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 1 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 83 51 71
Rank change year-on-year -32 +20 +18
Contract jobs citing Disaster Recovery 39 39 39
As % of all contract jobs in Berkshire 2.05% 3.39% 1.99%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.47% 3.64% 2.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 33 26
10th Percentile £367 £301 £350
25th Percentile £381 £463 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £538 £605
Median % change year-on-year -16.28% -11.16% +10.00%
75th Percentile £514 £550 £608
90th Percentile £620 £585 -
South East median daily rate £500 £538 £575
% change year-on-year -6.98% -6.52% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 7
10th Percentile - - £59.62
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate - - £61.60
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate £24.46 £32.77 £61.60
% change year-on-year -25.36% -46.80% -

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 1,579 1,072 1,703
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 83.19% 93.30% 86.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 985 646 846
10th Percentile £311 £325 £266
25th Percentile £406 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £502 £516
Median % change year-on-year -0.40% -2.76% -1.66%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £615
90th Percentile £700 £688 £688
South East median daily rate £525 £500 £513
% change year-on-year +5.00% -2.44% -0.49%
Number of hourly rates quoted 162 40 111
10th Percentile £31.25 £14.75 £17.50
25th Percentile £72.20 £26.23 £41.25
Median hourly rate £83.58 £54.25 £58.49
Median % change year-on-year +54.06% -7.25% -0.44%
75th Percentile £88.00 £77.89 £72.04
90th Percentile £106.90 £88.87 £87.46
South East median hourly rate £53.90 £24.00 £47.50
% change year-on-year +124.58% -49.47% -5.00%

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 1 July 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 1 July 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 -8 22 £400 -20.00% 3
Reading -40 10 £500 -6.98%
Maidenhead 0 5 £500 - 1
Bracknell +5 1 £450 -21.74%
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 (5.13%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (5.13%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 4 (10.26%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 21 (53.85%) Azure
2 14 (35.90%) AWS
3 11 (28.21%) GCP
4 8 (20.51%) OCI
5 5 (12.82%) Entra ID
6 4 (10.26%) SaaS
7 3 (7.69%) PaaS
8 2 (5.13%) OpenShift
8 2 (5.13%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 6 (15.38%) Firewall
1 6 (15.38%) Network Security
2 4 (10.26%) DNS
2 4 (10.26%) SAN
2 4 (10.26%) VPN
3 3 (7.69%) NAS
4 2 (5.13%) DHCP
4 2 (5.13%) DNSSEC
4 2 (5.13%) LAN
4 2 (5.13%) SD-WAN
4 2 (5.13%) TCP/IP
4 2 (5.13%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (7.69%) Oracle Exadata
2 2 (5.13%) Oracle Database
3 1 (2.56%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (2.56%) Oracle Database 11g
3 1 (2.56%) Oracle Database 12c
3 1 (2.56%) Oracle Reports
3 1 (2.56%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (5.13%) JIRA
2 1 (2.56%) MSI
General
1 15 (38.46%) Public Sector
2 14 (35.90%) Social Skills
3 7 (17.95%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (15.38%) Retail
5 5 (12.82%) Finance
6 2 (5.13%) Local Government
7 1 (2.56%) Legal
7 1 (2.56%) Manufacturing
7 1 (2.56%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 10 (25.64%) Architect
2 6 (15.38%) Lead
3 5 (12.82%) Platform Architect
3 5 (12.82%) Site Engineer
3 5 (12.82%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 4 (10.26%) Head of Infrastructure
4 4 (10.26%) Head of IT
4 4 (10.26%) Head of IT Infrastructure
5 2 (5.13%) DBA
5 2 (5.13%) Infrastructure Architect
5 2 (5.13%) Network Architect
5 2 (5.13%) Oracle DBA
5 2 (5.13%) Platform Engineer
6 1 (2.56%) Administrator
6 1 (2.56%) Analyst
6 1 (2.56%) Desktop Support
6 1 (2.56%) Infrastructure Project Manager
6 1 (2.56%) Project Manager
6 1 (2.56%) Service Analyst
6 1 (2.56%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.56%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 9 (23.08%) Distributed Systems
2 7 (17.95%) Data Centre
3 5 (12.82%) Security Posture
4 4 (10.26%) Onboarding
4 4 (10.26%) Security Operations Centre
5 2 (5.13%) Analytical Mindset
5 2 (5.13%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 2 (5.13%) EPoS
6 1 (2.56%) Enterprise Storage
6 1 (2.56%) HP Storage
6 1 (2.56%) Life Science
6 1 (2.56%) Management Information System
6 1 (2.56%) Operational Technology
6 1 (2.56%) Renewable Energy
6 1 (2.56%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 10 (25.64%) Windows
2 6 (15.38%) Linux
3 5 (12.82%) Windows Server
4 3 (7.69%) Windows 10
5 2 (5.13%) Debian
5 2 (5.13%) Ubuntu
5 2 (5.13%) Unix
6 1 (2.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (35.90%) Business Continuity
1 14 (35.90%) High Availability
2 12 (30.77%) Cybersecurity
2 12 (30.77%) Problem-Solving
3 11 (28.21%) CI/CD
4 10 (25.64%) Task Automation
5 9 (23.08%) Continuous Improvement
5 9 (23.08%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 8 (20.51%) Change Management
6 8 (20.51%) Release Management
6 8 (20.51%) Stakeholder Management
7 7 (17.95%) Migration
7 7 (17.95%) RBAC
8 6 (15.38%) ITIL
8 6 (15.38%) Technical Leadership
9 5 (12.82%) Identity Access Management
9 5 (12.82%) Information Security
9 5 (12.82%) Performance Tuning
9 5 (12.82%) Project Management
9 5 (12.82%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 10 (25.64%) Python
2 9 (23.08%) Go
2 9 (23.08%) Java
3 2 (5.13%) PowerShell
3 2 (5.13%) SQL
3 2 (5.13%) VBScript
4 1 (2.56%) Bash
4 1 (2.56%) PL/SQL
4 1 (2.56%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 18 (46.15%) Security Cleared
2 11 (28.21%) SC Cleared
3 5 (12.82%) DV Cleared
4 3 (7.69%) Degree
5 2 (5.13%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (5.13%) PMI Certification
5 2 (5.13%) PMP
6 1 (2.56%) CISSP
6 1 (2.56%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (2.56%) Master's Degree
6 1 (2.56%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (28.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 9 (23.08%) GDPR
3 4 (10.26%) NCSC
4 3 (7.69%) NIST
5 1 (2.56%) GRC
5 1 (2.56%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 7 (17.95%) Active Directory
2 2 (5.13%) Hyper-V
2 2 (5.13%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (2.56%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 9 (23.08%) Kubernetes
2 4 (10.26%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (5.13%) Data Guard
3 2 (5.13%) Oracle RMAN
4 1 (2.56%) NetBackup
4 1 (2.56%) SCCM
Vendors
1 9 (23.08%) Oracle
2 3 (7.69%) Microsoft
2 3 (7.69%) Red Hat
3 2 (5.13%) Google
3 2 (5.13%) Infoblox
3 2 (5.13%) NetApp
3 2 (5.13%) ServiceNow
3 2 (5.13%) Veritas
3 2 (5.13%) Virgin Media
3 2 (5.13%) VMware
4 1 (2.56%) 3PAR
4 1 (2.56%) Commvault
4 1 (2.56%) Dell
4 1 (2.56%) EMC
4 1 (2.56%) HP
4 1 (2.56%) Nimble Storage
4 1 (2.56%) Veeam