Disaster Recovery Contract Job Trends in Leicestershire

Disaster Recovery
East Midlands > Leicestershire

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

6 months to
6 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 30 - 18
Rank change year-on-year - - +11
Contract jobs citing Disaster Recovery 1 0 4
As % of all contract jobs in Leicestershire 0.60% - 2.96%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.74% - 3.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 - £438
Median % change year-on-year - - -14.22%
75th Percentile - - £456
90th Percentile - - £468
East Midlands median daily rate £475 £550 £400
% change year-on-year -13.64% +37.50% -20.00%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Leicestershire

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 Leicestershire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 135 100 105
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leicestershire 80.84% 77.52% 77.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 82 62 79
10th Percentile £201 £132 £185
25th Percentile £313 £250 £309
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £431 £386 £425
Median % change year-on-year +11.65% -9.12% -
75th Percentile £538 £488 £525
90th Percentile £634 £580 £625
East Midlands median daily rate £488 £410 £450
% change year-on-year +18.90% -8.89% -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 4 3
10th Percentile £13.45 £19.03 £21.30
25th Percentile £15.73 £19.81 £22.13
Median hourly rate £22.20 £20.90 £24.00
Median % change year-on-year +6.22% -12.92% +33.33%
75th Percentile £30.94 £22.60 £26.63
90th Percentile £33.75 £24.94 £27.90
East Midlands median hourly rate £18.00 £19.00 £19.16
% change year-on-year -5.26% -0.84% -62.43%

Disaster Recovery
Job Vacancy Trend in Leicestershire

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

Disaster Recovery job vacancy trend in Leicestershire

Disaster Recovery
Daily Rate Trend in Leicestershire

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

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

Disaster Recovery
Hourly Rate Trend in Leicestershire

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

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

Disaster Recovery
Contract Job Locations in Leicestershire

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 Leicestershire region over the 6 months to 6 August 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
Leicester - 1 £540 - 3
Disaster Recovery
East Midlands

Disaster Recovery
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Leicestershire 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 (100.00%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (100.00%) MongoDB
1 1 (100.00%) MySQL
1 1 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (100.00%) RDBMS
1 1 (100.00%) Relational Database
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (100.00%) VLDB
General
1 1 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Administrator
1 1 (100.00%) Database Specialist
1 1 (100.00%) DBA
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared DBA
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Data ONTAP
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Database Security
1 1 (100.00%) Database Tuning
1 1 (100.00%) High Availability
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Google
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) NetApp
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle