Disaster Recovery Contracts in the South East

Disaster Recovery
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East requiring Disaster Recovery skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Disaster Recovery over the 6 months leading up to 15 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 89 107 166
Rank change year-on-year +18 +59 +43
Contract jobs citing Disaster Recovery 77 86 47
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 2.17% 1.75% 0.84%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.41% 2.12% 0.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 56 58 25
10th Percentile £293 £313 £335
25th Percentile £393 £350 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £568
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -9.69% +3.18%
75th Percentile £550 £608 £615
90th Percentile £594 - £645
England median daily rate £475 £475 £525
% change year-on-year - -9.52% +0.96%
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 £32.77 £61.60 £87.50
% change year-on-year -46.80% -29.60% +55.56%

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 3,189 4,059 4,963
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 89.93% 82.75% 88.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,990 2,483 3,350
10th Percentile £250 £255 £253
25th Percentile £400 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £518 £518
Median % change year-on-year -3.39% -0.09% +3.60%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £623
90th Percentile £670 £700 £700
England median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 296 323 233
10th Percentile £13.50 £15.00 £15.30
25th Percentile £15.13 £26.25 £21.05
Median hourly rate £21.50 £57.35 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -62.51% +14.70% +100.00%
75th Percentile £50.00 £70.09 £63.75
90th Percentile £70.71 £76.86 £75.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £41.50
% change year-on-year -41.51% +3.61% +56.60%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Disaster Recovery in the South East.

Daily rate trend for Disaster Recovery in the South East

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 15 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Disaster Recovery in the South East

Disaster Recovery
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Disaster Recovery in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for Disaster Recovery in the South East

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 15 August 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 +11 52 £500 +21.21% 28
Berkshire +16 50 £500 -2.44% 16
Hampshire +12 15 £540 +20.00% 8
Surrey +11 4 £481 -21.43% 14
East Sussex - 4 £450 - 2
Buckinghamshire -1 1 £238 -25.08% 9
Kent -2 1 £750 +25.00% 6
Oxfordshire - 1 £875 - 4
Middlesex - 1 £500 -
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 8 (10.39%) SharePoint
2 4 (5.19%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 4 (5.19%) Oracle Workflow
2 4 (5.19%) WebLogic
3 1 (1.30%) Anypoint
3 1 (1.30%) Microsoft Exchange
Business Applications
1 10 (12.99%) Oracle EBS R12
1 10 (12.99%) Oracle ERP
2 6 (7.79%) Oracle Assets
3 4 (5.19%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (1.30%) Remedy ITSM
4 1 (1.30%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 27 (35.06%) Azure
2 25 (32.47%) AWS
3 11 (14.29%) GCP
4 8 (10.39%) Microsoft 365
4 8 (10.39%) SaaS
5 7 (9.09%) Power Platform
6 5 (6.49%) Azure Storage
7 4 (5.19%) OCI
8 2 (2.60%) Entra ID
8 2 (2.60%) IaaS
9 1 (1.30%) Akamai
9 1 (1.30%) AWS CloudFormation
9 1 (1.30%) Azure AKS
9 1 (1.30%) Azure Data Factory
9 1 (1.30%) Azure DevOps
9 1 (1.30%) Azure Monitor
9 1 (1.30%) Nutanix
9 1 (1.30%) PaaS
9 1 (1.30%) Rubrik
9 1 (1.30%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 19 (24.68%) Firewall
2 12 (15.58%) SAN
3 10 (12.99%) VPN
4 9 (11.69%) Network Security
5 7 (9.09%) Internet
6 5 (6.49%) NAS
7 3 (3.90%) VSAN
7 3 (3.90%) WAN
8 2 (2.60%) DHCP
8 2 (2.60%) DNS
8 2 (2.60%) LAN
9 1 (1.30%) BGP
9 1 (1.30%) Ethernet
9 1 (1.30%) Intrusion Detection
9 1 (1.30%) MPLS
9 1 (1.30%) OSPF
9 1 (1.30%) SDH
9 1 (1.30%) TCP/IP
9 1 (1.30%) VLAN
9 1 (1.30%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (9.09%) Power BI
2 4 (5.19%) Oracle BI EE
3 3 (3.90%) Oracle Database
3 3 (3.90%) SQL Server
4 1 (1.30%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (1.30%) BusinessObjects
4 1 (1.30%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
4 1 (1.30%) Data Lake
4 1 (1.30%) SAP Data Services
4 1 (1.30%) SAP HANA
4 1 (1.30%) Tableau
4 1 (1.30%) Tableau Desktop
4 1 (1.30%) Tableau Server
Development Applications
1 1 (1.30%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 28 (36.36%) Social Skills
2 21 (27.27%) Analytical Skills
3 11 (14.29%) Public Sector
4 9 (11.69%) Telecoms
5 7 (9.09%) Finance
6 3 (3.90%) Military
7 1 (1.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.30%) Legal
7 1 (1.30%) Local Government
7 1 (1.30%) Manufacturing
7 1 (1.30%) Retail
Job Titles
1 9 (11.69%) Administrator
1 9 (11.69%) IT Manager
1 9 (11.69%) Senior
2 8 (10.39%) Network Engineer
2 8 (10.39%) Resilience Manager
3 7 (9.09%) Backup Administrator
3 7 (9.09%) DBA
3 7 (9.09%) IT Services Manager
3 7 (9.09%) Service Manager
3 7 (9.09%) Storage Administrator
3 7 (9.09%) Storage and Backup Administrator
3 7 (9.09%) Test Engineer
4 5 (6.49%) Senior IT Manager
4 5 (6.49%) Senior Manager
4 5 (6.49%) Senior Service Manager
5 3 (3.90%) HP Storage Administrator
5 3 (3.90%) Network Manager
5 3 (3.90%) Oracle DBA
5 3 (3.90%) Site Engineer
5 3 (3.90%) SQL DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (9.09%) RFC 2544
2 2 (2.60%) Middleware
3 1 (1.30%) 802.1X
3 1 (1.30%) ADO
3 1 (1.30%) ARM Templates
3 1 (1.30%) Flash
3 1 (1.30%) REST
3 1 (1.30%) SAP Basis
Miscellaneous
1 10 (12.99%) Data Centre
2 7 (9.09%) Distributed Systems
2 7 (9.09%) Enterprise Storage
2 7 (9.09%) Fibre Optics
2 7 (9.09%) Video Conferencing
3 3 (3.90%) HP Storage
3 3 (3.90%) Replication
4 2 (2.60%) Management Information System
4 2 (2.60%) PKI
5 1 (1.30%) Cyber Defence
5 1 (1.30%) Cyber Threat
5 1 (1.30%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.30%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (1.30%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.30%) Private Cloud
5 1 (1.30%) SCADA
5 1 (1.30%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 15 (19.48%) Windows
2 9 (11.69%) Linux
3 8 (10.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 6 (7.79%) Windows Server
5 5 (6.49%) Unix
6 4 (5.19%) Windows Server 2012
6 4 (5.19%) Windows Server 2016
6 4 (5.19%) Windows Server 2019
7 2 (2.60%) CentOS
7 2 (2.60%) Ubuntu
8 1 (1.30%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (32.47%) Problem-Solving
2 14 (18.18%) ITIL
3 13 (16.88%) Case Management
3 13 (16.88%) High Availability
4 12 (15.58%) Business Continuity
5 11 (14.29%) Task Automation
6 10 (12.99%) Cybersecurity
6 10 (12.99%) ERP
6 10 (12.99%) Storage Management
7 9 (11.69%) CI/CD
7 9 (11.69%) Security Monitoring
8 8 (10.39%) Business Intelligence
8 8 (10.39%) Penetration Testing
8 8 (10.39%) Performance Tuning
8 8 (10.39%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 7 (9.09%) Defect Management
9 7 (9.09%) Release Management
9 7 (9.09%) Service Management
9 7 (9.09%) Test Scripting
10 6 (7.79%) Data Cleansing
Programming Languages
1 15 (19.48%) SQL
2 8 (10.39%) Python
3 7 (9.09%) Go
3 7 (9.09%) Java
3 7 (9.09%) Shell Script
4 4 (5.19%) Perl
4 4 (5.19%) PL/SQL
5 2 (2.60%) Bash
5 2 (2.60%) PowerShell
6 1 (1.30%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 33 (42.86%) Security Cleared
2 30 (38.96%) SC Cleared
3 4 (5.19%) AWS Certification
3 4 (5.19%) Azure Certification
4 3 (3.90%) CCNA
4 3 (3.90%) CCNP
4 3 (3.90%) Cisco Certification
5 2 (2.60%) Degree
5 2 (2.60%) TOGAF Certification
6 1 (1.30%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.30%) DV Cleared
6 1 (1.30%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 1 (1.30%) VCAP
6 1 (1.30%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (10.39%) SLA
2 6 (7.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 6 (7.79%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 4 (5.19%) GDPR
4 2 (2.60%) ISO 22301
5 1 (1.30%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (1.30%) GRC
5 1 (1.30%) NIST
5 1 (1.30%) NIST 800
5 1 (1.30%) PCI DSS
5 1 (1.30%) QA
System Software
1 5 (6.49%) Active Directory
1 5 (6.49%) VMware ESXi
1 5 (6.49%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (5.19%) Oracle RAC
2 4 (5.19%) vSphere
3 2 (2.60%) Firmware
3 2 (2.60%) Hyper-V
4 1 (1.30%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (1.30%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 8 (10.39%) Kubernetes
2 7 (9.09%) NetBackup
3 6 (7.79%) Microsoft Intune
4 4 (5.19%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
4 4 (5.19%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
4 4 (5.19%) Oracle RMAN
4 4 (5.19%) vCenter Server
5 3 (3.90%) Terraform
6 1 (1.30%) Ansible
6 1 (1.30%) FortiGate
6 1 (1.30%) Grafana
6 1 (1.30%) PowerCLI
6 1 (1.30%) Prometheus
6 1 (1.30%) vRealize
6 1 (1.30%) VxRail
Vendors
1 14 (18.18%) Microsoft
2 11 (14.29%) Oracle
3 10 (12.99%) NetApp
4 9 (11.69%) Cisco
5 8 (10.39%) 3PAR
5 8 (10.39%) VMware
6 7 (9.09%) HP
6 7 (9.09%) Nimble Storage
6 7 (9.09%) Red Hat
6 7 (9.09%) Veritas
7 5 (6.49%) EMC
8 4 (5.19%) Pure Storage
9 3 (3.90%) Dell
10 2 (2.60%) IBM
10 2 (2.60%) Intel
10 2 (2.60%) SAP
11 1 (1.30%) BMC
11 1 (1.30%) BT
11 1 (1.30%) Citrix
11 1 (1.30%) Remedy