Disaster Recovery Contracts in the South West

Disaster Recovery
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West 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 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 87 118 94
Rank change year-on-year +31 -24 +48
Contract jobs citing Disaster Recovery 23 35 77
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 1.36% 1.10% 2.12%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.51% 1.32% 2.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 30 66
10th Percentile £420 £210 £506
25th Percentile £460 £350 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £505 £600
Median % change year-on-year +9.02% -15.92% +26.32%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £669
90th Percentile £653 £725 £686
England median daily rate £475 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% +6.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 3
10th Percentile - £63.75 £54.33
25th Percentile - £65.63 £55.46
Median hourly rate £78.70 £70.00 £57.33
Median % change year-on-year +12.43% +22.10% -4.31%
75th Percentile - £73.13 -
90th Percentile - £74.25 -
England median hourly rate £21.63 £58.30 £40.42
% change year-on-year -62.91% +44.25% -20.40%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,522 2,648 3,251
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 90.33% 82.98% 89.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 966 1,690 2,398
10th Percentile £235 £220 £313
25th Percentile £400 £405 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £549
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -4.37% +9.80%
75th Percentile £623 £625 £644
90th Percentile £688 £700 £719
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 146 335 334
10th Percentile £18.36 £13.86 £9.80
25th Percentile £20.61 £27.50 £17.00
Median hourly rate £63.50 £50.00 £61.50
Median % change year-on-year +27.00% -18.70% +26.16%
75th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £70.30
90th Percentile £70.00 £77.50 £83.37
England median hourly rate £29.15 £35.96 £37.50
% change year-on-year -18.93% -4.12% +53.06%

Disaster Recovery
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

Job postings citing Disaster Recovery as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South West.

Job vacancy trend for Disaster Recovery in the South West

Disaster Recovery
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

Daily rate trend for Disaster Recovery in the South West

Disaster Recovery
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Disaster Recovery in the South West over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Disaster Recovery in the South West

Disaster Recovery
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

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

Hourly rate trend for Disaster Recovery in the South West

Disaster Recovery
Contract Job Locations in the South West

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 West region over the 6 months to 2 May 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
Bristol +17 10 £463 -28.85% 15
Wiltshire +34 6 £550 +15.42% 10
Gloucestershire +9 3 £600 +172.73% 10
Somerset - 3 £625 - 8
Disaster Recovery
England

Disaster Recovery
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 2 (8.70%) Apache
1 2 (8.70%) Confluence
1 2 (8.70%) SharePoint
2 1 (4.35%) Apache Spark
2 1 (4.35%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (4.35%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (4.35%) BASE24
1 1 (4.35%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 12 (52.17%) AWS
2 7 (30.43%) Azure
3 3 (13.04%) Amazon ELB
3 3 (13.04%) GCP
4 2 (8.70%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (4.35%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (4.35%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 4 (17.39%) DNS
1 4 (17.39%) Firewall
2 1 (4.35%) ATM
2 1 (4.35%) DHCP
2 1 (4.35%) Kerberos
2 1 (4.35%) LAN
2 1 (4.35%) Skype
2 1 (4.35%) SMTP
2 1 (4.35%) TCP/IP
2 1 (4.35%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (8.70%) Elasticsearch
1 2 (8.70%) Oracle Database
1 2 (8.70%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (8.70%) SQL Server
2 1 (4.35%) Hadoop
2 1 (4.35%) NonStop SQL
Development Applications
1 3 (13.04%) Jenkins
2 2 (8.70%) JIRA
3 1 (4.35%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 6 (26.09%) Social Skills
2 2 (8.70%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (4.35%) Finance
3 1 (4.35%) Military
3 1 (4.35%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (17.39%) Administrator
1 4 (17.39%) Linux Administrator
1 4 (17.39%) Senior
2 3 (13.04%) Architect
2 3 (13.04%) AWS Architect
2 3 (13.04%) Cloud Architect
2 3 (13.04%) DevOps Administrator
2 3 (13.04%) Linux DevOps Administrator
2 3 (13.04%) Linux/Unix DevOps
3 2 (8.70%) Analyst
3 2 (8.70%) Data Engineer
3 2 (8.70%) Infrastructure Analyst
3 2 (8.70%) Principal Engineer
3 2 (8.70%) Security Analyst
3 2 (8.70%) Senior Data Engineer
3 2 (8.70%) Senior Support Engineer
3 2 (8.70%) Server Engineer
3 2 (8.70%) Support Engineer
3 2 (8.70%) Windows Engineer
3 2 (8.70%) Windows Server Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (13.04%) Elastic Stack
2 2 (8.70%) Apache NiFi
2 2 (8.70%) ModSecurity
3 1 (4.35%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 3 (13.04%) Linux Command Line
2 2 (8.70%) Legacy Applications
2 2 (8.70%) Onboarding
2 2 (8.70%) Replication
3 1 (4.35%) Algorithms
3 1 (4.35%) Data Centre
3 1 (4.35%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (4.35%) EMV
3 1 (4.35%) Mainframe
3 1 (4.35%) PKI
3 1 (4.35%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 9 (39.13%) Linux
2 8 (34.78%) Windows
2 8 (34.78%) Windows Server
3 2 (8.70%) Windows 10
4 1 (4.35%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (52.17%) High Availability
2 7 (30.43%) CI/CD
2 7 (30.43%) Infrastructure as Code
3 6 (26.09%) Containerisation
3 6 (26.09%) DevOps
4 5 (21.74%) Performance Tuning
4 5 (21.74%) Problem-Solving
4 5 (21.74%) Security Hardening
5 4 (17.39%) Business Continuity
5 4 (17.39%) Migration
5 4 (17.39%) Vulnerability Assessment
5 4 (17.39%) Vulnerability Remediation
6 3 (13.04%) Auto-Scaling
6 3 (13.04%) GitOps
6 3 (13.04%) ITSM
6 3 (13.04%) Load Balancing
6 3 (13.04%) Proactive Monitoring
6 3 (13.04%) Task Automation
6 3 (13.04%) Use Case
6 3 (13.04%) Vulnerability Scanning
Programming Languages
1 5 (21.74%) Bash
1 5 (21.74%) Python
2 3 (13.04%) Perl
2 3 (13.04%) SQL
3 2 (8.70%) PowerShell
4 1 (4.35%) C
4 1 (4.35%) C++
4 1 (4.35%) COBOL
Qualifications
1 15 (65.22%) Security Cleared
2 6 (26.09%) DV Cleared
3 5 (21.74%) SC Cleared
4 2 (8.70%) Degree
5 1 (4.35%) CISSP
5 1 (4.35%) CompTIA Security+
5 1 (4.35%) Linux+ Certification
5 1 (4.35%) Master's Degree
5 1 (4.35%) MCSA
5 1 (4.35%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (4.35%) RHCE
5 1 (4.35%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (8.70%) Cyber Essentials
1 2 (8.70%) Data Quality
2 1 (4.35%) ISO 8583
2 1 (4.35%) PCI DSS
2 1 (4.35%) SLA
System Software
1 8 (34.78%) Docker
2 2 (8.70%) Active Directory
2 2 (8.70%) Virtual Desktop
2 2 (8.70%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (4.35%) Microsoft Virtual Server
3 1 (4.35%) NFS
3 1 (4.35%) Samba
3 1 (4.35%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 8 (34.78%) Ansible
1 8 (34.78%) Kubernetes
1 8 (34.78%) Terraform
2 4 (17.39%) Grafana
2 4 (17.39%) Prometheus
3 3 (13.04%) SCCM
4 2 (8.70%) Kibana
4 2 (8.70%) logstash
4 2 (8.70%) Nessus
4 2 (8.70%) WSUS
5 1 (4.35%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 1 (4.35%) Nagios
5 1 (4.35%) SCOM
5 1 (4.35%) SELinux
5 1 (4.35%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 6 (26.09%) VMware
2 4 (17.39%) Microsoft
3 2 (8.70%) Cisco
3 2 (8.70%) Oracle
3 2 (8.70%) Qualys
4 1 (4.35%) Atlassian
4 1 (4.35%) HP
4 1 (4.35%) Red Hat
4 1 (4.35%) Remedy
4 1 (4.35%) SolarWinds