Patch Management Contracts

Patch Management
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Patch Management skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Patch Management 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 477 524 554
Rank change year-on-year +47 +30 +37
Contract jobs citing Patch Management 107 174 303
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.24% 0.31% 0.35%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.29% 0.35% 0.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 66 100 232
10th Percentile £284 £200 £185
25th Percentile £331 £286 £323
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £400 £441
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% -9.30% -7.16%
75th Percentile £538 £505 £528
90th Percentile £678 £580 £600
UK excluding London median daily rate £394 £375 £375
% change year-on-year +5.00% - +10.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £22.09 £20.75
Median hourly rate £23.80 £24.18 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -1.55% +12.44% -14.00%
75th Percentile £37.85 £26.26 £22.25
90th Percentile £63.14 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £80.00 £24.18 £21.50
% change year-on-year +230.92% +12.44% -14.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Patch Management 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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,178 49,770 79,013
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.13% 89.61% 90.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,737 34,458 55,587
10th Percentile £300 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £438 £436
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £650
90th Percentile £750 £750 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £490
% change year-on-year - +2.04% +8.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,579 1,678 1,852
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.96 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.75 £15.90
Median hourly rate £37.00 £35.65 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.79% +37.12% +13.04%
75th Percentile £61.28 £65.00 £50.15
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.12 £34.90 £21.00
% change year-on-year +9.23% +66.18% -

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 12 June 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 12 June 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 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
England +32 101 £450 +5.88% 56
UK excluding London +21 70 £394 +5.00% 48
South East +34 31 £500 +9.59% 15
London +40 30 £475 +5.56% 10
Work from Home +75 22 £475 +11.76% 17
West Midlands +23 14 £300 -25.00% 10
Midlands +22 14 £300 -25.00% 14
East of England -7 8 £340 +14.29% 8
South West -13 8 £313 +13.64% 6
North of England +12 7 £195 -57.38% 3
Yorkshire +17 5 £195 -59.59% 2
Scotland +47 2 £483 +211.01% 5
North West +6 1 £388 -13.89% 1
North East - 1 £195 -

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 16 (14.95%) Microsoft Exchange
2 10 (9.35%) SharePoint
3 3 (2.80%) IIS
4 1 (0.93%) Apache
4 1 (0.93%) Tomcat
Applications
1 4 (3.74%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.93%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 29 (27.10%) Azure
1 29 (27.10%) Microsoft 365
2 14 (13.08%) AWS
3 8 (7.48%) Azure Monitor
4 6 (5.61%) Entra ID
