Disaster Recovery Contracts in the West Midlands

Disaster Recovery
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands 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 4 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 81 89 100
Rank change year-on-year +8 +11 +45
Contract jobs citing Disaster Recovery 30 19 23
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 1.81% 1.02% 1.05%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.05% 1.25% 1.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 13 18
10th Percentile £325 £375 £192
25th Percentile £413 £381 £272
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £425 £364
Median % change year-on-year +5.88% +16.78% -27.21%
75th Percentile £600 £588 £508
90th Percentile £790 £735 £680
England median daily rate £492 £475 £525
% change year-on-year +3.58% -9.52% +2.44%

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 1,460 1,525 1,874
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 88.32% 81.81% 85.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 918 1,034 1,283
10th Percentile £223 £287 £263
25th Percentile £368 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £575 £626 £600
90th Percentile £663 £738 £725
England median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 107 61 38
10th Percentile £12.62 £13.00 £14.16
25th Percentile £13.78 £14.25 £20.12
Median hourly rate £22.50 £18.50 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +21.62% -32.73% +57.14%
75th Percentile £32.44 £37.50 £30.78
90th Percentile £50.00 £56.25 £46.75
England median hourly rate £25.15 £42.50 £42.50
% change year-on-year -40.82% - +61.35%

Disaster Recovery
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Disaster Recovery in the West Midlands

Disaster Recovery
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Disaster Recovery in the West Midlands.

Daily rate trend for Disaster Recovery in the West Midlands

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 4 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Disaster Recovery in the West Midlands

Disaster Recovery
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Disaster Recovery in the West Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for Disaster Recovery in the West Midlands

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 4 August 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 +4 10 £438 -30.00%
Birmingham +2 10 £425 +1.80% 12
Coventry -2 4 £425 +8.97%
Worcestershire - 4 £738 - 1
Shropshire - 1 - - 1
Disaster Recovery
England

Disaster Recovery
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 2 (6.67%) Apache
1 2 (6.67%) IIS
1 2 (6.67%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (6.67%) AutoCAD
1 2 (6.67%) MicroStation
1 2 (6.67%) Revit
Business Applications
1 2 (6.67%) SAP PM
2 1 (3.33%) NetSuite
2 1 (3.33%) SAP GRC
2 1 (3.33%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 7 (23.33%) Azure
2 3 (10.00%) AWS
2 3 (10.00%) AWS Lambda
2 3 (10.00%) Serverless
3 2 (6.67%) Azure Cosmos DB
3 2 (6.67%) Azure Data Factory
3 2 (6.67%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (6.67%) Azure ExpressRoute
3 2 (6.67%) Azure Monitor
3 2 (6.67%) Azure Sentinel
3 2 (6.67%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 2 (6.67%) Collibra
3 2 (6.67%) GitHub
3 2 (6.67%) GitHub Actions
3 2 (6.67%) IaaS
3 2 (6.67%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (6.67%) Microsoft Purview
3 2 (6.67%) PaaS
3 2 (6.67%) Power Platform
4 1 (3.33%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (16.67%) Firewall
2 3 (10.00%) Ethernet
2 3 (10.00%) MPLS
2 3 (10.00%) SDH
3 2 (6.67%) SD-WAN
3 2 (6.67%) WAN
4 1 (3.33%) DHCP
4 1 (3.33%) DNS
4 1 (3.33%) Modbus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (16.67%) SQL Server
2 4 (13.33%) Elasticsearch
2 4 (13.33%) NoSQL
2 4 (13.33%) Oracle Database
3 2 (6.67%) Azure SQL Database
3 2 (6.67%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (6.67%) DB2
3 2 (6.67%) Delta Lake
3 2 (6.67%) GIS
3 2 (6.67%) Oracle Database 12c
3 2 (6.67%) Power BI
3 2 (6.67%) Relational Database
3 2 (6.67%) Tableau
4 1 (3.33%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 1 (3.33%) JIRA
General
1 4 (13.33%) Analytical Skills
1 4 (13.33%) Public Sector
2 3 (10.00%) Finance
3 2 (6.67%) Electronics
3 2 (6.67%) Manufacturing
3 2 (6.67%) Marketing
3 2 (6.67%) Publishing
3 2 (6.67%) Retail
3 2 (6.67%) Telecoms
4 1 (3.33%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (3.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (13.33%) Administrator
2 3 (10.00%) Analyst
2 3 (10.00%) Infrastructure Manager
2 3 (10.00%) Infrastructure Test Manager
2 3 (10.00%) Lead
2 3 (10.00%) Senior
2 3 (10.00%) Test Manager
3 2 (6.67%) Azure Engineer
3 2 (6.67%) Cloud Engineer
3 2 (6.67%) Cognos Support
3 2 (6.67%) Data Engineer
3 2 (6.67%) Draughtsman
3 2 (6.67%) DV Cleared DBA
3 2 (6.67%) Network Specialist
3 2 (6.67%) Platform Engineer
3 2 (6.67%) Platform Support Engineer
3 2 (6.67%) Programme Director
3 2 (6.67%) SC Cleared DBA
3 2 (6.67%) Senior Data Engineer
3 2 (6.67%) Service Continuity Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (10.00%) RFC 2544
2 2 (6.67%) .NET
2 2 (6.67%) Apache NiFi
2 2 (6.67%) Elastic Stack
2 2 (6.67%) HTML
2 2 (6.67%) Kafka
2 2 (6.67%) Middleware
2 2 (6.67%) Web Services
3 1 (3.33%) SAP Basis
3 1 (3.33%) SAP Fiori
Miscellaneous
1 6 (20.00%) SCADA
2 4 (13.33%) Replication
3 3 (10.00%) Data Centre
3 3 (10.00%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (6.67%) Cloud Native
4 2 (6.67%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (6.67%) IoT
5 1 (3.33%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 6 (20.00%) Linux
2 4 (13.33%) Windows
3 3 (10.00%) Unix
4 1 (3.33%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (33.33%) High Availability
2 9 (30.00%) ITIL
2 9 (30.00%) Performance Tuning
2 9 (30.00%) Problem-Solving
3 7 (23.33%) Service Management
4 6 (20.00%) Analytics
4 6 (20.00%) Business Continuity
4 6 (20.00%) Business Intelligence
4 6 (20.00%) Root Cause Analysis
5 5 (16.67%) Migration
5 5 (16.67%) Risk Management
6 4 (13.33%) CI/CD
6 4 (13.33%) Cybersecurity
6 4 (13.33%) Data Governance
6 4 (13.33%) Data Modelling
6 4 (13.33%) DevOps
6 4 (13.33%) ETL
6 4 (13.33%) Test Planning
7 3 (10.00%) Data Centre Operations
7 3 (10.00%) Defect Management
Programming Languages
1 10 (33.33%) SQL
2 3 (10.00%) PowerShell
3 2 (6.67%) Bicep
3 2 (6.67%) C#
3 2 (6.67%) JavaScript
3 2 (6.67%) Kusto Query Language
3 2 (6.67%) PL/SQL
3 2 (6.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 13 (43.33%) Security Cleared
2 9 (30.00%) SC Cleared
3 5 (16.67%) Degree
3 5 (16.67%) DV Cleared
4 3 (10.00%) CCNA
4 3 (10.00%) CCNP
4 3 (10.00%) Cisco Certification
5 2 (6.67%) Azure Certification
5 2 (6.67%) HNC
5 2 (6.67%) HND
5 2 (6.67%) OCP
5 2 (6.67%) Oracle Certification
5 2 (6.67%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (13.33%) Data Quality
2 2 (6.67%) Accessibility
2 2 (6.67%) GDPR
2 2 (6.67%) ISO/IEC 20000
2 2 (6.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (6.67%) QA
System Software
1 3 (10.00%) Active Directory
2 2 (6.67%) Oracle RAC
2 2 (6.67%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 5 (16.67%) Terraform
2 2 (6.67%) Data Guard
2 2 (6.67%) Grafana
2 2 (6.67%) Kibana
2 2 (6.67%) Kubernetes
2 2 (6.67%) logstash
2 2 (6.67%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (6.67%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
2 2 (6.67%) Oracle RMAN
3 1 (3.33%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 1 (3.33%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 7 (23.33%) Microsoft
1 7 (23.33%) Oracle
2 5 (16.67%) SAP
3 3 (10.00%) Cisco
4 2 (6.67%) Autodesk
4 2 (6.67%) Cognos
4 2 (6.67%) Databricks
4 2 (6.67%) IBM
4 2 (6.67%) Informatica
5 1 (3.33%) Adobe
5 1 (3.33%) AppDynamics
5 1 (3.33%) Ariba
5 1 (3.33%) Concur
5 1 (3.33%) Dynatrace
5 1 (3.33%) Google
5 1 (3.33%) HP