Disaster Recovery Contracts in the South East

Disaster Recovery
England > South East

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East with a requirement for Disaster Recovery skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Disaster Recovery over the 6 months to 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 112 176 198
Rank change year-on-year +64 +22 -42
Contract jobs citing Disaster Recovery 80 37 65
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 1.46% 0.66% 0.84%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.74% 0.74% 0.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 55 20 42
10th Percentile £309 £300 £313
25th Percentile £416 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £550 £586
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -6.14% +30.22%
75th Percentile £608 £604 £731
90th Percentile £650 £646 £761
England median daily rate £500 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £62.50
Median hourly rate £61.60 - £65.00
75th Percentile - - £67.50
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £61.60 £40.42 £53.11
% change year-on-year +52.42% -23.90% +86.35%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South East

Disaster Recovery is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the South East with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,603 5,023 6,933
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 84.23% 89.08% 89.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,675 3,482 4,732
10th Percentile £250 £248 £231
25th Percentile £400 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £505 £500
Median % change year-on-year -0.99% +1.00% +8.70%
75th Percentile £625 £615 £598
90th Percentile £700 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £540
% change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% +8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 440 218 278
10th Percentile £13.00 £16.25 £12.21
25th Percentile £18.20 £22.16 £14.06
Median hourly rate £47.50 £50.00 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +132.56% -21.82%
75th Percentile £62.50 £64.63 £47.50
90th Percentile £76.86 £75.00 £61.50
England median hourly rate £36.50 £36.54 £25.00
% change year-on-year -0.11% +46.16% +8.70%

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 20 May 2024.

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 20 May 2024. 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 +24 37 £605 +10.00% 18
Berkshire +3 33 £605 +10.00% 12
Hampshire +20 23 £350 -30.00% 7
West Sussex +12 9 £575 - 5
Surrey +19 8 £450 -1.10% 5
Buckinghamshire +24 4 £400 -26.77% 3
Kent +9 2 £638 +10.87% 5
Home Counties - 1 - -
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:

