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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 36 70 90
Rank change year-on-year +34 +20 +28
Contract jobs citing Disaster Recovery 61 43 24
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 5.20% 2.53% 1.34%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.68% 2.91% 1.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 49 28 13
10th Percentile £219 £219 £425
25th Percentile £293 £325 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £363 £600
Median % change year-on-year +24.14% -39.58% +9.09%
75th Percentile £544 £608 -
90th Percentile £550 - £638
South East median daily rate £450 £423 £588
% change year-on-year +6.51% -28.09% +6.82%
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 1,074 1,479 1,603
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 91.56% 87.15% 89.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 668 765 1,007
10th Percentile £325 £325 £300
25th Percentile £413 £450 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -7.73% +4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £638
90th Percentile £650 £693 £700
South East median daily rate £500 £513 £518
% change year-on-year -2.44% -1.14% +1.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 41 73 61
10th Percentile £14.75 £19.65 £18.50
25th Percentile £17.30 £46.12 £47.50
Median hourly rate £32.31 £61.60 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -47.55% +2.67% +45.65%
75th Percentile £58.00 £71.75 £72.33
90th Percentile £87.25 £87.18 £75.67
South East median hourly rate £21.25 £57.35 £52.50
% change year-on-year -62.95% +9.24% +63.02%

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
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 17 September 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 17 September 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 +7 27 £375 +15.38% 4
Reading +24 24 £538 -11.16% 7
Bracknell -2 1 £575 +53.33% 1
Maidenhead - 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 (4.92%) Oracle SOA Suite
1 3 (4.92%) Oracle Workflow
1 3 (4.92%) WebLogic
2 1 (1.64%) Anypoint
Business Applications
1 9 (14.75%) Oracle EBS R12
1 9 (14.75%) Oracle ERP
2 6 (9.84%) Oracle Assets
3 3 (4.92%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (1.64%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 28 (45.90%) AWS
2 21 (34.43%) Azure
3 9 (14.75%) GCP
4 6 (9.84%) SaaS
5 5 (8.20%) Azure Storage
6 3 (4.92%) OCI
7 1 (1.64%) Azure AKS
7 1 (1.64%) Azure Data Factory
7 1 (1.64%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (1.64%) Azure Monitor
7 1 (1.64%) IaaS
7 1 (1.64%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 13 (21.31%) DNS
2 11 (18.03%) DHCP
2 11 (18.03%) SAN
2 11 (18.03%) TCP/IP
3 10 (16.39%) Firewall
4 9 (14.75%) VLAN
5 4 (6.56%) LAN
5 4 (6.56%) NAS
5 4 (6.56%) WAN
6 2 (3.28%) Internet
6 2 (3.28%) Intranet
6 2 (3.28%) IPv6
6 2 (3.28%) Network Security
6 2 (3.28%) VPN
6 2 (3.28%) VSAN
7 1 (1.64%) Ethernet
7 1 (1.64%) MPLS
7 1 (1.64%) SDH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (4.92%) Oracle BI EE
2 2 (3.28%) Oracle Database
3 1 (1.64%) Azure SQL Database
General
1 28 (45.90%) Analytical Skills
2 22 (36.07%) Social Skills
3 11 (18.03%) Telecoms
4 6 (9.84%) Finance
5 5 (8.20%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 11 (18.03%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 9 (14.75%) Infrastructure Support
2 9 (14.75%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
2 9 (14.75%) Support Engineer
3 8 (13.11%) Resilience Manager
3 8 (13.11%) Test Engineer
4 7 (11.48%) Administrator
4 7 (11.48%) Backup Administrator
4 7 (11.48%) Storage Administrator
4 7 (11.48%) Storage and Backup Administrator
5 6 (9.84%) Network Engineer
