Disaster Recovery Contracts in South Yorkshire

Disaster Recovery
Yorkshire > South Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in South Yorkshire 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 32 48 56
Rank change year-on-year +16 +8 -3
Contract jobs citing Disaster Recovery 16 8 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 4.30% 1.75% 0.19%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.51% 1.95% 0.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 7 1
10th Percentile £322 £332 -
25th Percentile £355 £411 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £423 £500
Median % change year-on-year -11.24% -15.50% +5.26%
75th Percentile £389 £434 £525
90th Percentile £438 £438 -
Yorkshire median daily rate £388 £423 £395
% change year-on-year -8.17% +6.96% -12.22%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South Yorkshire

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 South Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 355 410 496
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 95.43% 89.52% 93.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 229 245 325
10th Percentile £220 £305 £300
25th Percentile £385 £410 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £472 £550
Median % change year-on-year +0.64% -14.18% +10.00%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £663
90th Percentile £650 £650 £700
Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £475 £525
% change year-on-year - -9.52% +8.81%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 14 38
10th Percentile - £10.90 -
25th Percentile £18.10 £12.64 £9.80
Median hourly rate £18.21 £17.62 £10.63
Median % change year-on-year +3.35% +65.71% -36.54%
75th Percentile £18.41 £23.75 -
90th Percentile £18.47 - -
Yorkshire median hourly rate £21.24 £13.50 £10.63
% change year-on-year +57.33% +27.00% -39.74%

Disaster Recovery
Job Vacancy Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Disaster Recovery in South Yorkshire

Disaster Recovery
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Daily rate trend for Disaster Recovery in South Yorkshire

Disaster Recovery
Daily Rate Histogram in South Yorkshire

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

Daily rate histogram for Disaster Recovery in South Yorkshire

Disaster Recovery
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Disaster Recovery in South Yorkshire

Disaster Recovery
Contract Job Locations in South Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire 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
Sheffield +15 16 £375 -11.24% 9
Disaster Recovery
Yorkshire

Disaster Recovery
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South Yorkshire 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 9 (56.25%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 2 (12.50%) AWS
1 2 (12.50%) Azure
2 1 (6.25%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (6.25%) Firewall
1 1 (6.25%) HTTPS
1 1 (6.25%) NAS
1 1 (6.25%) SAN
1 1 (6.25%) SSH
1 1 (6.25%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (56.25%) Oracle Database
1 9 (56.25%) Oracle Reports
General
1 11 (68.75%) Analytical Skills
2 9 (56.25%) Finance
3 3 (18.75%) Banking
4 2 (12.50%) Public Sector
5 1 (6.25%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (50.00%) Backup Engineer
1 8 (50.00%) Commvault Engineer
2 2 (12.50%) Test Manager
3 1 (6.25%) Administrator
3 1 (6.25%) Architect
3 1 (6.25%) Data Engineer
3 1 (6.25%) Data Protection Engineer
3 1 (6.25%) Disaster Recovery Manager
3 1 (6.25%) Disaster Recovery Test Manager
3 1 (6.25%) Migration Engineer
3 1 (6.25%) Solutions Architect
3 1 (6.25%) Unix Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (6.25%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 11 (68.75%) Data Centre
2 1 (6.25%) AS400
2 1 (6.25%) iSeries
2 1 (6.25%) Onboarding
2 1 (6.25%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (12.50%) Linux
1 2 (12.50%) Unix
2 1 (6.25%) AIX
2 1 (6.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (6.25%) Solaris
2 1 (6.25%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (68.75%) Problem-Solving
2 10 (62.50%) Performance Tuning
2 10 (62.50%) Problem Management
3 9 (56.25%) Change Management
3 9 (56.25%) Data Migration
3 9 (56.25%) Migration
3 9 (56.25%) Translating Business Requirements
4 4 (25.00%) ITIL
5 2 (12.50%) B2B
5 2 (12.50%) High Availability
5 2 (12.50%) Test Automation
6 1 (6.25%) Agile
6 1 (6.25%) CI/CD
6 1 (6.25%) Cryptography
6 1 (6.25%) Data Protection
6 1 (6.25%) Data Security
6 1 (6.25%) Key Management
6 1 (6.25%) Process Improvement
6 1 (6.25%) Project Delivery
6 1 (6.25%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 2 (12.50%) ActionScript
1 2 (12.50%) ActionScript 2.0
1 2 (12.50%) Python
2 1 (6.25%) Bash
2 1 (6.25%) C
2 1 (6.25%) Korn
2 1 (6.25%) Perl
2 1 (6.25%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 2 (12.50%) Security Cleared
2 1 (6.25%) CCNP
2 1 (6.25%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (6.25%) HP ASE
2 1 (6.25%) IBM Certification
System Software
1 1 (6.25%) Docker
1 1 (6.25%) Veritas Cluster Server
Systems Management
1 9 (56.25%) Oracle RMAN
2 2 (12.50%) Puppet
3 1 (6.25%) Ansible
3 1 (6.25%) Kubernetes
3 1 (6.25%) Nagios
3 1 (6.25%) NetBackup
3 1 (6.25%) Progress Chef
3 1 (6.25%) Terraform
Vendors
1 10 (62.50%) Commvault
2 9 (56.25%) Oracle
3 2 (12.50%) IBM
3 2 (12.50%) Red Hat
4 1 (6.25%) Brocade
4 1 (6.25%) Cisco
4 1 (6.25%) Dell
4 1 (6.25%) EMC
4 1 (6.25%) HP
4 1 (6.25%) IBM Sterling
4 1 (6.25%) Microsoft
4 1 (6.25%) NetApp
4 1 (6.25%) Pure Storage
4 1 (6.25%) Splunk
4 1 (6.25%) Veritas