Disaster Recovery Contract Job Trends in the North East

Disaster Recovery
England > North East

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North East requiring Disaster Recovery skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 50 - 30
Rank change year-on-year - - +32
Contract jobs citing Disaster Recovery 5 0 6
As % of all contract jobs in the North East 1.02% - 1.89%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.21% - 2.30%
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
England median daily rate £482 £473 £500
% change year-on-year +1.93% -5.50% -4.76%

All Process & Methodology Skills
North East

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 North East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 413 298 261
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North East 84.46% 89.22% 82.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 283 167 136
10th Percentile £170 £303 £188
25th Percentile £363 £357 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £454 £476
Median % change year-on-year -0.88% -4.62% -13.45%
75th Percentile £525 £588 £588
90th Percentile £588 £650 £650
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 18 44
10th Percentile £18.98 £14.41 £11.50
25th Percentile £46.19 £15.06 £12.13
Median hourly rate £57.50 £16.25 £15.73
Median % change year-on-year +253.85% +3.31% -56.00%
75th Percentile £69.86 £24.81 £48.75
90th Percentile £72.50 £46.18 £50.00
England median hourly rate £25.77 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -26.37% - -

Disaster Recovery
Job Vacancy Trend in the North East

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

Disaster Recovery job vacancy trend in the North East

Disaster Recovery
Daily Rate Trend in the North East

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing Disaster Recovery.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing Disaster Recovery

Disaster Recovery
Hourly Rate Trend in the North East

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing Disaster Recovery.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing Disaster Recovery

Disaster Recovery
Contract Job Locations in the North East

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 North East region over the 6 months to 16 February 2026. 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
Tyne and Wear - 5 £775 - 1
Disaster Recovery
England

Disaster Recovery
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North East 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 (20.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 3 (60.00%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 1 (20.00%) AWS
1 1 (20.00%) Azure
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
General
1 4 (80.00%) Finance
2 3 (60.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (20.00%) Banking
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Application Support Team Leader
1 3 (60.00%) Applications Support
1 3 (60.00%) Lead
1 3 (60.00%) Oracle Team Leader
1 3 (60.00%) Support Team Leader
1 3 (60.00%) Team Leader
2 1 (20.00%) Business Continuity Specialist
2 1 (20.00%) Head of IT
2 1 (20.00%) Head of IT Operations
2 1 (20.00%) Head of Operations
2 1 (20.00%) Head of Service Operations
2 1 (20.00%) Security Specialist
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 5 (100.00%) ITIL
2 3 (60.00%) Application Security
2 3 (60.00%) Customer Service
3 2 (40.00%) Business Continuity
3 2 (40.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 1 (20.00%) Agile
4 1 (20.00%) BCP
4 1 (20.00%) Business Continuity Management
4 1 (20.00%) Business Continuity Planning
4 1 (20.00%) Collaborative Culture
4 1 (20.00%) Impact Assessments
4 1 (20.00%) Incident Response
4 1 (20.00%) IT Governance
4 1 (20.00%) ITSM
4 1 (20.00%) PRINCE2
4 1 (20.00%) Service Delivery
4 1 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 1 (20.00%) Supplier Management
4 1 (20.00%) User Experience
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) CISA
1 1 (20.00%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (60.00%) SLA
2 2 (40.00%) COBIT
3 1 (20.00%) GDPR
3 1 (20.00%) ISO 22301
3 1 (20.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (20.00%) NIST
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) Oracle
2 2 (40.00%) Microsoft