Disaster Recovery Contracts in the UK excluding London

Disaster Recovery
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 10 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 187 215 246
Rank change year-on-year +28 +31 -16
Contract jobs citing Disaster Recovery 239 242 306
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.12% 1.07% 1.01%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.36% 1.20% 1.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 175 185 203
10th Percentile £313 £318 £292
25th Percentile £403 £406 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £485
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +8.25% +7.78%
75th Percentile £600 £613 £569
90th Percentile £650 £679 £651
UK median daily rate £494 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -1.22% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 6 6
10th Percentile £29.07 £16.85 £26.75
25th Percentile - £19.14 £44.44
Median hourly rate £61.60 £40.42 £53.11
Median % change year-on-year +52.42% -23.90% +108.27%
75th Percentile - £57.02 £64.80
90th Percentile £68.25 £57.33 £68.75
UK median hourly rate £61.60 £54.83 £60.63
% change year-on-year +12.35% -9.56% +137.75%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,592 20,238 27,144
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 82.79% 89.10% 89.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,357 13,876 18,979
10th Percentile £250 £260 £245
25th Percentile £375 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £490
Median % change year-on-year - +2.04% +8.89%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £586
90th Percentile £688 £694 £663
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,189 1,255 1,329
10th Percentile £12.50 £10.68 £12.48
25th Percentile £15.46 £15.21 £14.25
Median hourly rate £38.12 £35.00 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.91% +66.67% +0.65%
75th Percentile £61.30 £64.25 £47.50
90th Percentile £72.97 £74.92 £63.05
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £35.80 £25.68
% change year-on-year +1.96% +39.41% +11.65%

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 10 June 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 10 June 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 10 June 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 +59 81 £575 +4.55% 39
North of England +46 62 £534 +33.50% 56
North West +18 37 £550 +27.17% 35
South West -26 34 £505 -15.92% 22
Scotland +26 26 £475 -5.00% 16
Yorkshire +19 21 £445 +11.25% 15
Midlands -1 20 £400 +3.23% 34
East of England +12 19 £420 -20.00% 27
West Midlands +11 14 £425 +6.25% 20
East Midlands 0 6 £400 +6.67% 14
North East - 4 £475 - 7
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 12 (5.02%) SharePoint
2 9 (3.77%) Apache Spark
3 5 (2.09%) Confluence
4 3 (1.26%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (0.84%) SAS
6 1 (0.42%) OpenEdge
6 1 (0.42%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 3 (1.26%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 8 (3.35%) SAP S/4HANA
2 7 (2.93%) Oracle EBS
2 7 (2.93%) Teamcenter
3 6 (2.51%) Remedy ITSM
4 1 (0.42%) MFGPRO
4 1 (0.42%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.42%) Sage 50
Cloud Services
1 67 (28.03%) Azure
2 32 (13.39%) AWS
3 27 (11.30%) Serverless
4 23 (9.62%) GCP
5 20 (8.37%) Amazon S3
6 17 (7.11%) OCI
7 12 (5.02%) GitHub
7 12 (5.02%) Power Platform
8 10 (4.18%) Cloud Computing
8 10 (4.18%) Microsoft 365
9 9 (3.77%) Azure Data Lake Analytics
10 8 (3.35%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 8 (3.35%) Amazon EC2
10 8 (3.35%) AWS CloudFormation
10 8 (3.35%) PaaS
11 7 (2.93%) Amazon OpenSearch
11 7 (2.93%) AWS Lambda
11 7 (2.93%) Entra ID
12 6 (2.51%) Power Automate
12 6 (2.51%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 31 (12.97%) Firewall
