Security Patching Contracts in London

Security Patching
England > London

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

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 359 472 580
Rank change year-on-year +113 +108 -108
Contract jobs citing Security Patching 34 21 14
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.19% 0.082% 0.036%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.22% 0.090% 0.039%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 11 12
10th Percentile £346 £180 £344
25th Percentile £366 £400 £412
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year - -5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £553 £530 £538
90th Percentile £573 £619 £549
England median daily rate £475 £425 £425
% change year-on-year +11.76% - +6.25%

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

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 advertised in London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 15,473 23,264 35,752
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.29% 90.93% 92.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,093 16,856 26,215
10th Percentile £340 £375 £394
25th Percentile £449 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £590 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.78% +2.61% +9.52%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £688
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £545
% change year-on-year -4.55% +0.92% +9.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 320 265 402
10th Percentile £15.50 £18.00 £16.50
25th Percentile £20.00 £22.49 £23.91
Median hourly rate £28.00 £39.00 £35.50
Median % change year-on-year -28.21% +9.86% +8.07%
75th Percentile £48.75 £64.50 £50.00
90th Percentile £68.08 £82.50 £67.50
England median hourly rate £37.50 £37.15 £25.00
% change year-on-year +0.94% +48.60% +11.11%

Security Patching
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Security Patching in London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Security Patching in London

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Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Security Patching in London over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Security Patching in London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Security Patching in London

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Contract Job Locations in 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 London region over the 6 months to 2 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
Central London +30 1 - - 1
East London - 1 £475 -
West London - 1 £450 -
Security Patching
England

Security Patching
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 2 (5.88%) Apache
1 2 (5.88%) IIS
1 2 (5.88%) nginx
1 2 (5.88%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (5.88%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 11 (32.35%) Azure
2 6 (17.65%) AWS
3 5 (14.71%) Microsoft 365
3 5 (14.71%) WhatsApp
4 4 (11.76%) AWS CloudFormation
5 3 (8.82%) Amazon S3
5 3 (8.82%) IaaS
6 2 (5.88%) Amazon EC2
6 2 (5.88%) Amazon ECR
6 2 (5.88%) Amazon EKS
6 2 (5.88%) AWS Lambda
6 2 (5.88%) Route 53
6 2 (5.88%) Serverless
6 2 (5.88%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 1 (2.94%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (2.94%) Entra ID
7 1 (2.94%) Kong
7 1 (2.94%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 11 (32.35%) Firewall
2 4 (11.76%) LAN
2 4 (11.76%) Unified Communications
2 4 (11.76%) WAN
2 4 (11.76%) Wi-Fi
3 3 (8.82%) DNS
4 2 (5.88%) DHCP
4 2 (5.88%) Internet
4 2 (5.88%) MPLS
5 1 (2.94%) Intrusion Detection
5 1 (2.94%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (8.82%) SQL Server
1 3 (8.82%) SQL Server Integration Services
1 3 (8.82%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 2 (5.88%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (5.88%) MySQL
2 2 (5.88%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (2.94%) MongoDB
3 1 (2.94%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 2 (5.88%) GitLab
1 2 (5.88%) Jenkins
1 2 (5.88%) JIRA
General
1 11 (32.35%) Finance
2 7 (20.59%) Social Skills
3 3 (8.82%) Banking
4 1 (2.94%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (2.94%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (2.94%) Marketing
4 1 (2.94%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 8 (23.53%) Vulnerability Specialist
2 7 (20.59%) Unix Specialist
3 6 (17.65%) Infrastructure Specialist
4 5 (14.71%) Analyst
4 5 (14.71%) Linux Specialist
5 4 (11.76%) Network Engineer
6 3 (8.82%) Data Analyst
6 3 (8.82%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 3 (8.82%) Market Analyst
6 3 (8.82%) Market Data Analyst
6 3 (8.82%) Systems Analyst
6 3 (8.82%) Wintel Engineer
7 2 (5.88%) Azure Engineer
7 2 (5.88%) DevOps Engineer
7 2 (5.88%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
7 2 (5.88%) Security Engineer
7 2 (5.88%) Support Engineer
8 1 (2.94%) Active Directory Engineer
8 1 (2.94%) Active Directory Support
8 1 (2.94%) MongoDB DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (8.82%) .NET
1 3 (8.82%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 6 (17.65%) Management Information System
2 3 (8.82%) Data Centre
2 3 (8.82%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 3 (8.82%) Legacy Systems
2 3 (8.82%) Security Posture
3 2 (5.88%) Linux Command Line
3 2 (5.88%) Virtual Team
4 1 (2.94%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (2.94%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 1 (2.94%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 19 (55.88%) Windows
2 11 (32.35%) Linux
3 8 (23.53%) Unix
4 6 (17.65%) Windows Server
5 5 (14.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (14.71%) Windows Server 2012
5 5 (14.71%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (2.94%) CentOS
6 1 (2.94%) Ubuntu
6 1 (2.94%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (38.24%) Vulnerability Management
2 11 (32.35%) ITIL
3 9 (26.47%) Configuration Management
4 8 (23.53%) Change Management
5 6 (17.65%) Vulnerability Remediation
6 5 (14.71%) Infrastructure as Code
6 5 (14.71%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 4 (11.76%) Information Security
7 4 (11.76%) Patch Management
7 4 (11.76%) Vulnerability Assessment
8 3 (8.82%) Business Intelligence
8 3 (8.82%) CI/CD
8 3 (8.82%) Cybersecurity
8 3 (8.82%) DevOps
8 3 (8.82%) Mobile Device Management
8 3 (8.82%) Risk Assessment
8 3 (8.82%) SDLC
8 3 (8.82%) Server Management
8 3 (8.82%) Storage Management
8 3 (8.82%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 3 (8.82%) PowerShell
1 3 (8.82%) SQL
2 2 (5.88%) Python
3 1 (2.94%) Go
Qualifications
1 4 (11.76%) Microsoft Certification
2 3 (8.82%) Degree
3 2 (5.88%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (2.94%) AWS Certification
4 1 (2.94%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 1 (2.94%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (2.94%) Azure Certification
4 1 (2.94%) CCNA
4 1 (2.94%) CCNP
4 1 (2.94%) CEH
4 1 (2.94%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (2.94%) CISSP
4 1 (2.94%) MCITP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (11.76%) QA
2 3 (8.82%) SLA
3 2 (5.88%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (2.94%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (2.94%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 1 (2.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 9 (26.47%) Active Directory
2 5 (14.71%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (11.76%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (5.88%) VMware Server
4 2 (5.88%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 12 (35.29%) Ansible
2 7 (20.59%) Progress Chef
3 6 (17.65%) Puppet
4 4 (11.76%) Salt
5 2 (5.88%) Terraform
6 1 (2.94%) Kibana
6 1 (2.94%) logstash
6 1 (2.94%) SCCM
Vendors
1 14 (41.18%) Qualys
2 12 (35.29%) Microsoft
3 9 (26.47%) Red Hat
4 8 (23.53%) VMware
5 5 (14.71%) Commvault
5 5 (14.71%) Juniper
6 3 (8.82%) Aruba
6 3 (8.82%) Bloomberg
6 3 (8.82%) Citrix
6 3 (8.82%) Fortinet
6 3 (8.82%) Refinitiv
7 2 (5.88%) Atlassian
7 2 (5.88%) SaltStack
8 1 (2.94%) AppDynamics
8 1 (2.94%) CA
8 1 (2.94%) CheckPoint
8 1 (2.94%) Rapid7
8 1 (2.94%) Splunk
8 1 (2.94%) Veracode