Disaster Recovery Contracts in the North West

Disaster Recovery
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 72 95 133
Rank change year-on-year +23 +38 -21
Contract jobs citing Disaster Recovery 55 44 33
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 2.79% 1.60% 1.04%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.10% 1.86% 1.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 38 22
10th Percentile £219 £321 £354
25th Percentile £367 £500 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £448 £534 £433
Median % change year-on-year -16.20% +23.47% -6.49%
75th Percentile £564 £580 £547
90th Percentile £638 £594 £624
England median daily rate £475 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% +6.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate - - £16.85
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 West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,774 2,370 2,879
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 90.14% 86.37% 90.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,145 1,513 2,045
10th Percentile £300 £306 £313
25th Percentile £393 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £593 £588
90th Percentile £661 £689 £675
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 105 246 142
10th Percentile £16.03 £10.95 £16.85
25th Percentile £22.72 £13.36 £21.25
Median hourly rate £32.00 £21.56 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +48.46% -38.41% +70.82%
75th Percentile £60.00 £45.66 £48.56
90th Percentile £84.51 £57.50 £65.00
England median hourly rate £29.15 £35.96 £37.50
% change year-on-year -18.93% -4.12% +53.06%

Disaster Recovery
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Disaster Recovery in the North West

Disaster Recovery
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for Disaster Recovery in the North West

Disaster Recovery
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Disaster Recovery in the North West over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Disaster Recovery in the North West

Disaster Recovery
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

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

Hourly rate trend for Disaster Recovery in the North West

Disaster Recovery
Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 West region over the 6 months to 2 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
Manchester +19 35 £450 -15.73% 71
Cumbria - 8 £275 - 4
Merseyside +5 6 £215 -52.22% 6
Cheshire -6 3 £320 -43.86% 8
Lancashire - 2 - - 17
Disaster Recovery
England

Disaster Recovery
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 (20.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (3.64%) BizTalk Server
2 2 (3.64%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (7.27%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.82%) Adobe Creative Suite
Cloud Services
1 20 (36.36%) Azure
2 12 (21.82%) Entra ID
3 11 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
3 11 (20.00%) Serverless
4 10 (18.18%) AWS
5 8 (14.55%) IaaS
6 3 (5.45%) Amazon ELB
7 2 (3.64%) GCP
8 1 (1.82%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 1 (1.82%) Amazon Cognito
8 1 (1.82%) Amazon EC2
8 1 (1.82%) Amazon ECS
8 1 (1.82%) Amazon EKS
8 1 (1.82%) Amazon GuardDuty
8 1 (1.82%) Amazon Kinesis
8 1 (1.82%) Amazon S3
8 1 (1.82%) Amazon SQS
8 1 (1.82%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (1.82%) AWS CloudTrail
8 1 (1.82%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 13 (23.64%) Firewall
2 11 (20.00%) Network Security
3 8 (14.55%) Intrusion Detection
4 7 (12.73%) SAN
5 4 (7.27%) WAN
5 4 (7.27%) Wireless
6 3 (5.45%) Internet
6 3 (5.45%) iSCSI
6 3 (5.45%) LAN
6 3 (5.45%) Remote Desktop
6 3 (5.45%) Wi-Fi
7 2 (3.64%) DNS
7 2 (3.64%) NAS
8 1 (1.82%) DHCP
8 1 (1.82%) SD-WAN
8 1 (1.82%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (23.64%) MongoDB
1 13 (23.64%) SQL Server
2 12 (21.82%) PostgreSQL
3 10 (18.18%) NoSQL
3 10 (18.18%) Oracle Reports
3 10 (18.18%) RDBMS
3 10 (18.18%) Relational Database
4 8 (14.55%) MySQL
5 2 (3.64%) GIS
5 2 (3.64%) MSDE
5 2 (3.64%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 1 (1.82%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (1.82%) DTS
6 1 (1.82%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 1 (1.82%) Jenkins
General
1 9 (16.36%) Social Skills
2 8 (14.55%) Finance
2 8 (14.55%) Telecoms
3 5 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (9.09%) Banking
4 2 (3.64%) Public Sector
5 1 (1.82%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 12 (21.82%) DBA
2 6 (10.91%) Architect
2 6 (10.91%) PostgreSQL DBA
3 5 (9.09%) Administrator
3 5 (9.09%) Analyst
3 5 (9.09%) Infrastructure Analyst
3 5 (9.09%) Storage Engineer
3 5 (9.09%) Support Engineer
4 4 (7.27%) Service Manager
5 3 (5.45%) AWS Architect
5 3 (5.45%) Cloud Architect
5 3 (5.45%) Cybersecurity Engineer
5 3 (5.45%) Infrastructure Specialist
5 3 (5.45%) Security Engineer
6 2 (3.64%) Backup Engineer
6 2 (3.64%) DevOps Engineer
6 2 (3.64%) Network Services Manager
6 2 (3.64%) Security Support Engineer
6 2 (3.64%) Service Continuity Leader
6 2 (3.64%) Unix Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (18.18%) JSON
1 10 (18.18%) Kafka
1 10 (18.18%) XML
2 2 (3.64%) .NET
2 2 (3.64%) ASP.NET
3 1 (1.82%) AWS Amplify
3 1 (1.82%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 6 (10.91%) Data Centre
2 3 (5.45%) Cyber Threat
2 3 (5.45%) IVR
2 3 (5.45%) Replication
3 2 (3.64%) Clustering
3 2 (3.64%) Onboarding
4 1 (1.82%) EMC VNX
4 1 (1.82%) Enterprise Storage
4 1 (1.82%) IBM XIV
4 1 (1.82%) Mainframe
4 1 (1.82%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 21 (38.18%) Windows
2 15 (27.27%) Windows Server
3 12 (21.82%) Linux
4 4 (7.27%) HPUX
4 4 (7.27%) Solaris
5 3 (5.45%) Android
5 3 (5.45%) Windows Server 2016
6 2 (3.64%) AIX
6 2 (3.64%) CentOS
6 2 (3.64%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (3.64%) Ubuntu
6 2 (3.64%) Unix
7 1 (1.82%) Mac OS
7 1 (1.82%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (34.55%) High Availability
2 17 (30.91%) Problem-Solving
3 16 (29.09%) Business Continuity
4 15 (27.27%) Agile
4 15 (27.27%) BCP
4 15 (27.27%) DevOps
5 14 (25.45%) Change Management
6 12 (21.82%) Cybersecurity
7 11 (20.00%) Business Continuity Planning
7 11 (20.00%) Information Security
8 10 (18.18%) Database Security
8 10 (18.18%) Mentoring
8 10 (18.18%) Problem Management
9 9 (16.36%) Enterprise Architecture
9 9 (16.36%) Line Management
9 9 (16.36%) Risk Assessment
10 8 (14.55%) ITIL
10 8 (14.55%) Vulnerability Scanning
11 7 (12.73%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 7 (12.73%) Web Operations
Programming Languages
1 11 (20.00%) PowerShell
2 5 (9.09%) Python
3 3 (5.45%) Bash
4 2 (3.64%) Perl
4 2 (3.64%) Shell Script
4 2 (3.64%) SQL
4 2 (3.64%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 12 (21.82%) SC Cleared
1 12 (21.82%) Security Cleared
2 8 (14.55%) Azure Certification
2 8 (14.55%) Microsoft Certification
3 3 (5.45%) ITIL Certification
4 1 (1.82%) AWS Certification
4 1 (1.82%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 1 (1.82%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (1.82%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (5.45%) ISO 22301
1 3 (5.45%) ISO 31000
1 3 (5.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 3 (5.45%) SLA
2 2 (3.64%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 13 (23.64%) Active Directory
2 10 (18.18%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (16.36%) vSphere
4 5 (9.09%) Firmware
5 4 (7.27%) Virtual Servers
6 3 (5.45%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 2 (3.64%) Docker
7 2 (3.64%) KVM
8 1 (1.82%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 8 (14.55%) Microsoft Intune
2 4 (7.27%) Ansible
3 3 (5.45%) EMC NetWorker
3 3 (5.45%) HP Data Protector
3 3 (5.45%) NetBackup
4 2 (3.64%) Progress Chef
4 2 (3.64%) Puppet
4 2 (3.64%) Terraform
5 1 (1.82%) FortiGate
5 1 (1.82%) PaperCut
5 1 (1.82%) Perfmon
5 1 (1.82%) SCOM
5 1 (1.82%) VxRail
Vendors
1 14 (25.45%) Microsoft
2 12 (21.82%) Oracle
2 12 (21.82%) VMware
3 6 (10.91%) Cisco
4 4 (7.27%) Apple
4 4 (7.27%) EMC
5 3 (5.45%) Brocade
5 3 (5.45%) CyberArk
5 3 (5.45%) HP
5 3 (5.45%) IBM
5 3 (5.45%) ServiceNow
5 3 (5.45%) Thycotic
5 3 (5.45%) Veritas
6 2 (3.64%) Red Hat
6 2 (3.64%) Sun
6 2 (3.64%) TOWER Software
7 1 (1.82%) Adobe
7 1 (1.82%) CheckPoint
7 1 (1.82%) Imperva
7 1 (1.82%) Unisys