Security Patching Contracts in England

Security Patching
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 418 468 610
Rank change year-on-year +50 +142 +107
Contract jobs citing Security Patching 67 74 43
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.28% 0.20% 0.085%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.30% 0.23% 0.094%
Number of daily rates quoted 46 58 27
10th Percentile £319 £219 £218
25th Percentile £375 £359 £290
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £400
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% +25.00% -5.88%
75th Percentile £575 £580 £530
90th Percentile £603 £588 £573
UK median daily rate £483 £513 £425
% change year-on-year -5.85% +20.59% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £31.50 - -
Median hourly rate £33.00 - -
75th Percentile £35.25 - -
90th Percentile £35.70 - -
UK median hourly rate £33.00 - £23.86

All Process and Methodology Skills
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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 22,202 32,193 45,529
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 91.16% 86.56% 90.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,534 21,105 31,969
10th Percentile £310 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £765
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 921 2,246 1,592
10th Percentile £14.42 £12.92 £10.87
25th Percentile £18.20 £16.01 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%
75th Percentile £63.75 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

Security Patching
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Security Patching as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Security Patching in England

Security Patching
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Security Patching in England.

Daily rate trend for Security Patching in England

Security Patching
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Security Patching in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Security Patching in England

Security Patching
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Security Patching in England.

Hourly rate trend for Security Patching in England

Security Patching
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 Security Patching within the England region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
London +43 34 £475 - 9
South East +48 12 £569 +62.43% 19
South West +26 6 £550 -3.51% 5
North of England +23 6 £400 +60.00%
Yorkshire +12 6 £400 +60.00%
Midlands +25 4 £325 -23.53% 5
West Midlands +17 4 £325 -23.53% 3
East of England +30 2 - - 10
Security Patching
UK

