Security Patching Contract Job Trends in West Sussex

Security Patching
South East > West Sussex

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in West Sussex requiring Security Patching skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 29 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 30 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Security Patching 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in West Sussex 0.54% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.66% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £275 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £300 - -
75th Percentile £325 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South East median daily rate £490 £400 £400
% change year-on-year +22.50% - -23.81%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Sussex

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 Sussex.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 152 127 293
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Sussex 81.72% 86.99% 94.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 111 89 232
10th Percentile £170 £193 £216
25th Percentile £206 £358 £374
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% -10.00% -
75th Percentile £525 £528 £575
90th Percentile £703 £638 £680
South East median daily rate £500 £510 £523
% change year-on-year -1.96% -2.39% +1.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 2 4
10th Percentile £12.63 - £15.29
25th Percentile £15.00 £27.00 £19.84
Median hourly rate £16.00 £28.00 £35.38
Median % change year-on-year -42.86% -20.85% +74.48%
75th Percentile £20.69 £29.00 £53.52
90th Percentile - - £63.45
South East median hourly rate £22.19 £58.43 £53.94
% change year-on-year -62.02% +8.34% +73.15%

Security Patching
Job Vacancy Trend in West Sussex

Job postings citing Security Patching as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in West Sussex.

Job vacancy trend for Security Patching in West Sussex

Security Patching
Daily Rate Trend in West Sussex

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

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

Security Patching
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in West Sussex 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:

General
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) IT Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) IT Support
1 1 (100.00%) IT Support Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Support Engineer
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Vulnerability Management
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Qualys