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 12 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 76 61 54
Rank change year-on-year -15 -7 +25
Contract jobs citing Disaster Recovery 9 11 23
As % of all contract jobs in Bristol 0.66% 1.53% 2.50%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.87% 1.66% 3.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 7 18
10th Percentile £523 £428 £363
25th Percentile £598 £463 £547
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £510 £650
Median % change year-on-year +37.25% -21.54% +116.67%
75th Percentile £750 £581 £694
90th Percentile - £588 £725
South West median daily rate £626 £510 £650
% change year-on-year +22.79% -21.54% +18.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 3
10th Percentile - £78.83 £65.00
25th Percentile - £79.03 £68.75
Median hourly rate - £79.35 £75.00
Median % change year-on-year - +5.80% -
75th Percentile - £79.68 -
90th Percentile - £79.87 -
South West median hourly rate £49.00 £79.35 £75.00
% change year-on-year -38.25% +5.80% +7.73%

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 1,033 664 758
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bristol 76.29% 92.61% 82.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 531 341 410
10th Percentile £325 £253 £292
25th Percentile £426 £375 £407
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -10.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £600 £588 £600
90th Percentile £663 £695 £702
South West median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 266 126 143
10th Percentile £21.29 £12.82 £48.00
25th Percentile £46.25 £18.60 £64.38
Median hourly rate £65.00 £31.13 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +108.84% -55.54% +7.69%
75th Percentile £68.75 £65.00 £72.50
90th Percentile £72.54 £73.75 £77.50
South West median hourly rate £62.00 £25.15 £67.50
% change year-on-year +146.52% -62.74% +3.85%

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 12 September 2026.

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:

Business Applications
1 2 (22.22%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 2 (22.22%) AWS
2 1 (11.11%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (22.22%) SAP HANA
General
1 4 (44.44%) Social Skills
2 3 (33.33%) Finance
3 1 (11.11%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (33.33%) Compliance Specialist
1 3 (33.33%) Infrastructure Manager
1 3 (33.33%) Junior
1 3 (33.33%) Network Infrastructure Manager
1 3 (33.33%) Network Manager
2 2 (22.22%) Consultant
2 2 (22.22%) SAP Basis Consultant
2 2 (22.22%) SAP Consultant
2 2 (22.22%) SAP S/4HANA Consultant
3 1 (11.11%) Architect
3 1 (11.11%) AWS Consultant
3 1 (11.11%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (22.22%) SAP Basis
Miscellaneous
1 3 (33.33%) Data Centre
1 3 (33.33%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (66.67%) Business Continuity
2 3 (33.33%) Fintech
2 3 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
2 3 (33.33%) IT Strategy
2 3 (33.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 3 (33.33%) Technology Strategy
3 2 (22.22%) High Availability
4 1 (11.11%) Business Impact Analysis
4 1 (11.11%) Impact Analysis
4 1 (11.11%) Microservices
4 1 (11.11%) Performance Monitoring
4 1 (11.11%) Performance Testing
4 1 (11.11%) Performance Tuning
4 1 (11.11%) Runbook
4 1 (11.11%) Stakeholder Management
Qualifications
1 3 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 3 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (11.11%) QA
System Software
1 3 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 3 (33.33%) NetApp
1 3 (33.33%) VMware
2 2 (22.22%) SAP