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 13 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 125 85 119
Rank change year-on-year -40 +34 +41
Contract jobs citing Disaster Recovery 105 71 80
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 1.62% 2.10% 1.43%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.99% 2.33% 1.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 82 50 52
10th Percentile £376 £302 £350
25th Percentile £411 £450 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £523 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.31% -9.13% +1.77%
75th Percentile £600 £550 £608
90th Percentile £775 £607 -
England median daily rate £513 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +2.50% - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 8
10th Percentile - - £48.66
25th Percentile - - £60.36
Median hourly rate £24.46 £32.77 £61.60
Median % change year-on-year -25.36% -46.80% -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £47.00 £32.39 £61.60
% change year-on-year +45.13% -47.43% -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 5,281 3,053 4,633
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 81.41% 90.14% 82.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,339 1,904 2,705
10th Percentile £280 £250 £263
25th Percentile £413 £400 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £513
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -2.44% -0.49%
75th Percentile £610 £600 £638
90th Percentile £700 £672 £700
England median daily rate £525 £514 £525
% change year-on-year +2.14% -2.10% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 521 259 433
10th Percentile £15.72 £13.45 £13.00
25th Percentile £24.25 £15.13 £18.20
Median hourly rate £55.00 £24.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +129.17% -52.00% -
75th Percentile £82.25 £53.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £75.00 £77.40
England median hourly rate £47.00 £25.15 £38.12
% change year-on-year +86.88% -34.02% -5.96%

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 13 July 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 13 July 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 -19 77 £500 -6.98% 28
Berkshire -31 44 £495 -5.26% 12
Buckinghamshire - 27 £575 - 3
Hampshire -28 16 £600 +15.38% 14
Oxfordshire -24 6 £450 -48.57% 13
Surrey -19 5 £413 -25.00% 12
East Sussex -2 3 £775 +72.22% 2
Middlesex -9 2 - -
West Sussex - 2 £322 - 3
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 5 (4.76%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (3.81%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.90%) IIS
4 1 (0.95%) CMS
Applications
1 2 (1.90%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 4 (3.81%) Oracle ERP
2 2 (1.90%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 51 (48.57%) Azure
2 30 (28.57%) AWS
3 13 (12.38%) GCP
4 11 (10.48%) OCI
5 9 (8.57%) Entra ID
6 7 (6.67%) Microsoft 365
7 6 (5.71%) SaaS
8 5 (4.76%) Azure DevOps
9 3 (2.86%) GitHub
9 3 (2.86%) GitHub Actions
9 3 (2.86%) PaaS
10 2 (1.90%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 2 (1.90%) Amazon ECS
10 2 (1.90%) Amazon EKS
10 2 (1.90%) OpenShift
10 2 (1.90%) Route 53
10 2 (1.90%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 1 (0.95%) Azure Data Factory
11 1 (0.95%) Azure Monitor
11 1 (0.95%) Cloudflare
Communications & Networking
1 13 (12.38%) Firewall