Applications
1 2 (2.50%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 7 (8.75%) Oracle EBS
1 7 (8.75%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (1.25%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 31 (38.75%) Azure
2 17 (21.25%) OCI
3 8 (10.00%) GitHub
4 4 (5.00%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (3.75%) Azure API Management
5 3 (3.75%) Azure Data Factory
5 3 (3.75%) Azure Key Vault
5 3 (3.75%) Azure Logic Apps
5 3 (3.75%) Azure Monitor
5 3 (3.75%) WhatsApp
6 2 (2.50%) AWS
6 2 (2.50%) Azure Functions
6 2 (2.50%) Entra ID
6 2 (2.50%) Serverless
7 1 (1.25%) Amazon S3
7 1 (1.25%) Azure Sentinel
7 1 (1.25%) Azure Service Bus
7 1 (1.25%) GCP
7 1 (1.25%) IaaS
7 1 (1.25%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 21 (26.25%) DNS
1 21 (26.25%) SAN
2 18 (22.50%) Firewall
3 17 (21.25%) DHCP
4 4 (5.00%) VPN
4 4 (5.00%) Wireless
5 3 (3.75%) Fibre Channel
5 3 (3.75%) Network Security
5 3 (3.75%) WAN
6 2 (2.50%) Cisco IOS
6 2 (2.50%) Cisco ISE
6 2 (2.50%) Internet
6 2 (2.50%) LAN
6 2 (2.50%) NX-OS
6 2 (2.50%) Wi-Fi
7 1 (1.25%) iSCSI
7 1 (1.25%) MPLS
7 1 (1.25%) NAS
7 1 (1.25%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (15.00%) PostgreSQL
2 8 (10.00%) Oracle Database
3 7 (8.75%) SAP HANA
3 7 (8.75%) SQL Server
4 3 (3.75%) MongoDB
5 2 (2.50%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (2.50%) MySQL
6 1 (1.25%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (1.25%) MariaDB
6 1 (1.25%) Oracle Exadata
6 1 (1.25%) RDBMS
6 1 (1.25%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 8 (10.00%) GitLab
2 2 (2.50%) Git
2 2 (2.50%) Visual Studio
3 1 (1.25%) LoadRunner
3 1 (1.25%) Postman
3 1 (1.25%) SoapUI
General
1 34 (42.50%) Social Skills
2 7 (8.75%) Finance
3 5 (6.25%) Military
4 3 (3.75%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (3.75%) Marketing
5 2 (2.50%) Banking
5 2 (2.50%) Financial Institution
5 2 (2.50%) Public Sector
6 1 (1.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (1.25%) Legal
Job Titles
1 16 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 11 (13.75%) Storage Engineer
3 9 (11.25%) Consultant
3 9 (11.25%) Database Specialist
4 7 (8.75%) Administrator
4 7 (8.75%) Architect
4 7 (8.75%) SAP Basis Consultant
4 7 (8.75%) SAP Consultant
4 7 (8.75%) SAP Technical Consultant
4 7 (8.75%) Technical Consultant
5 6 (7.50%) Analyst
5 6 (7.50%) Platform Specialist
5 6 (7.50%) Service Architect
6 5 (6.25%) DBA
6 5 (6.25%) Senior
6 5 (6.25%) Server Engineer
6 5 (6.25%) Support Engineer
7 4 (5.00%) Backup Administrator
7 4 (5.00%) Test Manager
8 3 (3.75%) VMware Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (8.75%) SAP Basis
1 7 (8.75%) SAP Fiori
2 3 (3.75%) ARM Templates
3 2 (2.50%) Flash
3 2 (2.50%) Middleware
3 2 (2.50%) YAML
4 1 (1.25%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 17 (21.25%) Data Centre
2 10 (12.50%) Linux Command Line
3 9 (11.25%) Replication
4 8 (10.00%) Clustering
5 4 (5.00%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.25%) Cloud Native
6 1 (1.25%) CMDB
6 1 (1.25%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.25%) Enterprise Storage
6 1 (1.25%) Fat Client
6 1 (1.25%) iPhone
6 1 (1.25%) PKI
6 1 (1.25%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (1.25%) Smart Meter
6 1 (1.25%) Smartcard
6 1 (1.25%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 29 (36.25%) Linux
2 24 (30.00%) Windows
3 18 (22.50%) Windows Server
4 17 (21.25%) Windows Server 2019
5 16 (20.00%) Windows Server 2012
5 16 (20.00%) Windows Server 2016
6 14 (17.50%) Windows 10
6 14 (17.50%) Windows XP
7 3 (3.75%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 3 (3.75%) Unix
8 2 (2.50%) Solaris
9 1 (1.25%) Android
9 1 (1.25%) Apple iOS
9 1 (1.25%) Ubuntu
9 1 (1.25%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (47.50%) Performance Tuning
2 29 (36.25%) Problem-Solving
3 26 (32.50%) ITIL
4 25 (31.25%) Storage Management
5 22 (27.50%) High Availability
6 18 (22.50%) Break/Fix
6 18 (22.50%) Project Management
7 17 (21.25%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 17 (21.25%) Migration
8 16 (20.00%) Business Continuity
8 16 (20.00%) Proactive Monitoring
8 16 (20.00%) Server Management
9 15 (18.75%) Performance Monitoring
10 14 (17.50%) Converged Infrastructure
10 14 (17.50%) Data Migration
11 13 (16.25%) Task Automation
12 12 (15.00%) Capacity Management
13 11 (13.75%) Agile
14 9 (11.25%) Database Security
15 8 (10.00%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 21 (26.25%) PowerShell
2 10 (12.50%) Bash
3 6 (7.50%) SQL
4 4 (5.00%) Shell Script
5 3 (3.75%) Perl
5 3 (3.75%) Python
6 2 (2.50%) AWK
6 2 (2.50%) Bourne shell
6 2 (2.50%) Korn
7 1 (1.25%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 42 (52.50%) Security Cleared
2 32 (40.00%) SC Cleared
3 20 (25.00%) Degree
3 20 (25.00%) DV Cleared
4 14 (17.50%) CCNA
4 14 (17.50%) CCNP
4 14 (17.50%) Cisco Certification
5 2 (2.50%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (2.50%) RHCE
5 2 (2.50%) RHCSA
6 1 (1.25%) A+ Certification
6 1 (1.25%) IBM Certification
6 1 (1.25%) MCSA
6 1 (1.25%) MCSE
6 1 (1.25%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (8.75%) SLA
2 2 (2.50%) GDPR
2 2 (2.50%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 28 (35.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 19 (23.75%) Active Directory
3 17 (21.25%) Hyper-V
4 16 (20.00%) VMware ESXi
5 9 (11.25%) vSphere
6 2 (2.50%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (1.25%) Docker
7 1 (1.25%) Firmware
7 1 (1.25%) Terminal Services
7 1 (1.25%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 22 (27.50%) NetBackup
2 16 (20.00%) vCenter Server
2 16 (20.00%) WSUS
3 15 (18.75%) SCCM
3 15 (18.75%) Terraform
4 14 (17.50%) EMC NetWorker
4 14 (17.50%) SCOM
5 12 (15.00%) Ansible
6 7 (8.75%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
7 3 (3.75%) Kubernetes
7 3 (3.75%) Red Hat Satellite
8 2 (2.50%) Nessus
8 2 (2.50%) Oracle ZFS
8 2 (2.50%) yum
9 1 (1.25%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 1 (1.25%) Microsoft Intune
9 1 (1.25%) Packer
9 1 (1.25%) Tivoli Storage Manager
9 1 (1.25%) vRealize
9 1 (1.25%) VxRail
Vendors
1 34 (42.50%) Oracle
2 28 (35.00%) VMware
3 22 (27.50%) Microsoft
4 17 (21.25%) EMC
5 16 (20.00%) Cisco
5 16 (20.00%) Juniper
5 16 (20.00%) Palo Alto
6 15 (18.75%) 3PAR
6 15 (18.75%) Dell
6 15 (18.75%) HP
6 15 (18.75%) Veeam
7 14 (17.50%) Extreme Networks
7 14 (17.50%) Red Hat
7 14 (17.50%) Symantec
8 11 (13.75%) SolarWinds
9 7 (8.75%) SAP
10 5 (6.25%) Veritas
11 2 (2.50%) NetApp
11 2 (2.50%) ServiceNow
12 1 (1.25%) Isilon