Disaster Recovery Contracts in England

Disaster Recovery
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England 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 16 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
16 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 198 260 272
Rank change year-on-year +62 +12 +15
Contract jobs citing Disaster Recovery 446 487 717
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 1.23% 1.01% 1.02%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.42% 1.12% 1.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 349 357 465
10th Percentile £310 £358 £320
25th Percentile £388 £400 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £608 £615 £600
90th Percentile £700 £689 £729
UK median daily rate £500 £514 £491
% change year-on-year -2.72% +4.74% +3.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 6 14
10th Percentile £23.80 £16.85 £20.38
25th Percentile £38.15 £19.14 £22.11
Median hourly rate £61.60 £40.42 £53.11
Median % change year-on-year +52.42% -23.90% +86.35%
75th Percentile - £57.02 £68.66
90th Percentile £67.50 £57.33 £69.72
UK median hourly rate £61.60 £54.83 £55.45
% change year-on-year +12.35% -1.12% +94.56%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

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 England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 31,446 43,440 63,865
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.42% 90.15% 90.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,588 30,513 45,420
10th Percentile £300 £325 £333
25th Percentile £413 £448 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £540
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% +8.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £766 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,245 1,538 1,746
10th Percentile £12.92 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.92 £16.23 £15.25
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.39% +44.00% +7.71%
75th Percentile £60.25 £65.00 £49.37
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £36.27 £35.65 £25.68
% change year-on-year +1.75% +38.82% +5.35%

Disaster Recovery
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Disaster Recovery as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Disaster Recovery in England

Disaster Recovery
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Disaster Recovery in England.

Daily rate trend for Disaster Recovery in England

Disaster Recovery
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Disaster Recovery in England over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Disaster Recovery in England

Disaster Recovery
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Disaster Recovery in England.

Hourly rate trend for Disaster Recovery in England

Disaster Recovery
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Disaster Recovery in England over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Disaster Recovery in England

Disaster Recovery
Contract Job Locations in England

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 England region over the 6 months to 16 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
London +78 237 £494 -0.72% 101
South East +57 79 £575 +4.55% 47
North of England +38 60 £534 +22.06% 55
North West +26 40 £540 +13.68% 32
South West -30 32 £550 -8.33% 16
Midlands +6 18 £400 - 32
Yorkshire +15 16 £465 +17.72% 16
West Midlands +17 12 £425 +6.25% 15
East of England +3 8 £442 -19.64% 16
East Midlands +2 6 £400 +6.67% 17
North East - 4 £475 - 7
Disaster Recovery
UK