2 9 (8.57%) DNS
3 8 (7.62%) NAS
3 8 (7.62%) SAN
3 8 (7.62%) VLAN
4 7 (6.67%) Network Security
4 7 (6.67%) VPN
5 6 (5.71%) LAN
5 6 (5.71%) WAN
6 5 (4.76%) DHCP
6 5 (4.76%) TCP/IP
7 4 (3.81%) BIG-IP
7 4 (3.81%) SD-WAN
8 3 (2.86%) BGP
8 3 (2.86%) Cisco ASA
8 3 (2.86%) MPLS
8 3 (2.86%) OSPF
8 3 (2.86%) VSAN
9 2 (1.90%) Cisco Firepower
9 2 (1.90%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (8.57%) SQL Server
2 3 (2.86%) Oracle Database
2 3 (2.86%) Oracle Exadata
2 3 (2.86%) Oracle Reports
3 2 (1.90%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (1.90%) BusinessObjects
3 2 (1.90%) MySQL
3 2 (1.90%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (1.90%) SAP Data Services
4 1 (0.95%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (0.95%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
4 1 (0.95%) BusinessObjects Web Intelligence
4 1 (0.95%) Oracle Database 11g
4 1 (0.95%) Oracle Database 12c
4 1 (0.95%) Tableau
4 1 (0.95%) Tableau Desktop
4 1 (0.95%) Tableau Server
Development Applications
1 5 (4.76%) Visual Studio
2 4 (3.81%) JIRA
3 2 (1.90%) Jenkins
3 2 (1.90%) Postman
3 2 (1.90%) Sonatype Nexus
4 1 (0.95%) GitLab
4 1 (0.95%) MSI
General
1 28 (26.67%) Social Skills
2 20 (19.05%) Public Sector
3 12 (11.43%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (8.57%) Finance
5 8 (7.62%) Legal
6 6 (5.71%) Retail
7 5 (4.76%) Influencing Skills
7 5 (4.76%) Telecoms
8 3 (2.86%) Aerospace
8 3 (2.86%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (1.90%) Local Government
10 1 (0.95%) Advertising
10 1 (0.95%) Aviation
10 1 (0.95%) Billing
10 1 (0.95%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.95%) Health Technology
10 1 (0.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.95%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 24 (22.86%) Architect
2 20 (19.05%) Lead
3 15 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 9 (8.57%) Lead Architect
5 7 (6.67%) Senior
5 7 (6.67%) Site Reliability Engineer
6 6 (5.71%) Network Architect
7 5 (4.76%) Designer
7 5 (4.76%) Developer
7 5 (4.76%) Full-Stack Developer
7 5 (4.76%) Platform Architect
7 5 (4.76%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
7 5 (4.76%) Service Designer
7 5 (4.76%) Site Engineer
7 5 (4.76%) Solutions Architect
8 4 (3.81%) Analyst
8 4 (3.81%) DBA
8 4 (3.81%) Head of Infrastructure
8 4 (3.81%) Head of IT Infrastructure
8 4 (3.81%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (4.76%) .NET
1 5 (4.76%) .NET Framework
1 5 (4.76%) CSS
1 5 (4.76%) Entity Framework
1 5 (4.76%) Material-UI
1 5 (4.76%) React
1 5 (4.76%) RESTful
2 2 (1.90%) GraphQL
2 2 (1.90%) JSON
2 2 (1.90%) LINQ
2 2 (1.90%) Loki
2 2 (1.90%) Node.js
2 2 (1.90%) Oracle Fusion
2 2 (1.90%) Swagger
3 1 (0.95%) LDAP
3 1 (0.95%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 21 (20.00%) Data Centre
2 12 (11.43%) Replication
3 9 (8.57%) Distributed Systems
4 7 (6.67%) Hybrid Cloud
5 6 (5.71%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 6 (5.71%) Enterprise Storage
5 6 (5.71%) Security Posture
6 5 (4.76%) Onboarding
7 4 (3.81%) Private Cloud
7 4 (3.81%) Product Ownership
7 4 (3.81%) Security Operations Centre
8 3 (2.86%) Management Information System
9 2 (1.90%) Analytical Mindset
9 2 (1.90%) Cloud Native
9 2 (1.90%) Clustering
9 2 (1.90%) CMDB
9 2 (1.90%) EPoS
9 2 (1.90%) Legacy Systems
9 2 (1.90%) Public Cloud
10 1 (0.95%) CESG
Operating Systems
1 17 (16.19%) Windows
