Availability Management Contracts with Work from Home Options

Availability Management
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 326 422 569
Rank change year-on-year +96 +147 -107
Contract jobs citing Availability Management 15 33 50
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.10% 0.13% 0.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.12% 0.15% 0.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 28 42
10th Percentile £425 £375 £315
25th Percentile £444 £438 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £493 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.40% - +3.09%
75th Percentile £513 £588 £538
90th Percentile £563 £617 £575
UK median daily rate £502 £495 £500
% change year-on-year +1.31% -1.00% +5.26%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 WFH option and a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 12,942 22,217 40,480
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 87.90% 89.66% 91.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,728 15,724 29,400
10th Percentile £325 £363 £363
25th Percentile £425 £450 £433
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £544 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.49% +3.62% +7.14%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £633
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +7.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 567 510 538
10th Percentile £14.70 £18.63 £14.50
25th Percentile £24.13 £26.46 £20.75
Median hourly rate £43.00 £52.50 £39.50
Median % change year-on-year -18.10% +32.91% +64.58%
75th Percentile £60.00 £68.75 £57.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £80.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year +1.39% +40.19% +7.00%

Availability Management
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Availability Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Availability Management trend for jobs with a WFH option

Availability Management
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Availability Management.

Availability Management daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Availability Management
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Availability Management over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Availability Management daily rate histogram 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:

Business Applications
1 5 (33.33%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 5 (33.33%) Power Platform
2 1 (6.67%) Azure
2 1 (6.67%) IaaS
2 1 (6.67%) PaaS
2 1 (6.67%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (33.33%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (6.67%) Oracle APEX
General
1 10 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 8 (53.33%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (33.33%) Public Sector
4 1 (6.67%) Banking
Job Titles
1 11 (73.33%) Availability Manager
2 5 (33.33%) Capacity and Availability Manager
2 5 (33.33%) Capacity Manager
2 5 (33.33%) Service Manager
3 2 (13.33%) IT Manager
3 2 (13.33%) IT Services Manager
3 2 (13.33%) Service Continuity Manager
4 1 (6.67%) Analyst
4 1 (6.67%) Capability Manager
4 1 (6.67%) Capacity Management Consultant
4 1 (6.67%) Consultant
4 1 (6.67%) Incident Manager
4 1 (6.67%) Major Incident Manager
4 1 (6.67%) Management Consultant
4 1 (6.67%) Senior
4 1 (6.67%) Senior Analyst
4 1 (6.67%) Service Management Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (6.67%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 6 (40.00%) Management Information System
2 4 (26.67%) CMDB
3 1 (6.67%) Driving Licence
3 1 (6.67%) Operational Technology
3 1 (6.67%) Product Ownership
3 1 (6.67%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (6.67%) Solaris
1 1 (6.67%) Unix
1 1 (6.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (80.00%) Service Management
2 11 (73.33%) Capacity Management
3 8 (53.33%) Problem-Solving
4 7 (46.67%) ITIL
4 7 (46.67%) Problem Management
5 6 (40.00%) ITSM
5 6 (40.00%) Mentoring
5 6 (40.00%) Quality Management
5 6 (40.00%) Statistics
5 6 (40.00%) Time Management
6 5 (33.33%) Agile
6 5 (33.33%) BCP
6 5 (33.33%) Business Continuity
6 5 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
6 5 (33.33%) Disaster Recovery
7 4 (26.67%) Business Continuity Planning
7 4 (26.67%) Capacity Planning
7 4 (26.67%) Configuration Management
7 4 (26.67%) Proactive Monitoring
8 3 (20.00%) Service Asset and Configuration Management
Qualifications
1 14 (93.33%) Security Cleared
2 12 (80.00%) SC Cleared
3 3 (20.00%) BPSS Clearance
Vendors
1 5 (33.33%) Remedy
2 1 (6.67%) Oracle
2 1 (6.67%) ServiceNow