
Contract jobs citing Security Patching 84 57 68
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.20% 0.10% 0.077%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.23% 0.11% 0.085%
Number of daily rates quoted 61 37 54
10th Percentile £231 £245 £238
25th Percentile £359 £350 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £425
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% +5.88% -
75th Percentile £588 £530 £513
90th Percentile - £573 £546
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £425 £363
% change year-on-year +23.53% +17.24% +13.28%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £23.86 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £23.86 -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 36,645 50,890 79,933
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.73% 89.71% 90.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,625 35,239 56,102
10th Percentile £300 £325 £344
25th Percentile £413 £438 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.69%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £640
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £485
% change year-on-year - +3.09% +8.99%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,484 1,674 1,897
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.75 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.02 £36.40 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year -1.02% +41.73% +9.28%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.75 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +7.86% +75.00% -4.99%

Security Patching
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Security Patching in the UK

Security Patching
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Security Patching in the UK

Security Patching
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Security Patching over the 6 months to 27 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Security Patching in the UK

Security Patching
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Security Patching in the UK

Security Patching
Top 12 Contract Locations

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 UK over the 6 months to 27 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
England +130 73 £475 +11.76% 32
UK excluding London +58 43 £525 +23.53% 25
London +110 34 £475 - 9
Work from Home +129 29 £475 -5.00% 6
South West +22 17 £575 +43.75% 4
South East +15 10 £400 -3.03% 9
Scotland +43 8 £600 +93.55%
East of England - 5 £340 - 10
North of England +33 2 £250 -21.26% 2
Yorkshire - 2 £250 - 1
Midlands +27 1 £425 +6.25%
West Midlands - 1 £425 -

