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 7 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 120 116 144
Rank change year-on-year -4 +28 +50
Contract jobs citing Disaster Recovery 67 48 58
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 1.53% 1.39% 1.18%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.82% 1.57% 1.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 58 34 35
10th Percentile £219 £234 £258
25th Percentile £269 £335 £399
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £420 £420 £535
Median % change year-on-year - -21.50% -6.14%
75th Percentile £488 £519 £616
90th Percentile £686 £596 £656
England median daily rate £472 £450 £529
% change year-on-year +4.91% -14.93% +0.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 0
Median hourly rate - £63.75 -
England median hourly rate £40.00 £38.00 £69.62
% change year-on-year +5.26% -45.42% +26.97%

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 3,678 3,062 4,371
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 84.22% 88.57% 89.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,421 1,896 2,793
10th Percentile £222 £250 £213
25th Percentile £400 £405 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £510 £515
Median % change year-on-year -2.01% -0.92% +1.48%
75th Percentile £600 £623 £615
90th Percentile £688 £675 £688
England median daily rate £500 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 337 118 249
10th Percentile £14.90 £19.77 £16.90
25th Percentile £17.09 £25.99 £26.00
Median hourly rate £23.00 £43.94 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -47.66% -20.11% +28.87%
75th Percentile £53.75 £62.92 £66.25
90th Percentile £76.00 £74.91 £76.53
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +27.14%

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 7 January 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 7 January 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 +16 47 £336 +3.46% 16
Berkshire +16 41 £373 +13.74% 10
Hampshire -13 10 £613 +57.05% 2
Surrey -9 6 £400 -5.88% 5
Buckinghamshire +2 4 £347 +48.08% 2
Oxfordshire -10 2 £300 -40.00% 4
West Sussex - 2 £600 - 2
East Sussex +4 1 £600 +6.67% 1
Kent -9 1 £425 -23.42% 3
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 2 (2.99%) Oracle SOA Suite
1 2 (2.99%) Oracle Workflow
1 2 (2.99%) WebLogic
2 1 (1.49%) CMS
2 1 (1.49%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (1.49%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 2 (2.99%) Oracle EBS
1 2 (2.99%) Oracle EBS R12
1 2 (2.99%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 37 (55.22%) Azure
2 31 (46.27%) AWS
3 7 (10.45%) Entra ID
3 7 (10.45%) GCP
4 4 (5.97%) Amazon EC2
4 4 (5.97%) Amazon S3
4 4 (5.97%) Microsoft 365
4 4 (5.97%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 3 (4.48%) AWS CloudFormation
5 3 (4.48%) GitHub
5 3 (4.48%) GitHub Actions
6 2 (2.99%) AWS CodePipeline
6 2 (2.99%) OCI
7 1 (1.49%) Amazon ECR
7 1 (1.49%) Amazon ECS
7 1 (1.49%) Amazon ELB
7 1 (1.49%) Amazon OpenSearch
7 1 (1.49%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (1.49%) Microsoft Purview
7 1 (1.49%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 15 (22.39%) DNS
2 14 (20.90%) TCP/IP
3 13 (19.40%) DHCP
3 13 (19.40%) VLAN
4 10 (14.93%) Firewall
5 2 (2.99%) Internet
5 2 (2.99%) Intranet
5 2 (2.99%) IPv6
5 2 (2.99%) LAN
5 2 (2.99%) Network Security
5 2 (2.99%) VPN
5 2 (2.99%) WAN
6 1 (1.49%) BIG-IP
6 1 (1.49%) Ethernet
6 1 (1.49%) MPLS
6 1 (1.49%) NAS
6 1 (1.49%) SAN
6 1 (1.49%) SDH
6 1 (1.49%) VoIP
6 1 (1.49%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (7.46%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (4.48%) BusinessObjects
2 3 (4.48%) NoSQL
2 3 (4.48%) Oracle Database
2 3 (4.48%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (4.48%) Relational Database
2 3 (4.48%) SAP Data Services
2 3 (4.48%) SQL Server
3 2 (2.99%) Apache Cassandra
3 2 (2.99%) Azure SQL Database
3 2 (2.99%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
3 2 (2.99%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (2.99%) MongoDB
3 2 (2.99%) MySQL
3 2 (2.99%) Oracle BI EE
3 2 (2.99%) RDBMS
3 2 (2.99%) Tableau
3 2 (2.99%) Tableau Desktop
3 2 (2.99%) Tableau Server
4 1 (1.49%) BusinessObjects Web Intelligence
Development Applications
1 2 (2.99%) Jenkins
2 1 (1.49%) Git
General
1 22 (32.84%) Analytical Skills
2 21 (31.34%) Social Skills
3 7 (10.45%) Documentation Skills
4 6 (8.96%) Telecoms
5 5 (7.46%) Influencing Skills
5 5 (7.46%) Public Sector
6 3 (4.48%) Finance
