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 23 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 38 72 104
Rank change year-on-year +34 +32 +9
Contract jobs citing Disaster Recovery 62 33 19
As % of all contract jobs in Berkshire 4.91% 2.03% 1.08%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.44% 2.30% 1.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 50 21 14
10th Percentile £219 £170 £463
25th Percentile £268 £313 £566
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £420 £350 £600
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% -41.67% +9.09%
75th Percentile £543 £608 £638
90th Percentile £550 - £685
South East median daily rate £425 £400 £600
% change year-on-year +6.25% -33.33% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 5 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 1,139 1,437 1,577
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 90.25% 88.49% 89.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 729 765 975
10th Percentile £324 £330 £248
25th Percentile £415 £428 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -7.41% +2.86% +5.00%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £635
90th Percentile £650 £688 £700
South East median daily rate £500 £512 £525
% change year-on-year -2.31% -2.51% +2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 53 57 67
10th Percentile £14.75 £19.08 £18.95
25th Percentile £17.30 £41.25 £46.81
Median hourly rate £30.11 £58.49 £61.79
Median % change year-on-year -48.52% -5.34% +22.36%
75th Percentile £58.00 £63.41 £72.17
90th Percentile £74.40 £75.08 £76.46
South East median hourly rate £20.71 £58.17 £52.50
% change year-on-year -64.40% +10.80% +47.89%

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 23 October 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 23 October 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 -1 31 £395 +21.54% 1
Reading +34 18 £538 +12.57% 10
Slough +1 2 £475 +97.92% 18
Bracknell -3 2 £575 -
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 3 (4.84%) Oracle SOA Suite
1 3 (4.84%) Oracle Workflow
1 3 (4.84%) WebLogic
2 1 (1.61%) Anypoint
Business Applications
1 9 (14.52%) Oracle EBS R12
1 9 (14.52%) Oracle ERP
2 6 (9.68%) Oracle Assets
3 3 (4.84%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 28 (45.16%) Azure
2 27 (43.55%) AWS
3 9 (14.52%) GCP
4 6 (9.68%) SaaS
5 5 (8.06%) Azure Storage
6 4 (6.45%) Entra ID
7 3 (4.84%) OCI
8 2 (3.23%) Microsoft 365
9 1 (1.61%) Amazon EC2
9 1 (1.61%) Amazon S3
9 1 (1.61%) Azure AKS
9 1 (1.61%) Azure Data Factory
9 1 (1.61%) Azure DevOps
9 1 (1.61%) Azure Monitor
9 1 (1.61%) IaaS
9 1 (1.61%) Microsoft Purview
9 1 (1.61%) PaaS
9 1 (1.61%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 14 (22.58%) DNS
2 13 (20.97%) TCP/IP
3 12 (19.35%) DHCP
4 11 (17.74%) SAN
4 11 (17.74%) VLAN
5 10 (16.13%) Firewall
6 4 (6.45%) LAN
6 4 (6.45%) NAS
6 4 (6.45%) WAN
7 2 (3.23%) Internet
7 2 (3.23%) Intranet
7 2 (3.23%) IPv6
7 2 (3.23%) Network Security
7 2 (3.23%) VPN
7 2 (3.23%) VSAN
8 1 (1.61%) Ethernet
8 1 (1.61%) MPLS
8 1 (1.61%) SDH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (4.84%) Oracle BI EE
2 2 (3.23%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (3.23%) Azure SQL Database
2 2 (3.23%) Oracle Database
3 1 (1.61%) Apache Cassandra
3 1 (1.61%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (1.61%) MongoDB
3 1 (1.61%) MySQL
3 1 (1.61%) NoSQL
3 1 (1.61%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (1.61%) RDBMS
3 1 (1.61%) Relational Database
3 1 (1.61%) SQL Server
General
1 27 (43.55%) Analytical Skills
2 21 (33.87%) Social Skills
3 11 (17.74%) Telecoms
4 7 (11.29%) Finance
5 6 (9.68%) Public Sector
6 4 (6.45%) Documentation Skills
7 3 (4.84%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (3.23%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 13 (20.97%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 11 (17.74%) Infrastructure Support
2 11 (17.74%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
2 11 (17.74%) Support Engineer
3 8 (12.90%) Test Engineer
4 7 (11.29%) Administrator
