Patch Management Contracts with Work from Home Options

Patch Management
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 321 376 500
Rank change year-on-year +55 +124 -71
Contract jobs citing Patch Management 20 79 119
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.14% 0.32% 0.27%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.15% 0.36% 0.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 61 85
10th Percentile £311 £275 £314
25th Percentile £383 £300 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% - -10.00%
75th Percentile £620 £558 £550
90th Percentile £691 £600 £600
UK median daily rate £450 £400 £450
% change year-on-year +12.50% -11.11% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 WFH option and a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 12,942 22,217 40,480
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 87.90% 89.66% 91.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,728 15,724 29,400
10th Percentile £325 £363 £363
25th Percentile £425 £450 £433
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £544 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.49% +3.62% +7.14%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £633
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +7.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 567 510 538
10th Percentile £14.70 £18.63 £14.50
25th Percentile £24.13 £26.46 £20.75
Median hourly rate £43.00 £52.50 £39.50
Median % change year-on-year -18.10% +32.91% +64.58%
75th Percentile £60.00 £68.75 £57.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £80.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year +1.39% +40.19% +7.00%

Patch Management
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Patch Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Patch Management trend for jobs with a WFH option

Patch Management
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Patch Management.

Patch Management daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Patch Management
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Patch Management over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Patch Management daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Patch Management
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Patch Management.

Patch Management hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Patch Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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:

Applications
1 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 4 (20.00%) Azure
2 3 (15.00%) AWS
3 2 (10.00%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (5.00%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (5.00%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 6 (30.00%) DNS
2 5 (25.00%) DHCP
3 3 (15.00%) Firewall
4 2 (10.00%) Remote Desktop
4 2 (10.00%) TCP/IP
4 2 (10.00%) VPN
5 1 (5.00%) Fibre Channel
5 1 (5.00%) LAN
5 1 (5.00%) SAN
5 1 (5.00%) WAAS
5 1 (5.00%) WAN
5 1 (5.00%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (5.00%) Git
1 1 (5.00%) Subversion
General
1 6 (30.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (15.00%) Finance
3 2 (10.00%) Front Office
4 1 (5.00%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (5.00%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (5.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (20.00%) Administrator
1 4 (20.00%) Analyst
2 3 (15.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 3 (15.00%) Systems Administrator
2 3 (15.00%) Vulnerability Analyst
3 2 (10.00%) IT Administrator
3 2 (10.00%) IT Systems Administrator
3 2 (10.00%) Windows Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) Client Services Manager
4 1 (5.00%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) IT Operations Analyst
4 1 (5.00%) Linux Administrator
4 1 (5.00%) Linux Systems Administrator
4 1 (5.00%) Operations Analyst
4 1 (5.00%) Product Manager
4 1 (5.00%) Security Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) Security Operations Analyst
4 1 (5.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) Server Administrator
4 1 (5.00%) VMWare Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (10.00%) .NET
2 1 (5.00%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 5 (25.00%) Security Posture
2 2 (10.00%) Management Information System
3 1 (5.00%) CSOC
3 1 (5.00%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 1 (5.00%) PKI
3 1 (5.00%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 11 (55.00%) Windows
2 7 (35.00%) Linux
3 4 (20.00%) Windows Server
4 3 (15.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (15.00%) Ubuntu
4 3 (15.00%) Unix
4 3 (15.00%) Windows 10
5 1 (5.00%) Apple iOS
5 1 (5.00%) CentOS
5 1 (5.00%) Solaris
5 1 (5.00%) Windows Server 2012
5 1 (5.00%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (5.00%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (40.00%) Vulnerability Management
2 7 (35.00%) Security Patching
3 5 (25.00%) ITIL
4 4 (20.00%) Computer Science
4 4 (20.00%) Cybersecurity
4 4 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 4 (20.00%) Software Deployment
4 4 (20.00%) Vulnerability Assessment
4 4 (20.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
5 3 (15.00%) Mobile Device Management
5 3 (15.00%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (15.00%) Risk Management
5 3 (15.00%) Roadmaps
5 3 (15.00%) Security Hardening
5 3 (15.00%) Software Distribution
6 2 (10.00%) Disaster Recovery
6 2 (10.00%) Information Security
6 2 (10.00%) Risk Assessment
6 2 (10.00%) Service Delivery
6 2 (10.00%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (30.00%) PowerShell
2 2 (10.00%) Bash
2 2 (10.00%) C++
2 2 (10.00%) Python
2 2 (10.00%) VB.NET
3 1 (5.00%) Perl
Qualifications
1 4 (20.00%) Degree
2 3 (15.00%) SC Cleared
2 3 (15.00%) Security Cleared
3 2 (10.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (10.00%) ITIL Certification
3 2 (10.00%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (5.00%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (10.00%) ISO 9001
1 2 (10.00%) ISO/IEC 20000
1 2 (10.00%) SLA
2 1 (5.00%) GDPR
System Software
1 7 (35.00%) Active Directory
2 6 (30.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (25.00%) vSphere
4 3 (15.00%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (10.00%) Hyper-V
5 2 (10.00%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (5.00%) Samba
6 1 (5.00%) VMware NSX
6 1 (5.00%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 4 (20.00%) SCCM
1 4 (20.00%) WSUS
2 2 (10.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (10.00%) vCenter Server
3 1 (5.00%) AirWatch
3 1 (5.00%) Ansible
3 1 (5.00%) Nessus
3 1 (5.00%) Red Hat Satellite
3 1 (5.00%) SELinux
Vendors
1 11 (55.00%) Microsoft
2 7 (35.00%) VMware
3 6 (30.00%) Qualys
4 3 (15.00%) Rapid7
5 2 (10.00%) Red Hat
6 1 (5.00%) Apple
6 1 (5.00%) CA
6 1 (5.00%) SolarWinds
6 1 (5.00%) Sophos
6 1 (5.00%) Symantec
6 1 (5.00%) Veeam
6 1 (5.00%) Veritas