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 10 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 98 128 117
Rank change year-on-year +30 -11 -2
Contract jobs citing Disaster Recovery 40 33 62
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 1.49% 1.06% 1.55%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.74% 1.17% 1.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 22 34
10th Percentile £321 £354 £320
25th Percentile £503 £385 £326
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £433 £463
Median % change year-on-year +24.86% -6.49% +3.93%
75th Percentile £580 £547 £550
90th Percentile £689 £564 £631
England median daily rate £500 £520 £491
% change year-on-year -3.85% +5.85% +3.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 2
10th Percentile - - £17.05
25th Percentile - - £25.88
Median hourly rate - £16.85 £40.89
Median % change year-on-year - -58.79% -
75th Percentile - £21.43 £55.60
90th Percentile - £24.17 £64.24
England median hourly rate £61.60 £40.42 £53.11
% change year-on-year +52.42% -23.90% +86.35%

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 2,301 2,811 3,546
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 85.89% 90.41% 88.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,463 1,981 2,578
10th Percentile £308 £313 £250
25th Percentile £406 £413 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £593 £588 £575
90th Percentile £688 £675 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 250 137 170
10th Percentile £10.95 £16.85 £10.63
25th Percentile £13.50 £23.15 £14.25
Median hourly rate £23.80 £36.00 £23.38
Median % change year-on-year -33.89% +53.99% +26.91%
75th Percentile £46.11 £49.52 £49.50
90th Percentile £62.50 £66.00 £75.00
England median hourly rate £37.18 £37.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year -0.85% +50.00% +6.38%

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 10 May 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 10 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
Manchester +37 31 £534 +12.42% 19
Cheshire +6 8 £570 +46.15% 2
Merseyside +13 1 £450 -12.20% 4
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 (7.50%) SharePoint
2 1 (2.50%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (2.50%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 1 (2.50%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 11 (27.50%) Serverless
2 4 (10.00%) GCP
3 3 (7.50%) Azure
4 2 (5.00%) AWS
5 1 (2.50%) Amazon S3
5 1 (2.50%) Azure App Service
5 1 (2.50%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 1 (2.50%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (2.50%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (2.50%) Azure Key Vault
5 1 (2.50%) Azure Logic Apps
5 1 (2.50%) Azure Monitor
5 1 (2.50%) Azure Sentinel
5 1 (2.50%) Entra ID
5 1 (2.50%) GitHub
5 1 (2.50%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (2.50%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 3 (7.50%) Intranet
2 1 (2.50%) Network Security
2 1 (2.50%) SAN
2 1 (2.50%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (32.50%) MongoDB
2 11 (27.50%) NoSQL
2 11 (27.50%) PostgreSQL
2 11 (27.50%) RDBMS
2 11 (27.50%) Relational Database
3 10 (25.00%) Oracle Reports
4 5 (12.50%) SQL Server
5 2 (5.00%) BigQuery
5 2 (5.00%) Data Hub
5 2 (5.00%) DB2
5 2 (5.00%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
6 1 (2.50%) Azure SQL Database
General
1 5 (12.50%) Finance
2 4 (10.00%) Public Sector
3 3 (7.50%) Social Skills
4 1 (2.50%) Automotive
4 1 (2.50%) Banking
4 1 (2.50%) Financial Institution
4 1 (2.50%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 12 (30.00%) DBA
2 11 (27.50%) Analyst
2 11 (27.50%) Cybersecurity Analyst
2 11 (27.50%) PostgreSQL DBA
3 8 (20.00%) Test Analyst
4 5 (12.50%) Lead
5 3 (7.50%) Infrastructure Manager
5 3 (7.50%) Security Analyst
6 2 (5.00%) Agile Delivery Lead
6 2 (5.00%) Architect
6 2 (5.00%) Technical Leader
7 1 (2.50%) Administrator
7 1 (2.50%) Azure Architect
7 1 (2.50%) Exchange Engineer
7 1 (2.50%) Incident Manager
7 1 (2.50%) Security Engineer
7 1 (2.50%) Senior
7 1 (2.50%) Senior Server Engineer
7 1 (2.50%) Server Engineer
7 1 (2.50%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (35.00%) Kafka
2 11 (27.50%) JSON
2 11 (27.50%) XML
3 2 (5.00%) Middleware
4 1 (2.50%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 4 (10.00%) Public Cloud
2 2 (5.00%) Cyber Threat
2 2 (5.00%) Data Fabric
2 2 (5.00%) Management Information System
3 1 (2.50%) Cyber Kill Chain
3 1 (2.50%) Cyberattack
3 1 (2.50%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 7 (17.50%) Windows
2 6 (15.00%) Linux
3 5 (12.50%) zOS
4 1 (2.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (2.50%) Windows 7
4 1 (2.50%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (45.00%) Business Continuity
2 16 (40.00%) Agile
3 12 (30.00%) Cybersecurity
3 12 (30.00%) Data Protection
3 12 (30.00%) DevOps
4 11 (27.50%) Business Strategy
4 11 (27.50%) Database Security
4 11 (27.50%) IT Strategy
4 11 (27.50%) Mentoring
5 8 (20.00%) Cyber Resilience
5 8 (20.00%) Roadmaps
5 8 (20.00%) Strategic Roadmap
5 8 (20.00%) Use Case
5 8 (20.00%) Validation
6 5 (12.50%) ETL
6 5 (12.50%) Information Security
6 5 (12.50%) Project Management
7 4 (10.00%) Incident Response
7 4 (10.00%) Problem Management
7 4 (10.00%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 3 (7.50%) SQL
2 1 (2.50%) Bicep
2 1 (2.50%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 3 (7.50%) SC Cleared
1 3 (7.50%) Security Cleared
2 1 (2.50%) Degree
2 1 (2.50%) DV Cleared
2 1 (2.50%) MCSE
2 1 (2.50%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (2.50%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (22.50%) NIST
2 4 (10.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (7.50%) Cyber Essentials
3 3 (7.50%) IASME
4 2 (5.00%) GRC
5 1 (2.50%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 3 (7.50%) Active Directory
2 1 (2.50%) Hyper-V
2 1 (2.50%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (2.50%) Terraform
Vendors
1 12 (30.00%) Oracle
2 6 (15.00%) Microsoft
3 5 (12.50%) F5
4 2 (5.00%) Databricks
4 2 (5.00%) IBM
5 1 (2.50%) Citrix
5 1 (2.50%) Dell
5 1 (2.50%) Qualys
5 1 (2.50%) Red Hat
5 1 (2.50%) Splunk
5 1 (2.50%) VMware