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 23 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 404 467 607
Rank change year-on-year +63 +140 +116
Contract jobs citing Security Patching 76 71 43
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.32% 0.20% 0.090%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.35% 0.23% 0.100%
Number of daily rates quoted 51 51 26
10th Percentile £325 £231 £245
25th Percentile £375 £350 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £475 £438
Median % change year-on-year +3.16% +8.57% +2.94%
75th Percentile £554 £578 £536
90th Percentile £603 £588 £575
UK median daily rate £490 £500 £450
% change year-on-year -2.00% +11.11% +5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 0
10th Percentile £31.50 - -
25th Percentile £32.63 - -
Median hourly rate £36.00 - -
75th Percentile £38.06 - -
90th Percentile £39.38 - -
UK median hourly rate £36.00 - £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 21,762 31,336 43,140
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 91.29% 86.24% 90.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,222 20,550 30,257
10th Percentile £305 £300 £325
25th Percentile £412 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +1.85%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £768
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% +3.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 920 2,253 1,528
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.88 £10.63
25th Percentile £18.13 £15.95 £16.13
Median hourly rate £28.08 £36.50 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -23.08% -2.67% +50.00%
75th Percentile £60.00 £60.25 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £27.50 £36.05 £37.00
% change year-on-year -23.71% -2.58% +44.08%

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 23 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 23 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 +58 35 £498 +4.74% 20
South East +60 19 £508 +26.88% 42
Yorkshire +21 8 £400 +60.00% 10
North of England +21 8 £400 +60.00% 23
South West +26 5 £490 -14.78% 14
Midlands +20 3 £325 -23.53% 17
West Midlands +15 3 £325 -23.53% 9
East of England +28 2 - - 17
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 (3.95%) SharePoint
2 2 (2.63%) Confluence
2 2 (2.63%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (1.32%) Apache
3 1 (1.32%) Gunicorn
3 1 (1.32%) IIS
3 1 (1.32%) nginx
3 1 (1.32%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 1 (1.32%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (1.32%) Oracle Applications
1 1 (1.32%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (1.32%) Oracle EBS R12
Cloud Services
1 19 (25.00%) Azure
2 14 (18.42%) AWS
3 10 (13.16%) Entra ID
4 6 (7.89%) IaaS
5 5 (6.58%) GCP
6 4 (5.26%) Google Workspace
7 3 (3.95%) Microsoft 365
7 3 (3.95%) PaaS
8 2 (2.63%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (2.63%) GitHub
8 2 (2.63%) OneDrive
8 2 (2.63%) Power Automate
8 2 (2.63%) Power Platform
8 2 (2.63%) PowerApps
8 2 (2.63%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 1 (1.32%) AWS CloudFormation
9 1 (1.32%) GitHub Actions
9 1 (1.32%) MinIO
9 1 (1.32%) OCI
9 1 (1.32%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 15 (19.74%) Firewall
2 9 (11.84%) Network Security
3 7 (9.21%) DHCP
3 7 (9.21%) DNS
4 6 (7.89%) SAN
4 6 (7.89%) WAN
5 4 (5.26%) SD-WAN
5 4 (5.26%) VPN
6 3 (3.95%) BGP
6 3 (3.95%) Fibre Channel
6 3 (3.95%) Intrusion Detection
6 3 (3.95%) OSPF
7 2 (2.63%) Cisco IOS
7 2 (2.63%) Cisco Nexus
7 2 (2.63%) Ethernet VPN
7 2 (2.63%) Junos
7 2 (2.63%) LAN
7 2 (2.63%) MPLS
7 2 (2.63%) Multicast
7 2 (2.63%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (6.58%) Oracle Database
1 5 (6.58%) Oracle Reports
1 5 (6.58%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (5.26%) MySQL
3 3 (3.95%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (3.95%) SQL Server
4 2 (2.63%) Power BI
5 1 (1.32%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (1.32%) Oracle BI Publisher
5 1 (1.32%) Redis
5 1 (1.32%) Relational Database
5 1 (1.32%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 7 (9.21%) MSI
2 5 (6.58%) GitLab
3 3 (3.95%) JIRA
4 2 (2.63%) Artifactory
4 2 (2.63%) Jenkins
4 2 (2.63%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (1.32%) Git
5 1 (1.32%) Poetry
General
1 18 (23.68%) Social Skills
2 9 (11.84%) Finance
3 4 (5.26%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (2.63%) Banking
4 2 (2.63%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (1.32%) Back Office
5 1 (1.32%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (1.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (1.32%) Legal
5 1 (1.32%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 10 (13.16%) Senior
