Server Patching Contracts in the West Midlands

Server Patching
England > West Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands 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 13 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
13 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 105 127 174
Rank change year-on-year +22 +47 -48
Contract jobs citing Server Patching 6 7 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.32% 0.30% 0.084%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.38% 0.34% 0.094%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 7 3
10th Percentile £370 - £258
25th Percentile £393 £163 £297
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £185 £375
Median % change year-on-year +116.22% -50.67% +42.86%
75th Percentile - £366 £409
90th Percentile £413 £390 £422
England median daily rate £395 £380 £325
% change year-on-year +3.95% +16.92% +1.96%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Midlands

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 advertised in the West Midlands with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,594 2,048 3,199
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 83.76% 88.31% 90.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,057 1,397 2,342
10th Percentile £275 £263 £275
25th Percentile £373 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £490
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% +4.59% +15.29%
75th Percentile £625 £600 £575
90th Percentile £750 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 114 47 65
10th Percentile £11.08 £12.30 £12.00
25th Percentile £14.00 £13.31 £13.87
Median hourly rate £22.50 £19.00 £16.83
Median % change year-on-year +18.42% +12.93% +0.03%
75th Percentile £40.38 £28.13 £19.86
90th Percentile £58.00 £50.00 £21.40
England median hourly rate £36.50 £37.34 £25.00
% change year-on-year -2.25% +49.36% +6.38%

Server Patching
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Server Patching in the West Midlands

Server Patching
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Server Patching in the West Midlands

Server Patching
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

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 West Midlands region over the 6 months to 13 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
Coventry - 5 £400 -
Birmingham +12 1 £350 -7.89%
Server Patching
England

Server Patching
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 5 (83.33%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 5 (83.33%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 5 (83.33%) DHCP
1 5 (83.33%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) SQL Server
General
1 1 (16.67%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (83.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) DBA
2 1 (16.67%) SQL DBA
2 1 (16.67%) SQL Server DBA
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Clustering
1 1 (16.67%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 5 (83.33%) Windows
1 5 (83.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (16.67%) Database Migration
2 1 (16.67%) Database Mirroring
2 1 (16.67%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (16.67%) Migration
2 1 (16.67%) Performance Tuning
2 1 (16.67%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (16.67%) PowerShell
1 1 (16.67%) SQL
System Software
1 5 (83.33%) Active Directory
1 5 (83.33%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 5 (83.33%) SCCM
2 4 (66.67%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 5 (83.33%) VMware
2 4 (66.67%) Microsoft