Server Patching Contract Job Trends in Milton Keynes

Server Patching
Buckinghamshire > Milton Keynes

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Milton Keynes requiring Server Patching skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 66 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Server Patching 3 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Milton Keynes 0.39% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.49% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £607 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £615 - -
75th Percentile £622 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £615 - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Milton Keynes

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 Milton Keynes.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 611 212 291
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Milton Keynes 79.45% 93.39% 84.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 444 146 207
10th Percentile £351 £249 £253
25th Percentile £456 £353 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £425 £475
Median % change year-on-year +23.53% -10.53% -2.56%
75th Percentile £600 £558 £560
90th Percentile £638 £663 £700
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £525 £444 £465
% change year-on-year +18.31% -4.57% -7.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 10 12
10th Percentile - £14.39 -
25th Percentile £15.05 £15.12 £15.85
Median hourly rate £16.35 £16.69 £20.25
Median % change year-on-year -2.01% -17.60% +53.76%
75th Percentile £17.91 £18.00 £39.75
90th Percentile £32.64 £23.83 £48.75
Buckinghamshire median hourly rate £16.35 £15.25 £27.50
% change year-on-year +7.21% -44.55% +83.52%

Server Patching
Job Vacancy Trend in Milton Keynes

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

Server Patching job vacancy trend in Milton Keynes

Server Patching
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Milton Keynes 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%) Computer Science
2 2 (66.67%) Cybersecurity
2 2 (66.67%) DevOps
2 2 (66.67%) ITIL
2 2 (66.67%) Service Management
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