Patch Management Contracts

Patch Management
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 492 502 562
Rank change year-on-year +10 +60 -6
Contract jobs citing Patch Management 99 207 293
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.23% 0.36% 0.34%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.27% 0.40% 0.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 62 140 217
10th Percentile £277 £200 £185
25th Percentile £325 £275 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £400 £440
Median % change year-on-year +15.63% -9.09% -2.22%
75th Percentile £550 £523 £538
90th Percentile £687 £580 £600
UK excluding London median daily rate £388 £350 £375
% change year-on-year +10.71% -6.67% +3.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 1 4
10th Percentile £22.54 - £18.91
25th Percentile £23.35 £51.25 £20.09
Median hourly rate £23.80 £52.50 £40.75
Median % change year-on-year -54.67% +28.83% -
75th Percentile £37.85 £53.75 £64.69
90th Percentile £63.14 - £73.13
UK excluding London median hourly rate £80.00 £52.50 £20.13
% change year-on-year +52.38% +160.87% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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 requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,140 52,105 79,027
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.25% 89.83% 90.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,924 36,124 55,482
10th Percentile £300 £325 £340
25th Percentile £413 £438 £426
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,439 1,724 1,874
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.17 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.18
Median % change year-on-year +1.39% +42.97% +2.78%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.00 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +8.57% +75.00% -6.98%

Patch Management
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Patch Management in the UK

Patch Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Patch Management in the UK

Patch Management
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Patch Management over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Patch Management in the UK

Patch Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Patch Management in the UK

Patch Management
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Patch Management over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Patch Management in the UK

Patch Management
Top 14 Contract Locations

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 UK over the 6 months to 9 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
England +45 94 £438 +9.38% 66
UK excluding London +28 72 £388 +10.71% 44
South East +38 29 £500 +37.93% 14
London +39 23 £600 +33.33% 24
Work from Home +69 18 £488 +5.41% 20
Midlands +42 16 £319 -22.73% 8
West Midlands +29 16 £319 -22.73% 6
North of England +21 9 £195 -56.67% 7
East of England 0 8 £340 +14.29% 12
South West -2 8 £313 +13.64% 2
Yorkshire +23 6 £195 -59.59% 2
Scotland +39 2 £483 +211.01% 3
North East - 2 £195 - 2
North West +1 1 £388 -3.13% 3

