Patch Management Contracts

Patch Management
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 16 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
16 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 499 499 578
Rank change year-on-year 0 +79 -38
Contract jobs citing Patch Management 90 228 298
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.21% 0.37% 0.33%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.24% 0.41% 0.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 55 161 221
10th Percentile £282 £200 £189
25th Percentile £363 £275 £353
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £400 £450
Median % change year-on-year +22.50% -11.11% +4.35%
75th Percentile £600 £519 £550
90th Percentile £695 £590 £625
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £350 £375
% change year-on-year +35.71% -6.67% +13.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 2 3
10th Percentile - £14.34 £26.50
25th Percentile - £20.49 £39.06
Median hourly rate £22.00 £31.37 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -29.87% -47.72% -
75th Percentile £37.88 £42.87 £69.38
90th Percentile £47.40 £49.40 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £52.50 £31.37 £18.75
% change year-on-year +67.36% +67.31% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,881 55,208 81,430
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.36% 89.86% 90.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,533 38,169 57,174
10th Percentile £300 £325 £338
25th Percentile £413 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +9.38%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +10.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,409 1,808 1,952
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.85 £16.50 £15.25
Median hourly rate £33.07 £36.00 £24.87
Median % change year-on-year -8.15% +44.78% -0.54%
75th Percentile £57.50 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £71.25 £73.98 £63.24
UK excluding London median hourly rate £33.07 £35.80 £19.91
% change year-on-year -7.64% +79.81% -8.42%

Patch Management
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Patch Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Patch Management in the UK

Patch Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Patch Management.

Daily rate trend for Patch Management in the UK

Patch Management
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Patch Management over the 6 months to 16 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Patch Management in the UK

Patch Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Patch Management.

Hourly rate trend for Patch Management in the UK

Patch Management
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Patch Management over the 6 months to 16 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Patch Management in the UK

Patch Management
Top 14 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 16 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
England +21 85 £488 +21.88% 65
UK excluding London +10 70 £475 +35.71% 42
South East +31 28 £500 +35.59% 16
Work from Home +68 21 £500 +8.11% 24
London +56 18 £663 +47.22% 27
Midlands +41 13 £350 -12.50% 2
West Midlands +34 13 £350 -12.50%
North of England +18 9 £195 -54.12% 4
South West +8 9 £325 +18.18% 4
East of England +2 8 £340 +14.29% 9
Yorkshire +26 6 £195 -57.26% 3
Scotland +37 3 £490 +45.19% 3
North East - 2 £195 -
North West +10 1 £388 -8.82% 1

