Server Patching Contract Job Trends in Buckinghamshire

Server Patching
South East > Buckinghamshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire requiring Server Patching skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 70 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Server Patching 3 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Buckinghamshire 0.34% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.43% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £607 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £615 - -
75th Percentile £622 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South East median daily rate £615 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +29.47% -5.00% +25.00%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Buckinghamshire

Server 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 in Buckinghamshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 699 284 356
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire 79.16% 92.81% 80.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 502 167 242
10th Percentile £325 £286 £251
25th Percentile £438 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £450 £464
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -2.96% -7.25%
75th Percentile £600 £560 £553
90th Percentile £638 £650 £673
South East median daily rate £525 £500 £513
% change year-on-year +5.00% -2.44% -0.49%
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 42 20
10th Percentile - - £15.85
25th Percentile £15.05 £14.20 £18.00
Median hourly rate £16.35 £15.25 £26.25
Median % change year-on-year +7.21% -41.90% +75.18%
75th Percentile £18.32 £24.50 £29.06
90th Percentile £34.12 £50.89 £37.95
South East median hourly rate £55.00 £22.29 £54.36
% change year-on-year +146.80% -59.00% +8.72%

Server Patching
Job Vacancy Trend in Buckinghamshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Server Patching relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire.

Server Patching job vacancy trend in Buckinghamshire

Server Patching
Daily Rate Trend in Buckinghamshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Buckinghamshire citing Server Patching.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Buckinghamshire citing Server Patching

Server Patching
Contract Job Locations in Buckinghamshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Server Patching within the Buckinghamshire region over the 6 months to 19 July 2026. 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
Milton Keynes - 3 £615 - 1
Server Patching
South East

Server Patching
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Buckinghamshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
1 3 (100.00%) Azure Monitor
2 2 (66.67%) Azure ExpressRoute
2 2 (66.67%) Azure Sentinel
2 2 (66.67%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 3 (100.00%) DHCP
1 3 (100.00%) DNS
1 3 (100.00%) Firewall
1 3 (100.00%) SSH
1 3 (100.00%) TCP/IP
1 3 (100.00%) VPN
2 2 (66.67%) Network Security
General
1 2 (66.67%) Military
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Platform Engineer
2 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (66.67%) Senior
2 2 (66.67%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (66.67%) Senior Platform Engineer
3 1 (33.33%) Azure Engineer
3 1 (33.33%) Azure Platform Engineer
3 1 (33.33%) Cloud Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (100.00%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 3 (100.00%) Hybrid Cloud
1 3 (100.00%) Onboarding
2 2 (66.67%) ARM Cortex
2 2 (66.67%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Linux
1 3 (100.00%) Windows
1 3 (100.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Analytics
1 3 (100.00%) Data Collection
1 3 (100.00%) Deployment Automation
1 3 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 3 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 3 (100.00%) Infrastructure Monitoring
1 3 (100.00%) Log Analytics
1 3 (100.00%) Observability
1 3 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
1 3 (100.00%) RBAC
1 3 (100.00%) Resource Management
1 3 (100.00%) Security Hardening
1 3 (100.00%) Task Automation
1 3 (100.00%) Validation
1 3 (100.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
2 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 2 (66.67%) Cybersecurity
2 2 (66.67%) DevOps
2 2 (66.67%) Network Virtualisation
2 2 (66.67%) Security Operations
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Bash
1 3 (100.00%) Bicep
1 3 (100.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 3 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 3 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (66.67%) Degree
System Software
1 3 (100.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (100.00%) Terraform
2 2 (66.67%) Ansible
2 2 (66.67%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (66.67%) SCCM
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (66.67%) CrowdStrike