Server Patching Contract Job Trends in the West Midlands

Server Patching
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the West Midlands requiring Server Patching skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 22 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 158 - 103
Rank change year-on-year - - +37
Contract jobs citing Server Patching 1 0 7
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 0.035% - 0.36%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.041% - 0.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 7
10th Percentile - - £374
25th Percentile - - £395
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £325 - £400
Median % change year-on-year - - +23.08%
75th Percentile - - £413
90th Percentile - - £425
England median daily rate £350 £400 £350
% change year-on-year -12.50% +14.29% -15.15%

All Process & Methodology Skills
West Midlands

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 West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,425 1,208 1,661
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 84.29% 89.68% 84.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,617 809 1,106
10th Percentile £305 £200 £269
25th Percentile £402 £393 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% -5.00%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £600
90th Percentile £663 £688 £709
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 80 54 119
10th Percentile £14.00 £12.36 £11.11
25th Percentile £16.10 £14.70 £14.06
Median hourly rate £24.29 £18.07 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +34.45% -19.71% +26.98%
75th Percentile £30.00 £24.21 £40.25
90th Percentile £60.08 £34.63 £58.75
England median hourly rate £32.50 £34.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year -4.41% +4.62% -13.33%

Server Patching
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Server Patching relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Server Patching job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

Server Patching
Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Server Patching.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Server Patching

Server Patching
Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Server Patching.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Server Patching

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 22 March 2026. 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
Warwickshire - 1 £325 - 1
Server Patching
England

Server Patching
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the West Midlands by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) SSL
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Lead
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Change Management
1 1 (100.00%) Identity Access Management
1 1 (100.00%) ITSM
1 1 (100.00%) Network Virtualisation
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
1 1 (100.00%) Problem Management
1 1 (100.00%) Service Management
1 1 (100.00%) Storage Management
1 1 (100.00%) Technology Transformation
1 1 (100.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) PL/SQL
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (100.00%) Virtual Machines
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle
1 1 (100.00%) VMware