6 3 (4.48%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (2.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 12 (17.91%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 11 (16.42%) Infrastructure Support
2 11 (16.42%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
2 11 (16.42%) Support Engineer
3 8 (11.94%) Disaster Recovery Specialist
4 6 (8.96%) Test Engineer
4 6 (8.96%) Test Manager
5 5 (7.46%) Service Continuity Specialist
5 5 (7.46%) Technical Specialist
6 4 (5.97%) Network Engineer
7 3 (4.48%) Infrastructure Manager
7 3 (4.48%) Senior
7 3 (4.48%) Site Engineer
7 3 (4.48%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 2 (2.99%) Database Specialist
8 2 (2.99%) DBA
8 2 (2.99%) IT Support
8 2 (2.99%) Oracle DBA
8 2 (2.99%) SAP Administrator
8 2 (2.99%) Test Strategist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (8.96%) RFC 2544
2 1 (1.49%) Django
2 1 (1.49%) FastAPI
2 1 (1.49%) Flask
2 1 (1.49%) OAuth
2 1 (1.49%) OAuth2
2 1 (1.49%) OpenAPI
2 1 (1.49%) OpenID
2 1 (1.49%) REST
2 1 (1.49%) RESTful
2 1 (1.49%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 11 (16.42%) Analytical Mindset
2 7 (10.45%) Data Centre
2 7 (10.45%) Distributed Systems
3 6 (8.96%) Fibre Optics
4 5 (7.46%) Enterprise Software
4 5 (7.46%) Replication
5 3 (4.48%) Data Protection Act
5 3 (4.48%) SCADA
6 2 (2.99%) Clustering
6 2 (2.99%) Onboarding
7 1 (1.49%) Cyberattack
7 1 (1.49%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (1.49%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 18 (26.87%) Windows
2 14 (20.90%) Linux
3 2 (2.99%) Unix
3 2 (2.99%) Windows 10
3 2 (2.99%) Windows Server
4 1 (1.49%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (1.49%) Windows Server 2012
4 1 (1.49%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (1.49%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (46.27%) Problem-Solving
2 29 (43.28%) Business Continuity
3 20 (29.85%) ITIL
4 16 (23.88%) Service Management
5 15 (22.39%) High Availability
5 15 (22.39%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 12 (17.91%) Virtual Infrastructure
7 11 (16.42%) Preventative Maintenance
7 11 (16.42%) Task Automation
8 10 (14.93%) CI/CD
8 10 (14.93%) Root Cause Analysis
8 10 (14.93%) Stakeholder Management
9 9 (13.43%) Continuous Improvement
10 8 (11.94%) Performance Tuning
10 8 (11.94%) Resilience Testing
11 7 (10.45%) ERP
11 7 (10.45%) Release Management
11 7 (10.45%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 7 (10.45%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 7 (10.45%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 12 (17.91%) Python
2 7 (10.45%) Go
2 7 (10.45%) Java
3 5 (7.46%) PowerShell
3 5 (7.46%) SQL
4 4 (5.97%) Bash
5 2 (2.99%) Perl
5 2 (2.99%) PL/SQL
6 1 (1.49%) C++
Qualifications
1 25 (37.31%) Security Cleared
2 24 (35.82%) SC Cleared
3 13 (19.40%) Azure Certification
3 13 (19.40%) Microsoft Certification
4 11 (16.42%) Network+ Certification
4 11 (16.42%) Server+ Certification
5 6 (8.96%) ISTQB
6 5 (7.46%) AWS Certification
6 5 (7.46%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
7 2 (2.99%) CCNA
7 2 (2.99%) CCNP
7 2 (2.99%) Cisco Certification
7 2 (2.99%) OCP
7 2 (2.99%) Oracle Certification
8 1 (1.49%) DBS Check
8 1 (1.49%) Degree
8 1 (1.49%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (10.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (5.97%) NIST
3 3 (4.48%) GDPR
3 3 (4.48%) ISO 22301
4 1 (1.49%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (1.49%) QA
4 1 (1.49%) SLA
System Software
1 18 (26.87%) VMware Infrastructure
2 15 (22.39%) Hyper-V
3 7 (10.45%) Active Directory
4 2 (2.99%) Oracle RAC
4 2 (2.99%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (1.49%) Docker
5 1 (1.49%) Firmware
5 1 (1.49%) VMware NSX
5 1 (1.49%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 7 (10.45%) Kubernetes
2 3 (4.48%) Terraform
3 2 (2.99%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
3 2 (2.99%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
3 2 (2.99%) Oracle RMAN
4 1 (1.49%) Argo
4 1 (1.49%) Grafana
4 1 (1.49%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (1.49%) Prometheus
4 1 (1.49%) Red Hat Satellite
4 1 (1.49%) SCCM
4 1 (1.49%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (1.49%) vCenter Server
4 1 (1.49%) VxRail
4 1 (1.49%) WhatsUp Gold
Vendors
1 22 (32.84%) Microsoft
2 18 (26.87%) VMware
3 8 (11.94%) ServiceNow
4 7 (10.45%) Cisco
5 5 (7.46%) Oracle
5 5 (7.46%) Workday
6 3 (4.48%) SAP
7 2 (2.99%) Commvault
7 2 (2.99%) Veeam
7 2 (2.99%) Zerto
8 1 (1.49%) Citrix
8 1 (1.49%) CyberArk
8 1 (1.49%) Dell
8 1 (1.49%) EMC
8 1 (1.49%) F5
8 1 (1.49%) HP
8 1 (1.49%) Imperva
8 1 (1.49%) Proofpoint
8 1 (1.49%) Red Hat
8 1 (1.49%) Splunk