Disaster Recovery Contracts in the South East

Disaster Recovery
England > South East

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 14 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
14 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 115 180 198
Rank change year-on-year +65 +18 -45
Contract jobs citing Disaster Recovery 82 36 66
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 1.50% 0.64% 0.86%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.78% 0.72% 0.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 56 19 43
10th Percentile £316 £275 £293
25th Percentile £419 £375 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -4.35% +27.78%
75th Percentile £608 £582 £725
90th Percentile £650 £637 £760
England median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £62.50
Median hourly rate £61.60 - £65.00
75th Percentile - - £67.50
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £61.60 £40.42 £53.11
% change year-on-year +52.42% -23.90% +86.35%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South East

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 South East with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,612 5,017 6,894
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 84.31% 89.18% 89.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,686 3,488 4,679
10th Percentile £250 £248 £226
25th Percentile £400 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £510 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% +2.00% +8.70%
75th Percentile £625 £618 £594
90th Percentile £700 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 436 220 281
10th Percentile £13.00 £16.25 £12.21
25th Percentile £18.20 £22.16 £14.25
Median hourly rate £47.50 £49.00 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -3.06% +127.90% -21.82%
75th Percentile £62.50 £64.72 £47.50
90th Percentile £76.86 £75.00 £60.00
England median hourly rate £36.50 £37.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year -2.67% +50.00% +6.61%

Disaster Recovery
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Disaster Recovery in the South East

Disaster Recovery
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Disaster Recovery in the South East.

Daily rate trend for Disaster Recovery in the South East

Disaster Recovery
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Disaster Recovery in the South East over the 6 months to 14 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Disaster Recovery in the South East

Disaster Recovery
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Disaster Recovery in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for Disaster Recovery in the South East

Disaster Recovery
Contract Job Locations in the South East

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 South East region over the 6 months to 14 May 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
Thames Valley +22 37 £605 +12.56% 19
Berkshire +8 34 £605 +21.00% 14
Hampshire +15 24 £350 +2.19% 7
Surrey +20 9 £450 +50.00% 4
West Sussex +14 9 £575 - 6
Buckinghamshire +27 3 £100 -81.69% 4
Kent +7 2 £638 +10.87% 5
Home Counties - 1 - -
Disaster Recovery
England

Disaster Recovery
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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:

