Disaster Recovery Contract Job Trends in Berkshire

Disaster Recovery
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Berkshire requiring Disaster Recovery skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 73 83 112
Rank change year-on-year +10 +29 -8
Contract jobs citing Disaster Recovery 41 16 18
As % of all contract jobs in Berkshire 2.41% 1.23% 0.91%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.77% 1.33% 1.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 7 16
10th Percentile - £302 £400
25th Percentile £219 £333 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £438 £600
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% -27.08% +9.09%
75th Percentile £460 £563 £608
90th Percentile £488 £645 £663
South East median daily rate £423 £500 £488
% change year-on-year -15.50% +2.56% -14.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £63.75 -
South East median hourly rate £24.46 £63.75 -
% change year-on-year -61.63% - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Berkshire

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 Berkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,479 1,206 1,797
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 87.05% 92.84% 91.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 987 663 1,003
10th Percentile £285 £300 £213
25th Percentile £400 £408 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £510 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% +2.00% -0.10%
75th Percentile £588 £625 £607
90th Percentile £650 £663 £686
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £500
Number of hourly rates quoted 86 35 93
10th Percentile £18.94 £27.35 £20.49
25th Percentile £30.24 £47.06 £42.50
Median hourly rate £80.50 £61.50 £61.00
Median % change year-on-year +30.90% +0.81% -5.68%
75th Percentile £92.31 £65.17 £68.75
90th Percentile £106.50 £83.65 £85.65
South East median hourly rate £25.15 £42.88 £47.50
% change year-on-year -41.35% -9.73% +5.56%

Disaster Recovery
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

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

Disaster Recovery job vacancy trend in Berkshire

Disaster Recovery
Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

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

Disaster Recovery
Daily Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Disaster Recovery in Berkshire over the 6 months to 20 February 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Disaster Recovery in Berkshire

Disaster Recovery
Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

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

Disaster Recovery
Contract Job Locations in Berkshire

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 Berkshire region over the 6 months to 20 February 2026. 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
Wokingham -11 29 £370 -40.80% 3
Reading -3 4 £457 +52.33% 6
Slough +1 3 £475 +26.67% 4
Bracknell -4 2 - -
Disaster Recovery
South East

Disaster Recovery
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Berkshire 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (4.88%) Oracle SOA Suite
1 2 (4.88%) Oracle Workflow
1 2 (4.88%) WebLogic
Business Applications
1 2 (4.88%) Oracle EBS
1 2 (4.88%) Oracle EBS R12
1 2 (4.88%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 28 (68.29%) Azure
2 23 (56.10%) AWS
3 7 (17.07%) Entra ID
4 5 (12.20%) GCP
5 4 (9.76%) OCI
6 3 (7.32%) Microsoft 365
7 2 (4.88%) Amazon EC2
7 2 (4.88%) Amazon S3
7 2 (4.88%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 1 (2.44%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (2.44%) AWS CodePipeline
8 1 (2.44%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (2.44%) GitHub
8 1 (2.44%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (2.44%) Microsoft Purview
8 1 (2.44%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 13 (31.71%) DNS
1 13 (31.71%) TCP/IP
2 11 (26.83%) DHCP
2 11 (26.83%) VLAN
3 4 (9.76%) Firewall
4 2 (4.88%) Internet
4 2 (4.88%) Intranet
4 2 (4.88%) IPv6
4 2 (4.88%) LAN
4 2 (4.88%) Network Security
4 2 (4.88%) VPN
4 2 (4.88%) WAN
5 1 (2.44%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (9.76%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (7.32%) Oracle Database
3 2 (4.88%) Oracle BI EE
3 2 (4.88%) SQL Server
4 1 (2.44%) Apache Cassandra
4 1 (2.44%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (2.44%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (2.44%) MongoDB
4 1 (2.44%) MySQL
4 1 (2.44%) NoSQL
4 1 (2.44%) Oracle Database 11g
4 1 (2.44%) Oracle Database 12c
4 1 (2.44%) Oracle Exadata
4 1 (2.44%) Oracle Reports
4 1 (2.44%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (2.44%) RDBMS
4 1 (2.44%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (2.44%) Jenkins
General
1 21 (51.22%) Analytical Skills
2 15 (36.59%) Social Skills
3 6 (14.63%) Documentation Skills
4 5 (12.20%) Influencing Skills
5 4 (9.76%) Public Sector
6 3 (7.32%) Organisational Skills
6 3 (7.32%) Telecoms
7 1 (2.44%) Finance
Job Titles
1 11 (26.83%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 11 (26.83%) Infrastructure Support
1 11 (26.83%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
1 11 (26.83%) Support Engineer
2 6 (14.63%) Test Manager
3 3 (7.32%) DBA
3 3 (7.32%) Infrastructure Manager
3 3 (7.32%) Oracle DBA
3 3 (7.32%) Technical Specialist
4 2 (4.88%) 2nd Line Support
4 2 (4.88%) Architect
4 2 (4.88%) IT Support
4 2 (4.88%) Test Engineer
4 2 (4.88%) Test Strategist
5 1 (2.44%) Database Specialist
5 1 (2.44%) Network Engineer
5 1 (2.44%) Platform Architect
5 1 (2.44%) Quality Engineer
5 1 (2.44%) Site Engineer
5 1 (2.44%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (4.88%) RFC 2544
Miscellaneous
1 11 (26.83%) Analytical Mindset
2 5 (12.20%) Distributed Systems
2 5 (12.20%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (4.88%) Data Centre
3 2 (4.88%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (4.88%) Fibre Optics
3 2 (4.88%) SCADA
4 1 (2.44%) Clustering
4 1 (2.44%) Cyberattack
4 1 (2.44%) Enterprise Storage
4 1 (2.44%) HP Storage
4 1 (2.44%) Management Information System
4 1 (2.44%) Onboarding
4 1 (2.44%) Replication
4 1 (2.44%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 15 (36.59%) Windows
2 13 (31.71%) Linux
3 3 (7.32%) Unix
4 2 (4.88%) Windows 10
5 1 (2.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (2.44%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (60.98%) Problem-Solving
2 15 (36.59%) Business Continuity
2 15 (36.59%) ITIL
3 12 (29.27%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 12 (29.27%) Service Management
4 11 (26.83%) Preventative Maintenance
4 11 (26.83%) Virtual Infrastructure
5 9 (21.95%) Root Cause Analysis
6 8 (19.51%) Resilience Testing
6 8 (19.51%) Stakeholder Management
6 8 (19.51%) Task Automation
7 7 (17.07%) ERP
7 7 (17.07%) High Availability
7 7 (17.07%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 6 (14.63%) CI/CD
8 6 (14.63%) Continuous Improvement
8 6 (14.63%) Scenario Testing
8 6 (14.63%) Test Automation
8 6 (14.63%) Test Management
8 6 (14.63%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 6 (14.63%) Python
2 5 (12.20%) Go
2 5 (12.20%) Java
3 4 (9.76%) SQL
4 2 (4.88%) Perl
4 2 (4.88%) PL/SQL
5 1 (2.44%) Bash
5 1 (2.44%) PowerShell
5 1 (2.44%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 21 (51.22%) Security Cleared
2 20 (48.78%) SC Cleared
3 12 (29.27%) Azure Certification
3 12 (29.27%) Microsoft Certification
4 11 (26.83%) Network+ Certification
4 11 (26.83%) Server+ Certification
5 6 (14.63%) ISTQB
6 5 (12.20%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
7 3 (7.32%) AWS Certification
8 1 (2.44%) CCNA
8 1 (2.44%) CCNP
8 1 (2.44%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (2.44%) CISSP
8 1 (2.44%) OCP
8 1 (2.44%) Oracle Certification
8 1 (2.44%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (7.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 3 (7.32%) NIST
2 1 (2.44%) GDPR
2 1 (2.44%) ISO 22301
2 1 (2.44%) QA
System Software
1 14 (34.15%) Hyper-V
1 14 (34.15%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (9.76%) Active Directory
3 2 (4.88%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 5 (12.20%) Kubernetes
2 3 (7.32%) Oracle RMAN
3 2 (4.88%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
3 2 (4.88%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
4 1 (2.44%) Data Guard
4 1 (2.44%) NetBackup
4 1 (2.44%) Terraform
Vendors
1 16 (39.02%) Microsoft
2 14 (34.15%) VMware
3 6 (14.63%) ServiceNow
4 5 (12.20%) Oracle
4 5 (12.20%) Workday
5 2 (4.88%) Cisco
6 1 (2.44%) 3PAR
6 1 (2.44%) Dell
6 1 (2.44%) HP
6 1 (2.44%) NetApp
6 1 (2.44%) Nimble Storage
6 1 (2.44%) Red Hat
6 1 (2.44%) Veritas