Disaster Recovery Contracts in the Midlands

Disaster Recovery
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands 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 89 117 130
Rank change year-on-year +28 +13 +17
Contract jobs citing Disaster Recovery 22 16 37
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 1.15% 0.58% 1.07%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.31% 0.71% 1.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 13 30
10th Percentile £399 £378 £296
25th Percentile £428 £390 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £500 £388
Median % change year-on-year +3.75% +29.03% -17.33%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £534
90th Percentile £580 £750 £650
England median daily rate £476 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -4.90% -4.76% +6.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £16.26 - -
England median hourly rate £21.63 £58.30 £40.42
% change year-on-year -62.91% +44.25% -20.40%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,676 2,266 3,045
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 87.57% 82.19% 88.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,099 1,510 2,125
10th Percentile £200 £237 £250
25th Percentile £358 £356 £370
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £495
Median % change year-on-year - -4.04% +4.21%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £588
90th Percentile £650 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 93 172 119
10th Percentile £12.62 £11.07 £11.96
25th Percentile £13.81 £13.81 £15.05
Median hourly rate £18.13 £19.00 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year -4.58% +7.22% +1.37%
75th Percentile £24.22 £35.00 £26.81
90th Percentile £36.55 £55.00 £55.50
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

Disaster Recovery
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Disaster Recovery in the Midlands

Disaster Recovery
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Disaster Recovery in the Midlands

Disaster Recovery
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

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

Daily rate histogram for Disaster Recovery in the Midlands

Disaster Recovery
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Disaster Recovery in the Midlands

Disaster Recovery
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

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 Midlands 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
West Midlands +19 20 £500 +8.11% 32
East Midlands +11 2 £550 -21.43% 14
Disaster Recovery
England

Disaster Recovery
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 2 (9.09%) Apache
1 2 (9.09%) IIS
1 2 (9.09%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 2 (9.09%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 7 (31.82%) Azure
2 4 (18.18%) Microsoft 365
3 3 (13.64%) IaaS
3 3 (13.64%) PaaS
3 3 (13.64%) SaaS
4 2 (9.09%) Azure Monitor
4 2 (9.09%) Azure Sentinel
5 1 (4.55%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 2 (9.09%) Firewall
1 2 (9.09%) NetScaler
1 2 (9.09%) Network Security
1 2 (9.09%) SSL
2 1 (4.55%) DHCP
2 1 (4.55%) DNS
2 1 (4.55%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (18.18%) Elasticsearch
2 2 (9.09%) NoSQL
2 2 (9.09%) SQL Server
2 2 (9.09%) Tableau
General
1 2 (9.09%) Public Sector
2 1 (4.55%) Finance
2 1 (4.55%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 4 (18.18%) Analyst
1 4 (18.18%) Project Manager
2 3 (13.64%) IT Manager
2 3 (13.64%) IT Project Manager
2 3 (13.64%) Lead
2 3 (13.64%) Senior
3 2 (9.09%) Administrator
3 2 (9.09%) Azure Engineer
3 2 (9.09%) Cloud Engineer
3 2 (9.09%) Data Engineer
3 2 (9.09%) ICT Officer
3 2 (9.09%) ICT Support
3 2 (9.09%) ICT Support Officer
3 2 (9.09%) Network Analyst
3 2 (9.09%) Programme Manager
3 2 (9.09%) Resilience Manager
3 2 (9.09%) Senior Data Engineer
3 2 (9.09%) Service Continuity Leader
3 2 (9.09%) Support Analyst
3 2 (9.09%) Support Officer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (18.18%) Middleware
2 2 (9.09%) .NET
2 2 (9.09%) Apache NiFi
2 2 (9.09%) Elastic Stack
2 2 (9.09%) HTML
2 2 (9.09%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 4 (18.18%) Replication
2 2 (9.09%) Data Centre
2 2 (9.09%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (9.09%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (9.09%) PMI
2 2 (9.09%) SCADA
3 1 (4.55%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (13.64%) Windows
1 3 (13.64%) Windows Server
2 2 (9.09%) Linux
3 1 (4.55%) CentOS
3 1 (4.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (4.55%) Rocky
3 1 (4.55%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (31.82%) Business Continuity
2 6 (27.27%) ITIL
2 6 (27.27%) Root Cause Analysis
3 5 (22.73%) Migration
4 4 (18.18%) Business Impact Analysis
4 4 (18.18%) High Availability
4 4 (18.18%) Impact Analysis
4 4 (18.18%) Performance Tuning
5 3 (13.64%) BCP
5 3 (13.64%) Business Continuity Planning
5 3 (13.64%) Change Management
5 3 (13.64%) Continuous Improvement
5 3 (13.64%) Customer Requirements
5 3 (13.64%) Problem Management
5 3 (13.64%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (13.64%) Requirements Workshops
5 3 (13.64%) Stakeholder Management
5 3 (13.64%) Systems Analysis
5 3 (13.64%) Workshop Facilitation
6 2 (9.09%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (18.18%) PowerShell
2 2 (9.09%) C#
2 2 (9.09%) JavaScript
2 2 (9.09%) Perl
2 2 (9.09%) Python
2 2 (9.09%) SQL
3 1 (4.55%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 7 (31.82%) Security Cleared
2 3 (13.64%) DV Cleared
3 2 (9.09%) Azure Certification
3 2 (9.09%) CCNP
3 2 (9.09%) Cisco Certification
3 2 (9.09%) Citrix Certification
3 2 (9.09%) Degree
3 2 (9.09%) PMI Certification
3 2 (9.09%) SC Cleared
3 2 (9.09%) Tableau Certification
4 1 (4.55%) CTC Cleared
4 1 (4.55%) RHCE
4 1 (4.55%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (22.73%) Data Quality
2 3 (13.64%) PMO
3 2 (9.09%) ISO/IEC 20000
4 1 (4.55%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (4.55%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (18.18%) Active Directory
2 3 (13.64%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (4.55%) Firmware
3 1 (4.55%) Hyper-V
3 1 (4.55%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (9.09%) Ansible
1 2 (9.09%) Grafana
1 2 (9.09%) Kibana
1 2 (9.09%) Kubernetes
1 2 (9.09%) logstash
1 2 (9.09%) Microsoft Intune
1 2 (9.09%) Terraform
2 1 (4.55%) FortiGate
2 1 (4.55%) SELinux
Vendors
1 6 (27.27%) Microsoft
2 2 (9.09%) Dell
2 2 (9.09%) HP
2 2 (9.09%) IBM
2 2 (9.09%) Oracle
3 1 (4.55%) Cisco
3 1 (4.55%) Red Hat
3 1 (4.55%) VMware