Availability Management Contract Job Trends in Berkshire

Availability Management
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Berkshire requiring Availability Management skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 113 - 129
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Availability Management 11 0 2
As % of all contract jobs in Berkshire 0.59% - 0.098%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.69% - 0.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 - -
South East median daily rate £600 - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Berkshire

Availability Management 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 Berkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,604 1,089 1,838
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 86.52% 93.56% 90.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,055 630 983
10th Percentile £300 £306 £213
25th Percentile £401 £413 £368
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £524 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.58% +4.80% -2.91%
75th Percentile £599 £638 £604
90th Percentile £650 £685 £675
South East median daily rate £500 £510 £500
% change year-on-year -1.96% +2.00% -0.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 134 29 101
10th Percentile £19.76 £25.93 £18.95
25th Percentile £56.50 £41.25 £41.25
Median hourly rate £83.00 £61.50 £60.14
Median % change year-on-year +34.97% +2.25% +2.37%
75th Percentile £88.00 £65.62 £71.75
90th Percentile £97.50 £86.27 £87.00
South East median hourly rate £35.00 £35.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year - -6.67% -16.67%

Availability Management
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Availability Management relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire.

Availability Management job vacancy trend in Berkshire

Availability Management
Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Availability Management.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Availability Management

Availability Management
Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Availability Management.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Availability Management

Availability Management
Contract Job Locations in Berkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Availability Management within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 21 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
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Reading - 2 - - 3
Availability Management
South East

Availability Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Berkshire 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:

Communications & Networking
1 9 (81.82%) BGP
1 9 (81.82%) BIG-IP
1 9 (81.82%) DHCP
1 9 (81.82%) DNS
1 9 (81.82%) Ethernet VPN
1 9 (81.82%) Firewall
1 9 (81.82%) Junos
1 9 (81.82%) LAN
1 9 (81.82%) OSPF
1 9 (81.82%) VXLAN
1 9 (81.82%) WAN
2 4 (36.36%) Cisco ISE
General
1 2 (18.18%) Military
1 2 (18.18%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (45.45%) Firewall Specialist
1 5 (45.45%) Network Specialist
2 4 (36.36%) Network Engineer
2 4 (36.36%) Senior
2 4 (36.36%) Senior Network Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) Lead
4 1 (9.09%) Architect
4 1 (9.09%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Lead Architect
4 1 (9.09%) Network Architect
4 1 (9.09%) Network Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (81.82%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 10 (90.91%) Data Centre
2 9 (81.82%) Clustering
2 9 (81.82%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 9 (81.82%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
2 9 (81.82%) High Availability
2 9 (81.82%) Identity Access Management
2 9 (81.82%) Load Balancing
2 9 (81.82%) Observability
3 4 (36.36%) ITIL
3 4 (36.36%) ITSM
3 4 (36.36%) Service Management
Qualifications
1 11 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 10 (90.91%) DV Cleared
3 6 (54.55%) Cisco Certification
4 4 (36.36%) JNCIA
4 4 (36.36%) JNCIP
4 4 (36.36%) JNCIS
Systems Management
1 9 (81.82%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 9 (81.82%) Cisco
1 9 (81.82%) F5
1 9 (81.82%) Juniper
1 9 (81.82%) SolarWinds
1 9 (81.82%) Splunk
2 8 (72.73%) Extreme Networks