Disaster Recovery Contract Job Trends in Bedfordshire

Disaster Recovery
East of England > Bedfordshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Bedfordshire requiring Disaster Recovery skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 35 22 28
Rank change year-on-year -13 +6 +4
Contract jobs citing Disaster Recovery 3 9 3
As % of all contract jobs in Bedfordshire 1.38% 4.74% 1.68%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.52% 5.81% 1.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 3 2
10th Percentile - £117 £314
25th Percentile - £223 £316
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £95 £400 £338
Median % change year-on-year -76.25% +18.52% -38.64%
75th Percentile - £484 £366
90th Percentile - £534 £371
East of England median daily rate £463 £420 £500
% change year-on-year +10.12% -16.00% -9.09%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Bedfordshire

Disaster Recovery falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Bedfordshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 197 155 156
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bedfordshire 90.78% 81.58% 87.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 98 85 96
10th Percentile £278 £216 £313
25th Percentile £450 £413 £422
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% - -
75th Percentile £600 £573 £600
90th Percentile £650 £650 £631
East of England median daily rate £500 £450 £500
% change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 18 3
10th Percentile £37.50 £41.10 £53.00
25th Percentile £62.75 £51.18 £53.75
Median hourly rate £84.75 £58.45 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +45.00% +6.27% -3.51%
75th Percentile £91.50 £67.50 £60.25
90th Percentile £91.80 £69.73 £61.90
East of England median hourly rate £22.27 £28.42 £20.00
% change year-on-year -21.66% +42.10% -4.76%

Disaster Recovery
Job Vacancy Trend in Bedfordshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Disaster Recovery relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Bedfordshire.

Disaster Recovery job vacancy trend in Bedfordshire

Disaster Recovery
Daily Rate Trend in Bedfordshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Bedfordshire citing Disaster Recovery.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Bedfordshire citing Disaster Recovery

Disaster Recovery
Hourly Rate Trend in Bedfordshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Bedfordshire citing Disaster Recovery.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Bedfordshire citing Disaster Recovery

Disaster Recovery
Contract Job Locations in Bedfordshire

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 Bedfordshire region over the 6 months to 16 October 2025. 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
Luton -8 3 £95 -82.88% 2
Disaster Recovery
East of England

Disaster Recovery
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Bedfordshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
General
1 3 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Architect
1 3 (100.00%) Technical Architect
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 3 (100.00%) High Availability
1 3 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 3 (100.00%) Performance Optimisation
1 3 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 3 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 3 (100.00%) Technical Leadership
2 1 (33.33%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 3 (100.00%) Azure Certification
1 3 (100.00%) VCAP
System Software
1 3 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 3 (100.00%) Virtual Desktop
1 3 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Citrix
1 3 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 3 (100.00%) VMware