Security Patching Contracts in Central London

Security Patching
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central London requiring Security Patching skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Security Patching over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 122 - 166
Rank change year-on-year - - +31
Contract jobs citing Security Patching 7 0 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 0.35% - 0.16%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.38% - 0.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 0 2
10th Percentile £303 - -
25th Percentile £400 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 - £180
Median % change year-on-year - - -64.00%
75th Percentile £554 - -
90th Percentile £602 - -
London median daily rate £475 £475 £475
% change year-on-year - - -9.52%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Central London

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 Central London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,856 2,215 3,533
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 92.94% 90.56% 91.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,197 1,573 2,397
10th Percentile £363 £350 £325
25th Percentile £456 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £565 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year +2.73% -8.33% +5.26%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £725
90th Percentile £774 £800 £825
London median daily rate £550 £550 £590
% change year-on-year - -6.78% +2.61%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 25 28
10th Percentile £22.00 £20.04 £15.43
25th Percentile £22.75 £22.50 £18.50
Median hourly rate £29.07 £27.81 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.53% -20.54% -14.63%
75th Percentile £43.97 £33.00 £58.75
90th Percentile £50.75 £46.89 £88.30
London median hourly rate £31.67 £29.50 £38.13
% change year-on-year +7.36% -22.62% +5.90%

Security Patching
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Job vacancy trend for Security Patching in Central London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

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

Daily rate trend for Security Patching in Central London

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Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Security Patching in Central London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Security Patching in Central London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

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

Hourly rate trend for Security Patching in Central London

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Contract Job Locations in Central London

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 Central London region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
City of London - 7 £450 -
Security Patching
London

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central London 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (28.57%) AWS
1 2 (28.57%) Azure
1 2 (28.57%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 3 (42.86%) Firewall
2 2 (28.57%) SD-WAN
2 2 (28.57%) WAN
3 1 (14.29%) HTTP
3 1 (14.29%) Intrusion Detection
3 1 (14.29%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (28.57%) Amazon RDS
1 2 (28.57%) MySQL
1 2 (28.57%) Oracle Database
1 2 (28.57%) Oracle Reports
1 2 (28.57%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (28.57%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (28.57%) GitLab
General
1 3 (42.86%) Finance
2 1 (14.29%) Banking
2 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (28.57%) Active Directory Support
1 2 (28.57%) Database Engineer
1 2 (28.57%) Infrastructure Support
2 1 (14.29%) Analyst
2 1 (14.29%) IT Analyst
2 1 (14.29%) IT Support
2 1 (14.29%) IT Support Analyst
2 1 (14.29%) Linux Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) SCCM Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) SCCM Specialist
2 1 (14.29%) Support Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Onboarding
1 1 (14.29%) Video Conferencing
1 1 (14.29%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (14.29%) Linux
1 1 (14.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (14.29%) Windows
1 1 (14.29%) Windows 10
1 1 (14.29%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (57.14%) Patch Management
2 3 (42.86%) Performance Optimisation
2 3 (42.86%) Performance Tuning
3 2 (28.57%) Actionable Insight
3 2 (28.57%) CI/CD
3 2 (28.57%) Cloud Security
3 2 (28.57%) Database Optimisation
3 2 (28.57%) Database Tuning
3 2 (28.57%) High Availability
3 2 (28.57%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 2 (28.57%) Infrastructure Management
3 2 (28.57%) Network Management
4 1 (14.29%) Disk Encryption
4 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Maintenance
4 1 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (14.29%) Product Roadmap
4 1 (14.29%) Project Delivery
4 1 (14.29%) Roadmaps
4 1 (14.29%) Root Cause Analysis
4 1 (14.29%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (14.29%) Bash
1 1 (14.29%) PowerShell
1 1 (14.29%) Python
1 1 (14.29%) SQL
1 1 (14.29%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (14.29%) Degree
1 1 (14.29%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (28.57%) Actionable Recommendations
2 1 (14.29%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 3 (42.86%) Active Directory
2 1 (14.29%) BitLocker
2 1 (14.29%) Microsoft App-V
2 1 (14.29%) Virtual Desktop
2 1 (14.29%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (14.29%) XenApp
2 1 (14.29%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 3 (42.86%) Ansible
2 2 (28.57%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
2 2 (28.57%) Terraform
3 1 (14.29%) SCCM
3 1 (14.29%) WSUS
Vendors
1 3 (42.86%) Microsoft
2 2 (28.57%) Cisco
2 2 (28.57%) Oracle
2 2 (28.57%) Palo Alto
3 1 (14.29%) Citrix
3 1 (14.29%) Red Hat
3 1 (14.29%) VMware