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 9 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 126 91 104
Rank change year-on-year -35 +13 +59
Contract jobs citing Disaster Recovery 110 74 86
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 1.64% 2.10% 1.75%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.03% 2.34% 2.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 80 54 58
10th Percentile £395 £310 £321
25th Percentile £450 £406 £353
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £500 £531
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -5.88% -6.39%
75th Percentile £650 £550 £608
90th Percentile £775 £596 -
England median daily rate £518 £485 £473
% change year-on-year +6.70% +2.65% -10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 9
10th Percentile £31.92 - £36.40
25th Percentile £43.10 - £56.65
Median hourly rate £63.48 £32.77 £61.60
Median % change year-on-year +93.71% -46.80% -
75th Percentile £67.86 - -
90th Percentile £69.44 - -
England median hourly rate £48.00 £32.39 £61.60
% change year-on-year +48.22% -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 5,430 3,168 4,081
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 80.94% 89.90% 82.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,351 1,981 2,489
10th Percentile £280 £250 £255
25th Percentile £414 £400 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £520
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -3.85% +0.31%
75th Percentile £613 £600 £638
90th Percentile £706 £675 £700
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 589 291 322
10th Percentile £14.80 £13.50 £15.00
25th Percentile £23.00 £15.13 £26.25
Median hourly rate £55.00 £21.25 £57.35
Median % change year-on-year +158.82% -62.95% +14.70%
75th Percentile £78.75 £49.38 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £71.50 £76.86
England median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £42.50
% change year-on-year +74.79% -40.82% +1.00%

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 9 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
Hourly Rate Histogram in the South East

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Disaster Recovery in the South East over the 6 months to 9 August 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Disaster Recovery in the South East

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 9 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 -24 80 £505 +1.00% 32
Berkshire -31 48 £500 - 15
Buckinghamshire - 25 £584 - 8
Hampshire -32 20 £600 +11.11% 20
Oxfordshire -18 7 £450 -48.57% 9
Surrey -21 5 £495 +2.86% 11
Middlesex -15 2 - - 1
West Sussex - 2 £322 - 5
East Sussex 0 1 £800 +77.78% 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 4 (3.64%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (2.73%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.91%) IIS
Applications
1 2 (1.82%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (1.82%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 4 (3.64%) Oracle ERP
1 4 (3.64%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (2.73%) NEC Housing
Cloud Services
1 51 (46.36%) Azure
2 27 (24.55%) AWS
3 12 (10.91%) OCI
4 11 (10.00%) Entra ID
5 10 (9.09%) SaaS
6 9 (8.18%) GCP
6 9 (8.18%) Microsoft 365
7 6 (5.45%) OpenShift
8 4 (3.64%) Azure DevOps
8 4 (3.64%) PaaS
9 3 (2.73%) Azure Monitor
9 3 (2.73%) GitHub
9 3 (2.73%) GitHub Actions
10 2 (1.82%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 2 (1.82%) Amazon ECS
10 2 (1.82%) Amazon EKS
10 2 (1.82%) IaaS
10 2 (1.82%) Route 53
