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 26 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 461 598 729
Rank change year-on-year +137 +131 -127
Contract jobs citing Security Patching 73 45 54
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.20% 0.094% 0.077%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.23% 0.10% 0.084%
Number of daily rates quoted 53 27 42
10th Percentile £216 £245 £197
25th Percentile £350 £338 £303
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £425 £425
Median % change year-on-year +11.76% - +6.25%
75th Percentile £575 £534 £513
90th Percentile £588 £573 £538
UK median daily rate £475 £450 £425
% change year-on-year +5.56% +5.88% -

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 31,427 43,202 64,106
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.97% 90.01% 90.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,583 30,310 45,616
10th Percentile £300 £325 £331
25th Percentile £413 £445 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £540
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% +8.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £768 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.92%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,283 1,523 1,720
10th Percentile £12.86 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.93 £15.86 £15.25
Median hourly rate £36.50 £37.50 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -2.67% +50.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £61.25 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £36.05 £37.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year -2.58% +44.08% +9.28%

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

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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 26 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 26 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 +112 34 £475 - 7
South West +24 17 £575 +43.75% 3
South East +14 10 £400 -3.03% 7
East of England - 5 £340 - 6
North of England +32 2 £250 -21.26% 2
Yorkshire - 2 £250 - 1
Midlands +28 1 £425 +6.25%
West Midlands - 1 £425 -
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 5 (6.85%) IIS
2 4 (5.48%) Tomcat
3 2 (2.74%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (1.37%) Apache
4 1 (1.37%) nginx
4 1 (1.37%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (2.74%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (2.74%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.37%) PTC Creo
2 1 (1.37%) Windchill
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 14 (19.18%) Microsoft 365
2 13 (17.81%) Azure
3 6 (8.22%) AWS
4 4 (5.48%) Amazon S3
4 4 (5.48%) WhatsApp
5 3 (4.11%) AWS CloudFormation
5 3 (4.11%) IaaS
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%) Entra ID
6 2 (2.74%) Route 53
6 2 (2.74%) Serverless
6 2 (2.74%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 1 (1.37%) Kong
7 1 (1.37%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 13 (17.81%) Network Security
2 11 (15.07%) Firewall
3 8 (10.96%) DNS
3 8 (10.96%) Wi-Fi
4 7 (9.59%) DHCP
4 7 (9.59%) LAN
5 4 (5.48%) Unified Communications
5 4 (5.48%) WAN
6 3 (4.11%) TCP/IP
7 2 (2.74%) Internet
7 2 (2.74%) Kerberos
7 2 (2.74%) MPLS
8 1 (1.37%) Fibre Channel
8 1 (1.37%) Intrusion Detection
8 1 (1.37%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (5.48%) SQL Server
2 3 (4.11%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 3 (4.11%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 2 (2.74%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (2.74%) MongoDB
3 2 (2.74%) Oracle Database
4 1 (1.37%) MySQL
4 1 (1.37%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (1.37%) Power BI
4 1 (1.37%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 1 (1.37%) GitLab
1 1 (1.37%) Jenkins
1 1 (1.37%) JIRA
1 1 (1.37%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 14 (19.18%) Finance
2 11 (15.07%) Social Skills
3 5 (6.85%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (5.48%) Banking
4 4 (5.48%) Public Sector
5 3 (4.11%) Front Office
6 2 (2.74%) Marketing
7 1 (1.37%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.37%) Electronics
7 1 (1.37%) Manufacturing
7 1 (1.37%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (1.37%) Retail Banking
7 1 (1.37%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 10 (13.70%) Platform Manager
2 9 (12.33%) Analyst
2 9 (12.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 8 (10.96%) Support Engineer
3 8 (10.96%) Vulnerability Specialist
4 7 (9.59%) Unix Specialist
5 6 (8.22%) Applications Support
5 6 (8.22%) Infrastructure Specialist
6 5 (6.85%) Applications Engineer
6 5 (6.85%) Applications Support Engineer
6 5 (6.85%) Linux Specialist
6 5 (6.85%) Wintel Engineer
7 4 (5.48%) Administrator
7 4 (5.48%) Data Analyst
7 4 (5.48%) IT Engineer
7 4 (5.48%) Market Analyst
7 4 (5.48%) Market Data Analyst
7 4 (5.48%) Network Engineer
7 4 (5.48%) Systems Analyst
8 3 (4.11%) Azure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (8.22%) .NET
2 4 (5.48%) Web Services
3 3 (4.11%) LDAP
4 1 (1.37%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 14 (19.18%) PKI
2 7 (9.59%) Management Information System
3 4 (5.48%) Data Centre
3 4 (5.48%) Security Posture
4 3 (4.11%) Data Protection Act
4 3 (4.11%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 3 (4.11%) Legacy Systems
4 3 (4.11%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (2.74%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (1.37%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 1 (1.37%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (1.37%) Operational Technology
6 1 (1.37%) Video Conferencing
6 1 (1.37%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 47 (64.38%) Windows
2 15 (20.55%) Linux
3 11 (15.07%) Unix
3 11 (15.07%) Windows Server
4 8 (10.96%) Windows 10
5 6 (8.22%) Windows Server 2016
6 5 (6.85%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 5 (6.85%) Windows Server 2012
7 4 (5.48%) Ubuntu
8 1 (1.37%) CentOS
8 1 (1.37%) SUSE
8 1 (1.37%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
8 1 (1.37%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (36.99%) Change Management
2 18 (24.66%) ITIL
3 15 (20.55%) Vulnerability Management
4 11 (15.07%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 11 (15.07%) Vulnerability Remediation
5 10 (13.70%) Patch Management
6 9 (12.33%) Release Management
7 8 (10.96%) Configuration Management
7 8 (10.96%) Root Cause Analysis
8 6 (8.22%) Problem Management
9 5 (6.85%) Computer Science
9 5 (6.85%) Customer Service
9 5 (6.85%) Cybersecurity
9 5 (6.85%) Roadmaps
9 5 (6.85%) Software Deployment
9 5 (6.85%) Stakeholder Management
9 5 (6.85%) Vulnerability Assessment
10 4 (5.48%) Infrastructure as Code
10 4 (5.48%) Problem-Solving
10 4 (5.48%) Security Hardening
Programming Languages
1 10 (13.70%) SQL
2 9 (12.33%) PowerShell
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 20 (27.40%) Security Cleared
2 18 (24.66%) DV Cleared
3 7 (9.59%) Degree
3 7 (9.59%) Microsoft Certification
4 5 (6.85%) SC Cleared
5 3 (4.11%) ITIL Certification
6 2 (2.74%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (2.74%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (1.37%) AWS Certification
7 1 (1.37%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 1 (1.37%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (1.37%) CCNA
7 1 (1.37%) CCNP
7 1 (1.37%) CEH
7 1 (1.37%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (1.37%) CISSP
7 1 (1.37%) CTC Cleared
7 1 (1.37%) MCITP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (17.81%) 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%) GDPR
5 1 (1.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 20 (27.40%) Active Directory
2 12 (16.44%) Virtual Machines
3 8 (10.96%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (6.85%) vSphere
5 3 (4.11%) Hyper-V
6 2 (2.74%) VMware Server
7 1 (1.37%) BitLocker
7 1 (1.37%) Firmware
7 1 (1.37%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 12 (16.44%) Ansible
2 6 (8.22%) Progress Chef
3 5 (6.85%) Puppet
4 4 (5.48%) SCCM
5 3 (4.11%) Microsoft Intune
5 3 (4.11%) Salt
5 3 (4.11%) WSUS
6 2 (2.74%) Kibana
6 2 (2.74%) logstash
7 1 (1.37%) Terraform
Vendors
1 20 (27.40%) Microsoft
2 16 (21.92%) Qualys
3 12 (16.44%) VMware
4 10 (13.70%) Red Hat
5 5 (6.85%) Commvault
5 5 (6.85%) Juniper
6 4 (5.48%) Bloomberg
6 4 (5.48%) Citrix
6 4 (5.48%) Refinitiv
7 3 (4.11%) Aruba
7 3 (4.11%) Fortinet
8 2 (2.74%) AppDynamics
8 2 (2.74%) Oracle
8 2 (2.74%) Rapid7
8 2 (2.74%) SaltStack
8 2 (2.74%) SAP
8 2 (2.74%) Splunk
9 1 (1.37%) Cisco
9 1 (1.37%) MobileIron
9 1 (1.37%) Veracode