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 15 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 91 117 121
Rank change year-on-year +26 +4 +20
Contract jobs citing Disaster Recovery 25 18 39
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 1.26% 0.67% 1.17%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.44% 0.81% 1.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 15 31
10th Percentile £413 £378 £300
25th Percentile £460 £389 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £544 £400 £400
Median % change year-on-year +35.94% - -17.95%
75th Percentile £588 £513 £513
90th Percentile £861 £750 £650
England median daily rate £500 £500 £500
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £16.26 - -
England median hourly rate £21.63 £61.60 £40.42
% change year-on-year -64.89% +52.42% -23.90%

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 1,742 2,209 2,944
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 88.02% 82.09% 88.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,137 1,479 2,062
10th Percentile £200 £235 £250
25th Percentile £358 £356 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £490
Median % change year-on-year - -3.06% +3.16%
75th Percentile £563 £600 £593
90th Percentile £650 £700 £688
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 97 170 105
10th Percentile £12.62 £11.06 £11.88
25th Percentile £13.81 £13.60 £14.52
Median hourly rate £18.51 £18.50 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +0.05% -7.50% +14.29%
75th Percentile £24.66 £34.56 £32.00
90th Percentile £45.18 £55.00 £56.50
England median hourly rate £29.00 £36.50 £37.50
% change year-on-year -20.55% -2.67% +50.00%

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 15 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 15 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 +26 23 £538 +34.38% 32
East Midlands +7 2 £550 +37.50% 16
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 (8.00%) Apache
1 2 (8.00%) IIS
2 1 (4.00%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 2 (8.00%) NetSuite
1 2 (8.00%) SAP PM
Cloud Services
1 9 (36.00%) Azure
2 3 (12.00%) IaaS
2 3 (12.00%) Microsoft 365
2 3 (12.00%) PaaS
2 3 (12.00%) SaaS
3 2 (8.00%) AWS Lambda
3 2 (8.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
3 2 (8.00%) Azure Data Factory
3 2 (8.00%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (8.00%) Azure ExpressRoute
3 2 (8.00%) Azure Monitor
3 2 (8.00%) Azure Sentinel
3 2 (8.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 2 (8.00%) Collibra
3 2 (8.00%) GitHub
3 2 (8.00%) GitHub Actions
3 2 (8.00%) Microsoft Purview
3 2 (8.00%) Power Platform
3 2 (8.00%) Serverless
4 1 (4.00%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 4 (16.00%) Firewall
2 2 (8.00%) NetScaler
2 2 (8.00%) SSL
3 1 (4.00%) DHCP
3 1 (4.00%) DNS
3 1 (4.00%) Network Security
3 1 (4.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (16.00%) Elasticsearch
1 4 (16.00%) NoSQL
2 2 (8.00%) Azure SQL Database
2 2 (8.00%) Delta Lake
2 2 (8.00%) GIS
2 2 (8.00%) Oracle Database
2 2 (8.00%) Power BI
2 2 (8.00%) SQL Server
2 2 (8.00%) Tableau
General
1 2 (8.00%) Public Sector
1 2 (8.00%) Retail
2 1 (4.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 4 (16.00%) Analyst
1 4 (16.00%) Project Manager
2 3 (12.00%) IT Manager
2 3 (12.00%) IT Project Manager
2 3 (12.00%) Lead
2 3 (12.00%) Senior
3 2 (8.00%) Administrator
3 2 (8.00%) Architect
3 2 (8.00%) Azure Engineer
3 2 (8.00%) Cloud Engineer
3 2 (8.00%) Data Architect
3 2 (8.00%) Data Engineer
3 2 (8.00%) Network Analyst
3 2 (8.00%) Programme Director
3 2 (8.00%) Programme Manager
3 2 (8.00%) Resilience Manager
3 2 (8.00%) Senior Data Engineer
3 2 (8.00%) Service Continuity Leader
3 2 (8.00%) Solutions Architect
3 2 (8.00%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (16.00%) Middleware
2 2 (8.00%) .NET
2 2 (8.00%) Apache NiFi
2 2 (8.00%) Elastic Stack
2 2 (8.00%) HTML
2 2 (8.00%) Kafka
2 2 (8.00%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 4 (16.00%) Replication
1 4 (16.00%) SCADA
2 2 (8.00%) Cloud Native
2 2 (8.00%) Data Centre
2 2 (8.00%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (8.00%) IoT
2 2 (8.00%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (8.00%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 3 (12.00%) Windows
1 3 (12.00%) Windows Server
2 2 (8.00%) Linux
3 1 (4.00%) CentOS
3 1 (4.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (4.00%) Rocky
3 1 (4.00%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (28.00%) Business Continuity
2 6 (24.00%) High Availability
2 6 (24.00%) ITIL
2 6 (24.00%) Root Cause Analysis
3 5 (20.00%) Migration
4 4 (16.00%) Analytics
4 4 (16.00%) Business Impact Analysis
4 4 (16.00%) CI/CD
4 4 (16.00%) Data Governance
4 4 (16.00%) Data Modelling
4 4 (16.00%) DevOps
4 4 (16.00%) Impact Analysis
4 4 (16.00%) Performance Tuning
5 3 (12.00%) Business Continuity Planning
5 3 (12.00%) Customer Requirements
5 3 (12.00%) Data Architecture
5 3 (12.00%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (12.00%) Requirements Workshops
5 3 (12.00%) Workshop Facilitation
5 3 (12.00%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 4 (16.00%) PowerShell
1 4 (16.00%) Python
1 4 (16.00%) SQL
2 2 (8.00%) Bicep
2 2 (8.00%) C#
2 2 (8.00%) JavaScript
2 2 (8.00%) Kusto Query Language
2 2 (8.00%) Perl
3 1 (4.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 7 (28.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (12.00%) DV Cleared
3 2 (8.00%) Azure Certification
3 2 (8.00%) CCNP
3 2 (8.00%) Cisco Certification
3 2 (8.00%) Citrix Certification
3 2 (8.00%) Degree
3 2 (8.00%) PMI Certification
3 2 (8.00%) SC Cleared
3 2 (8.00%) Tableau Certification
4 1 (4.00%) CTC Cleared
4 1 (4.00%) RHCE
4 1 (4.00%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (28.00%) Data Quality
2 3 (12.00%) PMO
3 2 (8.00%) GDPR
3 2 (8.00%) ISO/IEC 20000
3 2 (8.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (4.00%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (4.00%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (16.00%) Active Directory
2 3 (12.00%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (4.00%) Firmware
3 1 (4.00%) Hyper-V
3 1 (4.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (16.00%) Terraform
2 2 (8.00%) Ansible
2 2 (8.00%) Grafana
2 2 (8.00%) Kibana
2 2 (8.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (8.00%) logstash
2 2 (8.00%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (4.00%) FortiGate
3 1 (4.00%) SELinux
Vendors
1 8 (32.00%) Microsoft
2 4 (16.00%) Oracle
3 2 (8.00%) Databricks
3 2 (8.00%) Dell
3 2 (8.00%) HP
3 2 (8.00%) IBM
3 2 (8.00%) Informatica
3 2 (8.00%) SAP
4 1 (4.00%) Cisco
4 1 (4.00%) Red Hat
4 1 (4.00%) VMware