Availability Management Contracts in the UK excluding London

Availability Management
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 3 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 319 342 407
Rank change year-on-year +23 +65 +88
Contract jobs citing Availability Management 15 52 48
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.12% 0.25% 0.20%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.13% 0.30% 0.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 37 15
10th Percentile - £420 £142
25th Percentile £600 £481 £260
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £601 £500 £400
Median % change year-on-year +20.10% +25.00% -23.81%
75th Percentile £610 £538 £425
90th Percentile £626 £600 £493
UK median daily rate £601 £511 £479
% change year-on-year +17.46% +6.63% -4.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 30
10th Percentile - £46.02 -
25th Percentile - £62.56 £16.25
Median hourly rate - £73.50 £16.83
Median % change year-on-year - +336.69% -57.93%
75th Percentile - £75.68 £65.00
90th Percentile - £76.47 £65.75
UK median hourly rate - £73.50 £16.83
% change year-on-year - +336.69% -51.58%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 11,544 17,537 21,420
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 90.36% 84.72% 89.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,245 10,476 14,867
10th Percentile £235 £250 £255
25th Percentile £375 £378 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £662 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 827 2,058 1,303
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.33 £11.00
25th Percentile £17.31 £15.24 £15.75
Median hourly rate £27.50 £37.34 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.35% +6.69% +75.00%
75th Percentile £64.50 £60.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £72.98
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.58 £36.00
% change year-on-year -18.48% -1.18% +44.00%

Availability Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Availability Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Availability Management in the UK excluding London

Availability Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Availability Management in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Availability Management in the UK excluding London

Availability Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Availability Management in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Availability Management in the UK excluding London

Availability Management
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 3 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 +27 12 £601 +14.38%
South East +29 2 - - 1
North West -12 1 £625 +26.77%
North of England -13 1 £625 +26.77%
Availability Management
UK

Availability Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (6.67%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 1 (6.67%) AWS
1 1 (6.67%) Serverless
General
1 11 (73.33%) Analytical Skills
2 9 (60.00%) Social Skills
3 6 (40.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2 (13.33%) Legal
4 2 (13.33%) Military
5 1 (6.67%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (6.67%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 11 (73.33%) Availability Manager
1 11 (73.33%) Capacity and Availability Manager
1 11 (73.33%) Capacity Manager
2 2 (13.33%) Delivery Manager
2 2 (13.33%) Service Delivery Manager
2 2 (13.33%) Service Manager
3 1 (6.67%) Analyst
3 1 (6.67%) AWS Developer
3 1 (6.67%) Change Analyst
3 1 (6.67%) Developer
3 1 (6.67%) Node.js Developer
3 1 (6.67%) Senior
3 1 (6.67%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (6.67%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 10 (66.67%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (93.33%) Service Management
2 12 (80.00%) ITIL
3 11 (73.33%) Capacity Management
3 11 (73.33%) Capacity Planning
3 11 (73.33%) Planning and Forecasting
3 11 (73.33%) Problem-Solving
3 11 (73.33%) Quality Management
3 11 (73.33%) Statistics
4 10 (66.67%) Mentoring
4 10 (66.67%) Problem Management
5 9 (60.00%) Performance Improvement
5 9 (60.00%) Time Management
6 2 (13.33%) ITSM
6 2 (13.33%) Logistics
6 2 (13.33%) Service Delivery
6 2 (13.33%) Service Delivery Management
6 2 (13.33%) Trend Analysis
7 1 (6.67%) Collaborative Working
7 1 (6.67%) Knowledge Transfer
7 1 (6.67%) User Research
Qualifications
1 11 (73.33%) SC Cleared
1 11 (73.33%) Security Cleared
2 10 (66.67%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (13.33%) SLA
Vendors
1 1 (6.67%) BMC
1 1 (6.67%) BT
1 1 (6.67%) Remedy