Server Patching Contract Job Trends in the South East

Server Patching
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South East requiring Server Patching skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 8 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 227 169 188
Rank change year-on-year -58 +19 +21
Contract jobs citing Server Patching 5 1 1
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 0.074% 0.029% 0.020%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.092% 0.032% 0.024%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 1
10th Percentile £521 - -
25th Percentile £554 £463 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £615 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +29.47% -5.00% +25.00%
75th Percentile £622 £488 -
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £500 £550 £400
% change year-on-year -9.09% +37.50% -

All Process & Methodology Skills
South East

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 the South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 5,435 3,137 4,102
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 80.97% 89.96% 82.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,358 1,962 2,495
10th Percentile £280 £250 £255
25th Percentile £415 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £515
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -2.91% -0.66%
75th Percentile £613 £600 £638
90th Percentile £713 £675 £700
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 587 284 325
10th Percentile £15.03 £13.50 £15.00
25th Percentile £23.11 £15.13 £26.25
Median hourly rate £55.00 £21.41 £57.35
Median % change year-on-year +156.89% -62.67% +14.70%
75th Percentile £78.75 £50.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £71.50 £76.86
England median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £42.50
% change year-on-year +74.79% -40.82% -

Server Patching
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Server Patching job vacancy trend in the South East

Server Patching
Daily Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Server Patching.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Server Patching

Server Patching
Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Server Patching.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Server Patching

Server Patching
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 8 August 2026. 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
Thames Valley - 5 £615 -
Buckinghamshire - 4 £615 -
Oxfordshire - 1 £500 -
Server Patching
England

Server Patching
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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 4 (80.00%) Azure
1 4 (80.00%) Azure Monitor
2 3 (60.00%) Azure ExpressRoute
2 3 (60.00%) Azure Sentinel
2 3 (60.00%) Entra ID
3 1 (20.00%) AWS
3 1 (20.00%) AWS Direct Connect
3 1 (20.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 5 (100.00%) DHCP
1 5 (100.00%) DNS
1 5 (100.00%) Firewall
1 5 (100.00%) VPN
2 4 (80.00%) Network Security
2 4 (80.00%) SSH
2 4 (80.00%) TCP/IP
3 1 (20.00%) BGP
3 1 (20.00%) HSRP
3 1 (20.00%) LAN
3 1 (20.00%) VLAN
3 1 (20.00%) VRRP
3 1 (20.00%) WLAN
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Git
General
1 2 (40.00%) Military
2 1 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (80.00%) Platform Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Senior
2 2 (40.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Senior Platform Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Azure Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Azure Platform Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Cloud Platform Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (80.00%) ARM Templates
2 1 (20.00%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 5 (100.00%) Hybrid Cloud
2 4 (80.00%) Onboarding
3 3 (60.00%) ARM Cortex
3 3 (60.00%) Management Information System
4 1 (20.00%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 4 (80.00%) Linux
1 4 (80.00%) Windows
1 4 (80.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 5 (100.00%) Observability
2 4 (80.00%) Analytics
2 4 (80.00%) Data Collection
2 4 (80.00%) Deployment Automation
2 4 (80.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 4 (80.00%) Infrastructure Monitoring
2 4 (80.00%) Log Analytics
2 4 (80.00%) Platform Engineering
2 4 (80.00%) RBAC
2 4 (80.00%) Resource Management
2 4 (80.00%) Security Hardening
2 4 (80.00%) Task Automation
2 4 (80.00%) Validation
2 4 (80.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
3 3 (60.00%) Computer Science
3 3 (60.00%) Cybersecurity
3 3 (60.00%) DevOps
3 3 (60.00%) ITIL
3 3 (60.00%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (80.00%) Bash
1 4 (80.00%) Bicep
1 4 (80.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 4 (80.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (60.00%) Degree
2 3 (60.00%) DV Cleared
3 1 (20.00%) AWS Certification
3 1 (20.00%) CCNP
3 1 (20.00%) Cisco Certification
System Software
1 4 (80.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 5 (100.00%) Terraform
2 4 (80.00%) Ansible
3 3 (60.00%) Microsoft Intune
3 3 (60.00%) SCCM
4 1 (20.00%) Grafana
4 1 (20.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 4 (80.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (60.00%) CrowdStrike
3 1 (20.00%) Arista
3 1 (20.00%) Google
3 1 (20.00%) LogicMonitor
3 1 (20.00%) Palo Alto