Server Patching Contract Job Trends in the South West

Server Patching
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South West 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 121 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Server Patching 3 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the South West 0.14% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.16% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £368 - -
25th Percentile £394 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 - -
75th Percentile £519 - -
90th Percentile £553 - -
England median daily rate £513 £425 £400
% change year-on-year +20.59% +6.25% +18.52%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,898 2,029 2,726
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 89.11% 84.47% 87.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,097 1,218 1,842
10th Percentile £225 £313 £300
25th Percentile £378 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.24% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £734 £719
England median daily rate £508 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.33% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 279 149 286
10th Percentile £15.20 £15.28 £20.38
25th Percentile £18.87 £33.00 £45.00
Median hourly rate £25.15 £65.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -61.31% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £63.75 £70.25 £70.00
90th Percentile £67.87 £74.00 £83.40
England median hourly rate £25.15 £38.04 £45.00
% change year-on-year -33.88% -15.48% +28.57%

Server Patching
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Server Patching job vacancy trend in the South West

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Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

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

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Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Server Patching in the South West over the 6 months to 5 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Server Patching in the South West

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Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

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

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

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Contract Job Locations in the South West

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 West region over the 6 months to 5 November 2025. 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
Somerset - 2 £350 - 2
Bristol - 1 £550 -
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England

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South West 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 (66.67%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) Azure
1 2 (66.67%) Azure Sentinel
1 2 (66.67%) Entra ID
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft 365
General
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Active Directory Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Cybersecurity Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) IT Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Linux Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Security Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Senior
1 1 (33.33%) Senior Active Directory Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Senior IT Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 2 (66.67%) Windows
1 2 (66.67%) Windows Server
2 1 (33.33%) Linux
2 1 (33.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (33.33%) Windows 10
2 1 (33.33%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Cybersecurity
1 2 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (66.67%) SIEM
2 1 (33.33%) Collaborative Working
2 1 (33.33%) Configuration Management
2 1 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (33.33%) High Availability
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) Patch Management
2 1 (33.33%) Security Hardening
2 1 (33.33%) Software Deployment
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (33.33%) Red Hat Satellite
1 1 (33.33%) SCCM
1 1 (33.33%) WSUS
1 1 (33.33%) yum
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 1 (33.33%) Red Hat