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 5 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 60 88 99
Rank change year-on-year +28 +11 +14
Contract jobs citing Disaster Recovery 54 27 20
As % of all contract jobs in Berkshire 3.76% 1.69% 1.15%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.20% 1.88% 1.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 44 19 16
10th Percentile £219 £167 £375
25th Percentile £247 £313 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £395 £330 £600
Median % change year-on-year +19.70% -45.00% +9.09%
75th Percentile £474 £375 £628
90th Percentile £517 £608 £675
South East median daily rate £420 £400 £600
% change year-on-year +5.00% -33.33% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £58.30 -
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 1,286 1,440 1,593
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 89.62% 90.00% 91.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 848 793 960
10th Percentile £304 £315 £213
25th Percentile £413 £425 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £543 £500
Median % change year-on-year -7.83% +8.50% -
75th Percentile £600 £638 £615
90th Percentile £650 £688 £694
South East median daily rate £500 £513 £523
% change year-on-year -2.44% -1.91% +1.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 74 46 70
10th Percentile £14.75 £23.38 £24.33
25th Percentile £18.87 £41.56 £48.40
Median hourly rate £38.86 £58.69 £61.45
Median % change year-on-year -33.79% -4.49% +22.90%
75th Percentile £78.75 £64.40 £67.75
90th Percentile £95.00 £75.13 £76.47
South East median hourly rate £22.00 £55.00 £52.50
% change year-on-year -60.00% +4.76% +20.69%

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 5 December 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 5 December 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 -4 33 £395 +21.54% 1
Reading +15 9 £457 +30.57% 4
Slough 0 3 £475 +97.92%
Bracknell -7 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 (3.70%) Oracle SOA Suite
1 2 (3.70%) Oracle Workflow
1 2 (3.70%) WebLogic
Business Applications
1 3 (5.56%) Oracle EBS R12
1 3 (5.56%) Oracle ERP
2 2 (3.70%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (1.85%) Oracle Assets
Cloud Services
1 30 (55.56%) Azure
2 26 (48.15%) AWS
3 9 (16.67%) GCP
4 6 (11.11%) Entra ID
5 4 (7.41%) Azure Storage
6 3 (5.56%) Microsoft 365
7 2 (3.70%) Amazon EC2
7 2 (3.70%) Amazon S3
7 2 (3.70%) OCI
7 2 (3.70%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 1 (1.85%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (1.85%) AWS CodePipeline
8 1 (1.85%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (1.85%) GitHub
8 1 (1.85%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (1.85%) Microsoft Purview
8 1 (1.85%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 13 (24.07%) DNS
1 13 (24.07%) TCP/IP
2 11 (20.37%) DHCP
2 11 (20.37%) SAN
2 11 (20.37%) VLAN
3 8 (14.81%) Firewall
4 4 (7.41%) NAS
5 3 (5.56%) LAN
5 3 (5.56%) WAN
6 2 (3.70%) Internet
6 2 (3.70%) Intranet
6 2 (3.70%) IPv6
6 2 (3.70%) Network Security
6 2 (3.70%) VPN
7 1 (1.85%) Ethernet
7 1 (1.85%) MPLS
7 1 (1.85%) SDH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (5.56%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (3.70%) Oracle BI EE
2 2 (3.70%) Oracle Database
3 1 (1.85%) Apache Cassandra
3 1 (1.85%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (1.85%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (1.85%) MongoDB
3 1 (1.85%) MySQL
3 1 (1.85%) NoSQL
3 1 (1.85%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (1.85%) RDBMS
3 1 (1.85%) Relational Database
3 1 (1.85%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (1.85%) Jenkins
General
1 24 (44.44%) Analytical Skills
2 22 (40.74%) Social Skills
3 7 (12.96%) Telecoms
4 6 (11.11%) Documentation Skills
5 5 (9.26%) Influencing Skills
5 5 (9.26%) Public Sector
6 3 (5.56%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (3.70%) Finance
