Disaster Recovery Contracts in the South West

Disaster Recovery
England > South West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South 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 25 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 117 100 136
Rank change year-on-year -17 +36 -6
Contract jobs citing Disaster Recovery 35 77 35
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 1.10% 2.10% 0.94%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.32% 2.35% 1.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 67 21
10th Percentile £210 £510 £325
25th Percentile £350 £525 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £600 £475
Median % change year-on-year -15.92% +26.32% +2.70%
75th Percentile £650 £669 £575
90th Percentile £725 £685 -
England median daily rate £500 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 4
10th Percentile £63.75 £54.33 £44.86
25th Percentile £65.63 £55.46 £48.66
Median hourly rate £70.00 £57.33 £59.91
Median % change year-on-year +22.10% -4.31% -
75th Percentile £73.13 - £69.05
90th Percentile £74.25 - -
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
South 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 South West with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,642 3,282 3,304
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 82.87% 89.53% 88.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,701 2,410 2,334
10th Percentile £220 £311 £300
25th Percentile £405 £425 £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +8.00% +6.95%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £588
90th Percentile £700 £719 £670
England median daily rate £525 £550 £535
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.80% +9.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 326 344 193
10th Percentile £13.86 £9.80 £15.90
25th Percentile £26.75 £17.50 £17.50
Median hourly rate £47.92 £61.50 £48.48
Median % change year-on-year -22.09% +26.86% +7.73%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £83.37 £69.97
England median hourly rate £35.25 £37.50 £24.00
% change year-on-year -6.00% +56.25% -

Disaster Recovery
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for Disaster Recovery in the South West

Disaster Recovery
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

Daily rate trend for Disaster Recovery in the South West

Disaster Recovery
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Disaster Recovery in the South West over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Disaster Recovery in the South West

Disaster Recovery
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

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

Hourly rate trend for Disaster Recovery in the South West

Disaster Recovery
Contract Job Locations in the South 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 South West region over the 6 months to 25 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
Bristol +34 18 £650 +48.57% 5
Wiltshire -40 8 £477 -22.52%
Gloucestershire -1 7 £220 -60.00% 7
Disaster Recovery
England

Disaster Recovery
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South 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 2 (5.71%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (5.71%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 7 (20.00%) Teamcenter
2 6 (17.14%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 9 (25.71%) Azure
2 5 (14.29%) Entra ID
3 4 (11.43%) Power Platform
4 3 (8.57%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (5.71%) AWS
6 1 (2.86%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (2.86%) PaaS
6 1 (2.86%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 4 (11.43%) Firewall
2 3 (8.57%) SAN
2 3 (8.57%) WAN
3 2 (5.71%) DHCP
3 2 (5.71%) DMZ
3 2 (5.71%) DNS
3 2 (5.71%) LAN
3 2 (5.71%) Network Security
3 2 (5.71%) Skype
3 2 (5.71%) SMTP
3 2 (5.71%) TCP/IP
3 2 (5.71%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (31.43%) Oracle Database
2 10 (28.57%) SQL Server
3 4 (11.43%) Power BI
General
1 9 (25.71%) Social Skills
2 5 (14.29%) Public Sector
2 5 (14.29%) Telecoms
3 2 (5.71%) Military
4 1 (2.86%) Electronics
4 1 (2.86%) Finance
4 1 (2.86%) Manufacturing
4 1 (2.86%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 14 (40.00%) Architect
2 6 (17.14%) Oracle Architect
3 5 (14.29%) Availability Manager
3 5 (14.29%) Service Manager
4 4 (11.43%) Lead
4 4 (11.43%) Lead Architect
4 4 (11.43%) Network Architect
4 4 (11.43%) Solutions Architect
4 4 (11.43%) Systems Architect
5 3 (8.57%) 3rd Line Engineer
5 3 (8.57%) Active Directory Engineer
6 2 (5.71%) Active Directory Administrator
6 2 (5.71%) Azure Administrator
6 2 (5.71%) ITIL Availability Manager
6 2 (5.71%) ITIL Service Manager
6 2 (5.71%) Network Security Engineer
6 2 (5.71%) Oracle Solutions Architect
6 2 (5.71%) Service Desk Engineer
6 2 (5.71%) VMware Engineer
6 2 (5.71%) Wintel Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.86%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 14 (40.00%) Replication
2 9 (25.71%) Blog
3 4 (11.43%) CMDB
3 4 (11.43%) PKI
3 4 (11.43%) Self-Motivation
4 3 (8.57%) Clustering
4 3 (8.57%) IoT
5 1 (2.86%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 11 (31.43%) Windows
2 6 (17.14%) Windows Server
3 5 (14.29%) Windows Server 2016
4 2 (5.71%) Windows 10
5 1 (2.86%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (37.14%) High Availability
1 13 (37.14%) ITIL
2 9 (25.71%) Data Protection
2 9 (25.71%) Security Management
3 7 (20.00%) Agile
3 7 (20.00%) Proactive Monitoring
4 6 (17.14%) Business Continuity
4 6 (17.14%) ITSM
4 6 (17.14%) Service Management
5 5 (14.29%) Availability Management
5 5 (14.29%) BCP
5 5 (14.29%) Business Continuity Planning
5 5 (14.29%) Business Intelligence
5 5 (14.29%) Configuration Management
5 5 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
5 5 (14.29%) Project Management
6 4 (11.43%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 4 (11.43%) Network Management
6 4 (11.43%) Service Asset and Configuration Management
6 4 (11.43%) Strategic Thinking
Programming Languages
1 9 (25.71%) SQL
2 7 (20.00%) PL/SQL
3 3 (8.57%) PowerShell
4 1 (2.86%) Bash
4 1 (2.86%) Bicep
4 1 (2.86%) Python
Qualifications
1 27 (77.14%) Security Cleared
2 24 (68.57%) SC Cleared
3 6 (17.14%) Degree
4 5 (14.29%) SAP Certification
5 3 (8.57%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (8.57%) DV Cleared
5 3 (8.57%) MCSE
5 3 (8.57%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (5.71%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.71%) SLA
System Software
1 19 (54.29%) Active Directory
2 5 (14.29%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (8.57%) Virtual Servers
4 2 (5.71%) Microsoft Virtual Server
4 2 (5.71%) Virtual Desktop
4 2 (5.71%) VMware ESXi
4 2 (5.71%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 7 (20.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 3 (8.57%) Ansible
2 3 (8.57%) Terraform
3 2 (5.71%) OPNET
3 2 (5.71%) SCCM
3 2 (5.71%) SCOM
3 2 (5.71%) vCenter Server
4 1 (2.86%) Failover Clustering
4 1 (2.86%) Grafana
4 1 (2.86%) Prometheus
4 1 (2.86%) Puppet
4 1 (2.86%) WSUS
Vendors
1 11 (31.43%) Oracle
2 8 (22.86%) SAP
3 6 (17.14%) Microsoft
3 6 (17.14%) Remedy
4 5 (14.29%) VMware
5 2 (5.71%) F5
5 2 (5.71%) Fortinet
5 2 (5.71%) HP
5 2 (5.71%) Palo Alto
5 2 (5.71%) SolarWinds
6 1 (2.86%) BEA