Disaster Recovery Contract Job Trends in Staffordshire

Disaster Recovery
West Midlands > Staffordshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Staffordshire requiring Disaster Recovery skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 11 14 22
Rank change year-on-year +3 +8 -
Contract jobs citing Disaster Recovery 2 2 2
As % of all contract jobs in Staffordshire 2.90% 2.22% 1.45%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.45% 3.03% 1.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 2
10th Percentile - - £533
25th Percentile £203 - £544
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £205 - £575
75th Percentile £208 - £594
90th Percentile - - £598
West Midlands median daily rate £519 £463 £513
% change year-on-year +11.99% -9.66% -10.87%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £16.26 -
West Midlands median hourly rate £65.00 £16.26 -
% change year-on-year +299.72% - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Staffordshire

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 Staffordshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 58 66 119
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Staffordshire 84.06% 73.33% 86.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 30 92
10th Percentile £141 £327 £325
25th Percentile £200 £361 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £331 £403 £469
Median % change year-on-year -17.70% -14.13% -1.32%
75th Percentile £453 £497 £567
90th Percentile £575 £553 £650
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 8 6
10th Percentile £37.60 £16.60 -
25th Percentile £49.00 £16.94 -
Median hourly rate £68.00 £19.12 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year +255.65% -16.87% +2.63%
75th Percentile - £23.93 -
90th Percentile - £39.13 £37.13
West Midlands median hourly rate £20.25 £21.59 £28.25
% change year-on-year -6.21% -23.58% +63.13%

Disaster Recovery
Job Vacancy Trend in Staffordshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Disaster Recovery relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Staffordshire.

Disaster Recovery job vacancy trend in Staffordshire

Disaster Recovery
Daily Rate Trend in Staffordshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Staffordshire citing Disaster Recovery.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Staffordshire citing Disaster Recovery

Disaster Recovery
Hourly Rate Trend in Staffordshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Staffordshire citing Disaster Recovery.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Staffordshire citing Disaster Recovery

Disaster Recovery
Contract Job Locations in Staffordshire

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 Staffordshire region over the 6 months to 9 January 2026. 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
Uttoxeter - 2 £205 -
Disaster Recovery
West Midlands

Disaster Recovery
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Staffordshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Server Engineer
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
1 2 (100.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Business Continuity
1 2 (100.00%) Business Strategy
1 2 (100.00%) Data Protection
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure Management
1 2 (100.00%) Migration
1 2 (100.00%) Server Management
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft