Disaster Recovery Contracts in Manchester

Disaster Recovery
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Manchester requiring Disaster Recovery skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Disaster Recovery over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 44 64 103
Rank change year-on-year +20 +39 +6
Contract jobs citing Disaster Recovery 35 32 15
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 3.78% 2.11% 0.79%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.22% 2.42% 0.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 28 7
10th Percentile £412 £313 £361
25th Percentile £445 £375 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £534 £390
Median % change year-on-year -15.73% +36.92% -21.21%
75th Percentile £570 £553 £488
90th Percentile £655 £636 -
North West median daily rate £448 £534 £390
% change year-on-year -16.20% +36.92% -15.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate - - £16.85
75th Percentile - - £21.43
90th Percentile - - £24.17
North West median hourly rate - - £16.85
% change year-on-year - - -75.93%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Manchester

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 Manchester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 830 1,321 1,738
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 89.63% 87.08% 91.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 577 898 1,273
10th Percentile £300 £319 £315
25th Percentile £400 £407 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £468 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.40% - +1.73%
75th Percentile £575 £595 £594
90th Percentile £675 £694 £663
North West median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 73 61
10th Percentile £15.18 £12.42 £14.65
25th Percentile £19.25 £13.50 £20.00
Median hourly rate £32.50 £24.19 £37.30
Median % change year-on-year +34.35% -35.15% +140.65%
75th Percentile £63.75 £57.50 £47.50
90th Percentile £77.00 £72.50 £70.00
North West median hourly rate £31.88 £21.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +51.81% -40.00% +70.82%

Disaster Recovery
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Job vacancy trend for Disaster Recovery in Manchester

Disaster Recovery
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Disaster Recovery in Manchester.

Daily rate trend for Disaster Recovery in Manchester

Disaster Recovery
Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Disaster Recovery in Manchester over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Disaster Recovery in Manchester

Disaster Recovery
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Manchester

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Disaster Recovery in Manchester.

Hourly rate trend for Disaster Recovery in Manchester

Disaster Recovery
Contract Job Locations in Manchester

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 Manchester region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Altrincham - 1 - - 4
Salford - 1 £550 - 2
Stockport - 1 - - 9
Disaster Recovery
North West

Disaster Recovery
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester 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:

Application Platforms
1 8 (22.86%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 10 (28.57%) Azure
1 10 (28.57%) Serverless
2 8 (22.86%) Entra ID
2 8 (22.86%) IaaS
2 8 (22.86%) Microsoft 365
3 6 (17.14%) AWS
4 3 (8.57%) Amazon ELB
5 1 (2.86%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (2.86%) Amazon Cognito
5 1 (2.86%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (2.86%) Amazon ECS
5 1 (2.86%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (2.86%) Amazon Kinesis
5 1 (2.86%) Amazon S3
5 1 (2.86%) Amazon SQS
5 1 (2.86%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (2.86%) AWS CloudTrail
5 1 (2.86%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (2.86%) GitHub
5 1 (2.86%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 11 (31.43%) Network Security
2 9 (25.71%) Firewall
3 8 (22.86%) Intrusion Detection
4 1 (2.86%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (34.29%) MongoDB
2 11 (31.43%) PostgreSQL
3 9 (25.71%) NoSQL
3 9 (25.71%) Oracle Reports
3 9 (25.71%) RDBMS
3 9 (25.71%) Relational Database
4 8 (22.86%) MySQL
4 8 (22.86%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (2.86%) Jenkins
General
1 8 (22.86%) Telecoms
2 7 (20.00%) Social Skills
3 6 (17.14%) Finance
4 5 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (14.29%) Banking
5 1 (2.86%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (2.86%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 9 (25.71%) DBA
2 6 (17.14%) Architect
2 6 (17.14%) PostgreSQL DBA
3 5 (14.29%) Analyst
3 5 (14.29%) Infrastructure Analyst
4 3 (8.57%) Administrator
4 3 (8.57%) AWS Architect
4 3 (8.57%) Cloud Architect
4 3 (8.57%) Cybersecurity Engineer
4 3 (8.57%) Infrastructure Specialist
4 3 (8.57%) Security Engineer
5 2 (5.71%) Database Manager
5 2 (5.71%) Infrastructure Architect
5 2 (5.71%) IT Manager
5 2 (5.71%) IT Services Manager
5 2 (5.71%) Lead
5 2 (5.71%) Security Support Engineer
5 2 (5.71%) Service Continuity Manager
5 2 (5.71%) Service Manager
5 2 (5.71%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (25.71%) JSON
1 9 (25.71%) Kafka
1 9 (25.71%) XML
2 1 (2.86%) AWS Amplify
2 1 (2.86%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 5 (14.29%) Data Centre
2 3 (8.57%) Cyber Threat
3 2 (5.71%) Onboarding
3 2 (5.71%) Replication
4 1 (2.86%) EMC VNX
4 1 (2.86%) Enterprise Storage
4 1 (2.86%) IBM XIV
4 1 (2.86%) Mainframe
4 1 (2.86%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 12 (34.29%) Windows
2 8 (22.86%) Windows Server
3 4 (11.43%) Linux
4 2 (5.71%) HPUX
4 2 (5.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (5.71%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (42.86%) Business Continuity
2 13 (37.14%) High Availability
3 12 (34.29%) Agile
3 12 (34.29%) DevOps
4 11 (31.43%) BCP
4 11 (31.43%) Business Continuity Planning
4 11 (31.43%) Cybersecurity
4 11 (31.43%) Problem-Solving
5 9 (25.71%) Change Management
5 9 (25.71%) Database Security
5 9 (25.71%) Enterprise Architecture
5 9 (25.71%) Mentoring
5 9 (25.71%) Risk Assessment
6 8 (22.86%) Information Security
6 8 (22.86%) Vulnerability Scanning
7 7 (20.00%) Line Management
7 7 (20.00%) Project Delivery
7 7 (20.00%) Web Operations
8 6 (17.14%) Load Balancing
9 5 (14.29%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 10 (28.57%) PowerShell
2 3 (8.57%) Python
3 1 (2.86%) Bash
Qualifications
1 8 (22.86%) Azure Certification
1 8 (22.86%) Microsoft Certification
2 3 (8.57%) ITIL Certification
2 3 (8.57%) SC Cleared
2 3 (8.57%) Security Cleared
3 1 (2.86%) AWS Certification
3 1 (2.86%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 1 (2.86%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (8.57%) ISO 22301
1 3 (8.57%) ISO 31000
1 3 (8.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (5.71%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 8 (22.86%) Active Directory
1 8 (22.86%) vSphere
2 6 (17.14%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (5.71%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (22.86%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 11 (31.43%) Oracle
2 9 (25.71%) Microsoft
3 8 (22.86%) VMware
4 3 (8.57%) IBM
4 3 (8.57%) ServiceNow
4 3 (8.57%) Thycotic
5 2 (5.71%) CyberArk
5 2 (5.71%) Sun
6 1 (2.86%) CheckPoint
6 1 (2.86%) CrowdStrike
6 1 (2.86%) EMC
6 1 (2.86%) Imperva
6 1 (2.86%) Unisys