Disaster Recovery Contract Job Trends in Belfast

Disaster Recovery
County Antrim > Belfast

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Belfast requiring Disaster Recovery skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 26 29 24
Rank change year-on-year +3 -5 -
Contract jobs citing Disaster Recovery 6 4 1
As % of all contract jobs in Belfast 2.84% 2.48% 0.74%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.17% 3.03% 0.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £325 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 - -
75th Percentile £400 - -
90th Percentile £460 - -
County Antrim median daily rate £350 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Belfast

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 Belfast.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 189 132 121
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Belfast 89.57% 81.99% 89.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 92 58 70
10th Percentile £277 £144 £206
25th Percentile £325 £164 £296
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £400
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% +12.50% -18.37%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £532
90th Percentile £636 £633 £626
County Antrim median daily rate £475 £450 £400
% change year-on-year +5.56% +12.50% -18.37%
Number of hourly rates quoted 29 14 8
10th Percentile £12.31 £21.19 £11.08
25th Percentile £13.60 - £11.96
Median hourly rate £16.00 £24.18 £13.46
Median % change year-on-year -33.83% +79.68% +31.68%
75th Percentile £17.30 - £14.27
90th Percentile £24.50 £37.88 £16.60
County Antrim median hourly rate £17.30 £24.18 £13.46
% change year-on-year -28.45% +79.64% +31.70%

Disaster Recovery
Job Vacancy Trend in Belfast

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

Disaster Recovery job vacancy trend in Belfast

Disaster Recovery
Daily Rate Trend in Belfast

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

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

Disaster Recovery
Daily Rate Histogram in Belfast

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Disaster Recovery in Belfast over the 6 months to 5 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Disaster Recovery in Belfast

Disaster Recovery
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Belfast 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:

Communications & Networking
1 5 (83.33%) SAN
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) JIRA
1 1 (16.67%) TestRail
General
1 1 (16.67%) Public Sector
1 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
1 1 (16.67%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Administrator
1 3 (50.00%) Analyst
1 3 (50.00%) Consultant
1 3 (50.00%) Systems Administrator
1 3 (50.00%) Technology Consultant
2 2 (33.33%) Backup Consultant
2 2 (33.33%) Storage Analyst
2 2 (33.33%) Storage and Backup Consultant
2 2 (33.33%) Storage Consultant
3 1 (16.67%) Test Manager
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Operational Technology
1 1 (16.67%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 5 (83.33%) Linux
1 5 (83.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) Capacity Planning
1 5 (83.33%) Performance Monitoring
1 5 (83.33%) Problem Management
2 4 (66.67%) Change Management
3 1 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (16.67%) Cybersecurity
3 1 (16.67%) End-to-End Testing
3 1 (16.67%) High Availability
3 1 (16.67%) Regression Testing
3 1 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (16.67%) Test Automation
3 1 (16.67%) Test Management
3 1 (16.67%) Test Planning
3 1 (16.67%) Test Strategy
3 1 (16.67%) User Acceptance Testing
3 1 (16.67%) Validation
Qualifications
1 5 (83.33%) BPSS Clearance
2 4 (66.67%) Security Cleared
3 3 (50.00%) SC Cleared
4 1 (16.67%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) NIST
Systems Management
1 5 (83.33%) EMC NetWorker
1 5 (83.33%) EMC VPLEX
2 1 (16.67%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 5 (83.33%) Brocade
1 5 (83.33%) Cisco
1 5 (83.33%) Dell
1 5 (83.33%) EMC
1 5 (83.33%) Isilon
1 5 (83.33%) Red Hat
1 5 (83.33%) VMware
2 1 (16.67%) HP