Security Patching Contract Job Trends in London

Security Patching
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London requiring Security Patching skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 342 363 420
Rank change year-on-year +21 +57 +164
Contract jobs citing Security Patching 18 33 24
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.13% 0.20% 0.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.14% 0.23% 0.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 18 7
10th Percentile £327 £244 £394
25th Percentile £386 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £536 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year +12.84% - -13.64%
75th Percentile £589 £562 £578
90th Percentile £685 £588 £630
England median daily rate £490 £450 £400
% change year-on-year +8.89% +12.50% -15.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £36.63 - -
25th Percentile £37.19 - -
Median hourly rate £38.75 - -
75th Percentile £39.69 - -
90th Percentile £39.88 - -
England median hourly rate £36.00 - £63.00

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 12,457 14,510 20,287
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 92.60% 89.17% 90.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,237 9,749 14,729
10th Percentile £325 £350 £363
25th Percentile £425 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% -4.35% -0.86%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £696
90th Percentile £775 £800 £800
England median daily rate £508 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.33% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 256 181 229
10th Percentile £17.00 £17.25 £18.43
25th Percentile £25.00 £23.80 £22.25
Median hourly rate £31.75 £35.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -9.29% -12.50% +7.79%
75th Percentile £48.94 £55.00 £64.50
90th Percentile £63.75 £71.88 £77.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £42.75
% change year-on-year -41.51% +0.58% +47.41%

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
Daily Rate Trend in London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Security Patching.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Security Patching

Security Patching
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Security Patching in London over the 6 months to 13 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Security Patching in London

Security Patching
Hourly Rate Trend in London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Security Patching.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Security Patching

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 13 September 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 +12 6 £605 +38.57% 1
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 2 (11.11%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 10 (55.56%) Azure
2 5 (27.78%) Entra ID
3 4 (22.22%) AWS
4 2 (11.11%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (11.11%) GCP
4 2 (11.11%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (11.11%) Nutanix
4 2 (11.11%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 1 (5.56%) Azure Pipelines
5 1 (5.56%) Cloud Run
5 1 (5.56%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (5.56%) GitHub
5 1 (5.56%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (5.56%) Google Compute Engine
5 1 (5.56%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 5 (27.78%) WAN
2 3 (16.67%) Firewall
2 3 (16.67%) SD-WAN
3 2 (11.11%) BGP
3 2 (11.11%) Cisco IOS
3 2 (11.11%) Cisco Nexus
3 2 (11.11%) Ethernet VPN
3 2 (11.11%) IOS XR
3 2 (11.11%) Junos
3 2 (11.11%) LAN
3 2 (11.11%) MPLS
3 2 (11.11%) Multicast
3 2 (11.11%) NX-OS
3 2 (11.11%) OSPF
3 2 (11.11%) SSL
3 2 (11.11%) VPN
3 2 (11.11%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.56%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (5.56%) BigQuery
1 1 (5.56%) MySQL
1 1 (5.56%) Oracle Database
1 1 (5.56%) Oracle Reports
1 1 (5.56%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (5.56%) Redis
Development Applications
1 2 (11.11%) Sonatype Nexus
2 1 (5.56%) Artifactory
2 1 (5.56%) git-flow
2 1 (5.56%) SonarQube
General
1 4 (22.22%) Finance
1 4 (22.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (5.56%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (16.67%) Active Directory Support
1 3 (16.67%) Infrastructure Support
2 2 (11.11%) Architect
2 2 (11.11%) Implementation Engineer
2 2 (11.11%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (11.11%) LAN Engineer
2 2 (11.11%) LAN/WAN Engineer
2 2 (11.11%) Platform Engineer
2 2 (11.11%) Security Architect
2 2 (11.11%) Security Solutions Architect
2 2 (11.11%) Security Technical Architect
2 2 (11.11%) Solutions Architect
2 2 (11.11%) Technical Architect
2 2 (11.11%) Technical Solutions Architect
2 2 (11.11%) WAN Engineer
3 1 (5.56%) DBA
3 1 (5.56%) IT Support Engineer
3 1 (5.56%) Oracle DBA
3 1 (5.56%) Support Engineer
3 1 (5.56%) Systems Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 4 (22.22%) Data Centre
2 2 (11.11%) Cloud Native
2 2 (11.11%) Onboarding
2 2 (11.11%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 6 (33.33%) Windows
2 4 (22.22%) Windows 10
3 2 (11.11%) Windows Server
4 1 (5.56%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (33.33%) Patch Management
2 5 (27.78%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 5 (27.78%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (22.22%) Technical Leadership
3 4 (22.22%) Vulnerability Management
4 3 (16.67%) DevOps
4 3 (16.67%) Incident Management
4 3 (16.67%) Network Management
4 3 (16.67%) Software Deployment
5 2 (11.11%) CI/CD
5 2 (11.11%) End-to-End Testing
5 2 (11.11%) Incident Response
5 2 (11.11%) Infrastructure as Code
5 2 (11.11%) Platform Engineering
5 2 (11.11%) Process Improvement
5 2 (11.11%) Security Monitoring
5 2 (11.11%) User Experience
5 2 (11.11%) Vulnerability Remediation
6 1 (5.56%) Code Quality
6 1 (5.56%) Static Code Analysis
Programming Languages
1 5 (27.78%) Python
2 4 (22.22%) PowerShell
3 3 (16.67%) Java
4 2 (11.11%) SQL
5 1 (5.56%) Korn
Qualifications
1 4 (22.22%) SC Cleared
1 4 (22.22%) Security Cleared
2 1 (5.56%) AWS Certification
2 1 (5.56%) Azure Certification
System Software
1 8 (44.44%) Active Directory
2 2 (11.11%) Firmware
2 2 (11.11%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (5.56%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (5.56%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (27.78%) SCCM
2 3 (16.67%) Ansible
2 3 (16.67%) Microsoft Intune
2 3 (16.67%) Symantec Endpoint Protection
2 3 (16.67%) Terraform
3 2 (11.11%) McAfee ePO
3 2 (11.11%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (5.56%) Data Guard
4 1 (5.56%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
Vendors
1 7 (38.89%) Cisco
2 5 (27.78%) Microsoft
2 5 (27.78%) VMware
3 3 (16.67%) Altiris
3 3 (16.67%) Citrix
3 3 (16.67%) Ivanti
3 3 (16.67%) Palo Alto
3 3 (16.67%) Symantec
4 2 (11.11%) Arista
4 2 (11.11%) Canon
4 2 (11.11%) McAfee
4 2 (11.11%) ServiceNow
5 1 (5.56%) Oracle