10 2 (1.82%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 1 (0.91%) Cloudflare
Communications & Networking
1 19 (17.27%) Firewall
2 14 (12.73%) DNS
3 13 (11.82%) VPN
4 10 (9.09%) DHCP
5 8 (7.27%) SAN
5 8 (7.27%) TCP/IP
5 8 (7.27%) VLAN
6 7 (6.36%) NAS
6 7 (6.36%) Network Security
7 6 (5.45%) LAN
7 6 (5.45%) WAN
8 4 (3.64%) SD-WAN
9 3 (2.73%) BIG-IP
9 3 (2.73%) VSAN
10 2 (1.82%) BGP
10 2 (1.82%) Cisco ASA
10 2 (1.82%) Cisco Firepower
10 2 (1.82%) IPsec
10 2 (1.82%) MPLS
10 2 (1.82%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (7.27%) SQL Server
2 4 (3.64%) Oracle Database
3 3 (2.73%) Oracle Exadata
3 3 (2.73%) Oracle Reports
4 2 (1.82%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (1.82%) MySQL
4 2 (1.82%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (0.91%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (0.91%) BusinessObjects
5 1 (0.91%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
5 1 (0.91%) Oracle Database 11g
5 1 (0.91%) Oracle Database 12c
5 1 (0.91%) SAP Data Services
5 1 (0.91%) Tableau
5 1 (0.91%) Tableau Desktop
5 1 (0.91%) Tableau Server
Development Applications
1 4 (3.64%) JIRA
2 3 (2.73%) Visual Studio
3 2 (1.82%) Jenkins
3 2 (1.82%) Sonatype Nexus
4 1 (0.91%) GitLab
4 1 (0.91%) MSI
4 1 (0.91%) Postman
General
1 31 (28.18%) Social Skills
2 23 (20.91%) Public Sector
3 18 (16.36%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (8.18%) Finance
5 7 (6.36%) Aerospace
6 6 (5.45%) Legal
6 6 (5.45%) Retail
7 5 (4.55%) Influencing Skills
7 5 (4.55%) Local Government
8 4 (3.64%) Telecoms
9 3 (2.73%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.91%) Advertising
10 1 (0.91%) Billing
10 1 (0.91%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.91%) Health Technology
10 1 (0.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.91%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.91%) Military
Job Titles
1 29 (26.36%) Architect
2 22 (20.00%) Lead
3 15 (13.64%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 9 (8.18%) Senior
5 8 (7.27%) Lead Architect
6 7 (6.36%) Solutions Architect
6 7 (6.36%) Technical Architect
7 6 (5.45%) Network Architect
7 6 (5.45%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
7 6 (5.45%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 5 (4.55%) Designer
8 5 (4.55%) IT Engineer
8 5 (4.55%) Platform Architect
8 5 (4.55%) Service Designer
8 5 (4.55%) Storage Engineer
8 5 (4.55%) Systems Engineer
9 4 (3.64%) Backup Engineer
9 4 (3.64%) Head of Infrastructure
9 4 (3.64%) Network Technical Architect
9 4 (3.64%) Site Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (2.73%) .NET
1 3 (2.73%) .NET Framework
1 3 (2.73%) CSS
1 3 (2.73%) Entity Framework
1 3 (2.73%) Material-UI
1 3 (2.73%) React
1 3 (2.73%) RESTful
2 2 (1.82%) ARM Templates
2 2 (1.82%) GraphQL
2 2 (1.82%) Loki
2 2 (1.82%) Node.js
2 2 (1.82%) Oracle Fusion
3 1 (0.91%) JSON
3 1 (0.91%) LDAP
3 1 (0.91%) LINQ
3 1 (0.91%) Software Packaging
3 1 (0.91%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 20 (18.18%) Data Centre
2 15 (13.64%) Hybrid Cloud
3 13 (11.82%) Replication
4 8 (7.27%) Enterprise Storage
5 7 (6.36%) Onboarding
6 6 (5.45%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 5 (4.55%) Management Information System
7 5 (4.55%) Security Posture
8 4 (3.64%) Cloud Native
8 4 (3.64%) Distributed Systems
8 4 (3.64%) Driving Licence
8 4 (3.64%) Private Cloud
8 4 (3.64%) Product Ownership
8 4 (3.64%) Security Operations Centre
9 2 (1.82%) Analytical Mindset
9 2 (1.82%) Digital Signage
9 2 (1.82%) Enterprise Software
9 2 (1.82%) Legacy Systems
9 2 (1.82%) Operational Technology
