Security Patching Contracts in the City of London

Security Patching
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of 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 30 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 113 123 165
Rank change year-on-year +10 +42 +30
Contract jobs citing Security Patching 7 1 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.40% 0.047% 0.029%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.42% 0.052% 0.032%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 0 0
10th Percentile £303 - -
25th Percentile £400 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £536 - -
75th Percentile £554 - -
90th Percentile £602 - -
Central London median daily rate £536 - £180
% change year-on-year - - -64.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
City of 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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,649 1,929 3,142
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 93.80% 91.08% 91.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,053 1,338 2,109
10th Percentile £350 £363 £350
25th Percentile £450 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% +4.35%
75th Percentile £688 £688 £725
90th Percentile £775 £800 £825
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £600
% change year-on-year - -8.33% +4.80%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 15 25
10th Percentile £17.02 £20.04 £14.25
25th Percentile £24.43 £20.36 £16.61
Median hourly rate £29.75 £27.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +10.19% -22.86% -18.83%
75th Percentile £50.75 £40.92 £53.75
90th Percentile £66.25 £67.35 £88.30
Central London median hourly rate £31.00 £27.81 £35.00
% change year-on-year +11.47% -20.54% -18.13%

Security Patching
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for Security Patching in the City of London

Security Patching
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Security Patching in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for Security Patching in the City of London

Security Patching
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Security Patching in the City of London over the 6 months to 30 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Security Patching in the City of London

Security Patching
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Security Patching in the City of London.

Hourly rate trend for Security Patching in the City of London

Security Patching
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of 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 3 (42.86%) Azure
1 3 (42.86%) Entra ID
2 2 (28.57%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (42.86%) Firewall
1 3 (42.86%) SD-WAN
1 3 (42.86%) WAN
2 1 (14.29%) HTTP
2 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 4 (57.14%) Finance
2 1 (14.29%) Banking
2 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Active Directory Support
1 3 (42.86%) Infrastructure Support
2 2 (28.57%) Database Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) IT Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) IT Support
3 1 (14.29%) IT Support Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) SCCM Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) SCCM Specialist
3 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%) 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%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 3 (42.86%) Network Management
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 Management
3 2 (28.57%) Performance Optimisation
3 2 (28.57%) Performance Tuning
3 2 (28.57%) Vulnerability Management
4 1 (14.29%) Application Packaging
4 1 (14.29%) Change Management
4 1 (14.29%) Computer Science
4 1 (14.29%) Disk Encryption
4 1 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (14.29%) Security Management
4 1 (14.29%) Server Building
Programming Languages
1 2 (28.57%) SQL
2 1 (14.29%) PowerShell
2 1 (14.29%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (14.29%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (28.57%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 4 (57.14%) 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 2 (28.57%) Ansible
1 2 (28.57%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
1 2 (28.57%) Terraform
2 1 (14.29%) SCCM
2 1 (14.29%) WSUS
Vendors
1 3 (42.86%) Cisco
1 3 (42.86%) Microsoft
1 3 (42.86%) Palo Alto
2 2 (28.57%) Oracle
3 1 (14.29%) Citrix
3 1 (14.29%) VMware