Security Patching Contracts in the UK excluding London

Security Patching
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 5 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 343 420 459
Rank change year-on-year +77 +39 -50
Contract jobs citing Security Patching 50 31 52
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.24% 0.13% 0.17%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.29% 0.14% 0.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 44 24 39
10th Percentile £209 £253 £184
25th Percentile £369 £305 £215
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £570 £413 £325
Median % change year-on-year +38.18% +26.92% +4.00%
75th Percentile £588 £503 £438
90th Percentile - £576 £550
UK median daily rate £513 £425 £425
% change year-on-year +20.59% - -10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £23.86 -
UK median hourly rate - £23.86 -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,416 21,395 27,498
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 84.70% 89.57% 88.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,404 14,844 19,217
10th Percentile £250 £256 £233
25th Percentile £375 £400 £385
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 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,048 1,307 1,356
10th Percentile £12.30 £11.00 £12.05
25th Percentile £15.22 £15.56 £14.00
Median hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% +75.00% -6.98%
75th Percentile £60.75 £65.00 £46.31
90th Percentile £72.50 £73.75 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £35.95 £35.80 £25.00
% change year-on-year +0.42% +43.20% +2.04%

Security Patching
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Security Patching in the UK excluding London

Security Patching
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Security Patching in the UK excluding London

Security Patching
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Security Patching in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Security Patching in the UK excluding London

Security Patching
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Security Patching in the UK excluding London

Security Patching
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 Security Patching within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 5 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 West +46 26 £570 +42.50% 2
South East +23 10 £350 -12.50% 5
Scotland +46 9 £588 +89.52%
North of England +28 2 £250 -19.35% 3
East of England - 2 £344 - 2
Yorkshire - 2 £250 - 1
Midlands +28 1 £425 +6.25% 2
West Midlands - 1 £425 - 2
Security Patching
UK

Security Patching
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 8 (16.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (10.00%) Confluence
3 3 (6.00%) Tomcat
4 2 (4.00%) IIS
5 1 (2.00%) Apache
5 1 (2.00%) JBoss
5 1 (2.00%) WildFly
Applications
1 3 (6.00%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (4.00%) Oracle Cash Management
1 2 (4.00%) Oracle EBS
1 2 (4.00%) Oracle EBS R12
1 2 (4.00%) Oracle Payables
1 2 (4.00%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 7 (14.00%) Microsoft 365
2 4 (8.00%) Azure
3 1 (2.00%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (2.00%) Entra ID
3 1 (2.00%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 13 (26.00%) Network Security
2 5 (10.00%) DHCP
2 5 (10.00%) DNS
3 3 (6.00%) LAN
3 3 (6.00%) TCP/IP
3 3 (6.00%) Wi-Fi
4 2 (4.00%) VPN
5 1 (2.00%) Fibre Channel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (6.00%) Oracle Database
2 2 (4.00%) SQL Server
3 1 (2.00%) Oracle Database 11g
Development Applications
1 5 (10.00%) JIRA
2 1 (2.00%) JUnit
2 1 (2.00%) Maven
2 1 (2.00%) Subversion
General
1 13 (26.00%) Public Sector
2 11 (22.00%) Finance
3 8 (16.00%) Electronics
3 8 (16.00%) Manufacturing
3 8 (16.00%) Marketing
3 8 (16.00%) Telecoms
4 3 (6.00%) Front Office
4 3 (6.00%) Social Skills
5 2 (4.00%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (4.00%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (2.00%) Banking
Job Titles
1 11 (22.00%) Platform Manager
2 9 (18.00%) Change and Release Manager
2 9 (18.00%) Change Manager
2 9 (18.00%) ITIL Change Manager
2 9 (18.00%) ITIL Manager
2 9 (18.00%) ITIL Release Manager
2 9 (18.00%) Release Manager
3 6 (12.00%) Exchange Engineer
3 6 (12.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 6 (12.00%) Senior
4 3 (6.00%) 2nd Line Desktop Support
4 3 (6.00%) 2nd Line Support
4 3 (6.00%) Administrator
4 3 (6.00%) Analyst
4 3 (6.00%) Desktop Support
4 3 (6.00%) Senior Exchange Engineer
4 3 (6.00%) Support Engineer
4 3 (6.00%) Systems Administrator
5 2 (4.00%) Azure Engineer
5 2 (4.00%) SCCM Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (6.00%) .NET
2 2 (4.00%) Web Services
3 1 (2.00%) AngularJS
3 1 (2.00%) Hibernate
3 1 (2.00%) Java EE
3 1 (2.00%) JPA
3 1 (2.00%) JSP
3 1 (2.00%) JSTL
3 1 (2.00%) OpenJDK
3 1 (2.00%) Servlets
3 1 (2.00%) Software Packaging
3 1 (2.00%) Spring
3 1 (2.00%) STL
3 1 (2.00%) XML
3 1 (2.00%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 15 (30.00%) PKI
2 2 (4.00%) Product Ownership
2 2 (4.00%) Video Conferencing
3 1 (2.00%) Mainframe
3 1 (2.00%) Security Posture
3 1 (2.00%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 35 (70.00%) Windows
2 6 (12.00%) Linux
2 6 (12.00%) Windows 10
3 4 (8.00%) Unix
4 3 (6.00%) Ubuntu
4 3 (6.00%) Windows Server
5 1 (2.00%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (48.00%) Change Management
2 15 (30.00%) Release Management
3 13 (26.00%) ITIL
4 11 (22.00%) Problem Management
5 9 (18.00%) Capacity Management
6 8 (16.00%) Business Intelligence
6 8 (16.00%) Digital Marketing
6 8 (16.00%) High Availability
6 8 (16.00%) Programme Management
7 7 (14.00%) Agile
7 7 (14.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 6 (12.00%) Root Cause Analysis
9 5 (10.00%) Patch Management
9 5 (10.00%) Roadmaps
10 4 (8.00%) Customer Service
10 4 (8.00%) Identity Management
10 4 (8.00%) Migration
10 4 (8.00%) Project Delivery
10 4 (8.00%) RBAC
10 4 (8.00%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 11 (22.00%) PowerShell
2 6 (12.00%) SQL
3 3 (6.00%) VB.NET
4 2 (4.00%) C++
4 2 (4.00%) PL/SQL
4 2 (4.00%) T-SQL
5 1 (2.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 24 (48.00%) Security Cleared
2 15 (30.00%) DV Cleared
3 9 (18.00%) Degree
4 8 (16.00%) SC Cleared
5 3 (6.00%) ITIL Certification
5 3 (6.00%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (14.00%) SLA
2 3 (6.00%) ISO 9001
2 3 (6.00%) ISO/IEC 20000
3 1 (2.00%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (2.00%) Disclosure Scotland
3 1 (2.00%) NCSC
System Software
1 16 (32.00%) Active Directory
2 5 (10.00%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (6.00%) Hyper-V
3 3 (6.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (6.00%) vSphere
4 2 (4.00%) BitLocker
Systems Management
1 5 (10.00%) SCCM
2 4 (8.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 4 (8.00%) WSUS
3 1 (2.00%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 8 (16.00%) Microsoft
1 8 (16.00%) SAP
2 4 (8.00%) Atlassian
2 4 (8.00%) VMware
3 3 (6.00%) Oracle
4 2 (4.00%) HP
4 2 (4.00%) McAfee
4 2 (4.00%) MobileIron
4 2 (4.00%) Qualys
5 1 (2.00%) Cisco
5 1 (2.00%) Rapid7