Disaster Recovery Contract Job Trends in Kent

Disaster Recovery
South East > Kent

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Kent requiring Disaster Recovery skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 23 19 29
Rank change year-on-year -4 +10 +10
Contract jobs citing Disaster Recovery 2 5 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Kent 1.54% 2.62% 0.44%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.87% 3.76% 0.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 5 1
10th Percentile £444 £472 -
25th Percentile £491 £513 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year +11.90% -2.78% +12.50%
75th Percentile £691 £585 -
90th Percentile £741 £594 -
South East median daily rate £450 £423 £588
% change year-on-year +6.51% -28.09% +6.82%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Kent

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 Kent.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 107 133 167
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Kent 82.31% 69.63% 74.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 84 64 131
10th Percentile £181 £153 £205
25th Percentile £256 £204 £240
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £443 £475
Median % change year-on-year -15.25% -6.84% -
75th Percentile £516 £586 £545
90th Percentile £624 £634 £630
South East median daily rate £500 £513 £518
% change year-on-year -2.44% -1.14% +2.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 12 8
10th Percentile £17.98 - £52.28
25th Percentile - £15.00 £53.44
Median hourly rate £20.40 £19.50 £56.25
Median % change year-on-year +4.62% -65.33% +51.49%
75th Percentile - £53.25 £79.05
90th Percentile - £54.32 £79.19
South East median hourly rate £20.58 £57.35 £52.50
% change year-on-year -64.12% +9.24% +61.54%

Disaster Recovery
Job Vacancy Trend in Kent

Job postings citing Disaster Recovery as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Kent.

Job vacancy trend for Disaster Recovery in Kent

Disaster Recovery
Daily Rate Trend in Kent

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

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

Disaster Recovery
Daily Rate Histogram in Kent

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Disaster Recovery in Kent over the 6 months to 15 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Disaster Recovery in Kent

Disaster Recovery
Hourly Rate Trend in Kent

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

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

Disaster Recovery
Contract Job Locations in Kent

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 Kent region over the 6 months to 15 September 2025. 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
Chatham -3 1 £425 -12.37% 1
Dartford - 1 £750 -
Disaster Recovery
South East

Disaster Recovery
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Kent by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) DHCP
1 1 (50.00%) DNS
1 1 (50.00%) Firewall
1 1 (50.00%) VLAN
1 1 (50.00%) VoIP
General
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Business Consultant
1 1 (50.00%) Business Continuity Consultant
1 1 (50.00%) Consultant
1 1 (50.00%) Network Analyst
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Business Continuity
2 1 (50.00%) BCP
2 1 (50.00%) Business Continuity Management
2 1 (50.00%) Business Impact Analysis
2 1 (50.00%) Change Management
2 1 (50.00%) Impact Analysis
2 1 (50.00%) ITIL
2 1 (50.00%) Roadmaps
2 1 (50.00%) Strategic Roadmap
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) ISO 22301
1 1 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (50.00%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Cisco
1 1 (50.00%) Citrix
1 1 (50.00%) Dell
1 1 (50.00%) HP
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (50.00%) VMware