Disaster Recovery
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 23 (5.16%) Microsoft Exchange
2 13 (2.91%) IIS
2 13 (2.91%) SharePoint
3 12 (2.69%) OpenStack
4 9 (2.02%) Confluence
5 7 (1.57%) Apache Spark
6 5 (1.12%) Apache
6 5 (1.12%) nginx
7 3 (0.67%) CICS
7 3 (0.67%) Oracle Self-Service HR
8 1 (0.22%) Apache Airflow
8 1 (0.22%) Exchange Server 2007
8 1 (0.22%) Exchange Server 2010
8 1 (0.22%) OpenEdge
8 1 (0.22%) Skype for Business
8 1 (0.22%) Tomcat
8 1 (0.22%) WebLogic
8 1 (0.22%) WebSphere
Applications
1 21 (4.71%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (1.79%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.45%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 10 (2.24%) Remedy ITSM
2 8 (1.79%) SAP S/4HANA
3 7 (1.57%) Oracle EBS
3 7 (1.57%) Teamcenter
4 1 (0.22%) Dynamics GP
4 1 (0.22%) MFGPRO
4 1 (0.22%) Sage 50
4 1 (0.22%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 124 (27.80%) Azure
2 71 (15.92%) AWS
3 46 (10.31%) GCP
4 35 (7.85%) PaaS
5 26 (5.83%) Serverless
6 24 (5.38%) Microsoft 365
7 21 (4.71%) SaaS
8 20 (4.48%) GitHub
9 19 (4.26%) OCI
10 17 (3.81%) Cloud Computing
11 14 (3.14%) Azure DevOps
11 14 (3.14%) Entra ID
12 13 (2.91%) IaaS
13 12 (2.69%) Amazon S3
14 11 (2.47%) Nutanix
15 10 (2.24%) Azure Logic Apps
16 9 (2.02%) Azure API Management
16 9 (2.02%) Rubrik
17 8 (1.79%) Azure Data Factory
17 8 (1.79%) Azure Key Vault
Communications & Networking
1 79 (17.71%) Firewall
2 53 (11.88%) SAN
3 42 (9.42%) DNS
4 29 (6.50%) DHCP
5 23 (5.16%) WAN
6 20 (4.48%) LAN
7 18 (4.04%) Internet
8 17 (3.81%) Network Security
9 15 (3.36%) NAS
10 13 (2.91%) FTP
10 13 (2.91%) TCP/IP
11 11 (2.47%) VPN
11 11 (2.47%) Wireless
12 10 (2.24%) OSPF
13 8 (1.79%) BGP
14 7 (1.57%) Cisco ASA
14 7 (1.57%) MPLS
15 6 (1.35%) Cisco Nexus
15 6 (1.35%) Multicast
15 6 (1.35%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 70 (15.70%) SQL Server
2 45 (10.09%) Oracle Database
3 37 (8.30%) PostgreSQL
4 25 (5.61%) MongoDB
5 20 (4.48%) Hadoop
6 16 (3.59%) NoSQL
7 13 (2.91%) MySQL
8 12 (2.69%) Amazon RDS
8 12 (2.69%) RDBMS
8 12 (2.69%) Relational Database
9 11 (2.47%) Oracle Reports
10 10 (2.24%) Azure SQL Database
10 10 (2.24%) SAP HANA
11 9 (2.02%) Amazon Redshift
11 9 (2.02%) BigQuery
12 8 (1.79%) Data Lake
12 8 (1.79%) Elasticsearch
12 8 (1.79%) OLTP
13 7 (1.57%) Amazon Athena
13 7 (1.57%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 28 (6.28%) Git
2 23 (5.16%) Jenkins
3 10 (2.24%) GitLab
3 10 (2.24%) JIRA
4 7 (1.57%) Artifactory
4 7 (1.57%) Subversion
5 6 (1.35%) TeamCity
6 4 (0.90%) Sonatype Nexus
7 2 (0.45%) Gatling
7 2 (0.45%) Visual Studio
8 1 (0.22%) Hudson
8 1 (0.22%) Katalon Studio
8 1 (0.22%) LoadRunner
8 1 (0.22%) Octopus Deploy
8 1 (0.22%) Oracle APEX
8 1 (0.22%) Postman
8 1 (0.22%) SoapUI
General
1 104 (23.32%) Social Skills
2 97 (21.75%) Finance
3 43 (9.64%) Public Sector
4 35 (7.85%) Banking
5 32 (7.17%) Analytical Skills
6 17 (3.81%) Telecoms
7 12 (2.69%) Marketing
8 11 (2.47%) Financial Institution
9 10 (2.24%) Documentation Skills
10 9 (2.02%) Manufacturing
10 9 (2.02%) Military
11 8 (1.79%) Organisational Skills
12 7 (1.57%) Electronics
12 7 (1.57%) Presentation Skills
13 6 (1.35%) Police
14 4 (0.90%) Billing
15 3 (0.67%) Advertising
15 3 (0.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 3 (0.67%) Investment Banking
16 2 (0.45%) Legal
Job Titles
1 68 (15.25%) Architect
2 44 (9.87%) Analyst
2 44 (9.87%) DBA
3 35 (7.85%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 34 (7.62%) Senior
5 26 (5.83%) Support Engineer
6 23 (5.16%) Administrator
6 23 (5.16%) Lead
6 23 (5.16%) SQL DBA
7 22 (4.93%) Developer
8 20 (4.48%) Consultant
8 20 (4.48%) Technical Architect
9 17 (3.81%) C# Developer
10 14 (3.14%) Database Specialist
11 13 (2.91%) Implementation Specialist
11 13 (2.91%) Infrastructure Support
11 13 (2.91%) PostgreSQL DBA
12 12 (2.69%) Cybersecurity Analyst
12 12 (2.69%) Oracle Architect
12 12 (2.69%) Server Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (7.17%) .NET
2 29 (6.50%) Kafka
3 21 (4.71%) LDAP
4 16 (3.59%) Middleware
5 15 (3.36%) .NET Framework
6 12 (2.69%) JSON
7 11 (2.47%) XML
7 11 (2.47%) YAML
8 10 (2.24%) WinForms
8 10 (2.24%) WPF
9 9 (2.02%) Elastic Stack
9 9 (2.02%) SAP Basis
9 9 (2.02%) WCF
10 8 (1.79%) REST
10 8 (1.79%) SAP Fiori
11 6 (1.35%) SOAP
12 5 (1.12%) GraphQL
12 5 (1.12%) OAuth
12 5 (1.12%) OpenID
12 5 (1.12%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 60 (13.45%) Replication
2 45 (10.09%) Data Centre
3 34 (7.62%) Clustering
4 26 (5.83%) Management Information System
5 16 (3.59%) Public Cloud
6 13 (2.91%) PKI
7 12 (2.69%) Video Conferencing
8 11 (2.47%) Self-Motivation
9 10 (2.24%) Linux Command Line
10 9 (2.02%) Blog
11 7 (1.57%) Distributed Systems
11 7 (1.57%) Hybrid Cloud
12 6 (1.35%) CMDB
13 5 (1.12%) Cloud Native
13 5 (1.12%) Data Protection Act
13 5 (1.12%) Mainframe
13 5 (1.12%) Security Posture
14 4 (0.90%) Onboarding
15 3 (0.67%) Thin Client
15 3 (0.67%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 139 (31.17%) Windows
2 109 (24.44%) Linux
3 67 (15.02%) Windows Server
4 35 (7.85%) Unix
5 32 (7.17%) Windows Server 2016
6 30 (6.73%) Windows Server 2012
7 24 (5.38%) Windows 10
8 17 (3.81%) Windows Server 2019
9 15 (3.36%) Windows XP
10 14 (3.14%) Solaris
11 13 (2.91%) VMS
12 12 (2.69%) Oracle Linux
12 12 (2.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13 9 (2.02%) zOS
14 6 (1.35%) Ubuntu
15 5 (1.12%) CentOS
16 2 (0.45%) Windows 7
17 1 (0.22%) Android
17 1 (0.22%) Apple iOS
17 1 (0.22%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 107 (23.99%) Business Continuity
1 107 (23.99%) High Availability
2 94 (21.08%) Problem-Solving
3 92 (20.63%) ITIL
4 73 (16.37%) Performance Tuning
5 67 (15.02%) DevOps
6 65 (14.57%) Migration
7 62 (13.90%) Cybersecurity
8 58 (13.00%) Agile
9 51 (11.43%) Roadmaps
10 43 (9.64%) Data Protection
11 42 (9.42%) Capacity Management
11 42 (9.42%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 41 (9.19%) Project Management
13 39 (8.74%) Infrastructure as Code
14 38 (8.52%) Analytics
15 37 (8.30%) Business Strategy
15 37 (8.30%) Computer Science