Patch Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 13 (14.44%) Microsoft Exchange
2 9 (10.00%) SharePoint
3 3 (3.33%) Apache
3 3 (3.33%) IIS
3 3 (3.33%) Tomcat
Applications
1 4 (4.44%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.11%) InfoPath
Cloud Services
1 29 (32.22%) Microsoft 365
2 19 (21.11%) Azure
3 8 (8.89%) Azure Monitor
4 7 (7.78%) AWS
5 5 (5.56%) OneDrive
6 2 (2.22%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (1.11%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 1 (1.11%) Amazon S3
7 1 (1.11%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (1.11%) AWS CloudTrail
7 1 (1.11%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (1.11%) Entra ID
7 1 (1.11%) Mimecast
7 1 (1.11%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 26 (28.89%) DNS
2 10 (11.11%) SAN
3 9 (10.00%) NetScaler
4 8 (8.89%) DHCP
4 8 (8.89%) Firewall
5 7 (7.78%) TCP/IP
5 7 (7.78%) VPN
6 6 (6.67%) NAS
7 3 (3.33%) Fibre Channel
7 3 (3.33%) Skype
7 3 (3.33%) SSL
8 2 (2.22%) iSCSI
8 2 (2.22%) Kerberos
8 2 (2.22%) Remote Desktop
8 2 (2.22%) VLAN
8 2 (2.22%) VoIP
8 2 (2.22%) WAN
9 1 (1.11%) Junos
9 1 (1.11%) LAN
9 1 (1.11%) WAAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (3.33%) SQL Server
2 1 (1.11%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (1.11%) MongoDB
2 1 (1.11%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (2.22%) JIRA
2 1 (1.11%) Git
2 1 (1.11%) Subversion
General
1 17 (18.89%) Social Skills
2 6 (6.67%) Finance
2 6 (6.67%) Public Sector
3 3 (3.33%) Front Office
4 2 (2.22%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (2.22%) Banking
4 2 (2.22%) Local Government
5 1 (1.11%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (1.11%) Legal
5 1 (1.11%) Manufacturing
5 1 (1.11%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (1.11%) Publishing
5 1 (1.11%) Russian Language
Job Titles
1 12 (13.33%) Desktop Engineer
2 11 (12.22%) Integration Engineer
3 10 (11.11%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 9 (10.00%) Senior
5 8 (8.89%) 3rd Line Engineer
5 8 (8.89%) Desktop Support
5 8 (8.89%) Support Engineer
6 7 (7.78%) Desktop Support Engineer
7 6 (6.67%) Administrator
7 6 (6.67%) Citrix Engineer
8 5 (5.56%) Analyst
8 5 (5.56%) Deployment Engineer
8 5 (5.56%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
8 5 (5.56%) Windows Engineer
9 4 (4.44%) 2nd Line Support
9 4 (4.44%) 3rd Line Support
9 4 (4.44%) Architect
9 4 (4.44%) Consultant
9 4 (4.44%) Wintel Engineer
10 3 (3.33%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (5.56%) LDAP
2 3 (3.33%) .NET
2 3 (3.33%) AngularJS
2 3 (3.33%) CSS
2 3 (3.33%) HTML
3 2 (2.22%) Software Packaging
4 1 (1.11%) Middleware
4 1 (1.11%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 10 (11.11%) Management Information System
2 8 (8.89%) Security Posture
3 7 (7.78%) CMDB
4 6 (6.67%) Fat Client
4 6 (6.67%) Thin Client
5 5 (5.56%) Clustering
6 4 (4.44%) PKI
7 3 (3.33%) Data Centre
8 1 (1.11%) Client/Server
8 1 (1.11%) CSOC
8 1 (1.11%) Life Science
8 1 (1.11%) Public Cloud
8 1 (1.11%) Security Operations Centre
8 1 (1.11%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 59 (65.56%) Windows
2 34 (37.78%) Windows Server
3 18 (20.00%) Linux
4 17 (18.89%) Windows 10
5 13 (14.44%) Windows Server 2012
6 10 (11.11%) Unix
7 5 (5.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 5 (5.56%) Ubuntu
7 5 (5.56%) Windows Server 2016
8 4 (4.44%) Windows 7
9 2 (2.22%) Apple iOS
