Server Patching Contract Job Trends in the Thames Valley

Server Patching
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the Thames Valley requiring Server Patching skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 109 - 141
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Server Patching 1 0 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.061% - 0.036%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.067% - 0.040%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £563 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 - £400
75th Percentile £588 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South East median daily rate £525 £500 £400
% change year-on-year +5.00% +25.00% +33.33%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,488 1,918 2,491
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 90.79% 85.40% 90.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 908 1,069 1,665
10th Percentile £270 £281 £275
25th Percentile £400 £413 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £510 £523
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% -2.39% +4.50%
75th Percentile £588 £625 £625
90th Percentile £650 £688 £700
South East median daily rate £500 £513 £518
% change year-on-year -2.44% -1.14% +1.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 96 88 88
10th Percentile £14.20 £17.75 £16.36
25th Percentile £15.13 £30.31 £24.46
Median hourly rate £25.15 £59.47 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -57.71% +18.95% +163.16%
75th Percentile £49.28 £70.39 £66.00
90th Percentile £78.75 £86.49 £75.08
South East median hourly rate £21.00 £57.35 £52.50
% change year-on-year -63.38% +9.24% +64.53%

Server Patching
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Job vacancy trend for Server Patching in the Thames Valley

Server Patching
Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Server Patching.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Server Patching

Server Patching
Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Server Patching.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Server Patching

Server Patching
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 18 September 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
Berkshire - 1 £575 - 2
Server Patching
South East

Server Patching
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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