Disaster Recovery Contracts in Berkshire

Disaster Recovery
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Berkshire requiring Disaster Recovery skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Disaster Recovery over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 67 92 97
Rank change year-on-year +25 +5 +27
Contract jobs citing Disaster Recovery 26 32 18
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 2.22% 1.61% 1.00%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.37% 1.81% 1.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 26 8
10th Percentile £341 £453 £395
25th Percentile £434 £529 £491
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £605 £556
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +8.76% +11.25%
75th Percentile - £608 £608
90th Percentile £590 - £725
South East median daily rate £550 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -6.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £61.87 - -
Median hourly rate £63.75 £61.60 -
Median % change year-on-year +3.48% - -
75th Percentile £65.62 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate £63.75 £61.60 -
% change year-on-year +3.48% - -

All Process and 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 1,096 1,764 1,640
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 93.44% 88.91% 90.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 641 918 1,053
10th Percentile £313 £213 £341
25th Percentile £413 £375 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £511 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.10% -2.71% +5.00%
75th Percentile £615 £608 £626
90th Percentile £675 £675 £711
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £508
% change year-on-year - -1.53% +1.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 101 48
10th Percentile £22.29 £20.17 £19.20
25th Percentile £32.05 £41.50 £25.72
Median hourly rate £61.50 £61.60 £57.82
Median % change year-on-year -0.17% +6.54% +174.67%
75th Percentile £76.77 £71.75 £73.69
90th Percentile £88.19 £87.46 £79.51
South East median hourly rate £28.00 £47.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year -41.05% -5.00% +122.22%

Disaster Recovery
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

Job postings citing Disaster Recovery as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Berkshire.

Job vacancy trend for Disaster Recovery in Berkshire

Disaster Recovery
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Disaster Recovery in Berkshire.

Daily rate trend for Disaster Recovery in Berkshire

Disaster Recovery
Daily Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Disaster Recovery in Berkshire over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Disaster Recovery in Berkshire

Disaster Recovery
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Disaster Recovery in Berkshire.

Hourly rate trend for Disaster Recovery in Berkshire

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 1 May 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
Reading +16 11 £550 -9.09% 24
Wokingham -9 5 £438 +9.38% 2
Slough - 2 £425 - 13
Bracknell +18 1 £575 +53.33% 1
Disaster Recovery
South East

Disaster Recovery
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Berkshire 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 1 (3.85%) Microsoft Exchange
Business Applications
1 1 (3.85%) Remedy ITSM
1 1 (3.85%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 9 (34.62%) AWS
2 3 (11.54%) Azure
3 2 (7.69%) Entra ID
3 2 (7.69%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (7.69%) PaaS
3 2 (7.69%) SaaS
4 1 (3.85%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (11.54%) Firewall
2 2 (7.69%) Ethernet
2 2 (7.69%) MPLS
2 2 (7.69%) SDH
3 1 (3.85%) DHCP
3 1 (3.85%) DNS
3 1 (3.85%) Intrusion Detection
3 1 (3.85%) Network Security
3 1 (3.85%) VPN
3 1 (3.85%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (15.38%) SQL Server
2 1 (3.85%) Oracle Database
2 1 (3.85%) SAP HANA
General
1 12 (46.15%) Social Skills
2 10 (38.46%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (11.54%) Public Sector
4 2 (7.69%) Military
5 1 (3.85%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (3.85%) Local Government
5 1 (3.85%) Manufacturing
5 1 (3.85%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (3.85%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (3.85%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 8 (30.77%) Resilience Manager
2 5 (19.23%) Senior
3 4 (15.38%) Administrator
4 3 (11.54%) DBA
4 3 (11.54%) Lead
4 3 (11.54%) Senior DBA
5 2 (7.69%) Analyst
5 2 (7.69%) Architect
5 2 (7.69%) IT Manager
5 2 (7.69%) Lead Architect
5 2 (7.69%) Lead Solutions Architect
5 2 (7.69%) Network Analyst
5 2 (7.69%) Solutions Architect
6 1 (3.85%) Coordinator
6 1 (3.85%) Migration Engineer
6 1 (3.85%) Oracle DBA
6 1 (3.85%) Project Manager
6 1 (3.85%) Senior Analyst
6 1 (3.85%) SQL Server DBA
6 1 (3.85%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (7.69%) RFC 2544
2 1 (3.85%) SAML
2 1 (3.85%) SAP Basis
Miscellaneous
1 5 (19.23%) Data Centre
2 2 (7.69%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (7.69%) PKI
2 2 (7.69%) Replication
2 2 (7.69%) SCADA
3 1 (3.85%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (3.85%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 3 (11.54%) Windows
2 2 (7.69%) Windows Server
3 1 (3.85%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (42.31%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (19.23%) Business Continuity
2 5 (19.23%) Capacity Planning
2 5 (19.23%) Performance Tuning
3 4 (15.38%) Performance Monitoring
3 4 (15.38%) Process Improvement
3 4 (15.38%) Stakeholder Management
3 4 (15.38%) Strategic Planning
3 4 (15.38%) Task Automation
4 3 (11.54%) Customer Requirements
4 3 (11.54%) ITIL
4 3 (11.54%) Project Management
4 3 (11.54%) Root Cause Analysis
5 2 (7.69%) Cybersecurity
5 2 (7.69%) Incident Management
5 2 (7.69%) Migration
5 2 (7.69%) Network Management
5 2 (7.69%) Test Management
5 2 (7.69%) Test Scripting
5 2 (7.69%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 4 (15.38%) SQL
2 1 (3.85%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 10 (38.46%) Security Cleared
2 5 (19.23%) DV Cleared
2 5 (19.23%) SC Cleared
3 2 (7.69%) CCNA
3 2 (7.69%) CCNP
3 2 (7.69%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (3.85%) Degree
4 1 (3.85%) VCAP
4 1 (3.85%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (19.23%) SLA
2 2 (7.69%) QA
3 1 (3.85%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 5 (19.23%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (7.69%) VMware ESXi
2 2 (7.69%) vSphere
3 1 (3.85%) Active Directory
3 1 (3.85%) Hyper-V
3 1 (3.85%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 1 (3.85%) FortiGate
1 1 (3.85%) PowerCLI
1 1 (3.85%) vCenter Server
1 1 (3.85%) vRealize
Vendors
1 6 (23.08%) Oracle
2 5 (19.23%) VMware
3 3 (11.54%) Cisco
3 3 (11.54%) Microsoft
4 1 (3.85%) BMC
4 1 (3.85%) Dynatrace
4 1 (3.85%) Fortinet
4 1 (3.85%) IBM
4 1 (3.85%) Intel
4 1 (3.85%) NetApp
4 1 (3.85%) Rapid7
4 1 (3.85%) Remedy
4 1 (3.85%) SAP
4 1 (3.85%) Veeam
4 1 (3.85%) Zerto