Security Patching Contract Job Trends in Cambridge

Security Patching
Cambridgeshire > Cambridge

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cambridge requiring Security Patching skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 27 29 25
Rank change year-on-year +2 -4 -
Contract jobs citing Security Patching 2 2 2
As % of all contract jobs in Cambridge 1.07% 1.13% 1.20%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.19% 1.23% 1.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £506 - £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 - £425
75th Percentile £519 - £438
90th Percentile - - -
Cambridgeshire median daily rate £513 - £425
% change year-on-year - - +112.50%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Cambridge

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 Cambridge.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 168 162 150
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridge 89.84% 91.53% 89.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 85 83 69
10th Percentile £183 £357 £279
25th Percentile £345 £438 £340
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £538 £420
Median % change year-on-year -20.93% +27.98% -6.67%
75th Percentile £515 £631 £560
90th Percentile £580 £700 £638
Cambridgeshire median daily rate £505 £525 £450
% change year-on-year -3.90% +16.67% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 8 16
10th Percentile £18.53 £17.95 £20.25
25th Percentile £23.35 £44.91 £25.32
Median hourly rate £37.50 £60.00 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -37.50% +14.29% +196.28%
75th Percentile £55.00 £69.38 £63.75
90th Percentile £60.00 £78.75 £69.38
Cambridgeshire median hourly rate £14.22 £16.00 £16.23
% change year-on-year -11.13% -1.42% +11.93%

Security Patching
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridge

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

Security Patching job vacancy trend in Cambridge

Security Patching
Daily Rate Trend in Cambridge

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

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

Security Patching
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cambridge 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (100.00%) Confluence
2 1 (50.00%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) Kerberos
1 1 (50.00%) Reverse Proxy
1 1 (50.00%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) InfluxDB
1 1 (50.00%) MySQL
1 1 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (50.00%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Artifactory
1 2 (100.00%) JIRA
2 1 (50.00%) Gerrit
2 1 (50.00%) Git
2 1 (50.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (50.00%) Tricentis qTest
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Applications Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) DevOps Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) Jolokia
1 1 (50.00%) LAMP
1 1 (50.00%) LAPP Stack
1 1 (50.00%) LDAP
1 1 (50.00%) SAML
1 1 (50.00%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Public Cloud
1 1 (50.00%) Replication
1 1 (50.00%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
2 1 (50.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (50.00%) Rocky
2 1 (50.00%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Computer Science
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Migration
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Tuning
2 1 (50.00%) Platform Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) RBAC
2 1 (50.00%) Task Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Vulnerability Management
2 1 (50.00%) Workload Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Bash
1 2 (100.00%) Python
2 1 (50.00%) Groovy
2 1 (50.00%) MATLAB
2 1 (50.00%) Perl
2 1 (50.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (50.00%) Degree
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Ansible
1 1 (50.00%) Grafana
1 1 (50.00%) HAProxy
1 1 (50.00%) Prometheus
1 1 (50.00%) Puppet
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Coverity
1 1 (50.00%) Google
1 1 (50.00%) IBM
1 1 (50.00%) Perforce
1 1 (50.00%) Red Hat