Disaster Recovery Contracts in Merseyside

Disaster Recovery
North West > Merseyside

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Merseyside 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 23 32 43
Rank change year-on-year +9 +11 0
Contract jobs citing Disaster Recovery 6 1 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Merseyside 3.57% 0.44% 1.17%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.51% 0.56% 1.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 1 4
10th Percentile £178 - £380
25th Percentile £208 - £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £215 £450 £513
Median % change year-on-year -52.22% -12.20% +13.89%
75th Percentile £534 - £550
90th Percentile £638 - -
North West median daily rate £448 £534 £390
% change year-on-year -16.20% +36.92% -15.68%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Merseyside

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 Merseyside.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 133 179 300
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Merseyside 79.17% 78.51% 87.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 81 90 229
10th Percentile £143 £145 £313
25th Percentile £203 £242 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £400 £500
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% -20.00% +14.29%
75th Percentile £545 £494 £550
90th Percentile £649 £603 £689
North West median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 26 8
10th Percentile £13.28 - £16.23
25th Percentile - £15.50 £16.25
Median hourly rate £17.44 £20.31 £18.00
Median % change year-on-year -14.11% +12.81% +48.42%
75th Percentile £20.00 £34.32 £23.75
90th Percentile £25.22 £37.18 £25.63
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 Merseyside

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

Job vacancy trend for Disaster Recovery in Merseyside

Disaster Recovery
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Merseyside

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

Daily rate trend for Disaster Recovery in Merseyside

Disaster Recovery
Daily Rate Histogram in Merseyside

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

Daily rate histogram for Disaster Recovery in Merseyside

Disaster Recovery
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Merseyside

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

Hourly rate trend for Disaster Recovery in Merseyside

Disaster Recovery
Contract Job Locations in Merseyside

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 Merseyside 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
Liverpool - 3 £625 - 10
Prescot - 3 £215 -
Disaster Recovery
North West

Disaster Recovery
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Merseyside 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 3 (50.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 4 (66.67%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (16.67%) Adobe Creative Suite
Cloud Services
1 5 (83.33%) Azure
2 3 (50.00%) Entra ID
2 3 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (33.33%) AWS
3 2 (33.33%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 3 (50.00%) Firewall
1 3 (50.00%) Internet
1 3 (50.00%) iSCSI
1 3 (50.00%) LAN
1 3 (50.00%) Remote Desktop
1 3 (50.00%) WAN
1 3 (50.00%) Wi-Fi
1 3 (50.00%) Wireless
2 1 (16.67%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (50.00%) SQL Server
General
1 2 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Support Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) DevOps Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Principal DevOps Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Principal Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Technical Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Technical Support
2 2 (33.33%) Technical Support Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Support
3 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) IT Technician
Miscellaneous
1 3 (50.00%) IVR
Operating Systems
1 6 (100.00%) Windows
2 5 (83.33%) Linux
2 5 (83.33%) Windows Server
3 3 (50.00%) Android
3 3 (50.00%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (16.67%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (50.00%) BCP
2 3 (50.00%) Customer Service
2 3 (50.00%) Information Security
2 3 (50.00%) ITIL
2 3 (50.00%) Service Delivery
2 3 (50.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
3 2 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 2 (33.33%) Cost Optimisation
3 2 (33.33%) DevOps
3 2 (33.33%) High Availability
3 2 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (33.33%) Infrastructure Automation
3 2 (33.33%) ITSM
3 2 (33.33%) Workflow
4 1 (16.67%) Cybersecurity
4 1 (16.67%) Data Protection
4 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 1 (16.67%) Line Management
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (50.00%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (50.00%) Active Directory
1 3 (50.00%) Microsoft Virtual Server
1 3 (50.00%) Virtual Servers
2 1 (16.67%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 2 (33.33%) Ansible
1 2 (33.33%) Terraform
2 1 (16.67%) PaperCut
Vendors
1 4 (66.67%) Apple
1 4 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 2 (33.33%) Cisco
3 1 (16.67%) Adobe