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

6 months to
20 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 90 124 168
Rank change year-on-year +34 +44 -16
Contract jobs citing Disaster Recovery 80 60 46
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 2.41% 1.30% 0.82%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.69% 1.52% 0.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 50 55 32
10th Percentile £259 £325 -
25th Percentile £361 £448 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £445 £534 £395
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +35.19% -12.22%
75th Percentile £514 £580 £538
90th Percentile £640 £622 £550
England median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% +5.00%
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% -58.79%
75th Percentile - - £21.43
90th Percentile - - £24.17
England median hourly rate £42.69 £61.60 £40.42
% change year-on-year -30.71% +52.42% -23.90%

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 2,972 3,945 5,094
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 89.65% 85.39% 90.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,910 2,422 3,502
10th Percentile £263 £300 £300
25th Percentile £378 £401 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £556 £588 £600
90th Percentile £650 £675 £688
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 155 365 204
10th Percentile £13.50 £11.07 £10.63
25th Percentile £18.51 £12.50 £15.54
Median hourly rate £25.43 £17.72 £27.84
Median % change year-on-year +43.51% -36.35% +46.53%
75th Percentile £57.93 £45.00 £43.94
90th Percentile £81.55 £59.00 £65.00
England median hourly rate £28.60 £36.50 £37.15
% change year-on-year -21.64% -1.75% +48.60%