6 3 (4.92%) DBA
6 3 (4.92%) HP Storage Administrator
6 3 (4.92%) Oracle DBA
6 3 (4.92%) Site Engineer
6 3 (4.92%) Site Reliability Engineer
7 2 (3.28%) Project Coordinator
7 2 (3.28%) Senior
7 2 (3.28%) Technical Coordinator
7 2 (3.28%) Technical Project Coordinator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (13.11%) RFC 2544
2 2 (3.28%) Middleware
3 1 (1.64%) ADO
3 1 (1.64%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 9 (14.75%) Analytical Mindset
1 9 (14.75%) Data Centre
2 8 (13.11%) Fibre Optics
3 7 (11.48%) Enterprise Storage
4 5 (8.20%) Distributed Systems
5 3 (4.92%) HP Storage
5 3 (4.92%) SCADA
6 2 (3.28%) Management Information System
6 2 (3.28%) Onboarding
6 2 (3.28%) PKI
7 1 (1.64%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (1.64%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 19 (31.15%) Windows
2 18 (29.51%) Linux
3 8 (13.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (6.56%) Unix
4 4 (6.56%) Windows Server 2012
4 4 (6.56%) Windows Server 2016
4 4 (6.56%) Windows Server 2019
5 2 (3.28%) CentOS
5 2 (3.28%) Ubuntu
5 2 (3.28%) Windows Server
6 1 (1.64%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (44.26%) Problem-Solving
2 19 (31.15%) ITIL
3 16 (26.23%) Service Management
4 11 (18.03%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 9 (14.75%) ERP
5 9 (14.75%) Preventative Maintenance
5 9 (14.75%) Virtual Infrastructure
6 8 (13.11%) Case Management
6 8 (13.11%) Task Automation
6 8 (13.11%) Test Scripting
7 7 (11.48%) Defect Management
7 7 (11.48%) High Availability
8 6 (9.84%) Business Continuity
8 6 (9.84%) Capacity Management
8 6 (9.84%) CI/CD
8 6 (9.84%) Data Cleansing
8 6 (9.84%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 6 (9.84%) Stakeholder Management
9 5 (8.20%) Release Management
9 5 (8.20%) Storage Management
Programming Languages
1 10 (16.39%) SQL
2 7 (11.48%) Shell Script
3 5 (8.20%) Go
3 5 (8.20%) Java
3 5 (8.20%) Python
4 3 (4.92%) Perl
4 3 (4.92%) PL/SQL
5 1 (1.64%) Bash
5 1 (1.64%) Bicep
5 1 (1.64%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 30 (49.18%) Security Cleared
2 28 (45.90%) SC Cleared
3 13 (21.31%) Azure Certification
4 9 (14.75%) Microsoft Certification
4 9 (14.75%) Network+ Certification
4 9 (14.75%) Server+ Certification
5 4 (6.56%) AWS Certification
5 4 (6.56%) CCNA
5 4 (6.56%) CCNP
5 4 (6.56%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (3.28%) TOGAF Certification
7 1 (1.64%) Degree
7 1 (1.64%) DV Cleared
7 1 (1.64%) VCAP
7 1 (1.64%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (11.48%) SLA
2 6 (9.84%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 4 (6.56%) GDPR
3 4 (6.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.64%) QA
System Software
1 13 (21.31%) VMware Infrastructure
2 11 (18.03%) Hyper-V
3 4 (6.56%) VMware ESXi
4 3 (4.92%) Oracle RAC
4 3 (4.92%) vSphere
5 2 (3.28%) Active Directory
6 1 (1.64%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (1.64%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 6 (9.84%) Kubernetes
1 6 (9.84%) NetBackup
2 3 (4.92%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
2 3 (4.92%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
2 3 (4.92%) Oracle RMAN
3 2 (3.28%) vCenter Server
4 1 (1.64%) Grafana
4 1 (1.64%) PowerCLI
4 1 (1.64%) Prometheus
4 1 (1.64%) Terraform
4 1 (1.64%) vRealize
Vendors
1 14 (22.95%) VMware
2 13 (21.31%) Microsoft
3 10 (16.39%) NetApp
4 9 (14.75%) Oracle
5 8 (13.11%) Cisco
6 7 (11.48%) 3PAR
6 7 (11.48%) HP
6 7 (11.48%) Red Hat
6 7 (11.48%) Veritas
7 6 (9.84%) Nimble Storage
8 4 (6.56%) EMC
8 4 (6.56%) Pure Storage
9 3 (4.92%) Dell
10 2 (3.28%) Intel
11 1 (1.64%) BMC
11 1 (1.64%) IBM
11 1 (1.64%) MuleSoft
11 1 (1.64%) Rapid7
11 1 (1.64%) Remedy
11 1 (1.64%) Veeam