15 37 (8.30%) Storage Management
16 32 (7.17%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 88 (19.73%) SQL
2 68 (15.25%) PowerShell
3 66 (14.80%) Python
4 41 (9.19%) Bash
5 33 (7.40%) C#
6 25 (5.61%) PL/SQL
7 18 (4.04%) T-SQL
8 17 (3.81%) Java
9 15 (3.36%) VB
9 15 (3.36%) VBA
10 12 (2.69%) Go
11 9 (2.02%) Bicep
12 7 (1.57%) C++
12 7 (1.57%) JavaScript
13 6 (1.35%) VB.NET
14 5 (1.12%) Perl
14 5 (1.12%) Shell Script
15 3 (0.67%) COBOL
15 3 (0.67%) REXX
16 2 (0.45%) AWK
Qualifications
1 91 (20.40%) Security Cleared
2 73 (16.37%) Degree
3 70 (15.70%) SC Cleared
4 25 (5.61%) DV Cleared
5 20 (4.48%) Cisco Certification
5 20 (4.48%) Computer Science Degree
6 19 (4.26%) CCNP
6 19 (4.26%) Microsoft Certification
7 17 (3.81%) CCNA
8 10 (2.24%) MCSE
9 8 (1.79%) MCITP
9 8 (1.79%) MCTS
10 6 (1.35%) CISSP
11 5 (1.12%) CISM
11 5 (1.12%) CTC Cleared
11 5 (1.12%) SAP Certification
12 4 (0.90%) AWS Certification
12 4 (0.90%) Azure Certification
13 3 (0.67%) BPSS Clearance
13 3 (0.67%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (6.05%) NIST
2 23 (5.16%) SLA
3 17 (3.81%) QA
4 14 (3.14%) GDPR
5 11 (2.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 9 (2.02%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 6 (1.35%) Cyber Essentials
7 6 (1.35%) GRC
8 5 (1.12%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 4 (0.90%) Data Quality
10 3 (0.67%) COBIT
10 3 (0.67%) IASME
10 3 (0.67%) PCI DSS
11 2 (0.45%) Accessibility
11 2 (0.45%) ISO 22301
12 1 (0.22%) IFRS
12 1 (0.22%) IFRS 17
12 1 (0.22%) NCSC
System Software
1 96 (21.52%) Active Directory
2 64 (14.35%) VMware Infrastructure
3 27 (6.05%) Virtual Machines
4 22 (4.93%) Hyper-V
5 19 (4.26%) VMware ESXi
6 18 (4.04%) Docker
7 14 (3.14%) NFS
7 14 (3.14%) vSphere
8 13 (2.91%) HDFS
9 9 (2.02%) Firmware
10 8 (1.79%) KVM
11 5 (1.12%) vCloud
12 4 (0.90%) Virtual Servers
13 3 (0.67%) Microsoft Virtual Server
13 3 (0.67%) Virtual Desktop
13 3 (0.67%) VMware NSX
14 2 (0.45%) BitLocker
14 2 (0.45%) Microsoft App-V
14 2 (0.45%) XenApp
15 1 (0.22%) Terminal Server
Systems Management
1 61 (13.68%) Terraform
2 44 (9.87%) Ansible
3 40 (8.97%) SCCM
4 30 (6.73%) Kubernetes
5 24 (5.38%) NetBackup
6 20 (4.48%) EMC NetWorker
6 20 (4.48%) SCOM
7 19 (4.26%) vCenter Server
8 17 (3.81%) WSUS
9 13 (2.91%) Grafana
10 10 (2.24%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 9 (2.02%) Prometheus
12 8 (1.79%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
13 7 (1.57%) BladeLogic
13 7 (1.57%) ITRS Geneos
13 7 (1.57%) Single Sign-On
13 7 (1.57%) Tivoli Storage Manager
14 6 (1.35%) Netcool
14 6 (1.35%) Tivoli
14 6 (1.35%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 105 (23.54%) Microsoft
2 97 (21.75%) Oracle
3 74 (16.59%) VMware
4 54 (12.11%) Citrix
5 51 (11.43%) Cisco
6 39 (8.74%) Dell
6 39 (8.74%) EMC
7 38 (8.52%) HP
8 26 (5.83%) Palo Alto
9 25 (5.61%) CheckPoint
10 24 (5.38%) SAP
11 20 (4.48%) Isilon
12 19 (4.26%) Red Hat
12 19 (4.26%) SolarWinds
13 18 (4.04%) Juniper
13 18 (4.04%) ServiceNow
14 16 (3.59%) Veeam
15 15 (3.36%) 3PAR
15 15 (3.36%) F5
15 15 (3.36%) Splunk