Disaster Recovery Contract Job Trends in the South East

Disaster Recovery
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South East requiring Disaster Recovery skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 23 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 124 99 106
Rank change year-on-year -25 +7 +61
Contract jobs citing Disaster Recovery 115 72 85
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 1.71% 2.03% 1.78%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.13% 2.26% 2.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 78 56 57
10th Percentile £391 £286 £284
25th Percentile £450 £385 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% - -11.89%
75th Percentile £642 £550 £608
90th Percentile £775 £575 -
England median daily rate £525 £475 £473
% change year-on-year +10.53% +0.53% -12.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 9
10th Percentile £61.92 - £36.40
25th Percentile £62.18 - £56.65
Median hourly rate £65.24 £32.77 £61.60
Median % change year-on-year +99.08% -46.80% -
75th Percentile £69.18 - -
90th Percentile £69.97 - -
England median hourly rate £48.00 £36.39 £61.60
% change year-on-year +31.92% -40.93% -29.60%

All Process & Methodology Skills
South East

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 South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 5,401 3,183 3,920
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 80.50% 89.61% 82.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,321 1,986 2,373
10th Percentile £280 £244 £260
25th Percentile £420 £395 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £519
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -3.57% +0.10%
75th Percentile £615 £600 £638
90th Percentile £710 £675 £700
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 598 308 311
10th Percentile £13.97 £13.50 £15.00
25th Percentile £21.00 £15.50 £26.47
Median hourly rate £53.95 £23.50 £57.35
Median % change year-on-year +129.57% -59.02% +14.70%
75th Percentile £73.25 £51.70 £70.09
90th Percentile £88.00 £70.49 £76.86
England median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £42.50
% change year-on-year +74.79% -40.82% -

Disaster Recovery
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Disaster Recovery relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Disaster Recovery job vacancy trend in the South East

Disaster Recovery
Daily Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Disaster Recovery.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Disaster Recovery

Disaster Recovery
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Disaster Recovery in the South East over the 6 months to 23 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Disaster Recovery in the South East

Disaster Recovery
Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Disaster Recovery.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Disaster Recovery

Disaster Recovery
Contract Job Locations in the South East

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 South East region over the 6 months to 23 August 2026. 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
Thames Valley -17 85 £505 +1.00% 29
Berkshire -32 48 £500 - 16
Buckinghamshire -8 31 £584 +145.89% 7
Hampshire -16 22 £600 +20.00% 9
Oxfordshire -20 6 £450 -48.57% 6
Surrey -23 3 £650 +35.06% 6
Middlesex -18 2 - - 1
West Sussex - 2 £322 - 5
East Sussex -2 1 £800 +77.78% 4
Disaster Recovery
England

