Disaster Recovery Contract Job Trends in the West Midlands

Disaster Recovery
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the West Midlands requiring Disaster Recovery skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 24 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 115 86 89
Rank change year-on-year -29 +3 +43
Contract jobs citing Disaster Recovery 21 25 21
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 0.93% 1.49% 1.16%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.06% 1.73% 1.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 19 17
10th Percentile £262 £255 £208
25th Percentile £403 £344 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +4.11% -10.00% -13.04%
75th Percentile £585 £577 £600
90th Percentile £734 £635 £670
England median daily rate £469 £456 £533
% change year-on-year +2.84% -14.40% +1.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £60.00 - -
Median hourly rate £65.00 £16.26 -
Median % change year-on-year +299.72% - -
75th Percentile £69.99 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £40.00 £63.75 £70.14
% change year-on-year -37.25% -9.11% +60.62%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Midlands

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 West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,974 1,446 1,535
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 87.08% 86.28% 84.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,249 912 1,031
10th Percentile £263 £225 £263
25th Percentile £400 £400 £389
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £514 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.68% +2.75% -
75th Percentile £584 £613 £600
90th Percentile £675 £724 £688
England median daily rate £505 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -3.81% -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 101 49 50
10th Percentile £13.25 £14.70 £14.05
25th Percentile £16.10 £16.75 £17.50
Median hourly rate £18.87 £22.00 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -14.23% -4.35% +29.94%
75th Percentile £27.21 £33.75 £53.75
90th Percentile £36.00 £52.50 £67.63
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year -28.14% -22.22% +24.47%

Disaster Recovery
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Disaster Recovery job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

Disaster Recovery
Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Disaster Recovery.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Disaster Recovery

Disaster Recovery
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Disaster Recovery in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 24 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Disaster Recovery in the West Midlands

Disaster Recovery
Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Disaster Recovery.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Disaster Recovery

Disaster Recovery
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

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 West Midlands region over the 6 months to 24 December 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
Warwickshire -3 9 £575 -5.27% 3
Shropshire - 3 £400 - 4
Wolverhampton +5 2 £425 +30.77% 1
Staffordshire +3 2 £205 - 6
Birmingham -15 2 £487 +8.22% 4
Worcestershire - 2 £638 - 9
Disaster Recovery
England

Disaster Recovery
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the West Midlands 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (4.76%) Apache
Business Applications
1 2 (9.52%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (4.76%) SAP GRC
2 1 (4.76%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 6 (28.57%) AWS
2 5 (23.81%) Azure
3 3 (14.29%) SaaS
4 2 (9.52%) IaaS
4 2 (9.52%) PaaS
5 1 (4.76%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (4.76%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (4.76%) Amazon S3
5 1 (4.76%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (4.76%) AWS CloudTrail
5 1 (4.76%) AWS Direct Connect
5 1 (4.76%) AWS KMS
5 1 (4.76%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (4.76%) Entra ID
5 1 (4.76%) GCP
5 1 (4.76%) OpenShift
5 1 (4.76%) Serverless
5 1 (4.76%) SuccessFactors
5 1 (4.76%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 7 (33.33%) Firewall
2 4 (19.05%) DHCP
2 4 (19.05%) DNS
3 2 (9.52%) Ethernet
3 2 (9.52%) MPLS
3 2 (9.52%) SDH
3 2 (9.52%) VPN
4 1 (4.76%) LAN
4 1 (4.76%) VLAN
4 1 (4.76%) VoIP
4 1 (4.76%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.76%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (4.76%) SAP HANA
1 1 (4.76%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (4.76%) GitLab
General
1 4 (19.05%) Finance
1 4 (19.05%) Social Skills
2 2 (9.52%) Legal
3 1 (4.76%) Aerospace
3 1 (4.76%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (4.76%) Automotive
3 1 (4.76%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (4.76%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (14.29%) Infrastructure Manager
1 3 (14.29%) Infrastructure Test Manager
1 3 (14.29%) Test Manager
2 2 (9.52%) Applications Manager
2 2 (9.52%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (9.52%) Network Engineer
2 2 (9.52%) Platform Engineer
2 2 (9.52%) Senior
2 2 (9.52%) Server Engineer
3 1 (4.76%) AWS Administrator
3 1 (4.76%) Data Engineer
3 1 (4.76%) Infrastructure Support
3 1 (4.76%) Instrumentation Engineer
3 1 (4.76%) Lead
3 1 (4.76%) SAP Consultant
3 1 (4.76%) Security Engineer
3 1 (4.76%) Service Continuity Leader
3 1 (4.76%) Site Engineer
3 1 (4.76%) Site Reliability Engineer
3 1 (4.76%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (14.29%) RFC 2544
2 2 (9.52%) WebCenter
3 1 (4.76%) Apache NiFi
3 1 (4.76%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (4.76%) SAP Basis
3 1 (4.76%) SAP Fiori
Miscellaneous
1 4 (19.05%) Data Centre
2 2 (9.52%) Enterprise Software
2 2 (9.52%) NHS
2 2 (9.52%) Product Ownership
2 2 (9.52%) SCADA
3 1 (4.76%) Cyber Threat
3 1 (4.76%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (4.76%) Operational Technology
3 1 (4.76%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 7 (33.33%) Windows
2 5 (23.81%) Windows Server
3 3 (14.29%) Linux
4 1 (4.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (4.76%) Unix
4 1 (4.76%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (33.33%) Business Continuity
1 7 (33.33%) High Availability
1 7 (33.33%) ITIL
2 5 (23.81%) Continuous Improvement
2 5 (23.81%) Migration
3 4 (19.05%) Business Strategy
3 4 (19.05%) Change Management
3 4 (19.05%) Data Protection
3 4 (19.05%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 4 (19.05%) Resource Management
3 4 (19.05%) Risk Management
3 4 (19.05%) Service Management
3 4 (19.05%) Test Scripting
4 3 (14.29%) Data Centre Operations
4 3 (14.29%) Defect Management
4 3 (14.29%) Incident Response
4 3 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (14.29%) Roadmaps
4 3 (14.29%) Test Management
4 3 (14.29%) Test Planning
Programming Languages
1 3 (14.29%) PowerShell
2 2 (9.52%) Bash
2 2 (9.52%) SQL
3 1 (4.76%) Java
Qualifications
1 9 (42.86%) Security Cleared
2 8 (38.10%) SC Cleared
3 2 (9.52%) CCNA
3 2 (9.52%) CCNP
3 2 (9.52%) Cisco Certification
3 2 (9.52%) Degree
4 1 (4.76%) AWS Certification
4 1 (4.76%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (4.76%) Azure Certification
4 1 (4.76%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (4.76%) DBS Check
4 1 (4.76%) DV Cleared
4 1 (4.76%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (9.52%) ITGC
2 1 (4.76%) Data Quality
2 1 (4.76%) GRC
2 1 (4.76%) ISO/IEC 20000
2 1 (4.76%) NCSC
2 1 (4.76%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (19.05%) Active Directory
2 3 (14.29%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (9.52%) Hyper-V
4 1 (4.76%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (14.29%) Kubernetes
2 2 (9.52%) Ansible
2 2 (9.52%) Terraform
3 1 (4.76%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 1 (4.76%) Kibana
3 1 (4.76%) logstash
3 1 (4.76%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 5 (23.81%) Cisco
1 5 (23.81%) Microsoft
2 3 (14.29%) VMware
3 2 (9.52%) Oracle
3 2 (9.52%) Red Hat
3 2 (9.52%) Salesforce
4 1 (4.76%) Adobe
4 1 (4.76%) AppDynamics
4 1 (4.76%) Ariba
4 1 (4.76%) Citrix
4 1 (4.76%) Concur
4 1 (4.76%) Dell
4 1 (4.76%) Dynatrace
4 1 (4.76%) Google
4 1 (4.76%) HP
4 1 (4.76%) SAP