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 13 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 123 117 136
Rank change year-on-year -6 +19 +35
Contract jobs citing Disaster Recovery 87 38 75
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 1.67% 1.28% 1.33%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.01% 1.39% 1.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 73 21 50
10th Percentile £305 £350 £280
25th Percentile £400 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £461 £500 £563
Median % change year-on-year -7.80% -11.11% -1.10%
75th Percentile £580 £585 £608
90th Percentile £710 £638 £656
England median daily rate £495 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +4.21% -5.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 0
Median hourly rate £24.46 £63.75 -
Median % change year-on-year -61.63% - -
England median hourly rate £52.50 £63.75 £22.00
% change year-on-year -17.64% +189.75% -32.31%

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 4,322 2,738 4,885
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 82.78% 91.88% 86.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,829 1,725 2,920
10th Percentile £273 £250 £213
25th Percentile £403 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £508 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.48% +1.50% -1.48%
75th Percentile £600 £613 £613
90th Percentile £700 £675 £688
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 378 138 379
10th Percentile £15.08 £15.00 £13.00
25th Percentile £18.50 £21.06 £18.20
Median hourly rate £30.00 £42.50 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -29.41% +13.33% -16.67%
75th Percentile £79.26 £62.50 £62.47
90th Percentile £88.00 £75.00 £75.16
England median hourly rate £30.00 £35.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year -14.29% +7.69% -9.72%

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 13 March 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 13 March 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 +2 61 £440 -9.79% 22
Berkshire -3 38 £420 -11.58% 7
Buckinghamshire - 20 £510 - 9
Hampshire -25 13 £550 +1.85% 7
Surrey -9 7 £400 - 1
East Sussex +6 4 £688 +22.22% 2
Oxfordshire -12 3 £300 -40.00% 6
West Sussex - 2 £600 - 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 3 (3.45%) SharePoint
2 2 (2.30%) CMS
2 2 (2.30%) IIS
2 2 (2.30%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (2.30%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 2 (2.30%) Oracle Workflow
2 2 (2.30%) WebLogic
Applications
1 2 (2.30%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (2.30%) Oracle EBS
1 2 (2.30%) Oracle EBS R12
1 2 (2.30%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 49 (56.32%) Azure
2 25 (28.74%) AWS
3 14 (16.09%) Entra ID
4 7 (8.05%) Microsoft 365
4 7 (8.05%) OCI
5 5 (5.75%) GCP
6 4 (4.60%) Amazon EC2
6 4 (4.60%) Amazon S3
6 4 (4.60%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 3 (3.45%) AWS CloudFormation
7 3 (3.45%) Azure DevOps
7 3 (3.45%) GitHub
7 3 (3.45%) GitHub Actions
7 3 (3.45%) PaaS
8 2 (2.30%) AWS CodePipeline
8 2 (2.30%) Nutanix
8 2 (2.30%) OpenShift
9 1 (1.15%) Amazon ECS
9 1 (1.15%) Amazon OpenSearch
9 1 (1.15%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 8 (9.20%) Firewall
2 7 (8.05%) DHCP
2 7 (8.05%) DNS
3 5 (5.75%) SAN
3 5 (5.75%) TCP/IP
3 5 (5.75%) VLAN
4 4 (4.60%) NAS
4 4 (4.60%) VPN
5 3 (3.45%) BIG-IP
6 1 (1.15%) BGP
6 1 (1.15%) Cisco ASA
6 1 (1.15%) LAN
6 1 (1.15%) MPLS
6 1 (1.15%) Multicast
6 1 (1.15%) Network Security
6 1 (1.15%) OSPF
6 1 (1.15%) SD-WAN
6 1 (1.15%) WAN
6 1 (1.15%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (12.64%) SQL Server
2 7 (8.05%) Amazon RDS
3 5 (5.75%) Oracle Database
3 5 (5.75%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (4.60%) MySQL
5 3 (3.45%) Azure SQL Database
5 3 (3.45%) BusinessObjects
5 3 (3.45%) Oracle Exadata
5 3 (3.45%) Relational Database
5 3 (3.45%) SAP Data Services
6 2 (2.30%) Apache Cassandra
6 2 (2.30%) BusinessObjects Web Intelligence
6 2 (2.30%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (2.30%) MongoDB
6 2 (2.30%) NoSQL
6 2 (2.30%) Oracle BI EE
6 2 (2.30%) RDBMS
7 1 (1.15%) Oracle Database 11g
7 1 (1.15%) Oracle Reports
7 1 (1.15%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 5 (5.75%) Visual Studio
2 2 (2.30%) Jenkins
2 2 (2.30%) JIRA
2 2 (2.30%) Postman
3 1 (1.15%) Git
General
1 25 (28.74%) Social Skills
2 20 (22.99%) Analytical Skills
3 13 (14.94%) Public Sector
4 8 (9.20%) Influencing Skills
5 7 (8.05%) Documentation Skills
6 6 (6.90%) Finance
7 5 (5.75%) Legal
8 4 (4.60%) Organisational Skills
9 3 (3.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (3.45%) Retail
10 2 (2.30%) Telecoms
11 1 (1.15%) Aerospace
11 1 (1.15%) Aviation
11 1 (1.15%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 12 (13.79%) Architect
2 11 (12.64%) Disaster Recovery Specialist
3 9 (10.34%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 6 (6.90%) Developer
4 6 (6.90%) Lead
4 6 (6.90%) Test Manager
5 5 (5.75%) DBA
5 5 (5.75%) Designer
5 5 (5.75%) Full-Stack Developer
5 5 (5.75%) Infrastructure Manager
5 5 (5.75%) Platform Architect
5 5 (5.75%) Service Continuity Specialist
5 5 (5.75%) Service Designer
5 5 (5.75%) Technical Specialist
6 4 (4.60%) Infrastructure Architect
6 4 (4.60%) Lead Architect
6 4 (4.60%) Senior
7 3 (3.45%) Head of IT Infrastructure
7 3 (3.45%) Infrastructure Support
7 3 (3.45%) Lead Infrastructure Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (6.90%) RESTful
2 5 (5.75%) .NET
2 5 (5.75%) .NET Framework
2 5 (5.75%) CSS
2 5 (5.75%) Entity Framework
2 5 (5.75%) Material-UI
2 5 (5.75%) React
3 3 (3.45%) Swagger
4 2 (2.30%) JSON
4 2 (2.30%) LINQ
5 1 (1.15%) Django
5 1 (1.15%) FastAPI
5 1 (1.15%) Flask
5 1 (1.15%) OAuth
5 1 (1.15%) OAuth2
5 1 (1.15%) OpenAPI
5 1 (1.15%) OpenID
5 1 (1.15%) REST
5 1 (1.15%) RFC 2544
Miscellaneous
1 13 (14.94%) Replication
2 7 (8.05%) Data Centre
3 5 (5.75%) Analytical Mindset
3 5 (5.75%) Distributed Systems
3 5 (5.75%) Enterprise Software
4 4 (4.60%) Clustering
4 4 (4.60%) Enterprise Storage
4 4 (4.60%) Product Ownership
5 3 (3.45%) Data Protection Act
5 3 (3.45%) Management Information System
5 3 (3.45%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.15%) CESG
6 1 (1.15%) Cyberattack
6 1 (1.15%) Driving Licence
6 1 (1.15%) Fibre Optics
6 1 (1.15%) HP Storage
6 1 (1.15%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (1.15%) Security Operations Centre
6 1 (1.15%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 17 (19.54%) Windows
2 9 (10.34%) Linux
3 8 (9.20%) Windows Server
4 3 (3.45%) Unix
4 3 (3.45%) Windows Server 2012
4 3 (3.45%) Windows Server 2016
4 3 (3.45%) Windows Server 2019
5 2 (2.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (2.30%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (48.28%) Business Continuity
2 29 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 23 (26.44%) High Availability
4 17 (19.54%) ITIL
5 15 (17.24%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 13 (14.94%) Continuous Improvement
7 12 (13.79%) Agile
7 12 (13.79%) Performance Tuning
8 11 (12.64%) Migration
8 11 (12.64%) Stakeholder Management
8 11 (12.64%) Task Automation
9 10 (11.49%) Capacity Planning
9 10 (11.49%) CI/CD
9 10 (11.49%) Resilience Testing
9 10 (11.49%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 9 (10.34%) Cybersecurity
10 9 (10.34%) Service Management
10 9 (10.34%) Validation
11 8 (9.20%) BCP
11 8 (9.20%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 13 (14.94%) Python
2 12 (13.79%) SQL
3 8 (9.20%) PowerShell
4 6 (6.90%) Bash
5 5 (5.75%) C#
5 5 (5.75%) Go
5 5 (5.75%) Java
5 5 (5.75%) TypeScript
6 4 (4.60%) T-SQL
7 2 (2.30%) JavaScript
7 2 (2.30%) Perl
7 2 (2.30%) PL/SQL
8 1 (1.15%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 33 (37.93%) Security Cleared
2 28 (32.18%) SC Cleared
3 7 (8.05%) Degree
3 7 (8.05%) ISTQB
4 5 (5.75%) AWS Certification
4 5 (5.75%) Azure Certification
4 5 (5.75%) DV Cleared
4 5 (5.75%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
4 5 (5.75%) Microsoft Certification
5 3 (3.45%) CISSP
5 3 (3.45%) NCDA
5 3 (3.45%) Network+ Certification
5 3 (3.45%) Server+ Certification
6 2 (2.30%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (2.30%) OCP
6 2 (2.30%) Oracle Certification
6 2 (2.30%) PMI Certification
6 2 (2.30%) PMP
7 1 (1.15%) CESG Certified Professional
7 1 (1.15%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (12.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 8 (9.20%) NIST
3 7 (8.05%) GDPR
4 6 (6.90%) NCSC
5 5 (5.75%) Government Security Classifications
5 5 (5.75%) ISO 22301
5 5 (5.75%) ISO/IEC 20000
6 3 (3.45%) Accessibility
7 1 (1.15%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (1.15%) GRC
7 1 (1.15%) QA
System Software
1 16 (18.39%) Active Directory
2 13 (14.94%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (10.34%) Hyper-V
4 5 (5.75%) VMware ESXi
5 3 (3.45%) VMware NSX
6 2 (2.30%) Oracle RAC
6 2 (2.30%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (2.30%) vSphere
7 1 (1.15%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (8.05%) Microsoft Intune
2 5 (5.75%) Kubernetes
2 5 (5.75%) Single Sign-On
2 5 (5.75%) Terraform
3 3 (3.45%) Oracle RMAN
3 3 (3.45%) SCCM
4 2 (2.30%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
4 2 (2.30%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
5 1 (1.15%) Ansible
5 1 (1.15%) Argo
5 1 (1.15%) Cisco Prime
5 1 (1.15%) Data Guard
5 1 (1.15%) Grafana
5 1 (1.15%) Iperf
5 1 (1.15%) NetBackup
5 1 (1.15%) Nmap
5 1 (1.15%) Prometheus
5 1 (1.15%) Red Hat Satellite
5 1 (1.15%) WhatsUp Gold
Vendors
1 19 (21.84%) Microsoft
2 13 (14.94%) VMware
3 10 (11.49%) Oracle
3 10 (11.49%) ServiceNow
4 6 (6.90%) Veeam
5 5 (5.75%) NetApp
5 5 (5.75%) Workday
6 4 (4.60%) Red Hat
6 4 (4.60%) Zerto
7 3 (3.45%) Commvault
7 3 (3.45%) F5
7 3 (3.45%) SAP
8 2 (2.30%) Cisco
8 2 (2.30%) Fortinet
8 2 (2.30%) Rackspace
8 2 (2.30%) Veritas
8 2 (2.30%) Virgin Media
9 1 (1.15%) Nimble Storage
9 1 (1.15%) Okta
9 1 (1.15%) Zscaler