Disaster Recovery Contracts in the South East

Disaster Recovery
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 110 124 183
Rank change year-on-year +14 +59 +15
Contract jobs citing Disaster Recovery 49 82 39
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 1.63% 1.48% 0.67%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.78% 1.74% 0.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 56 22
10th Percentile £368 £303 £314
25th Percentile £450 £419 £466
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -6.14%
75th Percentile £578 £608 £585
90th Percentile £623 £653 £713
England median daily rate £476 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -4.90% -4.76% +6.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £61.87 - -
Median hourly rate £63.75 £61.60 -
Median % change year-on-year +3.48% - -
75th Percentile £65.62 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £21.63 £58.30 £40.42
% change year-on-year -62.91% +44.25% -20.40%

All Process and 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 2,757 4,716 5,181
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 91.59% 84.85% 89.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,756 2,743 3,594
10th Percentile £256 £243 £250
25th Percentile £400 £400 £404
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £508
Median % change year-on-year - -1.53% +1.55%
75th Percentile £600 £621 £619
90th Percentile £675 £700 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 171 434 219
10th Percentile £13.85 £13.00 £18.25
25th Percentile £15.79 £18.23 £23.83
Median hourly rate £28.00 £47.50 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -41.05% -5.00% +122.22%
75th Percentile £62.50 £62.49 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £76.86 £74.83
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

Disaster Recovery
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing Disaster Recovery as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Disaster Recovery in the South East

Disaster Recovery
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Disaster Recovery in the South East.

Daily rate trend for Disaster Recovery in the South East

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 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Disaster Recovery in the South East

Disaster Recovery
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Disaster Recovery in the South East.

Hourly rate trend 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 1 May 2025. 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 +35 27 £550 -9.09% 66
Berkshire +25 26 £550 -9.09% 36
Hampshire +14 11 £603 +109.74% 32
East Sussex +3 6 £450 -5.26% 8
Surrey +9 2 £525 +16.67% 18
Kent +7 2 £668 +4.71% 16
Oxfordshire - 1 £500 - 19
Disaster Recovery
England

