Disaster Recovery Contracts in the UK excluding London

Disaster Recovery
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 195 205 244
Rank change year-on-year +10 +39 -41
Contract jobs citing Disaster Recovery 226 275 317
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.10% 1.17% 1.04%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.31% 1.31% 1.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 170 214 211
10th Percentile £324 £325 £288
25th Percentile £411 £407 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +10.53% +5.56%
75th Percentile £608 £613 £575
90th Percentile £665 £673 £675
UK median daily rate £500 £509 £488
% change year-on-year -1.77% +4.41% +2.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 6 9
10th Percentile £45.26 £16.85 £34.23
25th Percentile - £19.14 £42.33
Median hourly rate £61.60 £40.42 £55.45
Median % change year-on-year +52.42% -27.11% +146.44%
75th Percentile £64.55 £57.02 £69.05
90th Percentile £70.50 £57.33 £69.24
UK median hourly rate £61.60 £54.83 £55.45
% change year-on-year +12.35% -1.12% +117.45%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,297 21,007 27,024
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 84.45% 89.55% 88.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,312 14,549 18,866
10th Percentile £250 £256 £235
25th Percentile £378 £400 £386
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.57%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,055 1,290 1,325
10th Percentile £12.32 £11.00 £12.22
25th Percentile £15.17 £15.41 £14.00
Median hourly rate £38.00 £35.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.57% +75.00% -6.98%
75th Percentile £61.25 £65.00 £46.17
90th Percentile £72.90 £73.75 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.18
% change year-on-year +1.39% +42.97% +2.78%

Disaster Recovery
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Disaster Recovery as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Disaster Recovery in the UK excluding London

Disaster Recovery
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Disaster Recovery in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Disaster Recovery in the UK excluding London

Disaster Recovery
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Disaster Recovery in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Disaster Recovery in the UK excluding London

Disaster Recovery
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Disaster Recovery in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Disaster Recovery in the UK excluding London

Disaster Recovery
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Disaster Recovery in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Disaster Recovery in the UK excluding London

Disaster Recovery
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 9 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
South East +73 85 £575 +4.55% 49
North of England +33 53 £534 +33.50% 53
North West +21 40 £540 +13.68% 27
South West -28 32 £550 -8.33% 14
Scotland +17 31 £475 -5.00% 9
Midlands +14 18 £400 - 30
West Midlands +13 12 £400 - 17
Yorkshire +13 9 £423 +6.96% 18
East of England 0 8 £442 -33.28% 17
East Midlands +13 6 £400 +6.67% 13
North East - 4 £475 - 8
Wales +17 1 £450 -12.20% 1
Disaster Recovery
UK

Disaster Recovery
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 8 (3.54%) Confluence
2 7 (3.10%) SharePoint
3 4 (1.77%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.88%) SAS
5 1 (0.44%) Cloud Foundry
5 1 (0.44%) OpenEdge
5 1 (0.44%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 2 (0.88%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 7 (3.10%) Oracle EBS
1 7 (3.10%) Remedy ITSM
1 7 (3.10%) Teamcenter
2 6 (2.65%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.44%) MFGPRO
3 1 (0.44%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.44%) Sage 50
Cloud Services
1 64 (28.32%) Azure
2 24 (10.62%) AWS
3 23 (10.18%) Serverless
4 17 (7.52%) OCI
5 14 (6.19%) GCP
6 12 (5.31%) GitHub
7 10 (4.42%) Amazon S3
8 8 (3.54%) Microsoft 365
8 8 (3.54%) PaaS
9 7 (3.10%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 7 (3.10%) Amazon EC2
9 7 (3.10%) AWS CloudFormation
9 7 (3.10%) AWS Lambda
9 7 (3.10%) Entra ID
10 6 (2.65%) IaaS
10 6 (2.65%) Power Platform
11 5 (2.21%) Azure DevOps
11 5 (2.21%) Azure Logic Apps
11 5 (2.21%) Azure Monitor
11 5 (2.21%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 29 (12.83%) Firewall
1 29 (12.83%) SAN
2 23 (10.18%) DNS
3 19 (8.41%) DHCP
4 14 (6.19%) WAN
5 11 (4.87%) LAN
6 7 (3.10%) VPN
7 5 (2.21%) Wi-Fi
7 5 (2.21%) Wireless
8 4 (1.77%) Network Security
9 3 (1.33%) BGP
9 3 (1.33%) Cisco ASA
9 3 (1.33%) Cisco Nexus
9 3 (1.33%) Fibre Channel
9 3 (1.33%) Intranet
9 3 (1.33%) OSPF
9 3 (1.33%) TCP/IP
10 2 (0.88%) Cisco ISE
10 2 (0.88%) Internet
10 2 (0.88%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 44 (19.47%) SQL Server
2 36 (15.93%) PostgreSQL
3 34 (15.04%) MongoDB
4 21 (9.29%) Oracle Database
5 13 (5.75%) Relational Database
6 12 (5.31%) RDBMS
7 11 (4.87%) NoSQL
8 10 (4.42%) Oracle Reports
9 8 (3.54%) Amazon RDS
10 6 (2.65%) Azure SQL Database
10 6 (2.65%) Informix
10 6 (2.65%) SAP HANA
11 5 (2.21%) Power BI
12 3 (1.33%) Amazon Aurora
12 3 (1.33%) DB2
12 3 (1.33%) InfluxDB
13 2 (0.88%) BigQuery
13 2 (0.88%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
13 2 (0.88%) Hadoop
13 2 (0.88%) Oracle Exadata
Development Applications
1 8 (3.54%) GitLab
1 8 (3.54%) JIRA
2 3 (1.33%) Git
3 2 (0.88%) Sonatype Nexus
3 2 (0.88%) Visual Studio
4 1 (0.44%) Bitbucket
4 1 (0.44%) Hudson
4 1 (0.44%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.44%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 73 (32.30%) Social Skills
2 30 (13.27%) Public Sector
3 23 (10.18%) Finance
4 16 (7.08%) Analytical Skills
5 9 (3.98%) Banking
6 6 (2.65%) Military
7 5 (2.21%) Marketing
7 5 (2.21%) Telecoms
8 4 (1.77%) Financial Institution
9 2 (0.88%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.44%) Advertising
10 1 (0.44%) Automotive
10 1 (0.44%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.44%) Electronics
10 1 (0.44%) Fire and Rescue
10 1 (0.44%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.44%) Law
10 1 (0.44%) Police
10 1 (0.44%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.44%) Welsh Language
Job Titles
1 42 (18.58%) DBA
2 29 (12.83%) Architect
3 23 (10.18%) Senior
3 23 (10.18%) SQL DBA
4 20 (8.85%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 19 (8.41%) Analyst
6 18 (7.96%) Administrator
7 13 (5.75%) Database Specialist
7 13 (5.75%) Lead
8 12 (5.31%) Consultant
8 12 (5.31%) PostgreSQL DBA
9 11 (4.87%) Cybersecurity Analyst
9 11 (4.87%) Storage Engineer
10 10 (4.42%) SQL Server DBA
11 8 (3.54%) Test Analyst
12 7 (3.10%) Senior DBA
12 7 (3.10%) Senior SQL DBA
12 7 (3.10%) Server Engineer
13 6 (2.65%) Network Architect
13 6 (2.65%) SAP Basis Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (7.52%) Kafka
2 12 (5.31%) JSON
3 11 (4.87%) XML
4 8 (3.54%) AWS CDK
5 6 (2.65%) SAP Basis
5 6 (2.65%) SAP Fiori
6 4 (1.77%) ARM Templates
6 4 (1.77%) Middleware
7 3 (1.33%) .NET
7 3 (1.33%) Flash
7 3 (1.33%) J2EE
7 3 (1.33%) Web Services
8 2 (0.88%) Elastic Stack
8 2 (0.88%) ISPF
8 2 (0.88%) YAML
9 1 (0.44%) CSS
9 1 (0.44%) HTML
9 1 (0.44%) HTML5 Canvas
9 1 (0.44%) RabbitMQ
9 1 (0.44%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 41 (18.14%) Replication
2 22 (9.73%) Data Centre
3 17 (7.52%) Clustering
4 10 (4.42%) Linux Command Line
5 9 (3.98%) Blog
6 8 (3.54%) Management Information System
7 7 (3.10%) Public Cloud
7 7 (3.10%) Self-Motivation
8 6 (2.65%) CMDB
9 5 (2.21%) Cloud Native
10 4 (1.77%) Client/Server
11 3 (1.33%) Enterprise Storage
11 3 (1.33%) N-Tier
11 3 (1.33%) PKI
12 2 (0.88%) Cyber Threat
12 2 (0.88%) Cyberattack
12 2 (0.88%) Data Protection Act
12 2 (0.88%) IBM Mainframe
12 2 (0.88%) IoT
12 2 (0.88%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 63 (27.88%) Windows
2 54 (23.89%) Linux
3 35 (15.49%) Windows Server
4 22 (9.73%) Windows Server 2016
5 19 (8.41%) Windows Server 2012
5 19 (8.41%) Windows Server 2019
6 17 (7.52%) Windows 10
7 14 (6.19%) Windows XP
8 11 (4.87%) Unix
9 9 (3.98%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 8 (3.54%) zOS
11 2 (0.88%) Solaris
11 2 (0.88%) Windows 7
12 1 (0.44%) Android
12 1 (0.44%) Apple iOS
12 1 (0.44%) HPUX
12 1 (0.44%) Oracle Linux
12 1 (0.44%) Ubuntu
12 1 (0.44%) VMS
12 1 (0.44%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 65 (28.76%) High Availability
2 58 (25.66%) ITIL
3 53 (23.45%) Performance Tuning
3 53 (23.45%) Problem-Solving
4 51 (22.57%) Business Continuity
5 48 (21.24%) Agile
6 33 (14.60%) Project Management
7 30 (13.27%) Roadmaps
8 29 (12.83%) Migration
9 28 (12.39%) Mentoring
10 27 (11.95%) Storage Management
11 24 (10.62%) Proactive Monitoring
12 23 (10.18%) Capacity Management
12 23 (10.18%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 22 (9.73%) Data Protection
13 22 (9.73%) Task Automation
14 21 (9.29%) Cybersecurity
14 21 (9.29%) Performance Monitoring
15 20 (8.85%) Database Security
15 20 (8.85%) Problem Management
Programming Languages
1 39 (17.26%) PowerShell
2 38 (16.81%) SQL
3 17 (7.52%) Bash
4 14 (6.19%) Python
5 8 (3.54%) T-SQL
5 8 (3.54%) TypeScript
6 7 (3.10%) PL/SQL
6 7 (3.10%) Shell Script
7 4 (1.77%) Bicep
8 3 (1.33%) Perl
9 2 (0.88%) Assembly Language
9 2 (0.88%) AWK
9 2 (0.88%) Bourne shell
9 2 (0.88%) JavaScript
9 2 (0.88%) JCL
9 2 (0.88%) Korn
9 2 (0.88%) REXX
10 1 (0.44%) C
10 1 (0.44%) Groovy
10 1 (0.44%) Java
Qualifications
1 81 (35.84%) Security Cleared
2 68 (30.09%) SC Cleared
3 36 (15.93%) Degree
4 23 (10.18%) DV Cleared
5 16 (7.08%) Cisco Certification
6 15 (6.64%) CCNA
6 15 (6.64%) CCNP
7 13 (5.75%) Microsoft Certification
8 8 (3.54%) MCSE
9 5 (2.21%) MCITP
9 5 (2.21%) MCTS
9 5 (2.21%) SAP Certification
10 3 (1.33%) BPSS Clearance
10 3 (1.33%) Computer Science Degree
10 3 (1.33%) PMI Certification
10 3 (1.33%) PMP
10 3 (1.33%) RHCE
11 2 (0.88%) AWS Certification
11 2 (0.88%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 2 (0.88%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (4.87%) SLA
2 10 (4.42%) NIST
3 7 (3.10%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (2.21%) Cyber Essentials
5 3 (1.33%) IASME
6 2 (0.88%) Disclosure Scotland
6 2 (0.88%) GDPR
6 2 (0.88%) GRC
6 2 (0.88%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
6 2 (0.88%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (0.44%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.44%) ISO 20022
7 1 (0.44%) ISO 8583
System Software
1 47 (20.80%) Active Directory
2 38 (16.81%) VMware Infrastructure
3 21 (9.29%) Hyper-V
4 18 (7.96%) VMware ESXi
5 11 (4.87%) vSphere
6 3 (1.33%) Virtual Machines
6 3 (1.33%) Virtual Servers
7 2 (0.88%) ACF2
7 2 (0.88%) HDFS
7 2 (0.88%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 2 (0.88%) RACF
7 2 (0.88%) Time Sharing Option
7 2 (0.88%) Virtual Desktop
7 2 (0.88%) VMware NSX
8 1 (0.44%) Apache ZooKeeper
8 1 (0.44%) Docker
8 1 (0.44%) Firmware
8 1 (0.44%) NFS
8 1 (0.44%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 24 (10.62%) NetBackup
2 20 (8.85%) Ansible
2 20 (8.85%) Terraform
3 18 (7.96%) vCenter Server
4 17 (7.52%) SCCM
4 17 (7.52%) WSUS
5 16 (7.08%) SCOM
6 14 (6.19%) EMC NetWorker
7 8 (3.54%) Grafana
8 7 (3.10%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 7 (3.10%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
9 6 (2.65%) Kubernetes
10 3 (1.33%) Red Hat Satellite
11 2 (0.88%) Nessus
11 2 (0.88%) OPNET
11 2 (0.88%) Oracle ZFS
11 2 (0.88%) yum
12 1 (0.44%) Puppet
12 1 (0.44%) Tivoli Storage Manager
12 1 (0.44%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 65 (28.76%) Oracle
2 53 (23.45%) Microsoft
3 38 (16.81%) VMware
4 21 (9.29%) Red Hat
5 20 (8.85%) Cisco
5 20 (8.85%) HP
5 20 (8.85%) Palo Alto
6 17 (7.52%) 3PAR
6 17 (7.52%) EMC
7 16 (7.08%) Dell
7 16 (7.08%) Juniper
8 15 (6.64%) Veeam
9 14 (6.19%) Extreme Networks
9 14 (6.19%) SAP
9 14 (6.19%) SolarWinds
9 14 (6.19%) Symantec
10 10 (4.42%) F5
11 7 (3.10%) Remedy
11 7 (3.10%) Veritas
12 5 (2.21%) IBM