Applications
1 1 (1.22%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 7 (8.54%) Oracle EBS
2 6 (7.32%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (1.22%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 31 (37.80%) Azure
2 17 (20.73%) OCI
3 8 (9.76%) GitHub
4 3 (3.66%) AWS
4 3 (3.66%) Azure API Management
4 3 (3.66%) Azure Data Factory
4 3 (3.66%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (3.66%) Azure Key Vault
4 3 (3.66%) Azure Logic Apps
4 3 (3.66%) Azure Monitor
4 3 (3.66%) WhatsApp
5 2 (2.44%) Azure Functions
5 2 (2.44%) Entra ID
5 2 (2.44%) GCP
5 2 (2.44%) Serverless
6 1 (1.22%) Amazon S3
6 1 (1.22%) Azure Sentinel
6 1 (1.22%) Azure Service Bus
6 1 (1.22%) Nutanix
6 1 (1.22%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 23 (28.05%) SAN
2 21 (25.61%) DNS
3 20 (24.39%) Firewall
4 17 (20.73%) DHCP
5 5 (6.10%) VPN
5 5 (6.10%) Wireless
6 4 (4.88%) WAN
7 3 (3.66%) Fibre Channel
7 3 (3.66%) LAN
7 3 (3.66%) Network Security
7 3 (3.66%) Wi-Fi
8 2 (2.44%) Cisco IOS
8 2 (2.44%) Cisco ISE
8 2 (2.44%) Internet
8 2 (2.44%) NX-OS
9 1 (1.22%) BGP
9 1 (1.22%) Cisco Firepower
9 1 (1.22%) MPLS
9 1 (1.22%) OSPF
9 1 (1.22%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (14.63%) PostgreSQL
2 8 (9.76%) Oracle Database
3 7 (8.54%) SQL Server
4 6 (7.32%) SAP HANA
5 3 (3.66%) MongoDB
6 2 (2.44%) Azure SQL Database
6 2 (2.44%) MySQL
6 2 (2.44%) Oracle Exadata
7 1 (1.22%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (1.22%) MariaDB
7 1 (1.22%) RDBMS
7 1 (1.22%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 8 (9.76%) GitLab
2 2 (2.44%) Git
2 2 (2.44%) Visual Studio
General
1 33 (40.24%) Social Skills
2 8 (9.76%) Finance
3 4 (4.88%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (4.88%) Military
4 3 (3.66%) Financial Institution
4 3 (3.66%) Marketing
5 2 (2.44%) Banking
5 2 (2.44%) Public Sector
6 1 (1.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 16 (19.51%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 11 (13.41%) Storage Engineer
3 9 (10.98%) Database Specialist
4 8 (9.76%) Consultant
5 7 (8.54%) Administrator
6 6 (7.32%) Analyst
6 6 (7.32%) Architect
6 6 (7.32%) DBA
6 6 (7.32%) Platform Specialist
6 6 (7.32%) SAP Basis Consultant
6 6 (7.32%) SAP Consultant
6 6 (7.32%) SAP Technical Consultant
6 6 (7.32%) Senior
6 6 (7.32%) Technical Consultant
7 5 (6.10%) Server Engineer
7 5 (6.10%) Service Architect
7 5 (6.10%) Support Engineer
8 4 (4.88%) Backup Administrator
8 4 (4.88%) Test Manager
9 3 (3.66%) Backup Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (7.32%) SAP Basis
1 6 (7.32%) SAP Fiori
2 3 (3.66%) ARM Templates
2 3 (3.66%) Flash
3 2 (2.44%) Middleware
3 2 (2.44%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 17 (20.73%) Data Centre
2 10 (12.20%) Linux Command Line
3 9 (10.98%) Replication
4 8 (9.76%) Clustering
5 4 (4.88%) Management Information System
6 3 (3.66%) Enterprise Storage
6 3 (3.66%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (1.22%) Cloud Native
7 1 (1.22%) CMDB
7 1 (1.22%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (1.22%) Fat Client
7 1 (1.22%) iPhone
7 1 (1.22%) PKI
7 1 (1.22%) Public Cloud
7 1 (1.22%) Smart Meter
7 1 (1.22%) Smartcard
7 1 (1.22%) Thin Client
7 1 (1.22%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 32 (39.02%) Linux
2 26 (31.71%) Windows
3 19 (23.17%) Windows Server 2019
4 18 (21.95%) Windows Server
4 18 (21.95%) Windows Server 2012
4 18 (21.95%) Windows Server 2016
5 14 (17.07%) Windows 10
5 14 (17.07%) Windows XP
6 5 (6.10%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 3 (3.66%) Unix
8 2 (2.44%) Solaris
9 1 (1.22%) Android
9 1 (1.22%) Apple iOS
9 1 (1.22%) Ubuntu
9 1 (1.22%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (46.34%) Performance Tuning
2 31 (37.80%) Problem-Solving
3 29 (35.37%) ITIL
4 25 (30.49%) Storage Management
5 22 (26.83%) High Availability
6 18 (21.95%) Break/Fix
6 18 (21.95%) Business Continuity
6 18 (21.95%) Migration
6 18 (21.95%) Project Management
7 16 (19.51%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 16 (19.51%) Performance Monitoring
7 16 (19.51%) Proactive Monitoring
7 16 (19.51%) Server Management
8 15 (18.29%) Data Migration
9 14 (17.07%) Converged Infrastructure
10 13 (15.85%) Task Automation
11 12 (14.63%) Capacity Management
12 11 (13.41%) Mentoring
13 9 (10.98%) Agile
13 9 (10.98%) Database Security
Programming Languages
1 21 (25.61%) PowerShell
2 10 (12.20%) Bash
3 6 (7.32%) Shell Script
4 5 (6.10%) SQL
5 3 (3.66%) Perl
5 3 (3.66%) Python
6 2 (2.44%) AWK
6 2 (2.44%) Bourne shell
6 2 (2.44%) Korn
7 1 (1.22%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 44 (53.66%) Security Cleared
2 35 (42.68%) SC Cleared
3 22 (26.83%) Degree
4 19 (23.17%) DV Cleared
5 15 (18.29%) CCNP
5 15 (18.29%) Cisco Certification
6 14 (17.07%) CCNA
7 2 (2.44%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (2.44%) RHCE
7 2 (2.44%) RHCSA
8 1 (1.22%) A+ Certification
8 1 (1.22%) IBM Certification
8 1 (1.22%) MCSA
8 1 (1.22%) MCSE
8 1 (1.22%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (8.54%) SLA
2 2 (2.44%) Cyber Essentials
2 2 (2.44%) GDPR
2 2 (2.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (2.44%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 29 (35.37%) VMware Infrastructure
2 19 (23.17%) Active Directory
3 17 (20.73%) Hyper-V
4 16 (19.51%) VMware ESXi
5 9 (10.98%) vSphere
6 2 (2.44%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (2.44%) VMware NSX
7 1 (1.22%) Docker
7 1 (1.22%) Firmware
7 1 (1.22%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 24 (29.27%) NetBackup
2 16 (19.51%) vCenter Server
2 16 (19.51%) WSUS
3 15 (18.29%) SCCM
3 15 (18.29%) Terraform
4 14 (17.07%) EMC NetWorker
4 14 (17.07%) SCOM
5 12 (14.63%) Ansible
6 7 (8.54%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
7 3 (3.66%) Kubernetes
7 3 (3.66%) Red Hat Satellite
8 2 (2.44%) Nessus
8 2 (2.44%) Oracle ZFS
8 2 (2.44%) yum
9 1 (1.22%) Microsoft Intune
9 1 (1.22%) Packer
9 1 (1.22%) Tivoli Storage Manager
9 1 (1.22%) vRealize
9 1 (1.22%) VxRail
9 1 (1.22%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 34 (41.46%) Oracle
2 29 (35.37%) VMware
3 22 (26.83%) Microsoft
4 18 (21.95%) Cisco
4 18 (21.95%) Palo Alto
5 17 (20.73%) 3PAR
5 17 (20.73%) EMC
5 17 (20.73%) HP
6 16 (19.51%) Juniper
6 16 (19.51%) Red Hat
7 15 (18.29%) Dell
7 15 (18.29%) Veeam
8 14 (17.07%) Extreme Networks
8 14 (17.07%) Symantec
9 11 (13.41%) SolarWinds
10 7 (8.54%) Veritas
11 6 (7.32%) SAP
12 4 (4.88%) NetApp
13 3 (3.66%) Nimble Storage
13 3 (3.66%) QinetiQ