Disaster Recovery Contracts in the North of England

Disaster Recovery
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England 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 84 128 170
Rank change year-on-year +44 +42 -33
Contract jobs citing Disaster Recovery 84 57 50
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 2.55% 1.20% 0.86%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.83% 1.39% 0.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 52 48 35
10th Percentile £264 £321 £335
25th Percentile £365 £422 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £445 £534 £390
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +36.92% -13.33%
75th Percentile £500 £576 £538
90th Percentile £638 £580 £560
England median daily rate £476 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -4.90% -4.76% +6.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate - £20.74 £16.85
Median % change year-on-year - +23.09% -75.93%
75th Percentile - - £21.43
90th Percentile - - £24.17
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
North of England

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 of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,966 4,089 5,288
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 90.02% 85.76% 90.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,908 2,506 3,674
10th Percentile £263 £300 £302
25th Percentile £378 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £563 £588 £600
90th Percentile £650 £675 £688
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 154 355 207
10th Percentile £13.83 £11.03 £10.63
25th Percentile £18.20 £12.45 £15.25
Median hourly rate £28.75 £17.50 £27.70
Median % change year-on-year +64.29% -36.82% +49.73%
75th Percentile £55.76 £44.41 £45.05
90th Percentile £82.56 £53.90 £65.00
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 North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Disaster Recovery in the North of England

Disaster Recovery
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Disaster Recovery in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for Disaster Recovery in the North of England

Disaster Recovery
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

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

Daily rate histogram for Disaster Recovery in the North of England

Disaster Recovery
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Disaster Recovery in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend for Disaster Recovery in the North of England

Disaster Recovery
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

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 of England 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
North West +27 55 £448 -16.20% 72
Yorkshire +28 29 £388 -8.17% 36
Disaster Recovery
England

