Disaster Recovery Contracts in Birmingham

Disaster Recovery
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Birmingham requiring Disaster Recovery skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Disaster Recovery over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 40 61 67
Rank change year-on-year +21 +6 +13
Contract jobs citing Disaster Recovery 10 6 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Birmingham 1.92% 0.78% 0.88%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.21% 0.93% 1.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 5 6
10th Percentile £344 £380 £288
25th Percentile £413 £388 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £451 £525 £638
Median % change year-on-year -14.19% -17.65% +50.00%
75th Percentile £503 £588 £650
90th Percentile £528 £685 -
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £463 £500
% change year-on-year +8.11% -7.50% +11.11%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Birmingham

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 Birmingham.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 452 644 798
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 86.59% 83.31% 88.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 317 423 537
10th Percentile £163 £240 £263
25th Percentile £375 £368 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £463 £513
Median % change year-on-year +8.11% -9.76% +7.89%
75th Percentile £600 £575 £625
90th Percentile £700 £675 £700
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £500 £512
% change year-on-year - -2.34% +5.03%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 44 27
10th Percentile - £13.20 £11.00
25th Percentile £12.62 £17.75 £12.50
Median hourly rate £18.38 £27.25 £15.00
Median % change year-on-year -32.57% +81.67% -14.19%
75th Percentile £27.69 £48.75 £26.50
90th Percentile £30.68 £56.25 £71.25
West Midlands median hourly rate £18.00 £22.50 £17.72
% change year-on-year -20.00% +26.98% +4.24%

Disaster Recovery
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

Job postings citing Disaster Recovery as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Birmingham.

Job vacancy trend for Disaster Recovery in Birmingham

Disaster Recovery
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Disaster Recovery in Birmingham.

Daily rate trend for Disaster Recovery in Birmingham

Disaster Recovery
Daily Rate Histogram in Birmingham

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Disaster Recovery in Birmingham over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Disaster Recovery in Birmingham

Disaster Recovery
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Birmingham

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Disaster Recovery in Birmingham.

Hourly rate trend for Disaster Recovery in Birmingham

Disaster Recovery
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Birmingham 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 2 (20.00%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 6 (60.00%) Azure
2 3 (30.00%) IaaS
2 3 (30.00%) PaaS
2 3 (30.00%) SaaS
3 2 (20.00%) Azure Monitor
3 2 (20.00%) Azure Sentinel
3 2 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (20.00%) Elasticsearch
1 2 (20.00%) NoSQL
1 2 (20.00%) SQL Server
1 2 (20.00%) Tableau
General
1 2 (20.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (10.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 4 (40.00%) Project Manager
2 3 (30.00%) IT Manager
2 3 (30.00%) IT Project Manager
3 2 (20.00%) Analyst
3 2 (20.00%) Azure Engineer
3 2 (20.00%) Cloud Engineer
3 2 (20.00%) Lead
3 2 (20.00%) Resilience Manager
3 2 (20.00%) Service Continuity Leader
3 2 (20.00%) Support Analyst
4 1 (10.00%) Consultant
4 1 (10.00%) Contracts Manager
4 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure Manager
4 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure Project Manager
4 1 (10.00%) IT Consultant
4 1 (10.00%) Project Consultant
4 1 (10.00%) Software Analyst
4 1 (10.00%) Software Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (20.00%) .NET
1 2 (20.00%) HTML
1 2 (20.00%) Middleware
1 2 (20.00%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 2 (20.00%) Distributed Systems
1 2 (20.00%) PMI
1 2 (20.00%) Replication
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (70.00%) Business Continuity
2 6 (60.00%) ITIL
3 5 (50.00%) Migration
4 4 (40.00%) Business Impact Analysis
4 4 (40.00%) Impact Analysis
5 3 (30.00%) BCP
5 3 (30.00%) Business Continuity Planning
5 3 (30.00%) Requirements Workshops
5 3 (30.00%) Systems Analysis
5 3 (30.00%) Workshop Facilitation
6 2 (20.00%) Business Continuity Management
6 2 (20.00%) DevOps
6 2 (20.00%) High Availability
6 2 (20.00%) Incident Management
6 2 (20.00%) Load Balancing
6 2 (20.00%) Performance Tuning
6 2 (20.00%) Problem Management
6 2 (20.00%) Root Cause Analysis
6 2 (20.00%) Supplier Management
6 2 (20.00%) Web Application Development
Programming Languages
1 2 (20.00%) C#
1 2 (20.00%) JavaScript
1 2 (20.00%) PowerShell
1 2 (20.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (20.00%) Azure Certification
1 2 (20.00%) Degree
1 2 (20.00%) PMI Certification
1 2 (20.00%) Security Cleared
1 2 (20.00%) Tableau Certification
2 1 (10.00%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (30.00%) Data Quality
1 3 (30.00%) PMO
2 2 (20.00%) ISO/IEC 20000
3 1 (10.00%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 4 (40.00%) Active Directory
2 3 (30.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 2 (20.00%) Grafana
1 2 (20.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (20.00%) Microsoft Intune
1 2 (20.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (50.00%) Microsoft