Availability Manager Contracts

Availability Manager
UK

The median Availability Manager daily rate in the UK is £500, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 15 June 2024.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 555 - 844
Rank change year-on-year - - -117
Contract jobs requiring an Availability Manager 29 0 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.066% - 0.005%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.072% - 0.005%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 0 3
10th Percentile £425 - £470
25th Percentile £481 - £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 - £600
Median % change year-on-year - - +20.00%
75th Percentile £538 - £645
90th Percentile £600 - £648
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 - £620

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 40,557 52,491 83,111
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.86% 94.51% 95.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,070 36,644 58,616
10th Percentile £280 £313 £318
25th Percentile £408 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.42% +2.48% +6.06%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,936 1,486 1,938
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.75
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.42 £15.90
Median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +80.00% +16.28%
75th Percentile £61.81 £65.75 £50.00
90th Percentile £73.75 £77.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.08 £20.00
% change year-on-year -4.94% +110.39% +7.82%

Availability Manager
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured Availability Manager in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Availability Manager in the UK

Availability Manager
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Availability Manager in the UK

Availability Manager
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Availability Manager over the 6 months to 15 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Availability Manager in the UK

Availability Manager
Top 6 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Availability Manager within the UK over the 6 months to 15 June 2024. 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 - 29 £500 -
UK excluding London - 27 £500 -
South West - 15 £525 -
North West - 12 £493 -
North of England - 12 £493 -
Work from Home - 11 £493 -

Availability Manager Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 15 June 2024, Availability Manager contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads featuring Availability Manager in the job title.

1 29 (100.00%) Security Cleared
1 29 (100.00%) Availability Management
2 26 (89.66%) SC Cleared
3 23 (79.31%) Social Skills
4 22 (75.86%) Capacity Management
5 18 (62.07%) Service Management
5 18 (62.07%) Analytical Skills
5 18 (62.07%) Problem-Solving
6 17 (58.62%) ITIL
6 17 (58.62%) Problem Management
7 14 (48.28%) Public Sector
8 12 (41.38%) Mentoring
8 12 (41.38%) Time Management
8 12 (41.38%) Statistics
8 12 (41.38%) Quality Management
8 12 (41.38%) Management Information System
9 10 (34.48%) Capacity Planning
10 8 (27.59%) Business Intelligence
11 7 (24.14%) Disaster Recovery
11 7 (24.14%) Performance Monitoring
12 6 (20.69%) Power BI
12 6 (20.69%) Driving Licence
12 6 (20.69%) Power Platform
12 6 (20.69%) ITSM
12 6 (20.69%) Remedy
12 6 (20.69%) BCP
12 6 (20.69%) Business Continuity
12 6 (20.69%) Agile
12 6 (20.69%) Remedy ITSM
13 5 (17.24%) Stakeholder Management

Availability Manager Skill Set
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:

Business Applications
1 6 (20.69%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 6 (20.69%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (20.69%) Power BI
General
1 23 (79.31%) Social Skills
2 18 (62.07%) Analytical Skills
3 14 (48.28%) Public Sector
4 2 (6.90%) Electronics
4 2 (6.90%) Finance
4 2 (6.90%) Manufacturing
4 2 (6.90%) Marketing
4 2 (6.90%) Telecoms
5 1 (3.45%) Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (3.45%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 12 (41.38%) Management Information System
2 6 (20.69%) Driving Licence
3 4 (13.79%) CMDB
3 4 (13.79%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (100.00%) Availability Management
2 22 (75.86%) Capacity Management
3 18 (62.07%) Problem-Solving
3 18 (62.07%) Service Management
4 17 (58.62%) ITIL
4 17 (58.62%) Problem Management
5 12 (41.38%) Mentoring
5 12 (41.38%) Quality Management
5 12 (41.38%) Statistics
5 12 (41.38%) Time Management
6 10 (34.48%) Capacity Planning
7 8 (27.59%) Business Intelligence
8 7 (24.14%) Disaster Recovery
8 7 (24.14%) Performance Monitoring
9 6 (20.69%) Agile
9 6 (20.69%) BCP
9 6 (20.69%) Business Continuity
9 6 (20.69%) ITSM
10 5 (17.24%) Proactive Monitoring
10 5 (17.24%) Stakeholder Management
Qualifications
1 29 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 26 (89.66%) SC Cleared
3 3 (10.34%) BPSS Clearance
Vendors
1 6 (20.69%) Remedy
2 2 (6.90%) SAP