Disaster Recovery Contracts in the North West

Disaster Recovery
England > North West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 92 126 120
Rank change year-on-year +34 -6 -4
Contract jobs citing Disaster Recovery 45 34 63
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 1.63% 1.06% 1.55%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.89% 1.17% 1.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 23 34
10th Percentile £323 £330 £320
25th Percentile £500 £385 £326
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £534 £390 £463
Median % change year-on-year +36.92% -15.68% +4.52%
75th Percentile £580 £544 £548
90th Percentile £589 £617 £631
England median daily rate £500 £525 £495
% change year-on-year -4.76% +6.06% +4.21%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 1
Median hourly rate - £16.85 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year - -75.93% -
England median hourly rate £58.30 £40.42 £50.77
% change year-on-year +44.25% -20.40% +78.14%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North West

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 North West with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,385 2,894 3,584
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 86.32% 90.58% 88.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,526 2,058 2,629
10th Percentile £306 £313 £231
25th Percentile £401 £413 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £589 £588 £575
90th Percentile £688 £675 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +9.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 243 144 166
10th Percentile £10.95 £16.85 £10.63
25th Percentile £13.28 £21.25 £14.25
Median hourly rate £21.00 £35.00 £20.75
Median % change year-on-year -40.00% +68.72% +9.18%
75th Percentile £45.44 £48.91 £43.75
90th Percentile £57.50 £65.00 £58.75
England median hourly rate £35.50 £37.50 £24.35
% change year-on-year -5.33% +54.00% +1.46%

Disaster Recovery
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Disaster Recovery in the North West

Disaster Recovery
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for Disaster Recovery in the North West

Disaster Recovery
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Disaster Recovery in the North West over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Disaster Recovery in the North West

Disaster Recovery
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

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

Hourly rate trend for Disaster Recovery in the North West

Disaster Recovery
Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 North West region over the 6 months to 28 April 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
Manchester +33 33 £534 +36.92% 16
Cheshire +4 11 £570 +46.15% 3
Merseyside +14 1 £450 -12.20% 5
Disaster Recovery
England

Disaster Recovery
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 3 (6.67%) SharePoint
2 1 (2.22%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (2.22%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 1 (2.22%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 12 (26.67%) Serverless
2 5 (11.11%) AWS
2 5 (11.11%) Azure
3 3 (6.67%) GCP
4 2 (4.44%) GitHub
5 1 (2.22%) Amazon S3
5 1 (2.22%) Azure Sentinel
5 1 (2.22%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 3 (6.67%) DMZ
1 3 (6.67%) Firewall
1 3 (6.67%) Intranet
1 3 (6.67%) VPN
2 1 (2.22%) DNS
2 1 (2.22%) Network Security
2 1 (2.22%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (28.89%) MongoDB
2 12 (26.67%) NoSQL
2 12 (26.67%) PostgreSQL
2 12 (26.67%) RDBMS
2 12 (26.67%) Relational Database
3 11 (24.44%) Oracle Reports
4 3 (6.67%) SQL Server
5 1 (2.22%) BigQuery
5 1 (2.22%) Data Hub
5 1 (2.22%) DB2
5 1 (2.22%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 2 (4.44%) JIRA
General
1 6 (13.33%) Public Sector
2 4 (8.89%) Social Skills
3 3 (6.67%) Finance
4 2 (4.44%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (2.22%) Automotive
5 1 (2.22%) Banking
5 1 (2.22%) Financial Institution
5 1 (2.22%) Legal
5 1 (2.22%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 14 (31.11%) Analyst
2 13 (28.89%) DBA
3 12 (26.67%) PostgreSQL DBA
4 11 (24.44%) Cybersecurity Analyst
5 8 (17.78%) Test Analyst
6 4 (8.89%) Lead
7 3 (6.67%) Infrastructure Manager
7 3 (6.67%) Security Analyst
8 2 (4.44%) Agile Delivery Lead
8 2 (4.44%) Security Engineer
8 2 (4.44%) Service Analyst
9 1 (2.22%) 2nd Line Engineer
9 1 (2.22%) Administrator
9 1 (2.22%) Disaster Recovery Architect
9 1 (2.22%) ICT Infrastructure Manager
9 1 (2.22%) IT Analyst
9 1 (2.22%) Lead Cloud Engineer
9 1 (2.22%) Network Security Engineer
9 1 (2.22%) Senior
9 1 (2.22%) Service Continuity Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (31.11%) Kafka
2 12 (26.67%) JSON
2 12 (26.67%) XML
3 1 (2.22%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 4 (8.89%) Management Information System
2 3 (6.67%) Public Cloud
3 1 (2.22%) Cyber Kill Chain
3 1 (2.22%) Cyber Threat
3 1 (2.22%) Cyberattack
3 1 (2.22%) Data Fabric
3 1 (2.22%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (2.22%) PKI
3 1 (2.22%) Replication
3 1 (2.22%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 7 (15.56%) Windows
2 4 (8.89%) Linux
3 3 (6.67%) zOS
4 1 (2.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (2.22%) Windows 7
4 1 (2.22%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (42.22%) Agile
2 18 (40.00%) Business Continuity
3 14 (31.11%) Cybersecurity
3 14 (31.11%) Mentoring
4 12 (26.67%) Business Strategy
4 12 (26.67%) Data Protection
4 12 (26.67%) Database Security
4 12 (26.67%) DevOps
5 11 (24.44%) IT Strategy
6 10 (22.22%) Cyber Resilience
7 8 (17.78%) Roadmaps
7 8 (17.78%) Strategic Roadmap
7 8 (17.78%) Use Case
7 8 (17.78%) Validation
8 7 (15.56%) Information Security
9 6 (13.33%) ITIL
9 6 (13.33%) Problem-Solving
10 5 (11.11%) Project Management
10 5 (11.11%) Risk Management
11 4 (8.89%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (2.22%) PowerShell
1 1 (2.22%) SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (15.56%) SC Cleared
1 7 (15.56%) Security Cleared
2 1 (2.22%) Degree
2 1 (2.22%) DV Cleared
2 1 (2.22%) MCSE
2 1 (2.22%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (2.22%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (20.00%) NIST
2 5 (11.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (6.67%) Cyber Essentials
3 3 (6.67%) IASME
4 2 (4.44%) GRC
5 1 (2.22%) ISO 22301
5 1 (2.22%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 2 (4.44%) Active Directory
2 1 (2.22%) Hyper-V
2 1 (2.22%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (2.22%) Ansible
1 1 (2.22%) Terraform
Vendors
1 12 (26.67%) Oracle
2 7 (15.56%) Microsoft
3 4 (8.89%) F5
4 1 (2.22%) Citrix
4 1 (2.22%) Databricks
4 1 (2.22%) Dell
4 1 (2.22%) Fortinet
4 1 (2.22%) IBM
4 1 (2.22%) Palo Alto
4 1 (2.22%) Qualys
4 1 (2.22%) Red Hat
4 1 (2.22%) Splunk
4 1 (2.22%) VMware