Disaster Recovery Contract Job Trends in Chester

Disaster Recovery
Cheshire > Chester

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Chester requiring Disaster Recovery skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 8 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 24 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Disaster Recovery 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Chester 1.47% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.06% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £484 - -
25th Percentile £488 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 - -
75th Percentile £538 - -
90th Percentile £541 - -
Cheshire median daily rate £365 £320 £570
% change year-on-year +14.06% -43.86% +46.15%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Chester

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 Chester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 97 67 40
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Chester 71.32% 98.53% 72.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 21 18
10th Percentile £402 £325 £266
25th Percentile £413 £405 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £638
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -13.73% +59.38%
75th Percentile £600 £700 £738
90th Percentile £748 £738 -
Cheshire median daily rate £450 £449 £488
% change year-on-year +0.33% -8.09% +2.74%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 17 8
10th Percentile £16.01 £19.00 -
25th Percentile £21.75 £33.40 £41.25
Median hourly rate £29.36 £50.00 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -41.28% +17.65% +38.19%
75th Percentile £36.74 £86.00 £47.50
90th Percentile £42.35 - -
Cheshire median hourly rate £35.41 £37.00 £26.66
% change year-on-year -4.30% +38.78% -12.70%

Disaster Recovery
Job Vacancy Trend in Chester

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

Disaster Recovery job vacancy trend in Chester

Disaster Recovery
Daily Rate Trend in Chester

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

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

Disaster Recovery
Hourly Rate Trend in Chester

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

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

Disaster Recovery
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Chester 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 (100.00%) Remedy ITSM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 2 (100.00%) SQL Server Analysis Services
1 2 (100.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
1 2 (100.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Analysis Services
General
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) DBA
1 2 (100.00%) SQL DBA
1 2 (100.00%) SQL Server DBA
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Clustering
1 2 (100.00%) Replication
2 1 (50.00%) Enterprise Storage
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
2 1 (50.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 2 (100.00%) Database Mirroring
1 2 (100.00%) Database Tuning
1 2 (100.00%) High Availability
1 2 (100.00%) ITIL
1 2 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
1 2 (100.00%) Service Management
2 1 (50.00%) AI
2 1 (50.00%) Capacity Planning
2 1 (50.00%) Database Security
2 1 (50.00%) Generative AI
2 1 (50.00%) Incident Management
2 1 (50.00%) ITSM
2 1 (50.00%) Problem Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
1 2 (100.00%) T-SQL
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) BMC
1 2 (100.00%) Remedy
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft