Disaster Recovery Contracts in the Midlands

Disaster Recovery
England > Midlands

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

6 months to
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 112 125 145
Rank change year-on-year +13 +20 -29
Contract jobs citing Disaster Recovery 20 38 61
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.73% 1.11% 1.21%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.88% 1.26% 1.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 30 40
10th Percentile £380 £296 £358
25th Percentile £390 £313 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £388 £488
Median % change year-on-year +3.23% -20.51% +11.43%
75th Percentile £538 £519 £543
90th Percentile £750 £650 £605
England median daily rate £500 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.26%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Midlands

Disaster Recovery 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 advertised in the Midlands with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,260 3,027 4,425
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 82.30% 88.51% 88.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,511 2,116 3,276
10th Percentile £250 £250 £250
25th Percentile £356 £370 £369
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £498 £475
Median % change year-on-year -4.52% +4.74% +16.56%
75th Percentile £600 £588 £565
90th Percentile £700 £680 £653
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.61%
Number of hourly rates quoted 171 121 146
10th Percentile £11.06 £12.00 £10.50
25th Percentile £13.71 £15.10 £13.74
Median hourly rate £19.00 £18.50 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year +2.70% +5.71% +10.34%
75th Percentile £35.00 £28.75 £22.21
90th Percentile £55.00 £53.75 £34.75
England median hourly rate £36.50 £37.15 £24.35
% change year-on-year -1.75% +52.57% +3.62%

Disaster Recovery
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

Job postings citing Disaster Recovery as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Disaster Recovery in the Midlands

Disaster Recovery
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Disaster Recovery in the Midlands.

Daily rate trend for Disaster Recovery in the Midlands

Disaster Recovery
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Disaster Recovery in the Midlands over the 6 months to 6 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Disaster Recovery in the Midlands

Disaster Recovery
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Disaster Recovery in the Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for Disaster Recovery in the Midlands

Disaster Recovery
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Disaster Recovery within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 6 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
West Midlands +14 14 £425 -4.49% 22
East Midlands +8 6 £400 +6.67% 44
Disaster Recovery
England

Disaster Recovery
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 (5.00%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (5.00%) OpenEdge
1 1 (5.00%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (5.00%) MFGPRO
1 1 (5.00%) Sage 50
Cloud Services
1 8 (40.00%) Azure
2 3 (15.00%) AWS
2 3 (15.00%) PaaS
3 2 (10.00%) IaaS
4 1 (5.00%) Amazon S3
4 1 (5.00%) Azure AKS
4 1 (5.00%) Azure Functions
4 1 (5.00%) Azure Logic Apps
4 1 (5.00%) Azure Monitor
4 1 (5.00%) Azure Sentinel
4 1 (5.00%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (5.00%) Entra ID
4 1 (5.00%) GCP
4 1 (5.00%) GitHub
4 1 (5.00%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (5.00%) SaaS
4 1 (5.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 3 (15.00%) SAN
2 2 (10.00%) Firewall
2 2 (10.00%) LAN
2 2 (10.00%) VPN
2 2 (10.00%) WAN
3 1 (5.00%) DHCP
3 1 (5.00%) DMZ
3 1 (5.00%) DNS
3 1 (5.00%) NAS
3 1 (5.00%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (40.00%) SQL Server
2 2 (10.00%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (5.00%) Data Lake
3 1 (5.00%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (5.00%) InterSystems Cache
3 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Analysis Services
3 1 (5.00%) Redis
3 1 (5.00%) SQL Server Analysis Services
3 1 (5.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 1 (5.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 1 (5.00%) Hudson
1 1 (5.00%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 5 (25.00%) Public Sector
2 4 (20.00%) Social Skills
3 3 (15.00%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (10.00%) Banking
5 1 (5.00%) Advertising
5 1 (5.00%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (5.00%) Finance
5 1 (5.00%) Marketing
5 1 (5.00%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (5.00%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (40.00%) DBA
2 7 (35.00%) SQL DBA
3 4 (20.00%) Designer
3 4 (20.00%) SQL Server DBA
4 3 (15.00%) Administrator
5 2 (10.00%) Infrastructure Specialist
5 2 (10.00%) Lead
6 1 (5.00%) Active Directory Specialist
6 1 (5.00%) Azure Engineer
6 1 (5.00%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
6 1 (5.00%) Backup Engineer
6 1 (5.00%) Cloud Specialist
6 1 (5.00%) PC Engineer
6 1 (5.00%) PC Installation Engineer
6 1 (5.00%) Security Architect
6 1 (5.00%) Security Engineer
6 1 (5.00%) Security Solutions Architect
6 1 (5.00%) Senior
6 1 (5.00%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
6 1 (5.00%) Senior Infrastructure Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.00%) JSON
1 1 (5.00%) Kafka
1 1 (5.00%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 3 (15.00%) Replication
2 2 (10.00%) Clustering
2 2 (10.00%) Team-Oriented Environment
3 1 (5.00%) Client/Server
3 1 (5.00%) CMDB
3 1 (5.00%) Cyber Kill Chain
3 1 (5.00%) Enterprise Storage
3 1 (5.00%) Operational Technology
3 1 (5.00%) PKI
3 1 (5.00%) Public Cloud
3 1 (5.00%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 12 (60.00%) Windows
2 7 (35.00%) Windows Server
3 3 (15.00%) Linux
4 2 (10.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (10.00%) Windows Server 2012
5 1 (5.00%) HPUX
5 1 (5.00%) Unix
5 1 (5.00%) Windows 10
5 1 (5.00%) Windows 7
5 1 (5.00%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (5.00%) Windows Server 2019
5 1 (5.00%) Windows Vista
5 1 (5.00%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (45.00%) High Availability
2 7 (35.00%) Mentoring
3 6 (30.00%) Performance Tuning
4 5 (25.00%) Data Modelling
4 5 (25.00%) ITIL
5 4 (20.00%) Agile
5 4 (20.00%) Business Continuity
5 4 (20.00%) Project Management
6 3 (15.00%) Business Strategy
6 3 (15.00%) Contract Negotiation
6 3 (15.00%) IT Strategy
6 3 (15.00%) PRINCE2
6 3 (15.00%) Security Architecture
7 2 (10.00%) CI/CD
7 2 (10.00%) Customer Service
7 2 (10.00%) Cybersecurity
7 2 (10.00%) Database Migration
7 2 (10.00%) Infrastructure as Code
7 2 (10.00%) Problem-Solving
7 2 (10.00%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 5 (25.00%) SQL
2 2 (10.00%) PowerShell
3 1 (5.00%) Bicep
3 1 (5.00%) Shell Script
3 1 (5.00%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (30.00%) Degree
1 6 (30.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 5 (25.00%) MCITP
2 5 (25.00%) MCTS
3 3 (15.00%) SC Cleared
3 3 (15.00%) Security Cleared
4 1 (5.00%) Azure Certification
4 1 (5.00%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
4 1 (5.00%) PMI Certification
4 1 (5.00%) PMP
4 1 (5.00%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (5.00%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
1 1 (5.00%) NIST
1 1 (5.00%) SLA
System Software
1 7 (35.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (5.00%) Hyper-V
2 1 (5.00%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (5.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (5.00%) Ansible
1 1 (5.00%) NetBackup
1 1 (5.00%) Single Sign-On
1 1 (5.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 9 (45.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (10.00%) F5
2 2 (10.00%) HP
2 2 (10.00%) Red Hat
3 1 (5.00%) 3PAR
3 1 (5.00%) Fortinet
3 1 (5.00%) LogicMonitor
3 1 (5.00%) NetApp
3 1 (5.00%) Nimble Storage
3 1 (5.00%) Palo Alto
3 1 (5.00%) Progress
3 1 (5.00%) QAD
3 1 (5.00%) Qualys
3 1 (5.00%) Splunk
3 1 (5.00%) Veritas
3 1 (5.00%) VMware