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 30 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 62 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Server Patching 5 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Milton Keynes 0.79% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.99% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 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 503 230 245
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Milton Keynes 79.46% 92.37% 85.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 357 157 180
10th Percentile £360 £228 £250
25th Percentile £450 £329 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £425 £468
Median % change year-on-year +23.53% -9.21% -6.38%
75th Percentile £595 £534 £538
90th Percentile £625 £629 £625
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £525 £430 £463
% change year-on-year +22.09% -7.03% -9.31%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 14 7
10th Percentile £13.78 £14.71 £17.31
25th Percentile £15.05 £15.81 £19.98
Median hourly rate £17.50 £23.81 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.49% -20.65% +121.08%
75th Percentile £43.75 £29.61 £36.37
90th Percentile £54.35 - £37.25
Buckinghamshire median hourly rate £14.05 £17.94 £30.00
% change year-on-year -21.66% -40.22% +82.93%

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 5 (100.00%) Azure
1 5 (100.00%) Azure Monitor
2 4 (80.00%) Azure ExpressRoute
3 3 (60.00%) Azure Sentinel
3 3 (60.00%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 5 (100.00%) DHCP
1 5 (100.00%) DNS
1 5 (100.00%) Firewall
1 5 (100.00%) SSH
1 5 (100.00%) TCP/IP
1 5 (100.00%) VPN
2 4 (80.00%) Network Security
General
1 2 (40.00%) Military
2 1 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (100.00%) Platform Engineer
2 3 (60.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 3 (60.00%) Senior
2 3 (60.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
2 3 (60.00%) Senior Platform Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Azure Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Azure Platform Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Cloud Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (100.00%) ARM Templates
1 5 (100.00%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 5 (100.00%) Hybrid Cloud
1 5 (100.00%) Onboarding
2 3 (60.00%) ARM Cortex
2 3 (60.00%) Management Information System
3 1 (20.00%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 5 (100.00%) Linux
1 5 (100.00%) Windows
1 5 (100.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Analytics
1 5 (100.00%) Data Collection
1 5 (100.00%) Deployment Automation
1 5 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 5 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 5 (100.00%) Infrastructure Monitoring
1 5 (100.00%) Log Analytics
1 5 (100.00%) Observability
1 5 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
1 5 (100.00%) RBAC
1 5 (100.00%) Resource Management
1 5 (100.00%) Security Hardening
1 5 (100.00%) Task Automation
1 5 (100.00%) Validation
1 5 (100.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
2 4 (80.00%) Cybersecurity
2 4 (80.00%) Network Virtualisation
2 4 (80.00%) Security Operations
3 3 (60.00%) CI/CD
3 3 (60.00%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) Bash
1 5 (100.00%) Bicep
1 5 (100.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 5 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 4 (80.00%) Degree
2 4 (80.00%) DV Cleared
System Software
1 5 (100.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (60.00%) Ansible
1 3 (60.00%) Microsoft Intune
1 3 (60.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 5 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (60.00%) CrowdStrike