Security Patching Contracts in the UK excluding London

Security Patching
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Security Patching skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Security Patching over the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 362 401 462
Rank change year-on-year +39 +61 -46
Contract jobs citing Security Patching 39 29 42
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.18% 0.13% 0.14%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.22% 0.14% 0.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 20 34
10th Percentile £196 £246 £190
25th Percentile £331 £311 £286
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £425 £388
Median % change year-on-year +17.65% +9.68% +6.90%
75th Percentile £588 £495 £452
90th Percentile - £554 £484
UK median daily rate £500 £450 £425
% change year-on-year +11.11% +5.88% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £43.43 -
UK median hourly rate - £43.43 -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,630 20,207 27,140
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 82.67% 89.05% 89.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,358 13,864 18,970
10th Percentile £250 £260 £246
25th Percentile £375 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £490
Median % change year-on-year - +2.04% +8.89%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £586
90th Percentile £688 £694 £663
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,185 1,244 1,334
10th Percentile £12.50 £10.90 £12.49
25th Percentile £15.48 £15.21 £14.25
Median hourly rate £38.12 £34.90 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +9.23% +66.18% -
75th Percentile £61.30 £63.75 £47.96
90th Percentile £72.90 £75.00 £63.60
UK median hourly rate £37.00 £35.65 £26.00
% change year-on-year +3.79% +37.12% +13.04%

Security Patching
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Security Patching as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Security Patching in the UK excluding London

Security Patching
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Security Patching in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Security Patching in the UK excluding London

Security Patching
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Security Patching in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Security Patching in the UK excluding London

Security Patching
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Security Patching in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Security Patching in the UK excluding London

Security Patching
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Security Patching within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 12 June 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 West +16 16 £575 +91.67% 2
South East +13 9 £400 -3.03% 6
Scotland +53 7 £588 +39.88%
East of England - 5 £340 - 4
Midlands +17 1 £425 - 1
North of England +12 1 £250 -21.26% 7
West Midlands - 1 £425 -
Yorkshire - 1 £250 - 1
Security Patching
UK

