Availability Management Contract Job Trends in England

Availability Management
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring Availability Management skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 2 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 497 481 562
Rank change year-on-year -16 +81 +149
Contract jobs citing Availability Management 18 47 35
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.066% 0.14% 0.081%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.072% 0.17% 0.091%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 33 25
10th Percentile £278 £453 £360
25th Percentile £279 £481 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £358 £500 £577
Median % change year-on-year -28.40% -13.34% +18.36%
75th Percentile £575 £556 £810
90th Percentile - £688 £857
UK median daily rate £454 £500 £553
% change year-on-year -9.20% -9.50% +10.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £71.75 -
Median hourly rate - £73.50 £66.00
Median % change year-on-year - +11.36% -
75th Percentile - £76.12 £71.50
90th Percentile - £76.64 £74.79
UK median hourly rate - £73.50 £66.00
% change year-on-year - +11.36% -

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 24,853 28,385 38,471
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 90.75% 85.85% 89.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,816 18,108 26,780
10th Percentile £300 £313 £320
25th Percentile £404 £425 £435
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £625 £650 £660
90th Percentile £738 £753 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -4.76% -3.67% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,463 1,438 1,390
10th Percentile £14.25 £14.16 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.87 £18.56 £19.06
Median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £42.35
Median % change year-on-year -41.51% +1.55% +46.52%
75th Percentile £50.00 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £68.75 £75.00 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £42.50 £41.50
% change year-on-year -40.82% +2.41% +45.61%

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
Daily Rate Trend in England

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

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

Availability Management
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Availability Management in England over the 6 months to 2 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Availability Management in England

Availability Management
Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

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

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 2 September 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 - 11 £550 -
North of England -25 5 £278 -43.61%
Yorkshire - 5 £278 -
South East +9 1 - - 2
Midlands -8 1 £358 -34.91%
East Midlands - 1 £358 -
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 6 (33.33%) Mule
Business Applications
1 1 (5.56%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 6 (33.33%) GCP
1 6 (33.33%) GitHub
Development Applications
1 6 (33.33%) Jenkins
1 6 (33.33%) JIRA
1 6 (33.33%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 11 (61.11%) Social Skills
2 6 (33.33%) Banking
2 6 (33.33%) Legal
2 6 (33.33%) Military
2 6 (33.33%) Telecoms
3 5 (27.78%) Electronics
3 5 (27.78%) Finance
3 5 (27.78%) Manufacturing
3 5 (27.78%) Marketing
3 5 (27.78%) Public Sector
4 1 (5.56%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 10 (55.56%) Service Manager
2 6 (33.33%) Delivery Manager
2 6 (33.33%) Service Delivery Manager
3 5 (27.78%) Availability Manager
4 2 (11.11%) Analyst
5 1 (5.56%) Business Analyst
5 1 (5.56%) Change Analyst
5 1 (5.56%) IT Manager
5 1 (5.56%) IT Support
5 1 (5.56%) IT Support Manager
5 1 (5.56%) Support Manager
Miscellaneous
1 6 (33.33%) Distributed Applications
1 6 (33.33%) Enterprise Software
1 6 (33.33%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (66.67%) Service Management
2 11 (61.11%) ITIL
3 7 (38.89%) Change Management
4 6 (33.33%) CI/CD
4 6 (33.33%) DevOps
4 6 (33.33%) ITSM
4 6 (33.33%) Logistics
4 6 (33.33%) Microservices
4 6 (33.33%) Service Delivery
4 6 (33.33%) Service Delivery Management
5 5 (27.78%) Business Intelligence
5 5 (27.78%) Capacity Management
5 5 (27.78%) Digital Marketing
5 5 (27.78%) Lean Six Sigma
5 5 (27.78%) Performance Monitoring
5 5 (27.78%) Programme Management
5 5 (27.78%) Service Asset and Configuration Management
5 5 (27.78%) Service Catalogue
5 5 (27.78%) Six Sigma
5 5 (27.78%) Stakeholder Engagement
Qualifications
1 11 (61.11%) SC Cleared
1 11 (61.11%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (33.33%) QA
1 6 (33.33%) SLA
Systems Management
1 6 (33.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 6 (33.33%) Google
2 5 (27.78%) SAP
3 1 (5.56%) BMC
3 1 (5.56%) BT
3 1 (5.56%) Remedy