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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 85 102 165
Rank change year-on-year +17 +63 +49
Contract jobs citing Disaster Recovery 82 82 44
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 2.35% 1.77% 0.79%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.64% 2.15% 0.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 64 54 22
10th Percentile £219 £262 £350
25th Percentile £293 £350 £448
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £423 £588
Median % change year-on-year +6.51% -28.09% +6.82%
75th Percentile £545 £597 £615
90th Percentile £568 £608 £649
England median daily rate £475 £475 £540
% change year-on-year - -12.04% +3.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 9 0
Median hourly rate £32.77 £61.60 -
Median % change year-on-year -46.80% - -
England median hourly rate £36.39 £61.60 £87.50
% change year-on-year -40.93% -29.60% +57.80%

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 3,108 3,819 4,956
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 89.11% 82.59% 89.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,937 2,283 3,316
10th Percentile £220 £255 £250
25th Percentile £375 £406 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £518
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -1.14% +1.45%
75th Percentile £598 £625 £625
90th Percentile £650 £688 £700
England median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 304 254 252
10th Percentile £13.33 £16.08 £15.50
25th Percentile £15.50 £31.44 £23.06
Median hourly rate £21.00 £57.35 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -63.38% +9.24% +64.53%
75th Percentile £50.00 £71.86 £66.00
90th Percentile £69.65 £78.75 £75.67
England median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £43.90
% change year-on-year -41.51% -2.05% +51.38%

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
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 18 September 2025.

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 18 September 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 +27 63 £450 +24.14% 22
Berkshire +30 61 £450 +24.14% 14
Hampshire +1 8 £474 +12.74% 18
Surrey +4 4 £481 -3.75% 7
East Sussex - 4 £450 - 2
Kent -5 2 £588 +11.90% 10
Buckinghamshire +1 1 £238 -25.08% 3
Middlesex - 1 £500 - 4
Oxfordshire - 1 £875 - 6
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 4 (4.88%) Oracle SOA Suite
1 4 (4.88%) Oracle Workflow
1 4 (4.88%) WebLogic
2 1 (1.22%) Anypoint
2 1 (1.22%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (1.22%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 10 (12.20%) Oracle EBS R12
1 10 (12.20%) Oracle ERP
2 6 (7.32%) Oracle Assets
3 4 (4.88%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (1.22%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 36 (43.90%) AWS
2 31 (37.80%) Azure
3 11 (13.41%) GCP
4 8 (9.76%) SaaS
5 5 (6.10%) Azure Storage
6 4 (4.88%) OCI
7 2 (2.44%) Entra ID
7 2 (2.44%) IaaS
7 2 (2.44%) Microsoft 365
8 1 (1.22%) Akamai
8 1 (1.22%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (1.22%) Azure AKS
8 1 (1.22%) Azure Data Factory
8 1 (1.22%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (1.22%) Azure Monitor
8 1 (1.22%) Nutanix
8 1 (1.22%) PaaS
8 1 (1.22%) Rubrik
8 1 (1.22%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 15 (18.29%) Firewall
2 14 (17.07%) DNS
3 12 (14.63%) DHCP
3 12 (14.63%) SAN
3 12 (14.63%) TCP/IP
4 11 (13.41%) VLAN
5 5 (6.10%) NAS
5 5 (6.10%) WAN
6 4 (4.88%) LAN
6 4 (4.88%) Network Security
6 4 (4.88%) VPN
7 3 (3.66%) VSAN
8 2 (2.44%) Internet
8 2 (2.44%) Intranet
8 2 (2.44%) IPv6
9 1 (1.22%) BGP
9 1 (1.22%) MPLS
9 1 (1.22%) OSPF
9 1 (1.22%) SDH
9 1 (1.22%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (4.88%) Oracle BI EE
1 4 (4.88%) SQL Server
2 2 (2.44%) Azure SQL Database
2 2 (2.44%) NoSQL
2 2 (2.44%) Oracle Database
3 1 (1.22%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (1.22%) Apache Cassandra
3 1 (1.22%) BusinessObjects
3 1 (1.22%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
3 1 (1.22%) Data Lake
3 1 (1.22%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (1.22%) MongoDB
3 1 (1.22%) MySQL
3 1 (1.22%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (1.22%) RDBMS
3 1 (1.22%) Relational Database
3 1 (1.22%) SAP Data Services
3 1 (1.22%) Tableau
3 1 (1.22%) Tableau Desktop
3 1 (1.22%) Tableau Server
Development Applications
1 1 (1.22%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 29 (35.37%) Analytical Skills
1 29 (35.37%) Social Skills
2 11 (13.41%) Telecoms
3 9 (10.98%) Finance
4 8 (9.76%) Public Sector
5 1 (1.22%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (1.22%) Legal
5 1 (1.22%) Local Government
5 1 (1.22%) Retail
Job Titles
1 11 (13.41%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 10 (12.20%) Infrastructure Support
3 9 (10.98%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
3 9 (10.98%) Support Engineer
3 9 (10.98%) Test Engineer
4 8 (9.76%) Administrator
4 8 (9.76%) Network Engineer
4 8 (9.76%) Resilience Manager
5 7 (8.54%) Backup Administrator
5 7 (8.54%) DBA
5 7 (8.54%) Storage Administrator
5 7 (8.54%) Storage and Backup Administrator
6 4 (4.88%) Senior
7 3 (3.66%) HP Storage Administrator
7 3 (3.66%) Oracle DBA
7 3 (3.66%) Site Engineer
7 3 (3.66%) Site Reliability Engineer
7 3 (3.66%) SQL DBA
8 2 (2.44%) Cisco Engineer
8 2 (2.44%) Network Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (10.98%) RFC 2544
2 2 (2.44%) Middleware
3 1 (1.22%) 802.1X
3 1 (1.22%) ADO
3 1 (1.22%) ARM Templates
3 1 (1.22%) Flash
3 1 (1.22%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 12 (14.63%) Data Centre
2 9 (10.98%) Analytical Mindset
2 9 (10.98%) Fibre Optics
3 7 (8.54%) Distributed Systems
3 7 (8.54%) Enterprise Storage
4 3 (3.66%) HP Storage
4 3 (3.66%) Replication
4 3 (3.66%) SCADA
5 2 (2.44%) Management Information System
5 2 (2.44%) Onboarding
5 2 (2.44%) PKI
6 1 (1.22%) Clustering
6 1 (1.22%) Cyber Defence
6 1 (1.22%) Cyber Threat
6 1 (1.22%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.22%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 23 (28.05%) Windows
2 18 (21.95%) Linux
3 8 (9.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (6.10%) Unix
4 5 (6.10%) Windows Server
5 4 (4.88%) Windows Server 2012
5 4 (4.88%) Windows Server 2016
5 4 (4.88%) Windows Server 2019
6 2 (2.44%) CentOS
6 2 (2.44%) Ubuntu
7 1 (1.22%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (41.46%) Problem-Solving
2 25 (30.49%) ITIL
3 17 (20.73%) Service Management
4 14 (17.07%) High Availability
5 12 (14.63%) Business Continuity
5 12 (14.63%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 12 (14.63%) Task Automation
6 10 (12.20%) ERP
6 10 (12.20%) Virtual Infrastructure
7 9 (10.98%) Case Management
7 9 (10.98%) CI/CD
7 9 (10.98%) Performance Tuning
7 9 (10.98%) Preventative Maintenance
7 9 (10.98%) Test Scripting
8 8 (9.76%) Defect Management
8 8 (9.76%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 7 (8.54%) Migration
9 7 (8.54%) Release Management
10 6 (7.32%) Data Cleansing
10 6 (7.32%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 17 (20.73%) SQL
2 9 (10.98%) Python
3 7 (8.54%) Go
3 7 (8.54%) Java
3 7 (8.54%) Shell Script
4 4 (4.88%) Perl
4 4 (4.88%) PL/SQL
5 3 (3.66%) Bash
5 3 (3.66%) PowerShell
6 1 (1.22%) Bicep
6 1 (1.22%) C++
Qualifications
1 35 (42.68%) Security Cleared
2 33 (40.24%) SC Cleared
3 14 (17.07%) Azure Certification
4 10 (12.20%) Microsoft Certification
5 9 (10.98%) Network+ Certification
5 9 (10.98%) Server+ Certification
6 5 (6.10%) AWS Certification
7 4 (4.88%) CCNA
7 4 (4.88%) CCNP
7 4 (4.88%) Cisco Certification
8 2 (2.44%) TOGAF Certification
9 1 (1.22%) DBS Check
9 1 (1.22%) Degree
9 1 (1.22%) DV Cleared
9 1 (1.22%) OCP
9 1 (1.22%) Oracle Certification
9 1 (1.22%) VCAP
9 1 (1.22%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (9.76%) SLA
2 7 (8.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 6 (7.32%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 5 (6.10%) GDPR
5 2 (2.44%) QA
6 1 (1.22%) GRC
6 1 (1.22%) ISO 22301
6 1 (1.22%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 15 (18.29%) VMware Infrastructure
2 11 (13.41%) Hyper-V
3 5 (6.10%) Active Directory
3 5 (6.10%) VMware ESXi
4 4 (4.88%) Oracle RAC
4 4 (4.88%) vSphere
5 2 (2.44%) Firmware
6 1 (1.22%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (1.22%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 8 (9.76%) Kubernetes
2 7 (8.54%) NetBackup
3 4 (4.88%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
3 4 (4.88%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
3 4 (4.88%) Oracle RMAN
3 4 (4.88%) vCenter Server
4 3 (3.66%) Terraform
5 1 (1.22%) Ansible
5 1 (1.22%) Grafana
5 1 (1.22%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (1.22%) PowerCLI
5 1 (1.22%) Prometheus
5 1 (1.22%) vRealize
5 1 (1.22%) VxRail
Vendors
1 18 (21.95%) Microsoft
1 18 (21.95%) VMware
2 12 (14.63%) Cisco
3 11 (13.41%) Oracle
4 10 (12.20%) NetApp
5 8 (9.76%) 3PAR
5 8 (9.76%) HP
6 7 (8.54%) Nimble Storage
6 7 (8.54%) Red Hat
6 7 (8.54%) Veritas
7 5 (6.10%) EMC
8 4 (4.88%) Dell
8 4 (4.88%) Pure Storage
9 2 (2.44%) Citrix
9 2 (2.44%) IBM
9 2 (2.44%) Intel
10 1 (1.22%) BMC
10 1 (1.22%) BT
10 1 (1.22%) Remedy
10 1 (1.22%) SAP