Patch Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 14 (14.14%) Microsoft Exchange
2 7 (7.07%) SharePoint
3 3 (3.03%) IIS
4 2 (2.02%) Apache
4 2 (2.02%) Tomcat
Applications
1 5 (5.05%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 27 (27.27%) Microsoft 365
2 23 (23.23%) Azure
3 12 (12.12%) AWS
4 8 (8.08%) Azure Monitor
5 5 (5.05%) OneDrive
6 3 (3.03%) Amazon EC2
7 2 (2.02%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 2 (2.02%) Entra ID
7 2 (2.02%) Mimecast
7 2 (2.02%) Nutanix
7 2 (2.02%) Rubrik
8 1 (1.01%) Amazon S3
8 1 (1.01%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 33 (33.33%) DNS
2 13 (13.13%) DHCP
3 12 (12.12%) SAN
4 10 (10.10%) Firewall
4 10 (10.10%) VPN
5 9 (9.09%) NetScaler
6 7 (7.07%) Remote Desktop
6 7 (7.07%) TCP/IP
7 6 (6.06%) Fibre Channel
7 6 (6.06%) LAN
8 5 (5.05%) NAS
8 5 (5.05%) WAN
8 5 (5.05%) Wireless
9 3 (3.03%) Internet
10 2 (2.02%) Extranet
10 2 (2.02%) iSCSI
10 2 (2.02%) SSL
10 2 (2.02%) VLAN
10 2 (2.02%) VoIP
10 2 (2.02%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (3.03%) SQL Server
2 1 (1.01%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (1.01%) GIS
2 1 (1.01%) MongoDB
2 1 (1.01%) MySQL
2 1 (1.01%) NoSQL
2 1 (1.01%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (3.03%) JIRA
2 1 (1.01%) Git
2 1 (1.01%) Subversion
General
1 21 (21.21%) Social Skills
2 8 (8.08%) Finance
3 7 (7.07%) Public Sector
4 4 (4.04%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (3.03%) Front Office
6 2 (2.02%) Legal
6 2 (2.02%) Manufacturing
6 2 (2.02%) Military
7 1 (1.01%) Banking
7 1 (1.01%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.01%) Electronics
7 1 (1.01%) Local Government
7 1 (1.01%) Marketing
7 1 (1.01%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 14 (14.14%) Desktop Engineer
2 12 (12.12%) Integration Engineer
3 11 (11.11%) Support Engineer
4 9 (9.09%) 3rd Line Engineer
4 9 (9.09%) Administrator
4 9 (9.09%) Desktop Support
5 8 (8.08%) Desktop Support Engineer
6 7 (7.07%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 6 (6.06%) Senior
8 5 (5.05%) 2nd Line Support
8 5 (5.05%) 3rd Line Support
8 5 (5.05%) Analyst
8 5 (5.05%) Architect
8 5 (5.05%) Citrix Engineer
8 5 (5.05%) Deployment Engineer
8 5 (5.05%) IT Support
8 5 (5.05%) Security Engineer
8 5 (5.05%) Systems Administrator
8 5 (5.05%) Windows Engineer
9 4 (4.04%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (4.04%) LDAP
1 4 (4.04%) Software Packaging
2 3 (3.03%) .NET
2 3 (3.03%) AngularJS
2 3 (3.03%) CSS
2 3 (3.03%) HTML
3 1 (1.01%) ARM Templates
3 1 (1.01%) Flash
3 1 (1.01%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 13 (13.13%) Management Information System
2 8 (8.08%) Security Posture
3 7 (7.07%) CMDB
3 7 (7.07%) PKI
4 6 (6.06%) Fat Client
4 6 (6.06%) Thin Client
5 5 (5.05%) Data Centre
6 2 (2.02%) Clustering
6 2 (2.02%) Virtual Team
7 1 (1.01%) CSOC
7 1 (1.01%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (1.01%) Life Science
7 1 (1.01%) Public Cloud
7 1 (1.01%) Security Operations Centre
7 1 (1.01%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 64 (64.65%) Windows
2 36 (36.36%) Windows Server
3 19 (19.19%) Windows 10
4 18 (18.18%) Linux
5 11 (11.11%) Unix
5 11 (11.11%) Windows Server 2012
6 9 (9.09%) Ubuntu
7 8 (8.08%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 5 (5.05%) CentOS
9 4 (4.04%) Windows 7
10 2 (2.02%) Solaris
10 2 (2.02%) Windows Server 2016
10 2 (2.02%) Windows Server 2019
11 1 (1.01%) AIX
11 1 (1.01%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (24.24%) ITIL
2 21 (21.21%) Vulnerability Management
3 17 (17.17%) Change Management
4 16 (16.16%) Problem-Solving
5 15 (15.15%) Information Security
5 15 (15.15%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 11 (11.11%) Security Operations
7 10 (10.10%) Application Packaging
7 10 (10.10%) Cybersecurity
7 10 (10.10%) Disaster Recovery
7 10 (10.10%) Security Hardening
7 10 (10.10%) Software Deployment
7 10 (10.10%) Task Automation
8 9 (9.09%) Computer Science
8 9 (9.09%) Security Patching
9 8 (8.08%) Deployment Automation
9 8 (8.08%) Incident Management
9 8 (8.08%) Line Management
9 8 (8.08%) Project Delivery
9 8 (8.08%) Server Management
Programming Languages
1 34 (34.34%) PowerShell
2 6 (6.06%) Python
3 5 (5.05%) Bash
4 3 (3.03%) JavaScript
4 3 (3.03%) VB.NET
5 2 (2.02%) C++
5 2 (2.02%) SQL
6 1 (1.01%) Bicep
6 1 (1.01%) Perl
6 1 (1.01%) Shell Script
6 1 (1.01%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 30 (30.30%) Security Cleared
2 18 (18.18%) Degree
3 14 (14.14%) SC Cleared
4 10 (10.10%) Microsoft Certification
5 9 (9.09%) DV Cleared
6 6 (6.06%) ITIL Certification
7 5 (5.05%) MCSE
8 3 (3.03%) Computer Science Degree
8 3 (3.03%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 2 (2.02%) Azure Certification
9 2 (2.02%) CCNA
9 2 (2.02%) Cisco Certification
9 2 (2.02%) CTC Cleared
9 2 (2.02%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 1 (1.01%) CISSP
10 1 (1.01%) IBM Certification
10 1 (1.01%) Linux+ Certification
10 1 (1.01%) LPIC
10 1 (1.01%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (6.06%) SLA
2 3 (3.03%) Data Quality
2 3 (3.03%) ISO 9001
2 3 (3.03%) ISO/IEC 20000
2 3 (3.03%) QA
3 1 (1.01%) GDPR
3 1 (1.01%) GRC
3 1 (1.01%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.01%) JSP 440
3 1 (1.01%) NCSC
3 1 (1.01%) NIST
3 1 (1.01%) NIST 800
System Software
1 48 (48.48%) Active Directory
2 33 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
3 12 (12.12%) vSphere
4 9 (9.09%) Hyper-V
4 9 (9.09%) Virtual Desktop
5 8 (8.08%) Citrix Hypervisor
5 8 (8.08%) VMware ESXi
5 8 (8.08%) XenApp
5 8 (8.08%) XenDesktop
6 7 (7.07%) Virtual Machines
7 4 (4.04%) Firmware
7 4 (4.04%) VMware NSX
7 4 (4.04%) VMware Server
8 2 (2.02%) BitLocker
8 2 (2.02%) Microsoft App-V
9 1 (1.01%) Docker
9 1 (1.01%) KVM
9 1 (1.01%) Samba
9 1 (1.01%) Virtual Servers
9 1 (1.01%) Xen
Systems Management
1 23 (23.23%) WSUS
2 18 (18.18%) SCCM
3 8 (8.08%) Microsoft Intune
4 7 (7.07%) vCenter Server
5 4 (4.04%) NetBackup
5 4 (4.04%) SCOM
5 4 (4.04%) SCVMM
6 3 (3.03%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 3 (3.03%) Ansible
6 3 (3.03%) Single Sign-On
7 2 (2.02%) Nessus
7 2 (2.02%) Red Hat Satellite
7 2 (2.02%) VxRail
8 1 (1.01%) Kubernetes
8 1 (1.01%) Progress Chef
8 1 (1.01%) Puppet
8 1 (1.01%) SCOrch
8 1 (1.01%) SELinux
8 1 (1.01%) Tivoli Storage Manager
8 1 (1.01%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 60 (60.61%) Microsoft
2 35 (35.35%) VMware
3 9 (9.09%) Citrix
3 9 (9.09%) NetApp
4 6 (6.06%) Red Hat
5 5 (5.05%) Cisco
5 5 (5.05%) Dell
5 5 (5.05%) Qualys
5 5 (5.05%) Rapid7
5 5 (5.05%) Sophos
6 4 (4.04%) EMC
6 4 (4.04%) HP
6 4 (4.04%) SolarWinds
7 3 (3.03%) Apple
7 3 (3.03%) Brocade
7 3 (3.03%) Commvault
7 3 (3.03%) Dell Compellent
7 3 (3.03%) Juniper
7 3 (3.03%) MobileIron
7 3 (3.03%) Proofpoint