Server Patching Contract Job Trends in Somerset

Server Patching
South West > Somerset

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Somerset requiring Server Patching skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 31 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Server Patching 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Somerset 1.10% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.27% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 - -
South West median daily rate £450 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Somerset

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 Somerset.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 157 142 158
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Somerset 86.74% 75.94% 85.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 101 94 103
10th Percentile £160 £200 £158
25th Percentile £225 £298 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £370 £463 £488
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% -5.13% -7.14%
75th Percentile £538 £634 £598
90th Percentile £649 £718 £698
South West median daily rate £519 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -1.24% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 6 26
10th Percentile £20.50 £12.50 £35.00
25th Percentile £47.00 £13.25 £46.71
Median hourly rate £62.50 £20.50 £51.89
Median % change year-on-year +204.88% -60.49% +3.78%
75th Percentile £63.75 £41.88 £62.22
90th Percentile £64.28 £57.50 £65.00
South West median hourly rate £25.15 £65.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year -61.31% +8.33% -7.69%

Server Patching
Job Vacancy Trend in Somerset

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

Server Patching job vacancy trend in Somerset

Server Patching
Daily Rate Trend in Somerset

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

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

Server Patching
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Somerset 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) Azure Sentinel
1 2 (100.00%) Entra ID
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
General
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Active Directory Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Cybersecurity Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) IT Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Security Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Senior
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Active Directory Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Senior IT Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
1 2 (100.00%) Windows Server
2 1 (50.00%) Windows 10
2 1 (50.00%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 2 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (100.00%) SIEM
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Patch Management
2 1 (50.00%) Security Hardening
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) PowerShell
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (50.00%) SCCM
1 1 (50.00%) WSUS
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft