Patch Management Contracts

Patch Management
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with 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 18 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 468 486 552
Rank change year-on-year +18 +66 +16
Contract jobs citing Patch Management 103 204 304
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.24% 0.36% 0.35%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.28% 0.40% 0.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 65 133 223
10th Percentile £249 £200 £189
25th Percentile £325 £275 £336
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £400 £450
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% -11.11% -
75th Percentile £538 £525 £538
90th Percentile £685 £580 £605
UK excluding London median daily rate £388 £363 £375
% change year-on-year +6.90% -3.33% +3.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 4
10th Percentile - - £18.91
25th Percentile - - £20.09
Median hourly rate £23.80 - £40.75
75th Percentile £51.90 - £64.69
90th Percentile £68.76 - £73.13
UK excluding London median hourly rate £80.00 - £20.13
% change year-on-year - - -19.50%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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 requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 36,673 51,121 79,325
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.13% 89.77% 90.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,631 35,432 55,673
10th Percentile £300 £325 £344
25th Percentile £413 £438 £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 2,440 1,683 1,892
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.99 £16.01 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.05 £36.00 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +0.13% +40.19% +7.00%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.54
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +7.14% +75.00% -4.99%

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 18 May 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 18 May 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 18 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 +42 98 £438 +9.38% 76
UK excluding London +42 72 £388 +6.90% 54
South East +47 29 £500 +33.33% 17
London +51 27 £463 +2.78% 33
Work from Home +50 20 £475 +5.56% 17
West Midlands +29 16 £319 -20.31% 12
Midlands +29 16 £319 -20.31% 15
North of England +27 9 £195 -58.06% 6
East of England -3 8 £340 +14.29% 10
South West -10 8 £313 +13.64% 3
Yorkshire +19 6 £195 -59.59% 2
Scotland +39 2 £483 +211.01% 5
North East - 2 £195 - 1
North West +9 1 £388 -13.89% 3

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 15 (14.56%) Microsoft Exchange
2 7 (6.80%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.94%) IIS
4 1 (0.97%) Apache
4 1 (0.97%) Tomcat
Applications
1 5 (4.85%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 28 (27.18%) Microsoft 365
2 26 (25.24%) Azure
3 13 (12.62%) AWS
4 8 (7.77%) Azure Monitor
5 5 (4.85%) Entra ID
5 5 (4.85%) OneDrive
6 4 (3.88%) Amazon EC2
7 2 (1.94%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 2 (1.94%) Mimecast
7 2 (1.94%) Nutanix
7 2 (1.94%) Rubrik
8 1 (0.97%) Amazon S3
8 1 (0.97%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 34 (33.01%) DNS
2 15 (14.56%) Firewall
3 13 (12.62%) DHCP
4 11 (10.68%) SAN
4 11 (10.68%) VPN
5 9 (8.74%) NetScaler
6 8 (7.77%) Remote Desktop
7 7 (6.80%) TCP/IP
7 7 (6.80%) WAN
8 6 (5.83%) Fibre Channel
8 6 (5.83%) LAN
8 6 (5.83%) Wireless
9 5 (4.85%) Internet
9 5 (4.85%) NAS
9 5 (4.85%) Wi-Fi
10 2 (1.94%) DKIM
10 2 (1.94%) Extranet
10 2 (1.94%) iSCSI
10 2 (1.94%) SSL
10 2 (1.94%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (3.88%) SQL Server
2 1 (0.97%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (0.97%) GIS
2 1 (0.97%) MongoDB
2 1 (0.97%) MySQL
2 1 (0.97%) NoSQL
2 1 (0.97%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (2.91%) JIRA
2 1 (0.97%) Git
2 1 (0.97%) Subversion
General
1 23 (22.33%) Social Skills
2 9 (8.74%) Finance
3 8 (7.77%) Public Sector
4 6 (5.83%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (2.91%) Front Office
6 2 (1.94%) Banking
6 2 (1.94%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (1.94%) Legal
6 2 (1.94%) Manufacturing
6 2 (1.94%) Military
7 1 (0.97%) Electronics
7 1 (0.97%) Financial Institution
7 1 (0.97%) Marketing
7 1 (0.97%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 14 (13.59%) Desktop Engineer
2 12 (11.65%) Integration Engineer
3 11 (10.68%) Support Engineer
4 10 (9.71%) 3rd Line Engineer
4 10 (9.71%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 9 (8.74%) Administrator
5 9 (8.74%) Desktop Support
6 8 (7.77%) Desktop Support Engineer
6 8 (7.77%) Security Engineer
7 7 (6.80%) Senior
8 6 (5.83%) Analyst
9 5 (4.85%) 2nd Line Support
9 5 (4.85%) 3rd Line Support
9 5 (4.85%) Architect
9 5 (4.85%) Citrix Engineer
9 5 (4.85%) Deployment Engineer
9 5 (4.85%) Systems Administrator
9 5 (4.85%) Windows Engineer
10 4 (3.88%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
10 4 (3.88%) IT Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (3.88%) LDAP
1 4 (3.88%) Software Packaging
2 3 (2.91%) .NET
2 3 (2.91%) AngularJS
2 3 (2.91%) CSS
2 3 (2.91%) HTML
3 1 (0.97%) ARM Templates
3 1 (0.97%) Flash
3 1 (0.97%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 17 (16.50%) Management Information System
2 9 (8.74%) Security Posture
3 7 (6.80%) CMDB
3 7 (6.80%) PKI
4 6 (5.83%) Data Centre
4 6 (5.83%) Fat Client
4 6 (5.83%) Thin Client
5 2 (1.94%) Clustering
5 2 (1.94%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (1.94%) Virtual Team
6 1 (0.97%) CSOC
6 1 (0.97%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (0.97%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 1 (0.97%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (0.97%) Life Science
6 1 (0.97%) Operational Technology
6 1 (0.97%) Public Cloud
6 1 (0.97%) Security Operations Centre
6 1 (0.97%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 67 (65.05%) Windows
2 40 (38.83%) Windows Server
3 21 (20.39%) Linux
3 21 (20.39%) Windows 10
4 11 (10.68%) Windows Server 2012
5 10 (9.71%) Unix
6 9 (8.74%) Ubuntu
7 8 (7.77%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 5 (4.85%) CentOS
9 4 (3.88%) Windows 7
10 2 (1.94%) Solaris
10 2 (1.94%) Windows Server 2016
10 2 (1.94%) Windows Server 2019
11 1 (0.97%) AIX
11 1 (0.97%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (24.27%) ITIL
1 25 (24.27%) Vulnerability Management
2 19 (18.45%) Problem-Solving
3 18 (17.48%) Information Security
3 18 (17.48%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 17 (16.50%) Change Management
5 13 (12.62%) Cybersecurity
5 13 (12.62%) Security Operations
6 11 (10.68%) Incident Management
6 11 (10.68%) Security Patching
7 10 (9.71%) Application Packaging
7 10 (9.71%) Computer Science
7 10 (9.71%) Task Automation
8 9 (8.74%) Disaster Recovery
8 9 (8.74%) Security Hardening
8 9 (8.74%) Software Deployment
9 8 (7.77%) Mobile Device Management
9 8 (7.77%) Risk Management
9 8 (7.77%) Service Management
9 8 (7.77%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 34 (33.01%) PowerShell
2 6 (5.83%) Python
3 5 (4.85%) Bash
4 3 (2.91%) JavaScript
4 3 (2.91%) VB.NET
5 2 (1.94%) C++
5 2 (1.94%) SQL
6 1 (0.97%) Bicep
6 1 (0.97%) Perl
6 1 (0.97%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 32 (31.07%) Security Cleared
2 19 (18.45%) Degree
3 15 (14.56%) SC Cleared
4 10 (9.71%) DV Cleared
4 10 (9.71%) Microsoft Certification
5 6 (5.83%) ITIL Certification
6 5 (4.85%) MCSE
7 4 (3.88%) Computer Science Degree
8 3 (2.91%) CTC Cleared
8 3 (2.91%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 2 (1.94%) Azure Certification
9 2 (1.94%) CCNA
9 2 (1.94%) Cisco Certification
9 2 (1.94%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 1 (0.97%) CISSP
10 1 (0.97%) IBM Certification
10 1 (0.97%) Linux+ Certification
10 1 (0.97%) LPIC
10 1 (0.97%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (5.83%) SLA
2 4 (3.88%) GDPR
3 3 (2.91%) Data Quality
3 3 (2.91%) ISO 9001
3 3 (2.91%) ISO/IEC 20000
3 3 (2.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (2.91%) NCSC
3 3 (2.91%) QA
4 2 (1.94%) COBIT
4 2 (1.94%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.97%) GRC
5 1 (0.97%) JSP 440
5 1 (0.97%) NIST
5 1 (0.97%) NIST 800
System Software
1 51 (49.51%) Active Directory
2 33 (32.04%) VMware Infrastructure
3 12 (11.65%) vSphere
4 9 (8.74%) Virtual Desktop
4 9 (8.74%) Virtual Machines
5 8 (7.77%) Citrix Hypervisor
5 8 (7.77%) Hyper-V
5 8 (7.77%) VMware ESXi
5 8 (7.77%) XenApp
5 8 (7.77%) XenDesktop
6 5 (4.85%) Firmware
7 4 (3.88%) VMware NSX
7 4 (3.88%) VMware Server
8 2 (1.94%) BitLocker
8 2 (1.94%) Microsoft App-V
9 1 (0.97%) Docker
9 1 (0.97%) KVM
9 1 (0.97%) Samba
9 1 (0.97%) Virtual Servers
9 1 (0.97%) Xen
Systems Management
1 24 (23.30%) WSUS
2 21 (20.39%) SCCM
3 7 (6.80%) Microsoft Intune
3 7 (6.80%) vCenter Server
4 5 (4.85%) Single Sign-On
5 3 (2.91%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 3 (2.91%) Ansible
5 3 (2.91%) NetBackup
5 3 (2.91%) SCOM
5 3 (2.91%) SCVMM
6 2 (1.94%) AirWatch
6 2 (1.94%) CASB
6 2 (1.94%) Nessus
6 2 (1.94%) Red Hat Satellite
6 2 (1.94%) SCOrch
6 2 (1.94%) VxRail
7 1 (0.97%) Failover Clustering
7 1 (0.97%) Kubernetes
7 1 (0.97%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.97%) SELinux
Vendors
1 65 (63.11%) Microsoft
2 36 (34.95%) VMware
3 9 (8.74%) Citrix
3 9 (8.74%) NetApp
4 6 (5.83%) Qualys
5 5 (4.85%) Rapid7
5 5 (4.85%) Red Hat
5 5 (4.85%) Sophos
6 4 (3.88%) Apple
6 4 (3.88%) Cisco
6 4 (3.88%) HP
6 4 (3.88%) ServiceNow
6 4 (3.88%) SolarWinds
7 3 (2.91%) Brocade
7 3 (2.91%) Dell
7 3 (2.91%) EMC
7 3 (2.91%) Juniper
8 2 (1.94%) Avaya
8 2 (1.94%) Fortinet
8 2 (1.94%) Veritas