Security Patching Contract Job Trends in the East of England

Security Patching
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the East of England 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 118 81 92
Rank change year-on-year -37 +11 +22
Contract jobs citing Security Patching 3 8 7
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 0.13% 0.62% 0.46%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.16% 0.70% 0.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 6
10th Percentile - - £272
25th Percentile £506 - £332
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 - £343
Median % change year-on-year - - +71.25%
75th Percentile £519 - £349
90th Percentile - - £394
England median daily rate £494 £490 £450
% change year-on-year +0.77% +8.89% +12.50%

All Process & Methodology Skills
East of England

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 East of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,823 1,151 1,249
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 78.48% 89.22% 81.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 852 499 453
10th Percentile £190 £200 £213
25th Percentile £388 £377 £310
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £442
Median % change year-on-year - +13.12% -11.60%
75th Percentile £594 £580 £550
90th Percentile £675 £680 £638
England median daily rate £525 £508 £525
% change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 435 303 400
10th Percentile £14.22 £14.80 £14.55
25th Percentile £16.25 £16.43 £15.62
Median hourly rate £47.50 £25.15 £38.12
Median % change year-on-year +88.87% -34.02% +92.43%
75th Percentile £70.00 £65.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £70.00
England median hourly rate £42.30 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +68.19% -41.51% +1.18%

Security Patching
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

Security Patching job vacancy trend in the East of England

Security Patching
Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Security Patching.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Security Patching

Security Patching
Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Security Patching.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Security Patching

Security Patching
Contract Job Locations in the East of England

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 East of England region over the 6 months to 11 September 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
Cambridgeshire -1 2 £513 - 1
Hertfordshire - 1 - - 1
Security Patching
England

Security Patching
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England 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 3 (100.00%) Confluence
2 1 (33.33%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) AWS
1 1 (33.33%) Azure
1 1 (33.33%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) Kerberos
1 1 (33.33%) Reverse Proxy
1 1 (33.33%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) InfluxDB
1 1 (33.33%) MySQL
1 1 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (33.33%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 3 (100.00%) JIRA
2 2 (66.67%) Artifactory
3 1 (33.33%) Gerrit
3 1 (33.33%) Git
3 1 (33.33%) Jenkins
3 1 (33.33%) Tricentis qTest
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Applications Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) DevOps Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Network Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Wintel Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) Jolokia
1 1 (33.33%) LAMP
1 1 (33.33%) LAPP Stack
1 1 (33.33%) LDAP
1 1 (33.33%) SAML
1 1 (33.33%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Public Cloud
1 1 (33.33%) Replication
1 1 (33.33%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (66.67%) Linux
2 1 (33.33%) Android
2 1 (33.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (33.33%) Rocky
2 1 (33.33%) Ubuntu
2 1 (33.33%) Windows
2 1 (33.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) Agile
2 1 (33.33%) Change Management
2 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 1 (33.33%) Computer Science
2 1 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
2 1 (33.33%) DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) Migration
2 1 (33.33%) Performance Tuning
2 1 (33.33%) Platform Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (33.33%) RBAC
2 1 (33.33%) Root Cause Analysis
2 1 (33.33%) Runbook
2 1 (33.33%) Task Automation
2 1 (33.33%) Vulnerability Management
2 1 (33.33%) Workload Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Bash
1 2 (66.67%) Python
2 1 (33.33%) Groovy
2 1 (33.33%) MATLAB
2 1 (33.33%) Perl
2 1 (33.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (33.33%) Degree
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Active Directory
1 1 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Ansible
1 1 (33.33%) Grafana
1 1 (33.33%) HAProxy
1 1 (33.33%) Prometheus
1 1 (33.33%) Puppet
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Coverity
1 1 (33.33%) Google
1 1 (33.33%) IBM
1 1 (33.33%) Perforce
1 1 (33.33%) Red Hat
1 1 (33.33%) SOTI