5 5 (4.67%) Amazon EC2
5 5 (4.67%) OneDrive
6 3 (2.80%) Azure ExpressRoute
6 3 (2.80%) Mimecast
6 3 (2.80%) Nutanix
6 3 (2.80%) Rubrik
7 1 (0.93%) Amazon S3
7 1 (0.93%) GCP
7 1 (0.93%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 36 (33.64%) DNS
2 18 (16.82%) Firewall
3 13 (12.15%) DHCP
3 13 (12.15%) VPN
4 12 (11.21%) SAN
5 9 (8.41%) NetScaler
5 9 (8.41%) Remote Desktop
6 8 (7.48%) Wireless
7 7 (6.54%) LAN
7 7 (6.54%) TCP/IP
7 7 (6.54%) WAN
8 6 (5.61%) Fibre Channel
8 6 (5.61%) Internet
8 6 (5.61%) NAS
8 6 (5.61%) Wi-Fi
9 3 (2.80%) DKIM
9 3 (2.80%) DMARC
9 3 (2.80%) Extranet
10 2 (1.87%) iSCSI
10 2 (1.87%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (4.67%) SQL Server
2 1 (0.93%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (0.93%) GIS
2 1 (0.93%) MongoDB
2 1 (0.93%) MySQL
2 1 (0.93%) NoSQL
2 1 (0.93%) Oracle Exadata
2 1 (0.93%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (3.74%) JIRA
2 1 (0.93%) Git
2 1 (0.93%) Subversion
General
1 23 (21.50%) Social Skills
2 12 (11.21%) Finance
3 6 (5.61%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (5.61%) Banking
3 6 (5.61%) Public Sector
4 3 (2.80%) Front Office
5 2 (1.87%) Legal
5 2 (1.87%) Manufacturing
5 2 (1.87%) Military
6 1 (0.93%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (0.93%) Electronics
6 1 (0.93%) Financial Institution
6 1 (0.93%) Marketing
6 1 (0.93%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 13 (12.15%) Desktop Engineer
1 13 (12.15%) Integration Engineer
2 11 (10.28%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 10 (9.35%) Administrator
3 10 (9.35%) Support Engineer
4 8 (7.48%) 3rd Line Engineer
4 8 (7.48%) Desktop Support
4 8 (7.48%) Security Engineer
5 7 (6.54%) Desktop Support Engineer
5 7 (6.54%) Senior
6 6 (5.61%) Analyst
7 5 (4.67%) 3rd Line Support
7 5 (4.67%) Architect
7 5 (4.67%) Citrix Engineer
7 5 (4.67%) Deployment Engineer
7 5 (4.67%) IT Support
7 5 (4.67%) Systems Administrator
7 5 (4.67%) Windows Engineer
8 4 (3.74%) Server Administrator
8 4 (3.74%) VMWare Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (3.74%) LDAP
1 4 (3.74%) Software Packaging
2 3 (2.80%) .NET
2 3 (2.80%) AngularJS
2 3 (2.80%) CSS
2 3 (2.80%) HTML
3 1 (0.93%) ARM Templates
3 1 (0.93%) Flash
3 1 (0.93%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 18 (16.82%) Management Information System
2 8 (7.48%) Data Centre
2 8 (7.48%) PKI
3 7 (6.54%) CMDB
3 7 (6.54%) Fat Client
3 7 (6.54%) Thin Client
4 5 (4.67%) Security Posture
5 3 (2.80%) Clustering
5 3 (2.80%) Virtual Team
6 2 (1.87%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.93%) CSOC
7 1 (0.93%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (0.93%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 1 (0.93%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (0.93%) Life Science
7 1 (0.93%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.93%) Operational Technology
7 1 (0.93%) Public Cloud
7 1 (0.93%) Security Operations Centre
7 1 (0.93%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 71 (66.36%) Windows
2 43 (40.19%) Windows Server
3 25 (23.36%) Linux
4 21 (19.63%) Windows 10
5 12 (11.21%) Unix
5 12 (11.21%) Windows Server 2012
6 9 (8.41%) Ubuntu
7 8 (7.48%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 5 (4.67%) CentOS
9 4 (3.74%) Windows 7
10 3 (2.80%) Solaris
11 2 (1.87%) Windows Server 2016
11 2 (1.87%) Windows Server 2019
12 1 (0.93%) AIX
