Security Patching Contract Job Trends in Suffolk

Security Patching
East of England > Suffolk

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Suffolk 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 16 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Security Patching 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Suffolk 1.79% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.08% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
East of England median daily rate - £343 £200
% change year-on-year - +71.25% -57.89%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Suffolk

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 Suffolk.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 48 58 102
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Suffolk 85.71% 65.91% 82.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 29 85
10th Percentile £207 £168 £361
25th Percentile £261 £230 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £370 £375 £600
Median % change year-on-year -1.33% -37.50% -
75th Percentile £481 £538 £700
90th Percentile £548 £640 £745
East of England median daily rate £500 £446 £500
% change year-on-year +12.11% -10.80% +0.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 9 1
10th Percentile £16.53 - -
25th Percentile £18.07 £14.05 -
Median hourly rate £22.04 £14.60 £20.56
Median % change year-on-year +50.92% -28.99% -
75th Percentile £30.41 £51.91 -
90th Percentile £39.87 £52.27 -
East of England median hourly rate £25.15 £38.12 £19.81
% change year-on-year -34.02% +92.43% -3.37%

Security Patching
Job Vacancy Trend in Suffolk

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

Job vacancy trend for Security Patching in Suffolk

Security Patching
Daily Rate Trend in Suffolk

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

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

Security Patching
Contract Job Locations in Suffolk

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 Suffolk 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
Felixstowe - 1 - -
Security Patching
East of England

Security Patching
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Suffolk 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:

General
1 1 (100.00%) Legal
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Analyst
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Analyst
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Analyst
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Infrastructure Analyst
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Change Control
1 1 (100.00%) Change Management
1 1 (100.00%) Collaborative Working
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 1 (100.00%) ITIL
1 1 (100.00%) Patch Management
1 1 (100.00%) Vulnerability Management
1 1 (100.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
1 1 (100.00%) Vulnerability Scanning
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) SCCM
1 1 (100.00%) WSUS
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Progress
1 1 (100.00%) Qualys
1 1 (100.00%) Rapid7
1 1 (100.00%) Tenable