Patch Management Contracts in England

Patch Management
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring Patch Management skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Patch Management over the 6 months leading up to 17 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 449 481 537
Rank change year-on-year +32 +56 +19
Contract jobs citing Patch Management 101 155 260
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.27% 0.33% 0.37%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.32% 0.37% 0.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 62 87 209
10th Percentile £277 £202 £185
25th Percentile £322 £290 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £425 £425
Median % change year-on-year +5.88% - -6.59%
75th Percentile £538 £519 £525
90th Percentile £680 £583 £595
UK median daily rate £450 £400 £441
% change year-on-year +12.50% -9.30% -7.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £22.09 £20.75
Median hourly rate £23.80 £24.18 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -1.55% +12.44% -14.00%
75th Percentile £37.85 £26.26 £22.25
90th Percentile £63.14 - -
UK median hourly rate £23.80 £24.18 £21.50
% change year-on-year -1.55% +12.44% -14.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Patch Management 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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 32,030 42,283 63,775
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.40% 89.90% 90.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,779 29,697 45,496
10th Percentile £300 £325 £338
25th Percentile £413 £440 £435
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £775 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,363 1,526 1,693
10th Percentile £12.79 £10.69 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.01 £15.75 £15.63
Median hourly rate £37.50 £36.00 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% +40.19% +14.13%
75th Percentile £61.30 £64.59 £50.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.71 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £37.00 £35.65 £26.00
% change year-on-year +3.79% +37.12% +13.04%

Patch Management
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Patch Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Patch Management in England

Patch Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Patch Management in England.

Daily rate trend for Patch Management in England

Patch Management
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Patch Management in England over the 6 months to 17 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Patch Management in England

Patch Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Patch Management in England.

Hourly rate trend for Patch Management in England

Patch Management
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Patch Management in England over the 6 months to 17 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Patch Management in England

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Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Patch Management within the England region over the 6 months to 17 June 2024. 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
South East +34 31 £500 +9.59% 17
London +40 30 £475 +5.56% 12
West Midlands +23 14 £300 -25.00% 8
Midlands +22 14 £300 -25.00% 11
East of England -7 8 £340 +14.29% 7
South West -13 8 £313 +13.64% 6
North of England +12 7 £195 -57.38% 5
Yorkshire +17 5 £195 -59.59% 2
North West +6 1 £388 -13.89% 3
North East - 1 £195 -
Patch Management
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Patch Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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:

