Disaster Recovery Contract Job Trends in Knutsford

Disaster Recovery
Cheshire > Knutsford

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Knutsford requiring Disaster Recovery skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 40 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Disaster Recovery 3 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Knutsford 1.42% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.54% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £358 - -
25th Percentile £361 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £369 - -
75th Percentile £373 - -
90th Percentile £374 - -
Cheshire median daily rate £375 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -25.00% - -9.09%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Knutsford

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 Knutsford.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 195 275 157
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Knutsford 91.98% 96.49% 94.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 169 264 132
10th Percentile £364 £310 £356
25th Percentile £415 £358 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £453 £415 £448
Median % change year-on-year +9.16% -7.26% -23.63%
75th Percentile £563 £488 £552
90th Percentile £653 £533 £640
Cheshire median daily rate £475 £430 £478
% change year-on-year +10.47% -9.99% -4.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £14.90 - -
Cheshire median hourly rate £35.82 £17.75 £35.00
% change year-on-year +101.80% -49.29% +14.60%

Disaster Recovery
Job Vacancy Trend in Knutsford

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

Disaster Recovery job vacancy trend in Knutsford

Disaster Recovery
Daily Rate Trend in Knutsford

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

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

Disaster Recovery
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Knutsford 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 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (33.33%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) Azure
2 1 (33.33%) Entra ID
2 1 (33.33%) GCP
2 1 (33.33%) GitHub
2 1 (33.33%) Google Workspace
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (33.33%) OpenShift
2 1 (33.33%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 2 (66.67%) DNS
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Jenkins
General
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Azure Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Cloud Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) Terraform
2 1 (33.33%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Cloud Native
1 1 (33.33%) Hybrid Cloud
1 1 (33.33%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Windows
1 1 (33.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Migration
2 2 (66.67%) Runbook
3 1 (33.33%) Agile
3 1 (33.33%) Architecture Governance
3 1 (33.33%) Business Continuity
3 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 1 (33.33%) Containerisation
3 1 (33.33%) Data Migration
3 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 1 (33.33%) Integration Patterns
3 1 (33.33%) Knowledge Transfer
3 1 (33.33%) Load Balancing
3 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (33.33%) RBAC
3 1 (33.33%) Server Migrations
3 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (33.33%) Technical Leadership
3 1 (33.33%) TOGAF
3 1 (33.33%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Bash
1 1 (33.33%) Bicep
1 1 (33.33%) Google Apps Script
1 1 (33.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) BC Cleared
1 1 (33.33%) CISSP
1 1 (33.33%) OCP
1 1 (33.33%) Oracle Certification
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
1 1 (33.33%) TOGAF Certification
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) Active Directory
2 1 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (33.33%) VMware NSX
2 1 (33.33%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Ansible
1 1 (33.33%) Argo
1 1 (33.33%) Grafana
1 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes
1 1 (33.33%) Single Sign-On
1 1 (33.33%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 1 (33.33%) Google
2 1 (33.33%) Pure Storage
2 1 (33.33%) Red Hat
2 1 (33.33%) Splunk
2 1 (33.33%) VMware