Security Patching Contracts in London

Security Patching
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London 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 319 362 476
Rank change year-on-year +43 +114 +104
Contract jobs citing Security Patching 34 29 17
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.27% 0.16% 0.063%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.29% 0.18% 0.069%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 18 11
10th Percentile £213 £321 £180
25th Percentile £400 £359 £290
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year - - -9.52%
75th Percentile £554 £544 £530
90th Percentile £594 £567 £619
England median daily rate £490 £500 £400
% change year-on-year -2.00% +25.00% -5.88%

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

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 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%

Security Patching
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Security Patching in London

Security Patching
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Security Patching in London

Security Patching
Daily Rate Histogram in London

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

Daily rate histogram for Security Patching in London

Security Patching
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Security Patching in London

Security Patching
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 Security Patching 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 - 7 £450 -
East London +15 1 £495 +4.21%
West London +12 1 £450 -
Security Patching
England

Security Patching
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 1 (2.94%) Apache
1 1 (2.94%) IIS
1 1 (2.94%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (2.94%) nginx
1 1 (2.94%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (2.94%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 8 (23.53%) AWS
1 8 (23.53%) Azure
2 3 (8.82%) Entra ID
3 2 (5.88%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (5.88%) GCP
4 1 (2.94%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (2.94%) GitHub
4 1 (2.94%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (2.94%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (2.94%) Nutanix
4 1 (2.94%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 8 (23.53%) Firewall
2 5 (14.71%) Network Security
3 3 (8.82%) Intrusion Detection
3 3 (8.82%) SD-WAN
3 3 (8.82%) WAN
4 2 (5.88%) FTP
4 2 (5.88%) Remote Desktop
4 2 (5.88%) SSL
5 1 (2.94%) BGP
5 1 (2.94%) DHCP
5 1 (2.94%) DNS
5 1 (2.94%) HTTP
5 1 (2.94%) OSPF
5 1 (2.94%) SNMP
5 1 (2.94%) SSH
5 1 (2.94%) TCP/IP
5 1 (2.94%) Telnet
5 1 (2.94%) VLAN
5 1 (2.94%) VPN
5 1 (2.94%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (8.82%) MySQL
1 3 (8.82%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (5.88%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (5.88%) Oracle Database
2 2 (5.88%) Oracle Reports
2 2 (5.88%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (14.71%) GitLab
2 2 (5.88%) Jenkins
3 1 (2.94%) Git
3 1 (2.94%) JIRA
General
1 6 (17.65%) Finance
2 5 (14.71%) Social Skills
3 4 (11.76%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (5.88%) Banking
4 2 (5.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2 (5.88%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (2.94%) Back Office
5 1 (2.94%) Legal
5 1 (2.94%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 9 (26.47%) Senior
2 5 (14.71%) Senior Windows Engineer
2 5 (14.71%) Windows Engineer
3 3 (8.82%) Analyst
3 3 (8.82%) Mac Engineer
3 3 (8.82%) Mobile Specialist
3 3 (8.82%) Security Engineer
3 3 (8.82%) Senior Mac Engineer
4 2 (5.88%) Architect
4 2 (5.88%) Database Engineer
4 2 (5.88%) IT Support
4 2 (5.88%) Network Engineer
4 2 (5.88%) QA Leader
4 2 (5.88%) Security Architect
4 2 (5.88%) Security Solutions Architect
4 2 (5.88%) Security Technical Architect
4 2 (5.88%) Solutions Architect
4 2 (5.88%) Support Analyst
4 2 (5.88%) Technical Architect
4 2 (5.88%) Technical Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.94%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (2.94%) JSON
1 1 (2.94%) LDAP
1 1 (2.94%) Middleware
1 1 (2.94%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (11.76%) iPhone
2 2 (5.88%) Cyber Threat
2 2 (5.88%) Onboarding
3 1 (2.94%) Data Centre
3 1 (2.94%) PKI
3 1 (2.94%) Replication
3 1 (2.94%) Security Posture
3 1 (2.94%) Video Conferencing
3 1 (2.94%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 10 (29.41%) Windows
2 6 (17.65%) Windows 10
3 4 (11.76%) Android
3 4 (11.76%) Linux
4 3 (8.82%) Apple iOS
4 3 (8.82%) Mac OS
4 3 (8.82%) Windows Server
5 1 (2.94%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (47.06%) Cybersecurity
2 13 (38.24%) Problem-Solving
3 8 (23.53%) Patch Management
4 7 (20.59%) Incident Response
5 6 (17.65%) Technical Leadership
5 6 (17.65%) Vulnerability Management
6 5 (14.71%) Cloud Security
7 4 (11.76%) CI/CD
7 4 (11.76%) Performance Tuning
7 4 (11.76%) Process Improvement
7 4 (11.76%) Security Monitoring
8 3 (8.82%) Configuration Management
8 3 (8.82%) DevOps
8 3 (8.82%) High Availability
8 3 (8.82%) Infrastructure as Code
8 3 (8.82%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 3 (8.82%) ITIL
8 3 (8.82%) Mobile Device Management
8 3 (8.82%) Performance Optimisation
8 3 (8.82%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 10 (29.41%) PowerShell
2 4 (11.76%) Bash
3 3 (8.82%) SQL
4 2 (5.88%) Python
5 1 (2.94%) C
5 1 (2.94%) Java
5 1 (2.94%) PL/SQL
5 1 (2.94%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 10 (29.41%) SC Cleared
1 10 (29.41%) Security Cleared
2 3 (8.82%) Computer Science Degree
2 3 (8.82%) Degree
3 2 (5.88%) CISSP
3 2 (5.88%) CompTIA Security+
4 1 (2.94%) A+ Certification
4 1 (2.94%) Azure Certification
4 1 (2.94%) ISEB
4 1 (2.94%) ISTQB
4 1 (2.94%) MCP
4 1 (2.94%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (2.94%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (11.76%) QA
2 3 (8.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (5.88%) Actionable Recommendations
3 2 (5.88%) NCSC
3 2 (5.88%) NIST
4 1 (2.94%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (2.94%) SLA
System Software
1 6 (17.65%) Active Directory
2 3 (8.82%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (2.94%) BitLocker
3 1 (2.94%) FreeRADIUS
3 1 (2.94%) Hyper-V
3 1 (2.94%) iptables
3 1 (2.94%) Microsoft App-V
3 1 (2.94%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (2.94%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (2.94%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (2.94%) XenApp
3 1 (2.94%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 10 (29.41%) SCCM
2 6 (17.65%) Ansible
3 5 (14.71%) Terraform
4 3 (8.82%) Jamf Pro
4 3 (8.82%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (5.88%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
5 2 (5.88%) Puppet
5 2 (5.88%) ZABBIX
6 1 (2.94%) Cacti
6 1 (2.94%) Grafana
6 1 (2.94%) McAfee ePO
6 1 (2.94%) Nagios
6 1 (2.94%) Netcool
6 1 (2.94%) Progress Chef
6 1 (2.94%) Proxmox
6 1 (2.94%) Salt
6 1 (2.94%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (2.94%) WSUS
Vendors
1 12 (35.29%) Microsoft
2 7 (20.59%) Apple
3 4 (11.76%) Cisco
3 4 (11.76%) VMware
4 3 (8.82%) Oracle
5 2 (5.88%) Palo Alto
5 2 (5.88%) ServiceNow
5 2 (5.88%) Splunk
6 1 (2.94%) Atlassian
6 1 (2.94%) Canon
6 1 (2.94%) Citrix
6 1 (2.94%) F5
6 1 (2.94%) Google
6 1 (2.94%) Juniper
6 1 (2.94%) McAfee
6 1 (2.94%) Nokia
6 1 (2.94%) Red Hat
6 1 (2.94%) SolarWinds