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

6 months to
22 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 93 75 107
Rank change year-on-year -18 +32 -4
Contract jobs citing Disaster Recovery 33 18 24
As % of all contract jobs in Berkshire 1.78% 1.53% 1.18%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.05% 1.64% 1.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 11 22
10th Percentile £219 £303 £411
25th Percentile £370 £391 £514
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £475 £600
Median % change year-on-year -15.79% -20.83% +9.09%
75th Percentile £488 £588 £608
90th Percentile £539 £625 £623
South East median daily rate £475 £500 £575
% change year-on-year -5.00% -13.04% +1.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £63.75 -
South East median hourly rate £24.46 £63.75 -
% change year-on-year -61.63% - -

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 1,607 1,099 1,843
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 86.58% 93.61% 90.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,057 635 990
10th Percentile £300 £308 £213
25th Percentile £401 £414 £372
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £608
90th Percentile £653 £687 £675
South East median daily rate £500 £510 £500
% change year-on-year -1.96% +2.00% -0.99%
Number of hourly rates quoted 135 29 101
10th Percentile £19.86 £25.93 £18.95
25th Percentile £57.00 £41.25 £41.25
Median hourly rate £83.00 £61.50 £60.14
Median % change year-on-year +34.97% +2.25% +4.02%
75th Percentile £88.00 £65.62 £71.75
90th Percentile £97.50 £86.27 £87.00
South East median hourly rate £35.00 £34.75 £37.50
% change year-on-year +0.72% -7.33% -16.67%

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 22 March 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 22 March 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
Wokingham -15 22 £388 -38.00% 2
Reading -21 5 £452 +0.39% 6
Slough 0 3 £475 +11.76%
Bracknell - 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 (6.06%) Oracle SOA Suite
1 2 (6.06%) Oracle Workflow
1 2 (6.06%) WebLogic
Applications
1 2 (6.06%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (6.06%) Oracle EBS
1 2 (6.06%) Oracle EBS R12
1 2 (6.06%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 22 (66.67%) Azure
2 15 (45.45%) AWS
3 7 (21.21%) Entra ID
4 6 (18.18%) OCI
5 5 (15.15%) GCP
6 3 (9.09%) Microsoft 365
6 3 (9.09%) PaaS
7 2 (6.06%) Amazon EC2
7 2 (6.06%) Amazon S3
7 2 (6.06%) OpenShift
7 2 (6.06%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 1 (3.03%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (3.03%) AWS CodePipeline
8 1 (3.03%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (3.03%) GitHub
8 1 (3.03%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 5 (15.15%) Firewall
2 4 (12.12%) DHCP
2 4 (12.12%) DNS
2 4 (12.12%) SAN
3 3 (9.09%) NAS
3 3 (9.09%) VPN
4 2 (6.06%) LAN
4 2 (6.06%) SD-WAN
4 2 (6.06%) TCP/IP
4 2 (6.06%) VLAN
4 2 (6.06%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (9.09%) Amazon RDS
1 3 (9.09%) Oracle Database
1 3 (9.09%) Oracle Exadata
2 2 (6.06%) Oracle BI EE
3 1 (3.03%) Oracle Database 11g
3 1 (3.03%) Oracle Database 12c
3 1 (3.03%) Oracle Reports
3 1 (3.03%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (6.06%) JIRA
2 1 (3.03%) Jenkins
General
1 11 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
1 11 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 7 (21.21%) Public Sector
3 4 (12.12%) Organisational Skills
4 3 (9.09%) Finance
4 3 (9.09%) Retail
5 2 (6.06%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (6.06%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (3.03%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 8 (24.24%) Architect
2 5 (15.15%) Platform Architect
3 4 (12.12%) Infrastructure Manager
4 3 (9.09%) DBA
4 3 (9.09%) Head of Infrastructure
4 3 (9.09%) Head of IT
4 3 (9.09%) Head of IT Infrastructure
4 3 (9.09%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 3 (9.09%) Oracle DBA
4 3 (9.09%) Test Manager
5 2 (6.06%) 2nd Line Support
5 2 (6.06%) Infrastructure Architect
5 2 (6.06%) Infrastructure Support
5 2 (6.06%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
5 2 (6.06%) IT Support
5 2 (6.06%) Support Engineer
5 2 (6.06%) Technical Specialist
6 1 (3.03%) Lead Architect
6 1 (3.03%) Oracle Architect
6 1 (3.03%) Site Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (15.15%) Data Centre
1 5 (15.15%) Distributed Systems
2 4 (12.12%) Analytical Mindset
3 2 (6.06%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (6.06%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (6.06%) Onboarding
4 1 (3.03%) Cyberattack
4 1 (3.03%) Enterprise Storage
4 1 (3.03%) HP Storage
4 1 (3.03%) Management Information System
4 1 (3.03%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 10 (30.30%) Windows
2 5 (15.15%) Linux
3 4 (12.12%) Windows Server
4 3 (9.09%) Unix
5 2 (6.06%) Windows 10
6 1 (3.03%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (42.42%) Problem-Solving
2 12 (36.36%) Business Continuity
3 9 (27.27%) High Availability
3 9 (27.27%) Task Automation
4 8 (24.24%) CI/CD
5 6 (18.18%) ITIL
5 6 (18.18%) Performance Tuning
6 5 (15.15%) Change Management
6 5 (15.15%) Continuous Improvement
6 5 (15.15%) Cybersecurity
6 5 (15.15%) Identity Access Management
6 5 (15.15%) Migration
6 5 (15.15%) Release Management
6 5 (15.15%) Resilience Testing
6 5 (15.15%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 5 (15.15%) Stakeholder Management
7 4 (12.12%) Cost Optimisation
7 4 (12.12%) Roadmaps
7 4 (12.12%) Technical Leadership
7 4 (12.12%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 5 (15.15%) Go
1 5 (15.15%) Java
1 5 (15.15%) Python
2 3 (9.09%) SQL
3 2 (6.06%) Perl
3 2 (6.06%) PL/SQL
4 1 (3.03%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 13 (39.39%) Security Cleared
2 11 (33.33%) SC Cleared
3 3 (9.09%) ISTQB
4 2 (6.06%) AWS Certification
4 2 (6.06%) Azure Certification
4 2 (6.06%) Degree
4 2 (6.06%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
4 2 (6.06%) Microsoft Certification
4 2 (6.06%) Network+ Certification
4 2 (6.06%) PMI Certification
4 2 (6.06%) PMP
4 2 (6.06%) Server+ Certification
5 1 (3.03%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (3.03%) CISSP
5 1 (3.03%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (21.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 5 (15.15%) NIST
3 4 (12.12%) GDPR
4 1 (3.03%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 9 (27.27%) Active Directory
2 7 (21.21%) Hyper-V
2 7 (21.21%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (6.06%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 5 (15.15%) Kubernetes
2 3 (9.09%) Microsoft Intune
2 3 (9.09%) Oracle RMAN
3 2 (6.06%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
3 2 (6.06%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
4 1 (3.03%) Data Guard
4 1 (3.03%) NetBackup
4 1 (3.03%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (21.21%) VMware
2 6 (18.18%) Oracle
3 5 (15.15%) Microsoft
3 5 (15.15%) ServiceNow
4 3 (9.09%) Red Hat
5 2 (6.06%) NetApp
5 2 (6.06%) Veritas
5 2 (6.06%) Virgin Media
5 2 (6.06%) Workday
6 1 (3.03%) 3PAR
6 1 (3.03%) Commvault
6 1 (3.03%) Dell
6 1 (3.03%) EMC
6 1 (3.03%) HP
6 1 (3.03%) Nimble Storage
6 1 (3.03%) Veeam