Availability Management Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Availability Management
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 301 328 448
Rank change year-on-year +27 +120 +134
Contract jobs citing Availability Management 3 17 29
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.030% 0.11% 0.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.033% 0.13% 0.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 16 24
10th Percentile - £425 £375
25th Percentile £388 £458 £428
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% - -
75th Percentile £463 £525 £588
90th Percentile - £563 £676
UK median daily rate £601 £511 £484
% change year-on-year +17.46% +5.64% -3.21%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 9,021 13,483 23,229
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 91.08% 87.87% 89.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,191 8,996 16,418
10th Percentile £340 £325 £363
25th Percentile £419 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -2.78% +2.86%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £763 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 224 579 532
10th Percentile £14.20 £15.17 £19.00
25th Percentile £19.56 £25.25 £30.54
Median hourly rate £39.52 £43.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -8.09% -21.82% +57.14%
75th Percentile £66.13 £60.00 £68.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.25 £80.23
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

Availability Management
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Availability Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Availability Management trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Availability Management
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Availability Management.

Availability Management daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Availability Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 (66.67%) JBoss
1 2 (66.67%) WebSphere
1 2 (66.67%) WebSphere Application Server
Business Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Remedy ITSM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) DB2
1 2 (66.67%) IMS/DB
General
1 2 (66.67%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (66.67%) Banking
1 2 (66.67%) Finance
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Organisational Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Support Specialist
2 1 (33.33%) Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Change Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) EJB
1 2 (66.67%) J2EE
1 2 (66.67%) JDBC
1 2 (66.67%) Middleware
1 2 (66.67%) RESTful
1 2 (66.67%) SOAP
1 2 (66.67%) Web Services
1 2 (66.67%) WebSphere MQ
1 2 (66.67%) XML
1 2 (66.67%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 2 (66.67%) Unix
1 2 (66.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) ITIL
2 2 (66.67%) Analytics
2 2 (66.67%) AOP
2 2 (66.67%) Batch Processing
2 2 (66.67%) Configuration Management
2 2 (66.67%) Data Protection
2 2 (66.67%) Event-Driven
2 2 (66.67%) Incident Management
2 2 (66.67%) ITSM
2 2 (66.67%) Microservices
2 2 (66.67%) Performance Management
2 2 (66.67%) Problem Management
2 2 (66.67%) Process Improvement
2 2 (66.67%) Root Cause Analysis
2 2 (66.67%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (33.33%) Collaborative Working
3 1 (33.33%) Customer Experience
3 1 (33.33%) Proactive Monitoring
3 1 (33.33%) Service Management
3 1 (33.33%) Trend Analysis
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Java
1 2 (66.67%) PL/SQL
1 2 (66.67%) REXX
1 2 (66.67%) SQL
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) IBM
1 2 (66.67%) MuleSoft
1 2 (66.67%) Oracle
2 1 (33.33%) BMC
2 1 (33.33%) BT
2 1 (33.33%) Remedy