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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 56 55 79
Rank change year-on-year -1 +24 +16
Contract jobs citing Disaster Recovery 10 23 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Bristol 1.40% 2.52% 0.19%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.52% 3.05% 0.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 18 1
10th Percentile £428 £363 -
25th Percentile £463 £547 £275
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £650 £300
Median % change year-on-year -21.54% +116.67% -38.78%
75th Percentile £581 £694 £325
90th Percentile £588 £725 -
South West median daily rate £510 £650 £550
% change year-on-year -21.54% +18.18% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 0
Median hourly rate £80.00 £75.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% - -
South West median hourly rate £80.00 £75.00 £69.62
% change year-on-year +6.67% +7.73% +31.09%

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 660 754 929
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bristol 92.44% 82.68% 86.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 339 407 638
10th Percentile £256 £291 £312
25th Percentile £375 £408 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £645
90th Percentile £697 £705 £725
South West median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 125 143 114
10th Percentile £12.82 £50.25 £18.48
25th Percentile £18.51 £65.00 £45.44
Median hourly rate £30.25 £70.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -56.79% +7.69% -
75th Percentile £65.00 £72.50 £79.06
90th Percentile £73.75 £77.50 £83.40
South West median hourly rate £25.15 £67.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year -62.74% +3.85% +12.17%

Disaster Recovery
Job Vacancy Trend in Bristol

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

Job vacancy trend for Disaster Recovery 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 13 September 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 and Capabilities in Bristol 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%) Apache
1 2 (20.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 7 (70.00%) AWS
2 4 (40.00%) Azure
3 3 (30.00%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (10.00%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (10.00%) Amazon S3
4 1 (10.00%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (10.00%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (10.00%) CloudFront
4 1 (10.00%) GitHub
4 1 (10.00%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (10.00%) Kong
4 1 (10.00%) Sentry
4 1 (10.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (20.00%) DNS
1 2 (20.00%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (20.00%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (10.00%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 2 (20.00%) Jenkins
1 2 (20.00%) JIRA
Job Titles
1 3 (30.00%) Analyst
2 2 (20.00%) Administrator
2 2 (20.00%) Data Centre Analyst
2 2 (20.00%) Data Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Data Migration Analyst
2 2 (20.00%) Data Migration Lead
2 2 (20.00%) DevOps Administrator
2 2 (20.00%) Lead
2 2 (20.00%) Linux Administrator
2 2 (20.00%) Linux DevOps Administrator
2 2 (20.00%) Linux/Unix DevOps
2 2 (20.00%) Migration Analyst
2 2 (20.00%) Senior
2 2 (20.00%) Senior Data Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Test Analyst
2 2 (20.00%) Test Data Analyst
2 2 (20.00%) Test Leader
3 1 (10.00%) AWS Platform Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Cloud Platform Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (20.00%) Apache NiFi
1 2 (20.00%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (10.00%) AWS CDK
Miscellaneous
1 4 (40.00%) Data Centre
2 2 (20.00%) Linux Command Line
2 2 (20.00%) Replication
3 1 (10.00%) Legacy Applications
3 1 (10.00%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 2 (20.00%) Linux
2 1 (10.00%) Windows
2 1 (10.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (70.00%) DevOps
2 5 (50.00%) Migration
3 4 (40.00%) End-to-End Testing
3 4 (40.00%) High Availability
3 4 (40.00%) Server Migrations
3 4 (40.00%) User Acceptance Testing
3 4 (40.00%) Validation
4 3 (30.00%) CI/CD
4 3 (30.00%) Containerisation
4 3 (30.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 3 (30.00%) Security Hardening
5 2 (20.00%) Analytics
5 2 (20.00%) Data Architecture
5 2 (20.00%) Data Governance
5 2 (20.00%) Data Validation
5 2 (20.00%) Functional Testing
5 2 (20.00%) Integration Testing
5 2 (20.00%) Non-Functional Testing
5 2 (20.00%) Performance Tuning
5 2 (20.00%) Release Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (20.00%) Bash
1 2 (20.00%) Perl
1 2 (20.00%) Python
2 1 (10.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 4 (40.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (20.00%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (20.00%) Data Quality
System Software
1 3 (30.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (30.00%) Grafana
1 3 (30.00%) Kubernetes
1 3 (30.00%) Prometheus
1 3 (30.00%) Terraform
2 2 (20.00%) Ansible
2 2 (20.00%) Kibana
2 2 (20.00%) logstash
3 1 (10.00%) Nessus
3 1 (10.00%) SCCM
3 1 (10.00%) WSUS
Vendors
1 2 (20.00%) VMware
2 1 (10.00%) Qualys