Patch Management Contracts with Work from Home Options

Patch Management
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work requiring Patch Management skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Patch Management over the 6 months leading up to 21 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 319 394 498
Rank change year-on-year +75 +104 -59
Contract jobs citing Patch Management 22 63 125
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.15% 0.26% 0.29%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.17% 0.29% 0.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 44 91
10th Percentile £313 £263 £313
25th Percentile £400 £280 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £425 £450
Median % change year-on-year +11.76% -5.56% -10.00%
75th Percentile £613 £510 £550
90th Percentile £725 £579 £600
UK median daily rate £450 £400 £441
% change year-on-year +12.50% -9.30% -7.16%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

Patch Management falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 12,871 21,399 39,942
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 87.23% 89.63% 91.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,673 15,206 29,099
10th Percentile £325 £363 £363
25th Percentile £425 £450 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +5.42%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 572 495 518
10th Percentile £15.02 £18.49 £14.96
25th Percentile £24.00 £25.75 £20.75
Median hourly rate £43.00 £52.13 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -17.51% +30.33% +66.67%
75th Percentile £60.00 £67.50 £60.00
90th Percentile £74.95 £78.45 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £37.00 £35.65 £26.00
% change year-on-year +3.79% +37.12% +13.04%

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 21 June 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 (4.55%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (4.55%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 3 (13.64%) Azure
2 2 (9.09%) AWS
2 2 (9.09%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (4.55%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (4.55%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 6 (27.27%) DNS
2 5 (22.73%) DHCP
3 4 (18.18%) Firewall
4 2 (9.09%) Remote Desktop
4 2 (9.09%) TCP/IP
4 2 (9.09%) VPN
5 1 (4.55%) Fibre Channel
5 1 (4.55%) LAN
5 1 (4.55%) SAN
5 1 (4.55%) WAAS
5 1 (4.55%) WAN
5 1 (4.55%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (9.09%) SQL Server
2 1 (4.55%) Oracle Exadata
Development Applications
1 1 (4.55%) Git
1 1 (4.55%) Subversion
General
1 7 (31.82%) Social Skills
2 4 (18.18%) Finance
3 2 (9.09%) Front Office
4 1 (4.55%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (4.55%) Banking
4 1 (4.55%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (4.55%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (18.18%) Administrator
2 3 (13.64%) Analyst
2 3 (13.64%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 3 (13.64%) Systems Administrator
3 2 (9.09%) IT Administrator
3 2 (9.09%) IT Systems Administrator
3 2 (9.09%) Vulnerability Analyst
3 2 (9.09%) Windows Engineer
4 1 (4.55%) 3rd Line Engineer
4 1 (4.55%) Deskside Support
4 1 (4.55%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
4 1 (4.55%) IT Analyst
4 1 (4.55%) IT Security Analyst
4 1 (4.55%) Linux Administrator
4 1 (4.55%) Security Operations Analyst
4 1 (4.55%) Senior
4 1 (4.55%) SOC Analyst
4 1 (4.55%) VMWare Administrator
4 1 (4.55%) Vulnerability Management Engineer
4 1 (4.55%) Windows Server Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (9.09%) .NET
2 1 (4.55%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 3 (13.64%) Management Information System
1 3 (13.64%) Security Posture
2 1 (4.55%) Clustering
2 1 (4.55%) CSOC
2 1 (4.55%) Data Centre
2 1 (4.55%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
2 1 (4.55%) PKI
2 1 (4.55%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 13 (59.09%) Windows
2 9 (40.91%) Linux
3 4 (18.18%) Unix
3 4 (18.18%) Windows Server
4 3 (13.64%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (13.64%) Ubuntu
4 3 (13.64%) Windows 10
5 2 (9.09%) Solaris
6 1 (4.55%) Apple iOS
6 1 (4.55%) CentOS
6 1 (4.55%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (4.55%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (4.55%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (36.36%) Vulnerability Management
2 6 (27.27%) Security Patching
3 5 (22.73%) Cybersecurity
3 5 (22.73%) ITIL
4 4 (18.18%) Computer Science
4 4 (18.18%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 4 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (18.18%) Software Deployment
4 4 (18.18%) Vulnerability Assessment
5 3 (13.64%) Change Management
5 3 (13.64%) Disaster Recovery
5 3 (13.64%) Mobile Device Management
5 3 (13.64%) Risk Management
5 3 (13.64%) Roadmaps
5 3 (13.64%) Root Cause Analysis
5 3 (13.64%) Security Hardening
5 3 (13.64%) Software Distribution
5 3 (13.64%) Vulnerability Remediation
6 2 (9.09%) Information Security
6 2 (9.09%) Risk Assessment
Programming Languages
1 7 (31.82%) PowerShell
2 3 (13.64%) Python
3 2 (9.09%) Bash
3 2 (9.09%) C++
3 2 (9.09%) Perl
3 2 (9.09%) VB.NET
4 1 (4.55%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 4 (18.18%) Degree
1 4 (18.18%) Security Cleared
2 3 (13.64%) SC Cleared
3 2 (9.09%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (9.09%) ITIL Certification
3 2 (9.09%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (4.55%) DV Cleared
4 1 (4.55%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (9.09%) ISO 9001
1 2 (9.09%) ISO/IEC 20000
1 2 (9.09%) SLA
2 1 (4.55%) GDPR
System Software
1 7 (31.82%) Active Directory
2 6 (27.27%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (22.73%) vSphere
4 3 (13.64%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (9.09%) Hyper-V
5 2 (9.09%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (4.55%) VMware NSX
6 1 (4.55%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 4 (18.18%) SCCM
1 4 (18.18%) WSUS
2 2 (9.09%) Ansible
2 2 (9.09%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (9.09%) Nessus
2 2 (9.09%) vCenter Server
3 1 (4.55%) AirWatch
3 1 (4.55%) Microsoft Clustering
3 1 (4.55%) Red Hat Satellite
3 1 (4.55%) SELinux
Vendors
1 12 (54.55%) Microsoft
2 8 (36.36%) VMware
3 6 (27.27%) Qualys
4 3 (13.64%) Red Hat
5 2 (9.09%) Rapid7
6 1 (4.55%) Apple
6 1 (4.55%) CA
6 1 (4.55%) Oracle
6 1 (4.55%) SolarWinds
6 1 (4.55%) Splunk
6 1 (4.55%) Symantec
6 1 (4.55%) Veritas