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

6 months to
5 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 73 36 66
Rank change year-on-year -37 +30 +29
Contract jobs citing Disaster Recovery 45 59 44
As % of all contract jobs in Berkshire 2.50% 5.03% 2.60%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.06% 5.50% 3.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 47 30
10th Percentile £391 £245 £233
25th Percentile £425 £293 £326
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £492 £388
Median % change year-on-year +1.63% +26.97% -35.42%
75th Percentile £588 £550 £608
90th Percentile £813 £560 -
South East median daily rate £550 £477 £423
% change year-on-year +15.24% +12.96% -26.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 7
10th Percentile - - £59.62
25th Percentile £61.74 - -
Median hourly rate £65.24 - £61.60
75th Percentile £69.75 - -
90th Percentile £70.20 - -
South East median hourly rate £65.24 £32.77 £61.60
% change year-on-year +99.08% -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 1,472 1,072 1,469
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 81.69% 91.47% 86.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 931 664 770
10th Percentile £350 £343 £325
25th Percentile £425 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £513 £550
Median % change year-on-year +6.34% -6.82% +4.76%
75th Percentile £625 £600 £638
90th Percentile £733 £668 £698
South East median daily rate £525 £500 £515
% change year-on-year +5.00% -2.91% -0.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 138 40 73
10th Percentile £17.43 £14.75 £19.32
25th Percentile £43.66 £16.66 £42.88
Median hourly rate £82.21 £32.18 £61.60
Median % change year-on-year +155.45% -47.76% +2.67%
75th Percentile £88.00 £62.62 £72.33
90th Percentile £104.50 £87.28 £87.46
South East median hourly rate £52.50 £21.90 £57.35
% change year-on-year +139.73% -61.81% +9.24%

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 September 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 5 September 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
Reading -24 24 £550 +2.33% 12
Wokingham -26 10 £400 +1.27%
Maidenhead 0 5 £500 - 1
Slough - 3 - - 1
Bracknell -2 1 £450 -21.74% 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 (4.44%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (4.44%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 4 (8.89%) Oracle ERP
1 4 (8.89%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (6.67%) NEC Housing
Cloud Services
1 24 (53.33%) Azure
2 11 (24.44%) AWS
3 8 (17.78%) SaaS
4 7 (15.56%) GCP
4 7 (15.56%) OpenShift
5 6 (13.33%) Entra ID
6 4 (8.89%) OCI
7 3 (6.67%) Azure Monitor
8 2 (4.44%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (4.44%) Route 53
9 1 (2.22%) Cohesity
9 1 (2.22%) Microsoft 365
9 1 (2.22%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 10 (22.22%) DNS
2 9 (20.00%) Firewall
3 8 (17.78%) DHCP
3 8 (17.78%) TCP/IP
4 7 (15.56%) VPN
5 6 (13.33%) Network Security
6 3 (6.67%) LAN
6 3 (6.67%) NAS
6 3 (6.67%) SAN
6 3 (6.67%) Software-Defined Networking
6 3 (6.67%) WAN
7 2 (4.44%) DNSSEC
7 2 (4.44%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.22%) Oracle Database
1 1 (2.22%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (8.89%) JIRA
2 1 (2.22%) Jenkins
2 1 (2.22%) MSI
General
1 20 (44.44%) Social Skills
2 15 (33.33%) Public Sector
3 13 (28.89%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (20.00%) Aerospace
5 5 (11.11%) Local Government
6 3 (6.67%) Finance
6 3 (6.67%) Retail
7 1 (2.22%) Billing
7 1 (2.22%) Legal
7 1 (2.22%) Manufacturing
7 1 (2.22%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 13 (28.89%) Lead
2 10 (22.22%) Architect
3 7 (15.56%) Systems Engineer
4 4 (8.89%) Project Manager
4 4 (8.89%) Site Engineer
4 4 (8.89%) Site Reliability Engineer
5 3 (6.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 3 (6.67%) Lead Architect
5 3 (6.67%) Senior
5 3 (6.67%) Senior Systems Engineer
6 2 (4.44%) Data Integration Engineer
6 2 (4.44%) Infrastructure Architect
6 2 (4.44%) Integration Engineer
6 2 (4.44%) Lead Solutions Architect
6 2 (4.44%) Network Architect
6 2 (4.44%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
6 2 (4.44%) Solutions Architect
6 2 (4.44%) Systems Integration Engineer
6 2 (4.44%) Technical Architect
6 2 (4.44%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (15.56%) Terraform
2 3 (6.67%) ARM Templates
3 1 (2.22%) LDAP
3 1 (2.22%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 10 (22.22%) Hybrid Cloud
2 5 (11.11%) Management Information System
2 5 (11.11%) Security Posture
3 4 (8.89%) Data Centre
3 4 (8.89%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (8.89%) Security Operations Centre
4 3 (6.67%) Cloud Native
5 2 (4.44%) Analytical Mindset
5 2 (4.44%) Distributed Architecture
5 2 (4.44%) Distributed Computing
5 2 (4.44%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 2 (4.44%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (4.44%) EPoS
5 2 (4.44%) Onboarding
5 2 (4.44%) Operational Technology
6 1 (2.22%) Cyber Threat
6 1 (2.22%) Enterprise Cloud
6 1 (2.22%) Life Science
6 1 (2.22%) Renewable Energy
6 1 (2.22%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 12 (26.67%) Windows
2 11 (24.44%) Linux
3 8 (17.78%) Windows Server
4 3 (6.67%) Windows 10
5 2 (4.44%) Debian
5 2 (4.44%) Ubuntu
6 1 (2.22%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (51.11%) Business Continuity
2 19 (42.22%) Stakeholder Management
3 16 (35.56%) ITIL
4 14 (31.11%) Cybersecurity
5 13 (28.89%) Continuous Improvement
6 10 (22.22%) Agile
6 10 (22.22%) Change Management
6 10 (22.22%) DevOps
6 10 (22.22%) Project Management
7 9 (20.00%) High Availability
7 9 (20.00%) Identity Access Management
7 9 (20.00%) PRINCE2
7 9 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
7 9 (20.00%) Technical Leadership
8 8 (17.78%) Cloud Security
9 7 (15.56%) Infrastructure as Code
10 6 (13.33%) Enterprise Architecture
10 6 (13.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 6 (13.33%) Migration
10 6 (13.33%) Release Management
Programming Languages
1 12 (26.67%) Python
2 9 (20.00%) PowerShell
3 8 (17.78%) Bash
4 4 (8.89%) Go
4 4 (8.89%) Java
5 3 (6.67%) Bicep
6 2 (4.44%) VBScript
7 1 (2.22%) PL/SQL
7 1 (2.22%) SQL
Qualifications
1 22 (48.89%) Security Cleared
2 15 (33.33%) SC Cleared
3 9 (20.00%) Azure Certification
3 9 (20.00%) Degree
4 5 (11.11%) DV Cleared
4 5 (11.11%) Microsoft Certification
5 4 (8.89%) PMP
6 3 (6.67%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (6.67%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 3 (6.67%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 2 (4.44%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (4.44%) PMI Certification
8 1 (2.22%) AWS Certification
8 1 (2.22%) BC Cleared
8 1 (2.22%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (2.22%) CISM
8 1 (2.22%) CISSP
8 1 (2.22%) ISTQB
8 1 (2.22%) ITIL Certification
8 1 (2.22%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (17.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 6 (13.33%) GDPR
3 4 (8.89%) NCSC
4 2 (4.44%) NIST
5 1 (2.22%) GRC
System Software
1 8 (17.78%) Hyper-V
1 8 (17.78%) VMware Infrastructure
2 7 (15.56%) Active Directory
3 3 (6.67%) Docker
4 1 (2.22%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 10 (22.22%) Kubernetes
2 8 (17.78%) Ansible
3 3 (6.67%) Grafana
3 3 (6.67%) Istio
3 3 (6.67%) Prometheus
4 2 (4.44%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (2.22%) Data Guard
5 1 (2.22%) Oracle RMAN
5 1 (2.22%) SCCM
Vendors
1 15 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 9 (20.00%) VMware
3 6 (13.33%) Oracle
4 4 (8.89%) Red Hat
4 4 (8.89%) SAP
5 3 (6.67%) NEC
5 3 (6.67%) ServiceNow
6 2 (4.44%) Google
6 2 (4.44%) Infoblox
6 2 (4.44%) Veeam
7 1 (2.22%) Commvault
7 1 (2.22%) CyberArk
7 1 (2.22%) Dell
7 1 (2.22%) EMC
7 1 (2.22%) NetApp
7 1 (2.22%) Splunk
7 1 (2.22%) Veritas