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 30 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 92 128 168
Rank change year-on-year +36 +40 +31
Contract jobs citing Disaster Recovery 62 79 46
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 1.99% 1.39% 0.80%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.18% 1.68% 0.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 44 49 25
10th Percentile £301 £350 £335
25th Percentile £450 £400 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.52% +4.55% -
75th Percentile £550 £608 £615
90th Percentile £603 £616 £688
England median daily rate £500 £500 £503
% change year-on-year - -0.50% +0.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 8 0
Median hourly rate £32.77 £61.60 -
Median % change year-on-year -46.80% - -
England median hourly rate £32.39 £61.60 £26.00
% change year-on-year -47.43% +136.92% -53.11%

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 2,844 4,690 5,140
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 91.07% 82.64% 89.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,770 2,720 3,506
10th Percentile £250 £256 £250
25th Percentile £393 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £515
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -0.49% +3.00%
75th Percentile £600 £634 £619
90th Percentile £666 £700 £700
England median daily rate £515 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 228 460 235
10th Percentile £13.43 £13.00 £15.50
25th Percentile £15.12 £18.20 £21.45
Median hourly rate £24.33 £47.50 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -48.78% -5.00% +122.22%
75th Percentile £55.00 £67.14 £64.56
90th Percentile £75.00 £77.63 £75.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £38.12 £37.34
% change year-on-year -34.02% +2.09% +45.40%

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 30 June 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 30 June 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 +20 39 £538 -11.16% 85
Berkshire +19 39 £538 -11.16% 56
Hampshire +27 15 £520 +6.67% 38
East Sussex - 4 £450 - 6
Surrey +19 2 £550 +22.22% 28
Kent - 1 £750 - 13
Middlesex - 1 £500 - 1
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 8 (12.90%) SharePoint
2 4 (6.45%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 4 (6.45%) Oracle Workflow
2 4 (6.45%) WebLogic
3 2 (3.23%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (1.61%) Anypoint
Business Applications
1 10 (16.13%) Oracle EBS R12
1 10 (16.13%) Oracle ERP
2 6 (9.68%) Oracle Assets
3 4 (6.45%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (1.61%) Remedy ITSM
4 1 (1.61%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 22 (35.48%) Azure
2 18 (29.03%) AWS
3 10 (16.13%) Microsoft 365
3 10 (16.13%) SaaS
4 7 (11.29%) Power Platform
5 5 (8.06%) Azure Storage
6 4 (6.45%) Entra ID
6 4 (6.45%) GCP
6 4 (6.45%) OCI
7 3 (4.84%) IaaS
7 3 (4.84%) PaaS
8 1 (1.61%) Akamai
8 1 (1.61%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (1.61%) Azure AKS
8 1 (1.61%) Azure Data Factory
8 1 (1.61%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (1.61%) Azure Monitor
8 1 (1.61%) Nutanix
8 1 (1.61%) Rubrik
8 1 (1.61%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 18 (29.03%) Firewall
2 10 (16.13%) VPN
3 9 (14.52%) Network Security
4 7 (11.29%) Internet
5 4 (6.45%) NAS
5 4 (6.45%) SAN
6 3 (4.84%) WAN
7 2 (3.23%) DHCP
7 2 (3.23%) DNS
7 2 (3.23%) LAN
7 2 (3.23%) VSAN
8 1 (1.61%) BGP
8 1 (1.61%) Cisco Nexus
8 1 (1.61%) Intrusion Detection
8 1 (1.61%) OSPF
8 1 (1.61%) SD-WAN
8 1 (1.61%) TCP/IP
8 1 (1.61%) VLAN
8 1 (1.61%) VXLAN
8 1 (1.61%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (11.29%) Power BI
2 4 (6.45%) Oracle BI EE
2 4 (6.45%) SQL Server
3 3 (4.84%) Oracle Database
4 1 (1.61%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (1.61%) Data Lake
4 1 (1.61%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 1 (1.61%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 21 (33.87%) Analytical Skills
2 18 (29.03%) Social Skills
3 9 (14.52%) Public Sector
4 7 (11.29%) Finance
4 7 (11.29%) Telecoms
5 3 (4.84%) Military
6 2 (3.23%) Local Government
7 1 (1.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.61%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (1.61%) Manufacturing
7 1 (1.61%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (1.61%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (1.61%) Retail
Job Titles
1 9 (14.52%) IT Manager
2 8 (12.90%) DBA
2 8 (12.90%) Resilience Manager
3 7 (11.29%) IT Services Manager
3 7 (11.29%) Senior
3 7 (11.29%) Service Manager
4 6 (9.68%) Network Engineer
5 5 (8.06%) Senior IT Manager
5 5 (8.06%) Senior Manager
5 5 (8.06%) Senior Service Manager
5 5 (8.06%) Test Engineer
6 4 (6.45%) Lead
6 4 (6.45%) SQL DBA
7 3 (4.84%) Network Manager
7 3 (4.84%) Oracle DBA
8 2 (3.23%) Administrator
8 2 (3.23%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 2 (3.23%) Project Coordinator
8 2 (3.23%) Security Manager
8 2 (3.23%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (9.68%) RFC 2544
2 2 (3.23%) Middleware
3 1 (1.61%) 802.1X
3 1 (1.61%) ADO
3 1 (1.61%) ARM Templates
3 1 (1.61%) Flash
3 1 (1.61%) REST
3 1 (1.61%) SAML
3 1 (1.61%) SAP Basis
Miscellaneous
1 10 (16.13%) Data Centre
2 7 (11.29%) Video Conferencing
3 4 (6.45%) Fibre Optics
3 4 (6.45%) Replication
4 3 (4.84%) PKI
5 2 (3.23%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (1.61%) Clustering
6 1 (1.61%) Cyber Defence
6 1 (1.61%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.61%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (1.61%) Private Cloud
6 1 (1.61%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 8 (12.90%) Windows
2 6 (9.68%) Windows Server
3 5 (8.06%) Unix
4 3 (4.84%) Linux
5 2 (3.23%) CentOS
5 2 (3.23%) Ubuntu
6 1 (1.61%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (1.61%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (24.19%) Problem-Solving
2 11 (17.74%) Cybersecurity
3 10 (16.13%) Case Management
3 10 (16.13%) ERP
3 10 (16.13%) Storage Management
4 9 (14.52%) Performance Tuning
4 9 (14.52%) Security Monitoring
5 8 (12.90%) Penetration Testing
6 7 (11.29%) Business Continuity
6 7 (11.29%) Business Intelligence
6 7 (11.29%) Capacity Management
6 7 (11.29%) High Availability
6 7 (11.29%) ITIL
7 6 (9.68%) Analytics
7 6 (9.68%) Contract Management
7 6 (9.68%) Data Cleansing
7 6 (9.68%) Defect Management
7 6 (9.68%) Migration
7 6 (9.68%) Server Management
7 6 (9.68%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 16 (25.81%) SQL
2 4 (6.45%) Perl
2 4 (6.45%) PL/SQL
3 1 (1.61%) Bicep
3 1 (1.61%) PowerShell
3 1 (1.61%) Python
Qualifications
1 21 (33.87%) Security Cleared
2 19 (30.65%) SC Cleared
3 4 (6.45%) AWS Certification
3 4 (6.45%) Azure Certification
4 2 (3.23%) CCNA
4 2 (3.23%) CCNP
4 2 (3.23%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (1.61%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.61%) Degree
5 1 (1.61%) DV Cleared
5 1 (1.61%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 1 (1.61%) VCAP
5 1 (1.61%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (12.90%) SLA
2 6 (9.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 6 (9.68%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 4 (6.45%) GDPR
4 3 (4.84%) QA
5 2 (3.23%) ISO 22301
6 1 (1.61%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (1.61%) NIST
6 1 (1.61%) NIST 800
6 1 (1.61%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 6 (9.68%) VMware Infrastructure
2 5 (8.06%) Active Directory
3 4 (6.45%) Oracle RAC
3 4 (6.45%) VMware ESXi
4 3 (4.84%) vSphere
5 2 (3.23%) Hyper-V
6 1 (1.61%) Firmware
6 1 (1.61%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (1.61%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 6 (9.68%) Microsoft Intune
2 4 (6.45%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
2 4 (6.45%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
2 4 (6.45%) Oracle RMAN
3 3 (4.84%) Terraform
3 3 (4.84%) vCenter Server
4 1 (1.61%) Ansible
4 1 (1.61%) FortiGate
4 1 (1.61%) Grafana
4 1 (1.61%) Kubernetes
4 1 (1.61%) NetBackup
4 1 (1.61%) PowerCLI
4 1 (1.61%) Prometheus
4 1 (1.61%) vRealize
Vendors
1 13 (20.97%) Microsoft
2 12 (19.35%) Oracle
3 9 (14.52%) Cisco
3 9 (14.52%) VMware
4 4 (6.45%) EMC
4 4 (6.45%) NetApp
4 4 (6.45%) Pure Storage
5 3 (4.84%) IBM
6 2 (3.23%) Intel
6 2 (3.23%) SolarWinds
7 1 (1.61%) 3PAR
7 1 (1.61%) Dell KACE
7 1 (1.61%) Dynatrace
7 1 (1.61%) Fortinet
7 1 (1.61%) Meraki
7 1 (1.61%) MuleSoft
7 1 (1.61%) Nimble Storage
7 1 (1.61%) Rapid7
7 1 (1.61%) ServiceNow
7 1 (1.61%) Veeam