9 2 (1.82%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 27 (24.55%) Windows
2 22 (20.00%) Linux
3 16 (14.55%) Windows Server
4 5 (4.55%) Windows 10
5 2 (1.82%) AIX
5 2 (1.82%) Debian
5 2 (1.82%) HPUX
5 2 (1.82%) Solaris
5 2 (1.82%) Ubuntu
5 2 (1.82%) Unix
6 1 (0.91%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (0.91%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (0.91%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (41.82%) Business Continuity
2 32 (29.09%) ITIL
3 22 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
4 21 (19.09%) Cybersecurity
4 21 (19.09%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 21 (19.09%) Stakeholder Management
5 18 (16.36%) Roadmaps
6 17 (15.45%) Agile
6 17 (15.45%) Cloud Security
6 17 (15.45%) Continuous Improvement
7 16 (14.55%) Data Protection
7 16 (14.55%) High Availability
7 16 (14.55%) Migration
7 16 (14.55%) Technical Leadership
8 14 (12.73%) Change Management
8 14 (12.73%) DevOps
9 12 (10.91%) ITSM
9 12 (10.91%) Service Management
9 12 (10.91%) TOGAF
10 11 (10.00%) Load Balancing
Programming Languages
1 17 (15.45%) Python
2 13 (11.82%) PowerShell
3 10 (9.09%) Bash
4 8 (7.27%) SQL
5 6 (5.45%) Java
6 5 (4.55%) TypeScript
7 4 (3.64%) Go
8 3 (2.73%) Bicep
8 3 (2.73%) C#
8 3 (2.73%) JavaScript
8 3 (2.73%) T-SQL
9 2 (1.82%) Scala
9 2 (1.82%) Shell Script
9 2 (1.82%) VBScript
10 1 (0.91%) Groovy
10 1 (0.91%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 50 (45.45%) Security Cleared
2 29 (26.36%) SC Cleared
3 20 (18.18%) DV Cleared
4 17 (15.45%) Degree
5 7 (6.36%) Azure Certification
5 7 (6.36%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 5 (4.55%) Cisco Certification
6 5 (4.55%) NCDA
7 4 (3.64%) CCNP
7 4 (3.64%) CISSP
8 3 (2.73%) Microsoft Certification
9 2 (1.82%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (1.82%) CCIE
9 2 (1.82%) Computer Science Degree
9 2 (1.82%) ITIL Certification
9 2 (1.82%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 2 (1.82%) Master's Degree
9 2 (1.82%) PMI Certification
9 2 (1.82%) PMP
10 1 (0.91%) (ISC)2 CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (12.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 13 (11.82%) NCSC
3 9 (8.18%) GDPR
4 7 (6.36%) NIST
5 5 (4.55%) Government Security Classifications
5 5 (4.55%) ISO/IEC 20000
6 3 (2.73%) Accessibility
7 2 (1.82%) ISO 22301
8 1 (0.91%) GRC
8 1 (0.91%) NIST 800
8 1 (0.91%) QA
System Software
1 21 (19.09%) Active Directory
2 15 (13.64%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (8.18%) Hyper-V
4 8 (7.27%) VMware ESXi
5 6 (5.45%) vSphere
6 4 (3.64%) Virtual Machines
6 4 (3.64%) VMware NSX
7 2 (1.82%) Docker
8 1 (0.91%) Firmware
8 1 (0.91%) Oracle RAC
8 1 (0.91%) UAG
Systems Management
1 14 (12.73%) Ansible
2 13 (11.82%) Terraform
3 11 (10.00%) Kubernetes
4 7 (6.36%) Microsoft Intune
5 5 (4.55%) Grafana
5 5 (4.55%) Prometheus
5 5 (4.55%) SCCM
6 4 (3.64%) vCenter Server
7 3 (2.73%) PowerCLI
8 2 (1.82%) Data Guard
8 2 (1.82%) Istio
8 2 (1.82%) NetBackup
8 2 (1.82%) Oracle RMAN
8 2 (1.82%) Puppet
8 2 (1.82%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.91%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 1 (0.91%) Avamar
Vendors
1 35 (31.82%) Microsoft
2 23 (20.91%) VMware
3 14 (12.73%) Oracle
4 10 (9.09%) Veeam
5 9 (8.18%) NetApp
6 7 (6.36%) ServiceNow
7 6 (5.45%) Zerto
8 5 (4.55%) SAP
9 4 (3.64%) Google
9 4 (3.64%) Red Hat
10 3 (2.73%) Cisco
10 3 (2.73%) Dell
10 3 (2.73%) F5
10 3 (2.73%) NEC
10 3 (2.73%) Veritas
11 2 (1.82%) HP
11 2 (1.82%) Infoblox
11 2 (1.82%) Lotus
11 2 (1.82%) SolarWinds
11 2 (1.82%) Splunk