Disaster Recovery Contracts in Northern Ireland

Disaster Recovery
UK > Northern Ireland

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Northern Ireland 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 3 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 28 - 33
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Disaster Recovery 2 0 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 1.26% - 0.50%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.38% - 0.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
UK median daily rate £475 £500 £520
% change year-on-year -5.00% -3.85% +6.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £22.48 - -
UK median hourly rate £22.05 £58.30 £54.83
% change year-on-year -62.17% +6.33% -5.28%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Northern Ireland

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 Northern Ireland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 145 111 155
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 91.19% 75.51% 76.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 87 55 80
10th Percentile £153 £211 £160
25th Percentile £291 £353 £267
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £410 £513 £406
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +26.15% -6.61%
75th Percentile £534 £588 £504
90th Percentile £625 £665 £624
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 21 14
10th Percentile £15.60 - £13.40
25th Percentile £22.50 £12.25 £13.91
Median hourly rate £26.59 £13.94 £15.25
Median % change year-on-year +90.75% -8.59% -3.11%
75th Percentile £48.48 £23.54 £16.78
90th Percentile £78.47 £31.88 £18.12
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.58 £36.00
% change year-on-year -18.48% -1.18% +44.00%

Disaster Recovery
Job Vacancy Trend in Northern Ireland

Job postings citing Disaster Recovery as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Northern Ireland.

Job vacancy trend for Disaster Recovery in Northern Ireland

Disaster Recovery
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Northern Ireland

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Disaster Recovery in Northern Ireland.

Daily rate trend for Disaster Recovery in Northern Ireland

Disaster Recovery
Contract Job Locations in Northern Ireland

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 Northern Ireland region over the 6 months to 3 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
County Antrim - 2 - - 3
Disaster Recovery
UK

Disaster Recovery
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Northern Ireland 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:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Administrator
1 1 (50.00%) Cisco Consultant
1 1 (50.00%) Consultant
1 1 (50.00%) DBA
1 1 (50.00%) SQL DBA
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Server DBA
1 1 (50.00%) Storage Consultant
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Linux
1 1 (50.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Business Continuity
1 1 (50.00%) Capacity Planning
1 1 (50.00%) Change Management
1 1 (50.00%) Database Migration
1 1 (50.00%) Database Security
1 1 (50.00%) Migration
1 1 (50.00%) Performance Monitoring
1 1 (50.00%) Performance Optimisation
1 1 (50.00%) Problem Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) BPSS Clearance
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) EMC NetWorker
1 1 (50.00%) EMC VPLEX
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Brocade
1 1 (50.00%) Cisco
1 1 (50.00%) Dell
1 1 (50.00%) EMC
1 1 (50.00%) Isilon
1 1 (50.00%) Red Hat
1 1 (50.00%) VMware