Security Patching
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 8 (9.52%) Microsoft Exchange
2 6 (7.14%) IIS
3 5 (5.95%) Confluence
3 5 (5.95%) Tomcat
4 3 (3.57%) Apache
5 2 (2.38%) nginx
5 2 (2.38%) SharePoint
6 1 (1.19%) JBoss
6 1 (1.19%) WildFly
Applications
1 2 (2.38%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (2.38%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.19%) PTC Creo
2 1 (1.19%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 2 (2.38%) Oracle Cash Management
1 2 (2.38%) Oracle EBS
1 2 (2.38%) Oracle EBS R12
1 2 (2.38%) Oracle Payables
1 2 (2.38%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 15 (17.86%) Azure
2 13 (15.48%) Microsoft 365
3 6 (7.14%) AWS
4 5 (5.95%) WhatsApp
5 4 (4.76%) Amazon S3
5 4 (4.76%) AWS CloudFormation
6 3 (3.57%) IaaS
7 2 (2.38%) Amazon EC2
7 2 (2.38%) Amazon ECR
7 2 (2.38%) Amazon EKS
7 2 (2.38%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (2.38%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (2.38%) Entra ID
7 2 (2.38%) Power Platform
7 2 (2.38%) Route 53
7 2 (2.38%) Serverless
7 2 (2.38%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 1 (1.19%) Kong
Communications & Networking
1 13 (15.48%) Network Security
2 12 (14.29%) Firewall
3 8 (9.52%) DNS
3 8 (9.52%) Wi-Fi
4 7 (8.33%) DHCP
4 7 (8.33%) LAN
5 4 (4.76%) Unified Communications
5 4 (4.76%) WAN
6 3 (3.57%) TCP/IP
7 2 (2.38%) Internet
7 2 (2.38%) Kerberos
7 2 (2.38%) MPLS
8 1 (1.19%) Fibre Channel
8 1 (1.19%) Intrusion Detection
8 1 (1.19%) VPN
8 1 (1.19%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (5.95%) SQL Server
2 3 (3.57%) Oracle Database
2 3 (3.57%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 3 (3.57%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 2 (2.38%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (2.38%) MongoDB
3 2 (2.38%) MySQL
3 2 (2.38%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (1.19%) Oracle Database 11g
4 1 (1.19%) Power BI
4 1 (1.19%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 7 (8.33%) JIRA
2 2 (2.38%) GitLab
2 2 (2.38%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.19%) JUnit
3 1 (1.19%) Maven
3 1 (1.19%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 1 (1.19%) Subversion
General
1 15 (17.86%) Finance
2 12 (14.29%) Social Skills
3 6 (7.14%) Public Sector
4 5 (5.95%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (4.76%) Banking
6 3 (3.57%) Front Office
7 2 (2.38%) Marketing
8 1 (1.19%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.19%) Electronics
8 1 (1.19%) Manufacturing
8 1 (1.19%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (1.19%) Retail Banking
8 1 (1.19%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 10 (11.90%) Platform Manager
2 9 (10.71%) Analyst
2 9 (10.71%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 8 (9.52%) Support Engineer
3 8 (9.52%) Vulnerability Specialist
4 7 (8.33%) Unix Specialist
5 6 (7.14%) Applications Support
5 6 (7.14%) Exchange Engineer
5 6 (7.14%) Infrastructure Specialist
5 6 (7.14%) Senior
6 5 (5.95%) Applications Engineer
6 5 (5.95%) Applications Support Engineer
6 5 (5.95%) Linux Specialist
6 5 (5.95%) Wintel Engineer
7 4 (4.76%) Administrator
7 4 (4.76%) IT Engineer
7 4 (4.76%) Network Engineer
8 3 (3.57%) 2nd Line Desktop Support
8 3 (3.57%) Senior Exchange Engineer
8 3 (3.57%) Vulnerability Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (7.14%) .NET
2 4 (4.76%) LDAP
2 4 (4.76%) Web Services
3 1 (1.19%) AngularJS
3 1 (1.19%) Hibernate
3 1 (1.19%) Java EE
3 1 (1.19%) JPA
3 1 (1.19%) JSP
3 1 (1.19%) JSTL
3 1 (1.19%) OpenJDK
3 1 (1.19%) Phalcon
3 1 (1.19%) Servlets
3 1 (1.19%) Software Packaging
3 1 (1.19%) Spring
3 1 (1.19%) STL
3 1 (1.19%) XML
3 1 (1.19%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 14 (16.67%) PKI
2 7 (8.33%) Management Information System
3 5 (5.95%) Security Posture
4 4 (4.76%) Data Centre
5 3 (3.57%) Data Protection Act
5 3 (3.57%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 3 (3.57%) Legacy Systems
5 3 (3.57%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (2.38%) Linux Command Line
6 2 (2.38%) Product Ownership
6 2 (2.38%) Virtual Team
7 1 (1.19%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 1 (1.19%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (1.19%) Operational Technology
7 1 (1.19%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 54 (64.29%) Windows
2 19 (22.62%) Linux
3 12 (14.29%) Unix
4 11 (13.10%) Windows Server
5 8 (9.52%) Windows 10
6 6 (7.14%) Windows Server 2016
7 5 (5.95%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 5 (5.95%) Windows Server 2012
8 4 (4.76%) Ubuntu
9 1 (1.19%) AIX
9 1 (1.19%) CentOS
9 1 (1.19%) SUSE
9 1 (1.19%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
9 1 (1.19%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (30.95%) Change Management
2 19 (22.62%) ITIL
3 15 (17.86%) Vulnerability Management
4 14 (16.67%) Problem Management
5 12 (14.29%) Vulnerability Remediation
6 11 (13.10%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 11 (13.10%) Patch Management
7 10 (11.90%) Capacity Management
8 9 (10.71%) Configuration Management
8 9 (10.71%) Release Management
9 8 (9.52%) Root Cause Analysis
10 7 (8.33%) High Availability
10 7 (8.33%) Roadmaps
11 6 (7.14%) Agile
11 6 (7.14%) Cybersecurity
11 6 (7.14%) Stakeholder Management
11 6 (7.14%) Vulnerability Assessment
12 5 (5.95%) Computer Science
12 5 (5.95%) Information Security
12 5 (5.95%) Software Deployment
Programming Languages
1 16 (19.05%) PowerShell
2 11 (13.10%) SQL
3 3 (3.57%) Python
3 3 (3.57%) VB.NET
4 2 (2.38%) C++
4 2 (2.38%) PL/SQL
4 2 (2.38%) VBScript
5 1 (1.19%) Go
5 1 (1.19%) Java
5 1 (1.19%) PHP
5 1 (1.19%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 26 (30.95%) Security Cleared
2 18 (21.43%) DV Cleared
3 13 (15.48%) Degree
4 9 (10.71%) SC Cleared
5 7 (8.33%) Microsoft Certification
6 3 (3.57%) ITIL Certification
7 2 (2.38%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (2.38%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (1.19%) AWS Certification
8 1 (1.19%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 1 (1.19%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (1.19%) Azure Certification
8 1 (1.19%) CCNA
8 1 (1.19%) CCNP
8 1 (1.19%) CEH
8 1 (1.19%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (1.19%) CISSP
8 1 (1.19%) CTC Cleared
8 1 (1.19%) MCITP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (16.67%) SLA
2 4 (4.76%) QA
3 3 (3.57%) ISO 9001
3 3 (3.57%) ISO/IEC 20000
4 2 (2.38%) Actionable Recommendations
4 2 (2.38%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (1.19%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 1 (1.19%) Disclosure Scotland
5 1 (1.19%) GDPR
5 1 (1.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (1.19%) NCSC
System Software
1 27 (32.14%) Active Directory
2 12 (14.29%) Virtual Machines
3 8 (9.52%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (5.95%) vSphere
5 3 (3.57%) Hyper-V
6 2 (2.38%) VMware Server
7 1 (1.19%) BitLocker
7 1 (1.19%) Firmware
7 1 (1.19%) Samba
7 1 (1.19%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 13 (15.48%) Ansible
2 7 (8.33%) Progress Chef
3 6 (7.14%) Puppet
4 4 (4.76%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 4 (4.76%) Salt
4 4 (4.76%) SCCM
5 3 (3.57%) Microsoft Intune
5 3 (3.57%) WSUS
6 2 (2.38%) Kibana
6 2 (2.38%) logstash
6 2 (2.38%) Terraform
Vendors
1 22 (26.19%) Microsoft
2 16 (19.05%) Qualys
3 13 (15.48%) VMware
4 9 (10.71%) Red Hat
5 6 (7.14%) Atlassian
6 5 (5.95%) Commvault
6 5 (5.95%) Juniper
7 3 (3.57%) Aruba
7 3 (3.57%) Bloomberg
7 3 (3.57%) Citrix
7 3 (3.57%) Fortinet
7 3 (3.57%) Oracle
7 3 (3.57%) Rapid7
7 3 (3.57%) Refinitiv
8 2 (2.38%) AppDynamics
8 2 (2.38%) SaltStack
8 2 (2.38%) SAP
8 2 (2.38%) Splunk
9 1 (1.19%) CA
9 1 (1.19%) CheckPoint