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 30 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 93 112 164
Rank change year-on-year +19 +52 +28
Contract jobs citing Disaster Recovery 80 67 50
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 2.14% 1.60% 0.92%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.43% 1.89% 1.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 63 45 30
10th Percentile £219 £236 £346
25th Percentile £269 £330 £448
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £420 £400 £600
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -33.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £516 £525 £634
90th Percentile £549 £605 £700
England median daily rate £463 £450 £525
% change year-on-year +2.78% -14.29% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 6 0
Median hourly rate £32.77 £59.95 -
Median % change year-on-year -45.34% - -
England median hourly rate £40.00 £59.95 £70.65
% change year-on-year -33.28% -15.15% +60.66%

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 3,297 3,542 4,886
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 88.18% 84.55% 89.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,079 2,151 3,232
10th Percentile £213 £256 £225
25th Percentile £385 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £511 £520
Median % change year-on-year -2.06% -1.83% +1.46%
75th Percentile £588 £625 £623
90th Percentile £650 £688 £700
England median daily rate £508 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.33% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 357 176 254
10th Percentile £13.65 £16.25 £15.50
25th Percentile £16.17 £30.00 £22.87
Median hourly rate £20.71 £58.17 £51.76
Median % change year-on-year -64.40% +12.39% +39.40%
75th Percentile £33.05 £70.00 £65.71
90th Percentile £65.00 £75.00 £76.53
England median hourly rate £25.15 £40.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -37.13% -10.11% +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 30 October 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 30 October 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 +35 66 £395 +16.18% 38
Berkshire +38 59 £395 +16.18% 28
Hampshire -5 8 £447 +24.17% 8
Buckinghamshire +5 4 £347 +9.31% 6
Surrey +2 3 £413 -2.94% 9
Oxfordshire - 3 £588 - 4
Kent -5 1 £425 -19.05% 7
Middlesex - 1 £500 - 2
East Sussex - 1 - -
West Sussex - 1 £500 - 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 4 (5.00%) Oracle SOA Suite
1 4 (5.00%) Oracle Workflow
1 4 (5.00%) WebLogic
2 1 (1.25%) Anypoint
2 1 (1.25%) CMS
2 1 (1.25%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (1.25%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 10 (12.50%) Oracle EBS R12
1 10 (12.50%) Oracle ERP
2 6 (7.50%) Oracle Assets
3 4 (5.00%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 35 (43.75%) Azure
2 33 (41.25%) AWS
3 11 (13.75%) GCP
4 7 (8.75%) SaaS
5 6 (7.50%) Entra ID
6 5 (6.25%) Azure Storage
7 4 (5.00%) Microsoft 365
7 4 (5.00%) OCI
8 3 (3.75%) Amazon EC2
8 3 (3.75%) Amazon S3
8 3 (3.75%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 2 (2.50%) AWS CloudFormation
9 2 (2.50%) GitHub
9 2 (2.50%) GitHub Actions
9 2 (2.50%) IaaS
10 1 (1.25%) Amazon OpenSearch
10 1 (1.25%) Azure AKS
10 1 (1.25%) Azure Monitor
10 1 (1.25%) Nutanix
10 1 (1.25%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 15 (18.75%) DNS
1 15 (18.75%) Firewall
2 13 (16.25%) DHCP
2 13 (16.25%) TCP/IP
2 13 (16.25%) VLAN
3 12 (15.00%) SAN
4 5 (6.25%) NAS
5 4 (5.00%) LAN
5 4 (5.00%) WAN
6 3 (3.75%) VPN
7 2 (2.50%) Internet
7 2 (2.50%) Intranet
7 2 (2.50%) IPv6
7 2 (2.50%) Network Security
7 2 (2.50%) VSAN
8 1 (1.25%) Cisco Nexus
8 1 (1.25%) MPLS
8 1 (1.25%) Multicast
8 1 (1.25%) Spanning Tree
8 1 (1.25%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (5.00%) Amazon RDS
1 4 (5.00%) Oracle BI EE
2 3 (3.75%) Azure SQL Database
2 3 (3.75%) BusinessObjects
2 3 (3.75%) NoSQL
2 3 (3.75%) Oracle Database
2 3 (3.75%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (3.75%) Relational Database
2 3 (3.75%) SAP Data Services
3 2 (2.50%) Apache Cassandra
3 2 (2.50%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
3 2 (2.50%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (2.50%) MongoDB
3 2 (2.50%) MySQL
3 2 (2.50%) RDBMS
3 2 (2.50%) SQL Server
3 2 (2.50%) Tableau
3 2 (2.50%) Tableau Desktop
3 2 (2.50%) Tableau Server
4 1 (1.25%) BusinessObjects Web Intelligence
Development Applications
1 1 (1.25%) Git
1 1 (1.25%) Jenkins
1 1 (1.25%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 27 (33.75%) Analytical Skills
2 25 (31.25%) Social Skills
3 11 (13.75%) Telecoms
4 10 (12.50%) Finance
5 8 (10.00%) Public Sector
6 5 (6.25%) Documentation Skills
7 3 (3.75%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (2.50%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (1.25%) Legal
9 1 (1.25%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 13 (16.25%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 12 (15.00%) Infrastructure Support
3 11 (13.75%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
3 11 (13.75%) Support Engineer
4 10 (12.50%) Administrator
4 10 (12.50%) Test Engineer
5 9 (11.25%) Network Engineer
6 7 (8.75%) Backup Administrator
6 7 (8.75%) Storage Administrator
6 7 (8.75%) Storage and Backup Administrator
7 5 (6.25%) Senior
7 5 (6.25%) Technical Specialist
8 4 (5.00%) DBA
9 3 (3.75%) HP Storage Administrator
9 3 (3.75%) Oracle DBA
9 3 (3.75%) Site Engineer
9 3 (3.75%) Site Reliability Engineer
9 3 (3.75%) Test Manager
10 2 (2.50%) SAP Administrator
10 2 (2.50%) Test Strategist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (12.50%) RFC 2544
2 2 (2.50%) Middleware
2 2 (2.50%) REST
3 1 (1.25%) ADO
3 1 (1.25%) ARM Templates
3 1 (1.25%) Django
3 1 (1.25%) FastAPI
3 1 (1.25%) Flash
3 1 (1.25%) Flask
3 1 (1.25%) OAuth
3 1 (1.25%) OAuth2
3 1 (1.25%) OpenAPI
3 1 (1.25%) OpenID
3 1 (1.25%) RESTful
3 1 (1.25%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 12 (15.00%) Data Centre
2 11 (13.75%) Analytical Mindset
3 10 (12.50%) Fibre Optics
4 7 (8.75%) Distributed Systems
4 7 (8.75%) Enterprise Storage
5 4 (5.00%) Enterprise Software
5 4 (5.00%) Replication
6 3 (3.75%) HP Storage
6 3 (3.75%) SCADA
7 2 (2.50%) Clustering
7 2 (2.50%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (2.50%) Management Information System
7 2 (2.50%) Onboarding
8 1 (1.25%) Cyber Defence
8 1 (1.25%) Cyber Threat
8 1 (1.25%) Cyberattack
8 1 (1.25%) Hybrid Cloud
8 1 (1.25%) PKI
8 1 (1.25%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 25 (31.25%) Windows
2 22 (27.50%) Linux
3 8 (10.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (6.25%) Unix
5 4 (5.00%) Windows Server 2012
5 4 (5.00%) Windows Server 2016
5 4 (5.00%) Windows Server 2019
6 3 (3.75%) Windows Server
7 2 (2.50%) CentOS
7 2 (2.50%) Ubuntu
8 1 (1.25%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
2 24 (30.00%) ITIL
3 20 (25.00%) Service Management
4 15 (18.75%) High Availability
4 15 (18.75%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 14 (17.50%) Business Continuity
6 13 (16.25%) ERP
6 13 (16.25%) Task Automation
7 12 (15.00%) Virtual Infrastructure
8 11 (13.75%) Preventative Maintenance
9 10 (12.50%) Case Management
9 10 (12.50%) CI/CD
9 10 (12.50%) Performance Tuning
9 10 (12.50%) Test Scripting
10 9 (11.25%) Defect Management
10 9 (11.25%) Root Cause Analysis
10 9 (11.25%) Stakeholder Management
11 8 (10.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 7 (8.75%) Capacity Management
12 7 (8.75%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 14 (17.50%) SQL
2 12 (15.00%) Python
3 7 (8.75%) Go
3 7 (8.75%) Java
3 7 (8.75%) Shell Script
4 4 (5.00%) Bash
4 4 (5.00%) Perl
4 4 (5.00%) PL/SQL
4 4 (5.00%) PowerShell
5 1 (1.25%) Bicep
5 1 (1.25%) C++
Qualifications
1 38 (47.50%) Security Cleared
2 36 (45.00%) SC Cleared
3 17 (21.25%) Azure Certification
4 13 (16.25%) Microsoft Certification
5 11 (13.75%) Network+ Certification
5 11 (13.75%) Server+ Certification
6 8 (10.00%) AWS Certification
7 4 (5.00%) CCNA
7 4 (5.00%) CCNP
7 4 (5.00%) Cisco Certification
8 3 (3.75%) ISTQB
8 3 (3.75%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
9 2 (2.50%) OCP
9 2 (2.50%) Oracle Certification
9 2 (2.50%) TOGAF Certification
10 1 (1.25%) DBS Check
10 1 (1.25%) Degree
10 1 (1.25%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (11.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 7 (8.75%) GDPR
2 7 (8.75%) SLA
3 6 (7.50%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 3 (3.75%) NIST
5 2 (2.50%) QA
6 1 (1.25%) GRC
System Software
1 18 (22.50%) VMware Infrastructure
2 15 (18.75%) Hyper-V
3 6 (7.50%) Active Directory
4 4 (5.00%) Oracle RAC
5 3 (3.75%) VMware ESXi
5 3 (3.75%) vSphere
6 2 (2.50%) Firmware
7 1 (1.25%) Docker
7 1 (1.25%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 8 (10.00%) Kubernetes
2 7 (8.75%) NetBackup
3 4 (5.00%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
3 4 (5.00%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
3 4 (5.00%) Oracle RMAN
3 4 (5.00%) Terraform
4 3 (3.75%) vCenter Server
5 2 (2.50%) Grafana
5 2 (2.50%) Prometheus
6 1 (1.25%) Ansible
6 1 (1.25%) Argo
6 1 (1.25%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (1.25%) VxRail
Vendors
1 22 (27.50%) Microsoft
2 21 (26.25%) VMware
3 13 (16.25%) Oracle
4 12 (15.00%) Cisco
5 10 (12.50%) NetApp
6 8 (10.00%) 3PAR
6 8 (10.00%) HP
7 7 (8.75%) Nimble Storage
7 7 (8.75%) Red Hat
7 7 (8.75%) Veritas
8 5 (6.25%) EMC
9 4 (5.00%) Dell
9 4 (5.00%) Pure Storage
9 4 (5.00%) ServiceNow
10 3 (3.75%) SAP
10 3 (3.75%) Workday
11 2 (2.50%) Citrix
11 2 (2.50%) IBM
12 1 (1.25%) Intel
12 1 (1.25%) MuleSoft