Security Patching Contract Job Trends in the City of London

Security Patching
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the City of London requiring Security Patching skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 119 119 148
Rank change year-on-year 0 +29 +43
Contract jobs citing Security Patching 4 4 1
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.23% 0.19% 0.035%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.25% 0.21% 0.039%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 3 1
10th Percentile £561 £252 -
25th Percentile £626 £254 £613
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £673 £265 £625
Median % change year-on-year +153.96% -57.60% +35.14%
75th Percentile £685 £446 £638
90th Percentile - £550 -
Central London median daily rate £673 £265 £625
% change year-on-year +153.96% -57.60% +35.14%

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 1,614 1,943 2,593
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 94.55% 91.87% 89.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,105 1,201 1,796
10th Percentile £325 £363 £370
25th Percentile £420 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% +4.35%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £700
90th Percentile £774 £788 £813
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £588
% change year-on-year -4.35% -2.13% +2.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 17 17
10th Percentile £16.85 £16.70 £14.25
25th Percentile £20.18 £23.13 £17.00
Median hourly rate £26.57 £42.50 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year -37.48% +54.55% -36.22%
75th Percentile £36.00 £112.00 £46.75
90th Percentile £63.75 £137.50 £59.30
Central London median hourly rate £27.04 £35.00 £26.75
% change year-on-year -22.76% +30.84% -37.43%

Security Patching
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Security Patching job vacancy trend in the City of London

Security Patching
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Security Patching.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Security Patching

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 18 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Security Patching in the City of London

Security Patching
Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Security Patching.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Security Patching

Security Patching
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of London 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 1 (25.00%) Azure
1 1 (25.00%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) Firewall
1 1 (25.00%) SD-WAN
1 1 (25.00%) WAN
General
1 1 (25.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (25.00%) Active Directory Support
1 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Support
Operating Systems
1 3 (75.00%) Windows
1 3 (75.00%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Incident Management
1 3 (75.00%) Problem-Solving
1 3 (75.00%) Software Deployment
1 3 (75.00%) Technical Leadership
2 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (25.00%) Network Management
2 1 (25.00%) Patch Management
2 1 (25.00%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) Java
1 3 (75.00%) Python
2 1 (25.00%) SQL
System Software
1 4 (100.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (75.00%) Symantec Endpoint Protection
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) Altiris
1 3 (75.00%) Citrix
1 3 (75.00%) Ivanti
1 3 (75.00%) Symantec
1 3 (75.00%) VMware
2 1 (25.00%) Cisco
2 1 (25.00%) Palo Alto