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 5 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 125 81 102
Rank change year-on-year -44 +21 +67
Contract jobs citing Disaster Recovery 100 84 81
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 1.54% 2.37% 1.85%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.90% 2.66% 2.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 71 66 51
10th Percentile £363 £219 £240
25th Percentile £450 £270 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £543 £423 £400
Median % change year-on-year +28.40% +5.63% -33.33%
75th Percentile £650 £544 £556
90th Percentile £775 £563 £608
England median daily rate £525 £463 £450
% change year-on-year +13.51% +2.78% -16.28%
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 5,253 3,157 3,629
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 80.72% 88.90% 82.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,065 1,978 2,174
10th Percentile £275 £213 £254
25th Percentile £420 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £510
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -1.96% -2.86%
75th Percentile £619 £588 £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 666 317 201
10th Percentile £13.45 £13.50 £16.00
25th Percentile £16.25 £16.17 £30.00
Median hourly rate £47.50 £22.19 £58.38
Median % change year-on-year +114.06% -61.99% +7.35%
75th Percentile £69.80 £48.75 £70.18
90th Percentile £87.90 £69.11 £76.86
England median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +59.05% -41.51% -3.37%

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 5 October 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 5 October 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 -39 62 £500 +19.05% 65
Berkshire -38 43 £500 +19.05% 39
Hampshire -20 23 £575 +28.64% 30
Buckinghamshire -12 15 £750 +179.85% 8
Surrey -14 6 £450 +9.09% 28
West Sussex - 5 £513 - 10
Oxfordshire -27 4 £450 -48.57% 19
Middlesex -18 2 - - 2
East Sussex +2 1 £581 +29.11% 4
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 (3.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (2.00%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.00%) CICS
3 1 (1.00%) Tomcat
Applications
1 3 (3.00%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (4.00%) NEC Housing
1 4 (4.00%) Oracle ERP
1 4 (4.00%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 43 (43.00%) Azure
2 26 (26.00%) AWS
3 13 (13.00%) GCP
4 11 (11.00%) SaaS
5 8 (8.00%) OpenShift
6 7 (7.00%) Microsoft 365
6 7 (7.00%) OCI
7 5 (5.00%) Azure DevOps
7 5 (5.00%) Entra ID
8 4 (4.00%) Azure Monitor
9 3 (3.00%) GitHub
9 3 (3.00%) GitHub Actions
9 3 (3.00%) IaaS
10 2 (2.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 2 (2.00%) Amazon ECS
10 2 (2.00%) Amazon EKS
10 2 (2.00%) Route 53
10 2 (2.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 1 (1.00%) Nutanix
11 1 (1.00%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 18 (18.00%) DNS
1 18 (18.00%) Firewall
2 16 (16.00%) VPN
3 14 (14.00%) DHCP
4 13 (13.00%) TCP/IP
5 7 (7.00%) LAN
5 7 (7.00%) WAN
6 6 (6.00%) Network Security
6 6 (6.00%) VLAN
7 5 (5.00%) Software-Defined Networking
8 3 (3.00%) BIG-IP
8 3 (3.00%) Wireless
9 2 (2.00%) BGP
9 2 (2.00%) Cisco ASA
9 2 (2.00%) Cisco Nexus
9 2 (2.00%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
