Availability Management Contracts

Availability Management
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Availability Management skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Availability Management over the 6 months to 13 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
13 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 517 610 756
Rank change year-on-year +93 +146 -99
Contract jobs citing Availability Management 66 86 85
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.15% 0.15% 0.096%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.18% 0.16% 0.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 48 51 62
10th Percentile £425 £375 £363
25th Percentile £480 £413 £451
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £495 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.92% -1.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £569 £588 £550
90th Percentile £688 £810 £649
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £400 £563
% change year-on-year +25.00% -28.89% +23.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 19 3
10th Percentile - - £32.35
25th Percentile £71.75 £16.25 £32.44
Median hourly rate £73.50 £65.00 £35.07
Median % change year-on-year +13.07% +85.37% -26.09%
75th Percentile £76.12 £65.38 £38.77
90th Percentile £76.64 £65.80 £39.51
UK excluding London median hourly rate £73.50 £65.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year +13.07% +62.50% -15.68%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Availability Management is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 36,868 52,242 79,883
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.23% 89.82% 90.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,721 36,208 56,080
10th Percentile £300 £325 £343
25th Percentile £413 £438 £428
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.16%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,429 1,718 1,919
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.22 £15.52
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +1.39% +40.19% +4.82%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.12 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +8.91% +75.00% -6.98%

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 13 May 2024.

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 11 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 13 May 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 +92 64 £506 +6.53% 17
UK excluding London +81 48 £500 +25.00% 11
North of England +35 22 £493 +23.25% 6
North West +35 20 £493 +23.25% 6
Work from Home +102 18 £500 - 10
South West +26 15 £525 - 1
London +66 13 £675 +18.94% 5
South East +20 8 - - 2
West Midlands +23 3 £513 +28.13%
Midlands +23 3 £513 +224.37% 2
Yorkshire +19 2 - -

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 1 (1.52%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (1.52%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 6 (9.09%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 9 (13.64%) IaaS
2 7 (10.61%) Azure
2 7 (10.61%) Power Platform
3 5 (7.58%) Cloud Computing
4 4 (6.06%) PaaS
4 4 (6.06%) SaaS
5 3 (4.55%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (4.55%) Azure Key Vault
6 2 (3.03%) AWS
6 2 (3.03%) Entra ID
7 1 (1.52%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (1.52%) Amazon S3
7 1 (1.52%) Microsoft 365
7 1 (1.52%) OneDrive
7 1 (1.52%) Route 53
7 1 (1.52%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 14 (21.21%) Firewall
1 14 (21.21%) LAN
1 14 (21.21%) WAN
2 5 (7.58%) WLAN
3 4 (6.06%) Cisco ASA
3 4 (6.06%) VPN
3 4 (6.06%) Wireless
4 3 (4.55%) BGP
4 3 (4.55%) Cisco Wireless
4 3 (4.55%) IPsec
4 3 (4.55%) OSPF
5 1 (1.52%) Internet
5 1 (1.52%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (10.61%) Power BI
2 3 (4.55%) GIS
2 3 (4.55%) Spatial Data
3 1 (1.52%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (1.52%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (6.06%) Oracle APEX
General
1 30 (45.45%) Analytical Skills
2 25 (37.88%) Social Skills
3 22 (33.33%) Public Sector
4 7 (10.61%) Finance
5 5 (7.58%) Electronics
5 5 (7.58%) Manufacturing
5 5 (7.58%) Marketing
5 5 (7.58%) Telecoms
6 2 (3.03%) Billing
6 2 (3.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (3.03%) Military
7 1 (1.52%) Automotive
7 1 (1.52%) Banking
Job Titles
1 29 (43.94%) Availability Manager
2 23 (34.85%) Capacity Manager
3 21 (31.82%) Capacity and Availability Manager
4 11 (16.67%) Senior
5 9 (13.64%) Network Engineer
5 9 (13.64%) Service Manager
6 8 (12.12%) Senior Network Engineer
7 4 (6.06%) Analyst
7 4 (6.06%) Developer
7 4 (6.06%) IT Manager
7 4 (6.06%) IT Services Manager
7 4 (6.06%) Service Continuity Manager
8 3 (4.55%) Applications Specialist
8 3 (4.55%) GIS Developer
8 3 (4.55%) Incident Manager
8 3 (4.55%) JavaScript Developer
8 3 (4.55%) Network Specialist
8 3 (4.55%) Python Developer
8 3 (4.55%) Senior Analyst
8 3 (4.55%) Spatial Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.52%) .NET
1 1 (1.52%) .NET Core
1 1 (1.52%) .NET Framework
1 1 (1.52%) AngularJS
1 1 (1.52%) ASP.NET
1 1 (1.52%) CSS
1 1 (1.52%) HTML
1 1 (1.52%) React Native
1 1 (1.52%) Software Packaging
1 1 (1.52%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 18 (27.27%) Management Information System
2 7 (10.61%) CMDB
3 6 (9.09%) Driving Licence
4 4 (6.06%) Self-Motivation
5 3 (4.55%) PKI
6 2 (3.03%) Operational Technology
7 1 (1.52%) Client/Server
7 1 (1.52%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (1.52%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 6 (9.09%) Windows
2 4 (6.06%) Solaris
2 4 (6.06%) Unix
3 3 (4.55%) VMS
4 1 (1.52%) CentOS
4 1 (1.52%) Linux
4 1 (1.52%) Ubuntu
4 1 (1.52%) Windows 10
4 1 (1.52%) Windows Server
4 1 (1.52%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (59.09%) Capacity Management
2 38 (57.58%) Problem-Solving
3 27 (40.91%) Service Management
4 23 (34.85%) ITIL
5 22 (33.33%) Problem Management
6 17 (25.76%) Mentoring
7 16 (24.24%) Quality Management
7 16 (24.24%) Statistics
8 15 (22.73%) Time Management
9 12 (18.18%) Business Intelligence
10 11 (16.67%) Agile
10 11 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
11 10 (15.15%) Capacity Planning
11 10 (15.15%) Change Management
11 10 (15.15%) Incident Management
12 9 (13.64%) ITSM
12 9 (13.64%) Service Delivery
13 8 (12.12%) Disaster Recovery
13 8 (12.12%) Performance Monitoring
14 7 (10.61%) Line Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (6.06%) JavaScript
2 3 (4.55%) Python
3 1 (1.52%) C#
3 1 (1.52%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 1 (1.52%) PL/SQL
3 1 (1.52%) SQL
3 1 (1.52%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 53 (80.30%) Security Cleared
2 42 (63.64%) SC Cleared
3 5 (7.58%) BPSS Clearance
3 5 (7.58%) DV Cleared
4 2 (3.03%) Degree
4 2 (3.03%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (4.55%) SLA
2 1 (1.52%) NCSC
2 1 (1.52%) WCAG
System Software
1 2 (3.03%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (6.06%) FortiGate
2 1 (1.52%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 1 (1.52%) Ansible
2 1 (1.52%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (1.52%) Puppet
2 1 (1.52%) SCCM
2 1 (1.52%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (1.52%) Terraform
Vendors
1 13 (19.70%) Cisco
2 12 (18.18%) Juniper
3 7 (10.61%) SAP
4 6 (9.09%) Remedy
5 5 (7.58%) Oracle
6 4 (6.06%) Palo Alto
7 3 (4.55%) ESRI
7 3 (4.55%) Extreme Networks
7 3 (4.55%) Fortinet
7 3 (4.55%) ServiceNow
8 2 (3.03%) Microsoft