Server Patching Contract Job Trends in Oxford

Server Patching
Oxfordshire > Oxford

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Oxford requiring Server Patching skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 17 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Server Patching 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Oxford 1.16% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.56% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 - -
Oxfordshire median daily rate £500 - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Oxford

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 Oxford.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 64 53 94
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Oxford 74.42% 94.64% 81.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 46 21 65
10th Percentile £320 £188 £192
25th Percentile £400 £263 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £375 £450
Median % change year-on-year +36.67% -16.67% -
75th Percentile £634 £550 £506
90th Percentile £775 £688 £573
Oxfordshire median daily rate £500 £400 £450
% change year-on-year +25.00% -11.11% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 7 15
10th Percentile £19.34 £13.08 £12.70
25th Percentile £20.94 £16.96 £13.00
Median hourly rate £29.97 £25.15 £16.00
Median % change year-on-year +19.17% +57.19% -36.00%
75th Percentile £44.94 £46.30 £47.75
90th Percentile £63.13 - £65.00
Oxfordshire median hourly rate £38.00 £25.30 £19.50
% change year-on-year +50.20% +29.74% -39.63%

Server Patching
Job Vacancy Trend in Oxford

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

Server Patching job vacancy trend in Oxford

Server Patching
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Oxford 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 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Direct Connect
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) BGP
1 1 (100.00%) DHCP
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) HSRP
1 1 (100.00%) LAN
1 1 (100.00%) Network Security
1 1 (100.00%) VLAN
1 1 (100.00%) VPN
1 1 (100.00%) VRRP
1 1 (100.00%) WLAN
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Git
General
1 1 (100.00%) Documentation Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Data Centre
1 1 (100.00%) Hybrid Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Network Design
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
1 1 (100.00%) Proactive Monitoring
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Runbook
1 1 (100.00%) Zero Trust
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Certification
1 1 (100.00%) CCNP
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) Grafana
1 1 (100.00%) Prometheus
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Arista
1 1 (100.00%) Google
1 1 (100.00%) LogicMonitor
1 1 (100.00%) Palo Alto