Disaster Recovery
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 7 (14.29%) SharePoint
2 2 (4.08%) Microsoft Exchange
Business Applications
1 1 (2.04%) Remedy ITSM
1 1 (2.04%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 18 (36.73%) Azure
2 14 (28.57%) AWS
3 11 (22.45%) Microsoft 365
4 7 (14.29%) Power Platform
5 5 (10.20%) PaaS
6 3 (6.12%) Entra ID
6 3 (6.12%) IaaS
6 3 (6.12%) SaaS
7 1 (2.04%) Akamai
7 1 (2.04%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (2.04%) Nutanix
7 1 (2.04%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 12 (24.49%) Firewall
2 9 (18.37%) Network Security
2 9 (18.37%) VPN
3 7 (14.29%) Internet
4 2 (4.08%) Ethernet
4 2 (4.08%) MPLS
4 2 (4.08%) SDH
5 1 (2.04%) Cisco ISE
5 1 (2.04%) DHCP
5 1 (2.04%) DNS
5 1 (2.04%) Intrusion Detection
5 1 (2.04%) Remote Desktop
5 1 (2.04%) SD-WAN
5 1 (2.04%) TCP/IP
5 1 (2.04%) VSAN
5 1 (2.04%) WAN
5 1 (2.04%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (18.37%) SQL Server
2 7 (14.29%) Power BI
3 1 (2.04%) Data Lake
3 1 (2.04%) Oracle Database
3 1 (2.04%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 2 (4.08%) Git
General
1 17 (34.69%) Social Skills
2 11 (22.45%) Analytical Skills
3 9 (18.37%) Public Sector
4 5 (10.20%) Military
5 1 (2.04%) Finance
5 1 (2.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (2.04%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (2.04%) Local Government
5 1 (2.04%) Manufacturing
5 1 (2.04%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (2.04%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (2.04%) Retail
5 1 (2.04%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 11 (22.45%) Senior
2 9 (18.37%) DBA
2 9 (18.37%) IT Manager
3 8 (16.33%) Administrator
3 8 (16.33%) Resilience Manager
4 7 (14.29%) IT Services Manager
4 7 (14.29%) Service Manager
5 5 (10.20%) Senior IT Manager
5 5 (10.20%) Senior Manager
5 5 (10.20%) Senior Service Manager
5 5 (10.20%) SQL DBA
6 4 (8.16%) Lead
7 3 (6.12%) Network Manager
7 3 (6.12%) Senior DBA
7 3 (6.12%) Systems Administrator
8 2 (4.08%) Lead Architect
8 2 (4.08%) Network Analyst
8 2 (4.08%) Security Manager
8 2 (4.08%) Senior Systems Administrator
8 2 (4.08%) Technical Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (4.08%) RFC 2544
1 2 (4.08%) SAML
1 2 (4.08%) YAML
2 1 (2.04%) 802.1X
2 1 (2.04%) SAP Basis
Miscellaneous
1 7 (14.29%) Video Conferencing
2 6 (12.24%) Data Centre
3 4 (8.16%) Replication
4 2 (4.08%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (4.08%) PKI
4 2 (4.08%) SCADA
5 1 (2.04%) Clustering
5 1 (2.04%) Data Structures
5 1 (2.04%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (2.04%) Private Cloud
5 1 (2.04%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 5 (10.20%) Windows
2 4 (8.16%) Windows Server
3 2 (4.08%) Linux
4 1 (2.04%) AIX
4 1 (2.04%) Android
4 1 (2.04%) Apple iOS
4 1 (2.04%) CentOS
4 1 (2.04%) HPUX
4 1 (2.04%) Solaris
4 1 (2.04%) Ubuntu
4 1 (2.04%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (32.65%) Problem-Solving
2 12 (24.49%) Cybersecurity
3 10 (20.41%) Performance Tuning
4 9 (18.37%) Security Monitoring
5 8 (16.33%) Business Continuity
5 8 (16.33%) ITIL
5 8 (16.33%) Penetration Testing
6 7 (14.29%) Business Intelligence
6 7 (14.29%) Capacity Planning
6 7 (14.29%) Server Management
7 6 (12.24%) Analytics
7 6 (12.24%) Case Management
7 6 (12.24%) Contract Management
7 6 (12.24%) Migration
7 6 (12.24%) Storage Management
7 6 (12.24%) Task Automation
8 5 (10.20%) Antivirus Management
8 5 (10.20%) Database Security
8 5 (10.20%) High Availability
9 4 (8.16%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 10 (20.41%) SQL
2 3 (6.12%) PowerShell
3 2 (4.08%) Python
4 1 (2.04%) Bash
4 1 (2.04%) Korn
4 1 (2.04%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 18 (36.73%) Security Cleared
2 12 (24.49%) SC Cleared
3 5 (10.20%) DV Cleared
4 4 (8.16%) Degree
5 2 (4.08%) Azure Certification
5 2 (4.08%) CCNA
5 2 (4.08%) CCNP
5 2 (4.08%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (2.04%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (2.04%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 1 (2.04%) VCAP
6 1 (2.04%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (10.20%) SLA
2 4 (8.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (4.08%) ISO 22301
3 2 (4.08%) NCSC
3 2 (4.08%) QA
4 1 (2.04%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (2.04%) NIST
4 1 (2.04%) NIST 800
4 1 (2.04%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 5 (10.20%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (8.16%) Active Directory
3 2 (4.08%) VMware ESXi
3 2 (4.08%) vSphere
4 1 (2.04%) Hyper-V
4 1 (2.04%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 7 (14.29%) Microsoft Intune
2 3 (6.12%) SCCM
2 3 (6.12%) Terraform
3 1 (2.04%) Ansible
3 1 (2.04%) FortiGate
3 1 (2.04%) Oracle ZFS
3 1 (2.04%) PowerCLI
3 1 (2.04%) Progress Chef
3 1 (2.04%) Puppet
3 1 (2.04%) vCenter Server
3 1 (2.04%) vRealize
Vendors
1 12 (24.49%) Microsoft
2 6 (12.24%) Oracle
2 6 (12.24%) VMware
3 4 (8.16%) Cisco
4 2 (4.08%) SolarWinds
5 1 (2.04%) Apple
5 1 (2.04%) BMC
5 1 (2.04%) Dell KACE
5 1 (2.04%) Dynatrace
5 1 (2.04%) IBM
5 1 (2.04%) Intel
5 1 (2.04%) Meraki
5 1 (2.04%) NetApp
5 1 (2.04%) Palo Alto
5 1 (2.04%) Rapid7
5 1 (2.04%) Red Hat
5 1 (2.04%) SAP
5 1 (2.04%) Ubiquiti
5 1 (2.04%) Veeam
5 1 (2.04%) Zerto