Security Patching Contracts in England

Security Patching
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Security Patching skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Security Patching over the 6 months to 13 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
13 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 468 603 705
Rank change year-on-year +135 +102 -124
Contract jobs citing Security Patching 73 42 64
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.20% 0.085% 0.090%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.23% 0.095% 0.100%
Number of daily rates quoted 57 24 48
10th Percentile £215 £245 £189
25th Percentile £359 £311 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £425 £429
Median % change year-on-year +17.65% -0.82% +7.13%
75th Percentile £580 £532 £528
90th Percentile £588 £580 £588
UK median daily rate £506 £450 £425
% change year-on-year +12.50% +5.88% -2.86%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Security Patching is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 31,610 44,349 64,316
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.47% 90.16% 90.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,692 31,129 45,727
10th Percentile £300 £325 £331
25th Percentile £413 £446 £428
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £764 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,241 1,561 1,760
10th Percentile £12.87 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £36.50 £37.34 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -2.25% +49.36% +6.38%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year +1.39% +40.19% +4.82%

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 13 May 2024.

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 13 May 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
London +101 30 £475 -8.65% 9
South West +38 24 £573 +43.13%
South East +17 10 £350 -12.50% 5
North of England +19 2 £250 -21.26% 4
East of England - 2 £344 - 1
Yorkshire - 2 £250 - 1
Midlands +32 1 £425 +6.25% 2
West Midlands - 1 £425 - 2
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 (4.11%) IIS
2 2 (2.74%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (2.74%) Tomcat
3 1 (1.37%) Apache
3 1 (1.37%) nginx
3 1 (1.37%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (4.11%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (2.74%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (2.74%) Oracle Cash Management
1 2 (2.74%) Oracle EBS
1 2 (2.74%) Oracle EBS R12
1 2 (2.74%) Oracle Payables
1 2 (2.74%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 12 (16.44%) Microsoft 365
2 11 (15.07%) Azure
3 6 (8.22%) AWS
4 4 (5.48%) Amazon S3
5 3 (4.11%) AWS CloudFormation
6 2 (2.74%) Amazon EC2
6 2 (2.74%) Amazon ECR
6 2 (2.74%) Amazon EKS
6 2 (2.74%) AWS Lambda
6 2 (2.74%) Route 53
6 2 (2.74%) Serverless
6 2 (2.74%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 2 (2.74%) WhatsApp
7 1 (1.37%) Entra ID
7 1 (1.37%) IaaS
7 1 (1.37%) Kong
7 1 (1.37%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 13 (17.81%) Network Security
2 7 (9.59%) DHCP
2 7 (9.59%) DNS
2 7 (9.59%) Firewall
3 5 (6.85%) LAN
3 5 (6.85%) Wi-Fi
4 3 (4.11%) TCP/IP
5 2 (2.74%) Internet
5 2 (2.74%) Kerberos
5 2 (2.74%) MPLS
5 2 (2.74%) Unified Communications
5 2 (2.74%) VPN
5 2 (2.74%) WAN
6 1 (1.37%) Fibre Channel
6 1 (1.37%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (4.11%) SQL Server Integration Services
1 3 (4.11%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 2 (2.74%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (2.74%) MongoDB
2 2 (2.74%) Oracle Database
2 2 (2.74%) SQL Server
3 1 (1.37%) MySQL
3 1 (1.37%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (1.37%) Power BI
3 1 (1.37%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 1 (1.37%) GitLab
1 1 (1.37%) Jenkins
1 1 (1.37%) JIRA
General
1 19 (26.03%) Finance
2 9 (12.33%) Public Sector
3 8 (10.96%) Marketing
3 8 (10.96%) Social Skills
4 7 (9.59%) Electronics
4 7 (9.59%) Manufacturing
4 7 (9.59%) Telecoms
5 4 (5.48%) Banking
6 3 (4.11%) Front Office
7 2 (2.74%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (2.74%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (1.37%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 10 (13.70%) Platform Manager
2 9 (12.33%) Analyst
3 8 (10.96%) Change and Release Manager
3 8 (10.96%) Change Manager
3 8 (10.96%) ITIL Change Manager
3 8 (10.96%) ITIL Manager
3 8 (10.96%) ITIL Release Manager
3 8 (10.96%) Release Manager
3 8 (10.96%) Vulnerability Specialist
4 7 (9.59%) Unix Specialist
5 6 (8.22%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 6 (8.22%) Infrastructure Specialist
6 5 (6.85%) Linux Specialist
6 5 (6.85%) Support Engineer
6 5 (6.85%) Wintel Engineer
7 4 (5.48%) Administrator
7 4 (5.48%) Data Analyst
7 4 (5.48%) Market Analyst
7 4 (5.48%) Market Data Analyst
7 4 (5.48%) Systems Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (8.22%) .NET
2 3 (4.11%) LDAP
3 2 (2.74%) Web Services
4 1 (1.37%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 14 (19.18%) PKI
2 5 (6.85%) Management Information System
3 4 (5.48%) Data Centre
4 3 (4.11%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 3 (4.11%) Legacy Systems
4 3 (4.11%) Security Posture
5 2 (2.74%) Linux Command Line
5 2 (2.74%) Video Conferencing
6 1 (1.37%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (1.37%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (1.37%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 41 (56.16%) Windows
2 14 (19.18%) Linux
3 11 (15.07%) Unix
4 6 (8.22%) Windows 10
4 6 (8.22%) Windows Server
5 5 (6.85%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (5.48%) Ubuntu
7 3 (4.11%) Windows Server 2012
7 3 (4.11%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (1.37%) CentOS
8 1 (1.37%) SUSE
8 1 (1.37%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (41.10%) Change Management
2 22 (30.14%) ITIL
3 14 (19.18%) Release Management
4 12 (16.44%) Vulnerability Management
5 10 (13.70%) Business Intelligence
5 10 (13.70%) Vulnerability Remediation
6 9 (12.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 8 (10.96%) Configuration Management
7 8 (10.96%) Patch Management
8 7 (9.59%) Digital Marketing
8 7 (9.59%) Programme Management
9 6 (8.22%) Customer Service
9 6 (8.22%) Root Cause Analysis
10 5 (6.85%) Problem Management
10 5 (6.85%) Roadmaps
10 5 (6.85%) Software Deployment
10 5 (6.85%) Vulnerability Assessment
11 4 (5.48%) Computer Science
11 4 (5.48%) Risk Assessment
11 4 (5.48%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 9 (12.33%) PowerShell
2 7 (9.59%) SQL
3 3 (4.11%) Python
3 3 (4.11%) VB.NET
4 2 (2.74%) C++
4 2 (2.74%) PL/SQL
4 2 (2.74%) VBScript
5 1 (1.37%) Go
Qualifications
1 17 (23.29%) Security Cleared
2 15 (20.55%) DV Cleared
3 5 (6.85%) Degree
3 5 (6.85%) Microsoft Certification
4 3 (4.11%) ITIL Certification
4 3 (4.11%) SC Cleared
5 2 (2.74%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.37%) AWS Certification
6 1 (1.37%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 1 (1.37%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (1.37%) CCNA
6 1 (1.37%) CCNP
6 1 (1.37%) CEH
6 1 (1.37%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (1.37%) CISSP
6 1 (1.37%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.37%) MCITP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (16.44%) SLA
2 5 (6.85%) QA
3 3 (4.11%) ISO 9001
3 3 (4.11%) ISO/IEC 20000
4 2 (2.74%) Actionable Recommendations
4 2 (2.74%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (1.37%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 1 (1.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 17 (23.29%) Active Directory
2 10 (13.70%) Virtual Machines
3 8 (10.96%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (6.85%) vSphere
5 3 (4.11%) Hyper-V
6 2 (2.74%) BitLocker
6 2 (2.74%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 12 (16.44%) Ansible
2 6 (8.22%) Progress Chef
3 5 (6.85%) Puppet
3 5 (6.85%) SCCM
4 4 (5.48%) WSUS
5 3 (4.11%) Microsoft Intune
5 3 (4.11%) Salt
6 2 (2.74%) Kibana
6 2 (2.74%) logstash
7 1 (1.37%) Terraform
Vendors
1 16 (21.92%) Microsoft
2 15 (20.55%) Qualys
3 10 (13.70%) Red Hat
3 10 (13.70%) VMware
4 8 (10.96%) SAP
5 4 (5.48%) Bloomberg
5 4 (5.48%) Citrix
5 4 (5.48%) Refinitiv
6 3 (4.11%) Commvault
6 3 (4.11%) Juniper
7 2 (2.74%) AppDynamics
7 2 (2.74%) HP
7 2 (2.74%) McAfee
7 2 (2.74%) MobileIron
7 2 (2.74%) Oracle
7 2 (2.74%) Rapid7
7 2 (2.74%) SaltStack
7 2 (2.74%) Splunk
8 1 (1.37%) CheckPoint
8 1 (1.37%) Veracode