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 20 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 20 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 +25 50 £447 -17.18% 76
Yorkshire +31 30 £389 -16.34% 29
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 (13.75%) Confluence
1 11 (13.75%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (2.50%) BizTalk Server
2 2 (2.50%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (5.00%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.25%) Adobe Creative Suite
Cloud Services
1 22 (27.50%) Azure
2 14 (17.50%) AWS
3 12 (15.00%) Entra ID
4 11 (13.75%) Microsoft 365
5 9 (11.25%) Serverless
6 8 (10.00%) IaaS
7 4 (5.00%) OpenShift
8 3 (3.75%) Amazon ELB
8 3 (3.75%) GCP
9 2 (2.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 2 (2.50%) GitHub
9 2 (2.50%) GitHub Actions
10 1 (1.25%) Amazon Cognito
10 1 (1.25%) Amazon GuardDuty
10 1 (1.25%) AWS CloudTrail
10 1 (1.25%) AWS CodePipeline
10 1 (1.25%) AWS Lambda
10 1 (1.25%) AWS Step Functions
10 1 (1.25%) Azure Data Factory
10 1 (1.25%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 14 (17.50%) Firewall
2 11 (13.75%) Network Security
3 10 (12.50%) SAN
4 8 (10.00%) Intrusion Detection
5 7 (8.75%) NAS
6 6 (7.50%) SSL
7 4 (5.00%) WAN
7 4 (5.00%) Wireless
8 3 (3.75%) Internet
8 3 (3.75%) iSCSI
8 3 (3.75%) LAN
8 3 (3.75%) Remote Desktop
8 3 (3.75%) Wi-Fi
9 2 (2.50%) DNS
10 1 (1.25%) DHCP
10 1 (1.25%) HTTPS
10 1 (1.25%) SNA
10 1 (1.25%) SSH
10 1 (1.25%) TCP/IP
10 1 (1.25%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (21.25%) Oracle Reports
2 13 (16.25%) PostgreSQL
2 13 (16.25%) SQL Server
3 10 (12.50%) MongoDB
3 10 (12.50%) Oracle Database
4 7 (8.75%) NoSQL
4 7 (8.75%) RDBMS
4 7 (8.75%) Relational Database
5 5 (6.25%) MySQL
6 2 (2.50%) GIS
6 2 (2.50%) MSDE
6 2 (2.50%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 1 (1.25%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (1.25%) Big Data
7 1 (1.25%) DTS
7 1 (1.25%) DynamoDB
7 1 (1.25%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 1 (1.25%) Jenkins
1 1 (1.25%) JIRA
1 1 (1.25%) Selenium
General
1 23 (28.75%) Finance
2 19 (23.75%) Analytical Skills
3 13 (16.25%) Social Skills
4 11 (13.75%) Banking
5 8 (10.00%) Telecoms
6 4 (5.00%) Public Sector
7 1 (1.25%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.25%) Retail
Job Titles
1 13 (16.25%) Architect
2 10 (12.50%) Backup Engineer
3 9 (11.25%) Commvault Engineer
3 9 (11.25%) DBA
4 6 (7.50%) Administrator
5 5 (6.25%) Analyst
5 5 (6.25%) Infrastructure Analyst
5 5 (6.25%) Infrastructure Architect
5 5 (6.25%) Support Engineer
6 4 (5.00%) Cloud Architect
6 4 (5.00%) Consultant
6 4 (5.00%) Service Manager
6 4 (5.00%) Solutions Architect
7 3 (3.75%) AWS Architect
7 3 (3.75%) Developer
7 3 (3.75%) Infrastructure Solutions Architect
7 3 (3.75%) Infrastructure Specialist
7 3 (3.75%) PostgreSQL DBA
7 3 (3.75%) Security Engineer
7 3 (3.75%) Storage Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (15.00%) Kafka
2 8 (10.00%) XML
3 7 (8.75%) JSON
4 5 (6.25%) LDAP
4 5 (6.25%) REST
5 4 (5.00%) Middleware
6 2 (2.50%) .NET
6 2 (2.50%) ASP.NET
7 1 (1.25%) AWS Amplify
7 1 (1.25%) Lambda Expressions
7 1 (1.25%) Node.js
7 1 (1.25%) Oracle GoldenGate
7 1 (1.25%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 20 (25.00%) Data Centre
2 6 (7.50%) Clustering
3 5 (6.25%) Replication
4 4 (5.00%) Mainframe
5 3 (3.75%) Cyber Threat
5 3 (3.75%) IVR
5 3 (3.75%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.25%) AS400
6 1 (1.25%) EMC VNX
6 1 (1.25%) Enterprise Storage
6 1 (1.25%) IBM XIV
6 1 (1.25%) iSeries
6 1 (1.25%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.25%) NHS
6 1 (1.25%) Video Conferencing
6 1 (1.25%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 25 (31.25%) Windows
2 17 (21.25%) Linux
3 15 (18.75%) Windows Server
4 7 (8.75%) Solaris
5 6 (7.50%) HPUX
6 5 (6.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 5 (6.25%) Unix
7 3 (3.75%) AIX
7 3 (3.75%) Android
7 3 (3.75%) Windows Server 2016
8 2 (2.50%) CentOS
8 2 (2.50%) Ubuntu
9 1 (1.25%) Mac OS
9 1 (1.25%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (1.25%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (38.75%) Problem-Solving
2 30 (37.50%) High Availability
3 23 (28.75%) Change Management
4 19 (23.75%) Problem Management
5 18 (22.50%) Migration
6 17 (21.25%) Business Continuity
6 17 (21.25%) DevOps
7 16 (20.00%) BCP
8 15 (18.75%) Agile
9 14 (17.50%) Data Migration
9 14 (17.50%) ITIL
10 12 (15.00%) Business Continuity Planning
10 12 (15.00%) Cybersecurity
11 11 (13.75%) Information Security
11 11 (13.75%) Mentoring
11 11 (13.75%) Performance Tuning
12 10 (12.50%) Enterprise Architecture
12 10 (12.50%) Translating Business Requirements
13 9 (11.25%) Project Delivery
13 9 (11.25%) Risk Assessment
Programming Languages
1 11 (13.75%) PowerShell
2 9 (11.25%) Python
3 5 (6.25%) Bash
4 3 (3.75%) Perl
4 3 (3.75%) Shell Script
5 2 (2.50%) ActionScript
5 2 (2.50%) ActionScript 2.0
5 2 (2.50%) SQL
5 2 (2.50%) T-SQL
6 1 (1.25%) C
6 1 (1.25%) JCL
6 1 (1.25%) Korn
6 1 (1.25%) REXX
6 1 (1.25%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 13 (16.25%) Security Cleared
2 11 (13.75%) SC Cleared
3 8 (10.00%) Azure Certification
3 8 (10.00%) Microsoft Certification
4 3 (3.75%) ITIL Certification
5 1 (1.25%) AWS Certification
5 1 (1.25%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 1 (1.25%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (1.25%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (1.25%) CCNP
5 1 (1.25%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (1.25%) DBS Check
5 1 (1.25%) HP ASE
5 1 (1.25%) IBM Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.75%) ISO 22301
1 3 (3.75%) ISO 31000
1 3 (3.75%) ISO/IEC 20000
1 3 (3.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 3 (3.75%) SLA
2 1 (1.25%) QA
System Software
1 13 (16.25%) Active Directory
2 10 (12.50%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (11.25%) vSphere
4 5 (6.25%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 5 (6.25%) Virtual Servers
5 3 (3.75%) Docker
5 3 (3.75%) Firmware
5 3 (3.75%) Microsoft Virtual Server
6 2 (2.50%) KVM
7 1 (1.25%) Hyper-V
7 1 (1.25%) Veritas Cluster Server
7 1 (1.25%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 10 (12.50%) Oracle RMAN
2 8 (10.00%) Microsoft Intune
3 5 (6.25%) Ansible
3 5 (6.25%) Grafana
3 5 (6.25%) Kubernetes
3 5 (6.25%) Prometheus
4 4 (5.00%) Puppet
4 4 (5.00%) Terraform
5 3 (3.75%) NetBackup
5 3 (3.75%) Progress Chef
6 2 (2.50%) EMC NetWorker
6 2 (2.50%) HP Data Protector
7 1 (1.25%) FortiGate
7 1 (1.25%) Nagios
7 1 (1.25%) PaperCut
7 1 (1.25%) Perfmon
7 1 (1.25%) SCOM
7 1 (1.25%) Tivoli NetView
7 1 (1.25%) VxRail
Vendors
1 24 (30.00%) Oracle
2 15 (18.75%) Microsoft
3 12 (15.00%) VMware
4 11 (13.75%) Commvault
5 8 (10.00%) IBM
6 6 (7.50%) Cisco
6 6 (7.50%) Splunk
7 5 (6.25%) Confluent
8 4 (5.00%) Apple
8 4 (5.00%) EMC
8 4 (5.00%) HP
8 4 (5.00%) Red Hat
8 4 (5.00%) Sun
9 3 (3.75%) Brocade
9 3 (3.75%) CyberArk
9 3 (3.75%) ServiceNow
9 3 (3.75%) Thycotic
9 3 (3.75%) Unisys
9 3 (3.75%) Veritas
10 2 (2.50%) TOWER Software