Patch Management Contracts in the UK excluding London

Patch Management
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for Patch Management skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Patch Management over the 6 months to 12 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
12 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 316 363 381
Rank change year-on-year +47 +18 -8
Contract jobs citing Patch Management 72 90 126
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.35% 0.38% 0.41%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.42% 0.43% 0.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 43 66 86
10th Percentile £279 £200 £185
25th Percentile £316 £213 £252
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £388 £350 £375
Median % change year-on-year +10.71% -6.67% +3.45%
75th Percentile £531 £493 £450
90th Percentile £600 £590 £500
UK median daily rate £450 £400 £440
% change year-on-year +12.50% -9.09% -2.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 2
10th Percentile - - £18.39
25th Percentile - £51.25 £18.78
Median hourly rate £80.00 £52.50 £20.13
Median % change year-on-year +52.38% +160.87% -
75th Percentile - £53.75 £21.53
90th Percentile - - £21.96
UK median hourly rate £23.80 £52.50 £40.75
% change year-on-year -54.67% +28.83% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Patch Management 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 UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,300 21,032 27,102
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 84.45% 89.50% 89.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,314 14,532 18,929
10th Percentile £250 £256 £235
25th Percentile £380 £400 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.57%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £653
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,056 1,281 1,348
10th Percentile £12.32 £11.00 £12.25
25th Percentile £15.25 £15.44 £14.25
Median hourly rate £38.06 £35.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.74% +75.00% -6.98%
75th Percentile £61.26 £65.00 £47.05
90th Percentile £72.90 £73.75 £60.92
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year +1.39% +40.19% +4.82%

Patch Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Patch Management in the UK excluding London

Patch Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Patch Management in the UK excluding London

Patch Management
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Patch Management in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 12 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Patch Management in the UK excluding London

Patch Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Patch Management in the UK excluding London

