Server Patching Contracts in London

Server Patching
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London requiring Server Patching skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Server Patching over the 6 months leading up to 24 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 344 390 466
Rank change year-on-year +46 +76 +95
Contract jobs citing Server Patching 6 14 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.048% 0.080% 0.024%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.052% 0.090% 0.026%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 10 5
10th Percentile £385 - £420
25th Percentile £400 - £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £300 £500
Median % change year-on-year +75.00% -40.00% +66.67%
75th Percentile £550 £350 -
90th Percentile £565 £605 £523
England median daily rate £525 £390 £390
% change year-on-year +34.62% - +20.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 11,626 15,521 22,803
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 92.36% 88.34% 90.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,790 11,071 16,509
10th Percentile £338 £343 £375
25th Percentile £425 £450 £470
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £588
Median % change year-on-year - -6.38% +2.17%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £700
90th Percentile £800 £800 £800
England median daily rate £515 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 211 309 262
10th Percentile £16.50 £15.50 £18.51
25th Percentile £24.66 £20.00 £22.50
Median hourly rate £32.50 £28.50 £39.92
Median % change year-on-year +14.04% -28.60% +9.63%
75th Percentile £50.25 £48.75 £64.50
90th Percentile £63.75 £68.15 £82.50
England median hourly rate £26.12 £38.00 £35.03
% change year-on-year -31.26% +8.48% +36.41%

Server Patching
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Server Patching in London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Server Patching in London.

Daily rate trend for Server Patching in London

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Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Server Patching in London over the 6 months to 24 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Server Patching in London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Server Patching in London.

Hourly rate trend for Server Patching in London

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Contract Job Locations in London

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 London region over the 6 months to 24 June 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
West London - 2 £463 -
North London - 1 £550 -
Server Patching
England

Server Patching
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 1 (16.67%) Apache
1 1 (16.67%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 3 (50.00%) Azure
2 2 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (16.67%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (16.67%) DHCP
1 1 (16.67%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) MariaDB
1 1 (16.67%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Bitbucket
1 1 (16.67%) Git
1 1 (16.67%) Jenkins
1 1 (16.67%) JIRA
1 1 (16.67%) Vagrant
General
1 2 (33.33%) Public Sector
1 2 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 1 (16.67%) Administrator
1 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Team Leader
1 1 (16.67%) Lead
1 1 (16.67%) Linux Administrator
1 1 (16.67%) Linux Engineer
1 1 (16.67%) Linux Systems Administrator
1 1 (16.67%) Platform Engineer
1 1 (16.67%) Security Engineer
1 1 (16.67%) Systems Administrator
1 1 (16.67%) Team Leader
1 1 (16.67%) Vulnerability Management Engineer
1 1 (16.67%) Wintel Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) LAMP
1 1 (16.67%) Zend Framework
Operating Systems
1 5 (83.33%) Windows
2 4 (66.67%) Windows Server
3 2 (33.33%) Linux
3 2 (33.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (16.67%) CentOS
4 1 (16.67%) Debian
4 1 (16.67%) Ubuntu
4 1 (16.67%) Windows 10
4 1 (16.67%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (16.67%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Configuration Management
2 2 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 2 (33.33%) Software Deployment
3 1 (16.67%) Agile
3 1 (16.67%) Build Automation
3 1 (16.67%) Collaborative Working
3 1 (16.67%) Continuous Integration
3 1 (16.67%) Deployment Automation
3 1 (16.67%) DevOps
3 1 (16.67%) Disaster Recovery
3 1 (16.67%) High Availability
3 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Management
3 1 (16.67%) Mentoring
3 1 (16.67%) Patch Management
3 1 (16.67%) Platform Engineering
3 1 (16.67%) Project Delivery
3 1 (16.67%) Security Hardening
3 1 (16.67%) Server Building
3 1 (16.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 1 (16.67%) Vulnerability Remediation
Programming Languages
1 2 (33.33%) PowerShell
2 1 (16.67%) Bash
2 1 (16.67%) JavaScript
2 1 (16.67%) Perl
2 1 (16.67%) PHP
2 1 (16.67%) Python
2 1 (16.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) SC Cleared
1 1 (16.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) QA
System Software
1 2 (33.33%) Active Directory
1 2 (33.33%) Hyper-V
2 1 (16.67%) Docker
2 1 (16.67%) VirtualBox
2 1 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (16.67%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) Ansible
1 1 (16.67%) Icinga
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (16.67%) Nagios
1 1 (16.67%) Progress Chef
1 1 (16.67%) Puppet
1 1 (16.67%) Red Hat Satellite
1 1 (16.67%) Salt
1 1 (16.67%) SCCM
1 1 (16.67%) yum
Vendors
1 3 (50.00%) VMware
2 2 (33.33%) Microsoft
3 1 (16.67%) New Relic
3 1 (16.67%) Qualys
3 1 (16.67%) Rackspace
3 1 (16.67%) Red Hat
3 1 (16.67%) ServiceNow
3 1 (16.67%) Zend