12 1 (0.93%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (24.30%) Vulnerability Management
2 25 (23.36%) ITIL
3 20 (18.69%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 20 (18.69%) Problem-Solving
4 19 (17.76%) Change Management
4 19 (17.76%) Information Security
5 14 (13.08%) Cybersecurity
6 12 (11.21%) Incident Management
7 11 (10.28%) Application Packaging
7 11 (10.28%) Disaster Recovery
7 11 (10.28%) Security Operations
7 11 (10.28%) Task Automation
8 10 (9.35%) Computer Science
8 10 (9.35%) Deployment Automation
8 10 (9.35%) Mobile Device Management
8 10 (9.35%) Security Hardening
8 10 (9.35%) Software Deployment
9 9 (8.41%) High Availability
9 9 (8.41%) Security Patching
10 8 (7.48%) Server Management
Programming Languages
1 38 (35.51%) PowerShell
2 9 (8.41%) Python
3 5 (4.67%) Bash
4 3 (2.80%) JavaScript
4 3 (2.80%) SQL
4 3 (2.80%) VB.NET
5 2 (1.87%) C++
5 2 (1.87%) Perl
5 2 (1.87%) Shell Script
6 1 (0.93%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 32 (29.91%) Security Cleared
2 18 (16.82%) Degree
3 14 (13.08%) SC Cleared
4 11 (10.28%) DV Cleared
5 10 (9.35%) Microsoft Certification
6 6 (5.61%) ITIL Certification
7 5 (4.67%) MCSE
8 4 (3.74%) Computer Science Degree
9 3 (2.80%) CTC Cleared
9 3 (2.80%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 2 (1.87%) Azure Certification
10 2 (1.87%) CCNA
10 2 (1.87%) Cisco Certification
10 2 (1.87%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 1 (0.93%) BPSS Clearance
11 1 (0.93%) CISSP
11 1 (0.93%) IBM Certification
11 1 (0.93%) Linux+ Certification
11 1 (0.93%) LPIC
11 1 (0.93%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (5.61%) SLA
2 4 (3.74%) GDPR
3 3 (2.80%) Data Quality
3 3 (2.80%) ISO 9001
3 3 (2.80%) ISO/IEC 20000
3 3 (2.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (2.80%) NCSC
3 3 (2.80%) QA
4 2 (1.87%) COBIT
4 2 (1.87%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.93%) GRC
5 1 (0.93%) JSP 440
5 1 (0.93%) NIST
5 1 (0.93%) NIST 800
System Software
1 53 (49.53%) Active Directory
2 36 (33.64%) VMware Infrastructure
3 12 (11.21%) vSphere
4 9 (8.41%) Hyper-V
4 9 (8.41%) Virtual Desktop
4 9 (8.41%) Virtual Machines
5 8 (7.48%) Citrix Hypervisor
5 8 (7.48%) VMware ESXi
5 8 (7.48%) XenApp
5 8 (7.48%) XenDesktop
6 5 (4.67%) Firmware
7 4 (3.74%) VMware NSX
7 4 (3.74%) VMware Server
8 3 (2.80%) BitLocker
8 3 (2.80%) Microsoft App-V
9 1 (0.93%) Docker
9 1 (0.93%) KVM
9 1 (0.93%) Virtual Servers
9 1 (0.93%) Xen
Systems Management
1 26 (24.30%) WSUS
2 23 (21.50%) SCCM
3 8 (7.48%) Microsoft Intune
4 7 (6.54%) vCenter Server
5 5 (4.67%) Single Sign-On
6 4 (3.74%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 4 (3.74%) Ansible
6 4 (3.74%) NetBackup
6 4 (3.74%) SCOM
6 4 (3.74%) SCVMM
7 3 (2.80%) Nessus
7 3 (2.80%) VxRail
8 2 (1.87%) AirWatch
8 2 (1.87%) CASB
8 2 (1.87%) Red Hat Satellite
8 2 (1.87%) SCOrch
9 1 (0.93%) Kubernetes
9 1 (0.93%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.93%) SELinux
9 1 (0.93%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 70 (65.42%) Microsoft
2 40 (37.38%) VMware
3 9 (8.41%) Citrix
3 9 (8.41%) NetApp
4 7 (6.54%) Red Hat
5 6 (5.61%) Cisco
5 6 (5.61%) Qualys
6 5 (4.67%) Apple
6 5 (4.67%) Dell
6 5 (4.67%) HP
6 5 (4.67%) Rapid7
6 5 (4.67%) SolarWinds
7 4 (3.74%) Brocade
7 4 (3.74%) EMC
7 4 (3.74%) Juniper
7 4 (3.74%) ServiceNow
7 4 (3.74%) Sophos
8 3 (2.80%) Avaya
8 3 (2.80%) Forcepoint
8 3 (2.80%) Mitel