Patch Management Contracts with Work from Home Options

Patch Management
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 328 396 523
Rank change year-on-year +68 +127 -110
Contract jobs citing Patch Management 18 76 100
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.12% 0.29% 0.22%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.13% 0.33% 0.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 61 69
10th Percentile £316 £275 £315
25th Percentile £400 £300 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £463
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% +2.70% -7.50%
75th Percentile £680 £558 £550
90th Percentile £703 £600 £601
UK median daily rate £490 £400 £450
% change year-on-year +22.50% -11.11% +1.41%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 WFH option and a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 13,424 23,231 40,628
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 87.86% 89.84% 91.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,959 16,419 29,475
10th Percentile £325 £363 £360
25th Percentile £425 £450 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +9.38%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £625
90th Percentile £750 £750 £715
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 568 532 547
10th Percentile £15.12 £19.00 £13.50
25th Percentile £24.25 £30.54 £19.89
Median hourly rate £40.28 £55.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.76% +57.14% +34.62%
75th Percentile £60.00 £68.75 £55.00
90th Percentile £75.25 £80.23 £67.20
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £37.30 £25.00
% change year-on-year -6.17% +49.20% -

Patch Management
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Patch Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Patch Management trend for jobs with a WFH option

Patch Management
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Patch Management.

Patch Management daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Patch Management
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Patch Management over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Patch Management daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Patch Management
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Patch Management.

Patch Management hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Patch Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 4 (22.22%) Azure
2 2 (11.11%) AWS
2 2 (11.11%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (5.56%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 5 (27.78%) DNS
2 4 (22.22%) DHCP
3 2 (11.11%) Firewall
3 2 (11.11%) TCP/IP
4 1 (5.56%) MPLS
4 1 (5.56%) VPN
4 1 (5.56%) WAAS
Development Applications
1 1 (5.56%) Git
1 1 (5.56%) Subversion
General
1 4 (22.22%) Social Skills
2 3 (16.67%) Finance
3 2 (11.11%) Front Office
4 1 (5.56%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (22.22%) Analyst
2 3 (16.67%) Administrator
2 3 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 3 (16.67%) Systems Administrator
2 3 (16.67%) Vulnerability Analyst
3 2 (11.11%) IT Administrator
3 2 (11.11%) IT Systems Administrator
3 2 (11.11%) Windows Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Citrix Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Client Services Manager
4 1 (5.56%) IT Operations Analyst
4 1 (5.56%) IT Security Analyst
4 1 (5.56%) Linux Administrator
4 1 (5.56%) Linux Systems Administrator
4 1 (5.56%) Operations Analyst
4 1 (5.56%) Product Manager
4 1 (5.56%) Security Analyst
4 1 (5.56%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Server Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Windows Server Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (11.11%) .NET
2 1 (5.56%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 4 (22.22%) Security Posture
2 1 (5.56%) CSOC
2 1 (5.56%) Management Information System
2 1 (5.56%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 9 (50.00%) Windows
2 6 (33.33%) Linux
3 3 (16.67%) Unix
4 2 (11.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (11.11%) Ubuntu
5 1 (5.56%) Apple iOS
5 1 (5.56%) Solaris
5 1 (5.56%) Windows 10
5 1 (5.56%) Windows Server
5 1 (5.56%) Windows Server 2012
5 1 (5.56%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (5.56%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (38.89%) Vulnerability Management
2 6 (33.33%) Security Patching
3 4 (22.22%) ITIL
3 4 (22.22%) Software Deployment
3 4 (22.22%) Vulnerability Assessment
4 3 (16.67%) Computer Science
4 3 (16.67%) Cybersecurity
4 3 (16.67%) Data Loss Prevention
4 3 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 3 (16.67%) Project Delivery
4 3 (16.67%) Risk Management
4 3 (16.67%) Roadmaps
4 3 (16.67%) Security Hardening
4 3 (16.67%) Software Distribution
4 3 (16.67%) Vulnerability Remediation
5 2 (11.11%) Batch Scripting
5 2 (11.11%) Customer Experience
5 2 (11.11%) RBAC
5 2 (11.11%) Service Delivery Management
5 2 (11.11%) Threat Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 4 (22.22%) PowerShell
2 2 (11.11%) C++
2 2 (11.11%) Python
2 2 (11.11%) VB.NET
3 1 (5.56%) Bash
3 1 (5.56%) Perl
Qualifications
1 3 (16.67%) Degree
1 3 (16.67%) SC Cleared
1 3 (16.67%) Security Cleared
2 2 (11.11%) ITIL Certification
2 2 (11.11%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (5.56%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (5.56%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (11.11%) ISO 9001
1 2 (11.11%) ISO/IEC 20000
1 2 (11.11%) SLA
2 1 (5.56%) GDPR
System Software
1 5 (27.78%) Active Directory
1 5 (27.78%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (22.22%) vSphere
3 2 (11.11%) Hyper-V
3 2 (11.11%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (11.11%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (5.56%) Samba
Systems Management
1 3 (16.67%) SCCM
1 3 (16.67%) WSUS
2 2 (11.11%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (5.56%) Ansible
3 1 (5.56%) Nessus
3 1 (5.56%) Red Hat Satellite
3 1 (5.56%) SELinux
3 1 (5.56%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 9 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 5 (27.78%) Qualys
2 5 (27.78%) VMware
3 3 (16.67%) Rapid7
4 2 (11.11%) Red Hat
5 1 (5.56%) Citrix
5 1 (5.56%) SolarWinds
5 1 (5.56%) Sophos
5 1 (5.56%) Symantec
5 1 (5.56%) Veeam
5 1 (5.56%) Veritas