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

6 months to
26 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 139 96 111
Rank change year-on-year -43 +15 +47
Contract jobs citing Disaster Recovery 102 69 82
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 1.54% 2.00% 1.58%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.90% 2.21% 1.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 77 49 53
10th Percentile £394 £302 £334
25th Percentile £450 £450 £360
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £531 £508 £575
Median % change year-on-year +4.65% -11.74% +1.77%
75th Percentile £650 £550 £608
90th Percentile £775 £601 -
England median daily rate £500 £492 £494
% change year-on-year +1.63% -0.38% -5.92%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 9
10th Percentile - - £36.40
25th Percentile - - £56.65
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 £47.50 £32.39 £61.60
% change year-on-year +46.67% -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 5,373 3,118 4,303
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 81.16% 90.19% 82.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,382 1,954 2,575
10th Percentile £280 £250 £263
25th Percentile £413 £400 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £518
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -3.39% +0.49%
75th Percentile £613 £600 £638
90th Percentile £700 £675 £700
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 538 273 366
10th Percentile £16.00 £13.50 £14.47
25th Percentile £26.06 £15.13 £20.25
Median hourly rate £57.25 £22.07 £55.04
Median % change year-on-year +159.40% -59.90% +10.08%
75th Percentile £82.25 £51.10 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £75.00 £78.13
England median hourly rate £47.00 £25.15 £40.33
% change year-on-year +86.88% -37.63% -5.12%

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 26 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 26 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 -29 72 £500 -4.31% 26
Berkshire -34 41 £500 -1.48% 14
Buckinghamshire - 25 £593 - 4
Hampshire -35 21 £588 +12.98% 16
Oxfordshire -16 6 £450 -48.57% 8
Surrey -20 4 £454 -17.50% 11
Middlesex -11 2 - -
West Sussex - 2 £322 - 5
East Sussex -2 1 £800 +77.78% 2
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 (3.92%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (2.94%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.98%) IIS
Applications
1 2 (1.96%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (1.96%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 4 (3.92%) Oracle ERP
1 4 (3.92%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.98%) NEC Housing
Cloud Services
1 46 (45.10%) Azure
2 26 (25.49%) AWS
3 11 (10.78%) OCI
4 10 (9.80%) Entra ID
5 8 (7.84%) GCP
6 7 (6.86%) Microsoft 365
6 7 (6.86%) SaaS
7 4 (3.92%) Azure DevOps
8 3 (2.94%) GitHub
8 3 (2.94%) GitHub Actions
8 3 (2.94%) PaaS
9 2 (1.96%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 2 (1.96%) Amazon ECS
9 2 (1.96%) Amazon EKS
9 2 (1.96%) OpenShift
9 2 (1.96%) Route 53
9 2 (1.96%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 1 (0.98%) Azure Data Factory
10 1 (0.98%) Cloudflare
10 1 (0.98%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 13 (12.75%) Firewall
2 9 (8.82%) VPN
3 8 (7.84%) DNS
3 8 (7.84%) NAS
3 8 (7.84%) SAN
3 8 (7.84%) VLAN
4 7 (6.86%) Network Security
5 6 (5.88%) LAN
5 6 (5.88%) WAN
6 5 (4.90%) TCP/IP
7 4 (3.92%) DHCP
7 4 (3.92%) SD-WAN
8 3 (2.94%) BGP
8 3 (2.94%) BIG-IP
8 3 (2.94%) Cisco ASA
8 3 (2.94%) MPLS
8 3 (2.94%) OSPF
8 3 (2.94%) VSAN
9 2 (1.96%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
9 2 (1.96%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (8.82%) SQL Server
2 3 (2.94%) Oracle Database
2 3 (2.94%) Oracle Exadata
2 3 (2.94%) Oracle Reports
3 2 (1.96%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (1.96%) MySQL
3 2 (1.96%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (0.98%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (0.98%) BusinessObjects
4 1 (0.98%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
4 1 (0.98%) Oracle Database 11g
4 1 (0.98%) Oracle Database 12c
4 1 (0.98%) SAP Data Services
4 1 (0.98%) Tableau
4 1 (0.98%) Tableau Desktop
4 1 (0.98%) Tableau Server
Development Applications
1 4 (3.92%) JIRA
1 4 (3.92%) Visual Studio
2 2 (1.96%) Jenkins
2 2 (1.96%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (0.98%) GitLab
3 1 (0.98%) MSI
3 1 (0.98%) Postman
General
1 25 (24.51%) Social Skills
2 19 (18.63%) Public Sector
3 15 (14.71%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (8.82%) Finance
5 8 (7.84%) Legal
6 6 (5.88%) Retail
7 5 (4.90%) Aerospace
7 5 (4.90%) Influencing Skills
7 5 (4.90%) Telecoms
8 3 (2.94%) Local Government
8 3 (2.94%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.98%) Advertising
9 1 (0.98%) Aviation
9 1 (0.98%) Billing
9 1 (0.98%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.98%) Health Technology
9 1 (0.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.98%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 26 (25.49%) Architect
2 20 (19.61%) Lead
3 14 (13.73%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 8 (7.84%) Lead Architect
5 7 (6.86%) Senior
6 6 (5.88%) Network Architect
6 6 (5.88%) Site Reliability Engineer
6 6 (5.88%) Solutions Architect
6 6 (5.88%) Technical Architect
7 5 (4.90%) Designer
7 5 (4.90%) Platform Architect
7 5 (4.90%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
7 5 (4.90%) Service Designer
7 5 (4.90%) Storage Engineer
8 4 (3.92%) Full-Stack Developer
8 4 (3.92%) Head of Infrastructure
8 4 (3.92%) Head of IT Infrastructure
8 4 (3.92%) IT Engineer
8 4 (3.92%) Site Engineer
8 4 (3.92%) Storage and Backup Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (3.92%) .NET
1 4 (3.92%) .NET Framework
1 4 (3.92%) CSS
1 4 (3.92%) Entity Framework
1 4 (3.92%) Material-UI
1 4 (3.92%) React
1 4 (3.92%) RESTful
2 2 (1.96%) GraphQL
2 2 (1.96%) Loki
2 2 (1.96%) Node.js
2 2 (1.96%) Oracle Fusion
3 1 (0.98%) JSON
3 1 (0.98%) LDAP
3 1 (0.98%) LINQ
3 1 (0.98%) Software Packaging
3 1 (0.98%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 21 (20.59%) Data Centre
2 13 (12.75%) Replication
3 9 (8.82%) Hybrid Cloud
4 7 (6.86%) Enterprise Storage
4 7 (6.86%) Onboarding
5 6 (5.88%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 6 (5.88%) Security Posture
6 4 (3.92%) Distributed Systems
6 4 (3.92%) Private Cloud
6 4 (3.92%) Product Ownership
6 4 (3.92%) Security Operations Centre
7 3 (2.94%) Driving Licence
7 3 (2.94%) Management Information System
8 2 (1.96%) Blackberry
8 2 (1.96%) Cloud Native
8 2 (1.96%) Clustering
8 2 (1.96%) CMDB
8 2 (1.96%) Digital Signage
8 2 (1.96%) EPoS
8 2 (1.96%) iPhone
Operating Systems
1 20 (19.61%) Windows
2 15 (14.71%) Linux
3 10 (9.80%) Windows Server
4 5 (4.90%) Windows 10
5 2 (1.96%) Debian
5 2 (1.96%) Ubuntu
5 2 (1.96%) Unix
6 1 (0.98%) AIX
6 1 (0.98%) HPUX
6 1 (0.98%) Solaris
6 1 (0.98%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (0.98%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (0.98%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (37.25%) Business Continuity
2 26 (25.49%) ITIL
3 21 (20.59%) Problem-Solving
4 19 (18.63%) Cybersecurity
4 19 (18.63%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 17 (16.67%) High Availability
5 17 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
6 16 (15.69%) Roadmaps
7 15 (14.71%) Cloud Security
7 15 (14.71%) Continuous Improvement
7 15 (14.71%) Migration
8 13 (12.75%) Data Protection
8 13 (12.75%) Technical Leadership
9 12 (11.76%) Agile
9 12 (11.76%) Change Management
9 12 (11.76%) Runbook
10 11 (10.78%) CI/CD
10 11 (10.78%) TOGAF
11 10 (9.80%) Identity Access Management
11 10 (9.80%) RBAC
Programming Languages
1 14 (13.73%) Python
2 9 (8.82%) PowerShell
2 9 (8.82%) SQL
3 7 (6.86%) Bash
4 6 (5.88%) Java
4 6 (5.88%) TypeScript
5 4 (3.92%) C#
5 4 (3.92%) Go
6 3 (2.94%) JavaScript
6 3 (2.94%) T-SQL
7 2 (1.96%) Scala
7 2 (1.96%) VBScript
8 1 (0.98%) Bicep
8 1 (0.98%) Groovy
8 1 (0.98%) PL/SQL
8 1 (0.98%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 45 (44.12%) Security Cleared
2 26 (25.49%) SC Cleared
3 19 (18.63%) DV Cleared
4 14 (13.73%) Degree
5 5 (4.90%) CCNP
5 5 (4.90%) Cisco Certification
5 5 (4.90%) NCDA
6 4 (3.92%) Azure Certification
6 4 (3.92%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 3 (2.94%) CCIE
7 3 (2.94%) CISSP
8 2 (1.96%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (1.96%) ISTQB
8 2 (1.96%) ITIL Certification
8 2 (1.96%) Master's Degree
8 2 (1.96%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (1.96%) PMI Certification
8 2 (1.96%) PMP
9 1 (0.98%) CESG Certified Professional
9 1 (0.98%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (13.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 13 (12.75%) NCSC
3 9 (8.82%) GDPR
4 7 (6.86%) NIST
5 5 (4.90%) Government Security Classifications
5 5 (4.90%) ISO/IEC 20000
6 3 (2.94%) Accessibility
7 2 (1.96%) GRC
7 2 (1.96%) ISO 22301
7 2 (1.96%) QA
8 1 (0.98%) NIST 800
System Software
1 18 (17.65%) Active Directory
2 11 (10.78%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (8.82%) VMware ESXi
4 7 (6.86%) vSphere
5 5 (4.90%) Virtual Machines
6 4 (3.92%) Hyper-V
6 4 (3.92%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.98%) Oracle RAC
7 1 (0.98%) UAG
Systems Management
1 9 (8.82%) Ansible
2 8 (7.84%) Terraform
3 7 (6.86%) Kubernetes
4 6 (5.88%) Microsoft Intune
5 4 (3.92%) SCCM
5 4 (3.92%) vCenter Server
6 3 (2.94%) Grafana
6 3 (2.94%) PowerCLI
6 3 (2.94%) Prometheus
7 2 (1.96%) Data Guard
7 2 (1.96%) Oracle RMAN
7 2 (1.96%) Puppet
7 2 (1.96%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.98%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 1 (0.98%) Avamar
8 1 (0.98%) Cisco Prime
8 1 (0.98%) Iperf
8 1 (0.98%) NetBackup
8 1 (0.98%) Nmap
Vendors
1 29 (28.43%) Microsoft
2 19 (18.63%) VMware
3 13 (12.75%) Oracle
4 9 (8.82%) Veeam
5 8 (7.84%) NetApp
6 7 (6.86%) ServiceNow
6 7 (6.86%) Zerto
7 5 (4.90%) SAP
8 4 (3.92%) Cisco
8 4 (3.92%) Google
9 3 (2.94%) F5
9 3 (2.94%) Palo Alto
9 3 (2.94%) Rackspace
9 3 (2.94%) SolarWinds
10 2 (1.96%) Infoblox
10 2 (1.96%) Lotus
10 2 (1.96%) Red Hat
10 2 (1.96%) Veritas
10 2 (1.96%) Virgin Media
11 1 (0.98%) CheckPoint