Server Patching Contracts

Server Patching
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 511 552 702
Rank change year-on-year +41 +150 +72
Contract jobs citing Server Patching 9 30 16
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.031% 0.069% 0.027%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.034% 0.080% 0.030%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 24 15
10th Percentile £368 - £163
25th Percentile £394 £300 £208
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £400 £380
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +21.60%
75th Percentile £453 £488 £469
90th Percentile £541 £500 £523
UK excluding London median daily rate - £425 £250
% change year-on-year - +70.00% -23.08%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 26,594 37,597 53,655
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.84% 86.31% 89.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,149 24,227 37,238
10th Percentile £308 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £630 £638 £650
90th Percentile £743 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £483 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -3.50% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,071 2,443 1,746
10th Percentile £14.41 £12.75 £11.00
25th Percentile £18.21 £16.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
Median % change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%
75th Percentile £60.38 £59.98 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.50 £37.34 £36.00
% change year-on-year -26.35% +3.72% +80.00%

Server Patching
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 1 May 2025.

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 3 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 1 May 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
England +39 9 £400 +1.27% 10
London +34 9 £400 +33.33% 6
Work from Home +37 3 £400 -17.95% 4

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 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 6 (66.67%) Azure
2 4 (44.44%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (11.11%) AWS
3 1 (11.11%) Entra ID
3 1 (11.11%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 4 (44.44%) DHCP
1 4 (44.44%) DNS
General
1 3 (33.33%) Public Sector
2 2 (22.22%) Local Government
3 1 (11.11%) Organisational Skills
3 1 (11.11%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (44.44%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) Support Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) AWS Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Cloud Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure Team Leader
3 1 (11.11%) IT Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) IT Support
3 1 (11.11%) IT Support Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Lead
3 1 (11.11%) Platform Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Security Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Team Leader
3 1 (11.11%) Vulnerability Management Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Wintel Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (11.11%) PKI
1 1 (11.11%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 7 (77.78%) Windows
1 7 (77.78%) Windows Server
2 2 (22.22%) Windows 10
3 1 (11.11%) Windows Server 2016
3 1 (11.11%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (55.56%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 2 (22.22%) Configuration Management
2 2 (22.22%) Mentoring
3 1 (11.11%) Disaster Recovery
3 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure Management
3 1 (11.11%) Knowledge Transfer
3 1 (11.11%) Migration
3 1 (11.11%) Patch Management
3 1 (11.11%) Platform Engineering
3 1 (11.11%) Project Delivery
3 1 (11.11%) Server Building
3 1 (11.11%) Server Management
3 1 (11.11%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 1 (11.11%) Vulnerability Remediation
Programming Languages
1 3 (33.33%) PowerShell
2 1 (11.11%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (11.11%) DV Cleared
1 1 (11.11%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 5 (55.56%) Active Directory
2 3 (33.33%) Hyper-V
3 1 (11.11%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (11.11%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (11.11%) VMware Server
3 1 (11.11%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 4 (44.44%) SCCM
2 2 (22.22%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 5 (55.56%) VMware
2 3 (33.33%) Microsoft
3 1 (11.11%) Qualys
3 1 (11.11%) ServiceNow