Disaster Recovery Contracts in Sheffield

Disaster Recovery
South Yorkshire > Sheffield

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Sheffield 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 34 47 55
Rank change year-on-year +13 +8 -9
Contract jobs citing Disaster Recovery 16 8 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Sheffield 5.02% 2.11% 0.22%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.25% 2.28% 0.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 7 1
10th Percentile £322 £332 -
25th Percentile £355 £411 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £423 £500
Median % change year-on-year -11.24% -15.50% +5.26%
75th Percentile £389 £434 £525
90th Percentile £438 £438 -
South Yorkshire median daily rate £375 £423 £500
% change year-on-year -11.24% -15.50% +5.26%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Sheffield

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 Sheffield.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 305 351 434
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Sheffield 95.61% 92.61% 95.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 198 203 302
10th Percentile £232 £375 £364
25th Percentile £388 £425 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £551
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -9.30% +10.25%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £675
90th Percentile £650 £650 £700
South Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £475 £550
% change year-on-year - -13.64% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 10 3
10th Percentile - £10.90 £11.05
25th Percentile £18.10 £11.33 £11.13
Median hourly rate £18.21 £22.00 £11.50
Median % change year-on-year -17.25% +91.30% -28.13%
75th Percentile £18.41 £23.75 £25.88
90th Percentile £18.47 - £34.35
South Yorkshire median hourly rate £18.21 £17.62 £10.63
% change year-on-year +3.35% +65.71% -36.54%

Disaster Recovery
Job Vacancy Trend in Sheffield

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

Job vacancy trend for Disaster Recovery in Sheffield

Disaster Recovery
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Sheffield

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

Daily rate trend for Disaster Recovery in Sheffield

Disaster Recovery
Daily Rate Histogram in Sheffield

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

Daily rate histogram for Disaster Recovery in Sheffield

Disaster Recovery
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Sheffield

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

Hourly rate trend for Disaster Recovery in Sheffield

Disaster Recovery
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Sheffield 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 9 (56.25%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 2 (12.50%) AWS
1 2 (12.50%) Azure
2 1 (6.25%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (6.25%) Firewall
1 1 (6.25%) HTTPS
1 1 (6.25%) NAS
1 1 (6.25%) SAN
1 1 (6.25%) SSH
1 1 (6.25%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (56.25%) Oracle Database
1 9 (56.25%) Oracle Reports
General
1 11 (68.75%) Analytical Skills
2 9 (56.25%) Finance
3 3 (18.75%) Banking
4 2 (12.50%) Public Sector
5 1 (6.25%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (50.00%) Backup Engineer
1 8 (50.00%) Commvault Engineer
2 2 (12.50%) Test Manager
3 1 (6.25%) Administrator
3 1 (6.25%) Architect
3 1 (6.25%) Data Engineer
3 1 (6.25%) Data Protection Engineer
3 1 (6.25%) Disaster Recovery Manager
3 1 (6.25%) Disaster Recovery Test Manager
3 1 (6.25%) Migration Engineer
3 1 (6.25%) Solutions Architect
3 1 (6.25%) Unix Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (6.25%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 11 (68.75%) Data Centre
2 1 (6.25%) AS400
2 1 (6.25%) iSeries
2 1 (6.25%) Onboarding
2 1 (6.25%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (12.50%) Linux
1 2 (12.50%) Unix
2 1 (6.25%) AIX
2 1 (6.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (6.25%) Solaris
2 1 (6.25%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (68.75%) Problem-Solving
2 10 (62.50%) Performance Tuning
2 10 (62.50%) Problem Management
3 9 (56.25%) Change Management
3 9 (56.25%) Data Migration
3 9 (56.25%) Migration
3 9 (56.25%) Translating Business Requirements
4 4 (25.00%) ITIL
5 2 (12.50%) B2B
5 2 (12.50%) High Availability
5 2 (12.50%) Test Automation
6 1 (6.25%) CI/CD
6 1 (6.25%) DevOps
6 1 (6.25%) IT Audit
6 1 (6.25%) Key Management
6 1 (6.25%) Mentoring
6 1 (6.25%) Patch Management
6 1 (6.25%) Performance Optimisation
6 1 (6.25%) Project Delivery
6 1 (6.25%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 2 (12.50%) ActionScript
1 2 (12.50%) ActionScript 2.0
1 2 (12.50%) Python
2 1 (6.25%) Bash
2 1 (6.25%) C
2 1 (6.25%) Korn
2 1 (6.25%) Perl
2 1 (6.25%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 2 (12.50%) Security Cleared
2 1 (6.25%) CCNP
2 1 (6.25%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (6.25%) HP ASE
2 1 (6.25%) IBM Certification
System Software
1 1 (6.25%) Docker
1 1 (6.25%) Veritas Cluster Server
Systems Management
1 9 (56.25%) Oracle RMAN
2 2 (12.50%) Puppet
3 1 (6.25%) Ansible
3 1 (6.25%) Kubernetes
3 1 (6.25%) Nagios
3 1 (6.25%) NetBackup
3 1 (6.25%) Progress Chef
3 1 (6.25%) Terraform
Vendors
1 10 (62.50%) Commvault
2 9 (56.25%) Oracle
3 2 (12.50%) IBM
3 2 (12.50%) Red Hat
4 1 (6.25%) Brocade
4 1 (6.25%) Cisco
4 1 (6.25%) Dell
4 1 (6.25%) EMC
4 1 (6.25%) HP
4 1 (6.25%) IBM Sterling
4 1 (6.25%) Microsoft
4 1 (6.25%) NetApp
4 1 (6.25%) Pure Storage
4 1 (6.25%) Splunk
4 1 (6.25%) Veritas