Security Patching
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 3 (4.48%) Microsoft Exchange
1 3 (4.48%) SharePoint
2 2 (2.99%) Confluence
3 1 (1.49%) Apache
3 1 (1.49%) Gunicorn
3 1 (1.49%) IIS
3 1 (1.49%) nginx
3 1 (1.49%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 1 (1.49%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (1.49%) Oracle Applications
1 1 (1.49%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (1.49%) Oracle EBS R12
Cloud Services
1 17 (25.37%) Azure
2 11 (16.42%) AWS
3 8 (11.94%) Entra ID
4 6 (8.96%) IaaS
5 5 (7.46%) GCP
6 4 (5.97%) Microsoft 365
7 3 (4.48%) Google Workspace
7 3 (4.48%) PaaS
8 2 (2.99%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (2.99%) GitHub
8 2 (2.99%) OneDrive
8 2 (2.99%) Power Automate
8 2 (2.99%) Power Platform
8 2 (2.99%) PowerApps
9 1 (1.49%) AWS CloudFormation
9 1 (1.49%) GitHub Actions
9 1 (1.49%) MinIO
9 1 (1.49%) Nutanix
9 1 (1.49%) OCI
9 1 (1.49%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 14 (20.90%) Firewall
2 11 (16.42%) Network Security
3 7 (10.45%) DHCP
3 7 (10.45%) DNS
4 6 (8.96%) SAN
5 3 (4.48%) Fibre Channel
5 3 (4.48%) Intrusion Detection
5 3 (4.48%) SD-WAN
5 3 (4.48%) SSL
5 3 (4.48%) WAN
6 2 (2.99%) FTP
6 2 (2.99%) Remote Desktop
6 2 (2.99%) VPN
7 1 (1.49%) BGP
7 1 (1.49%) HTTP
7 1 (1.49%) OSPF
7 1 (1.49%) SNMP
7 1 (1.49%) SSH
7 1 (1.49%) TCP/IP
7 1 (1.49%) Telnet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (5.97%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (4.48%) MySQL
2 3 (4.48%) Oracle Database
2 3 (4.48%) Oracle Reports
2 3 (4.48%) SQL Server
3 2 (2.99%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (2.99%) Power BI
4 1 (1.49%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (1.49%) Oracle BI Publisher
4 1 (1.49%) Redis
4 1 (1.49%) Relational Database
4 1 (1.49%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 5 (7.46%) GitLab
2 3 (4.48%) JIRA
3 2 (2.99%) Artifactory
3 2 (2.99%) Jenkins
4 1 (1.49%) Git
4 1 (1.49%) Poetry
General
1 14 (20.90%) Social Skills
2 10 (14.93%) Finance
3 4 (5.97%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (4.48%) Public Sector
5 2 (2.99%) Banking
5 2 (2.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (2.99%) Organisational Skills
5 2 (2.99%) Telecoms
6 1 (1.49%) Back Office
6 1 (1.49%) Electronics
6 1 (1.49%) Legal
6 1 (1.49%) Manufacturing
6 1 (1.49%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 10 (14.93%) Senior
2 8 (11.94%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 7 (10.45%) Administrator
3 7 (10.45%) Azure Engineer
4 6 (8.96%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
4 6 (8.96%) Systems Administrator
4 6 (8.96%) VMware Engineer
4 6 (8.96%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
5 5 (7.46%) 3rd Line Engineer
5 5 (7.46%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
5 5 (7.46%) Analyst
5 5 (7.46%) Infrastructure Support
5 5 (7.46%) Senior Windows Engineer
5 5 (7.46%) Support Engineer
5 5 (7.46%) Support Manager
5 5 (7.46%) Windows Engineer
6 4 (5.97%) DevOps Engineer
6 4 (5.97%) IT Support
6 4 (5.97%) Wintel Administrator
6 4 (5.97%) Wintel Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.49%) Celery
1 1 (1.49%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (1.49%) Flask
1 1 (1.49%) JSON
1 1 (1.49%) Keycloak
1 1 (1.49%) LDAP
1 1 (1.49%) Middleware
1 1 (1.49%) Oracle GoldenGate
1 1 (1.49%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (10.45%) PKI
2 4 (5.97%) iPhone
3 3 (4.48%) Legacy Systems
3 3 (4.48%) Management Information System
3 3 (4.48%) Virtual Team
4 2 (2.99%) Cyber Threat
4 2 (2.99%) Data Centre
4 2 (2.99%) Onboarding
4 2 (2.99%) Public Cloud
4 2 (2.99%) Video Conferencing
5 1 (1.49%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.49%) Replication
5 1 (1.49%) SCADA
5 1 (1.49%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 26 (38.81%) Windows
2 8 (11.94%) Mac OS
3 7 (10.45%) Windows 10
4 6 (8.96%) Linux
5 4 (5.97%) Android
6 3 (4.48%) Apple iOS
6 3 (4.48%) Windows Server
7 1 (1.49%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (37.31%) Cybersecurity
2 13 (19.40%) Problem-Solving
3 11 (16.42%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 10 (14.93%) Change Management
4 10 (14.93%) ITIL
4 10 (14.93%) Patch Management
5 9 (13.43%) DevOps
5 9 (13.43%) Infrastructure as Code
6 8 (11.94%) Vulnerability Management
7 7 (10.45%) Customer Service
7 7 (10.45%) Incident Response
8 6 (8.96%) Cloud Security
8 6 (8.96%) Performance Tuning
8 6 (8.96%) Service Delivery
8 6 (8.96%) Technical Leadership
9 5 (7.46%) CI/CD
9 5 (7.46%) Computer Science
9 5 (7.46%) Network Management
9 5 (7.46%) Project Management
9 5 (7.46%) Service Desk Management
Programming Languages
1 13 (19.40%) PowerShell
2 7 (10.45%) Bash
3 6 (8.96%) Python
3 6 (8.96%) SQL
4 2 (2.99%) Perl
5 1 (1.49%) C
5 1 (1.49%) Java
5 1 (1.49%) PL/SQL
5 1 (1.49%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 18 (26.87%) Security Cleared
2 12 (17.91%) SC Cleared
3 6 (8.96%) Degree
3 6 (8.96%) DV Cleared
4 5 (7.46%) ACSP
4 5 (7.46%) ACTC
4 5 (7.46%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (2.99%) CISSP
5 2 (2.99%) CompTIA Security+
6 1 (1.49%) A+ Certification
6 1 (1.49%) Azure Certification
6 1 (1.49%) ISEB
6 1 (1.49%) ISTQB
6 1 (1.49%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 1 (1.49%) MCP
6 1 (1.49%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (1.49%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (10.45%) SLA
2 4 (5.97%) QA
3 3 (4.48%) Cyber Essentials
3 3 (4.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (2.99%) Actionable Recommendations
4 2 (2.99%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 2 (2.99%) NCSC
4 2 (2.99%) NIST
System Software
1 18 (26.87%) Active Directory
2 9 (13.43%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (8.96%) DFS Replication
3 6 (8.96%) vSphere
4 1 (1.49%) BitLocker
4 1 (1.49%) FreeRADIUS
4 1 (1.49%) Hyper-V
4 1 (1.49%) iptables
4 1 (1.49%) Microsoft App-V
4 1 (1.49%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (1.49%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (1.49%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (1.49%) XenApp
4 1 (1.49%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 11 (16.42%) SCCM
2 8 (11.94%) Ansible
2 8 (11.94%) Jamf Pro
3 7 (10.45%) Terraform
4 4 (5.97%) Microsoft Intune
5 3 (4.48%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
6 2 (2.99%) Puppet
6 2 (2.99%) ZABBIX
7 1 (1.49%) Cacti
7 1 (1.49%) Data Guard
7 1 (1.49%) Grafana
7 1 (1.49%) McAfee ePO
7 1 (1.49%) Nagios
7 1 (1.49%) Netcool
7 1 (1.49%) Progress Chef
7 1 (1.49%) Proxmox
7 1 (1.49%) Salt
7 1 (1.49%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (1.49%) Wonderware InTouch
7 1 (1.49%) WSUS
Vendors
1 30 (44.78%) Microsoft
2 12 (17.91%) Apple
3 10 (14.93%) VMware
4 8 (11.94%) ServiceNow
5 6 (8.96%) Google
6 5 (7.46%) Oracle
7 4 (5.97%) Cisco
8 3 (4.48%) Red Hat
9 2 (2.99%) IBM
9 2 (2.99%) McAfee
9 2 (2.99%) Palo Alto
9 2 (2.99%) Splunk
10 1 (1.49%) Atlassian
10 1 (1.49%) AVEVA
10 1 (1.49%) Canon
10 1 (1.49%) Citrix
10 1 (1.49%) F5
10 1 (1.49%) Rockwell
10 1 (1.49%) SolarWinds
10 1 (1.49%) Wonderware