Security Patching
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 7 (17.95%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (12.82%) Confluence
2 5 (12.82%) Tomcat
3 4 (10.26%) IIS
4 1 (2.56%) Apache
4 1 (2.56%) JBoss
4 1 (2.56%) WildFly
Applications
1 2 (5.13%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (2.56%) PTC Creo
2 1 (2.56%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 2 (5.13%) Oracle Cash Management
1 2 (5.13%) Oracle EBS
1 2 (5.13%) Oracle EBS R12
1 2 (5.13%) Oracle Payables
1 2 (5.13%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 7 (17.95%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (5.13%) Azure
3 1 (2.56%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (2.56%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 13 (33.33%) Network Security
2 5 (12.82%) DHCP
2 5 (12.82%) DNS
3 4 (10.26%) Wi-Fi
4 3 (7.69%) LAN
4 3 (7.69%) TCP/IP
5 1 (2.56%) Fibre Channel
5 1 (2.56%) Firewall
5 1 (2.56%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (7.69%) Oracle Database
2 1 (2.56%) Oracle Database 11g
2 1 (2.56%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (12.82%) JIRA
2 1 (2.56%) JUnit
2 1 (2.56%) Maven
2 1 (2.56%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
2 1 (2.56%) Subversion
General
1 5 (12.82%) Public Sector
2 4 (10.26%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (10.26%) Social Skills
3 3 (7.69%) Front Office
4 2 (5.13%) Finance
5 1 (2.56%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 10 (25.64%) Platform Manager
2 6 (15.38%) Exchange Engineer
2 6 (15.38%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 6 (15.38%) Support Engineer
3 5 (12.82%) Applications Engineer
3 5 (12.82%) Applications Support
3 5 (12.82%) Applications Support Engineer
3 5 (12.82%) Senior
4 3 (7.69%) 2nd Line Desktop Support
4 3 (7.69%) 2nd Line Support
4 3 (7.69%) Analyst
4 3 (7.69%) Desktop Support
4 3 (7.69%) Senior Exchange Engineer
5 2 (5.13%) Consultant
5 2 (5.13%) Functional Consultant
5 2 (5.13%) IT Engineer
5 2 (5.13%) Oracle Consultant
5 2 (5.13%) Oracle Functional Consultant
5 2 (5.13%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (5.13%) Wintel Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (10.26%) Web Services
2 3 (7.69%) .NET
3 1 (2.56%) AngularJS
3 1 (2.56%) Hibernate
3 1 (2.56%) Java EE
3 1 (2.56%) JPA
3 1 (2.56%) JSP
3 1 (2.56%) JSTL
3 1 (2.56%) OpenJDK
3 1 (2.56%) Servlets
3 1 (2.56%) Spring
3 1 (2.56%) STL
3 1 (2.56%) XML
3 1 (2.56%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 14 (35.90%) PKI
2 3 (7.69%) Self-Motivation
3 2 (5.13%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (5.13%) Product Ownership
4 1 (2.56%) Management Information System
4 1 (2.56%) Operational Technology
4 1 (2.56%) Security Posture
4 1 (2.56%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 32 (82.05%) Windows
2 7 (17.95%) Linux
3 6 (15.38%) Windows 10
4 5 (12.82%) Windows Server
5 4 (10.26%) Unix
6 3 (7.69%) Ubuntu
7 1 (2.56%) AIX
7 1 (2.56%) VMS
7 1 (2.56%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (43.59%) Change Management
2 11 (28.21%) Problem Management
3 7 (17.95%) Release Management
3 7 (17.95%) Root Cause Analysis
4 6 (15.38%) Agile
4 6 (15.38%) Capacity Management
4 6 (15.38%) High Availability
4 6 (15.38%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 5 (12.82%) Patch Management
5 5 (12.82%) Roadmaps
6 4 (10.26%) Identity Management
6 4 (10.26%) Stakeholder Management
7 3 (7.69%) Computer Science
7 3 (7.69%) ITIL
7 3 (7.69%) Line Management
7 3 (7.69%) Migration
7 3 (7.69%) Security Hardening
7 3 (7.69%) Service Delivery
7 3 (7.69%) Software Delivery
7 3 (7.69%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 9 (23.08%) PowerShell
2 7 (17.95%) SQL
3 3 (7.69%) VB.NET
4 2 (5.13%) C++
4 2 (5.13%) PL/SQL
5 1 (2.56%) Java
Qualifications
1 25 (64.10%) Security Cleared
2 18 (46.15%) DV Cleared
3 10 (25.64%) Degree
4 8 (20.51%) SC Cleared
5 3 (7.69%) ITIL Certification
5 3 (7.69%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (2.56%) CTC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (17.95%) SLA
2 3 (7.69%) ISO 9001
2 3 (7.69%) ISO/IEC 20000
3 1 (2.56%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (2.56%) Disclosure Scotland
3 1 (2.56%) GDPR
3 1 (2.56%) NCSC
System Software
1 17 (43.59%) Active Directory
2 7 (17.95%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (7.69%) Hyper-V
3 3 (7.69%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (7.69%) vSphere
4 1 (2.56%) BitLocker
4 1 (2.56%) Firmware
4 1 (2.56%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 4 (10.26%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 3 (7.69%) WSUS
3 2 (5.13%) SCCM
4 1 (2.56%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 7 (17.95%) Microsoft
2 5 (12.82%) VMware
3 4 (10.26%) Atlassian
4 3 (7.69%) Oracle
5 2 (5.13%) Qualys
6 1 (2.56%) Cisco
6 1 (2.56%) HP
6 1 (2.56%) McAfee
6 1 (2.56%) MobileIron
6 1 (2.56%) Rapid7