Availability Management Contracts

Availability Management
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 501 509 622
Rank change year-on-year +8 +113 +147
Contract jobs citing Availability Management 19 73 96
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.065% 0.17% 0.16%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.071% 0.19% 0.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 52 47
10th Percentile £428 £425 £305
25th Percentile £528 £481 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £601 £511 £484
Median % change year-on-year +17.46% +5.64% -3.21%
75th Percentile £619 £600 £618
90th Percentile £658 £721 £818
UK excluding London median daily rate £601 £500 £400
% change year-on-year +20.10% +25.00% -21.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 33
10th Percentile - £46.02 -
25th Percentile - £62.56 £16.25
Median hourly rate - £73.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year - +13.07% +87.01%
75th Percentile - £75.68 -
90th Percentile - £76.47 £65.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £73.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year - +13.07% +62.50%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 26,594 37,597 53,655
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.84% 86.31% 89.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,149 24,227 37,238
10th Percentile £308 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £630 £638 £650
90th Percentile £743 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £483 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -3.50% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,071 2,443 1,746
10th Percentile £14.41 £12.75 £11.00
25th Percentile £18.21 £16.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
Median % change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%
75th Percentile £60.38 £59.98 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.50 £37.34 £36.00
% change year-on-year -26.35% +3.72% +80.00%

Availability Management
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Availability Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Availability Management in the UK

Availability Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Availability Management.

Daily rate trend for Availability Management in the UK

Availability Management
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Availability Management over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Availability Management in the UK

Availability Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Availability Management.

Hourly rate trend for Availability Management in the UK

Availability Management
Top 8 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 1 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
England +5 19 £601 +17.17% 2
UK excluding London +26 15 £601 +20.10% 2
South West +43 12 £601 +14.38%
London +26 4 £455 -35.00%
Work from Home +27 3 £425 -15.00% 6
South East +39 2 - - 1
North West -5 1 £625 +26.77%
North of England -5 1 £625 +26.77%

Availability Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 2 (10.53%) JBoss
1 2 (10.53%) WebSphere
1 2 (10.53%) WebSphere Application Server
Business Applications
1 1 (5.26%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 2 (10.53%) Azure
2 1 (5.26%) AWS
2 1 (5.26%) Azure AKS
2 1 (5.26%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (5.26%) Azure Monitor
2 1 (5.26%) Azure Sentinel
2 1 (5.26%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (10.53%) DB2
1 2 (10.53%) IMS/DB
2 1 (5.26%) NoSQL
General
1 13 (68.42%) Analytical Skills
2 12 (63.16%) Social Skills
3 6 (31.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 3 (15.79%) Banking
5 2 (10.53%) Finance
5 2 (10.53%) Legal
5 2 (10.53%) Military
6 1 (5.26%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (5.26%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (5.26%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 11 (57.89%) Availability Manager
1 11 (57.89%) Capacity and Availability Manager
1 11 (57.89%) Capacity Manager
2 2 (10.53%) Delivery Manager
2 2 (10.53%) Developer
2 2 (10.53%) Service Delivery Manager
2 2 (10.53%) Service Manager
2 2 (10.53%) Support Specialist
3 1 (5.26%) Analyst
3 1 (5.26%) AWS Developer
3 1 (5.26%) Azure Developer
3 1 (5.26%) Change Analyst
3 1 (5.26%) Full-Stack Developer
3 1 (5.26%) Lead
3 1 (5.26%) Lead Developer
3 1 (5.26%) Lead Full-Stack Developer
3 1 (5.26%) Node.js Developer
3 1 (5.26%) Senior
3 1 (5.26%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (15.79%) Web Services
2 2 (10.53%) .NET
2 2 (10.53%) EJB
2 2 (10.53%) J2EE
2 2 (10.53%) JDBC
2 2 (10.53%) Middleware
2 2 (10.53%) Node.js
2 2 (10.53%) RESTful
2 2 (10.53%) SOAP
2 2 (10.53%) WebSphere MQ
2 2 (10.53%) XML
2 2 (10.53%) XSLT
3 1 (5.26%) ASP.NET
3 1 (5.26%) ASP.NET Core
3 1 (5.26%) CSS
3 1 (5.26%) HTML
3 1 (5.26%) JSON
3 1 (5.26%) OpenTelemetry
3 1 (5.26%) REST
3 1 (5.26%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 11 (57.89%) Management Information System
2 2 (10.53%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (5.26%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 2 (10.53%) Unix
1 2 (10.53%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (78.95%) Service Management
2 14 (73.68%) ITIL
3 12 (63.16%) Capacity Management
3 12 (63.16%) Capacity Planning
3 12 (63.16%) Problem Management
4 11 (57.89%) Planning and Forecasting
4 11 (57.89%) Problem-Solving
4 11 (57.89%) Quality Management
4 11 (57.89%) Statistics
5 10 (52.63%) Mentoring
6 9 (47.37%) Performance Improvement
6 9 (47.37%) Time Management
7 5 (26.32%) ITSM
8 3 (15.79%) Analytics
8 3 (15.79%) Microservices
8 3 (15.79%) Stakeholder Management
9 2 (10.53%) Data Protection
9 2 (10.53%) Performance Management
9 2 (10.53%) Process Improvement
9 2 (10.53%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 2 (10.53%) Java
1 2 (10.53%) JavaScript
1 2 (10.53%) PL/SQL
1 2 (10.53%) REXX
1 2 (10.53%) SQL
2 1 (5.26%) Bicep
2 1 (5.26%) C#
2 1 (5.26%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 11 (57.89%) SC Cleared
1 11 (57.89%) Security Cleared
2 10 (52.63%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (10.53%) SLA
Systems Management
1 1 (5.26%) Grafana
1 1 (5.26%) Kubernetes
1 1 (5.26%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 2 (10.53%) IBM
1 2 (10.53%) MuleSoft
1 2 (10.53%) Oracle
2 1 (5.26%) BMC
2 1 (5.26%) BT
2 1 (5.26%) Microsoft
2 1 (5.26%) Remedy
2 1 (5.26%) ServiceNow