Availability Management Contract Job Trends in the Thames Valley

Availability Management
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 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 133 - 146
Rank change year-on-year - - +11
Contract jobs citing Availability Management 11 0 3
As % of all contract jobs in the Thames Valley 0.40% - 0.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.47% - 0.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 - -
South East median daily rate £600 - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £35.00
South East median hourly rate - - £35.00

All Process & Methodology Skills
Thames Valley

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 the Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,347 1,435 2,485
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 84.61% 93.30% 88.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,546 868 1,428
10th Percentile £280 £300 £213
25th Percentile £400 £413 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £510 £498
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% +2.51% -0.50%
75th Percentile £591 £625 £600
90th Percentile £650 £675 £675
South East median daily rate £500 £510 £500
% change year-on-year -1.96% +2.00% -0.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 199 54 176
10th Percentile £15.91 £14.20 £14.58
25th Percentile £19.49 £23.50 £19.25
Median hourly rate £59.50 £47.15 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +26.19% +10.94% -13.27%
75th Percentile £85.43 £62.92 £62.66
90th Percentile £95.00 £76.68 £84.82
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 the Thames Valley

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

Availability Management job vacancy trend in the Thames Valley

Availability Management
Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Availability Management.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Availability Management

Availability Management
Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Availability Management.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Availability Management

Availability Management
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley 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
Jobs
Berkshire - 11 £520 - 3
Availability Management
South East

Availability Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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