Server Patching Contract Job Trends in Reading

Server Patching
Berkshire > Reading

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Reading requiring Server Patching skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 60 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Server Patching 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 0.17% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.19% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £563 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 - -
75th Percentile £588 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Berkshire median daily rate £575 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Reading

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 Reading.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 534 957 1,005
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 92.07% 86.06% 88.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 335 511 661
10th Percentile £350 £350 £311
25th Percentile £450 £475 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £536 £580 £550
Median % change year-on-year -7.59% +5.45% +10.00%
75th Percentile £609 £650 £638
90th Percentile £650 £711 £700
Berkshire median daily rate £501 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -9.00% +4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 30 20
10th Percentile - £14.50 £18.40
25th Percentile £14.75 £53.74 £52.23
Median hourly rate £27.50 £61.60 £65.56
Median % change year-on-year -55.36% -6.04% +87.91%
75th Percentile £55.00 £76.46 £74.20
90th Percentile £58.00 £87.46 £75.42
Berkshire median hourly rate £32.31 £61.60 £58.44
% change year-on-year -47.55% +5.40% +41.87%

Server Patching
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

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

Job vacancy trend for Server Patching in Reading

Server Patching
Daily Rate Trend in Reading

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

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

Server Patching
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Reading 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Entra ID
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
1 1 (100.00%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Data Analytics Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Enterprise Software
1 1 (100.00%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Delivery
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
1 1 (100.00%) Data Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Identity Management
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Privileged Identity Management
1 1 (100.00%) RBAC
1 1 (100.00%) Runbook
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (100.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Databricks
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft