Patch Management Contracts in England

Patch Management
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with 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 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 433 484 524
Rank change year-on-year +51 +40 -3
Contract jobs citing Patch Management 98 162 262
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.27% 0.33% 0.37%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.31% 0.37% 0.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 61 102 202
10th Percentile £231 £200 £189
25th Percentile £321 £283 £328
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £400 £426
Median % change year-on-year +9.38% -5.99% -2.74%
75th Percentile £550 £521 £525
90th Percentile £688 £588 £593
UK median daily rate £450 £400 £450
% change year-on-year +12.50% -11.11% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 2
10th Percentile - - £25.30
25th Percentile - - £32.13
Median hourly rate £23.80 - £47.00
75th Percentile £51.90 - £64.63
90th Percentile £68.76 - £73.10
UK median hourly rate £23.80 - £21.50
% change year-on-year - - -14.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

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 advertised in England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 31,426 43,648 64,496
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.34% 90.08% 90.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,611 30,630 45,872
10th Percentile £300 £325 £331
25th Percentile £413 £450 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £540
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% +8.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £765 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +7.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,247 1,533 1,757
10th Percentile £12.92 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.13 £15.25
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.54 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -0.11% +46.16% +8.70%
75th Percentile £60.13 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year +1.39% +40.19% +7.00%

Patch Management
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Patch Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Patch Management in England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Patch Management in England.

Daily rate trend for Patch Management in England

Patch Management
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Patch Management in England over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Patch Management in England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Patch Management in England.

Hourly rate trend for Patch Management in England

Patch Management
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Patch Management in England over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Patch Management in England

