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 15 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 91 90 117
Rank change year-on-year -1 +27 +35
Contract jobs citing Disaster Recovery 38 33 33
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 1.73% 1.37% 1.12%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.95% 1.63% 1.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 24 19
10th Percentile £412 £335 £373
25th Percentile £435 £477 £399
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £513 £475
Median % change year-on-year -12.20% +7.89% -5.00%
75th Percentile £550 £644 £550
90th Percentile £600 £750 £598
England median daily rate £475 £475 £525
% change year-on-year - -9.52% +0.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 3
10th Percentile £33.58 - -
25th Percentile £38.94 - -
Median hourly rate £49.25 - £16.85
75th Percentile £58.94 - £21.43
90th Percentile £63.93 - £24.17
England median hourly rate £32.77 £61.60 £87.50
% change year-on-year -46.80% -29.60% +55.56%

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 1,945 2,026 2,617
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 88.65% 84.31% 88.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,257 1,215 1,795
10th Percentile £280 £311 £285
25th Percentile £375 £406 £401
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% - -
75th Percentile £575 £588 £588
90th Percentile £667 £678 £667
England median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 125 172 165
10th Percentile £13.50 £10.95 £15.75
25th Percentile £18.87 £16.06 £18.50
Median hourly rate £27.00 £34.61 £30.76
Median % change year-on-year -21.98% +12.52% +38.91%
75th Percentile £58.27 £51.91 £46.18
90th Percentile £74.50 £70.90 £65.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £41.50
% change year-on-year -41.51% +3.61% +56.60%

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 15 August 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
Hourly Rate Histogram in the North West

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Disaster Recovery in the North West over the 6 months to 15 August 2025.

Hourly rate histogram 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 15 August 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 +8 25 £448 -18.64% 26
Cheshire -18 5 £496 -0.75% 5
Cumbria +13 3 - - 2
Lancashire - 3 £450 - 17
Merseyside -6 1 £158 - 2
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 5 (13.16%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (2.63%) Adobe Creative Suite
1 1 (2.63%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 13 (34.21%) Azure
2 11 (28.95%) Serverless
3 6 (15.79%) Entra ID
4 5 (13.16%) IaaS
4 5 (13.16%) Microsoft 365
5 3 (7.89%) AWS
6 2 (5.26%) Azure Event Grid
6 2 (5.26%) Azure Functions
6 2 (5.26%) Azure Logic Apps
6 2 (5.26%) Azure Monitor
7 1 (2.63%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 1 (2.63%) Amazon Cognito
7 1 (2.63%) Amazon ECS
7 1 (2.63%) Amazon EKS
7 1 (2.63%) Amazon GuardDuty
7 1 (2.63%) Amazon Kinesis
7 1 (2.63%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (2.63%) GitHub
7 1 (2.63%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (2.63%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 11 (28.95%) Network Security
2 9 (23.68%) Firewall
3 5 (13.16%) Intrusion Detection
4 4 (10.53%) SAN
5 3 (7.89%) BGP
5 3 (7.89%) Cisco IOS
5 3 (7.89%) LAN
5 3 (7.89%) NX-OS
5 3 (7.89%) TCP/IP
5 3 (7.89%) WAN
5 3 (7.89%) WLAN
6 1 (2.63%) DNS
6 1 (2.63%) Internet
6 1 (2.63%) IPsec
6 1 (2.63%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (23.68%) MongoDB
2 8 (21.05%) NoSQL
2 8 (21.05%) Oracle Reports
2 8 (21.05%) PostgreSQL
2 8 (21.05%) RDBMS
2 8 (21.05%) Relational Database
3 7 (18.42%) SQL Server
4 3 (7.89%) MySQL
5 2 (5.26%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (2.63%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 1 (2.63%) Jenkins
General
1 7 (18.42%) Social Skills
2 6 (15.79%) Analytical Skills
2 6 (15.79%) Finance
3 5 (13.16%) Banking
3 5 (13.16%) Telecoms
4 2 (5.26%) Public Sector
5 1 (2.63%) Legal
Job Titles
1 10 (26.32%) DBA
2 6 (15.79%) Analyst
3 5 (13.16%) Infrastructure Analyst
4 4 (10.53%) PostgreSQL DBA
4 4 (10.53%) Storage Engineer
5 3 (7.89%) Administrator
5 3 (7.89%) Architect
5 3 (7.89%) Cloud Engineer
5 3 (7.89%) Cybersecurity Engineer
5 3 (7.89%) Network Engineer
5 3 (7.89%) Security Engineer
6 2 (5.26%) Azure Engineer
6 2 (5.26%) Business Manager
6 2 (5.26%) Infrastructure Architect
6 2 (5.26%) IT Manager
6 2 (5.26%) IT Services Manager
6 2 (5.26%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
6 2 (5.26%) Service Continuity Manager
6 2 (5.26%) Service Manager
6 2 (5.26%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (26.32%) XML
2 8 (21.05%) JSON
2 8 (21.05%) Kafka
3 2 (5.26%) ARM Templates
4 1 (2.63%) AWS Amplify
4 1 (2.63%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 4 (10.53%) Data Centre
2 3 (7.89%) Cyber Threat
2 3 (7.89%) Replication
3 2 (5.26%) Cloud Native
3 2 (5.26%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (2.63%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (2.63%) Mainframe
4 1 (2.63%) Private Cloud
4 1 (2.63%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 8 (21.05%) Windows
2 5 (13.16%) Windows Server
3 2 (5.26%) HPUX
3 2 (5.26%) Linux
3 2 (5.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (5.26%) Solaris
4 1 (2.63%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (34.21%) DevOps
2 11 (28.95%) Agile
2 11 (28.95%) High Availability
3 10 (26.32%) Change Management
3 10 (26.32%) Problem-Solving
4 9 (23.68%) Cybersecurity
5 8 (21.05%) Business Continuity
5 8 (21.05%) Database Security
5 8 (21.05%) Enterprise Architecture
5 8 (21.05%) Mentoring
6 6 (15.79%) BCP
6 6 (15.79%) Business Continuity Planning
6 6 (15.79%) ITIL
6 6 (15.79%) Line Management
6 6 (15.79%) Problem Management
6 6 (15.79%) Risk Assessment
7 5 (13.16%) Analytics
7 5 (13.16%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 5 (13.16%) Vulnerability Scanning
7 5 (13.16%) Web Operations
Programming Languages
1 7 (18.42%) PowerShell
2 6 (15.79%) Python
3 3 (7.89%) Perl
4 2 (5.26%) Bicep
4 2 (5.26%) JavaScript
4 2 (5.26%) SQL
4 2 (5.26%) T-SQL
5 1 (2.63%) Bash
Qualifications
1 5 (13.16%) Azure Certification
1 5 (13.16%) Microsoft Certification
1 5 (13.16%) SC Cleared
1 5 (13.16%) Security Cleared
2 3 (7.89%) CCDP
2 3 (7.89%) CCNP
2 3 (7.89%) Cisco Certification
2 3 (7.89%) ITIL Certification
3 2 (5.26%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
4 1 (2.63%) AWS Certification
4 1 (2.63%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 1 (2.63%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (2.63%) DBS Check
4 1 (2.63%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (7.89%) ISO 22301
1 3 (7.89%) ISO 31000
1 3 (7.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (5.26%) Data Quality
3 1 (2.63%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 6 (15.79%) Active Directory
1 6 (15.79%) VMware Infrastructure
2 5 (13.16%) vSphere
3 3 (7.89%) Firmware
4 1 (2.63%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 5 (13.16%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (5.26%) EMC NetWorker
2 2 (5.26%) HP Data Protector
2 2 (5.26%) NetBackup
2 2 (5.26%) Terraform
3 1 (2.63%) PaperCut
3 1 (2.63%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 8 (21.05%) Oracle
2 7 (18.42%) Microsoft
3 6 (15.79%) VMware
4 5 (13.16%) Cisco
5 3 (7.89%) CyberArk
5 3 (7.89%) F5
5 3 (7.89%) Meraki
5 3 (7.89%) Palo Alto
5 3 (7.89%) ServiceNow
5 3 (7.89%) SolarWinds
5 3 (7.89%) Thycotic
6 2 (5.26%) Brocade
6 2 (5.26%) EMC
6 2 (5.26%) HP
6 2 (5.26%) IBM
6 2 (5.26%) Sun
6 2 (5.26%) Veritas
7 1 (2.63%) Apple
7 1 (2.63%) CheckPoint
7 1 (2.63%) NetApp