Security Patching Contracts with Work from Home Options

Security Patching
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 23 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 316 452 597
Rank change year-on-year +136 +145 -119
Contract jobs citing Security Patching 29 18 19
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.20% 0.074% 0.043%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.23% 0.082% 0.047%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 13 14
10th Percentile £338 £360 £315
25th Percentile £394 £400 £334
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +2.56% -18.75%
75th Percentile £525 £563 £534
90th Percentile £555 £615 £613
UK median daily rate £488 £450 £425
% change year-on-year +8.33% +5.88% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £23.86 -
UK median hourly rate - £23.86 -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 WFH option and a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 12,882 21,904 40,173
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 87.90% 89.65% 91.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,678 15,514 29,175
10th Percentile £325 £363 £363
25th Percentile £425 £450 £433
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £545 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.67% +3.81% +7.14%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £535
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.80% +8.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 570 507 533
10th Percentile £14.83 £18.58 £14.30
25th Percentile £24.06 £26.25 £20.75
Median hourly rate £43.00 £52.50 £38.16
Median % change year-on-year -18.10% +37.60% +58.98%
75th Percentile £60.00 £67.50 £57.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £78.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £36.00 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year - +40.19% +7.00%

Security Patching
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Security Patching as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Security Patching trend for jobs with a WFH option

Security Patching
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Security Patching.

Security Patching daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Security Patching
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Security Patching over the 6 months to 23 May 2024.

Security Patching daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Security Patching
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 (6.90%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (3.45%) Apache
2 1 (3.45%) IIS
2 1 (3.45%) nginx
2 1 (3.45%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 6 (20.69%) AWS
2 5 (17.24%) Azure
3 3 (10.34%) AWS CloudFormation
4 2 (6.90%) Amazon EC2
4 2 (6.90%) Amazon ECR
4 2 (6.90%) Amazon EKS
4 2 (6.90%) Amazon S3
4 2 (6.90%) AWS Lambda
4 2 (6.90%) Route 53
4 2 (6.90%) Serverless
4 2 (6.90%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 2 (6.90%) WhatsApp
5 1 (3.45%) Entra ID
5 1 (3.45%) IaaS
5 1 (3.45%) Kong
5 1 (3.45%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (3.45%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 7 (24.14%) Firewall
2 3 (10.34%) DNS
3 2 (6.90%) DHCP
3 2 (6.90%) TCP/IP
4 1 (3.45%) Intrusion Detection
4 1 (3.45%) LAN
4 1 (3.45%) Unified Communications
4 1 (3.45%) WAN
4 1 (3.45%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (13.79%) SQL Server
2 2 (6.90%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (3.45%) MySQL
3 1 (3.45%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (3.45%) Power BI
3 1 (3.45%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 1 (3.45%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 1 (3.45%) GitLab
1 1 (3.45%) Jenkins
1 1 (3.45%) JIRA
General
1 10 (34.48%) Finance
2 3 (10.34%) Banking
2 3 (10.34%) Social Skills
3 2 (6.90%) Front Office
4 1 (3.45%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (3.45%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (3.45%) Marketing
4 1 (3.45%) Public Sector
4 1 (3.45%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 8 (27.59%) Vulnerability Specialist
2 7 (24.14%) Unix Specialist
3 6 (20.69%) Infrastructure Specialist
4 5 (17.24%) Linux Specialist
5 4 (13.79%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 3 (10.34%) Analyst
6 3 (10.34%) Network Engineer
6 3 (10.34%) Senior
6 3 (10.34%) Vulnerability Analyst
7 2 (6.90%) Exchange Engineer
7 2 (6.90%) Wintel Engineer
8 1 (3.45%) Development Engineer
8 1 (3.45%) DevOps Engineer
8 1 (3.45%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
8 1 (3.45%) IT Engineer
8 1 (3.45%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
8 1 (3.45%) PHP Developer
8 1 (3.45%) Security Specialist
8 1 (3.45%) Senior Exchange Engineer
8 1 (3.45%) Senior IT Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (10.34%) .NET
2 1 (3.45%) LDAP
2 1 (3.45%) Phalcon
Miscellaneous
1 6 (20.69%) Management Information System
2 4 (13.79%) Security Posture
3 3 (10.34%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 2 (6.90%) Data Centre
4 2 (6.90%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (3.45%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 1 (3.45%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (3.45%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (3.45%) Product Ownership
5 1 (3.45%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 13 (44.83%) Linux
2 12 (41.38%) Windows
3 10 (34.48%) Unix
4 5 (17.24%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (13.79%) Windows Server
6 3 (10.34%) Ubuntu
6 3 (10.34%) Windows Server 2012
6 3 (10.34%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (3.45%) CentOS
7 1 (3.45%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (37.93%) ITIL
1 11 (37.93%) Vulnerability Management
2 10 (34.48%) Vulnerability Remediation
3 8 (27.59%) Configuration Management
4 7 (24.14%) Patch Management
5 6 (20.69%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 5 (17.24%) Roadmaps
7 4 (13.79%) Software Deployment
7 4 (13.79%) Vulnerability Assessment
8 3 (10.34%) Capacity Management
8 3 (10.34%) Computer Science
8 3 (10.34%) High Availability
8 3 (10.34%) Problem Management
8 3 (10.34%) RBAC
9 2 (6.90%) Continuous Improvement
9 2 (6.90%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
9 2 (6.90%) Infrastructure as Code
9 2 (6.90%) Service Delivery Management
9 2 (6.90%) Threat Intelligence
9 2 (6.90%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 7 (24.14%) PowerShell
2 2 (6.90%) C++
2 2 (6.90%) SQL
2 2 (6.90%) VB.NET
2 2 (6.90%) VBScript
3 1 (3.45%) Go
3 1 (3.45%) PHP
3 1 (3.45%) Python
3 1 (3.45%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (17.24%) Degree
2 3 (10.34%) Microsoft Certification
3 2 (6.90%) BPSS Clearance
3 2 (6.90%) ITIL Certification
3 2 (6.90%) SC Cleared
3 2 (6.90%) Security Cleared
4 1 (3.45%) AWS Certification
4 1 (3.45%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 1 (3.45%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (3.45%) CEH
4 1 (3.45%) CISSP
4 1 (3.45%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (20.69%) SLA
2 2 (6.90%) ISO 9001
2 2 (6.90%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 8 (27.59%) Active Directory
2 7 (24.14%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (20.69%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (13.79%) vSphere
5 2 (6.90%) Hyper-V
5 2 (6.90%) VMware Server
6 1 (3.45%) Samba
Systems Management
1 10 (34.48%) Ansible
2 6 (20.69%) Progress Chef
3 5 (17.24%) Puppet
4 3 (10.34%) Salt
5 2 (6.90%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (6.90%) WSUS
6 1 (3.45%) SCCM
6 1 (3.45%) Terraform
Vendors
1 14 (48.28%) Qualys
2 10 (34.48%) VMware
3 9 (31.03%) Microsoft
4 6 (20.69%) Red Hat
5 3 (10.34%) Commvault
5 3 (10.34%) Juniper
5 3 (10.34%) Rapid7
6 2 (6.90%) SaltStack
7 1 (3.45%) Aruba
7 1 (3.45%) Atlassian
7 1 (3.45%) CA
7 1 (3.45%) CheckPoint
7 1 (3.45%) Fortinet
7 1 (3.45%) Sophos
7 1 (3.45%) Veeam
7 1 (3.45%) Veracode