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 26 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 69 53 64
Rank change year-on-year -16 +11 +40
Contract jobs citing Disaster Recovery 4 5 15
As % of all contract jobs in Bristol 0.36% 0.96% 1.45%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.44% 1.04% 1.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 3 12
10th Percentile - - £366
25th Percentile - - £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 £450 £638
Median % change year-on-year -22.22% -29.41% +45.71%
75th Percentile - £463 £650
90th Percentile - £470 -
South West median daily rate £476 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -13.41% +10.00% -16.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
Median hourly rate £79.00 £78.70 -
Median % change year-on-year +0.38% - -
South West median hourly rate £50.00 £78.70 -
% change year-on-year -36.47% - -

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 905 482 855
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bristol 81.17% 92.34% 82.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 441 291 494
10th Percentile £310 £213 £258
25th Percentile £400 £355 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £454 £513
Median % change year-on-year +10.13% -11.41% +2.50%
75th Percentile £553 £588 £625
90th Percentile £650 £675 £688
South West median daily rate £513 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.37%
Number of hourly rates quoted 238 64 155
10th Percentile £17.69 £35.00 £36.25
25th Percentile £60.00 £60.94 £45.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year - +4.00% +0.81%
75th Percentile - £68.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £69.13 £73.50 £80.00
South West median hourly rate £57.50 £65.00 £47.67
% change year-on-year -11.54% +36.37% -22.50%

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
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 3 (75.00%) SharePoint
2 1 (25.00%) Apache
2 1 (25.00%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Chatbot
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 3 (75.00%) Microsoft Copilot
2 1 (25.00%) AWS
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%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (25.00%) Hadoop
1 1 (25.00%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) JIRA
General
1 2 (50.00%) Finance
2 1 (25.00%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Senior
2 2 (50.00%) Delivery Project Manager
2 2 (50.00%) IT Manager
2 2 (50.00%) IT Project Manager
2 2 (50.00%) Project Manager
2 2 (50.00%) Senior IT Manager
2 2 (50.00%) Senior IT Project Manager
2 2 (50.00%) Senior Manager
2 2 (50.00%) Senior Project Manager
3 1 (25.00%) Applications Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) Azure Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) Cloud Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) Data Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) Apache NiFi
1 1 (25.00%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (25.00%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Algorithms
1 1 (25.00%) Replication
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) AI
1 2 (50.00%) BCP
1 2 (50.00%) Business Continuity
1 2 (50.00%) Business Continuity Planning
1 2 (50.00%) Conversational UI
1 2 (50.00%) Line Management
1 2 (50.00%) Project Delivery
2 1 (25.00%) Agile
2 1 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (25.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (25.00%) Data Ingestion
2 1 (25.00%) Data Modelling
2 1 (25.00%) Data Pipeline
2 1 (25.00%) ETL
2 1 (25.00%) High Availability
2 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (25.00%) ITIL
2 1 (25.00%) PRINCE2
2 1 (25.00%) Supplier Management
2 1 (25.00%) Visualisation
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) AWS Certification
1 1 (25.00%) Azure Certification
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (50.00%) PMO
2 1 (25.00%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Ansible
1 1 (25.00%) Grafana
1 1 (25.00%) Kibana
1 1 (25.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (25.00%) logstash
1 1 (25.00%) Prometheus
1 1 (25.00%) Single Sign-On
1 1 (25.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft