Security Patching Contract Job Trends in West Malling

Security Patching
Kent > West Malling

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in West Malling requiring Security Patching skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 7 - 10
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Security Patching 1 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in West Malling 10.00% - 4.00%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.00% - 4.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £563 - £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 - £400
75th Percentile £588 - £425
90th Percentile - - -
Kent median daily rate £588 - £400

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Malling

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 West Malling.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 10 5 25
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Malling 100.00% 100.00% 100.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 4 24
10th Percentile £180 £538 £390
25th Percentile £558 £547 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £619 £590 £523
Median % change year-on-year +4.87% +12.92% +43.15%
75th Percentile £638 £639 £647
90th Percentile £653 £668 £656
Kent median daily rate £439 £513 £500
% change year-on-year -14.39% +2.50% +33.33%

Security Patching
Job Vacancy Trend in West Malling

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

Security Patching job vacancy trend in West Malling

Security Patching
Daily Rate Trend in West Malling

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in West Malling citing Security Patching.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in West Malling citing Security Patching

Security Patching
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West Malling 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) IaaS
1 1 (100.00%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) DHCP
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
1 1 (100.00%) Fibre Channel
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) SAN
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) ITIL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (100.00%) DFS Replication
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (100.00%) vSphere
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) VMware