Server Patching Contract Job Trends in England

Server Patching
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring Server Patching skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 512 506 585
Rank change year-on-year -6 +79 +162
Contract jobs citing Server Patching 9 28 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.032% 0.085% 0.026%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.036% 0.099% 0.029%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 22 9
10th Percentile £418 £305 £213
25th Percentile £494 £350 £259
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £438 £400
Median % change year-on-year +25.71% +9.38% +23.08%
75th Percentile £581 £500 -
90th Percentile £613 £549 £468
UK median daily rate £550 £475 £400
% change year-on-year +15.79% +18.75% +23.08%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 25,240 28,355 37,948
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 90.87% 86.09% 89.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 16,025 17,607 26,234
10th Percentile £300 £313 £316
25th Percentile £405 £421 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £626 £645 £655
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,512 1,298 1,446
10th Percentile £14.38 £15.00 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.77 £20.00 £19.06
Median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -41.51% -3.37% +53.98%
75th Percentile £49.56 £66.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £68.00 £75.00 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £43.79
% change year-on-year -41.51% -1.81% +53.66%

Server Patching
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Server Patching as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Server Patching in England

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Daily Rate Trend in England

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

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

Server Patching
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Server Patching in England over the 6 months to 20 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Server Patching in England

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Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Server Patching.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Server Patching

Server Patching
Contract Job Locations in England

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 England region over the 6 months to 20 September 2025. 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
London +2 4 £550 +57.14%
South East +14 2 £525 +5.00% 2
West Midlands -7 1 £617 +62.37%
Midlands -17 1 £617 +62.37%
South West - 1 £550 -
Server Patching
UK

Server Patching
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 (22.22%) Apache
1 2 (22.22%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 3 (33.33%) AWS
2 2 (22.22%) Azure
2 2 (22.22%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (11.11%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (11.11%) Entra ID
3 1 (11.11%) GitHub
3 1 (11.11%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (11.11%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (22.22%) Firewall
2 1 (11.11%) DNS
2 1 (11.11%) Multicast
2 1 (11.11%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (22.22%) MariaDB
1 2 (22.22%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 2 (22.22%) Bitbucket
1 2 (22.22%) Git
1 2 (22.22%) Jenkins
1 2 (22.22%) JIRA
1 2 (22.22%) Vagrant
General
1 5 (55.56%) Social Skills
2 1 (11.11%) Local Government
2 1 (11.11%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (33.33%) Administrator
1 3 (33.33%) Linux Administrator
1 3 (33.33%) Linux Systems Administrator
1 3 (33.33%) Systems Administrator
2 2 (22.22%) Linux Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Data Analytics Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure Team Leader
3 1 (11.11%) IT Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) IT Support
3 1 (11.11%) IT Support Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Lead
3 1 (11.11%) Senior
3 1 (11.11%) Senior Server Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Server Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Support Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (22.22%) LAMP
1 2 (22.22%) Zend Framework
Miscellaneous
1 1 (11.11%) Clustering
1 1 (11.11%) Enterprise Software
1 1 (11.11%) Linux Command Line
1 1 (11.11%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 7 (77.78%) Linux
2 6 (66.67%) Windows
3 5 (55.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (22.22%) CentOS
4 2 (22.22%) Debian
4 2 (22.22%) Ubuntu
5 1 (11.11%) Unix
5 1 (11.11%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (44.44%) Agile
1 4 (44.44%) Configuration Management
1 4 (44.44%) Software Deployment
2 3 (33.33%) Collaborative Working
2 3 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
2 3 (33.33%) DevOps
2 3 (33.33%) Security Hardening
3 2 (22.22%) Build Automation
3 2 (22.22%) Deployment Automation
3 2 (22.22%) High Availability
3 2 (22.22%) Server Building
4 1 (11.11%) Analytics
4 1 (11.11%) Continuous Delivery
4 1 (11.11%) Data Analytics
4 1 (11.11%) Identity Management
4 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure Management
4 1 (11.11%) Mentoring
4 1 (11.11%) Privileged Identity Management
4 1 (11.11%) Runbook
4 1 (11.11%) Vulnerability Scanning
Programming Languages
1 4 (44.44%) Python
2 3 (33.33%) Perl
3 2 (22.22%) Bash
3 2 (22.22%) JavaScript
3 2 (22.22%) PHP
4 1 (11.11%) PowerShell
4 1 (11.11%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (44.44%) Security Cleared
2 2 (22.22%) DV Cleared
2 2 (22.22%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (22.22%) QA
System Software
1 3 (33.33%) Active Directory
1 3 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (22.22%) Docker
2 2 (22.22%) VirtualBox
3 1 (11.11%) GPFS
3 1 (11.11%) Hyper-V
3 1 (11.11%) Terminal Services
3 1 (11.11%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (11.11%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 3 (33.33%) Ansible
2 2 (22.22%) Icinga
2 2 (22.22%) Nagios
2 2 (22.22%) Progress Chef
2 2 (22.22%) Puppet
2 2 (22.22%) Red Hat Satellite
2 2 (22.22%) Salt
2 2 (22.22%) yum
3 1 (11.11%) BladeLogic
3 1 (11.11%) Nessus
3 1 (11.11%) SolarWinds Orion
3 1 (11.11%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (44.44%) VMware
2 3 (33.33%) Red Hat
3 2 (22.22%) Dell
3 2 (22.22%) Microsoft
3 2 (22.22%) New Relic
3 2 (22.22%) Rackspace
3 2 (22.22%) Zend
4 1 (11.11%) Cisco
4 1 (11.11%) Databricks
4 1 (11.11%) HP
4 1 (11.11%) IBM
4 1 (11.11%) Mellanox
4 1 (11.11%) ServiceNow
4 1 (11.11%) Solarflare
4 1 (11.11%) SolarWinds
4 1 (11.11%) Veeam