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 21 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 127 81 104
Rank change year-on-year -46 +23 +62
Contract jobs citing Disaster Recovery 102 87 82
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 1.55% 2.52% 1.80%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.93% 2.83% 2.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 70 69 54
10th Percentile £362 £219 £262
25th Percentile £450 £293 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £450 £420
Median % change year-on-year +22.22% +7.14% -30.00%
75th Percentile £650 £544 £597
90th Percentile £775 £575 £608
England median daily rate £525 £473 £475
% change year-on-year +11.11% -0.53% -11.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 1 9
10th Percentile - - £36.40
25th Percentile £61.74 - £56.65
Median hourly rate £65.24 £32.77 £61.60
Median % change year-on-year +99.08% -46.80% -
75th Percentile £69.75 - -
90th Percentile £70.20 - -
England median hourly rate £59.00 £36.39 £61.60
% change year-on-year +62.15% -40.93% -22.10%

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 5,293 3,076 3,767
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 80.37% 89.08% 82.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,158 1,912 2,255
10th Percentile £280 £220 £255
25th Percentile £425 £380 £403
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £513
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -2.44% -1.14%
75th Percentile £619 £600 £625
90th Percentile £713 £650 £688
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 632 304 240
10th Percentile £13.45 £13.25 £16.00
25th Percentile £16.78 £15.50 £31.04
Median hourly rate £51.75 £20.73 £57.35
Median % change year-on-year +149.64% -63.85% +8.21%
75th Percentile £70.00 £50.00 £70.63
90th Percentile £87.76 £69.65 £77.17
England median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +68.99% -41.51% -2.27%

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 21 September 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 21 September 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 -42 64 £509 +13.06% 69
Berkshire -41 44 £500 +11.11% 36
Hampshire -24 24 £600 +34.23% 26
Buckinghamshire -16 16 £750 +215.79% 9
Surrey -15 5 £500 +3.90% 21
West Sussex - 5 £513 - 9
Oxfordshire -23 4 £450 -48.57% 24
Middlesex -16 2 - -
East Sussex -3 1 £581 +29.11% 5
Home Counties - 1 £600 -
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 3 (2.94%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (1.96%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.98%) CICS
Applications
1 3 (2.94%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (3.92%) NEC Housing
1 4 (3.92%) Oracle ERP
1 4 (3.92%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 42 (41.18%) Azure
2 24 (23.53%) AWS
3 11 (10.78%) GCP
3 11 (10.78%) SaaS
4 8 (7.84%) OpenShift
5 7 (6.86%) Microsoft 365
5 7 (6.86%) OCI
6 5 (4.90%) Entra ID
7 4 (3.92%) Azure DevOps
7 4 (3.92%) Azure Monitor
8 3 (2.94%) GitHub
8 3 (2.94%) GitHub Actions
8 3 (2.94%) IaaS
9 2 (1.96%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 2 (1.96%) Amazon ECS
9 2 (1.96%) Amazon EKS
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
Communications & Networking
1 21 (20.59%) Firewall
2 17 (16.67%) VPN
