Server Patching Contracts

Server Patching
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 8 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 556 676 771
Rank change year-on-year +120 +95 -85
Contract jobs citing Server Patching 30 17 78
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.070% 0.029% 0.089%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.081% 0.033% 0.098%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 15 55
10th Percentile - £163 £211
25th Percentile £300 £208 £225
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £380 £325
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% +16.92% +30.00%
75th Percentile £488 £469 £388
90th Percentile £500 £523 £465
UK excluding London median daily rate £425 £250 £369
% change year-on-year +70.00% -32.16% +73.41%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,201 52,182 79,685
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.27% 89.83% 90.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,946 36,175 55,967
10th Percentile £300 £325 £341
25th Percentile £413 £438 £426
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,437 1,727 1,890
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.39% +44.00% +2.04%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.00 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +8.57% +75.00% -6.98%

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Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Server Patching as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Server Patching in the UK

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Server Patching in the UK

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Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Server Patching over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Server Patching in the UK

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Server Patching in the UK

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Top 10 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 8 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
England +101 27 £395 +3.95% 5
London +108 13 £300 -40.00%
UK excluding London +74 13 £425 +70.00% 4
Work from Home +121 7 £488 +5.41% 2
Midlands +30 6 £400 +116.22% 2
West Midlands +25 6 £400 +116.22% 2
North of England +32 4 £475 - 1
North East +19 4 £475 -
South East +11 2 £450 +5.88% 1
Scotland - 1 £490 -

Server Patching
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 6 (20.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (3.33%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (3.33%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (3.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (3.33%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 8 (26.67%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (6.67%) Azure
3 1 (3.33%) Azure Cosmos DB
3 1 (3.33%) Azure Data Factory
3 1 (3.33%) Entra ID
3 1 (3.33%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (20.00%) DHCP
1 6 (20.00%) DNS
2 1 (3.33%) VLAN
2 1 (3.33%) VPN
2 1 (3.33%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (40.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (3.33%) IDOL
2 1 (3.33%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (3.33%) Relational Database
2 1 (3.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 1 (3.33%) Jenkins
1 1 (3.33%) JIRA
General
1 7 (23.33%) Social Skills
2 6 (20.00%) Banking
2 6 (20.00%) Finance
3 5 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (6.67%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (3.33%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (3.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 10 (33.33%) Support Engineer
2 9 (30.00%) IT Engineer
2 9 (30.00%) IT Support
2 9 (30.00%) IT Support Engineer
3 8 (26.67%) DBA
3 8 (26.67%) SQL DBA
4 5 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 4 (13.33%) Administrator
6 1 (3.33%) Active Directory Administrator
6 1 (3.33%) Database Analyst
6 1 (3.33%) Exchange Administrator
6 1 (3.33%) IT Administrator
6 1 (3.33%) IT Systems Administrator
6 1 (3.33%) Microsoft 365 Administrator
6 1 (3.33%) SCCM Consultant
6 1 (3.33%) Senior Developer
6 1 (3.33%) Server Engineer
6 1 (3.33%) SQL Server DBA
6 1 (3.33%) Test Engineer
6 1 (3.33%) Windows Server Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (3.33%) ODBC
1 1 (3.33%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 9 (30.00%) Video Conferencing
2 8 (26.67%) Clustering
3 1 (3.33%) Management Information System
3 1 (3.33%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 27 (90.00%) Windows
2 14 (46.67%) Windows Server
3 2 (6.67%) Android
3 2 (6.67%) Apple iOS
3 2 (6.67%) Mac OS
3 2 (6.67%) Mac OS X
3 2 (6.67%) Windows 10
4 1 (3.33%) Linux
4 1 (3.33%) Unix
4 1 (3.33%) Windows Server 2012
4 1 (3.33%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (3.33%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (30.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 8 (26.67%) ITIL
2 8 (26.67%) Service Management
2 8 (26.67%) Task Automation
3 7 (23.33%) High Availability
4 6 (20.00%) Data Encryption
4 6 (20.00%) Decision-Making
4 6 (20.00%) Problem Management
4 6 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
5 5 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 3 (10.00%) Security Hardening
7 2 (6.67%) Patch Management
7 2 (6.67%) Performance Tuning
7 2 (6.67%) Project Management
7 2 (6.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 2 (6.67%) Vulnerability Assessment
8 1 (3.33%) Analytical Thinking
8 1 (3.33%) Database Migration
8 1 (3.33%) Server Management
8 1 (3.33%) Server Migrations
Programming Languages
1 9 (30.00%) PowerShell
1 9 (30.00%) SQL
2 2 (6.67%) Python
3 1 (3.33%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 9 (30.00%) Security Cleared
2 8 (26.67%) DV Cleared
3 7 (23.33%) MCSE
3 7 (23.33%) Microsoft Certification
4 5 (16.67%) SC Cleared
5 4 (13.33%) Degree
6 1 (3.33%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.67%) Cyber Essentials
1 2 (6.67%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 10 (33.33%) Active Directory
2 6 (20.00%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (3.33%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (3.33%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 8 (26.67%) SCCM
2 5 (16.67%) vCenter Server
3 2 (6.67%) Jamf Pro
3 2 (6.67%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (3.33%) Iperf
4 1 (3.33%) Nessus
4 1 (3.33%) WSUS
Vendors
1 15 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 8 (26.67%) ServiceNow
3 6 (20.00%) VMware
4 2 (6.67%) Adobe
4 2 (6.67%) Apple
5 1 (3.33%) Databricks
5 1 (3.33%) iManage
5 1 (3.33%) Qualys