Job Titles
1 11 (20.37%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 11 (20.37%) Infrastructure Support
1 11 (20.37%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
1 11 (20.37%) Support Engineer
2 7 (12.96%) Administrator
2 7 (12.96%) Backup Administrator
2 7 (12.96%) Storage Administrator
2 7 (12.96%) Storage and Backup Administrator
3 6 (11.11%) Test Engineer
3 6 (11.11%) Test Manager
4 4 (7.41%) Network Engineer
5 3 (5.56%) HP Storage Administrator
5 3 (5.56%) Infrastructure Manager
5 3 (5.56%) Site Engineer
5 3 (5.56%) Site Reliability Engineer
5 3 (5.56%) Technical Specialist
6 2 (3.70%) Cisco Network Engineer
6 2 (3.70%) IT Support
6 2 (3.70%) Senior
6 2 (3.70%) Test Strategist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (11.11%) RFC 2544
Miscellaneous
1 11 (20.37%) Analytical Mindset
2 7 (12.96%) Enterprise Storage
3 6 (11.11%) Data Centre
3 6 (11.11%) Fibre Optics
4 5 (9.26%) Distributed Systems
4 5 (9.26%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (5.56%) HP Storage
5 3 (5.56%) SCADA
6 2 (3.70%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (3.70%) Management Information System
6 2 (3.70%) Onboarding
7 1 (1.85%) Clustering
7 1 (1.85%) Cyberattack
7 1 (1.85%) Replication
7 1 (1.85%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 20 (37.04%) Windows
2 18 (33.33%) Linux
3 7 (12.96%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (7.41%) Windows Server 2012
4 4 (7.41%) Windows Server 2016
4 4 (7.41%) Windows Server 2019
5 2 (3.70%) Unix
5 2 (3.70%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 21 (38.89%) ITIL
3 16 (29.63%) Service Management
4 14 (25.93%) Business Continuity
5 12 (22.22%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 12 (22.22%) Stakeholder Management
6 11 (20.37%) Preventative Maintenance
6 11 (20.37%) Virtual Infrastructure
7 9 (16.67%) Root Cause Analysis
8 8 (14.81%) ERP
8 8 (14.81%) Task Automation
9 7 (12.96%) High Availability
9 7 (12.96%) Resilience Testing
9 7 (12.96%) Test Automation
10 6 (11.11%) Agile
10 6 (11.11%) Continuous Improvement
10 6 (11.11%) Software Testing
10 6 (11.11%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 6 (11.11%) Test Management
10 6 (11.11%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 7 (12.96%) Shell Script
2 6 (11.11%) Python
3 5 (9.26%) Go
3 5 (9.26%) Java
4 4 (7.41%) SQL
5 2 (3.70%) Bash
5 2 (3.70%) Perl
5 2 (3.70%) PL/SQL
6 1 (1.85%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 31 (57.41%) Security Cleared
2 29 (53.70%) SC Cleared
3 16 (29.63%) Azure Certification
4 12 (22.22%) Microsoft Certification
5 11 (20.37%) Network+ Certification
5 11 (20.37%) Server+ Certification
6 7 (12.96%) AWS Certification
7 6 (11.11%) ISTQB
8 5 (9.26%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
9 3 (5.56%) CCNA
9 3 (5.56%) CCNP
9 3 (5.56%) Cisco Certification
10 2 (3.70%) TOGAF Certification
11 1 (1.85%) Degree
11 1 (1.85%) OCP
11 1 (1.85%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (12.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 5 (9.26%) GDPR
3 2 (3.70%) NIST
4 1 (1.85%) QA
4 1 (1.85%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (1.85%) SLA
System Software
1 14 (25.93%) Hyper-V
1 14 (25.93%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (7.41%) Active Directory
3 2 (3.70%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 6 (11.11%) NetBackup
2 5 (9.26%) Kubernetes
3 2 (3.70%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
3 2 (3.70%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
3 2 (3.70%) Oracle RMAN
4 1 (1.85%) Terraform
Vendors
1 18 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 14 (25.93%) VMware
3 10 (18.52%) NetApp
4 7 (12.96%) 3PAR
4 7 (12.96%) HP
4 7 (12.96%) Red Hat
4 7 (12.96%) Veritas
5 6 (11.11%) Cisco
5 6 (11.11%) Nimble Storage
5 6 (11.11%) ServiceNow
6 5 (9.26%) Workday
7 4 (7.41%) EMC
7 4 (7.41%) Oracle
7 4 (7.41%) Pure Storage
8 3 (5.56%) Dell