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Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Patch Management within the England region over the 6 months to 20 May 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
South East +35 29 £500 +33.33% 19
London +53 27 £463 +2.78% 35
West Midlands +27 16 £319 -20.31% 12
Midlands +24 16 £319 -20.31% 15
North of England +26 9 £195 -61.00% 7
East of England +4 8 £340 +14.29% 10
South West -7 8 £313 +13.64% 4
Yorkshire +23 6 £195 -59.59% 3
North East - 2 £195 - 1
North West +6 1 £388 -28.90% 3
Patch Management
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Patch Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 15 (15.31%) Microsoft Exchange
2 7 (7.14%) SharePoint
3 2 (2.04%) IIS
4 1 (1.02%) Apache
4 1 (1.02%) Tomcat
Applications
1 5 (5.10%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 28 (28.57%) Microsoft 365
2 25 (25.51%) Azure
3 13 (13.27%) AWS
4 8 (8.16%) Azure Monitor
5 5 (5.10%) Entra ID
5 5 (5.10%) OneDrive
6 4 (4.08%) Amazon EC2
7 2 (2.04%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 2 (2.04%) Mimecast
7 2 (2.04%) Nutanix
7 2 (2.04%) Rubrik
8 1 (1.02%) Amazon S3
8 1 (1.02%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 34 (34.69%) DNS
2 15 (15.31%) Firewall
3 13 (13.27%) DHCP
4 11 (11.22%) SAN
4 11 (11.22%) VPN
5 9 (9.18%) NetScaler
6 8 (8.16%) Remote Desktop
7 7 (7.14%) TCP/IP
7 7 (7.14%) WAN
8 6 (6.12%) Fibre Channel
8 6 (6.12%) LAN
8 6 (6.12%) Wireless
9 5 (5.10%) Internet
9 5 (5.10%) NAS
9 5 (5.10%) Wi-Fi
10 2 (2.04%) Extranet
10 2 (2.04%) iSCSI
10 2 (2.04%) SSL
10 2 (2.04%) VLAN
10 2 (2.04%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (3.06%) SQL Server
2 1 (1.02%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (1.02%) GIS
2 1 (1.02%) MongoDB
2 1 (1.02%) MySQL
2 1 (1.02%) NoSQL
2 1 (1.02%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (3.06%) JIRA
2 1 (1.02%) Git
2 1 (1.02%) Subversion
General
1 21 (21.43%) Social Skills
2 7 (7.14%) Finance
2 7 (7.14%) Public Sector
3 5 (5.10%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (3.06%) Front Office
5 2 (2.04%) Banking
5 2 (2.04%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (2.04%) Legal
5 2 (2.04%) Manufacturing
5 2 (2.04%) Military
6 1 (1.02%) Electronics
6 1 (1.02%) Financial Institution
6 1 (1.02%) Marketing
6 1 (1.02%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 13 (13.27%) Desktop Engineer
2 12 (12.24%) Integration Engineer
3 11 (11.22%) Support Engineer
4 10 (10.20%) 3rd Line Engineer
4 10 (10.20%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 9 (9.18%) Administrator
5 9 (9.18%) Desktop Support
6 8 (8.16%) Desktop Support Engineer
6 8 (8.16%) Security Engineer
7 7 (7.14%) Senior
8 5 (5.10%) 2nd Line Support
8 5 (5.10%) 3rd Line Support
8 5 (5.10%) Analyst
8 5 (5.10%) Architect
8 5 (5.10%) Citrix Engineer
8 5 (5.10%) Deployment Engineer
8 5 (5.10%) Systems Administrator
8 5 (5.10%) Windows Engineer
9 4 (4.08%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
9 4 (4.08%) IT Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (4.08%) LDAP
1 4 (4.08%) Software Packaging
2 3 (3.06%) .NET
2 3 (3.06%) AngularJS
2 3 (3.06%) CSS
2 3 (3.06%) HTML
3 1 (1.02%) Flash
3 1 (1.02%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 17 (17.35%) Management Information System
2 8 (8.16%) Security Posture
3 7 (7.14%) CMDB
3 7 (7.14%) PKI
4 6 (6.12%) Data Centre
4 6 (6.12%) Fat Client
4 6 (6.12%) Thin Client
5 2 (2.04%) Virtual Team
6 1 (1.02%) Clustering
6 1 (1.02%) CSOC
6 1 (1.02%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.02%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 1 (1.02%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (1.02%) Life Science
6 1 (1.02%) Operational Technology
6 1 (1.02%) Public Cloud
6 1 (1.02%) Security Operations Centre
6 1 (1.02%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (1.02%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 65 (66.33%) Windows
2 38 (38.78%) Windows Server
3 21 (21.43%) Linux
3 21 (21.43%) Windows 10
4 11 (11.22%) Windows Server 2012
5 10 (10.20%) Unix
6 9 (9.18%) Ubuntu
7 8 (8.16%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 5 (5.10%) CentOS
9 4 (4.08%) Windows 7
10 2 (2.04%) Solaris
10 2 (2.04%) Windows Server 2016
10 2 (2.04%) Windows Server 2019
11 1 (1.02%) AIX
11 1 (1.02%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (25.51%) Vulnerability Management
2 23 (23.47%) ITIL
3 18 (18.37%) Information Security
3 18 (18.37%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 16 (16.33%) Change Management
4 16 (16.33%) Problem-Solving
5 13 (13.27%) Cybersecurity
5 13 (13.27%) Security Operations
6 11 (11.22%) Incident Management
7 10 (10.20%) Application Packaging
7 10 (10.20%) Computer Science
7 10 (10.20%) Security Patching
8 9 (9.18%) Security Hardening
8 9 (9.18%) Software Deployment
9 8 (8.16%) Deployment Automation
9 8 (8.16%) Mobile Device Management
9 8 (8.16%) Project Delivery
9 8 (8.16%) Security Monitoring
9 8 (8.16%) Task Automation
9 8 (8.16%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 32 (32.65%) PowerShell
2 6 (6.12%) Python
3 5 (5.10%) Bash
4 3 (3.06%) JavaScript
4 3 (3.06%) VB.NET
5 2 (2.04%) C++
6 1 (1.02%) Perl
6 1 (1.02%) Shell Script
6 1 (1.02%) SQL
Qualifications
1 32 (32.65%) Security Cleared
2 19 (19.39%) Degree
3 15 (15.31%) SC Cleared
4 10 (10.20%) DV Cleared
5 7 (7.14%) Microsoft Certification
6 6 (6.12%) ITIL Certification
7 4 (4.08%) Computer Science Degree
8 3 (3.06%) CTC Cleared
8 3 (3.06%) MCSE
9 2 (2.04%) CCNA
9 2 (2.04%) Cisco Certification
9 2 (2.04%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 2 (2.04%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 1 (1.02%) Azure Certification
10 1 (1.02%) CISSP
10 1 (1.02%) IBM Certification
10 1 (1.02%) Linux+ Certification
10 1 (1.02%) LPIC
10 1 (1.02%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (6.12%) SLA
2 4 (4.08%) GDPR
3 3 (3.06%) Data Quality
3 3 (3.06%) ISO 9001
3 3 (3.06%) ISO/IEC 20000
3 3 (3.06%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (3.06%) NCSC
3 3 (3.06%) QA
4 2 (2.04%) COBIT
4 2 (2.04%) PCI DSS
5 1 (1.02%) GRC
5 1 (1.02%) JSP 440
5 1 (1.02%) NIST
5 1 (1.02%) NIST 800
System Software
1 49 (50.00%) Active Directory
2 32 (32.65%) VMware Infrastructure
3 11 (11.22%) vSphere
4 8 (8.16%) Citrix Hypervisor
4 8 (8.16%) Hyper-V
4 8 (8.16%) Virtual Desktop
4 8 (8.16%) XenApp
4 8 (8.16%) XenDesktop
5 7 (7.14%) Virtual Machines
5 7 (7.14%) VMware ESXi
6 5 (5.10%) Firmware
7 4 (4.08%) VMware NSX
7 4 (4.08%) VMware Server
8 2 (2.04%) BitLocker
8 2 (2.04%) Microsoft App-V
9 1 (1.02%) Docker
9 1 (1.02%) KVM
9 1 (1.02%) Virtual Servers
9 1 (1.02%) Xen
Systems Management
1 24 (24.49%) WSUS
2 21 (21.43%) SCCM
3 7 (7.14%) Microsoft Intune
4 6 (6.12%) vCenter Server
5 5 (5.10%) Single Sign-On
6 3 (3.06%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 3 (3.06%) Ansible
6 3 (3.06%) NetBackup
6 3 (3.06%) SCOM
6 3 (3.06%) SCVMM
7 2 (2.04%) AirWatch
7 2 (2.04%) CASB
7 2 (2.04%) Nessus
7 2 (2.04%) Red Hat Satellite
7 2 (2.04%) SCOrch
7 2 (2.04%) VxRail
8 1 (1.02%) Failover Clustering
8 1 (1.02%) Kubernetes
8 1 (1.02%) Progress Chef
8 1 (1.02%) SELinux
Vendors
1 62 (63.27%) Microsoft
2 35 (35.71%) VMware
3 9 (9.18%) Citrix
3 9 (9.18%) NetApp
4 6 (6.12%) Qualys
5 5 (5.10%) Red Hat
6 4 (4.08%) Apple
6 4 (4.08%) Cisco
6 4 (4.08%) HP
6 4 (4.08%) Rapid7
6 4 (4.08%) ServiceNow
6 4 (4.08%) SolarWinds
6 4 (4.08%) Sophos
7 3 (3.06%) Brocade
7 3 (3.06%) Dell
7 3 (3.06%) EMC
7 3 (3.06%) Juniper
8 2 (2.04%) Avaya
8 2 (2.04%) Commvault
8 2 (2.04%) Veritas