Availability Management Contracts in England

Availability Management
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring Availability Management skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Availability Management 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 466 471 564
Rank change year-on-year +5 +93 +142
Contract jobs citing Availability Management 19 71 89
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.078% 0.19% 0.18%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.086% 0.22% 0.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 51 42
10th Percentile £428 £425 £233
25th Percentile £528 £484 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £601 £513 £475
Median % change year-on-year +17.17% +7.89% -5.00%
75th Percentile £619 £600 £637
90th Percentile £658 £725 £828
UK median daily rate £601 £511 £484
% change year-on-year +17.46% +5.64% -3.21%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 33
10th Percentile - £46.02 -
25th Percentile - £62.56 £16.25
Median hourly rate - £73.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year - +13.07% +88.68%
75th Percentile - £75.68 -
90th Percentile - £76.47 £65.75
UK median hourly rate - £73.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year - +13.07% +87.01%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 22,202 32,193 45,529
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 91.16% 86.56% 90.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,534 21,105 31,969
10th Percentile £310 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £765
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 921 2,246 1,592
10th Percentile £14.42 £12.92 £10.87
25th Percentile £18.20 £16.01 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%
75th Percentile £63.75 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

Availability Management
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Availability Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Availability Management in England

Availability Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Availability Management in England.

Daily rate trend for Availability Management in England

Availability Management
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Availability Management in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Availability Management in England

Availability Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Availability Management in England.

Hourly rate trend for Availability Management in England

Availability Management
Contract Job Locations in England

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 England region 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
South West +43 12 £601 +14.38%
London +26 4 £455 -35.00%
South East +39 2 - - 1
North West -5 1 £625 +26.77%
North of England -5 1 £625 +26.77%
Availability Management
UK

Availability Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 2 (10.53%) JBoss
1 2 (10.53%) WebSphere
1 2 (10.53%) WebSphere Application Server
Business Applications
1 1 (5.26%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 2 (10.53%) Azure
2 1 (5.26%) AWS
2 1 (5.26%) Azure AKS
2 1 (5.26%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (5.26%) Azure Monitor
2 1 (5.26%) Azure Sentinel
2 1 (5.26%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (10.53%) DB2
1 2 (10.53%) IMS/DB
2 1 (5.26%) NoSQL
General
1 13 (68.42%) Analytical Skills
2 12 (63.16%) Social Skills
3 6 (31.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 3 (15.79%) Banking
5 2 (10.53%) Finance
5 2 (10.53%) Legal
5 2 (10.53%) Military
6 1 (5.26%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (5.26%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (5.26%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 11 (57.89%) Availability Manager
1 11 (57.89%) Capacity and Availability Manager
1 11 (57.89%) Capacity Manager
2 2 (10.53%) Delivery Manager
2 2 (10.53%) Developer
2 2 (10.53%) Service Delivery Manager
2 2 (10.53%) Service Manager
2 2 (10.53%) Support Specialist
3 1 (5.26%) Analyst
3 1 (5.26%) AWS Developer
3 1 (5.26%) Azure Developer
3 1 (5.26%) Change Analyst
3 1 (5.26%) Full-Stack Developer
3 1 (5.26%) Lead
3 1 (5.26%) Lead Developer
3 1 (5.26%) Lead Full-Stack Developer
3 1 (5.26%) Node.js Developer
3 1 (5.26%) Senior
3 1 (5.26%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (15.79%) Web Services
2 2 (10.53%) .NET
2 2 (10.53%) EJB
2 2 (10.53%) J2EE
2 2 (10.53%) JDBC
2 2 (10.53%) Middleware
2 2 (10.53%) Node.js
2 2 (10.53%) RESTful
2 2 (10.53%) SOAP
2 2 (10.53%) WebSphere MQ
2 2 (10.53%) XML
2 2 (10.53%) XSLT
3 1 (5.26%) ASP.NET
3 1 (5.26%) ASP.NET Core
3 1 (5.26%) CSS
3 1 (5.26%) HTML
3 1 (5.26%) JSON
3 1 (5.26%) OpenTelemetry
3 1 (5.26%) REST
3 1 (5.26%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 11 (57.89%) Management Information System
2 2 (10.53%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (5.26%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 2 (10.53%) Unix
1 2 (10.53%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (78.95%) Service Management
2 14 (73.68%) ITIL
3 12 (63.16%) Capacity Management
3 12 (63.16%) Capacity Planning
3 12 (63.16%) Problem Management
4 11 (57.89%) Planning and Forecasting
4 11 (57.89%) Problem-Solving
4 11 (57.89%) Quality Management
4 11 (57.89%) Statistics
5 10 (52.63%) Mentoring
6 9 (47.37%) Performance Improvement
6 9 (47.37%) Time Management
7 5 (26.32%) ITSM
8 3 (15.79%) Analytics
8 3 (15.79%) Microservices
8 3 (15.79%) Stakeholder Management
9 2 (10.53%) Data Protection
9 2 (10.53%) Performance Management
9 2 (10.53%) Process Improvement
9 2 (10.53%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 2 (10.53%) Java
1 2 (10.53%) JavaScript
1 2 (10.53%) PL/SQL
1 2 (10.53%) REXX
1 2 (10.53%) SQL
2 1 (5.26%) Bicep
2 1 (5.26%) C#
2 1 (5.26%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 11 (57.89%) SC Cleared
1 11 (57.89%) Security Cleared
2 10 (52.63%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (10.53%) SLA
Systems Management
1 1 (5.26%) Grafana
1 1 (5.26%) Kubernetes
1 1 (5.26%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 2 (10.53%) IBM
1 2 (10.53%) MuleSoft
1 2 (10.53%) Oracle
2 1 (5.26%) BMC
2 1 (5.26%) BT
2 1 (5.26%) Microsoft
2 1 (5.26%) Remedy
2 1 (5.26%) ServiceNow