Disaster Recovery Contracts in the Thames Valley

Disaster Recovery
South East > Thames Valley

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 25 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 105 116 155
Rank change year-on-year +11 +39 -46
Contract jobs citing Disaster Recovery 35 30 14
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 1.30% 1.02% 0.40%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.48% 1.11% 0.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 16 7
10th Percentile £400 £375 £319
25th Percentile £513 £467 £367
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £605 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% +10.00% +2.56%
75th Percentile £608 £572 £559
90th Percentile - £656 £610
South East median daily rate £575 £550 £586
% change year-on-year +4.55% -6.14% +30.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £62.50
Median hourly rate £61.60 - £65.00
75th Percentile - - £67.50
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate £61.60 - £65.00
% change year-on-year - - +154.90%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,359 2,692 3,087
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 87.31% 91.91% 88.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,317 1,870 2,083
10th Percentile £213 £320 £225
25th Percentile £363 £413 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £675 £688 £650
South East median daily rate £500 £510 £500
% change year-on-year -1.96% +2.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 172 62 86
10th Percentile £15.52 £18.60 £10.77
25th Percentile £19.94 £24.86 £12.10
Median hourly rate £45.00 £51.25 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -12.20% +192.86% -16.86%
75th Percentile £65.00 £66.21 £25.55
90th Percentile £85.61 £79.19 £66.88
South East median hourly rate £47.50 £50.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year -5.00% +122.22% -11.76%

Disaster Recovery
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Job vacancy trend for Disaster Recovery in the Thames Valley

Disaster Recovery
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Disaster Recovery in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for Disaster Recovery in the Thames Valley

Disaster Recovery
Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Disaster Recovery in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Disaster Recovery in the Thames Valley

Disaster Recovery
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Disaster Recovery in the Thames Valley.

Hourly rate trend for Disaster Recovery in the Thames Valley

Disaster Recovery
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 25 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
Berkshire -1 32 £605 +12.56% 14
Buckinghamshire +19 3 £100 -82.10% 3
Disaster Recovery
South East

Disaster Recovery
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 (2.86%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 1 (2.86%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 5 (14.29%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (2.86%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 19 (54.29%) Azure
2 12 (34.29%) OCI
3 4 (11.43%) Azure Data Factory
4 3 (8.57%) Azure API Management
4 3 (8.57%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (8.57%) Azure Key Vault
4 3 (8.57%) Azure Logic Apps
4 3 (8.57%) Azure Monitor
5 2 (5.71%) Azure Functions
5 2 (5.71%) Serverless
6 1 (2.86%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 1 (2.86%) Azure Machine Learning
6 1 (2.86%) Azure Sentinel
6 1 (2.86%) Azure Service Bus
6 1 (2.86%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 16 (45.71%) SAN
2 14 (40.00%) DNS
3 13 (37.14%) DHCP
3 13 (37.14%) Firewall
4 1 (2.86%) NAS
4 1 (2.86%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (20.00%) Oracle Database
2 5 (14.29%) SAP HANA
2 5 (14.29%) SQL Server
3 3 (8.57%) Azure SQL Database
3 3 (8.57%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (5.71%) Oracle Exadata
5 1 (2.86%) Apache Hive
5 1 (2.86%) Apache Zeppelin
5 1 (2.86%) Big Data
5 1 (2.86%) Data Lake
5 1 (2.86%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (2.86%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (2.86%) Hadoop
5 1 (2.86%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 2 (5.71%) Visual Studio
2 1 (2.86%) Git
General
1 19 (54.29%) Social Skills
2 2 (5.71%) Finance
2 2 (5.71%) Financial Institution
3 1 (2.86%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (2.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (2.86%) Military
3 1 (2.86%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (2.86%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 13 (37.14%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 8 (22.86%) Storage Engineer
3 5 (14.29%) Consultant
3 5 (14.29%) SAP Basis Consultant
3 5 (14.29%) SAP Consultant
3 5 (14.29%) SAP Technical Consultant
3 5 (14.29%) Technical Consultant
4 3 (8.57%) Database Specialist
4 3 (8.57%) DBA
4 3 (8.57%) Developer
4 3 (8.57%) PowerShell Engineer
4 3 (8.57%) Support Engineer
4 3 (8.57%) VMware Engineer
4 3 (8.57%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (5.71%) Azure Developer
5 2 (5.71%) Backup Engineer
5 2 (5.71%) Infrastructure Support
5 2 (5.71%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
5 2 (5.71%) Integration Developer
5 2 (5.71%) Server Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (14.29%) SAP Basis
1 5 (14.29%) SAP Fiori
2 3 (8.57%) ARM Templates
3 2 (5.71%) Flash
3 2 (5.71%) Middleware
4 1 (2.86%) Kafka
4 1 (2.86%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 12 (34.29%) Data Centre
2 3 (8.57%) Enterprise Storage
3 2 (5.71%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (2.86%) Cloud Native
4 1 (2.86%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (2.86%) Fat Client
4 1 (2.86%) PKI
4 1 (2.86%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 19 (54.29%) Linux
2 17 (48.57%) Windows
3 16 (45.71%) Windows Server 2019
4 15 (42.86%) Windows Server 2012
4 15 (42.86%) Windows Server 2016
5 13 (37.14%) Windows Server
6 12 (34.29%) Windows 10
6 12 (34.29%) Windows XP
7 4 (11.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (2.86%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (65.71%) Performance Tuning
2 21 (60.00%) Problem-Solving
3 15 (42.86%) Break/Fix
3 15 (42.86%) ITIL
4 14 (40.00%) Performance Monitoring
5 13 (37.14%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 12 (34.29%) Converged Infrastructure
6 12 (34.29%) Proactive Monitoring
6 12 (34.29%) Project Management
6 12 (34.29%) Server Management
6 12 (34.29%) Storage Management
7 9 (25.71%) High Availability
8 7 (20.00%) Data Migration
8 7 (20.00%) Migration
9 5 (14.29%) Release Management
9 5 (14.29%) Technical Architecture
10 4 (11.43%) Change Management
10 4 (11.43%) Mentoring
10 4 (11.43%) Service Delivery
11 3 (8.57%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 17 (48.57%) PowerShell
2 3 (8.57%) Shell Script
3 2 (5.71%) Bash
3 2 (5.71%) SQL
4 1 (2.86%) Bicep
4 1 (2.86%) Perl
4 1 (2.86%) Python
4 1 (2.86%) R
4 1 (2.86%) Scala
4 1 (2.86%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 23 (65.71%) Security Cleared
2 20 (57.14%) SC Cleared
3 14 (40.00%) Degree
3 14 (40.00%) DV Cleared
4 12 (34.29%) CCNA
4 12 (34.29%) CCNP
4 12 (34.29%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (2.86%) A+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.86%) SLA
System Software
1 14 (40.00%) Active Directory
2 13 (37.14%) VMware ESXi
2 13 (37.14%) VMware Infrastructure
3 12 (34.29%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 15 (42.86%) NetBackup
2 13 (37.14%) vCenter Server
2 13 (37.14%) WSUS
3 12 (34.29%) EMC NetWorker
3 12 (34.29%) SCCM
3 12 (34.29%) SCOM
4 4 (11.43%) Terraform
5 1 (2.86%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 1 (2.86%) Ansible
5 1 (2.86%) Kubernetes
5 1 (2.86%) Nessus
5 1 (2.86%) Red Hat Satellite
5 1 (2.86%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 20 (57.14%) Oracle
2 15 (42.86%) 3PAR
2 15 (42.86%) HP
2 15 (42.86%) Microsoft
3 13 (37.14%) Veeam
3 13 (37.14%) VMware
4 12 (34.29%) Cisco
4 12 (34.29%) Dell
4 12 (34.29%) EMC
4 12 (34.29%) Extreme Networks
4 12 (34.29%) Juniper
4 12 (34.29%) Palo Alto
4 12 (34.29%) Symantec
5 6 (17.14%) Red Hat
6 5 (14.29%) SAP
7 3 (8.57%) NetApp
7 3 (8.57%) Nimble Storage
7 3 (8.57%) Veritas
8 2 (5.71%) Databricks
8 2 (5.71%) SolarWinds