Security Patching Contracts in the Thames Valley

Security Patching
South East > Thames Valley

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 30 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 139 145 160
Rank change year-on-year +6 +15 -22
Contract jobs citing Security Patching 5 6 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.19% 0.20% 0.17%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.21% 0.22% 0.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 5 4
10th Percentile £150 £245 £147
25th Percentile £175 £246 £205
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £300 £400 £245
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% +63.27% -
75th Percentile - - £324
90th Percentile £330 £423 £454
South East median daily rate £350 £400 £193
% change year-on-year -12.50% +107.79% +10.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Thames Valley

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 the Thames Valley with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,342 2,689 3,108
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 87.13% 91.56% 89.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,307 1,867 2,095
10th Percentile £213 £321 £225
25th Percentile £366 £413 £390
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £675 £688 £650
South East median daily rate £500 £508 £500
% change year-on-year -1.48% +1.50% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 170 62 87
10th Percentile £15.30 £18.60 £10.77
25th Percentile £19.48 £24.86 £11.78
Median hourly rate £45.00 £51.25 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -12.20% +192.86% -16.86%
75th Percentile £64.57 £66.21 £25.36
90th Percentile £85.65 £79.19 £67.80
South East median hourly rate £47.50 £50.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year -5.00% +122.22% -18.18%

Security Patching
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing Security Patching as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for Security Patching in the Thames Valley

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Security Patching in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for Security Patching in the Thames Valley

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Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Security Patching in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 30 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Security Patching in the Thames Valley

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Security Patching in the Thames Valley.

Hourly rate trend for Security Patching in the Thames Valley

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Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 30 April 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
Buckinghamshire +26 2 £155 -36.73%
Berkshire -13 2 £300 -25.00% 1
Oxfordshire - 1 £350 -
Security Patching
South East

Security Patching
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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:

Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Oracle Cash Management
1 2 (40.00%) Oracle EBS
1 2 (40.00%) Oracle EBS R12
1 2 (40.00%) Oracle Payables
1 2 (40.00%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (20.00%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 2 (40.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) Oracle Database
General
1 2 (40.00%) Finance
1 2 (40.00%) Organisational Skills
1 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Analyst
1 2 (40.00%) Consultant
1 2 (40.00%) Functional Consultant
1 2 (40.00%) Oracle Consultant
1 2 (40.00%) Oracle Functional Consultant
1 2 (40.00%) Service Analyst
1 2 (40.00%) Service Desk Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Azure Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) SCCM Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Systems Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 3 (60.00%) Windows
2 2 (40.00%) Windows 10
3 1 (20.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Customer Service
2 2 (40.00%) Accounts Payable
2 2 (40.00%) Accounts Receivable
2 2 (40.00%) Cash Management
2 2 (40.00%) Migration
2 2 (40.00%) Problem Management
2 2 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (40.00%) Process Management
2 2 (40.00%) Regression Testing
2 2 (40.00%) Unit Testing
3 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 1 (20.00%) Scrum
3 1 (20.00%) Server Hardening
3 1 (20.00%) Server Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) PL/SQL
1 2 (40.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (40.00%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (40.00%) Active Directory
1 2 (40.00%) BitLocker
Systems Management
1 3 (60.00%) SCCM
2 1 (20.00%) WSUS
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) HP
1 2 (40.00%) McAfee
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (40.00%) MobileIron
1 2 (40.00%) Oracle