Security Patching Contracts

Security Patching
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Security Patching skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Security Patching 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 501 638 782
Rank change year-on-year +137 +144 -119
Contract jobs citing Security Patching 83 59 66
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.19% 0.11% 0.076%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.22% 0.12% 0.084%
Number of daily rates quoted 57 34 54
10th Percentile £224 £245 £238
25th Percentile £350 £353 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £425
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% +5.88% -
75th Percentile £588 £530 £509
90th Percentile - £580 £550
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £425 £388
% change year-on-year +17.65% +9.68% +6.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £43.43 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £43.43 -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Security Patching 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% -

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 12 June 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 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 +112 74 £475 +11.76% 28
UK excluding London +39 39 £500 +17.65% 20
London +96 37 £475 - 8
Work from Home +127 28 £475 -5.00% 8
South West +16 16 £575 +91.67% 2
South East +13 9 £400 -3.03% 6
Scotland +53 7 £588 +39.88%
East of England - 5 £340 - 4
Midlands +17 1 £425 - 1
North of England +12 1 £250 -21.26% 7
Yorkshire - 1 £250 - 1
West Midlands - 1 £425 -

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 7 (8.43%) Microsoft Exchange
2 6 (7.23%) IIS
3 5 (6.02%) Confluence
3 5 (6.02%) Tomcat
4 3 (3.61%) Apache
5 2 (2.41%) nginx
5 2 (2.41%) SharePoint
6 1 (1.20%) JBoss
6 1 (1.20%) WildFly
Applications
1 2 (2.41%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (2.41%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.20%) PTC Creo
2 1 (1.20%) Windchill
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%) Azure
2 13 (15.66%) Microsoft 365
3 7 (8.43%) AWS
4 5 (6.02%) WhatsApp
5 4 (4.82%) Amazon S3
5 4 (4.82%) AWS CloudFormation
6 3 (3.61%) IaaS
7 2 (2.41%) Amazon EC2
7 2 (2.41%) Amazon ECR
7 2 (2.41%) Amazon EKS
7 2 (2.41%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (2.41%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (2.41%) Power Platform
7 2 (2.41%) Route 53
7 2 (2.41%) Serverless
7 2 (2.41%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 1 (1.20%) Entra ID
8 1 (1.20%) Kong
8 1 (1.20%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 14 (16.87%) Network Security
2 13 (15.66%) 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%) Intrusion Detection
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%) 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
3 2 (2.41%) MySQL
3 2 (2.41%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (1.20%) Oracle Database 11g
4 1 (1.20%) Power BI
4 1 (1.20%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 7 (8.43%) JIRA
2 2 (2.41%) GitLab
2 2 (2.41%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.20%) JUnit
3 1 (1.20%) Maven
3 1 (1.20%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 1 (1.20%) Subversion
General
1 14 (16.87%) Finance
2 12 (14.46%) Social Skills
3 7 (8.43%) Public Sector
4 5 (6.02%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (3.61%) Banking
5 3 (3.61%) Front Office
6 2 (2.41%) Marketing
7 1 (1.20%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.20%) Electronics
7 1 (1.20%) Manufacturing
7 1 (1.20%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (1.20%) Retail Banking
7 1 (1.20%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 10 (12.05%) Analyst
1 10 (12.05%) Platform Manager
2 9 (10.84%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 8 (9.64%) Support Engineer
3 8 (9.64%) Vulnerability Specialist
4 7 (8.43%) Senior
4 7 (8.43%) Unix Specialist
5 6 (7.23%) Applications Support
5 6 (7.23%) Exchange Engineer
5 6 (7.23%) Infrastructure Specialist
6 5 (6.02%) Applications Engineer
6 5 (6.02%) Applications Support Engineer
6 5 (6.02%) Linux Specialist
6 5 (6.02%) Wintel Engineer
7 4 (4.82%) IT Engineer
7 4 (4.82%) Network Engineer
8 3 (3.61%) 2nd Line Support
8 3 (3.61%) Administrator
8 3 (3.61%) Security Analyst
8 3 (3.61%) Systems Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (7.23%) .NET
2 4 (4.82%) LDAP
2 4 (4.82%) 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%) 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%) Data Protection Act
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
5 3 (3.61%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (2.41%) Linux Command Line
6 2 (2.41%) Product Ownership
6 2 (2.41%) Virtual Team
7 1 (1.20%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 1 (1.20%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (1.20%) Operational Technology
7 1 (1.20%) Public Cloud
7 1 (1.20%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 54 (65.06%) Windows
2 20 (24.10%) Linux
3 12 (14.46%) Unix
4 11 (13.25%) Windows Server
5 7 (8.43%) Windows 10
6 6 (7.23%) Windows Server 2016
7 5 (6.02%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 5 (6.02%) Windows Server 2012
8 4 (4.82%) Ubuntu
9 1 (1.20%) AIX
9 1 (1.20%) CentOS
9 1 (1.20%) SUSE
9 1 (1.20%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
9 1 (1.20%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (30.12%) Change Management
2 18 (21.69%) Vulnerability Management
3 17 (20.48%) ITIL
4 13 (15.66%) Problem Management
4 13 (15.66%) Vulnerability Remediation
5 11 (13.25%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 10 (12.05%) Configuration Management
7 9 (10.84%) Patch Management
8 8 (9.64%) Capacity Management
8 8 (9.64%) Cybersecurity
9 7 (8.43%) Release Management
9 7 (8.43%) Roadmaps
9 7 (8.43%) Root Cause Analysis
10 6 (7.23%) Agile
10 6 (7.23%) High Availability
10 6 (7.23%) Vulnerability Assessment
11 5 (6.02%) Computer Science
11 5 (6.02%) Continuous Improvement
11 5 (6.02%) Data Protection
11 5 (6.02%) Software Deployment
Programming Languages
1 18 (21.69%) PowerShell
2 12 (14.46%) 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
Qualifications
1 26 (31.33%) Security Cleared
2 18 (21.69%) DV Cleared
3 13 (15.66%) 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%) Azure Certification
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 13 (15.66%) SLA
2 4 (4.82%) 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 12 (14.46%) Virtual Machines
3 8 (9.64%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (6.02%) vSphere
5 3 (3.61%) Hyper-V
6 2 (2.41%) VMware Server
7 1 (1.20%) BitLocker
7 1 (1.20%) Firmware
7 1 (1.20%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 13 (15.66%) Ansible
2 7 (8.43%) Progress Chef
3 6 (7.23%) Puppet
4 4 (4.82%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 4 (4.82%) Microsoft Intune
4 4 (4.82%) Salt
5 3 (3.61%) SCCM
5 3 (3.61%) WSUS
6 2 (2.41%) Kibana
6 2 (2.41%) logstash
6 2 (2.41%) Terraform
Vendors
1 24 (28.92%) Microsoft
2 16 (19.28%) Qualys
3 13 (15.66%) VMware
4 9 (10.84%) Red Hat
5 6 (7.23%) Atlassian
6 5 (6.02%) Commvault
6 5 (6.02%) Juniper
7 3 (3.61%) Aruba
7 3 (3.61%) Bloomberg
7 3 (3.61%) Citrix
7 3 (3.61%) Fortinet
7 3 (3.61%) Oracle
7 3 (3.61%) Refinitiv
8 2 (2.41%) AppDynamics
8 2 (2.41%) Rapid7
8 2 (2.41%) SaltStack
8 2 (2.41%) SAP
8 2 (2.41%) Splunk
9 1 (1.20%) CA
9 1 (1.20%) Cisco