9 2 (2.22%) CentOS
9 2 (2.22%) Solaris
9 2 (2.22%) Windows Server 2019
10 1 (1.11%) AIX
10 1 (1.11%) Android
10 1 (1.11%) Mac OS
10 1 (1.11%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (21.11%) ITIL
1 19 (21.11%) Vulnerability Management
2 16 (17.78%) Change Management
3 15 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 14 (15.56%) Problem-Solving
5 13 (14.44%) Information Security
6 10 (11.11%) Security Operations
7 9 (10.00%) Computer Science
7 9 (10.00%) Disaster Recovery
7 9 (10.00%) Line Management
7 9 (10.00%) Project Delivery
7 9 (10.00%) Software Deployment
8 8 (8.89%) Application Packaging
8 8 (8.89%) Incident Management
8 8 (8.89%) Security Hardening
8 8 (8.89%) Security Patching
8 8 (8.89%) Service Management
8 8 (8.89%) Test Automation
9 7 (7.78%) Deployment Automation
9 7 (7.78%) Server Management
Programming Languages
1 30 (33.33%) PowerShell
2 8 (8.89%) Python
3 5 (5.56%) SQL
4 3 (3.33%) Bash
4 3 (3.33%) JavaScript
4 3 (3.33%) VB.NET
5 2 (2.22%) C++
5 2 (2.22%) VBScript
6 1 (1.11%) Korn
6 1 (1.11%) Perl
6 1 (1.11%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 29 (32.22%) Security Cleared
2 16 (17.78%) Degree
3 12 (13.33%) SC Cleared
4 9 (10.00%) Microsoft Certification
5 8 (8.89%) DV Cleared
6 6 (6.67%) ITIL Certification
7 5 (5.56%) MCSE
8 3 (3.33%) Computer Science Degree
8 3 (3.33%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 2 (2.22%) CCNA
9 2 (2.22%) Cisco Certification
10 1 (1.11%) AWS Certification
10 1 (1.11%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 1 (1.11%) Azure Certification
10 1 (1.11%) CISSP
10 1 (1.11%) CTC Cleared
10 1 (1.11%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 1 (1.11%) Linux+ Certification
10 1 (1.11%) LPIC
10 1 (1.11%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (4.44%) SLA
2 3 (3.33%) Data Quality
2 3 (3.33%) ISO 9001
2 3 (3.33%) ISO/IEC 20000
2 3 (3.33%) QA
3 1 (1.11%) GDPR
3 1 (1.11%) GRC
3 1 (1.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 43 (47.78%) Active Directory
2 28 (31.11%) VMware Infrastructure
3 12 (13.33%) vSphere
4 11 (12.22%) Hyper-V
5 8 (8.89%) Citrix Hypervisor
5 8 (8.89%) Virtual Desktop
5 8 (8.89%) XenApp
5 8 (8.89%) XenDesktop
6 5 (5.56%) Virtual Machines
7 4 (4.44%) VMware ESXi
7 4 (4.44%) VMware NSX
8 2 (2.22%) Docker
8 2 (2.22%) Firmware
9 1 (1.11%) KVM
9 1 (1.11%) Oracle RAC
9 1 (1.11%) Samba
9 1 (1.11%) Virtual Servers
9 1 (1.11%) VMware Server
9 1 (1.11%) Xen
Systems Management
1 19 (21.11%) WSUS
2 18 (20.00%) SCCM
3 6 (6.67%) Microsoft Intune
4 4 (4.44%) Ansible
4 4 (4.44%) Failover Clustering
4 4 (4.44%) Single Sign-On
5 3 (3.33%) Microsoft Clustering
5 3 (3.33%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
5 3 (3.33%) SCOM
5 3 (3.33%) SCVMM
5 3 (3.33%) vCenter Server
6 2 (2.22%) Kubernetes
6 2 (2.22%) NetBackup
6 2 (2.22%) SCOrch
6 2 (2.22%) Simpana
7 1 (1.11%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 1 (1.11%) Progress Chef
7 1 (1.11%) SELinux
7 1 (1.11%) Terraform
7 1 (1.11%) WMI
Vendors
1 53 (58.89%) Microsoft
2 32 (35.56%) VMware
3 10 (11.11%) Citrix
4 8 (8.89%) NetApp
5 6 (6.67%) Qualys
6 4 (4.44%) Rapid7
6 4 (4.44%) Red Hat
6 4 (4.44%) Sophos
7 3 (3.33%) Dell
7 3 (3.33%) ServiceNow
8 2 (2.22%) Aruba
8 2 (2.22%) Cisco
8 2 (2.22%) Commvault
8 2 (2.22%) Dell Compellent
8 2 (2.22%) EMC
8 2 (2.22%) HP
8 2 (2.22%) MobileIron
8 2 (2.22%) Proofpoint
8 2 (2.22%) SolarWinds
9 1 (1.11%) iManage