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 6 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 50 75 96
Rank change year-on-year +25 +21 +23
Contract jobs citing Disaster Recovery 46 42 24
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 3.84% 2.13% 1.27%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.12% 2.45% 1.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 29 11
10th Percentile £302 £345 £350
25th Percentile £393 £363 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £605 £550
Median % change year-on-year -11.16% +10.00% -
75th Percentile £550 £608 £613
90th Percentile £580 - £638
South East median daily rate £538 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.27% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 7 0
Median hourly rate - £61.60 -
South East median hourly rate £32.77 £61.60 -
% change year-on-year -46.80% - -

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 1,116 1,713 1,692
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 93.16% 86.78% 89.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 675 852 1,049
10th Percentile £325 £270 £336
25th Percentile £413 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% - +5.00%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £638
90th Percentile £688 £688 £716
South East median daily rate £500 £513 £515
% change year-on-year -2.44% -0.49% +3.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 43 112 56
10th Percentile £14.75 £17.60 £18.00
25th Percentile £22.52 £41.25 £24.13
Median hourly rate £51.00 £60.53 £59.38
Median % change year-on-year -15.74% +1.94% +182.74%
75th Percentile £76.35 £71.89 £73.69
90th Percentile £88.60 £87.46 £79.19
South East median hourly rate £24.00 £50.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year -52.00% - +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 6 July 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 6 July 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 +22 24 £538 -11.16% 16
Wokingham -1 14 £444 +22.34% 7
Bracknell +8 1 £575 +53.33% 1
Slough -5 1 £475 +97.92% 13
Maidenhead - 1 - - 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 3 (6.52%) Oracle SOA Suite
1 3 (6.52%) Oracle Workflow
1 3 (6.52%) WebLogic
2 1 (2.17%) Anypoint
2 1 (2.17%) Microsoft Exchange
Business Applications
1 9 (19.57%) Oracle EBS R12
1 9 (19.57%) Oracle ERP
2 6 (13.04%) Oracle Assets
3 3 (6.52%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (2.17%) Remedy ITSM
4 1 (2.17%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 14 (30.43%) AWS
2 9 (19.57%) Azure
3 8 (17.39%) SaaS
4 5 (10.87%) Azure Storage
5 4 (8.70%) GCP
6 3 (6.52%) OCI
6 3 (6.52%) PaaS
7 2 (4.35%) Entra ID
7 2 (4.35%) IaaS
7 2 (4.35%) Microsoft 365
8 1 (2.17%) Azure AKS
8 1 (2.17%) Azure Data Factory
8 1 (2.17%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (2.17%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 11 (23.91%) SAN
2 6 (13.04%) Firewall
3 4 (8.70%) NAS
4 2 (4.35%) DHCP
4 2 (4.35%) DNS
4 2 (4.35%) LAN
4 2 (4.35%) VSAN
4 2 (4.35%) WAN
5 1 (2.17%) Intrusion Detection
5 1 (2.17%) Network Security
5 1 (2.17%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (6.52%) Oracle BI EE
1 3 (6.52%) Oracle Database
2 1 (2.17%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (2.17%) SAP HANA
General
1 20 (43.48%) Analytical Skills
2 19 (41.30%) Social Skills
3 7 (15.22%) Telecoms
4 6 (13.04%) Finance
5 4 (8.70%) Public Sector
6 1 (2.17%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (2.17%) Local Government
6 1 (2.17%) Manufacturing
6 1 (2.17%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (2.17%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (17.39%) Resilience Manager
2 7 (15.22%) Administrator
2 7 (15.22%) Backup Administrator
2 7 (15.22%) Storage Administrator
2 7 (15.22%) Storage and Backup Administrator
3 4 (8.70%) Test Engineer
4 3 (6.52%) DBA
4 3 (6.52%) HP Storage Administrator
4 3 (6.52%) Lead
4 3 (6.52%) Network Engineer
4 3 (6.52%) Oracle DBA
5 2 (4.35%) Architect
5 2 (4.35%) Coordinator
5 2 (4.35%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (4.35%) IT Manager
5 2 (4.35%) Lead Solutions Architect
5 2 (4.35%) Project Coordinator
5 2 (4.35%) Solutions Architect
5 2 (4.35%) Technical Coordinator
5 2 (4.35%) Technical Project Coordinator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (10.87%) RFC 2544
2 2 (4.35%) Middleware
3 1 (2.17%) ADO
3 1 (2.17%) ARM Templates
3 1 (2.17%) SAML
3 1 (2.17%) SAP Basis
Miscellaneous
1 8 (17.39%) Data Centre
2 7 (15.22%) Enterprise Storage
3 3 (6.52%) Fibre Optics
3 3 (6.52%) HP Storage
3 3 (6.52%) PKI
4 2 (4.35%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (4.35%) Management Information System
5 1 (2.17%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (2.17%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (2.17%) Private Cloud
5 1 (2.17%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 12 (26.09%) Windows
2 10 (21.74%) Linux
3 8 (17.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (8.70%) Unix
4 4 (8.70%) Windows Server 2012
4 4 (8.70%) Windows Server 2016
4 4 (8.70%) Windows Server 2019
5 3 (6.52%) Windows Server
6 2 (4.35%) CentOS
6 2 (4.35%) Ubuntu
7 1 (2.17%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (30.43%) Problem-Solving
2 9 (19.57%) ERP
3 7 (15.22%) ITIL
4 6 (13.04%) Capacity Management
4 6 (13.04%) Data Cleansing
4 6 (13.04%) Stakeholder Management
5 5 (10.87%) Defect Management
5 5 (10.87%) Storage Management
5 5 (10.87%) Test Scripting
6 4 (8.70%) Business Continuity
6 4 (8.70%) Capacity Planning
6 4 (8.70%) Performance Optimisation
6 4 (8.70%) Performance Tuning
6 4 (8.70%) Proactive Monitoring
6 4 (8.70%) Project Management
6 4 (8.70%) Service Management
6 4 (8.70%) TOGAF
7 3 (6.52%) Case Management
7 3 (6.52%) High Availability
7 3 (6.52%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 10 (21.74%) SQL
2 7 (15.22%) Shell Script
3 3 (6.52%) Perl
3 3 (6.52%) PL/SQL
4 1 (2.17%) Bash
4 1 (2.17%) Bicep
4 1 (2.17%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 18 (39.13%) Security Cleared
2 16 (34.78%) SC Cleared
3 4 (8.70%) AWS Certification
3 4 (8.70%) Azure Certification
4 2 (4.35%) CCNA
4 2 (4.35%) CCNP
4 2 (4.35%) Cisco Certification
4 2 (4.35%) TOGAF Certification
5 1 (2.17%) DV Cleared
5 1 (2.17%) VCAP
5 1 (2.17%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (17.39%) SLA
2 6 (13.04%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 4 (8.70%) GDPR
3 4 (8.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (4.35%) QA
5 1 (2.17%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 6 (13.04%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (8.70%) VMware ESXi
3 3 (6.52%) Oracle RAC
3 3 (6.52%) vSphere
4 2 (4.35%) Active Directory
4 2 (4.35%) Hyper-V
5 1 (2.17%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (2.17%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 6 (13.04%) NetBackup
2 3 (6.52%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
2 3 (6.52%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
2 3 (6.52%) Oracle RMAN
3 2 (4.35%) vCenter Server
4 1 (2.17%) FortiGate
4 1 (2.17%) Grafana
4 1 (2.17%) Kubernetes
4 1 (2.17%) PowerCLI
4 1 (2.17%) Prometheus
4 1 (2.17%) Terraform
4 1 (2.17%) vRealize
Vendors
1 11 (23.91%) Oracle
2 10 (21.74%) NetApp
3 7 (15.22%) 3PAR
3 7 (15.22%) HP
3 7 (15.22%) Red Hat
3 7 (15.22%) Veritas
3 7 (15.22%) VMware
4 6 (13.04%) Cisco
4 6 (13.04%) Nimble Storage
5 4 (8.70%) EMC
5 4 (8.70%) Microsoft
5 4 (8.70%) Pure Storage
6 3 (6.52%) Dell
7 2 (4.35%) IBM
7 2 (4.35%) Intel
8 1 (2.17%) BMC
8 1 (2.17%) Fortinet
8 1 (2.17%) MuleSoft
8 1 (2.17%) Remedy
8 1 (2.17%) SAP