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

6 months to
14 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 60 59 75
Rank change year-on-year -1 +16 +20
Contract jobs citing Disaster Recovery 9 14 4
As % of all contract jobs in Bristol 1.20% 1.61% 0.39%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.30% 1.94% 0.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 9 2
10th Percentile £428 £334 £308
25th Percentile £459 £500 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £493 £650 £450
Median % change year-on-year -24.23% +44.44% -8.16%
75th Percentile £578 £725 £531
90th Percentile £588 - £573
South West median daily rate £505 £700 £525
% change year-on-year -27.86% +33.33% -4.55%
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% +25.55%

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 692 720 909
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bristol 91.90% 82.76% 87.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 340 369 588
10th Percentile £249 £260 £305
25th Percentile £375 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £489 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.89% -9.52% +5.00%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £650
90th Percentile £753 £725 £722
South West median daily rate £508 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.33% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 151 132 125
10th Percentile £12.82 £44.18 £28.80
25th Percentile £18.87 £62.38 £50.00
Median hourly rate £32.50 £70.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -53.57% +7.69% -
75th Percentile £65.00 £72.50 £76.25
90th Percentile £68.75 £75.00 £83.40
South West median hourly rate £25.15 £67.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year -62.74% +12.50% -

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 14 October 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 2 (22.22%) Apache
1 2 (22.22%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 6 (66.67%) AWS
2 4 (44.44%) Azure
3 3 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (22.22%) Amazon EC2
4 2 (22.22%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (11.11%) Amazon S3
5 1 (11.11%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (11.11%) CloudFront
5 1 (11.11%) GitHub
5 1 (11.11%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (11.11%) Kong
5 1 (11.11%) Sentry
5 1 (11.11%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (22.22%) Amazon RDS
1 2 (22.22%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (11.11%) Amazon Aurora
2 1 (11.11%) DynamoDB
2 1 (11.11%) MongoDB
2 1 (11.11%) MySQL
2 1 (11.11%) Oracle Database
2 1 (11.11%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (11.11%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (22.22%) JIRA
General
1 1 (11.11%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (33.33%) Analyst
1 3 (33.33%) Lead
2 2 (22.22%) Data Centre Analyst
2 2 (22.22%) Data Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) Data Migration Analyst
2 2 (22.22%) Data Migration Lead
2 2 (22.22%) Migration Analyst
2 2 (22.22%) Senior
2 2 (22.22%) Senior Data Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) Test Analyst
2 2 (22.22%) Test Data Analyst
2 2 (22.22%) Test Leader
3 1 (11.11%) AWS Consultant
3 1 (11.11%) AWS Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Consultant
3 1 (11.11%) Database Consultant
3 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) Lead Consultant
3 1 (11.11%) Platform Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Security Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (22.22%) Apache NiFi
1 2 (22.22%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (11.11%) AWS CDK
Miscellaneous
1 4 (44.44%) Data Centre
2 3 (33.33%) Replication
3 1 (11.11%) Cloud Native
3 1 (11.11%) Clustering
3 1 (11.11%) Legacy Applications
3 1 (11.11%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 1 (11.11%) Windows
1 1 (11.11%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (66.67%) DevOps
1 6 (66.67%) Migration
2 4 (44.44%) End-to-End Testing
2 4 (44.44%) Server Migrations
2 4 (44.44%) User Acceptance Testing
2 4 (44.44%) Validation
3 3 (33.33%) Performance Tuning
4 2 (22.22%) Analytics
4 2 (22.22%) Data Architecture
4 2 (22.22%) Data Governance
4 2 (22.22%) Data Modelling
4 2 (22.22%) Data Pipeline
4 2 (22.22%) Data Validation
4 2 (22.22%) Functional Testing
4 2 (22.22%) High Availability
4 2 (22.22%) Integration Testing
4 2 (22.22%) ITIL
4 2 (22.22%) Non-Functional Testing
4 2 (22.22%) Release Management
4 2 (22.22%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 1 (11.11%) Java
1 1 (11.11%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (22.22%) DV Cleared
1 2 (22.22%) Security Cleared
2 1 (11.11%) AWS Certification
2 1 (11.11%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (22.22%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (11.11%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (22.22%) Kibana
1 2 (22.22%) logstash
1 2 (22.22%) Terraform
2 1 (11.11%) Ansible
2 1 (11.11%) Grafana
2 1 (11.11%) Kubernetes
2 1 (11.11%) Nessus
2 1 (11.11%) Prometheus
2 1 (11.11%) SCCM
2 1 (11.11%) WSUS
Vendors
1 1 (11.11%) Oracle
1 1 (11.11%) Qualys