Disaster Recovery Contract Job Trends in Cambridgeshire

Disaster Recovery
East of England > Cambridgeshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire requiring Disaster Recovery skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 40 39 35
Rank change year-on-year -1 -4 +16
Contract jobs citing Disaster Recovery 3 3 11
As % of all contract jobs in Cambridgeshire 0.79% 0.86% 2.58%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.92% 0.98% 3.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 9
10th Percentile £452 - -
25th Percentile £512 - £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £622 - £420
Median % change year-on-year - - +1.82%
75th Percentile £654 - £451
90th Percentile £667 - -
East of England median daily rate £622 £488 £420
% change year-on-year +27.59% +16.07% -16.00%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Cambridgeshire

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 Cambridgeshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 327 306 346
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 86.05% 88.18% 81.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 156 111 114
10th Percentile £175 £250 £225
25th Percentile £400 £400 £340
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £450
Median % change year-on-year -3.90% +16.67% -
75th Percentile £581 £625 £555
90th Percentile £626 £700 £638
East of England median daily rate £500 £500 £442
% change year-on-year - +13.12% -11.60%
Number of hourly rates quoted 66 90 140
10th Percentile £13.45 £14.36 £14.16
25th Percentile - £14.88 £15.00
Median hourly rate £14.22 £16.00 £16.23
Median % change year-on-year -11.13% -1.42% +11.93%
75th Percentile £23.75 £18.97 £16.85
90th Percentile £43.13 £43.75 £38.18
East of England median hourly rate £47.50 £25.15 £38.12
% change year-on-year +88.87% -34.02% +92.43%

Disaster Recovery
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridgeshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Disaster Recovery relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire.

Disaster Recovery job vacancy trend in Cambridgeshire

Disaster Recovery
Daily Rate Trend in Cambridgeshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cambridgeshire citing Disaster Recovery.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cambridgeshire citing Disaster Recovery

Disaster Recovery
Daily Rate Histogram in Cambridgeshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Disaster Recovery in Cambridgeshire over the 6 months to 11 September 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Disaster Recovery in Cambridgeshire

Disaster Recovery
Hourly Rate Trend in Cambridgeshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Cambridgeshire citing Disaster Recovery.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Cambridgeshire citing Disaster Recovery

Disaster Recovery
Contract Job Locations in Cambridgeshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Disaster Recovery within the Cambridgeshire region over the 6 months to 11 September 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Huntingdon - 2 £649 - 1
Peterborough - 1 £425 - 2
Disaster Recovery
East of England

Disaster Recovery
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cambridgeshire 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) SQL Server
General
1 1 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Architect
2 1 (33.33%) DBA
2 1 (33.33%) SQL DBA
2 1 (33.33%) Technical Architect
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Application Security
1 2 (66.67%) Migration
1 2 (66.67%) Project Planning
1 2 (66.67%) Technical Architecture
1 2 (66.67%) Technical Leadership
2 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 1 (33.33%) Cloud Security
2 1 (33.33%) Collaborative Working
2 1 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (33.33%) Database Security
2 1 (33.33%) DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) High Availability
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (33.33%) Performance Tuning
2 1 (33.33%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Bash
1 1 (33.33%) PowerShell
1 1 (33.33%) Python
1 1 (33.33%) SQL
1 1 (33.33%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) BPSS Clearance
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft