Security Patching Contract Job Trends in the City of Westminster

Security Patching
Central London > City of Westminster

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the City of Westminster requiring Security Patching skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 10 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Security Patching 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the City of Westminster 4.35% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.13% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £200 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £201 - -
75th Percentile £201 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median daily rate £673 £450 £569
% change year-on-year +49.56% -20.88% +33.82%

All Process & Methodology Skills
City of Westminster

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 Westminster.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 39 56 37
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of Westminster 84.78% 96.55% 80.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 29 28
10th Percentile £254 £403 £385
25th Percentile £438 £463 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £550 £750
Median % change year-on-year -11.36% -26.67% +20.00%
75th Percentile £588 £613 £938
90th Percentile £625 £798 £1,088
Central London median daily rate £540 £575 £563
% change year-on-year -6.09% +2.22% -3.02%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 3
10th Percentile £21.04 - £28.80
25th Percentile £24.30 - £33.00
Median hourly rate £26.11 - £40.00
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median hourly rate £26.11 £35.00 £27.81
% change year-on-year -25.40% +25.85% -17.60%

Security Patching
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of Westminster

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

Security Patching job vacancy trend in the City of Westminster

Security Patching
Contract Job Locations in the City of Westminster

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 City of Westminster region over the 6 months to 4 February 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
Westminster - 1 £201 - 1
Security Patching
Central London

Security Patching
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of Westminster 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 2 (100.00%) Google Ads
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) VPN
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Desktop Support
1 2 (100.00%) Desktop Support Technician
1 2 (100.00%) Desktop Technician
1 2 (100.00%) Support Technician
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Asset Management
1 2 (100.00%) Incident Management
1 2 (100.00%) Inventory Management
1 2 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
1 2 (100.00%) Service Management