Disaster Recovery Contracts in the Thames Valley

Disaster Recovery
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 21 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 73 103 123
Rank change year-on-year +30 +20 +30
Contract jobs citing Disaster Recovery 33 37 24
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 2.21% 1.42% 0.85%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.38% 1.63% 0.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 28 9
10th Percentile £317 £404 £405
25th Percentile £442 £513 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £605 £550
Median % change year-on-year -11.16% +10.00% +8.64%
75th Percentile £550 £608 £576
90th Percentile £584 - £655
South East median daily rate £539 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -6.30% +4.55% -6.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 5 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £61.87 - -
Median hourly rate £63.75 £61.60 -
Median % change year-on-year +3.48% - -
75th Percentile £65.62 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate £63.75 £61.60 -
% change year-on-year +3.48% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,386 2,271 2,574
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 92.90% 87.08% 91.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 847 1,261 1,775
10th Percentile £295 £213 £319
25th Percentile £400 £370 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +2.99%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £602
90th Percentile £675 £675 £688
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £508
% change year-on-year - -1.48% +1.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 61 167 64
10th Percentile £14.20 £14.17 £18.50
25th Percentile £14.30 £19.25 £24.13
Median hourly rate £27.76 £45.00 £51.05
Median % change year-on-year -38.31% -11.85% +200.29%
75th Percentile £62.24 £63.75 £66.21
90th Percentile £77.19 £85.65 £79.19
South East median hourly rate £25.82 £47.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year -45.65% -5.00% +132.56%

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 21 May 2025.

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 21 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
Berkshire +30 33 £538 -11.16% 32
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 3 (9.09%) Oracle SOA Suite
1 3 (9.09%) Oracle Workflow
1 3 (9.09%) WebLogic
2 1 (3.03%) Microsoft Exchange
Business Applications
1 6 (18.18%) Oracle EBS R12
1 6 (18.18%) Oracle ERP
2 3 (9.09%) Oracle Assets
2 3 (9.09%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (3.03%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (3.03%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 9 (27.27%) AWS
2 5 (15.15%) SaaS
3 3 (9.09%) Azure
3 3 (9.09%) OCI
4 2 (6.06%) Entra ID
4 2 (6.06%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (6.06%) PaaS
5 1 (3.03%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (12.12%) Firewall
2 2 (6.06%) Ethernet
2 2 (6.06%) MPLS
2 2 (6.06%) SDH
3 1 (3.03%) DHCP
3 1 (3.03%) DNS
3 1 (3.03%) Intrusion Detection
3 1 (3.03%) LAN
3 1 (3.03%) Network Security
3 1 (3.03%) VPN
3 1 (3.03%) VSAN
3 1 (3.03%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (12.12%) SQL Server
2 3 (9.09%) Oracle BI EE
2 3 (9.09%) Oracle Database
3 1 (3.03%) SAP HANA
General
1 13 (39.39%) Analytical Skills
2 12 (36.36%) Social Skills
3 4 (12.12%) Telecoms
4 3 (9.09%) Finance
4 3 (9.09%) Public Sector
5 2 (6.06%) Military
6 1 (3.03%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (3.03%) Local Government
6 1 (3.03%) Manufacturing
6 1 (3.03%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (3.03%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (24.24%) Resilience Manager
2 6 (18.18%) DBA
3 5 (15.15%) Senior
4 4 (12.12%) Administrator
4 4 (12.12%) Oracle DBA
5 3 (9.09%) Analyst
5 3 (9.09%) Lead
5 3 (9.09%) Network Analyst
5 3 (9.09%) Senior DBA
6 2 (6.06%) Architect
6 2 (6.06%) IT Manager
6 2 (6.06%) Lead Architect
6 2 (6.06%) Lead Solutions Architect
6 2 (6.06%) Solutions Architect
6 2 (6.06%) Test Engineer
7 1 (3.03%) Implementation Consultant
7 1 (3.03%) Network Manager
7 1 (3.03%) SAP Basis Consultant
7 1 (3.03%) SAP Consultant
7 1 (3.03%) SQL DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (9.09%) RFC 2544
2 1 (3.03%) SAML
2 1 (3.03%) SAP Basis
Miscellaneous
1 6 (18.18%) Data Centre
2 2 (6.06%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (6.06%) PKI
2 2 (6.06%) Replication
2 2 (6.06%) SCADA
3 1 (3.03%) Fibre Optics
3 1 (3.03%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (3.03%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 3 (9.09%) Unix
1 3 (9.09%) Windows
2 2 (6.06%) Windows Server
3 1 (3.03%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 8 (24.24%) Capacity Planning
2 8 (24.24%) Performance Tuning
3 7 (21.21%) Task Automation
4 6 (18.18%) ERP
5 5 (15.15%) Business Continuity
6 4 (12.12%) Performance Monitoring
6 4 (12.12%) Proactive Monitoring
6 4 (12.12%) Process Improvement
6 4 (12.12%) Stakeholder Management
6 4 (12.12%) Strategic Planning
7 3 (9.09%) Capacity Management
7 3 (9.09%) Customer Requirements
7 3 (9.09%) Data Cleansing
7 3 (9.09%) Database Tuning
7 3 (9.09%) Defect Management
7 3 (9.09%) ITIL
7 3 (9.09%) Root Cause Analysis
7 3 (9.09%) Test Scripting
7 3 (9.09%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 10 (30.30%) SQL
2 3 (9.09%) Perl
2 3 (9.09%) PL/SQL
3 1 (3.03%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 11 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 6 (18.18%) SC Cleared
3 5 (15.15%) DV Cleared
4 3 (9.09%) CCNA
4 3 (9.09%) CCNP
4 3 (9.09%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (3.03%) Degree
5 1 (3.03%) VCAP
5 1 (3.03%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (24.24%) SLA
2 3 (9.09%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 2 (6.06%) QA
4 1 (3.03%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 5 (15.15%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (9.09%) Oracle RAC
3 2 (6.06%) VMware ESXi
3 2 (6.06%) vSphere
4 1 (3.03%) Active Directory
4 1 (3.03%) Hyper-V
4 1 (3.03%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 3 (9.09%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
1 3 (9.09%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
1 3 (9.09%) Oracle RMAN
2 1 (3.03%) FortiGate
2 1 (3.03%) PowerCLI
2 1 (3.03%) vCenter Server
2 1 (3.03%) vRealize
Vendors
1 12 (36.36%) Oracle
2 5 (15.15%) VMware
3 4 (12.12%) Cisco
4 3 (9.09%) Microsoft
5 1 (3.03%) BMC
5 1 (3.03%) Dynatrace
5 1 (3.03%) Fortinet
5 1 (3.03%) IBM
5 1 (3.03%) Intel
5 1 (3.03%) NetApp
5 1 (3.03%) Rapid7
5 1 (3.03%) Remedy
5 1 (3.03%) SAP
5 1 (3.03%) Veeam
5 1 (3.03%) Zerto