Disaster Recovery
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 4 (3.48%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (2.61%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.87%) IIS
Applications
1 3 (2.61%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.74%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 4 (3.48%) Oracle ERP
1 4 (3.48%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (2.61%) NEC Housing
Cloud Services
1 48 (41.74%) Azure
2 24 (20.87%) AWS
3 11 (9.57%) Entra ID
3 11 (9.57%) SaaS
4 10 (8.70%) Microsoft 365
4 10 (8.70%) OCI
5 9 (7.83%) GCP
6 6 (5.22%) OpenShift
7 4 (3.48%) Azure DevOps
8 3 (2.61%) Azure Monitor
8 3 (2.61%) GitHub
8 3 (2.61%) GitHub Actions
8 3 (2.61%) PaaS
9 2 (1.74%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 2 (1.74%) Amazon ECS
9 2 (1.74%) Amazon EKS
9 2 (1.74%) IaaS
9 2 (1.74%) Route 53
9 2 (1.74%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 1 (0.87%) Cloudflare
Communications & Networking
1 19 (16.52%) Firewall
2 14 (12.17%) DNS
2 14 (12.17%) VPN
3 10 (8.70%) DHCP
4 8 (6.96%) TCP/IP
4 8 (6.96%) VLAN
5 7 (6.09%) LAN
5 7 (6.09%) Network Security
5 7 (6.09%) SAN
5 7 (6.09%) WAN
6 6 (5.22%) NAS
7 4 (3.48%) SD-WAN
8 3 (2.61%) BIG-IP
8 3 (2.61%) VSAN
9 2 (1.74%) BGP
9 2 (1.74%) Cisco ASA
9 2 (1.74%) Cisco Firepower
9 2 (1.74%) IPsec
9 2 (1.74%) MPLS
9 2 (1.74%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (5.22%) SQL Server
2 3 (2.61%) Oracle Database
3 2 (1.74%) Oracle Exadata
3 2 (1.74%) Oracle Reports
4 1 (0.87%) BusinessObjects
4 1 (0.87%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
4 1 (0.87%) MySQL
4 1 (0.87%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (0.87%) SAP Data Services
4 1 (0.87%) Tableau
4 1 (0.87%) Tableau Desktop
4 1 (0.87%) Tableau Server
Development Applications
1 4 (3.48%) JIRA
2 3 (2.61%) Visual Studio
3 2 (1.74%) Jenkins
3 2 (1.74%) Sonatype Nexus
4 1 (0.87%) GitLab
4 1 (0.87%) MSI
4 1 (0.87%) Postman
General
1 33 (28.70%) Social Skills
2 25 (21.74%) Public Sector
3 17 (14.78%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (8.70%) Influencing Skills
5 8 (6.96%) Finance
5 8 (6.96%) Legal
6 7 (6.09%) Aerospace
7 6 (5.22%) Retail
8 5 (4.35%) Local Government
8 5 (4.35%) Organisational Skills
9 4 (3.48%) Telecoms
10 3 (2.61%) Military
11 1 (0.87%) Advertising
11 1 (0.87%) Billing
11 1 (0.87%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.87%) Health Technology
11 1 (0.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.87%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 26 (22.61%) Architect
2 22 (19.13%) Lead
3 15 (13.04%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 9 (7.83%) Senior
5 8 (6.96%) Lead Architect
6 7 (6.09%) Solutions Architect
6 7 (6.09%) Technical Architect
7 6 (5.22%) Disaster Recovery Specialist
7 6 (5.22%) IT Engineer
7 6 (5.22%) Network Architect
7 6 (5.22%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
7 6 (5.22%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 5 (4.35%) Designer
8 5 (4.35%) Service Designer
8 5 (4.35%) Storage Engineer
8 5 (4.35%) Systems Engineer
9 4 (3.48%) Analyst
9 4 (3.48%) Infrastructure Architect
9 4 (3.48%) Project Manager
9 4 (3.48%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (11.30%) Terraform
2 3 (2.61%) .NET
2 3 (2.61%) .NET Framework
2 3 (2.61%) CSS
2 3 (2.61%) Entity Framework
2 3 (2.61%) Material-UI
2 3 (2.61%) React
2 3 (2.61%) RESTful
3 2 (1.74%) ARM Templates
3 2 (1.74%) GraphQL
3 2 (1.74%) Loki
3 2 (1.74%) Node.js
3 2 (1.74%) Oracle Fusion
4 1 (0.87%) JSON
4 1 (0.87%) LDAP
4 1 (0.87%) LINQ
4 1 (0.87%) Software Packaging
4 1 (0.87%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 19 (16.52%) Data Centre
2 16 (13.91%) Hybrid Cloud
3 11 (9.57%) Replication
4 8 (6.96%) Enterprise Storage
5 7 (6.09%) Onboarding
6 6 (5.22%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 5 (4.35%) Security Posture
8 4 (3.48%) Cloud Native
8 4 (3.48%) Distributed Systems
