Server Patching Contracts in the UK excluding London

Server Patching
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Server Patching skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Server Patching over the 6 months leading up to 16 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 339 374 431
Rank change year-on-year +35 +57 +48
Contract jobs citing Server Patching 1 13 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.007% 0.061% 0.040%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.008% 0.074% 0.044%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 13 8
10th Percentile - £380 -
25th Percentile £463 £390 £163
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £400 £226
Median % change year-on-year +18.75% +76.80% -39.67%
75th Percentile £488 £488 £358
90th Percentile - £499 £388
UK median daily rate £475 £395 £380
% change year-on-year +20.25% +3.95% +16.92%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 12,168 17,591 20,260
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 90.61% 82.55% 89.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,480 10,301 13,866
10th Percentile £235 £250 £262
25th Percentile £370 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +1.83%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £650 £688 £694
UK median daily rate £506 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.57% -4.55% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 953 2,202 1,250
10th Percentile £13.82 £12.50 £11.00
25th Percentile £16.92 £15.50 £15.00
Median hourly rate £25.15 £38.12 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -34.02% +17.29% +54.76%
75th Percentile £57.50 £61.45 £63.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.86 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £25.77 £37.18 £35.00
% change year-on-year -30.69% +6.23% +34.62%

Server Patching
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Server Patching as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Server Patching in the UK excluding London

Server Patching
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Server Patching in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Server Patching in the UK excluding London

Server Patching
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Server Patching in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Server Patching in the UK excluding London

Server Patching
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 16 June 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
South East +40 1 £475 -5.00% 5
Server Patching
UK

Server Patching
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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:

General
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Administrator
1 1 (100.00%) Linux Administrator
1 1 (100.00%) Linux Systems Administrator
1 1 (100.00%) Systems Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Collaborative Working
1 1 (100.00%) Patch Management
1 1 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Server Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Perl
1 1 (100.00%) Python
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) GPFS
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) BladeLogic
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Dell
1 1 (100.00%) HP
1 1 (100.00%) IBM
1 1 (100.00%) Mellanox
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat
1 1 (100.00%) Solarflare
1 1 (100.00%) Sun