2 28 (11.72%) SAN
3 22 (9.21%) DNS
4 18 (7.53%) DHCP
5 13 (5.44%) WAN
6 11 (4.60%) VPN
7 10 (4.18%) LAN
8 6 (2.51%) Wi-Fi
9 5 (2.09%) Extranet
9 5 (2.09%) Intranet
9 5 (2.09%) Network Security
10 4 (1.67%) Fibre Channel
10 4 (1.67%) Internet
10 4 (1.67%) Wireless
11 3 (1.26%) TCP/IP
12 2 (0.84%) BGP
12 2 (0.84%) Cisco ASA
12 2 (0.84%) NAS
12 2 (0.84%) OSPF
12 2 (0.84%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (16.74%) SQL Server
2 28 (11.72%) MongoDB
2 28 (11.72%) PostgreSQL
3 20 (8.37%) Oracle Database
4 17 (7.11%) Amazon RDS
5 12 (5.02%) BigQuery
6 10 (4.18%) Data Lake
6 10 (4.18%) Hadoop
7 9 (3.77%) Amazon Athena
7 9 (3.77%) Amazon Redshift
7 9 (3.77%) Big Data
8 8 (3.35%) SAP HANA
9 7 (2.93%) Informix
9 7 (2.93%) RDBMS
9 7 (2.93%) Relational Database
10 6 (2.51%) Azure SQL Database
10 6 (2.51%) NoSQL
10 6 (2.51%) Oracle Reports
10 6 (2.51%) Power BI
11 3 (1.26%) Amazon Aurora
Development Applications
1 11 (4.60%) Git
2 9 (3.77%) Jenkins
3 8 (3.35%) GitLab
4 4 (1.67%) JIRA
5 2 (0.84%) Sonatype Nexus
5 2 (0.84%) Visual Studio
6 1 (0.42%) Hudson
6 1 (0.42%) LoadRunner
6 1 (0.42%) MSI
6 1 (0.42%) Octopus Deploy
6 1 (0.42%) Postman
6 1 (0.42%) SoapUI
General
1 78 (32.64%) Social Skills
2 28 (11.72%) Public Sector
3 25 (10.46%) Finance
4 19 (7.95%) Analytical Skills
5 12 (5.02%) Banking
6 6 (2.51%) Military
6 6 (2.51%) Telecoms
7 5 (2.09%) Marketing
8 4 (1.67%) Manufacturing
9 2 (0.84%) Automotive
9 2 (0.84%) Financial Institution
9 2 (0.84%) French Language
10 1 (0.42%) Advertising
10 1 (0.42%) Electronics
10 1 (0.42%) Fire and Rescue
10 1 (0.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.42%) Legal
10 1 (0.42%) Local Government
10 1 (0.42%) Police
10 1 (0.42%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 39 (16.32%) Architect
2 31 (12.97%) DBA
3 25 (10.46%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 22 (9.21%) Senior
5 21 (8.79%) Analyst
6 18 (7.53%) Administrator
6 18 (7.53%) SQL DBA
7 17 (7.11%) Lead
8 14 (5.86%) Solutions Architect
9 13 (5.44%) Cybersecurity Analyst
9 13 (5.44%) Database Specialist
10 12 (5.02%) Consultant
11 11 (4.60%) Storage Engineer
12 9 (3.77%) Test Analyst
13 8 (3.35%) Developer
13 8 (3.35%) SAP Basis Consultant
13 8 (3.35%) SAP Consultant
13 8 (3.35%) SAP Technical Consultant
13 8 (3.35%) Technical Consultant
14 7 (2.93%) PostgreSQL DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (8.37%) Kafka
2 8 (3.35%) AWS CDK
2 8 (3.35%) SAP Basis
2 8 (3.35%) SAP Fiori
3 7 (2.93%) JSON
4 6 (2.51%) CSS
4 6 (2.51%) HTML
4 6 (2.51%) HTML5 Canvas
4 6 (2.51%) REST
4 6 (2.51%) XML
5 5 (2.09%) Middleware
6 4 (1.67%) ARM Templates
7 3 (1.26%) .NET
7 3 (1.26%) J2EE
7 3 (1.26%) Web Services
8 2 (0.84%) Flash
8 2 (0.84%) ISPF
9 1 (0.42%) LDAP
9 1 (0.42%) SAML
9 1 (0.42%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 42 (17.57%) Replication
2 22 (9.21%) Data Centre
3 18 (7.53%) Clustering
4 10 (4.18%) Linux Command Line
5 9 (3.77%) Blog
6 8 (3.35%) Management Information System
7 7 (2.93%) Public Cloud
8 6 (2.51%) CMDB
9 5 (2.09%) Cloud Native
9 5 (2.09%) Self-Motivation
10 4 (1.67%) Client/Server
11 3 (1.26%) Data Fabric
11 3 (1.26%) N-Tier
12 2 (0.84%) Cyber Defence
12 2 (0.84%) Cyber Kill Chain
12 2 (0.84%) Cyber Threat
12 2 (0.84%) Data Protection Act
12 2 (0.84%) Mainframe
12 2 (0.84%) PKI
12 2 (0.84%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 67 (28.03%) Windows
2 52 (21.76%) Linux
3 34 (14.23%) Windows Server
4 20 (8.37%) Windows Server 2016
5 18 (7.53%) Windows Server 2012
5 18 (7.53%) Windows Server 2019
6 17 (7.11%) Windows 10
7 14 (5.86%) Windows XP
8 12 (5.02%) Unix
9 9 (3.77%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 9 (3.77%) zOS
10 2 (0.84%) Solaris
10 2 (0.84%) VMS
10 2 (0.84%) Windows 7
11 1 (0.42%) Android
11 1 (0.42%) Apple iOS
11 1 (0.42%) HPUX
11 1 (0.42%) Mac OS
11 1 (0.42%) Ubuntu
11 1 (0.42%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 77 (32.22%) High Availability
2 56 (23.43%) Problem-Solving
3 53 (22.18%) Performance Tuning
4 51 (21.34%) Business Continuity
5 50 (20.92%) ITIL
6 40 (16.74%) Agile
7 32 (13.39%) Migration
8 31 (12.97%) Project Management
9 29 (12.13%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 28 (11.72%) Cybersecurity
11 27 (11.30%) Roadmaps
12 26 (10.88%) Storage Management
13 25 (10.46%) DevOps
14 24 (10.04%) Infrastructure as Code
15 23 (9.62%) Proactive Monitoring
16 22 (9.21%) Data Protection
16 22 (9.21%) Task Automation
17 21 (8.79%) Capacity Management
18 18 (7.53%) Analytics
18 18 (7.53%) Performance Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 47 (19.67%) SQL
2 33 (13.81%) PowerShell
3 21 (8.79%) Python
4 17 (7.11%) Bash
5 9 (3.77%) Java
6 8 (3.35%) TypeScript
7 7 (2.93%) PL/SQL
8 6 (2.51%) JavaScript
9 4 (1.67%) Bicep
9 4 (1.67%) Shell Script
9 4 (1.67%) T-SQL
10 3 (1.26%) Perl
11 2 (0.84%) Assembly Language
11 2 (0.84%) AWK
11 2 (0.84%) Bourne shell
11 2 (0.84%) JCL
11 2 (0.84%) Korn
11 2 (0.84%) REXX
Qualifications
1 76 (31.80%) Security Cleared
2 62 (25.94%) SC Cleared
3 35 (14.64%) Degree
4 24 (10.04%) DV Cleared
5 17 (7.11%) CCNA
5 17 (7.11%) Cisco Certification
6 15 (6.28%) Microsoft Certification
7 14 (5.86%) CCNP
8 10 (4.18%) MCSE
9 5 (2.09%) MCITP
9 5 (2.09%) MCTS
9 5 (2.09%) SAP Certification
10 3 (1.26%) BPSS Clearance
10 3 (1.26%) Computer Science Degree
10 3 (1.26%) RHCE
10 3 (1.26%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 2 (0.84%) AWS Certification
11 2 (0.84%) PMI Certification
11 2 (0.84%) PMP
11 2 (0.84%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (4.18%) NIST
1 10 (4.18%) SLA
2 5 (2.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (1.26%) Cyber Essentials
3 3 (1.26%) IASME
4 2 (0.84%) Disclosure Scotland
4 2 (0.84%) GDPR
4 2 (0.84%) GRC
4 2 (0.84%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
4 2 (0.84%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (0.42%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.42%) ISO 20022
5 1 (0.42%) ISO 8583
5 1 (0.42%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 47 (19.67%) Active Directory
2 38 (15.90%) VMware Infrastructure
3 21 (8.79%) Hyper-V
4 20 (8.37%) VMware ESXi
5 12 (5.02%) vSphere
6 3 (1.26%) Firmware
6 3 (1.26%) Virtual Machines
7 2 (0.84%) ACF2
7 2 (0.84%) RACF
7 2 (0.84%) Time Sharing Option
7 2 (0.84%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (0.42%) HDFS
8 1 (0.42%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 1 (0.42%) NFS
8 1 (0.42%) Terminal Services
8 1 (0.42%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (0.42%) VMware NSX
8 1 (0.42%) XenApp
8 1 (0.42%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 25 (10.46%) Terraform
2 22 (9.21%) NetBackup
3 20 (8.37%) Ansible
4 19 (7.95%) vCenter Server
5 18 (7.53%) SCCM
6 17 (7.11%) WSUS
7 15 (6.28%) SCOM
8 14 (5.86%) EMC NetWorker
9 9 (3.77%) Grafana
10 7 (2.93%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
11 5 (2.09%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 4 (1.67%) Kubernetes
13 3 (1.26%) Red Hat Satellite
14 2 (0.84%) Nessus
14 2 (0.84%) Oracle ZFS
14 2 (0.84%) Single Sign-On
14 2 (0.84%) yum
15 1 (0.42%) Failover Clustering
15 1 (0.42%) Prometheus
15 1 (0.42%) vRealize
Vendors
1 66 (27.62%) Microsoft
2 63 (26.36%) Oracle
3 39 (16.32%) VMware
4 24 (10.04%) Cisco
5 23 (9.62%) Palo Alto
6 19 (7.95%) Red Hat
7 18 (7.53%) EMC
7 18 (7.53%) HP
8 16 (6.69%) Dell
8 16 (6.69%) Juniper
8 16 (6.69%) SAP
9 15 (6.28%) 3PAR
9 15 (6.28%) Veeam
10 14 (5.86%) Extreme Networks
10 14 (5.86%) Symantec
11 13 (5.44%) SolarWinds
12 11 (4.60%) Google
13 9 (3.77%) F5
14 6 (2.51%) Remedy
14 6 (2.51%) Veritas