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 24 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
24 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 122 174 194
Rank change year-on-year +52 +20 -51
Contract jobs citing Disaster Recovery 82 42 64
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 1.47% 0.72% 0.82%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.73% 0.80% 0.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 56 24 44
10th Percentile £303 £316 £314
25th Percentile £419 £444 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £550 £586
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -6.14% +30.22%
75th Percentile £608 £579 £719
90th Percentile £653 £688 £759
England median daily rate £500 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 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 £55.00 £40.42 £50.77
% change year-on-year +36.09% -20.40% +78.14%

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 4,738 5,226 6,995
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 85.09% 89.47% 89.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,767 3,619 4,727
10th Percentile £232 £250 £226
25th Percentile £400 £405 £390
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £508 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.48% +1.50% +11.11%
75th Percentile £619 £619 £588
90th Percentile £698 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £535
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.80% +9.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 429 219 290
10th Percentile £13.00 £18.25 £12.25
25th Percentile £18.20 £23.83 £16.25
Median hourly rate £47.50 £50.00 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +122.22% -11.76%
75th Percentile £62.50 £65.29 £48.75
90th Percentile £76.86 £74.83 £63.80
England median hourly rate £35.00 £38.35 £24.00
% change year-on-year -8.74% +59.79% -

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 24 April 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 24 April 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 +21 35 £605 +10.00% 17
Berkshire +7 32 £605 +12.56% 13
Hampshire +23 23 £288 -16.06% 9
Surrey +17 10 £450 - 2
West Sussex +12 9 £575 - 4
Buckinghamshire +27 3 £100 -82.10% 3
Kent +7 3 £638 +10.87% 5
East Sussex +6 1 £475 -20.83% 3
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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (1.22%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 1 (1.22%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 7 (8.54%) Oracle EBS
2 4 (4.88%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (1.22%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 30 (36.59%) Azure
2 15 (18.29%) OCI
3 8 (9.76%) GitHub
4 4 (4.88%) Azure Data Factory
5 3 (3.66%) Azure API Management
5 3 (3.66%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (3.66%) Azure Key Vault
5 3 (3.66%) Azure Logic Apps
5 3 (3.66%) Azure Monitor
5 3 (3.66%) WhatsApp
6 2 (2.44%) AWS
6 2 (2.44%) Azure Functions
6 2 (2.44%) Entra ID
6 2 (2.44%) Serverless
7 1 (1.22%) Azure Machine Learning
7 1 (1.22%) GCP
7 1 (1.22%) IaaS
7 1 (1.22%) Microsoft 365
7 1 (1.22%) Nutanix
7 1 (1.22%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 20 (24.39%) SAN
2 19 (23.17%) DNS
3 18 (21.95%) Firewall
4 15 (18.29%) DHCP
5 5 (6.10%) VPN
5 5 (6.10%) Wireless
6 4 (4.88%) Network Security
6 4 (4.88%) WAN
7 3 (3.66%) Fibre Channel
7 3 (3.66%) Internet
7 3 (3.66%) LAN
7 3 (3.66%) Wi-Fi
8 2 (2.44%) Cisco IOS
8 2 (2.44%) Cisco ISE
8 2 (2.44%) NX-OS
9 1 (1.22%) Cisco ASA
9 1 (1.22%) Cisco Firepower
9 1 (1.22%) Cisco Nexus
9 1 (1.22%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
9 1 (1.22%) iSCSI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (14.63%) PostgreSQL
2 8 (9.76%) SQL Server
3 6 (7.32%) Oracle Database
4 4 (4.88%) SAP HANA
5 3 (3.66%) Azure SQL Database
5 3 (3.66%) MongoDB
6 2 (2.44%) MySQL
6 2 (2.44%) Oracle Exadata
7 1 (1.22%) Apache Hive
7 1 (1.22%) Apache Zeppelin
7 1 (1.22%) Big Data
7 1 (1.22%) Data Lake
7 1 (1.22%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (1.22%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (1.22%) Hadoop
7 1 (1.22%) RDBMS
7 1 (1.22%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 8 (9.76%) GitLab
2 2 (2.44%) Git
2 2 (2.44%) Visual Studio
General
1 31 (37.80%) Social Skills
2 9 (10.98%) Finance
3 4 (4.88%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (4.88%) Military
4 3 (3.66%) Financial Institution
4 3 (3.66%) Marketing
5 2 (2.44%) Banking
6 1 (1.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (1.22%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (1.22%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (1.22%) Public Sector
6 1 (1.22%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 15 (18.29%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 9 (10.98%) Database Specialist
3 8 (9.76%) Storage Engineer
4 7 (8.54%) Administrator
4 7 (8.54%) Architect
5 6 (7.32%) Analyst
5 6 (7.32%) Consultant
5 6 (7.32%) Platform Specialist
5 6 (7.32%) Senior
5 6 (7.32%) Service Architect
6 5 (6.10%) DBA
6 5 (6.10%) Support Engineer
7 4 (4.88%) Backup Administrator
7 4 (4.88%) SAP Basis Consultant
7 4 (4.88%) SAP Consultant
7 4 (4.88%) SAP Technical Consultant
7 4 (4.88%) Technical Consultant
7 4 (4.88%) Test Manager
8 3 (3.66%) PowerShell Engineer
8 3 (3.66%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (4.88%) SAP Basis
1 4 (4.88%) SAP Fiori
2 3 (3.66%) ARM Templates
3 2 (2.44%) Flash
3 2 (2.44%) Middleware
3 2 (2.44%) YAML
4 1 (1.22%) HTML
4 1 (1.22%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 15 (18.29%) Data Centre
2 10 (12.20%) Linux Command Line
3 9 (10.98%) Clustering
3 9 (10.98%) Replication
4 3 (3.66%) Enterprise Storage
4 3 (3.66%) Management Information System
4 3 (3.66%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (2.44%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.22%) CCTV
6 1 (1.22%) Cloud Native
6 1 (1.22%) CMDB
6 1 (1.22%) Educational Technology
6 1 (1.22%) Fat Client
6 1 (1.22%) iPhone
6 1 (1.22%) PKI
6 1 (1.22%) Public Cloud
6 1 (1.22%) Smart Meter
6 1 (1.22%) Smartcard
6 1 (1.22%) Thin Client
6 1 (1.22%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 30 (36.59%) Linux
2 26 (31.71%) Windows
3 17 (20.73%) Windows Server
3 17 (20.73%) Windows Server 2019
4 16 (19.51%) Windows Server 2012
4 16 (19.51%) Windows Server 2016
5 12 (14.63%) Windows 10
5 12 (14.63%) Windows XP
6 5 (6.10%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 3 (3.66%) Unix
8 2 (2.44%) Solaris
9 1 (1.22%) Android
9 1 (1.22%) Apple iOS
9 1 (1.22%) Ubuntu
9 1 (1.22%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (40.24%) Performance Tuning
2 31 (37.80%) ITIL
3 27 (32.93%) Problem-Solving
4 23 (28.05%) Storage Management
5 20 (24.39%) Business Continuity
5 20 (24.39%) High Availability
6 19 (23.17%) Migration
7 17 (20.73%) Project Management
8 16 (19.51%) Break/Fix
8 16 (19.51%) Data Migration
9 15 (18.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 15 (18.29%) Server Management
10 14 (17.07%) Performance Monitoring
10 14 (17.07%) Proactive Monitoring
11 13 (15.85%) Task Automation
12 12 (14.63%) Agile
12 12 (14.63%) Capacity Management
12 12 (14.63%) Converged Infrastructure
12 12 (14.63%) Mentoring
13 8 (9.76%) Asset Management
Programming Languages
1 19 (23.17%) PowerShell
2 10 (12.20%) Bash
3 6 (7.32%) Shell Script
4 5 (6.10%) SQL
5 3 (3.66%) Perl
5 3 (3.66%) Python
6 2 (2.44%) AWK
6 2 (2.44%) Bourne shell
6 2 (2.44%) Korn
7 1 (1.22%) Bicep
7 1 (1.22%) R
7 1 (1.22%) Scala
7 1 (1.22%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 42 (51.22%) Security Cleared
2 34 (41.46%) SC Cleared
3 19 (23.17%) Degree
4 16 (19.51%) DV Cleared
5 13 (15.85%) CCNP
5 13 (15.85%) Cisco Certification
6 12 (14.63%) CCNA
7 2 (2.44%) RHCE
7 2 (2.44%) RHCSA
8 1 (1.22%) A+ Certification
8 1 (1.22%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (1.22%) MCSA
8 1 (1.22%) MCSE
8 1 (1.22%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (1.22%) PMI Certification
8 1 (1.22%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (9.76%) SLA
2 3 (3.66%) GDPR
3 2 (2.44%) Cyber Essentials
3 2 (2.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (2.44%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 28 (34.15%) VMware Infrastructure
2 19 (23.17%) Active Directory
3 15 (18.29%) Hyper-V
4 14 (17.07%) VMware ESXi
5 9 (10.98%) vSphere
6 2 (2.44%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (2.44%) VMware NSX
7 1 (1.22%) Docker
7 1 (1.22%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 21 (25.61%) NetBackup
2 16 (19.51%) Terraform
3 14 (17.07%) vCenter Server
3 14 (17.07%) WSUS
4 13 (15.85%) SCCM
5 12 (14.63%) Ansible
5 12 (14.63%) EMC NetWorker
5 12 (14.63%) SCOM
6 7 (8.54%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
7 3 (3.66%) Kubernetes
7 3 (3.66%) Red Hat Satellite
8 2 (2.44%) Nessus
8 2 (2.44%) Oracle ZFS
8 2 (2.44%) yum
9 1 (1.22%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 1 (1.22%) Microsoft Intune
9 1 (1.22%) Packer
9 1 (1.22%) vRealize
9 1 (1.22%) VxRail
9 1 (1.22%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 30 (36.59%) Oracle
2 28 (34.15%) VMware
3 20 (24.39%) Microsoft
4 16 (19.51%) Cisco
4 16 (19.51%) Palo Alto
4 16 (19.51%) Red Hat
5 15 (18.29%) 3PAR
5 15 (18.29%) HP
6 14 (17.07%) EMC
6 14 (17.07%) Juniper
7 13 (15.85%) Dell
7 13 (15.85%) Veeam
8 12 (14.63%) Extreme Networks
8 12 (14.63%) Symantec
9 11 (13.41%) SolarWinds
10 6 (7.32%) Veritas
11 4 (4.88%) SAP
12 3 (3.66%) NetApp
12 3 (3.66%) Nimble Storage
12 3 (3.66%) QinetiQ