Patch Management
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding 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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 12 May 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
South East +33 29 £500 +33.33% 13
Midlands +36 16 £319 -22.73% 9
West Midlands +23 16 £319 -22.73% 6
North of England +17 9 £195 -57.38% 9
East of England 0 8 £340 +14.29% 12
South West -3 8 £313 +13.64% 3
Yorkshire +25 6 £195 -59.59% 2
Scotland +41 2 £483 +211.01% 3
North East - 2 £195 - 2
North West +9 1 £388 -13.89% 5
Patch Management
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Patch Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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 11 (15.28%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (6.94%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.39%) Apache
3 1 (1.39%) Tomcat
Applications
1 5 (6.94%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 22 (30.56%) Microsoft 365
2 14 (19.44%) Azure
3 8 (11.11%) Azure Monitor
4 5 (6.94%) OneDrive
5 4 (5.56%) AWS
6 2 (2.78%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (1.39%) Amazon S3
7 1 (1.39%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 27 (37.50%) DNS
2 10 (13.89%) DHCP
3 9 (12.50%) SAN
4 8 (11.11%) NetScaler
5 7 (9.72%) Firewall
5 7 (9.72%) VPN
6 6 (8.33%) Fibre Channel
6 6 (8.33%) Remote Desktop
7 5 (6.94%) TCP/IP
7 5 (6.94%) WAN
8 4 (5.56%) LAN
9 3 (4.17%) NAS
10 2 (2.78%) iSCSI
10 2 (2.78%) SSL
10 2 (2.78%) VLAN
10 2 (2.78%) VoIP
10 2 (2.78%) Wireless
11 1 (1.39%) Kerberos
11 1 (1.39%) WAAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (4.17%) SQL Server
2 1 (1.39%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (1.39%) MongoDB
2 1 (1.39%) MySQL
2 1 (1.39%) NoSQL
2 1 (1.39%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (2.78%) JIRA
2 1 (1.39%) Git
2 1 (1.39%) Subversion
General
1 18 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (4.17%) Finance
2 3 (4.17%) Front Office
3 2 (2.78%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (2.78%) Public Sector
4 1 (1.39%) Banking
4 1 (1.39%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (1.39%) Legal
4 1 (1.39%) Manufacturing
4 1 (1.39%) Military
Job Titles
1 13 (18.06%) Desktop Engineer
2 11 (15.28%) Integration Engineer
3 9 (12.50%) Support Engineer
4 8 (11.11%) 3rd Line Engineer
4 8 (11.11%) Desktop Support
4 8 (11.11%) Desktop Support Engineer
5 7 (9.72%) Administrator
5 7 (9.72%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 6 (8.33%) Senior
7 5 (6.94%) Citrix Engineer
7 5 (6.94%) Deployment Engineer
7 5 (6.94%) Windows Engineer
8 4 (5.56%) 2nd Line Support
8 4 (5.56%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
8 4 (5.56%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
8 4 (5.56%) 3rd Line Support
8 4 (5.56%) Architect
8 4 (5.56%) Mobile Engineer
8 4 (5.56%) Server Administrator
8 4 (5.56%) VMWare Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (5.56%) LDAP
2 3 (4.17%) .NET
2 3 (4.17%) AngularJS
2 3 (4.17%) CSS
2 3 (4.17%) HTML
3 2 (2.78%) Software Packaging
4 1 (1.39%) Flash
4 1 (1.39%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 12 (16.67%) Management Information System
2 7 (9.72%) CMDB
3 5 (6.94%) PKI
4 4 (5.56%) Fat Client
4 4 (5.56%) Thin Client
5 2 (2.78%) Clustering
6 1 (1.39%) Data Centre
6 1 (1.39%) Life Science
6 1 (1.39%) Public Cloud
6 1 (1.39%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 55 (76.39%) Windows
2 32 (44.44%) Windows Server
3 18 (25.00%) Windows 10
4 17 (23.61%) Linux
5 10 (13.89%) Windows Server 2012
6 9 (12.50%) Ubuntu
7 7 (9.72%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 7 (9.72%) Unix
8 5 (6.94%) CentOS
9 4 (5.56%) Windows 7
10 2 (2.78%) Solaris
10 2 (2.78%) Windows Server 2019
11 1 (1.39%) AIX
11 1 (1.39%) Apple iOS
11 1 (1.39%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (22.22%) ITIL
2 14 (19.44%) Change Management
2 14 (19.44%) Problem-Solving
3 13 (18.06%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 11 (15.28%) Information Security
5 10 (13.89%) Vulnerability Management
6 9 (12.50%) Computer Science
7 8 (11.11%) Application Packaging
7 8 (11.11%) Project Delivery
7 8 (11.11%) Service Management
8 7 (9.72%) Line Management
8 7 (9.72%) Software Deployment
8 7 (9.72%) Task Automation
9 6 (8.33%) Cybersecurity
9 6 (8.33%) Disaster Recovery
9 6 (8.33%) Incident Management
9 6 (8.33%) Risk Management
9 6 (8.33%) Stakeholder Management
9 6 (8.33%) Virtual Infrastructure
10 5 (6.94%) Security Patching
Programming Languages
1 28 (38.89%) PowerShell
2 6 (8.33%) Python
3 5 (6.94%) Bash
4 3 (4.17%) JavaScript
4 3 (4.17%) VB.NET
5 2 (2.78%) C++
5 2 (2.78%) SQL
6 1 (1.39%) Perl
6 1 (1.39%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 24 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 16 (22.22%) Degree
3 12 (16.67%) SC Cleared
4 9 (12.50%) DV Cleared
5 8 (11.11%) Microsoft Certification
6 6 (8.33%) ITIL Certification
7 4 (5.56%) MCSE
8 3 (4.17%) Computer Science Degree
9 2 (2.78%) CCNA
9 2 (2.78%) Cisco Certification
9 2 (2.78%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 1 (1.39%) Azure Certification
10 1 (1.39%) CISSP
10 1 (1.39%) IBM Certification
10 1 (1.39%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 1 (1.39%) Linux+ Certification
10 1 (1.39%) LPIC
10 1 (1.39%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (5.56%) SLA
2 3 (4.17%) Data Quality
2 3 (4.17%) ISO 9001
2 3 (4.17%) ISO/IEC 20000
2 3 (4.17%) QA
3 1 (1.39%) GDPR
3 1 (1.39%) GRC
3 1 (1.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.39%) JSP 440
3 1 (1.39%) NCSC
3 1 (1.39%) NIST
3 1 (1.39%) NIST 800
System Software
1 40 (55.56%) Active Directory
2 25 (34.72%) VMware Infrastructure
3 11 (15.28%) vSphere
4 8 (11.11%) Citrix Hypervisor
4 8 (11.11%) Virtual Desktop
4 8 (11.11%) XenApp
4 8 (11.11%) XenDesktop
5 7 (9.72%) VMware ESXi
6 4 (5.56%) Firmware
6 4 (5.56%) Hyper-V
6 4 (5.56%) VMware NSX
6 4 (5.56%) VMware Server
7 3 (4.17%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (1.39%) Docker
8 1 (1.39%) KVM
8 1 (1.39%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (1.39%) Xen
Systems Management
1 19 (26.39%) WSUS
2 11 (15.28%) SCCM
3 6 (8.33%) vCenter Server
4 3 (4.17%) Ansible
4 3 (4.17%) Microsoft Intune
4 3 (4.17%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (2.78%) Nessus
5 2 (2.78%) Red Hat Satellite
6 1 (1.39%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 1 (1.39%) Failover Clustering
6 1 (1.39%) Kubernetes
6 1 (1.39%) NetBackup
6 1 (1.39%) Progress Chef
6 1 (1.39%) Puppet
6 1 (1.39%) SELinux
6 1 (1.39%) Tivoli Storage Manager
6 1 (1.39%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 51 (70.83%) Microsoft
2 27 (37.50%) VMware
3 9 (12.50%) NetApp
4 8 (11.11%) Citrix
5 4 (5.56%) Red Hat
6 3 (4.17%) Qualys
6 3 (4.17%) ServiceNow
7 2 (2.78%) Apple
7 2 (2.78%) Aruba
7 2 (2.78%) Cisco
7 2 (2.78%) HP
7 2 (2.78%) Sophos
7 2 (2.78%) Veritas
8 1 (1.39%) BEA
8 1 (1.39%) Dell
8 1 (1.39%) EMC
8 1 (1.39%) IBM
8 1 (1.39%) Isilon
8 1 (1.39%) Oracle
8 1 (1.39%) Symantec