Patch Management Contracts in the South East

Patch Management
England > South East

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 18 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 158 205 219
Rank change year-on-year +47 +14 -6
Contract jobs citing Patch Management 29 15 40
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.53% 0.27% 0.52%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.63% 0.30% 0.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 13 29
10th Percentile £363 £205 -
25th Percentile £400 £213 £185
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £375 £355
Median % change year-on-year +33.33% +5.63% -11.25%
75th Percentile £550 £519 £448
90th Percentile £675 - £547
England median daily rate £438 £400 £426
% change year-on-year +9.38% -5.99% -4.11%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South East

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 the South East with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,596 4,987 6,865
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 84.25% 89.05% 89.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,676 3,461 4,681
10th Percentile £250 £249 £233
25th Percentile £400 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £508 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.43% +1.50% +8.70%
75th Percentile £625 £615 £595
90th Percentile £700 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £540
% change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% +8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 439 214 278
10th Percentile £13.00 £16.25 £11.96
25th Percentile £18.20 £22.16 £14.00
Median hourly rate £47.50 £50.00 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +132.56% -19.63%
75th Percentile £62.50 £64.91 £47.50
90th Percentile £76.86 £75.00 £61.50
England median hourly rate £36.50 £36.40 £25.00
% change year-on-year +0.29% +45.58% +8.70%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing Patch Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Patch Management in the South East

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Patch Management in the South East.

Daily rate trend for Patch Management in the South East

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Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Patch Management in the South East over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Patch Management in the South East

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Patch Management in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for Patch Management in the South East

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Contract Job Locations in the South East

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 South East region over the 6 months to 18 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
Hampshire +11 18 £525 +82.61% 4
Thames Valley +9 5 £375 -26.83% 3
Surrey +16 4 £500 -16.67%
Oxfordshire - 3 £375 -
Berkshire -10 2 £488 +21.88% 3
East Sussex +4 1 £475 +131.71%
West Sussex - 1 £500 -
Patch Management
England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 2 (6.90%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 3 (10.34%) AWS
1 3 (10.34%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (6.90%) Azure
3 1 (3.45%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (3.45%) Amazon S3
3 1 (3.45%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 15 (51.72%) DNS
2 7 (24.14%) Firewall
3 6 (20.69%) DHCP
3 6 (20.69%) VPN
4 5 (17.24%) TCP/IP
5 4 (13.79%) SAN
6 3 (10.34%) NAS
7 2 (6.90%) Fibre Channel
7 2 (6.90%) iSCSI
7 2 (6.90%) SSL
7 2 (6.90%) VLAN
7 2 (6.90%) VoIP
8 1 (3.45%) Remote Desktop
8 1 (3.45%) Wi-Fi
8 1 (3.45%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.45%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (3.45%) MySQL
1 1 (3.45%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (3.45%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (3.45%) Git
1 1 (3.45%) Subversion
General
1 4 (13.79%) Social Skills
2 3 (10.34%) Front Office
3 1 (3.45%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (3.45%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 11 (37.93%) Integration Engineer
2 7 (24.14%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 5 (17.24%) 3rd Line Engineer
4 4 (13.79%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
5 3 (10.34%) 3rd Line Support
6 2 (6.90%) Administrator
6 2 (6.90%) IT Administrator
6 2 (6.90%) IT Systems Administrator
6 2 (6.90%) Senior
6 2 (6.90%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
6 2 (6.90%) Systems Administrator
6 2 (6.90%) VMware Engineer
6 2 (6.90%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
7 1 (3.45%) Backup Engineer
7 1 (3.45%) Cybersecurity Analyst
7 1 (3.45%) IBM Storage Engineer
7 1 (3.45%) Infrastructure Support
7 1 (3.45%) Lead
7 1 (3.45%) SAN Storage Engineer
7 1 (3.45%) Storage and Backup Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (10.34%) .NET
2 1 (3.45%) Flash
Miscellaneous
1 3 (10.34%) Management Information System
2 1 (3.45%) Data Centre
2 1 (3.45%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (3.45%) Fat Client
2 1 (3.45%) Operational Technology
2 1 (3.45%) PKI
2 1 (3.45%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 24 (82.76%) Windows
2 16 (55.17%) Windows Server
3 12 (41.38%) Linux
4 10 (34.48%) Windows Server 2012
5 6 (20.69%) Unix
6 4 (13.79%) Ubuntu
7 2 (6.90%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (3.45%) Apple iOS
8 1 (3.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (3.45%) Solaris
8 1 (3.45%) Windows 10
8 1 (3.45%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (37.93%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 7 (24.14%) Software Deployment
3 5 (17.24%) Computer Science
3 5 (17.24%) Deployment Automation
3 5 (17.24%) Open Source
3 5 (17.24%) Vulnerability Management
4 4 (13.79%) Security Hardening
4 4 (13.79%) Security Patching
4 4 (13.79%) Stakeholder Management
5 3 (10.34%) Continuous Improvement
5 3 (10.34%) Infrastructure Monitoring
5 3 (10.34%) Line Management
5 3 (10.34%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (10.34%) Project Delivery
5 3 (10.34%) RBAC
5 3 (10.34%) Release Management
5 3 (10.34%) Root Cause Analysis
5 3 (10.34%) Service Delivery Management
5 3 (10.34%) Software Delivery
5 3 (10.34%) Software Distribution
Programming Languages
1 6 (20.69%) PowerShell
2 3 (10.34%) VB.NET
3 2 (6.90%) C++
3 2 (6.90%) Python
4 1 (3.45%) Bash
4 1 (3.45%) Perl
Qualifications
1 17 (58.62%) Security Cleared
2 8 (27.59%) DV Cleared
3 7 (24.14%) Degree
4 6 (20.69%) SC Cleared
5 5 (17.24%) Microsoft Certification
6 3 (10.34%) ITIL Certification
7 2 (6.90%) CCNA
7 2 (6.90%) Cisco Certification
7 2 (6.90%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (6.90%) MCSE
7 2 (6.90%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 1 (3.45%) CTC Cleared
8 1 (3.45%) IBM Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (10.34%) ISO 9001
1 3 (10.34%) ISO/IEC 20000
1 3 (10.34%) SLA
2 2 (6.90%) GDPR
System Software
1 18 (62.07%) VMware Infrastructure
2 15 (51.72%) Active Directory
3 7 (24.14%) vSphere
4 4 (13.79%) Firmware
4 4 (13.79%) Hyper-V
5 3 (10.34%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (10.34%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 17 (58.62%) WSUS
2 2 (6.90%) Ansible
2 2 (6.90%) Nessus
2 2 (6.90%) Red Hat Satellite
2 2 (6.90%) SCCM
2 2 (6.90%) vCenter Server
3 1 (3.45%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 1 (3.45%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (3.45%) NetBackup
3 1 (3.45%) SELinux
3 1 (3.45%) Tivoli Storage Manager
3 1 (3.45%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 25 (86.21%) Microsoft
2 20 (68.97%) VMware
3 2 (6.90%) Aruba
3 2 (6.90%) HP
3 2 (6.90%) Qualys
3 2 (6.90%) Red Hat
3 2 (6.90%) Sophos
3 2 (6.90%) Veritas
4 1 (3.45%) Apple
4 1 (3.45%) Brocade
4 1 (3.45%) EMC
4 1 (3.45%) Google
4 1 (3.45%) IBM
4 1 (3.45%) Isilon
4 1 (3.45%) NetApp
4 1 (3.45%) Oracle
4 1 (3.45%) SolarWinds
4 1 (3.45%) Symantec
4 1 (3.45%) Veeam