8 4 (3.48%) Driving Licence
8 4 (3.48%) Management Information System
8 4 (3.48%) Private Cloud
8 4 (3.48%) Product Ownership
8 4 (3.48%) Security Operations Centre
9 3 (2.61%) Blackberry
9 3 (2.61%) Digital Signage
9 3 (2.61%) iPhone
10 2 (1.74%) Analytical Mindset
10 2 (1.74%) Legacy Systems
10 2 (1.74%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 28 (24.35%) Windows
2 21 (18.26%) Linux
3 15 (13.04%) Windows Server
4 6 (5.22%) Windows 10
5 2 (1.74%) AIX
5 2 (1.74%) Debian
5 2 (1.74%) HPUX
5 2 (1.74%) Solaris
5 2 (1.74%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.87%) Unix
6 1 (0.87%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (0.87%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (0.87%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (44.35%) Business Continuity
2 36 (31.30%) ITIL
3 27 (23.48%) Stakeholder Management
4 23 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
5 20 (17.39%) Agile
5 20 (17.39%) Cybersecurity
5 20 (17.39%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 19 (16.52%) Problem-Solving
7 18 (15.65%) Roadmaps
8 17 (14.78%) Cloud Security
9 16 (13.91%) Change Management
10 15 (13.04%) Data Protection
10 15 (13.04%) DevOps
10 15 (13.04%) High Availability
10 15 (13.04%) ITSM
10 15 (13.04%) Service Management
10 15 (13.04%) Technical Leadership
11 13 (11.30%) Incident Management
11 13 (11.30%) Migration
12 11 (9.57%) PRINCE2
Programming Languages
1 16 (13.91%) Python
2 12 (10.43%) PowerShell
3 9 (7.83%) Bash
4 6 (5.22%) Java
4 6 (5.22%) SQL
5 5 (4.35%) TypeScript
6 4 (3.48%) Go
7 3 (2.61%) Bicep
7 3 (2.61%) C#
7 3 (2.61%) JavaScript
8 2 (1.74%) Scala
8 2 (1.74%) Shell Script
8 2 (1.74%) T-SQL
8 2 (1.74%) VBScript
9 1 (0.87%) Groovy
9 1 (0.87%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 54 (46.96%) Security Cleared
2 33 (28.70%) SC Cleared
3 20 (17.39%) DV Cleared
4 17 (14.78%) Degree
5 8 (6.96%) Azure Certification
6 7 (6.09%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 5 (4.35%) Cisco Certification
7 5 (4.35%) NCDA
8 4 (3.48%) CCNP
8 4 (3.48%) Microsoft Certification
9 3 (2.61%) CTC Cleared
9 3 (2.61%) ITIL Certification
9 3 (2.61%) PMP
10 2 (1.74%) BPSS Clearance
10 2 (1.74%) CCIE
10 2 (1.74%) Computer Science Degree
10 2 (1.74%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 2 (1.74%) PMI Certification
11 1 (0.87%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 1 (0.87%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (14.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 13 (11.30%) NCSC
3 9 (7.83%) GDPR
4 5 (4.35%) Government Security Classifications
4 5 (4.35%) ISO/IEC 20000
5 4 (3.48%) ISO 22301
5 4 (3.48%) NIST
6 3 (2.61%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.87%) GRC
7 1 (0.87%) NIST 800
7 1 (0.87%) QA
System Software
1 21 (18.26%) Active Directory
2 14 (12.17%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (7.83%) Hyper-V
4 7 (6.09%) VMware ESXi
5 5 (4.35%) vSphere
6 4 (3.48%) Virtual Machines
6 4 (3.48%) VMware NSX
7 2 (1.74%) Docker
8 1 (0.87%) Firmware
8 1 (0.87%) Oracle RAC
8 1 (0.87%) UAG
Systems Management
1 14 (12.17%) Ansible
2 11 (9.57%) Kubernetes
3 8 (6.96%) Microsoft Intune
4 6 (5.22%) SCCM
5 5 (4.35%) Grafana
5 5 (4.35%) Prometheus
6 4 (3.48%) vCenter Server
7 3 (2.61%) PowerCLI
8 2 (1.74%) Istio
8 2 (1.74%) NetBackup
8 2 (1.74%) Puppet
8 2 (1.74%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.87%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 1 (0.87%) Avamar
9 1 (0.87%) Data Guard
9 1 (0.87%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 36 (31.30%) Microsoft
2 22 (19.13%) VMware
3 12 (10.43%) Oracle
4 10 (8.70%) ServiceNow
4 10 (8.70%) Veeam
5 9 (7.83%) NetApp
6 5 (4.35%) SAP
6 5 (4.35%) Zerto
7 4 (3.48%) Google
7 4 (3.48%) Red Hat
8 3 (2.61%) Cisco
8 3 (2.61%) Dell
8 3 (2.61%) F5
8 3 (2.61%) Lotus
8 3 (2.61%) NEC
8 3 (2.61%) Veritas
9 2 (1.74%) HP
9 2 (1.74%) Infoblox
9 2 (1.74%) SolarWinds
9 2 (1.74%) Splunk