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 20 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 92 107 119
Rank change year-on-year +15 +12 +39
DemandTrendContract jobs citing Disaster Recovery 24 32 36
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 1.24% 1.16% 1.07%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.38% 1.39% 1.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 27 28
10th Percentile £340 £325 £428
25th Percentile £394 £431 £497
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £650 £554
Median % change year-on-year -22.31% +17.38% +10.75%
75th Percentile £569 £725 £669
90th Percentile £588 £813 £684
England median daily rate £475 £475 £535
% change year-on-year - -11.26% +4.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 0
10th Percentile £78.83 £65.00 -
25th Percentile £79.03 £68.75 -
Median hourly rate £79.35 £75.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +5.80% - -
75th Percentile £79.68 - -
90th Percentile £79.87 - -
England median hourly rate £32.77 £61.60 £87.50
% change year-on-year -46.80% -29.60% +57.80%

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.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,736 2,298 2,931
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 89.81% 83.20% 87.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,015 1,479 2,067
10th Percentile £213 £263 £313
25th Percentile £363 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -2.42% +2.48%
75th Percentile £613 £636 £650
90th Percentile £700 £700 £725
England median daily rate £510 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -3.77% -3.64% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 217 259 252
10th Percentile £14.94 £13.86 £19.03
25th Percentile £18.51 £43.13 £40.85
Median hourly rate £25.15 £67.25 £63.57
Median % change year-on-year -62.60% +5.78% +17.73%
75th Percentile £63.75 £72.50 £75.50
90th Percentile £70.00 £77.50 £83.72
England median hourly rate £25.15 £42.75 £40.85
% change year-on-year -41.17% +4.66% +51.39%

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
Daily Rate Trend in the South West

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Disaster Recovery.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Disaster Recovery

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 20 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Disaster Recovery in the South West

Disaster Recovery
Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Disaster Recovery.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Disaster Recovery

Disaster Recovery
DemandTrendContract 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 20 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Bristol -3 12 £510 -21.54% 5
Somerset - 6 £350 - 3
Wiltshire +20 2 £500 +42.86% 4
Gloucestershire +20 2 £600 -27.27% 13
Devon +6 2 £520 +8.33% 2
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 3 (12.50%) Apache
2 2 (8.33%) Confluence
3 1 (4.17%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 1 (4.17%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (4.17%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (4.17%) BASE24
1 1 (4.17%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 12 (50.00%) AWS
1 12 (50.00%) Azure
2 3 (12.50%) Amazon EC2
2 3 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (8.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 2 (8.33%) AWS CloudFormation
3 2 (8.33%) Azure Cosmos DB
3 2 (8.33%) Azure Data Factory
3 2 (8.33%) Azure Monitor
4 1 (4.17%) Amazon S3
4 1 (4.17%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (4.17%) CloudFront
4 1 (4.17%) GCP
4 1 (4.17%) GitHub
4 1 (4.17%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (4.17%) Kong
4 1 (4.17%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (4.17%) Sentry
4 1 (4.17%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 6 (25.00%) Firewall
2 4 (16.67%) DNS
3 1 (4.17%) ATM
3 1 (4.17%) LAN
3 1 (4.17%) VoIP
3 1 (4.17%) WAN
3 1 (4.17%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (12.50%) Amazon RDS
1 3 (12.50%) Elasticsearch
2 2 (8.33%) Azure SQL Database
2 2 (8.33%) DynamoDB
2 2 (8.33%) NoSQL
2 2 (8.33%) SQL Server
2 2 (8.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 1 (4.17%) Hadoop
3 1 (4.17%) NonStop SQL
Development Applications
1 3 (12.50%) Jenkins
2 2 (8.33%) JIRA
General
1 7 (29.17%) Social Skills
2 2 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (8.33%) Finance
2 2 (8.33%) Manufacturing
3 1 (4.17%) Retail
Job Titles
1 9 (37.50%) Analyst
2 5 (20.83%) Security Analyst
3 4 (16.67%) Infrastructure Analyst
3 4 (16.67%) Senior
4 3 (12.50%) Administrator
4 3 (12.50%) Data Engineer
4 3 (12.50%) DevOps Administrator
4 3 (12.50%) Linux Administrator
4 3 (12.50%) Linux DevOps Administrator
4 3 (12.50%) Linux/Unix DevOps
4 3 (12.50%) Senior Data Engineer
5 2 (8.33%) Data Centre Analyst
5 2 (8.33%) Data Migration Analyst
5 2 (8.33%) Data Migration Lead
5 2 (8.33%) Database Analyst
5 2 (8.33%) DBA
5 2 (8.33%) Migration Analyst
5 2 (8.33%) Test Analyst
5 2 (8.33%) Test Data Analyst
5 2 (8.33%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (12.50%) Apache NiFi
1 3 (12.50%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (4.17%) AWS CDK
2 1 (4.17%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 5 (20.83%) Replication
2 4 (16.67%) Data Centre
2 4 (16.67%) Legacy Applications
3 3 (12.50%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (4.17%) Algorithms
4 1 (4.17%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (4.17%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (4.17%) EMV
4 1 (4.17%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (4.17%) Mainframe
4 1 (4.17%) Management Information System
4 1 (4.17%) Onboarding
4 1 (4.17%) Operational Technology
4 1 (4.17%) SCADA
4 1 (4.17%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 7 (29.17%) Windows
2 6 (25.00%) Windows Server
3 4 (16.67%) Linux
4 1 (4.17%) Android
4 1 (4.17%) Mac OS
4 1 (4.17%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (41.67%) DevOps
2 9 (37.50%) High Availability
3 7 (29.17%) CI/CD
3 7 (29.17%) Security Hardening
4 6 (25.00%) Business Continuity
4 6 (25.00%) Cloud Security
4 6 (25.00%) Containerisation
4 6 (25.00%) Incident Response
4 6 (25.00%) Patch Management
4 6 (25.00%) Vulnerability Management
5 5 (20.83%) Analytics
5 5 (20.83%) Data Governance
5 5 (20.83%) Infrastructure as Code
5 5 (20.83%) Migration
5 5 (20.83%) Performance Tuning
5 5 (20.83%) Task Automation
5 5 (20.83%) Validation
6 4 (16.67%) End-to-End Testing
6 4 (16.67%) Server Hardening
6 4 (16.67%) Virtual Environments
Programming Languages
1 4 (16.67%) Bash
1 4 (16.67%) Python
2 3 (12.50%) Perl
3 2 (8.33%) PowerShell
3 2 (8.33%) SQL
3 2 (8.33%) T-SQL
4 1 (4.17%) C
4 1 (4.17%) C++
4 1 (4.17%) COBOL
4 1 (4.17%) Java
Qualifications
1 7 (29.17%) Security Cleared
2 4 (16.67%) DV Cleared
3 2 (8.33%) Azure Certification
3 2 (8.33%) MCSE
3 2 (8.33%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (4.17%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (4.17%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (12.50%) Data Quality
2 2 (8.33%) Accessibility
2 2 (8.33%) GDPR
3 1 (4.17%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (4.17%) ISO 22301
3 1 (4.17%) ISO 8583
3 1 (4.17%) NIST
3 1 (4.17%) PCI DSS
3 1 (4.17%) SLA
System Software
1 6 (25.00%) Docker
2 1 (4.17%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 6 (25.00%) Kubernetes
1 6 (25.00%) Terraform
2 5 (20.83%) Ansible
2 5 (20.83%) Grafana
2 5 (20.83%) Prometheus
3 4 (16.67%) Nessus
3 4 (16.67%) SCCM
3 4 (16.67%) WSUS
4 3 (12.50%) Kibana
4 3 (12.50%) logstash
Vendors
1 5 (20.83%) Qualys
2 3 (12.50%) Microsoft
2 3 (12.50%) VMware
3 1 (4.17%) HP
3 1 (4.17%) Remedy
3 1 (4.17%) ServiceNow