2 14 (13.33%) Linux
3 10 (9.52%) Windows Server
4 3 (2.86%) Windows 10
5 2 (1.90%) Debian
5 2 (1.90%) Ubuntu
5 2 (1.90%) Unix
5 2 (1.90%) Windows Server 2012
5 2 (1.90%) Windows Server 2016
5 2 (1.90%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (0.95%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (37.14%) Business Continuity
2 24 (22.86%) High Availability
2 24 (22.86%) Problem-Solving
3 23 (21.90%) ITIL
4 19 (18.10%) Cybersecurity
5 18 (17.14%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 16 (15.24%) CI/CD
6 16 (15.24%) Roadmaps
6 16 (15.24%) Stakeholder Management
7 15 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
7 15 (14.29%) Migration
8 13 (12.38%) Cloud Security
9 12 (11.43%) Change Management
9 12 (11.43%) Runbook
9 12 (11.43%) Technical Leadership
9 12 (11.43%) TOGAF
10 11 (10.48%) Load Balancing
10 11 (10.48%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 11 (10.48%) Task Automation
11 10 (9.52%) RBAC
Programming Languages
1 19 (18.10%) Python
2 11 (10.48%) Java
3 10 (9.52%) SQL
4 9 (8.57%) Go
4 9 (8.57%) PowerShell
5 7 (6.67%) Bash
5 7 (6.67%) TypeScript
6 5 (4.76%) C#
7 4 (3.81%) JavaScript
7 4 (3.81%) T-SQL
8 2 (1.90%) Scala
8 2 (1.90%) VBScript
9 1 (0.95%) Bicep
9 1 (0.95%) Groovy
9 1 (0.95%) PL/SQL
9 1 (0.95%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 46 (43.81%) Security Cleared
2 28 (26.67%) SC Cleared
3 19 (18.10%) DV Cleared
4 13 (12.38%) Degree
5 5 (4.76%) CCNP
5 5 (4.76%) Cisco Certification
5 5 (4.76%) NCDA
6 4 (3.81%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 3 (2.86%) BPSS Clearance
7 3 (2.86%) CCIE
7 3 (2.86%) CISSP
8 2 (1.90%) Azure Certification
8 2 (1.90%) ISTQB
8 2 (1.90%) ITIL Certification
8 2 (1.90%) Master's Degree
8 2 (1.90%) PMI Certification
8 2 (1.90%) PMP
9 1 (0.95%) CISMP
9 1 (0.95%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (0.95%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (13.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 13 (12.38%) NCSC
3 9 (8.57%) GDPR
4 7 (6.67%) NIST
5 5 (4.76%) Government Security Classifications
5 5 (4.76%) ISO/IEC 20000
6 3 (2.86%) Accessibility
7 2 (1.90%) GRC
7 2 (1.90%) ISO 22301
7 2 (1.90%) QA
8 1 (0.95%) NIST 800
System Software
1 18 (17.14%) Active Directory
2 11 (10.48%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (9.52%) VMware ESXi
4 7 (6.67%) vSphere
5 5 (4.76%) Virtual Machines
5 5 (4.76%) VMware NSX
6 4 (3.81%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.95%) Oracle RAC
7 1 (0.95%) UAG
Systems Management
1 12 (11.43%) Kubernetes
2 8 (7.62%) Ansible
2 8 (7.62%) Terraform
3 7 (6.67%) Microsoft Intune
4 4 (3.81%) Single Sign-On
4 4 (3.81%) vCenter Server
5 3 (2.86%) Grafana
5 3 (2.86%) PowerCLI
5 3 (2.86%) Prometheus
5 3 (2.86%) SCCM
6 2 (1.90%) Data Guard
6 2 (1.90%) Oracle RMAN
6 2 (1.90%) Puppet
7 1 (0.95%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 1 (0.95%) Avamar
7 1 (0.95%) Cisco Prime
7 1 (0.95%) Iperf
7 1 (0.95%) NetBackup
7 1 (0.95%) Nmap
Vendors
1 26 (24.76%) Microsoft
2 18 (17.14%) VMware
3 13 (12.38%) Oracle
4 9 (8.57%) Veeam
5 7 (6.67%) NetApp
5 7 (6.67%) Zerto
6 5 (4.76%) ServiceNow
7 4 (3.81%) Cisco
7 4 (3.81%) F5
7 4 (3.81%) Google
7 4 (3.81%) SAP
8 3 (2.86%) Palo Alto
8 3 (2.86%) Rackspace
8 3 (2.86%) Red Hat
8 3 (2.86%) SolarWinds
9 2 (1.90%) Infoblox
9 2 (1.90%) Veritas
9 2 (1.90%) Virgin Media
10 1 (0.95%) CheckPoint
10 1 (0.95%) Tufin