9 2 (2.00%) IPsec
9 2 (2.00%) MPLS
9 2 (2.00%) OSPF
9 2 (2.00%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (5.00%) SQL Server
2 2 (2.00%) Oracle Database
2 2 (2.00%) Oracle Reports
3 1 (1.00%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (1.00%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (1.00%) BusinessObjects
3 1 (1.00%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
3 1 (1.00%) MongoDB
3 1 (1.00%) MySQL
3 1 (1.00%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (1.00%) SAP Data Services
3 1 (1.00%) Tableau
3 1 (1.00%) Tableau Desktop
3 1 (1.00%) Tableau Server
Development Applications
1 4 (4.00%) JIRA
2 3 (3.00%) Jenkins
3 2 (2.00%) Gatling
3 2 (2.00%) JMeter
3 2 (2.00%) LoadRunner
3 2 (2.00%) Sonatype Nexus
4 1 (1.00%) Git
4 1 (1.00%) GitLab
4 1 (1.00%) IBM UrbanCode
4 1 (1.00%) MSI
General
1 36 (36.00%) Social Skills
2 20 (20.00%) Public Sector
3 18 (18.00%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (9.00%) Aerospace
5 7 (7.00%) Influencing Skills
6 6 (6.00%) Local Government
7 4 (4.00%) Finance
7 4 (4.00%) Legal
7 4 (4.00%) Military
7 4 (4.00%) Organisational Skills
7 4 (4.00%) Telecoms
8 2 (2.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (2.00%) Retail
9 1 (1.00%) Banking
9 1 (1.00%) Billing
9 1 (1.00%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (1.00%) Social Housing
9 1 (1.00%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 20 (20.00%) Architect
2 18 (18.00%) Lead
3 13 (13.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 7 (7.00%) Systems Engineer
5 6 (6.00%) Disaster Recovery Specialist
5 6 (6.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
5 6 (6.00%) Solutions Architect
5 6 (6.00%) Technical Architect
6 5 (5.00%) Analyst
6 5 (5.00%) IT Engineer
6 5 (5.00%) Lead Architect
6 5 (5.00%) Network Architect
6 5 (5.00%) Senior
7 4 (4.00%) Cloud Engineer
7 4 (4.00%) Infrastructure Architect
7 4 (4.00%) Platform Engineer
7 4 (4.00%) Project Manager
7 4 (4.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
7 4 (4.00%) Site Engineer
8 3 (3.00%) Data Centre Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (14.00%) Terraform
2 3 (3.00%) ARM Templates
3 2 (2.00%) GraphQL
3 2 (2.00%) Loki
3 2 (2.00%) Node.js
3 2 (2.00%) Oracle Fusion
4 1 (1.00%) ISPF
4 1 (1.00%) LDAP
4 1 (1.00%) REST
4 1 (1.00%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 16 (16.00%) Data Centre
1 16 (16.00%) Hybrid Cloud
2 7 (7.00%) Cloud Native
3 6 (6.00%) Onboarding
4 5 (5.00%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 5 (5.00%) Management Information System
5 4 (4.00%) Distributed Systems
5 4 (4.00%) Driving Licence
5 4 (4.00%) Enterprise Storage
5 4 (4.00%) Replication
5 4 (4.00%) Security Operations Centre
5 4 (4.00%) Security Posture
6 3 (3.00%) Blackberry
6 3 (3.00%) Digital Signage
6 3 (3.00%) Enterprise Software
6 3 (3.00%) iPhone
6 3 (3.00%) Private Cloud
7 2 (2.00%) CMDB
7 2 (2.00%) EPoS
7 2 (2.00%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 34 (34.00%) Windows
2 26 (26.00%) Linux
3 19 (19.00%) Windows Server
4 6 (6.00%) Windows 10
5 2 (2.00%) AIX
5 2 (2.00%) Debian
5 2 (2.00%) HPUX
5 2 (2.00%) Solaris
5 2 (2.00%) Ubuntu
6 1 (1.00%) Data ONTAP
6 1 (1.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (1.00%) Unix
6 1 (1.00%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (53.00%) Business Continuity
2 33 (33.00%) ITIL
3 30 (30.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 29 (29.00%) Continuous Improvement
5 22 (22.00%) Problem-Solving
6 20 (20.00%) Agile
7 19 (19.00%) DevOps
7 19 (19.00%) Infrastructure as Code
8 18 (18.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 16 (16.00%) Change Management
10 15 (15.00%) Cybersecurity
10 15 (15.00%) Incident Management
11 14 (14.00%) CI/CD
11 14 (14.00%) High Availability
11 14 (14.00%) Technical Leadership
12 13 (13.00%) Cloud Security
12 13 (13.00%) Roadmaps
13 12 (12.00%) Project Delivery
13 12 (12.00%) Root Cause Analysis
13 12 (12.00%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 20 (20.00%) PowerShell
1 20 (20.00%) Python
2 10 (10.00%) Bash
3 6 (6.00%) Java
4 4 (4.00%) Bicep
4 4 (4.00%) Go
4 4 (4.00%) SQL
5 2 (2.00%) JavaScript
5 2 (2.00%) Scala
5 2 (2.00%) Shell Script
5 2 (2.00%) TypeScript
5 2 (2.00%) VBScript
6 1 (1.00%) COBOL
6 1 (1.00%) Groovy
6 1 (1.00%) JCL
6 1 (1.00%) PL/SQL
6 1 (1.00%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 46 (46.00%) Security Cleared
2 31 (31.00%) SC Cleared
3 15 (15.00%) DV Cleared
4 13 (13.00%) Degree
5 10 (10.00%) Azure Certification
6 9 (9.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 5 (5.00%) Microsoft Certification
8 4 (4.00%) Cisco Certification
8 4 (4.00%) Computer Science Degree
9 3 (3.00%) CCNP
9 3 (3.00%) CTC Cleared
9 3 (3.00%) ISTQB
9 3 (3.00%) ITIL Certification
9 3 (3.00%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 2 (2.00%) CCIE
10 2 (2.00%) PMP
10 2 (2.00%) VCAP
11 1 (1.00%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 1 (1.00%) AWS Certification
11 1 (1.00%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (10.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 9 (9.00%) NCSC
3 4 (4.00%) GDPR
3 4 (4.00%) ISO 22301
4 3 (3.00%) QA
5 1 (1.00%) Data Quality
5 1 (1.00%) NIST
5 1 (1.00%) NIST 800
5 1 (1.00%) SLA
System Software
1 19 (19.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 17 (17.00%) Active Directory
3 11 (11.00%) Hyper-V
4 6 (6.00%) VMware NSX
5 5 (5.00%) VMware ESXi
5 5 (5.00%) vSphere
6 3 (3.00%) Docker
6 3 (3.00%) Virtual Machines
7 2 (2.00%) Firmware
7 2 (2.00%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 2 (2.00%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (1.00%) Oracle RAC
8 1 (1.00%) RACF
8 1 (1.00%) Time Sharing Option
8 1 (1.00%) UAG
Systems Management
1 17 (17.00%) Ansible
2 15 (15.00%) Kubernetes
3 8 (8.00%) SCCM
4 6 (6.00%) Grafana
4 6 (6.00%) Prometheus
5 5 (5.00%) vCenter Server
6 3 (3.00%) Istio
6 3 (3.00%) Microsoft Intune
7 2 (2.00%) NetBackup
7 2 (2.00%) Puppet
7 2 (2.00%) vRealize
7 2 (2.00%) vRealize Orchestrator
8 1 (1.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 1 (1.00%) Avamar
8 1 (1.00%) Data Guard
8 1 (1.00%) Oracle RMAN
8 1 (1.00%) PowerCLI
Vendors
1 41 (41.00%) Microsoft
2 25 (25.00%) VMware
3 10 (10.00%) Oracle
4 8 (8.00%) ServiceNow
5 6 (6.00%) Google
6 5 (5.00%) Red Hat
6 5 (5.00%) SAP
7 4 (4.00%) NEC
7 4 (4.00%) NetApp
8 3 (3.00%) Broadcom
8 3 (3.00%) Cisco
8 3 (3.00%) Dell
8 3 (3.00%) F5
8 3 (3.00%) HP
8 3 (3.00%) Lotus
8 3 (3.00%) Palo Alto
8 3 (3.00%) Veeam
9 2 (2.00%) IBM
9 2 (2.00%) SolarWinds
9 2 (2.00%) Splunk