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 21 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 55 83 101
Rank change year-on-year +28 +18 +8
Contract jobs citing Disaster Recovery 56 28 20
As % of all contract jobs in Berkshire 4.05% 1.74% 1.12%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.51% 1.97% 1.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 46 19 16
10th Percentile £219 £167 £375
25th Percentile £268 £313 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £395 £330 £600
Median % change year-on-year +19.70% -45.00% +9.09%
75th Percentile £491 £375 £628
90th Percentile £544 £608 £675
South East median daily rate £420 £400 £588
% change year-on-year +5.00% -31.91% +6.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £59.95 -
South East median hourly rate £32.77 £48.15 -
% change year-on-year -31.94% - -

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 1,243 1,423 1,626
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 89.94% 88.61% 91.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 810 774 977
10th Percentile £313 £330 £213
25th Percentile £416 £425 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £545 £500
Median % change year-on-year -8.26% +9.00% -
75th Percentile £600 £638 £625
90th Percentile £650 £689 £700
South East median daily rate £500 £515 £523
% change year-on-year -2.91% -1.44% +1.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 75 50 74
10th Percentile £14.75 £25.48 £19.64
25th Percentile £18.87 £43.69 £46.01
Median hourly rate £40.44 £59.47 £61.72
Median % change year-on-year -32.01% -3.64% +23.44%
75th Percentile £80.00 £64.40 £71.62
90th Percentile £95.00 £76.47 £76.72
South East median hourly rate £21.25 £57.79 £53.00
% change year-on-year -63.23% +9.04% +17.78%

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 21 November 2025.

