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 5 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 528 515 615
Rank change year-on-year -13 +100 +183
Contract jobs citing Availability Management 21 57 46
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.064% 0.15% 0.086%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.070% 0.17% 0.096%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 40 35
10th Percentile £278 £424 £385
25th Percentile £358 £480 £441
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £455 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -9.00% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £575 £567 £663
90th Percentile £580 £688 £830
UK excluding London median daily rate £454 £493 £400
% change year-on-year -7.91% +23.25% -27.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £71.75 -
Median hourly rate - £73.50 £66.00
Median % change year-on-year - +11.36% -
75th Percentile - £76.12 £71.50
90th Percentile - £76.64 £74.79
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £73.50 £66.00
% change year-on-year - +11.36% -

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 29,789 33,520 47,856
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.40% 85.51% 89.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 18,650 21,482 32,791
10th Percentile £300 £310 £322
25th Percentile £404 £413 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,662 1,872 1,553
10th Percentile £14.13 £14.00 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.30 £18.14 £18.90
Median hourly rate £25.15 £40.41 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -37.77% -4.91% +61.02%
75th Percentile £50.00 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £68.00 £74.95 £77.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.92 £40.94 £39.60
% change year-on-year -44.02% +3.38% +84.19%

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 5 August 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 10 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 5 August 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 -6 19 £440 -12.00% 3
UK excluding London -9 17 £454 -7.91% 4
South West +33 12 £550 +4.76% 2
Work from Home +16 6 £352 -29.70% 2
South East +23 2 - - 1
London -14 2 £440 -29.32%
North of England -35 2 £278 -43.61%
Yorkshire - 2 £278 -
Midlands -9 1 £358 -34.91%
East Midlands - 1 £358 -

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 3 (14.29%) Mule
2 1 (4.76%) JBoss
2 1 (4.76%) WebSphere
2 1 (4.76%) WebSphere Application Server
Business Applications
1 1 (4.76%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 3 (14.29%) GCP
1 3 (14.29%) GitHub
2 2 (9.52%) Amazon EC2
2 2 (9.52%) Amazon EKS
2 2 (9.52%) AWS
2 2 (9.52%) AWS CloudFormation
2 2 (9.52%) Cloud Computing
3 1 (4.76%) Azure
3 1 (4.76%) Azure AKS
3 1 (4.76%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (4.76%) Azure Monitor
3 1 (4.76%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 2 (9.52%) DNS
1 2 (9.52%) HTTP
1 2 (9.52%) Internet
1 2 (9.52%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (9.52%) Amazon Aurora
1 2 (9.52%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (4.76%) DB2
2 1 (4.76%) IMS/DB
Development Applications
1 5 (23.81%) Jenkins
2 3 (14.29%) JIRA
2 3 (14.29%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 10 (47.62%) Social Skills
2 6 (28.57%) Analytical Skills
2 6 (28.57%) Legal
2 6 (28.57%) Military
3 5 (23.81%) Banking
4 3 (14.29%) Finance
4 3 (14.29%) Telecoms
5 2 (9.52%) Electronics
5 2 (9.52%) Manufacturing
5 2 (9.52%) Marketing
5 2 (9.52%) Public Sector
6 1 (4.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (4.76%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (4.76%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (33.33%) Availability Manager
1 7 (33.33%) Service Manager
2 6 (28.57%) Delivery Manager
2 6 (28.57%) Service Delivery Manager
3 5 (23.81%) Capacity and Availability Manager
3 5 (23.81%) Capacity Manager
4 2 (9.52%) Analyst
4 2 (9.52%) DevOps Engineer
4 2 (9.52%) Kubernetes Engineer
4 2 (9.52%) Operations Engineer
4 2 (9.52%) Senior
4 2 (9.52%) Senior DevOps
4 2 (9.52%) Senior DevOps Engineer
4 2 (9.52%) Senior Operations Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) Business Analyst
5 1 (4.76%) Change Analyst
5 1 (4.76%) IT Manager
5 1 (4.76%) IT Support Manager
5 1 (4.76%) Support Manager
5 1 (4.76%) Support Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (9.52%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (4.76%) .NET
2 1 (4.76%) EJB
2 1 (4.76%) J2EE
2 1 (4.76%) JDBC
2 1 (4.76%) JSON
2 1 (4.76%) Middleware
2 1 (4.76%) OpenTelemetry
2 1 (4.76%) RESTful
2 1 (4.76%) SOAP
2 1 (4.76%) Web Services
2 1 (4.76%) WebSphere MQ
2 1 (4.76%) XML
2 1 (4.76%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 5 (23.81%) Management Information System
2 3 (14.29%) Distributed Applications
2 3 (14.29%) Enterprise Software
2 3 (14.29%) Onboarding
3 1 (4.76%) Cloud Native
3 1 (4.76%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 2 (9.52%) Linux
2 1 (4.76%) Unix
2 1 (4.76%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (71.43%) Service Management
2 12 (57.14%) ITIL
3 8 (38.10%) Capacity Management
3 8 (38.10%) ITSM
4 6 (28.57%) Capacity Planning
4 6 (28.57%) DevOps
4 6 (28.57%) Logistics
4 6 (28.57%) Service Delivery
4 6 (28.57%) Service Delivery Management
5 5 (23.81%) Change Management
5 5 (23.81%) Microservices
5 5 (23.81%) Planning and Forecasting
5 5 (23.81%) Problem Management
5 5 (23.81%) Problem-Solving
5 5 (23.81%) Quality Management
5 5 (23.81%) Service Catalogue
5 5 (23.81%) Statistics
6 4 (19.05%) Mentoring
7 3 (14.29%) Performance Monitoring
7 3 (14.29%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (4.76%) Bicep
1 1 (4.76%) Java
1 1 (4.76%) JavaScript
1 1 (4.76%) Kusto Query Language
1 1 (4.76%) PL/SQL
1 1 (4.76%) REXX
1 1 (4.76%) SQL
Qualifications
1 14 (66.67%) SC Cleared
1 14 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 4 (19.05%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (28.57%) SLA
2 3 (14.29%) QA
System Software
1 2 (9.52%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (28.57%) Kubernetes
2 3 (14.29%) Grafana
2 3 (14.29%) Prometheus
3 2 (9.52%) Ansible
3 2 (9.52%) Progress Chef
3 2 (9.52%) Puppet
3 2 (9.52%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (14.29%) Google
2 2 (9.52%) Red Hat
2 2 (9.52%) SAP
3 1 (4.76%) BMC
3 1 (4.76%) BT
3 1 (4.76%) IBM
3 1 (4.76%) Microsoft
3 1 (4.76%) MuleSoft
3 1 (4.76%) Oracle
3 1 (4.76%) Remedy
3 1 (4.76%) ServiceNow