Disaster Recovery Contract Job Trends in Bristol

Disaster Recovery
South West > Bristol

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Bristol requiring Disaster Recovery skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 24 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 73 54 67
Rank change year-on-year -19 +13 +33
Contract jobs citing Disaster Recovery 4 7 7
As % of all contract jobs in Bristol 0.39% 1.25% 0.68%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.47% 1.38% 0.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 5 4
10th Percentile £360 - £374
25th Percentile £375 £450 £391
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £475 £400
Median % change year-on-year -15.79% +18.75% -8.57%
75th Percentile £425 £675 £450
90th Percentile £440 £690 £540
South West median daily rate £548 £613 £450
% change year-on-year -10.61% +36.11% -25.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £79.00 - -
South West median hourly rate £79.00 - £69.62
% change year-on-year - - +21.44%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Bristol

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 Bristol.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 852 507 862
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bristol 82.80% 90.21% 83.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 424 281 491
10th Percentile £325 £205 £275
25th Percentile £409 £335 £404
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £488 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.56% -7.14% +5.00%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £638
90th Percentile £725 £688 £688
South West median daily rate £525 £525 £530
% change year-on-year - -0.94% -3.46%
Number of hourly rates quoted 226 67 155
10th Percentile £17.69 £35.00 £36.25
25th Percentile £40.31 £60.00 £45.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year - +8.33% -2.44%
75th Percentile - £68.38 £70.00
90th Percentile £67.25 £71.78 £80.75
South West median hourly rate £57.50 £65.00 £48.72
% change year-on-year -11.54% +33.42% -20.78%

Disaster Recovery
Job Vacancy Trend in Bristol

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Disaster Recovery relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Bristol.

Disaster Recovery job vacancy trend in Bristol

Disaster Recovery
Daily Rate Trend in Bristol

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Bristol citing Disaster Recovery.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Bristol citing Disaster Recovery

Disaster Recovery
Hourly Rate Trend in Bristol

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Bristol citing Disaster Recovery.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Bristol citing Disaster Recovery

Disaster Recovery
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Bristol 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 (50.00%) SharePoint
2 1 (25.00%) Apache
2 1 (25.00%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Chatbot
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) AWS
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft Copilot
2 1 (25.00%) Amazon EC2
2 1 (25.00%) AWS CloudFormation
2 1 (25.00%) Azure
2 1 (25.00%) GitHub
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (25.00%) Power Automate
2 1 (25.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) Amazon Aurora
1 1 (25.00%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (25.00%) DynamoDB
1 1 (25.00%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (25.00%) Hadoop
1 1 (25.00%) MongoDB
1 1 (25.00%) MySQL
1 1 (25.00%) Oracle Database
1 1 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (25.00%) Power BI
1 1 (25.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (25.00%) Aerospace
1 1 (25.00%) Finance
1 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Senior
2 1 (25.00%) Applications Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) AWS Consultant
2 1 (25.00%) Azure Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Cloud Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Consultant
2 1 (25.00%) Data Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Database Consultant
2 1 (25.00%) Delivery Project Manager
2 1 (25.00%) IT Manager
2 1 (25.00%) IT Project Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Lead
2 1 (25.00%) Lead Consultant
2 1 (25.00%) Project Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Data Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Senior IT Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Senior IT Project Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) Apache NiFi
1 1 (25.00%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (25.00%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Replication
2 1 (25.00%) Algorithms
2 1 (25.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (25.00%) Clustering
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) ETL
1 2 (50.00%) Performance Tuning
2 1 (25.00%) Conversational UI
2 1 (25.00%) Cost Optimisation
2 1 (25.00%) Dashboard Development
2 1 (25.00%) Data Development
2 1 (25.00%) Data Ingestion
2 1 (25.00%) Data Pipeline
2 1 (25.00%) Database Optimisation
2 1 (25.00%) Data-Driven Decision Making
2 1 (25.00%) Decision-Making
2 1 (25.00%) DevOps
2 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (25.00%) Line Management
2 1 (25.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (25.00%) Project Delivery
2 1 (25.00%) Runbook
2 1 (25.00%) Technical Leadership
2 1 (25.00%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) AWS Certification
2 1 (25.00%) Azure Certification
2 1 (25.00%) Degree
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) Data Quality
1 1 (25.00%) PMO
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) Ansible
1 2 (50.00%) Terraform
2 1 (25.00%) Grafana
2 1 (25.00%) Kibana
2 1 (25.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (25.00%) logstash
2 1 (25.00%) Prometheus
2 1 (25.00%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (25.00%) Oracle