Disaster Recovery Contracts in Reading

Disaster Recovery
Berkshire > Reading

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Reading 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 49 65 75
Rank change year-on-year +16 +10 +16
Contract jobs citing Disaster Recovery 11 26 12
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 1.84% 2.18% 1.15%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.98% 2.42% 1.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 22 7
10th Percentile £435 £513 £438
25th Percentile - £600 £531
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £605 £563
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +7.56% +19.36%
75th Percentile - £608 £647
90th Percentile £555 - £725
Berkshire median daily rate £550 £605 £556
% change year-on-year -9.09% +8.76% +11.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £61.60 -
Berkshire median hourly rate £63.75 £61.60 -
% change year-on-year +3.48% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Reading

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 Reading.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 555 1,075 936
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 92.96% 90.18% 89.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 329 581 620
10th Percentile £313 £213 £363
25th Percentile £450 £413 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £638 £619 £660
90th Percentile £700 £688 £721
Berkshire median daily rate £500 £511 £525
% change year-on-year -2.10% -2.71% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 46 23
10th Percentile £33.82 £27.58 £45.50
25th Percentile £41.05 £53.74 £53.00
Median hourly rate £53.10 £62.07 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -14.46% -4.50% +132.14%
75th Percentile £65.14 £82.55 £74.40
90th Percentile £72.37 £87.50 £79.19
Berkshire median hourly rate £61.50 £61.60 £57.82
% change year-on-year -0.17% +6.54% +174.67%

Disaster Recovery
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

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

Job vacancy trend for Disaster Recovery in Reading

Disaster Recovery
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Reading

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

Daily rate trend for Disaster Recovery in Reading

Disaster Recovery
Daily Rate Histogram in Reading

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

Daily rate histogram for Disaster Recovery in Reading

Disaster Recovery
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Reading

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Disaster Recovery in Reading.

Hourly rate trend for Disaster Recovery in Reading

Disaster Recovery
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Reading 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (9.09%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 8 (72.73%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (9.09%) Firewall
General
1 9 (81.82%) Analytical Skills
2 8 (72.73%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (72.73%) Resilience Manager
2 1 (9.09%) Incident Manager
2 1 (9.09%) IT Manager
2 1 (9.09%) Major Incident Manager
2 1 (9.09%) Network Manager
2 1 (9.09%) Test Engineer
2 1 (9.09%) Vulnerability Management Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (9.09%) RFC 2544
Miscellaneous
1 1 (9.09%) Data Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (72.73%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (9.09%) Business Continuity
2 1 (9.09%) Configuration Management
2 1 (9.09%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (9.09%) Defect Management
2 1 (9.09%) ITIL
2 1 (9.09%) ITSM
2 1 (9.09%) Proactive Monitoring
2 1 (9.09%) Problem Management
2 1 (9.09%) Security Monitoring
2 1 (9.09%) Service Delivery
2 1 (9.09%) Service Management
2 1 (9.09%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (9.09%) Test Management
2 1 (9.09%) Test Scripting
2 1 (9.09%) Threat and Vulnerability Management
2 1 (9.09%) Threat Detection
2 1 (9.09%) Use Case
2 1 (9.09%) Validation
2 1 (9.09%) Vulnerability Management
Qualifications
1 2 (18.18%) SC Cleared
1 2 (18.18%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (9.09%) QA
1 1 (9.09%) SLA
Vendors
1 1 (9.09%) BMC
1 1 (9.09%) Cisco
1 1 (9.09%) Rapid7
1 1 (9.09%) Remedy