2 7 (9.21%) Azure Engineer
2 7 (9.21%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 7 (9.21%) Support Manager
2 7 (9.21%) Systems Manager
3 6 (7.89%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
3 6 (7.89%) Infrastructure Support
3 6 (7.89%) Support Engineer
3 6 (7.89%) VMware Engineer
3 6 (7.89%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
4 5 (6.58%) Administrator
4 5 (6.58%) IT Support
4 5 (6.58%) Senior Windows Engineer
4 5 (6.58%) Windows Engineer
5 4 (5.26%) Analyst
5 4 (5.26%) Configuration Manager
5 4 (5.26%) Database Engineer
5 4 (5.26%) Platform Manager
5 4 (5.26%) Systems Administrator
5 4 (5.26%) Wintel Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (2.63%) Oracle GoldenGate
2 1 (1.32%) Celery
2 1 (1.32%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (1.32%) Flask
2 1 (1.32%) JSON
2 1 (1.32%) Keycloak
2 1 (1.32%) LDAP
2 1 (1.32%) Middleware
2 1 (1.32%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (5.26%) iPhone
1 4 (5.26%) Legacy Systems
1 4 (5.26%) Management Information System
1 4 (5.26%) PKI
2 3 (3.95%) Data Centre
2 3 (3.95%) Virtual Team
3 2 (2.63%) Cloud Native
3 2 (2.63%) Cyber Threat
3 2 (2.63%) Public Cloud
3 2 (2.63%) Video Conferencing
4 1 (1.32%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (1.32%) Onboarding
4 1 (1.32%) Replication
4 1 (1.32%) SCADA
4 1 (1.32%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 28 (36.84%) Windows
2 13 (17.11%) Windows 10
3 10 (13.16%) Mac OS
4 7 (9.21%) Linux
4 7 (9.21%) Windows Server
5 4 (5.26%) Android
6 3 (3.95%) Apple iOS
7 1 (1.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (34.21%) Cybersecurity
2 13 (17.11%) Problem-Solving
3 12 (15.79%) Change Management
4 11 (14.47%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 11 (14.47%) Patch Management
5 10 (13.16%) ITIL
6 9 (11.84%) Customer Service
6 9 (11.84%) DevOps
6 9 (11.84%) Infrastructure as Code
6 9 (11.84%) Vulnerability Management
7 8 (10.53%) Service Delivery
8 7 (9.21%) Incident Response
8 7 (9.21%) Network Management
8 7 (9.21%) Performance Optimisation
8 7 (9.21%) Service Desk Management
9 6 (7.89%) Cloud Security
9 6 (7.89%) Data Analysis
9 6 (7.89%) Performance Tuning
9 6 (7.89%) Project Management
9 6 (7.89%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 19 (25.00%) PowerShell
2 8 (10.53%) Python
3 7 (9.21%) Bash
3 7 (9.21%) C#
3 7 (9.21%) SQL
4 6 (7.89%) VB
5 2 (2.63%) Perl
6 1 (1.32%) C
6 1 (1.32%) Java
6 1 (1.32%) PL/SQL
6 1 (1.32%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 23 (30.26%) Security Cleared
2 19 (25.00%) SC Cleared
3 7 (9.21%) ACSP
3 7 (9.21%) ACTC
4 6 (7.89%) Degree
5 5 (6.58%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (6.58%) DV Cleared
6 2 (2.63%) CISSP
6 2 (2.63%) CompTIA Security+
7 1 (1.32%) A+ Certification
7 1 (1.32%) Azure Certification
7 1 (1.32%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (1.32%) ISEB
7 1 (1.32%) ISTQB
7 1 (1.32%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 1 (1.32%) MCP
7 1 (1.32%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (1.32%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (9.21%) SLA
2 3 (3.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (2.63%) Actionable Recommendations
3 2 (2.63%) Cyber Essentials
3 2 (2.63%) NCSC
3 2 (2.63%) NIST
3 2 (2.63%) QA
4 1 (1.32%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 20 (26.32%) Active Directory
2 8 (10.53%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (7.89%) DFS Replication
3 6 (7.89%) vSphere
4 2 (2.63%) Firmware
5 1 (1.32%) BitLocker
5 1 (1.32%) FreeRADIUS
5 1 (1.32%) Hyper-V
5 1 (1.32%) iptables
5 1 (1.32%) Microsoft App-V
5 1 (1.32%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (1.32%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (1.32%) XenApp
5 1 (1.32%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 17 (22.37%) SCCM
2 11 (14.47%) Ansible
3 10 (13.16%) Jamf Pro
4 8 (10.53%) Terraform
5 5 (6.58%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
6 3 (3.95%) Data Guard
6 3 (3.95%) Microsoft Intune
7 2 (2.63%) Puppet
7 2 (2.63%) ZABBIX
8 1 (1.32%) Cacti
8 1 (1.32%) Grafana
8 1 (1.32%) Nagios
8 1 (1.32%) Netcool
8 1 (1.32%) Progress Chef
8 1 (1.32%) Proxmox
8 1 (1.32%) Salt
8 1 (1.32%) Wonderware InTouch
8 1 (1.32%) WSUS
Vendors
1 38 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 14 (18.42%) Apple
3 10 (13.16%) ServiceNow
4 9 (11.84%) VMware
5 7 (9.21%) Google
5 7 (9.21%) Oracle
6 6 (7.89%) Cisco
7 3 (3.95%) Palo Alto
7 3 (3.95%) Red Hat
8 2 (2.63%) Arista
8 2 (2.63%) IBM
8 2 (2.63%) Splunk
9 1 (1.32%) Atlassian
9 1 (1.32%) AVEVA
9 1 (1.32%) Citrix
9 1 (1.32%) F5
9 1 (1.32%) HP
9 1 (1.32%) Juniper
9 1 (1.32%) SolarWinds
9 1 (1.32%) Wonderware