Patch Management Contracts in London

Patch Management
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London 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 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 312 369 420
Rank change year-on-year +57 +51 +64
Contract jobs citing Patch Management 41 22 73
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.33% 0.12% 0.27%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.35% 0.14% 0.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 16 37
10th Percentile £235 £290 £209
25th Percentile £400 £419 £340
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £625 £450
Median % change year-on-year -16.00% +38.89% -8.26%
75th Percentile £588 £700 £538
90th Percentile £646 £713 £583
England median daily rate £413 £488 £400
% change year-on-year -15.38% +21.88% -7.62%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 0
Median hourly rate £29.00 £23.80 -
Median % change year-on-year +21.85% - -
England median hourly rate £57.00 £23.80 £52.50
% change year-on-year +139.50% -54.67% -27.59%

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 11,564 15,790 24,631
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 92.16% 88.55% 91.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,847 11,316 17,711
10th Percentile £350 £338 £375
25th Percentile £440 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £590
Median % change year-on-year - -6.78% +2.61%
75th Percentile £688 £675 £700
90th Percentile £813 £800 £800
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 166 324 278
10th Percentile £16.17 £16.00 £18.59
25th Percentile £22.68 £20.00 £22.53
Median hourly rate £31.67 £29.50 £38.13
Median % change year-on-year +7.36% -22.62% +5.90%
75th Percentile £50.75 £47.56 £62.64
90th Percentile £63.75 £65.93 £76.78
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

Patch Management
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Patch Management in London

Patch Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Patch Management in London

Patch Management
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Patch Management in London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Patch Management in London

Patch Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Patch Management in London

Patch Management
Contract Job Locations in London

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 London 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
Central London +11 9 £525 -25.00% 1
West London +14 5 £400 -5.88% 3
North London - 1 £463 -
Patch Management
England

Patch Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 (12.20%) SharePoint
2 3 (7.32%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (2.44%) CMS
3 1 (2.44%) OpenStack
Applications
1 2 (4.88%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 20 (48.78%) Azure
2 11 (26.83%) AWS
2 11 (26.83%) Microsoft 365
3 8 (19.51%) Entra ID
4 3 (7.32%) Azure Sentinel
4 3 (7.32%) GitHub
5 2 (4.88%) GCP
5 2 (4.88%) IaaS
5 2 (4.88%) Power Automate
6 1 (2.44%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (2.44%) Azure ExpressRoute
6 1 (2.44%) Azure Key Vault
6 1 (2.44%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (2.44%) Datadog
6 1 (2.44%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (2.44%) Mimecast
6 1 (2.44%) OneDrive
6 1 (2.44%) PaaS
6 1 (2.44%) Power Platform
6 1 (2.44%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 15 (36.59%) Firewall
2 8 (19.51%) VPN
3 7 (17.07%) DHCP
3 7 (17.07%) DNS
4 5 (12.20%) Network Security
4 5 (12.20%) SD-WAN
4 5 (12.20%) WAN
5 4 (9.76%) TCP/IP
5 4 (9.76%) VLAN
6 3 (7.32%) BGP
6 3 (7.32%) Cisco ISE
6 3 (7.32%) Cisco Wireless
6 3 (7.32%) DMVPN
6 3 (7.32%) EIGRP
6 3 (7.32%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
6 3 (7.32%) LAN
6 3 (7.32%) OSPF
6 3 (7.32%) SSL
6 3 (7.32%) Wireless
6 3 (7.32%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.44%) DTS
1 1 (2.44%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (7.32%) Git
2 2 (4.88%) Jenkins
2 2 (4.88%) JIRA
3 1 (2.44%) GitLab
3 1 (2.44%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 12 (29.27%) Social Skills
2 10 (24.39%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (19.51%) Finance
4 4 (9.76%) Public Sector
5 3 (7.32%) Banking
6 2 (4.88%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (2.44%) Back Office
7 1 (2.44%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (2.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (2.44%) Local Government
7 1 (2.44%) Military
7 1 (2.44%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (12.20%) Architect
1 5 (12.20%) Security Engineer
2 3 (7.32%) Administrator
2 3 (7.32%) Operations Engineer
2 3 (7.32%) Platform Engineer
2 3 (7.32%) Security Architect
3 2 (4.88%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
3 2 (4.88%) Active Directory Support
3 2 (4.88%) Delivery Manager
3 2 (4.88%) Desktop Support
3 2 (4.88%) Infrastructure Delivery Manager
3 2 (4.88%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (4.88%) Infrastructure Manager
3 2 (4.88%) Network Engineer
3 2 (4.88%) Security Solutions Architect
3 2 (4.88%) Security Technical Architect
3 2 (4.88%) Solutions Architect
3 2 (4.88%) Technical Architect
3 2 (4.88%) Technical Solutions Architect
3 2 (4.88%) Windows Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.44%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (2.44%) OpenTelemetry
1 1 (2.44%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 5 (12.20%) Security Posture
2 4 (9.76%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (4.88%) Cloud Security Posture
3 2 (4.88%) Clustering
3 2 (4.88%) Management Information System
3 2 (4.88%) Video Conferencing
3 2 (4.88%) Virtual Team
4 1 (2.44%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (2.44%) CMDB
4 1 (2.44%) Data Centre
4 1 (2.44%) iPhone
4 1 (2.44%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (2.44%) Onboarding
4 1 (2.44%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 16 (39.02%) Windows
2 9 (21.95%) Linux
3 6 (14.63%) Windows Server
4 3 (7.32%) Mac OS
4 3 (7.32%) Windows 10
5 1 (2.44%) Android
5 1 (2.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (2.44%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (26.83%) Problem-Solving
2 9 (21.95%) Cybersecurity
3 8 (19.51%) Incident Response
3 8 (19.51%) ITIL
3 8 (19.51%) Security Patching
4 7 (17.07%) Vulnerability Management
5 6 (14.63%) Configuration Management
5 6 (14.63%) Migration
5 6 (14.63%) Vulnerability Remediation
6 5 (12.20%) Information Security
6 5 (12.20%) Project Management
6 5 (12.20%) Security Architecture
6 5 (12.20%) Security Operations
6 5 (12.20%) Task Automation
7 4 (9.76%) High Availability
7 4 (9.76%) Network Monitoring
7 4 (9.76%) Security Management
7 4 (9.76%) SIEM
7 4 (9.76%) Threat Detection
7 4 (9.76%) Vulnerability Scanning
Programming Languages
1 14 (34.15%) PowerShell
2 6 (14.63%) Python
3 3 (7.32%) Bash
3 3 (7.32%) SQL
4 2 (4.88%) C
5 1 (2.44%) Perl
5 1 (2.44%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 8 (19.51%) Security Cleared
2 6 (14.63%) Degree
3 5 (12.20%) CCNP
3 5 (12.20%) Cisco Certification
4 3 (7.32%) CCSA
4 3 (7.32%) CTC Cleared
4 3 (7.32%) SC Cleared
5 2 (4.88%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (2.44%) A+ Certification
6 1 (2.44%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (2.44%) CCIE
6 1 (2.44%) CCNA
6 1 (2.44%) MCP
6 1 (2.44%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (2.44%) Network+ Certification
6 1 (2.44%) PMI Certification
6 1 (2.44%) PMP
6 1 (2.44%) RHCE
6 1 (2.44%) Sun Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.88%) Cyber Essentials
1 2 (4.88%) NIST
1 2 (4.88%) PMO
2 1 (2.44%) GDPR
2 1 (2.44%) HIPAA
2 1 (2.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (2.44%) SLA
System Software
1 9 (21.95%) Active Directory
2 6 (14.63%) Virtual Machines
3 5 (12.20%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (7.32%) Firmware
4 3 (7.32%) Hyper-V
5 2 (4.88%) BitLocker
5 2 (4.88%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (2.44%) Ceph
6 1 (2.44%) Docker
6 1 (2.44%) Microsoft App-V
6 1 (2.44%) Veritas Cluster Server
6 1 (2.44%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (2.44%) VMware NSX
6 1 (2.44%) vSphere
6 1 (2.44%) XenApp
6 1 (2.44%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 13 (31.71%) SCCM
2 10 (24.39%) Microsoft Intune
3 8 (19.51%) Ansible
4 5 (12.20%) WSUS
5 3 (7.32%) CA Spectrum
5 3 (7.32%) Progress Chef
6 2 (4.88%) Prometheus
6 2 (4.88%) Terraform
6 2 (4.88%) ZABBIX
7 1 (2.44%) Grafana
7 1 (2.44%) Kubernetes
7 1 (2.44%) Microsoft Clustering
7 1 (2.44%) Nagios
7 1 (2.44%) Puppet
7 1 (2.44%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 12 (29.27%) Microsoft
2 8 (19.51%) Cisco
3 7 (17.07%) VMware
4 5 (12.20%) SolarWinds
5 4 (9.76%) F5
5 4 (9.76%) Juniper
5 4 (9.76%) Meraki
5 4 (9.76%) Palo Alto
5 4 (9.76%) Qualys
5 4 (9.76%) Sophos
6 3 (7.32%) CheckPoint
6 3 (7.32%) Citrix
6 3 (7.32%) Rapid7
6 3 (7.32%) ServiceNow
7 2 (4.88%) Apple
7 2 (4.88%) Dell
7 2 (4.88%) Red Hat
8 1 (2.44%) Google
8 1 (2.44%) HP
8 1 (2.44%) Oracle