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 21 November 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
Wokingham 0 33 £395 +21.54% 1
Reading +15 9 £519 +48.21% 2
Slough 0 3 £475 +97.92% 6
Bracknell -10 1 - -
Maidenhead - 1 - -
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 1 (1.79%) Anypoint
Business Applications
1 3 (5.36%) Oracle Assets
1 3 (5.36%) Oracle EBS R12
1 3 (5.36%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 32 (57.14%) Azure
2 26 (46.43%) AWS
3 9 (16.07%) GCP
4 6 (10.71%) Entra ID
5 5 (8.93%) Azure Storage
6 3 (5.36%) Microsoft 365
6 3 (5.36%) SaaS
7 2 (3.57%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (1.79%) Amazon EC2
8 1 (1.79%) Amazon S3
8 1 (1.79%) Azure AKS
8 1 (1.79%) Azure Data Factory
8 1 (1.79%) Azure Monitor
8 1 (1.79%) IaaS
8 1 (1.79%) Microsoft Purview
8 1 (1.79%) PaaS
8 1 (1.79%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 14 (25.00%) DNS
2 13 (23.21%) TCP/IP
3 12 (21.43%) DHCP
4 11 (19.64%) SAN
4 11 (19.64%) VLAN
5 9 (16.07%) Firewall
6 4 (7.14%) NAS
7 3 (5.36%) LAN
7 3 (5.36%) WAN
8 2 (3.57%) Internet
8 2 (3.57%) Intranet
8 2 (3.57%) IPv6
8 2 (3.57%) Network Security
8 2 (3.57%) VPN
9 1 (1.79%) Ethernet
9 1 (1.79%) MPLS
9 1 (1.79%) SDH
9 1 (1.79%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (3.57%) Amazon RDS
1 2 (3.57%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (1.79%) Apache Cassandra
2 1 (1.79%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (1.79%) MongoDB
2 1 (1.79%) MySQL
2 1 (1.79%) NoSQL
2 1 (1.79%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (1.79%) RDBMS
2 1 (1.79%) Relational Database
2 1 (1.79%) SQL Server
General
1 25 (44.64%) Analytical Skills
2 21 (37.50%) Social Skills
3 9 (16.07%) Telecoms
4 6 (10.71%) Documentation Skills
5 5 (8.93%) Influencing Skills
5 5 (8.93%) Public Sector
6 4 (7.14%) Finance
7 3 (5.36%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 13 (23.21%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 11 (19.64%) Infrastructure Support
2 11 (19.64%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
2 11 (19.64%) Support Engineer
3 7 (12.50%) Administrator
3 7 (12.50%) Backup Administrator
3 7 (12.50%) Storage Administrator
3 7 (12.50%) Storage and Backup Administrator
3 7 (12.50%) Test Engineer
4 6 (10.71%) Test Manager
5 5 (8.93%) Network Engineer
6 3 (5.36%) HP Storage Administrator
6 3 (5.36%) Infrastructure Manager
6 3 (5.36%) Site Engineer
6 3 (5.36%) Site Reliability Engineer
7 2 (3.57%) Cisco Engineer
7 2 (3.57%) Cisco Network Engineer
7 2 (3.57%) Senior
7 2 (3.57%) Technical Specialist
7 2 (3.57%) Test Strategist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (12.50%) RFC 2544
2 2 (3.57%) Middleware
3 1 (1.79%) ADO
3 1 (1.79%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 11 (19.64%) Analytical Mindset
2 8 (14.29%) Data Centre
3 7 (12.50%) Enterprise Storage
3 7 (12.50%) Fibre Optics
4 6 (10.71%) Enterprise Software
5 5 (8.93%) Distributed Systems
6 3 (5.36%) HP Storage
6 3 (5.36%) SCADA
7 2 (3.57%) Management Information System
7 2 (3.57%) Onboarding
8 1 (1.79%) Clustering
8 1 (1.79%) Cyberattack
8 1 (1.79%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (1.79%) PKI
8 1 (1.79%) Replication
8 1 (1.79%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 20 (35.71%) Linux
1 20 (35.71%) Windows
2 8 (14.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 4 (7.14%) Windows Server 2012
3 4 (7.14%) Windows Server 2016
3 4 (7.14%) Windows Server 2019
4 2 (3.57%) CentOS
4 2 (3.57%) Ubuntu
5 1 (1.79%) Unix
5 1 (1.79%) VMS
5 1 (1.79%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (48.21%) Problem-Solving
2 21 (37.50%) ITIL
3 17 (30.36%) Service Management
4 14 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 12 (21.43%) Stakeholder Management
6 11 (19.64%) Business Continuity
6 11 (19.64%) Preventative Maintenance
6 11 (19.64%) Virtual Infrastructure
7 10 (17.86%) Root Cause Analysis
8 8 (14.29%) ERP
8 8 (14.29%) High Availability
9 7 (12.50%) Case Management
9 7 (12.50%) Test Automation
9 7 (12.50%) Test Scripting
10 6 (10.71%) Continuous Improvement
10 6 (10.71%) Defect Management
10 6 (10.71%) Resilience Testing
10 6 (10.71%) Scenario Testing
10 6 (10.71%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 6 (10.71%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 7 (12.50%) Shell Script
2 6 (10.71%) Python
3 5 (8.93%) Go
3 5 (8.93%) Java
3 5 (8.93%) SQL
4 2 (3.57%) Bash
5 1 (1.79%) Bicep
5 1 (1.79%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 33 (58.93%) Security Cleared
2 31 (55.36%) SC Cleared
3 16 (28.57%) Azure Certification
4 12 (21.43%) Microsoft Certification
5 11 (19.64%) Network+ Certification
5 11 (19.64%) Server+ Certification
6 6 (10.71%) AWS Certification
6 6 (10.71%) ISTQB
7 5 (8.93%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
8 3 (5.36%) CCNA
8 3 (5.36%) CCNP
8 3 (5.36%) Cisco Certification
9 2 (3.57%) TOGAF Certification
10 1 (1.79%) Degree
10 1 (1.79%) OCP
10 1 (1.79%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (10.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 5 (8.93%) GDPR
3 3 (5.36%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 3 (5.36%) SLA
4 1 (1.79%) NIST
4 1 (1.79%) QA
System Software
1 16 (28.57%) VMware Infrastructure
2 15 (26.79%) Hyper-V
3 5 (8.93%) Active Directory
4 2 (3.57%) VMware ESXi
4 2 (3.57%) vSphere
5 1 (1.79%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 6 (10.71%) Kubernetes
1 6 (10.71%) NetBackup
2 1 (1.79%) Grafana
2 1 (1.79%) Prometheus
2 1 (1.79%) Terraform
2 1 (1.79%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 19 (33.93%) Microsoft
2 17 (30.36%) VMware
3 10 (17.86%) NetApp
4 7 (12.50%) 3PAR
4 7 (12.50%) Cisco
4 7 (12.50%) HP
4 7 (12.50%) Red Hat
4 7 (12.50%) Veritas
5 6 (10.71%) Nimble Storage
5 6 (10.71%) ServiceNow
6 5 (8.93%) Workday
7 4 (7.14%) EMC
7 4 (7.14%) Oracle
7 4 (7.14%) Pure Storage
8 3 (5.36%) Dell
9 1 (1.79%) IBM
9 1 (1.79%) Intel
9 1 (1.79%) MuleSoft