Security Patching Contract Job Trends in Berkshire

Security Patching
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Berkshire requiring Security Patching skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 111 - 126
Rank change year-on-year - - -9
Contract jobs citing Security Patching 5 0 2
As % of all contract jobs in Berkshire 0.29% - 0.10%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.34% - 0.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 2
10th Percentile £411 - -
25th Percentile £412 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 - £300
Median % change year-on-year - - -29.41%
75th Percentile £469 - -
90th Percentile £480 - -
South East median daily rate £423 £569 £350
% change year-on-year -25.68% +62.43% -33.33%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Berkshire

Security Patching falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Berkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,488 1,174 1,804
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 86.61% 93.10% 91.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 988 653 990
10th Percentile £292 £300 £213
25th Percentile £401 £409 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £510 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% +2.00% -2.44%
75th Percentile £588 £625 £600
90th Percentile £650 £675 £675
South East median daily rate £500 £503 £500
% change year-on-year -0.50% +0.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 98 34 99
10th Percentile £19.27 £26.08 £19.93
25th Percentile £36.30 £43.69 £41.88
Median hourly rate £81.50 £61.50 £58.30
Median % change year-on-year +32.53% +5.48% -9.86%
75th Percentile £88.00 £65.39 £67.66
90th Percentile £106.00 £84.25 £85.65
South East median hourly rate £25.15 £45.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year -44.11% - -

Security Patching
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Security Patching relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire.

Security Patching job vacancy trend in Berkshire

Security Patching
Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Security Patching.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Security Patching

Security Patching
Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Security Patching.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Security Patching

Security Patching
Contract Job Locations in Berkshire

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 Berkshire region over the 6 months to 1 March 2026. 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
Bracknell - 4 £425 -
Wokingham - 1 £450 -
Security Patching
South East

Security Patching
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Berkshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 4 (80.00%) AWS
1 4 (80.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 4 (80.00%) AWS Lambda
1 4 (80.00%) OCI
1 4 (80.00%) Serverless
2 1 (20.00%) Azure
2 1 (20.00%) Azure Storage
2 1 (20.00%) OneDrive
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (80.00%) Amazon RDS
1 4 (80.00%) Amazon Redshift
1 4 (80.00%) Couchbase
1 4 (80.00%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (60.00%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (20.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (20.00%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 4 (80.00%) Data Engineer
2 3 (60.00%) Platform Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) AWS Data Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) AWS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (80.00%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 4 (80.00%) Replication
2 1 (20.00%) Distributed Architecture
2 1 (20.00%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 4 (80.00%) Linux
1 4 (80.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 4 (80.00%) CI/CD
2 4 (80.00%) High Availability
2 4 (80.00%) Performance Tuning
2 4 (80.00%) Platform Engineering
3 1 (20.00%) Batch Scripting
3 1 (20.00%) Capacity Planning
3 1 (20.00%) Incident Management
3 1 (20.00%) Load Balancing
3 1 (20.00%) Migration
3 1 (20.00%) Runbook
3 1 (20.00%) Server Management
3 1 (20.00%) Storage Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (60.00%) Python
1 3 (60.00%) Shell Script
2 1 (20.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) AWS Certification
1 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 5 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (80.00%) Confluent
1 4 (80.00%) IBM