Availability Management Contracts in England

Availability Management
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Availability Management skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Availability Management over the 6 months to 6 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 479 569 716
Rank change year-on-year +90 +147 -115
Contract jobs citing Availability Management 69 87 74
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.19% 0.17% 0.10%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.21% 0.19% 0.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 51 44 55
10th Percentile £425 £366 £368
25th Percentile £481 £400 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +7.37% -5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £600 £626 £575
90th Percentile £725 £824 £650
UK median daily rate £508 £495 £500
% change year-on-year +2.63% -1.00% +3.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 29 2
10th Percentile - - £32.32
25th Percentile £71.75 £16.25 £32.37
Median hourly rate £73.50 £16.83 £34.76
Median % change year-on-year +336.69% -51.58% -26.73%
75th Percentile £76.12 £65.00 £37.30
90th Percentile £76.64 £65.75 £37.44
UK median hourly rate £73.50 £16.83 £35.07
% change year-on-year +336.69% -52.00% -26.09%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Availability Management 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 England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 32,103 45,050 64,614
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.60% 90.20% 90.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,075 31,613 45,917
10th Percentile £300 £325 £331
25th Percentile £413 £445 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.61%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £763 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,251 1,592 1,754
10th Percentile £12.92 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £36.50 £37.15 £24.35
Median % change year-on-year -1.75% +52.57% +3.62%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £64.42
UK median hourly rate £35.96 £36.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -0.11% +44.00% +2.04%

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 6 May 2024.

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 6 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
North of England +40 23 £493 +23.25% 6
North West +37 21 £493 +23.25% 6
London +93 17 £688 +12.70% 6
South West +31 15 £525 - 1
South East +24 8 - - 2
West Midlands +20 3 £513 +28.13%
Midlands +14 3 £513 +224.37% 2
Yorkshire +20 2 - -
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 1 (1.45%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (1.45%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 6 (8.70%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 8 (11.59%) Cloud Computing
1 8 (11.59%) IaaS
2 7 (10.14%) Power Platform
3 6 (8.70%) Azure
4 3 (4.35%) PaaS
4 3 (4.35%) SaaS
5 2 (2.90%) AWS
5 2 (2.90%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (2.90%) Azure Key Vault
5 2 (2.90%) Entra ID
6 1 (1.45%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (1.45%) Amazon S3
6 1 (1.45%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (1.45%) OneDrive
6 1 (1.45%) Route 53
6 1 (1.45%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 17 (24.64%) Firewall
2 16 (23.19%) LAN
2 16 (23.19%) WAN
3 8 (11.59%) WLAN
4 6 (8.70%) Cisco ASA
4 6 (8.70%) VPN
4 6 (8.70%) Wireless
5 5 (7.25%) BGP
5 5 (7.25%) Cisco Wireless
5 5 (7.25%) IPsec
5 5 (7.25%) OSPF
6 2 (2.90%) Wi-Fi
7 1 (1.45%) DNS
7 1 (1.45%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (10.14%) Power BI
2 3 (4.35%) GIS
2 3 (4.35%) Spatial Data
3 1 (1.45%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (1.45%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (4.35%) Oracle APEX
General
1 32 (46.38%) Analytical Skills
2 25 (36.23%) Social Skills
3 22 (31.88%) Public Sector
4 7 (10.14%) Finance
5 5 (7.25%) Electronics
5 5 (7.25%) Manufacturing
5 5 (7.25%) Marketing
5 5 (7.25%) Telecoms
6 2 (2.90%) Billing
6 2 (2.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (2.90%) Military
7 1 (1.45%) Automotive
7 1 (1.45%) Banking
Job Titles
1 29 (42.03%) Availability Manager
2 23 (33.33%) Capacity Manager
3 21 (30.43%) Capacity and Availability Manager
4 12 (17.39%) Senior
5 9 (13.04%) Network Engineer
5 9 (13.04%) Service Manager
6 8 (11.59%) Senior Network Engineer
7 6 (8.70%) Network Specialist
8 5 (7.25%) Analyst
9 4 (5.80%) Developer
9 4 (5.80%) IT Manager
9 4 (5.80%) IT Services Manager
9 4 (5.80%) Service Continuity Manager
10 3 (4.35%) GIS Developer
10 3 (4.35%) Incident Manager
10 3 (4.35%) JavaScript Developer
10 3 (4.35%) Python Developer
10 3 (4.35%) Senior Analyst
10 3 (4.35%) Spatial Developer
11 2 (2.90%) Juniper Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.45%) .NET
1 1 (1.45%) .NET Core
1 1 (1.45%) .NET Framework
1 1 (1.45%) AngularJS
1 1 (1.45%) ASP.NET
1 1 (1.45%) CSS
1 1 (1.45%) HTML
1 1 (1.45%) React Native
1 1 (1.45%) Software Packaging
1 1 (1.45%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 18 (26.09%) Management Information System
2 7 (10.14%) CMDB
3 6 (8.70%) Driving Licence
4 5 (7.25%) PKI
5 4 (5.80%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (2.90%) Operational Technology
7 1 (1.45%) Client/Server
7 1 (1.45%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (1.45%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 5 (7.25%) Windows
2 3 (4.35%) Solaris
2 3 (4.35%) Unix
3 2 (2.90%) VMS
4 1 (1.45%) CentOS
4 1 (1.45%) Linux
4 1 (1.45%) Ubuntu
4 1 (1.45%) Windows 10
4 1 (1.45%) Windows Server
4 1 (1.45%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (62.32%) Capacity Management
2 38 (55.07%) Problem-Solving
3 27 (39.13%) Service Management
4 24 (34.78%) ITIL
5 22 (31.88%) Problem Management
6 18 (26.09%) Mentoring
7 16 (23.19%) Quality Management
7 16 (23.19%) Statistics
8 15 (21.74%) Time Management
9 13 (18.84%) Agile
9 13 (18.84%) Stakeholder Management
10 12 (17.39%) Business Intelligence
11 11 (15.94%) Change Management
11 11 (15.94%) Incident Management
12 10 (14.49%) Capacity Planning
13 9 (13.04%) Disaster Recovery
13 9 (13.04%) ITSM
14 8 (11.59%) Migration
14 8 (11.59%) Performance Monitoring
14 8 (11.59%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 4 (5.80%) JavaScript
2 3 (4.35%) Python
3 1 (1.45%) C#
3 1 (1.45%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 1 (1.45%) PL/SQL
3 1 (1.45%) SQL
3 1 (1.45%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 53 (76.81%) Security Cleared
2 42 (60.87%) SC Cleared
3 5 (7.25%) BPSS Clearance
3 5 (7.25%) DV Cleared
4 2 (2.90%) Degree
4 2 (2.90%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (4.35%) SLA
2 1 (1.45%) NCSC
2 1 (1.45%) WCAG
System Software
1 2 (2.90%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 6 (8.70%) FortiGate
2 1 (1.45%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 1 (1.45%) Ansible
2 1 (1.45%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (1.45%) Puppet
2 1 (1.45%) SCCM
2 1 (1.45%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (1.45%) Terraform
Vendors
1 15 (21.74%) Cisco
2 14 (20.29%) Juniper
3 7 (10.14%) SAP
4 6 (8.70%) Palo Alto
4 6 (8.70%) Remedy
5 5 (7.25%) Extreme Networks
5 5 (7.25%) Fortinet
6 4 (5.80%) Oracle
7 3 (4.35%) ESRI
7 3 (4.35%) ServiceNow
8 2 (2.90%) Microsoft