Availability Management Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Availability Management
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Availability Management skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 23 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 373 366 397
Rank change year-on-year -7 +31 +98
Contract jobs citing Availability Management 16 5 15
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.099% 0.029% 0.071%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.11% 0.035% 0.081%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 3 12
10th Percentile £278 £411 £384
25th Percentile £279 £442 £538
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £358 £493 £577
Median % change year-on-year -27.38% -14.56% +4.91%
75th Percentile £575 £497 £600
90th Percentile - £499 £601
UK median daily rate £454 £525 £575
% change year-on-year -13.52% -8.70% +17.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £76.99
UK median hourly rate - - £76.99
% change year-on-year - - +18.45%

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 14,464 14,273 18,587
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 89.12% 83.76% 88.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,734 8,101 12,224
10th Percentile £225 £245 £250
25th Percentile £370 £380 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £688 £700
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,596 957 1,289
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.00 £14.25
25th Percentile £16.95 £18.50 £17.72
Median hourly rate £22.27 £39.68 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -43.89% -6.64% +57.41%
75th Percentile £38.97 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £66.25 £72.50 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.08 £38.75 £43.17
% change year-on-year -35.29% -10.23% +28.85%

Availability Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Availability Management job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Availability Management
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Availability Management.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Availability Management

Availability Management
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Availability Management in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 23 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Availability Management in the UK excluding London

Availability Management
Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Availability Management.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Availability Management

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 23 October 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 +22 9 £550 -
North of England -27 5 £278 -44.01%
Yorkshire - 5 £278 -
East Midlands - 1 £358 -
Midlands - 1 £358 - 2
South East - 1 - - 2
Availability Management
UK

Availability Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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:

Application Platforms
1 6 (37.50%) Mule
Cloud Services
1 6 (37.50%) GCP
1 6 (37.50%) GitHub
Development Applications
1 6 (37.50%) Jenkins
1 6 (37.50%) JIRA
1 6 (37.50%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 11 (68.75%) Social Skills
2 6 (37.50%) Banking
3 5 (31.25%) Electronics
3 5 (31.25%) Finance
3 5 (31.25%) Manufacturing
3 5 (31.25%) Marketing
3 5 (31.25%) Public Sector
3 5 (31.25%) Telecoms
4 4 (25.00%) Legal
4 4 (25.00%) Military
Job Titles
1 9 (56.25%) Service Manager
2 6 (37.50%) Availability Manager
3 4 (25.00%) Delivery Manager
3 4 (25.00%) Service Delivery Manager
4 1 (6.25%) Analyst
4 1 (6.25%) Business Analyst
4 1 (6.25%) IT Manager
4 1 (6.25%) IT Support
4 1 (6.25%) IT Support Manager
4 1 (6.25%) Support Manager
Miscellaneous
1 6 (37.50%) Distributed Applications
1 6 (37.50%) Enterprise Software
1 6 (37.50%) Onboarding
2 1 (6.25%) Data Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (68.75%) ITIL
2 9 (56.25%) Service Management
3 6 (37.50%) Change Management
3 6 (37.50%) CI/CD
3 6 (37.50%) DevOps
3 6 (37.50%) Microservices
4 5 (31.25%) Business Intelligence
4 5 (31.25%) Capacity Management
4 5 (31.25%) Digital Marketing
4 5 (31.25%) Lean Six Sigma
4 5 (31.25%) Performance Monitoring
4 5 (31.25%) Programme Management
4 5 (31.25%) Service Asset and Configuration Management
4 5 (31.25%) Six Sigma
4 5 (31.25%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 4 (25.00%) ITSM
5 4 (25.00%) Logistics
5 4 (25.00%) Service Catalogue
5 4 (25.00%) Service Delivery
5 4 (25.00%) Service Delivery Management
Qualifications
1 9 (56.25%) SC Cleared
1 9 (56.25%) Security Cleared
2 1 (6.25%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (37.50%) QA
2 4 (25.00%) SLA
Systems Management
1 6 (37.50%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 6 (37.50%) Google
2 5 (31.25%) SAP