Security Patching Contract Job Trends in Watford

Security Patching
Hertfordshire > Watford

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Watford requiring Security Patching skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 6 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 17 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Security Patching 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Watford 0.94% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.03% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
Hertfordshire median daily rate - - £340

All Process & Methodology Skills
Watford

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 Watford.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 97 44 80
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Watford 91.51% 95.65% 94.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 57 31 52
10th Percentile £325 £244 £251
25th Percentile £406 £406 £311
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £375
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +33.33% -26.65%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £538
90th Percentile £638 - £699
Hertfordshire median daily rate £510 £528 £413
% change year-on-year -3.41% +28.00% -24.31%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 4 6
10th Percentile - £17.53 £13.28
25th Percentile - £23.96 £13.69
Median hourly rate £14.96 £29.51 £14.31
Median % change year-on-year -49.31% +106.18% -34.94%
75th Percentile £16.07 £33.82 £14.94
90th Percentile £19.21 £34.44 £16.88
Hertfordshire median hourly rate £64.00 £45.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year +42.22% -10.00% -23.08%

Security Patching
Job Vacancy Trend in Watford

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Security Patching relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Watford.

Security Patching job vacancy trend in Watford

Security Patching
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Watford by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (100.00%) Confluence
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Wintel Engineer
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Android
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Change Management
1 1 (100.00%) Root Cause Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Runbook
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) SOTI