Disaster Recovery Contract Job Trends in Newcastle upon Tyne

Disaster Recovery
Tyne and Wear > Newcastle upon Tyne

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne requiring Disaster Recovery skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 28 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 49 - 23
Rank change year-on-year - - +29
Contract jobs citing Disaster Recovery 2 0 6
As % of all contract jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne 0.49% - 3.03%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.57% - 3.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 5
10th Percentile - - £402
25th Percentile £738 - £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £775 - £425
Median % change year-on-year - - -15.00%
75th Percentile £813 - £525
90th Percentile - - £534
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £775 - £425
% change year-on-year - - -15.00%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Newcastle upon Tyne

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 Newcastle upon Tyne.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 353 203 169
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne 86.73% 89.43% 85.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 247 130 88
10th Percentile £245 £300 £225
25th Percentile £364 £352 £393
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £485
Median % change year-on-year - -7.22% -13.59%
75th Percentile £538 £575 £588
90th Percentile £596 £639 £650
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £450 £450 £476
% change year-on-year - -5.46% -13.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 11 17
10th Percentile £31.19 £13.75 £17.15
25th Percentile £49.56 £14.72 £20.00
Median hourly rate £55.00 £16.00 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +243.75% -66.32% -
75th Percentile £61.88 £19.00 £50.00
90th Percentile £69.72 £19.75 £68.75
Tyne and Wear median hourly rate £55.00 £16.00 £16.00
% change year-on-year +243.75% - -

Disaster Recovery
Job Vacancy Trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

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

Disaster Recovery job vacancy trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

Disaster Recovery
Daily Rate Trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne citing Disaster Recovery.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne citing Disaster Recovery

Disaster Recovery
Hourly Rate Trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne citing Disaster Recovery.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne citing Disaster Recovery

Disaster Recovery
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Newcastle upon Tyne 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:

Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
General
1 1 (50.00%) Banking
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Business Continuity Specialist
1 1 (50.00%) Head of IT
1 1 (50.00%) Head of IT Operations
1 1 (50.00%) Head of Operations
1 1 (50.00%) Head of Service Operations
1 1 (50.00%) Security Specialist
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Business Continuity
1 2 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 2 (100.00%) ITIL
1 2 (100.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) BCP
2 1 (50.00%) Business Continuity Management
2 1 (50.00%) Business Continuity Planning
2 1 (50.00%) Collaborative Culture
2 1 (50.00%) Impact Assessments
2 1 (50.00%) Incident Response
2 1 (50.00%) IT Governance
2 1 (50.00%) ITSM
2 1 (50.00%) PRINCE2
2 1 (50.00%) Service Delivery
2 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (50.00%) Supplier Management
2 1 (50.00%) User Experience
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) CISA
1 1 (50.00%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) COBIT
2 1 (50.00%) GDPR
2 1 (50.00%) ISO 22301
2 1 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (50.00%) NIST
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft