Disaster Recovery Contract Job Trends in Manchester

Disaster Recovery
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Manchester requiring Disaster Recovery skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 76 66 81
Rank change year-on-year -10 +15 +45
Contract jobs citing Disaster Recovery 9 19 22
As % of all contract jobs in Manchester 0.89% 1.62% 1.33%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.99% 1.86% 1.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 13 15
10th Percentile £428 £367 £400
25th Percentile £450 £435 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £500 £483
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% +3.52% -5.76%
75th Percentile £575 £663 £541
90th Percentile - £765 £580
North West median daily rate £525 £500 £489
% change year-on-year +5.00% +2.25% -18.50%

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 913 1,024 1,456
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 89.95% 87.15% 87.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 594 589 1,060
10th Percentile £300 £313 £270
25th Percentile £389 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £459 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.42% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £588 £575 £593
90th Percentile £674 £675 £675
North West median daily rate £450 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 68 35 61
10th Percentile £15.71 £16.34 £15.72
25th Percentile £19.02 £26.93 £16.29
Median hourly rate £22.63 £35.00 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year -35.34% +79.49% -7.43%
75th Percentile £33.63 £62.50 £43.75
90th Percentile £64.13 £73.30 £70.00
North West median hourly rate £25.15 £40.33 £35.00
% change year-on-year -37.64% +15.21% +41.19%

Disaster Recovery
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Disaster Recovery job vacancy trend in Manchester

Disaster Recovery
Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

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

Disaster Recovery
Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Disaster Recovery in Manchester over the 6 months to 14 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Disaster Recovery in Manchester

Disaster Recovery
Hourly Rate Trend in Manchester

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

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

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 14 October 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
Salford - 1 £550 - 2
Disaster Recovery
North West

Disaster Recovery
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Manchester 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (22.22%) Azure
2 1 (11.11%) AWS
2 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Purview
2 1 (11.11%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 3 (33.33%) Network Security
2 2 (22.22%) Firewall
3 1 (11.11%) BGP
3 1 (11.11%) Cisco IOS
3 1 (11.11%) LAN
3 1 (11.11%) NX-OS
3 1 (11.11%) SAN
3 1 (11.11%) TCP/IP
3 1 (11.11%) WAN
3 1 (11.11%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (11.11%) MongoDB
1 1 (11.11%) NoSQL
1 1 (11.11%) Oracle Database
1 1 (11.11%) Oracle Reports
1 1 (11.11%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (11.11%) RDBMS
1 1 (11.11%) Relational Database
General
1 2 (22.22%) Finance
2 1 (11.11%) Banking
2 1 (11.11%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (22.22%) Cybersecurity Engineer
1 2 (22.22%) IT Manager
1 2 (22.22%) IT Services Manager
1 2 (22.22%) Security Engineer
1 2 (22.22%) Service Continuity Manager
1 2 (22.22%) Service Manager
2 1 (11.11%) Business Continuity Manager
2 1 (11.11%) Business Manager
2 1 (11.11%) DBA
2 1 (11.11%) Lead
2 1 (11.11%) MongoDB DBA
2 1 (11.11%) Network Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Oracle DBA
2 1 (11.11%) PostgreSQL DBA
2 1 (11.11%) Security Support Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Server Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Service Continuity Leader
2 1 (11.11%) Storage Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (11.11%) JSON
1 1 (11.11%) Kafka
1 1 (11.11%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (22.22%) Cyber Threat
2 1 (11.11%) Data Centre
2 1 (11.11%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (11.11%) Private Cloud
2 1 (11.11%) Public Cloud
2 1 (11.11%) Replication
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (44.44%) ITIL
1 4 (44.44%) Risk Management
2 3 (33.33%) Business Continuity
2 3 (33.33%) Problem Management
2 3 (33.33%) Service Continuity Management
3 2 (22.22%) Cybersecurity
3 2 (22.22%) Data Management
3 2 (22.22%) End-to-End Testing
3 2 (22.22%) Service Delivery
3 2 (22.22%) Stakeholder Management
4 1 (11.11%) Agile
4 1 (11.11%) BCP
4 1 (11.11%) Data Protection
4 1 (11.11%) High Availability
4 1 (11.11%) ITSM
4 1 (11.11%) Load Balancing
4 1 (11.11%) Risk Assessment
4 1 (11.11%) Service Catalogue
4 1 (11.11%) SIEM
4 1 (11.11%) Supplier Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (22.22%) Python
2 1 (11.11%) Perl
2 1 (11.11%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 3 (33.33%) ITIL Certification
2 1 (11.11%) CCDP
2 1 (11.11%) CCNP
2 1 (11.11%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (33.33%) ISO 22301
1 3 (33.33%) ISO 31000
1 3 (33.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (11.11%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 1 (11.11%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (11.11%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 3 (33.33%) ServiceNow
2 2 (22.22%) Thycotic
3 1 (11.11%) CheckPoint
3 1 (11.11%) Cisco
3 1 (11.11%) CrowdStrike
3 1 (11.11%) CyberArk
3 1 (11.11%) Dell
3 1 (11.11%) F5
3 1 (11.11%) Imperva
3 1 (11.11%) Meraki
3 1 (11.11%) Microsoft
3 1 (11.11%) NetApp
3 1 (11.11%) Oracle
3 1 (11.11%) Palo Alto
3 1 (11.11%) SolarWinds
3 1 (11.11%) Veeam
3 1 (11.11%) VMware