Security Patching Contracts

Security Patching
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Security Patching skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Security Patching over the 6 months to 21 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
21 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 488 639 790
Rank change year-on-year +151 +151 -142
Contract jobs citing Security Patching 83 57 73
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.20% 0.10% 0.083%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.23% 0.11% 0.091%
Number of daily rates quoted 60 38 56
10th Percentile £227 £245 £238
25th Percentile £359 £353 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £425
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% +5.88% -
75th Percentile £588 £530 £516
90th Percentile - £588 £545
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £425 £388
% change year-on-year +29.41% +9.68% +21.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £23.86 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £23.86 -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Security Patching 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 36,539 50,904 80,008
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.04% 89.75% 90.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,560 35,264 56,167
10th Percentile £300 £325 £344
25th Percentile £413 £440 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +7.07%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £480
% change year-on-year - +4.17% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,438 1,684 1,915
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.75 £15.52
Median hourly rate £36.27 £36.00 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +0.76% +40.19% +7.00%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.51
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% -6.21%

Security Patching
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Security Patching as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Security Patching in the UK

Security Patching
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Security Patching.

Daily rate trend for Security Patching in the UK

Security Patching
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Security Patching over the 6 months to 21 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Security Patching in the UK

Security Patching
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Security Patching.

Hourly rate trend for Security Patching in the UK

Security Patching
Top 12 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 21 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 +127 72 £475 +8.57% 21
UK excluding London +52 43 £550 +29.41% 12
London +114 33 £475 -4.52% 10
Work from Home +123 29 £475 -5.00% 9
South West +25 18 £575 +43.75%
South East +18 11 £350 -15.15% 7
Scotland +44 8 £600 +93.55%
East of England - 3 £340 - 1
North of England +24 2 £250 -21.26% 2
Yorkshire - 2 £250 -
Midlands +21 1 £425 +6.25% 2
West Midlands - 1 £425 - 2

Security Patching
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 8 (9.64%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (6.02%) Confluence
3 4 (4.82%) IIS
3 4 (4.82%) Tomcat
4 2 (2.41%) Apache
5 1 (1.20%) JBoss
5 1 (1.20%) nginx
5 1 (1.20%) SharePoint
5 1 (1.20%) WildFly
Applications
1 3 (3.61%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (2.41%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (2.41%) Oracle Cash Management
1 2 (2.41%) Oracle EBS
1 2 (2.41%) Oracle EBS R12
1 2 (2.41%) Oracle Payables
1 2 (2.41%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 15 (18.07%) Microsoft 365
2 14 (16.87%) Azure
3 6 (7.23%) AWS
4 4 (4.82%) Amazon S3
4 4 (4.82%) WhatsApp
5 3 (3.61%) AWS CloudFormation
5 3 (3.61%) IaaS
6 2 (2.41%) Amazon EC2
6 2 (2.41%) Amazon ECR
6 2 (2.41%) Amazon EKS
6 2 (2.41%) AWS Lambda
6 2 (2.41%) Entra ID
6 2 (2.41%) Power Platform
6 2 (2.41%) Route 53
6 2 (2.41%) Serverless
6 2 (2.41%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 1 (1.20%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (1.20%) Kong
Communications & Networking
1 13 (15.66%) Network Security
2 11 (13.25%) Firewall
3 8 (9.64%) DNS
3 8 (9.64%) Wi-Fi
4 7 (8.43%) DHCP
4 7 (8.43%) LAN
5 4 (4.82%) Unified Communications
5 4 (4.82%) WAN
6 3 (3.61%) TCP/IP
7 2 (2.41%) Internet
7 2 (2.41%) Kerberos
7 2 (2.41%) MPLS
7 2 (2.41%) VPN
8 1 (1.20%) Fibre Channel
8 1 (1.20%) Intrusion Detection
8 1 (1.20%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (4.82%) SQL Server
2 3 (3.61%) Oracle Database
2 3 (3.61%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 3 (3.61%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 2 (2.41%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (2.41%) MongoDB
4 1 (1.20%) MySQL
4 1 (1.20%) Oracle Database 11g
4 1 (1.20%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (1.20%) Power BI
4 1 (1.20%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 6 (7.23%) JIRA
2 1 (1.20%) GitLab
2 1 (1.20%) Jenkins
2 1 (1.20%) JUnit
2 1 (1.20%) Maven
2 1 (1.20%) Subversion
General
1 14 (16.87%) Finance
2 12 (14.46%) Social Skills
3 6 (7.23%) Public Sector
4 4 (4.82%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (4.82%) Banking
5 3 (3.61%) Front Office
6 2 (2.41%) Marketing
6 2 (2.41%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (1.20%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.20%) Electronics
7 1 (1.20%) Manufacturing
7 1 (1.20%) Retail Banking
7 1 (1.20%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 11 (13.25%) Analyst
2 10 (12.05%) Platform Manager
3 8 (9.64%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 8 (9.64%) Vulnerability Specialist
4 7 (8.43%) Unix Specialist
5 6 (7.23%) Exchange Engineer
5 6 (7.23%) Infrastructure Specialist
5 6 (7.23%) Senior
5 6 (7.23%) Support Engineer
6 5 (6.02%) Linux Specialist
6 5 (6.02%) Wintel Engineer
7 4 (4.82%) Administrator
7 4 (4.82%) Applications Support
7 4 (4.82%) Data Analyst
7 4 (4.82%) IT Engineer
7 4 (4.82%) Market Analyst
7 4 (4.82%) Market Data Analyst
7 4 (4.82%) Network Engineer
7 4 (4.82%) Systems Analyst
8 3 (3.61%) Azure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (7.23%) .NET
2 3 (3.61%) LDAP
2 3 (3.61%) Web Services
3 1 (1.20%) AngularJS
3 1 (1.20%) Hibernate
3 1 (1.20%) Java EE
3 1 (1.20%) JPA
3 1 (1.20%) JSP
3 1 (1.20%) JSTL
3 1 (1.20%) OpenJDK
3 1 (1.20%) Phalcon
3 1 (1.20%) Servlets
3 1 (1.20%) Software Packaging
3 1 (1.20%) Spring
3 1 (1.20%) STL
3 1 (1.20%) XML
3 1 (1.20%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 14 (16.87%) PKI
2 7 (8.43%) Management Information System
3 5 (6.02%) Security Posture
4 4 (4.82%) Data Centre
5 3 (3.61%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 3 (3.61%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (2.41%) Linux Command Line
6 2 (2.41%) Product Ownership
6 2 (2.41%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (2.41%) Video Conferencing
7 1 (1.20%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (1.20%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 1 (1.20%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (1.20%) Operational Technology
7 1 (1.20%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 52 (62.65%) Windows
2 18 (21.69%) Linux
3 12 (14.46%) Unix
4 9 (10.84%) Windows Server
5 8 (9.64%) Windows 10
6 5 (6.02%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 5 (6.02%) Windows Server 2012
6 5 (6.02%) Windows Server 2016
7 4 (4.82%) Ubuntu
8 1 (1.20%) AIX
8 1 (1.20%) CentOS
8 1 (1.20%) SUSE
8 1 (1.20%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (32.53%) Change Management
2 20 (24.10%) ITIL
3 14 (16.87%) Problem Management
3 14 (16.87%) Vulnerability Management
4 12 (14.46%) Vulnerability Remediation
5 11 (13.25%) Patch Management
6 10 (12.05%) Capacity Management
6 10 (12.05%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 9 (10.84%) Release Management
8 8 (9.64%) Configuration Management
9 7 (8.43%) High Availability
9 7 (8.43%) Roadmaps
9 7 (8.43%) Root Cause Analysis
10 6 (7.23%) Agile
10 6 (7.23%) Customer Service
10 6 (7.23%) Stakeholder Management
10 6 (7.23%) Vulnerability Assessment
11 5 (6.02%) Computer Science
11 5 (6.02%) Cybersecurity
11 5 (6.02%) Software Deployment
Programming Languages
1 16 (19.28%) PowerShell
2 9 (10.84%) SQL
3 3 (3.61%) Python
3 3 (3.61%) VB.NET
4 2 (2.41%) C++
4 2 (2.41%) PL/SQL
4 2 (2.41%) VBScript
5 1 (1.20%) Go
5 1 (1.20%) Java
5 1 (1.20%) PHP
5 1 (1.20%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 25 (30.12%) Security Cleared
2 17 (20.48%) DV Cleared
3 12 (14.46%) Degree
4 9 (10.84%) SC Cleared
5 7 (8.43%) Microsoft Certification
6 3 (3.61%) ITIL Certification
7 2 (2.41%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (2.41%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (1.20%) AWS Certification
8 1 (1.20%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 1 (1.20%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (1.20%) CCNA
8 1 (1.20%) CCNP
8 1 (1.20%) CEH
8 1 (1.20%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (1.20%) CISSP
8 1 (1.20%) CTC Cleared
8 1 (1.20%) MCITP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (16.87%) SLA
2 5 (6.02%) QA
3 3 (3.61%) ISO 9001
3 3 (3.61%) ISO/IEC 20000
4 2 (2.41%) Actionable Recommendations
4 2 (2.41%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (1.20%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 1 (1.20%) Disclosure Scotland
5 1 (1.20%) GDPR
5 1 (1.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (1.20%) NCSC
System Software
1 26 (31.33%) Active Directory
2 11 (13.25%) Virtual Machines
3 8 (9.64%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (6.02%) vSphere
5 3 (3.61%) Hyper-V
6 2 (2.41%) BitLocker
6 2 (2.41%) VMware Server
7 1 (1.20%) Firmware
7 1 (1.20%) Samba
Systems Management
1 12 (14.46%) Ansible
2 6 (7.23%) Progress Chef
3 5 (6.02%) Puppet
3 5 (6.02%) SCCM
4 4 (4.82%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 3 (3.61%) Microsoft Intune
5 3 (3.61%) Salt
5 3 (3.61%) WSUS
6 2 (2.41%) Kibana
6 2 (2.41%) logstash
7 1 (1.20%) Terraform
Vendors
1 21 (25.30%) Microsoft
2 16 (19.28%) Qualys
3 12 (14.46%) VMware
4 10 (12.05%) Red Hat
5 5 (6.02%) Atlassian
5 5 (6.02%) Commvault
5 5 (6.02%) Juniper
6 4 (4.82%) Bloomberg
6 4 (4.82%) Citrix
6 4 (4.82%) Refinitiv
7 3 (3.61%) Aruba
7 3 (3.61%) Fortinet
7 3 (3.61%) Oracle
7 3 (3.61%) Rapid7
8 2 (2.41%) HP
8 2 (2.41%) McAfee
8 2 (2.41%) MobileIron
8 2 (2.41%) SaltStack
8 2 (2.41%) SAP
8 2 (2.41%) Splunk