Disaster Recovery
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 11 (13.10%) Confluence
1 11 (13.10%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (2.38%) BizTalk Server
2 2 (2.38%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (4.76%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.19%) Adobe Creative Suite
Cloud Services
1 22 (26.19%) Azure
2 14 (16.67%) AWS
3 12 (14.29%) Entra ID
3 12 (14.29%) Serverless
4 11 (13.10%) Microsoft 365
5 8 (9.52%) IaaS
6 4 (4.76%) OpenShift
7 3 (3.57%) Amazon ELB
7 3 (3.57%) GCP
8 2 (2.38%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 2 (2.38%) GitHub
8 2 (2.38%) GitHub Actions
9 1 (1.19%) Amazon Cognito
9 1 (1.19%) Amazon ECS
9 1 (1.19%) Amazon EKS
9 1 (1.19%) AWS CloudTrail
9 1 (1.19%) AWS CodePipeline
9 1 (1.19%) AWS Lambda
9 1 (1.19%) Azure Data Factory
9 1 (1.19%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 14 (16.67%) Firewall
2 12 (14.29%) SAN
3 11 (13.10%) Network Security
4 8 (9.52%) Intrusion Detection
5 7 (8.33%) NAS
6 6 (7.14%) SSL
7 4 (4.76%) WAN
7 4 (4.76%) Wireless
8 3 (3.57%) Internet
8 3 (3.57%) iSCSI
8 3 (3.57%) LAN
8 3 (3.57%) Remote Desktop
8 3 (3.57%) Wi-Fi
9 2 (2.38%) DNS
10 1 (1.19%) DHCP
10 1 (1.19%) HTTPS
10 1 (1.19%) SNA
10 1 (1.19%) SSH
10 1 (1.19%) TCP/IP
10 1 (1.19%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (23.81%) Oracle Reports
2 16 (19.05%) PostgreSQL
3 13 (15.48%) MongoDB
3 13 (15.48%) SQL Server
4 10 (11.90%) NoSQL
4 10 (11.90%) Oracle Database
4 10 (11.90%) RDBMS
4 10 (11.90%) Relational Database
5 8 (9.52%) MySQL
6 2 (2.38%) GIS
6 2 (2.38%) MSDE
6 2 (2.38%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 1 (1.19%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (1.19%) DTS
7 1 (1.19%) DynamoDB
7 1 (1.19%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 1 (1.19%) Jenkins
1 1 (1.19%) JIRA
1 1 (1.19%) Selenium
General
1 22 (26.19%) Finance
2 19 (22.62%) Analytical Skills
3 12 (14.29%) Social Skills
4 11 (13.10%) Banking
5 8 (9.52%) Telecoms
6 4 (4.76%) Public Sector
7 1 (1.19%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.19%) Retail
Job Titles
1 12 (14.29%) Architect
1 12 (14.29%) DBA
2 11 (13.10%) Backup Engineer
3 9 (10.71%) Commvault Engineer
4 6 (7.14%) Administrator
4 6 (7.14%) PostgreSQL DBA
5 5 (5.95%) Analyst
5 5 (5.95%) Infrastructure Analyst
5 5 (5.95%) Storage Engineer
5 5 (5.95%) Support Engineer
6 4 (4.76%) Cloud Architect
6 4 (4.76%) Consultant
6 4 (4.76%) Infrastructure Architect
6 4 (4.76%) Service Manager
6 4 (4.76%) Solutions Architect
7 3 (3.57%) AWS Architect
7 3 (3.57%) Developer
7 3 (3.57%) Infrastructure Solutions Architect
7 3 (3.57%) Infrastructure Specialist
7 3 (3.57%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (17.86%) Kafka
2 11 (13.10%) XML
3 10 (11.90%) JSON
4 5 (5.95%) LDAP
4 5 (5.95%) REST
5 4 (4.76%) Middleware
6 2 (2.38%) .NET
6 2 (2.38%) ASP.NET
7 1 (1.19%) AWS Amplify
7 1 (1.19%) Lambda Expressions
7 1 (1.19%) Node.js
7 1 (1.19%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 20 (23.81%) Data Centre
2 6 (7.14%) Clustering
3 5 (5.95%) Replication
4 4 (4.76%) Mainframe
5 3 (3.57%) Cyber Threat
5 3 (3.57%) IVR
5 3 (3.57%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.19%) AS400
6 1 (1.19%) EMC VNX
6 1 (1.19%) Enterprise Storage
6 1 (1.19%) IBM XIV
6 1 (1.19%) iSeries
6 1 (1.19%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.19%) NHS
6 1 (1.19%) Video Conferencing
6 1 (1.19%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 25 (29.76%) Windows
2 17 (20.24%) Linux
3 15 (17.86%) Windows Server
4 7 (8.33%) Solaris
5 6 (7.14%) HPUX
6 5 (5.95%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 5 (5.95%) Unix
7 3 (3.57%) AIX
7 3 (3.57%) Android
7 3 (3.57%) Windows Server 2016
8 2 (2.38%) CentOS
8 2 (2.38%) Ubuntu
9 1 (1.19%) Mac OS
9 1 (1.19%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (1.19%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (35.71%) Problem-Solving
2 29 (34.52%) High Availability
3 25 (29.76%) Change Management
4 21 (25.00%) Problem Management
5 20 (23.81%) DevOps
6 18 (21.43%) Agile
6 18 (21.43%) Migration
7 17 (20.24%) Business Continuity
8 16 (19.05%) BCP
9 14 (16.67%) Data Migration
9 14 (16.67%) ITIL
10 13 (15.48%) Mentoring
11 12 (14.29%) Business Continuity Planning
11 12 (14.29%) Cybersecurity
12 11 (13.10%) Information Security
12 11 (13.10%) Performance Tuning
13 10 (11.90%) Database Security
13 10 (11.90%) Enterprise Architecture
13 10 (11.90%) Translating Business Requirements
14 9 (10.71%) Line Management
Programming Languages
1 11 (13.10%) PowerShell
2 9 (10.71%) Python
3 5 (5.95%) Bash
4 3 (3.57%) Perl
4 3 (3.57%) Shell Script
5 2 (2.38%) ActionScript
5 2 (2.38%) ActionScript 2.0
5 2 (2.38%) SQL
5 2 (2.38%) T-SQL
6 1 (1.19%) C
6 1 (1.19%) JCL
6 1 (1.19%) Korn
6 1 (1.19%) REXX
6 1 (1.19%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 15 (17.86%) Security Cleared
2 13 (15.48%) SC Cleared
3 8 (9.52%) Azure Certification
3 8 (9.52%) Microsoft Certification
4 3 (3.57%) ITIL Certification
5 1 (1.19%) AWS Certification
5 1 (1.19%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 1 (1.19%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (1.19%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (1.19%) CCNP
5 1 (1.19%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (1.19%) DBS Check
5 1 (1.19%) HP ASE
5 1 (1.19%) IBM Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.57%) ISO 22301
1 3 (3.57%) ISO 31000
1 3 (3.57%) ISO/IEC 20000
1 3 (3.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 3 (3.57%) SLA
2 1 (1.19%) QA
System Software
1 13 (15.48%) Active Directory
2 10 (11.90%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (10.71%) vSphere
4 5 (5.95%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 5 (5.95%) Firmware
5 4 (4.76%) Virtual Servers
6 3 (3.57%) Docker
6 3 (3.57%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 2 (2.38%) KVM
8 1 (1.19%) Hyper-V
8 1 (1.19%) Veritas Cluster Server
8 1 (1.19%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 10 (11.90%) Oracle RMAN
2 8 (9.52%) Microsoft Intune
3 5 (5.95%) Ansible
3 5 (5.95%) Grafana
3 5 (5.95%) Kubernetes
3 5 (5.95%) Prometheus
4 4 (4.76%) NetBackup
4 4 (4.76%) Puppet
4 4 (4.76%) Terraform
5 3 (3.57%) EMC NetWorker
5 3 (3.57%) HP Data Protector
5 3 (3.57%) Progress Chef
6 1 (1.19%) FortiGate
6 1 (1.19%) Nagios
6 1 (1.19%) PaperCut
6 1 (1.19%) Perfmon
6 1 (1.19%) SCOM
6 1 (1.19%) Tivoli NetView
6 1 (1.19%) VxRail
Vendors
1 26 (30.95%) Oracle
2 15 (17.86%) Microsoft
3 12 (14.29%) VMware
4 11 (13.10%) Commvault
5 8 (9.52%) IBM
6 7 (8.33%) Cisco
7 6 (7.14%) Splunk
8 5 (5.95%) Confluent
8 5 (5.95%) EMC
8 5 (5.95%) HP
9 4 (4.76%) Apple
9 4 (4.76%) Brocade
9 4 (4.76%) Red Hat
9 4 (4.76%) Sun
9 4 (4.76%) Veritas
10 3 (3.57%) CyberArk
10 3 (3.57%) ServiceNow
10 3 (3.57%) Thycotic
10 3 (3.57%) Unisys
11 2 (2.38%) TOWER Software