Disaster Recovery Contract Job Trends in the East Midlands

Disaster Recovery
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the East Midlands requiring Disaster Recovery skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 63 32 44
Rank change year-on-year -31 +12 +30
Contract jobs citing Disaster Recovery 10 23 19
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 1.13% 3.93% 2.63%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.33% 4.54% 3.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 11 11
10th Percentile - - £400
25th Percentile £213 £400 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £225 £425 £550
Median % change year-on-year -47.06% -22.73% +46.67%
75th Percentile £238 £450 £634
90th Percentile - £475 £645
England median daily rate £467 £450 £533
% change year-on-year +3.78% -15.57% +1.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £86.25
Median hourly rate - - £90.00
75th Percentile - - £93.75
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £40.00 £38.00 £70.14
% change year-on-year +5.26% -45.82% +60.62%

All Process & Methodology Skills
East Midlands

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 the East Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 753 507 596
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 84.80% 86.67% 82.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 465 312 425
10th Percentile £188 £250 £213
25th Percentile £352 £325 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £420 £425 £453
Median % change year-on-year -1.18% -6.18% -2.05%
75th Percentile £525 £545 £575
90th Percentile £625 £625 £681
England median daily rate £500 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 86 23 45
10th Percentile £15.86 £15.48 £12.80
25th Percentile £16.35 £17.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £18.44 £22.50 £22.28
Median % change year-on-year -18.07% +1.01% +32.35%
75th Percentile £24.87 £27.65 £51.50
90th Percentile £25.15 £38.49 £62.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year -28.14% -22.22% +26.76%

Disaster Recovery
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

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

Disaster Recovery job vacancy trend in the East Midlands

Disaster Recovery
Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Disaster Recovery.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Disaster Recovery

Disaster Recovery
Hourly Rate Trend in the East Midlands

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Disaster Recovery.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Disaster Recovery

Disaster Recovery
Contract Job Locations in the East Midlands

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 East Midlands region over the 6 months to 1 January 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
Derbyshire -7 4 - - 1
Nottinghamshire - 4 £225 - 2
Leicestershire -11 2 - - 7
Disaster Recovery
England

Disaster Recovery
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East Midlands 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 4 (40.00%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 2 (20.00%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 6 (60.00%) Azure
2 4 (40.00%) Entra ID
2 4 (40.00%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (20.00%) Azure Monitor
3 2 (20.00%) GitHub
3 2 (20.00%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 3 (30.00%) Firewall
2 2 (20.00%) NAS
2 2 (20.00%) SAN
General
1 2 (20.00%) Finance
1 2 (20.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 2 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (40.00%) Desktop Support
1 4 (40.00%) Desktop Support Technician
1 4 (40.00%) Desktop Technician
1 4 (40.00%) Senior
1 4 (40.00%) Senior Desktop Support
1 4 (40.00%) Senior Desktop Support Technician
1 4 (40.00%) Senior Support Technician
1 4 (40.00%) Senior Technician
1 4 (40.00%) Support Technician
2 2 (20.00%) Application Support Team Leader
2 2 (20.00%) Applications Support
2 2 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) IT Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Lead
2 2 (20.00%) Oracle Team Leader
2 2 (20.00%) Support Team Leader
2 2 (20.00%) Systems Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Team Leader
Miscellaneous
1 4 (40.00%) Smartphone
2 2 (20.00%) Enterprise Software
2 2 (20.00%) Operational Technology
2 2 (20.00%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 4 (40.00%) Apple iOS
1 4 (40.00%) Windows
1 4 (40.00%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (70.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 6 (60.00%) BCP
2 6 (60.00%) Business Continuity
2 6 (60.00%) Business Continuity Planning
2 6 (60.00%) Customer Service
2 6 (60.00%) Migration
3 4 (40.00%) Change Management
3 4 (40.00%) CI/CD
3 4 (40.00%) Data Migration
3 4 (40.00%) DevOps
3 4 (40.00%) High Availability
3 4 (40.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 4 (40.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 4 (40.00%) Supplier Management
4 2 (20.00%) Analytics
4 2 (20.00%) Cybersecurity
4 2 (20.00%) GitOps
4 2 (20.00%) Identity Management
4 2 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 2 (20.00%) Runbook
Programming Languages
1 4 (40.00%) PowerShell
1 4 (40.00%) Python
2 2 (20.00%) Bash
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (20.00%) SLA
System Software
1 6 (60.00%) Active Directory
2 2 (20.00%) Docker
2 2 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (40.00%) Microsoft Intune
1 4 (40.00%) SCCM
2 2 (20.00%) Ansible
2 2 (20.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (20.00%) Prometheus
2 2 (20.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (60.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (20.00%) Cisco
2 2 (20.00%) Oracle
2 2 (20.00%) VMware
3 1 (10.00%) F5