Disaster Recovery Contracts in the West Midlands

Disaster Recovery
England > West Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands 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 24 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
24 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 95 120 135
Rank change year-on-year +25 +15 -39
Contract jobs citing Disaster Recovery 14 21 38
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.73% 0.87% 1.05%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.86% 0.98% 1.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 16 23
10th Percentile £376 £263 £323
25th Percentile £389 £300 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year -7.50% +11.11% +5.88%
75th Percentile £550 £650 £588
90th Percentile £734 - £650
England median daily rate £500 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.50%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Midlands

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 West Midlands with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,620 2,133 3,243
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 83.94% 88.43% 89.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,071 1,463 2,393
10th Percentile £275 £263 £263
25th Percentile £375 £401 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £488
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% +5.13% +17.66%
75th Percentile £624 £600 £575
90th Percentile £738 £688 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £535
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.80% +9.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 116 46 72
10th Percentile £11.09 £12.25 £12.00
25th Percentile £14.00 £13.31 £13.70
Median hourly rate £22.50 £17.72 £16.66
Median % change year-on-year +26.98% +6.35% -4.79%
75th Percentile £40.81 £23.62 £19.59
90th Percentile £57.50 £50.63 £21.85
England median hourly rate £35.00 £38.35 £24.00
% change year-on-year -8.74% +59.79% -

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 24 April 2024.

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 24 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
Birmingham +9 5 £525 -19.23% 10
Coventry +16 4 £500 -23.08%
Warwickshire +2 2 £575 +16.16% 4
Dudley - 1 £425 - 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 1 (7.14%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (7.14%) OpenEdge
1 1 (7.14%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (7.14%) MFGPRO
1 1 (7.14%) Sage 50
Cloud Services
1 8 (57.14%) Azure
2 4 (28.57%) AWS
3 3 (21.43%) PaaS
4 2 (14.29%) IaaS
5 1 (7.14%) Amazon S3
5 1 (7.14%) Azure AKS
5 1 (7.14%) Azure Functions
5 1 (7.14%) Azure Logic Apps
5 1 (7.14%) Azure Monitor
5 1 (7.14%) Azure Sentinel
5 1 (7.14%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (7.14%) Entra ID
5 1 (7.14%) GCP
5 1 (7.14%) GitHub
5 1 (7.14%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (7.14%) SaaS
5 1 (7.14%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 3 (21.43%) Firewall
1 3 (21.43%) VPN
2 2 (14.29%) DMZ
2 2 (14.29%) Network Security
2 2 (14.29%) SAN
3 1 (7.14%) DHCP
3 1 (7.14%) DNS
3 1 (7.14%) LAN
3 1 (7.14%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (21.43%) SQL Server
2 2 (14.29%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (7.14%) Data Lake
3 1 (7.14%) Microsoft Analysis Services
3 1 (7.14%) Redis
3 1 (7.14%) SQL Server Analysis Services
3 1 (7.14%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 1 (7.14%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 1 (7.14%) Hudson
1 1 (7.14%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 3 (21.43%) Public Sector
1 3 (21.43%) Social Skills
2 2 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (7.14%) Advertising
3 1 (7.14%) Banking
3 1 (7.14%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (7.14%) Finance
3 1 (7.14%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 2 (14.29%) Administrator
1 2 (14.29%) DBA
1 2 (14.29%) Lead
1 2 (14.29%) Network Engineer
1 2 (14.29%) SQL DBA
2 1 (7.14%) Active Directory Specialist
2 1 (7.14%) Azure Engineer
2 1 (7.14%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (7.14%) Backup Engineer
2 1 (7.14%) Infrastructure Specialist
2 1 (7.14%) Installations Engineer
2 1 (7.14%) PC Engineer
2 1 (7.14%) PC Installation Engineer
2 1 (7.14%) Security Architect
2 1 (7.14%) Security Engineer
2 1 (7.14%) Security Solutions Architect
2 1 (7.14%) Senior
2 1 (7.14%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
2 1 (7.14%) Senior Infrastructure Specialist
2 1 (7.14%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (7.14%) JSON
1 1 (7.14%) Kafka
1 1 (7.14%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 3 (21.43%) Replication
2 2 (14.29%) Clustering
2 2 (14.29%) PKI
2 2 (14.29%) Team-Oriented Environment
3 1 (7.14%) Client/Server
3 1 (7.14%) CMDB
3 1 (7.14%) Cyber Kill Chain
3 1 (7.14%) Enterprise Storage
3 1 (7.14%) Operational Technology
3 1 (7.14%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 7 (50.00%) Windows
2 3 (21.43%) Linux
3 2 (14.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (14.29%) Windows Server
3 2 (14.29%) Windows Server 2012
4 1 (7.14%) HPUX
4 1 (7.14%) Unix
4 1 (7.14%) Windows 10
4 1 (7.14%) Windows 7
4 1 (7.14%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (7.14%) Windows Server 2019
4 1 (7.14%) Windows Vista
4 1 (7.14%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (35.71%) High Availability
2 4 (28.57%) ITIL
3 3 (21.43%) Agile
3 3 (21.43%) Infrastructure as Code
3 3 (21.43%) Project Management
3 3 (21.43%) Zero Trust
4 2 (14.29%) BCP
4 2 (14.29%) Business Continuity
4 2 (14.29%) Business Strategy
4 2 (14.29%) Customer Service
4 2 (14.29%) Cybersecurity
4 2 (14.29%) Hardware Maintenance
4 2 (14.29%) IT Strategy
4 2 (14.29%) Mentoring
4 2 (14.29%) PRINCE2
4 2 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (14.29%) Security Architecture
4 2 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
4 2 (14.29%) Technology Strategy
4 2 (14.29%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (21.43%) SQL
2 2 (14.29%) PowerShell
3 1 (7.14%) Bicep
3 1 (7.14%) Shell Script
3 1 (7.14%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (28.57%) SC Cleared
1 4 (28.57%) Security Cleared
2 1 (7.14%) Azure Certification
2 1 (7.14%) Degree
2 1 (7.14%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
2 1 (7.14%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (7.14%) PMI Certification
2 1 (7.14%) PMP
2 1 (7.14%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (7.14%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
1 1 (7.14%) NIST
System Software
1 2 (14.29%) Active Directory
2 1 (7.14%) Hyper-V
2 1 (7.14%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (7.14%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (14.29%) Ansible
1 2 (14.29%) Terraform
2 1 (7.14%) NetBackup
2 1 (7.14%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 5 (35.71%) Microsoft
2 3 (21.43%) F5
3 2 (14.29%) Fortinet
3 2 (14.29%) HP
3 2 (14.29%) Palo Alto
3 2 (14.29%) Red Hat
4 1 (7.14%) 3PAR
4 1 (7.14%) LogicMonitor
4 1 (7.14%) NetApp
4 1 (7.14%) Nimble Storage
4 1 (7.14%) Progress
4 1 (7.14%) QAD
4 1 (7.14%) Qualys
4 1 (7.14%) Splunk
4 1 (7.14%) Veritas
4 1 (7.14%) VMware