4 7 (11.29%) Backup Administrator
4 7 (11.29%) Storage Administrator
4 7 (11.29%) Storage and Backup Administrator
5 6 (9.68%) Network Engineer
6 3 (4.84%) DBA
6 3 (4.84%) HP Storage Administrator
6 3 (4.84%) Oracle DBA
6 3 (4.84%) Site Engineer
6 3 (4.84%) Site Reliability Engineer
6 3 (4.84%) Test Manager
7 2 (3.23%) Resilience Manager
7 2 (3.23%) Senior
7 2 (3.23%) Technical Specialist
7 2 (3.23%) Test Strategist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (12.90%) RFC 2544
2 2 (3.23%) Middleware
3 1 (1.61%) ADO
3 1 (1.61%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 11 (17.74%) Analytical Mindset
2 9 (14.52%) Data Centre
3 8 (12.90%) Fibre Optics
4 7 (11.29%) Enterprise Storage
5 5 (8.06%) Distributed Systems
6 4 (6.45%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (4.84%) HP Storage
7 3 (4.84%) SCADA
8 2 (3.23%) Management Information System
8 2 (3.23%) Onboarding
8 2 (3.23%) Replication
9 1 (1.61%) Clustering
9 1 (1.61%) Cyberattack
9 1 (1.61%) Data Protection Act
9 1 (1.61%) PKI
9 1 (1.61%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 20 (32.26%) Linux
1 20 (32.26%) Windows
2 8 (12.90%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 4 (6.45%) Unix
3 4 (6.45%) Windows Server 2012
3 4 (6.45%) Windows Server 2016
3 4 (6.45%) Windows Server 2019
4 2 (3.23%) CentOS
4 2 (3.23%) Ubuntu
5 1 (1.61%) VMS
5 1 (1.61%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (43.55%) Problem-Solving
2 20 (32.26%) ITIL
3 18 (29.03%) Service Management
4 14 (22.58%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 12 (19.35%) ERP
6 11 (17.74%) Preventative Maintenance
6 11 (17.74%) Virtual Infrastructure
7 9 (14.52%) Business Continuity
7 9 (14.52%) Stakeholder Management
7 9 (14.52%) Task Automation
8 8 (12.90%) Case Management
8 8 (12.90%) High Availability
8 8 (12.90%) Root Cause Analysis
8 8 (12.90%) Test Scripting
9 7 (11.29%) Defect Management
10 6 (9.68%) Capacity Management
10 6 (9.68%) CI/CD
10 6 (9.68%) Data Cleansing
10 6 (9.68%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 5 (8.06%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 11 (17.74%) SQL
2 7 (11.29%) Shell Script
3 6 (9.68%) Python
4 5 (8.06%) Go
4 5 (8.06%) Java
5 3 (4.84%) Perl
5 3 (4.84%) PL/SQL
6 2 (3.23%) Bash
6 2 (3.23%) PowerShell
7 1 (1.61%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 33 (53.23%) Security Cleared
2 30 (48.39%) SC Cleared
3 16 (25.81%) Azure Certification
4 12 (19.35%) Microsoft Certification
5 11 (17.74%) Network+ Certification
5 11 (17.74%) Server+ Certification
6 6 (9.68%) AWS Certification
7 4 (6.45%) CCNA
7 4 (6.45%) CCNP
7 4 (6.45%) Cisco Certification
8 3 (4.84%) ISTQB
8 3 (4.84%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
9 2 (3.23%) TOGAF Certification
10 1 (1.61%) Degree
10 1 (1.61%) DV Cleared
10 1 (1.61%) OCP
10 1 (1.61%) Oracle Certification
10 1 (1.61%) VCAP
10 1 (1.61%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (9.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 6 (9.68%) Sarbanes-Oxley
1 6 (9.68%) SLA
2 5 (8.06%) GDPR
3 1 (1.61%) NIST
3 1 (1.61%) QA
System Software
1 16 (25.81%) VMware Infrastructure
2 14 (22.58%) Hyper-V
3 4 (6.45%) Active Directory
4 3 (4.84%) Oracle RAC
4 3 (4.84%) VMware ESXi
4 3 (4.84%) vSphere
5 1 (1.61%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (1.61%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 6 (9.68%) Kubernetes
1 6 (9.68%) NetBackup
2 3 (4.84%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
2 3 (4.84%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
2 3 (4.84%) Oracle RMAN
3 2 (3.23%) vCenter Server
4 1 (1.61%) Grafana
4 1 (1.61%) PowerCLI
4 1 (1.61%) Prometheus
4 1 (1.61%) Terraform
4 1 (1.61%) vRealize
Vendors
1 18 (29.03%) Microsoft
2 17 (27.42%) VMware
3 10 (16.13%) NetApp
3 10 (16.13%) Oracle
4 8 (12.90%) Cisco
5 7 (11.29%) 3PAR
5 7 (11.29%) HP
5 7 (11.29%) Red Hat
5 7 (11.29%) Veritas
6 6 (9.68%) Nimble Storage
7 4 (6.45%) EMC
7 4 (6.45%) Pure Storage
8 3 (4.84%) Dell
8 3 (4.84%) ServiceNow
8 3 (4.84%) Workday
9 1 (1.61%) IBM
9 1 (1.61%) Intel
9 1 (1.61%) MuleSoft
9 1 (1.61%) Veeam