Application Platforms
1 15 (14.85%) Microsoft Exchange
2 9 (8.91%) SharePoint
3 3 (2.97%) IIS
4 1 (0.99%) Apache
4 1 (0.99%) Tomcat
Applications
1 4 (3.96%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.99%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 28 (27.72%) Microsoft 365
2 27 (26.73%) Azure
3 14 (13.86%) AWS
4 8 (7.92%) Azure Monitor
5 6 (5.94%) Entra ID
6 5 (4.95%) Amazon EC2
6 5 (4.95%) OneDrive
7 3 (2.97%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 3 (2.97%) Mimecast
7 3 (2.97%) Nutanix
7 3 (2.97%) Rubrik
8 1 (0.99%) Amazon S3
8 1 (0.99%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 36 (35.64%) DNS
2 17 (16.83%) Firewall
3 13 (12.87%) DHCP
3 13 (12.87%) VPN
4 12 (11.88%) SAN
5 9 (8.91%) NetScaler
5 9 (8.91%) Remote Desktop
6 8 (7.92%) Wireless
7 7 (6.93%) LAN
7 7 (6.93%) TCP/IP
7 7 (6.93%) WAN
8 6 (5.94%) Fibre Channel
8 6 (5.94%) Internet
8 6 (5.94%) NAS
8 6 (5.94%) Wi-Fi
9 3 (2.97%) DKIM
9 3 (2.97%) DMARC
9 3 (2.97%) Extranet
10 2 (1.98%) iSCSI
10 2 (1.98%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (3.96%) SQL Server
2 1 (0.99%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (0.99%) GIS
2 1 (0.99%) MongoDB
2 1 (0.99%) MySQL
2 1 (0.99%) NoSQL
2 1 (0.99%) Oracle Exadata
2 1 (0.99%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (3.96%) JIRA
2 1 (0.99%) Git
2 1 (0.99%) Subversion
General
1 20 (19.80%) Social Skills
2 9 (8.91%) Finance
3 5 (4.95%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (4.95%) Banking
3 5 (4.95%) Public Sector
4 3 (2.97%) Front Office
5 2 (1.98%) Legal
5 2 (1.98%) Manufacturing
5 2 (1.98%) Military
6 1 (0.99%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (0.99%) Electronics
6 1 (0.99%) Financial Institution
6 1 (0.99%) Marketing
6 1 (0.99%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 13 (12.87%) Integration Engineer
2 12 (11.88%) Desktop Engineer
3 11 (10.89%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 10 (9.90%) Administrator
4 10 (9.90%) Support Engineer
5 8 (7.92%) 3rd Line Engineer
5 8 (7.92%) Desktop Support
5 8 (7.92%) Security Engineer
6 7 (6.93%) Desktop Support Engineer
6 7 (6.93%) Senior
7 6 (5.94%) Analyst
8 5 (4.95%) 3rd Line Support
8 5 (4.95%) Architect
8 5 (4.95%) Citrix Engineer
8 5 (4.95%) Deployment Engineer
8 5 (4.95%) IT Support
8 5 (4.95%) Systems Administrator
8 5 (4.95%) Windows Engineer
9 4 (3.96%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
9 4 (3.96%) VMWare Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (3.96%) LDAP
1 4 (3.96%) Software Packaging
2 3 (2.97%) .NET
2 3 (2.97%) AngularJS
2 3 (2.97%) CSS
2 3 (2.97%) HTML
3 1 (0.99%) Flash
3 1 (0.99%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 17 (16.83%) Management Information System
2 8 (7.92%) Data Centre
2 8 (7.92%) PKI
3 7 (6.93%) CMDB
3 7 (6.93%) Fat Client
3 7 (6.93%) Thin Client
4 5 (4.95%) Security Posture
5 3 (2.97%) Virtual Team
6 2 (1.98%) Clustering
7 1 (0.99%) CSOC
7 1 (0.99%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (0.99%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 1 (0.99%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (0.99%) Life Science
7 1 (0.99%) Operational Technology
7 1 (0.99%) Public Cloud
7 1 (0.99%) Security Operations Centre
7 1 (0.99%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.99%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 67 (66.34%) Windows
2 40 (39.60%) Windows Server
3 24 (23.76%) Linux
4 21 (20.79%) Windows 10
5 12 (11.88%) Unix
5 12 (11.88%) Windows Server 2012
6 9 (8.91%) Ubuntu
7 8 (7.92%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 5 (4.95%) CentOS
9 4 (3.96%) Windows 7
10 3 (2.97%) Solaris
11 2 (1.98%) Windows Server 2016
11 2 (1.98%) Windows Server 2019
12 1 (0.99%) AIX
12 1 (0.99%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (24.75%) Vulnerability Management
2 23 (22.77%) ITIL
3 20 (19.80%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 19 (18.81%) Information Security
5 17 (16.83%) Change Management
6 16 (15.84%) Problem-Solving
7 13 (12.87%) Cybersecurity
8 11 (10.89%) Application Packaging
8 11 (10.89%) Incident Management
9 10 (9.90%) Computer Science
9 10 (9.90%) Deployment Automation
9 10 (9.90%) Disaster Recovery
9 10 (9.90%) Mobile Device Management
9 10 (9.90%) Security Hardening
9 10 (9.90%) Security Operations
9 10 (9.90%) Software Deployment
10 9 (8.91%) Security Patching
10 9 (8.91%) Task Automation
11 8 (7.92%) Risk Management
12 7 (6.93%) Line Management
Programming Languages
1 35 (34.65%) PowerShell
2 9 (8.91%) Python
3 5 (4.95%) Bash
4 3 (2.97%) JavaScript
4 3 (2.97%) VB.NET
5 2 (1.98%) C++
5 2 (1.98%) Perl
5 2 (1.98%) Shell Script
6 1 (0.99%) SQL
Qualifications
1 31 (30.69%) Security Cleared
2 18 (17.82%) Degree
3 13 (12.87%) SC Cleared
4 11 (10.89%) DV Cleared
5 7 (6.93%) Microsoft Certification
6 6 (5.94%) ITIL Certification
7 4 (3.96%) Computer Science Degree
8 3 (2.97%) CTC Cleared
8 3 (2.97%) MCSE
9 2 (1.98%) CCNA
9 2 (1.98%) Cisco Certification
9 2 (1.98%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 2 (1.98%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 1 (0.99%) Azure Certification
10 1 (0.99%) CISSP
10 1 (0.99%) IBM Certification
10 1 (0.99%) Linux+ Certification
10 1 (0.99%) LPIC
10 1 (0.99%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (5.94%) SLA
2 4 (3.96%) GDPR
3 3 (2.97%) Data Quality
3 3 (2.97%) ISO 9001
3 3 (2.97%) ISO/IEC 20000
3 3 (2.97%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (2.97%) NCSC
3 3 (2.97%) QA
4 2 (1.98%) COBIT
4 2 (1.98%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.99%) GRC
5 1 (0.99%) JSP 440
5 1 (0.99%) NIST
5 1 (0.99%) NIST 800
System Software
1 51 (50.50%) Active Directory
2 35 (34.65%) VMware Infrastructure
3 11 (10.89%) vSphere
4 9 (8.91%) Hyper-V
5 8 (7.92%) Citrix Hypervisor
5 8 (7.92%) Virtual Desktop
5 8 (7.92%) XenApp
5 8 (7.92%) XenDesktop
6 7 (6.93%) Virtual Machines
6 7 (6.93%) VMware ESXi
7 5 (4.95%) Firmware
8 4 (3.96%) VMware NSX
8 4 (3.96%) VMware Server
9 3 (2.97%) BitLocker
9 3 (2.97%) Microsoft App-V
10 1 (0.99%) Docker
10 1 (0.99%) KVM
10 1 (0.99%) Virtual Servers
10 1 (0.99%) Xen
Systems Management
1 26 (25.74%) WSUS
2 23 (22.77%) SCCM
3 8 (7.92%) Microsoft Intune
4 6 (5.94%) vCenter Server
5 5 (4.95%) Single Sign-On
6 4 (3.96%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 4 (3.96%) Ansible
6 4 (3.96%) NetBackup
6 4 (3.96%) SCOM
6 4 (3.96%) SCVMM
7 3 (2.97%) VxRail
8 2 (1.98%) AirWatch
8 2 (1.98%) CASB
8 2 (1.98%) Nessus
8 2 (1.98%) Red Hat Satellite
8 2 (1.98%) SCOrch
9 1 (0.99%) Nexpose
9 1 (0.99%) Puppet
9 1 (0.99%) Tivoli Storage Manager
9 1 (0.99%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 66 (65.35%) Microsoft
2 38 (37.62%) VMware
3 9 (8.91%) Citrix
3 9 (8.91%) NetApp
4 7 (6.93%) Red Hat
5 6 (5.94%) Cisco
5 6 (5.94%) Qualys
6 5 (4.95%) Apple
6 5 (4.95%) Dell
6 5 (4.95%) HP
6 5 (4.95%) Rapid7
6 5 (4.95%) SolarWinds
7 4 (3.96%) Brocade
7 4 (3.96%) EMC
7 4 (3.96%) Juniper
7 4 (3.96%) ServiceNow
7 4 (3.96%) Sophos
8 3 (2.97%) Avaya
8 3 (2.97%) Forcepoint
8 3 (2.97%) Mitel