Server Patching Contracts in the South East

Server Patching
England > South East

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East with a requirement for Server Patching skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Server Patching over the 6 months to 7 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 189 210 255
Rank change year-on-year +21 +45 -43
Contract jobs citing Server Patching 2 1 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.036% 0.018% 0.078%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.043% 0.020% 0.087%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 6
10th Percentile £388 - £165
25th Percentile £406 £413 £225
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £425 £288
Median % change year-on-year +5.88% +47.83% -
75th Percentile £481 £438 £375
90th Percentile £493 - £438
England median daily rate £395 £380 £325
% change year-on-year +3.95% +16.92% -3.70%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South East

Server Patching is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the South East with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,626 5,085 6,887
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 84.40% 89.37% 89.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,697 3,536 4,653
10th Percentile £250 £250 £225
25th Percentile £400 £402 £396
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £508 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.48% +1.50% +11.11%
75th Percentile £625 £619 £594
90th Percentile £700 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 431 222 283
10th Percentile £13.00 £17.05 £12.26
25th Percentile £18.20 £22.16 £15.56
Median hourly rate £47.50 £49.50 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -4.04% +130.23% -21.82%
75th Percentile £62.50 £64.59 £47.50
90th Percentile £76.86 £74.98 £61.50
England median hourly rate £36.50 £37.34 £24.30
% change year-on-year -2.25% +53.69% +3.38%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing Server Patching as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Server Patching in the South East

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Server Patching in the South East.

Daily rate trend for Server Patching in the South East

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Server Patching in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for Server Patching in the South East

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Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Server Patching within the South East region over the 6 months to 7 May 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Hampshire - 1 £500 -
Kent - 1 £400 - 1
Server Patching
England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Entra ID
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) DHCP
1 1 (50.00%) DNS
General
1 1 (50.00%) Banking
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Active Directory Administrator
1 1 (50.00%) Administrator
1 1 (50.00%) Exchange Administrator
1 1 (50.00%) IT Administrator
1 1 (50.00%) IT Systems Administrator
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft 365 Administrator
1 1 (50.00%) Server Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Systems Administrator
1 1 (50.00%) Windows Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Windows Server Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
2 1 (50.00%) Windows Server
2 1 (50.00%) Windows Server 2012
2 1 (50.00%) Windows Server 2016
2 1 (50.00%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Budget Responsibility
1 1 (50.00%) Computer Science
1 1 (50.00%) Data Management
1 1 (50.00%) Data Protection
1 1 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (50.00%) ITIL
1 1 (50.00%) Patch Management
1 1 (50.00%) Performance Tuning
1 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (50.00%) Security Hardening
1 1 (50.00%) Security Patching
1 1 (50.00%) Server Management
1 1 (50.00%) Server Migrations
1 1 (50.00%) Task Automation
1 1 (50.00%) Vulnerability Assessment
1 1 (50.00%) Vulnerability Scanning
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (50.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (50.00%) Degree
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (50.00%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (50.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Nessus
1 1 (50.00%) SCCM
1 1 (50.00%) vCenter Server
1 1 (50.00%) WSUS
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (50.00%) Qualys
1 1 (50.00%) VMware