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

6 months to
24 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 61 62 73
Rank change year-on-year +1 +11 +27
Contract jobs citing Disaster Recovery 6 6 8
As % of all contract jobs in Bristol 0.76% 0.77% 0.77%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.87% 0.91% 0.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 3 5
10th Percentile £400 £445 £310
25th Percentile £453 £513 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £650 £400
Median % change year-on-year -26.92% +62.50% -18.37%
75th Percentile £508 £688 -
90th Percentile £551 £695 £520
South West median daily rate £475 £700 £500
% change year-on-year -32.14% +40.00% -13.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £75.00 -
South West median hourly rate - £75.00 £69.62
% change year-on-year - +7.73% -

All Process and 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 692 659 908
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bristol 87.15% 84.70% 87.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 350 348 569
10th Percentile £248 £224 £300
25th Percentile £390 £386 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £538
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -11.63% +7.50%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £650
90th Percentile £727 £750 £700
South West median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 163 95 120
10th Percentile £15.12 £35.40 £33.00
25th Percentile £18.87 £60.75 £56.25
Median hourly rate £60.00 £65.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -8.40% +0.77% -
75th Percentile £65.00 £70.25 £80.00
90th Percentile £68.00 £75.00 £83.40
South West median hourly rate £25.15 £65.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year -61.31% +8.33% -7.69%

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
Daily Rate Histogram in Bristol

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Disaster Recovery in Bristol over the 6 months to 24 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Disaster Recovery in Bristol

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 1 (16.67%) Confluence
1 1 (16.67%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 6 (100.00%) AWS
2 3 (50.00%) Azure
3 2 (33.33%) Amazon EC2
3 2 (33.33%) AWS CloudFormation
3 2 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (33.33%) GitHub
4 1 (16.67%) Amazon S3
4 1 (16.67%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (16.67%) CloudFront
4 1 (16.67%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (16.67%) Kong
4 1 (16.67%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Copilot
4 1 (16.67%) Power Automate
4 1 (16.67%) Power Platform
4 1 (16.67%) Sentry
4 1 (16.67%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (33.33%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (16.67%) Amazon Aurora
2 1 (16.67%) DynamoDB
2 1 (16.67%) MongoDB
2 1 (16.67%) MySQL
2 1 (16.67%) Oracle Database
2 1 (16.67%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (16.67%) Power BI
2 1 (16.67%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) JIRA
General
1 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) Analyst
1 2 (33.33%) Data Centre Analyst
1 2 (33.33%) Data Migration Analyst
1 2 (33.33%) Lead
1 2 (33.33%) Migration Analyst
1 2 (33.33%) Test Analyst
1 2 (33.33%) Test Data Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Applications Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) AWS Consultant
2 1 (16.67%) AWS Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) AWS Platform Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Azure Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Cloud Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Cloud Platform Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Consultant
2 1 (16.67%) Data Migration Lead
2 1 (16.67%) Database Consultant
2 1 (16.67%) Lead Consultant
2 1 (16.67%) Platform Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) AWS CDK
Miscellaneous
1 3 (50.00%) Data Centre
2 1 (16.67%) Cloud Native
2 1 (16.67%) Clustering
2 1 (16.67%) Onboarding
2 1 (16.67%) Replication
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) DevOps
1 5 (83.33%) Migration
2 3 (50.00%) End-to-End Testing
2 3 (50.00%) Server Migrations
2 3 (50.00%) User Acceptance Testing
2 3 (50.00%) Validation
3 2 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 2 (33.33%) Data Validation
3 2 (33.33%) Functional Testing
3 2 (33.33%) ITIL
3 2 (33.33%) Non-Functional Testing
3 2 (33.33%) Smoke Testing
4 1 (16.67%) Data Transformation
4 1 (16.67%) Database Optimisation
4 1 (16.67%) Database Security
4 1 (16.67%) Mentoring
4 1 (16.67%) Performance Tuning
4 1 (16.67%) PRINCE2
4 1 (16.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 1 (16.67%) System Integration Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (16.67%) Java
1 1 (16.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (33.33%) AWS Certification
2 1 (16.67%) Azure Certification
2 1 (16.67%) Degree
2 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Certification
Systems Management
1 2 (33.33%) Terraform
2 1 (16.67%) Ansible
2 1 (16.67%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft
1 1 (16.67%) Oracle