3 16 (15.69%) DNS
4 13 (12.75%) TCP/IP
5 12 (11.76%) DHCP
6 9 (8.82%) VLAN
7 8 (7.84%) LAN
7 8 (7.84%) WAN
8 6 (5.88%) Network Security
9 5 (4.90%) Software-Defined Networking
10 3 (2.94%) BIG-IP
10 3 (2.94%) SAN
10 3 (2.94%) VSAN
10 3 (2.94%) Wireless
11 2 (1.96%) BGP
11 2 (1.96%) Cisco ASA
11 2 (1.96%) IPsec
11 2 (1.96%) MPLS
11 2 (1.96%) NAS
11 2 (1.96%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (2.94%) SQL Server
2 2 (1.96%) Oracle Database
2 2 (1.96%) Oracle Reports
3 1 (0.98%) BusinessObjects
3 1 (0.98%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
3 1 (0.98%) SAP Data Services
3 1 (0.98%) Tableau
3 1 (0.98%) Tableau Desktop
3 1 (0.98%) Tableau Server
Development Applications
1 3 (2.94%) Jenkins
1 3 (2.94%) JIRA
2 2 (1.96%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (0.98%) Gatling
3 1 (0.98%) Git
3 1 (0.98%) GitLab
3 1 (0.98%) IBM UrbanCode
3 1 (0.98%) JMeter
3 1 (0.98%) LoadRunner
3 1 (0.98%) MSI
General
1 36 (35.29%) Social Skills
2 20 (19.61%) Public Sector
3 18 (17.65%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (8.82%) Aerospace
5 7 (6.86%) Influencing Skills
6 6 (5.88%) Finance
6 6 (5.88%) Legal
6 6 (5.88%) Local Government
7 4 (3.92%) Military
7 4 (3.92%) Organisational Skills
7 4 (3.92%) Telecoms
8 3 (2.94%) Retail
9 2 (1.96%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.98%) Advertising
10 1 (0.98%) Banking
10 1 (0.98%) Billing
10 1 (0.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.98%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.98%) Social Housing
10 1 (0.98%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 22 (21.57%) Architect
2 19 (18.63%) Lead
3 13 (12.75%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 8 (7.84%) Systems Engineer
5 7 (6.86%) Solutions Architect
5 7 (6.86%) Technical Architect
6 6 (5.88%) Disaster Recovery Specialist
6 6 (5.88%) IT Engineer
6 6 (5.88%) Lead Architect
6 6 (5.88%) Network Architect
6 6 (5.88%) Site Reliability Engineer
7 5 (4.90%) Analyst
7 5 (4.90%) Senior
8 4 (3.92%) Cloud Engineer
8 4 (3.92%) Infrastructure Architect
8 4 (3.92%) Network Technical Architect
8 4 (3.92%) Project Manager
8 4 (3.92%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
8 4 (3.92%) Site Engineer
8 4 (3.92%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (13.73%) Terraform
2 3 (2.94%) ARM Templates
3 2 (1.96%) GraphQL
3 2 (1.96%) Loki
3 2 (1.96%) Node.js
3 2 (1.96%) Oracle Fusion
4 1 (0.98%) ISPF
4 1 (0.98%) LDAP
4 1 (0.98%) REST
4 1 (0.98%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 18 (17.65%) Hybrid Cloud
2 17 (16.67%) Data Centre
3 7 (6.86%) Cloud Native
4 6 (5.88%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 6 (5.88%) Onboarding
5 5 (4.90%) Management Information System
5 5 (4.90%) Security Posture
6 4 (3.92%) Distributed Systems
6 4 (3.92%) Driving Licence
6 4 (3.92%) Enterprise Storage
6 4 (3.92%) Private Cloud
6 4 (3.92%) Replication
6 4 (3.92%) Security Operations Centre
7 3 (2.94%) Blackberry
7 3 (2.94%) Digital Signage
7 3 (2.94%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (2.94%) iPhone
7 3 (2.94%) Public Cloud
8 2 (1.96%) CMDB
8 2 (1.96%) EPoS
Operating Systems
1 32 (31.37%) Windows
2 23 (22.55%) Linux
3 20 (19.61%) Windows Server
4 6 (5.88%) Windows 10
5 2 (1.96%) AIX
5 2 (1.96%) Debian
5 2 (1.96%) HPUX
5 2 (1.96%) Solaris
5 2 (1.96%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.98%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.98%) Unix
6 1 (0.98%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (51.96%) Business Continuity
2 32 (31.37%) ITIL
3 29 (28.43%) Stakeholder Management
4 26 (25.49%) Continuous Improvement
5 20 (19.61%) Problem-Solving
6 19 (18.63%) Agile
6 19 (18.63%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 18 (17.65%) DevOps
8 17 (16.67%) Infrastructure as Code
9 16 (15.69%) Cybersecurity
10 14 (13.73%) Change Management
10 14 (13.73%) Roadmaps
10 14 (13.73%) Technical Leadership
11 13 (12.75%) CI/CD
11 13 (12.75%) Cloud Security
11 13 (12.75%) Incident Management
12 12 (11.76%) Service Management
13 11 (10.78%) Data Protection
13 11 (10.78%) High Availability
13 11 (10.78%) ITSM
Programming Languages
1 20 (19.61%) Python
2 18 (17.65%) PowerShell
3 10 (9.80%) Bash
4 6 (5.88%) Java
5 4 (3.92%) Bicep
5 4 (3.92%) Go
6 2 (1.96%) JavaScript
6 2 (1.96%) Scala
6 2 (1.96%) Shell Script
6 2 (1.96%) SQL
6 2 (1.96%) TypeScript
6 2 (1.96%) VBScript
7 1 (0.98%) COBOL
7 1 (0.98%) Groovy
7 1 (0.98%) JCL
7 1 (0.98%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 44 (43.14%) Security Cleared
2 27 (26.47%) SC Cleared
3 16 (15.69%) DV Cleared
4 15 (14.71%) Degree
5 10 (9.80%) Azure Certification
5 10 (9.80%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 5 (4.90%) Cisco Certification
6 5 (4.90%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (4.90%) Microsoft Certification
7 4 (3.92%) CCNP
8 3 (2.94%) CTC Cleared
8 3 (2.94%) ITIL Certification
8 3 (2.94%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 2 (1.96%) CCIE
9 2 (1.96%) ISTQB
9 2 (1.96%) PMP
9 2 (1.96%) VCAP
10 1 (0.98%) CISSP
10 1 (0.98%) MCSE
10 1 (0.98%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (10.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 9 (8.82%) NCSC
3 5 (4.90%) GDPR
4 4 (3.92%) ISO 22301
5 2 (1.96%) QA
6 1 (0.98%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.98%) GRC
6 1 (0.98%) NIST
6 1 (0.98%) NIST 800
6 1 (0.98%) SLA
System Software
1 19 (18.63%) VMware Infrastructure
2 16 (15.69%) Active Directory
3 9 (8.82%) Hyper-V
4 8 (7.84%) VMware ESXi
4 8 (7.84%) vSphere
5 6 (5.88%) VMware NSX
6 5 (4.90%) Virtual Machines
7 3 (2.94%) Docker
8 2 (1.96%) Firmware
9 1 (0.98%) Oracle RAC
9 1 (0.98%) RACF
9 1 (0.98%) Time Sharing Option
9 1 (0.98%) UAG
Systems Management
1 16 (15.69%) Ansible
2 15 (14.71%) Kubernetes
3 8 (7.84%) SCCM
4 7 (6.86%) vCenter Server
5 6 (5.88%) Grafana
5 6 (5.88%) Prometheus
6 4 (3.92%) Microsoft Intune
7 3 (2.94%) Istio
7 3 (2.94%) PowerCLI
8 2 (1.96%) NetBackup
8 2 (1.96%) Puppet
8 2 (1.96%) vRealize
8 2 (1.96%) vRealize Orchestrator
9 1 (0.98%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 1 (0.98%) Avamar
9 1 (0.98%) Data Guard
9 1 (0.98%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 38 (37.25%) Microsoft
2 27 (26.47%) VMware
3 9 (8.82%) Oracle
4 8 (7.84%) ServiceNow
5 5 (4.90%) Google
5 5 (4.90%) Red Hat
5 5 (4.90%) SAP
5 5 (4.90%) Veeam
6 4 (3.92%) NEC
6 4 (3.92%) Zerto
7 3 (2.94%) Broadcom
7 3 (2.94%) Cisco
7 3 (2.94%) Dell
7 3 (2.94%) F5
7 3 (2.94%) HP
7 3 (2.94%) Lotus
7 3 (2.94%) NetApp
7 3 (2.94%) Palo Alto
8 2 (1.96%) SolarWinds
8 2 (1.96%) Splunk