Disaster Recovery Contracts

Disaster Recovery
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 193 260 279
Rank change year-on-year +67 +19 -2
Contract jobs citing Disaster Recovery 537 610 888
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.24% 1.02% 1.00%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.44% 1.13% 1.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 396 451 566
10th Percentile £313 £356 £319
25th Percentile £400 £406 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £514 £487
Median % change year-on-year -2.72% +5.54% +2.53%
75th Percentile £616 £606 £600
90th Percentile £700 £688 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £523 £525 £475
% change year-on-year -0.48% +10.53% +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 7 18
10th Percentile £21.87 £16.85 £20.88
25th Percentile £23.80 £21.43 £26.64
Median hourly rate £58.30 £54.83 £57.89
Median % change year-on-year +6.33% -5.28% +124.80%
75th Percentile £61.60 £57.33 £68.66
90th Percentile £68.25 £58.40 £79.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £61.60 £40.42 £65.00
% change year-on-year +52.42% -37.82% +188.89%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,374 53,774 80,482
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.31% 89.91% 90.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,095 37,304 56,474
10th Percentile £300 £325 £340
25th Percentile £413 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +9.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,422 1,763 1,928
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.00 £37.34 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.27% +49.36% -
75th Percentile £59.44 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £63.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £36.00 £36.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year - +80.00% -8.17%

Disaster Recovery
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Disaster Recovery in the UK

Disaster Recovery
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Disaster Recovery in the UK

Disaster Recovery
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Disaster Recovery over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Disaster Recovery in the UK

Disaster Recovery
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Disaster Recovery in the UK

Disaster Recovery
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Disaster Recovery over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Disaster Recovery in the UK

Disaster Recovery
Top 16 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 27 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
England +95 470 £500 -4.76% 265
London +96 258 £494 -0.22% 110
UK excluding London +27 230 £523 -0.48% 179
Work from Home +69 185 £500 - 103
South East +66 82 £575 +4.55% 44
North of England +41 58 £534 +36.92% 48
North West +27 45 £534 +36.92% 30
South West -18 35 £505 -15.92% 16
Scotland +9 33 £475 -5.00% 16
Midlands +2 16 £500 +29.03% 30
West Midlands +25 15 £463 -7.50% 21
Yorkshire +13 9 £423 +6.96% 15
East of England +5 7 £442 -37.96% 20
North East - 4 £475 - 3
Wales +13 1 £450 -10.00% 4
East Midlands +3 1 £700 +86.67% 9

Disaster Recovery
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 25 (4.66%) Microsoft Exchange
2 19 (3.54%) Confluence
3 13 (2.42%) IIS
4 12 (2.23%) OpenStack
4 12 (2.23%) SharePoint
5 7 (1.30%) CICS
6 6 (1.12%) Apache
7 5 (0.93%) nginx
8 3 (0.56%) SAS
9 2 (0.37%) Oracle Self-Service HR
9 2 (0.37%) Tomcat
9 2 (0.37%) WebLogic
10 1 (0.19%) Apache Airflow
10 1 (0.19%) Apache Spark
10 1 (0.19%) Cloud Foundry
10 1 (0.19%) Exchange Server 2007
10 1 (0.19%) Exchange Server 2010
10 1 (0.19%) OpenEdge
10 1 (0.19%) SharePoint Server
10 1 (0.19%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 28 (5.21%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (1.68%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.37%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 11 (2.05%) Teamcenter
2 10 (1.86%) Remedy ITSM
3 7 (1.30%) Oracle EBS
4 6 (1.12%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.19%) Dynamics GP
5 1 (0.19%) Dynamics NAV
5 1 (0.19%) MFGPRO
5 1 (0.19%) Oracle Receivables
5 1 (0.19%) Payment Gateway
5 1 (0.19%) Sage 50
5 1 (0.19%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 145 (27.00%) Azure
2 92 (17.13%) AWS
3 44 (8.19%) GCP
3 44 (8.19%) PaaS
4 32 (5.96%) Serverless
5 30 (5.59%) Microsoft 365
6 24 (4.47%) SaaS
7 22 (4.10%) GitHub
8 19 (3.54%) OCI
9 18 (3.35%) IaaS
10 17 (3.17%) Entra ID
11 14 (2.61%) AWS Lambda
12 13 (2.42%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 13 (2.42%) Amazon S3
12 13 (2.42%) Azure DevOps
12 13 (2.42%) Cloud Computing
12 13 (2.42%) Nutanix
13 11 (2.05%) Amazon EC2
13 11 (2.05%) Rubrik
14 10 (1.86%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 95 (17.69%) Firewall
2 58 (10.80%) SAN
3 50 (9.31%) DNS
4 33 (6.15%) DHCP
5 28 (5.21%) WAN
6 25 (4.66%) LAN
7 23 (4.28%) Network Security
7 23 (4.28%) VPN
8 18 (3.35%) Internet
9 17 (3.17%) NAS
9 17 (3.17%) TCP/IP
10 16 (2.98%) FTP
11 12 (2.23%) Wireless
12 11 (2.05%) OSPF
13 9 (1.68%) BGP
14 8 (1.49%) Cisco ASA
14 8 (1.49%) DMZ
14 8 (1.49%) Kerberos
14 8 (1.49%) VLAN
15 7 (1.30%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 94 (17.50%) SQL Server
2 58 (10.80%) Oracle Database
3 53 (9.87%) PostgreSQL
4 41 (7.64%) MongoDB
5 18 (3.35%) Hadoop
5 18 (3.35%) NoSQL
6 16 (2.98%) Relational Database
7 14 (2.61%) Amazon RDS
7 14 (2.61%) RDBMS
8 13 (2.42%) Oracle Reports
9 12 (2.23%) Azure SQL Database
9 12 (2.23%) MySQL
10 10 (1.86%) OLTP
11 9 (1.68%) DB2
12 8 (1.49%) Elasticsearch
12 8 (1.49%) SAP HANA
13 7 (1.30%) Data Warehouse
13 7 (1.30%) Power BI
14 6 (1.12%) Couchbase
14 6 (1.12%) Informix
Development Applications
1 25 (4.66%) Git
2 24 (4.47%) JIRA
3 21 (3.91%) Jenkins
4 10 (1.86%) GitLab
5 8 (1.49%) TeamCity
6 7 (1.30%) Artifactory
6 7 (1.30%) Subversion
7 4 (0.74%) Sonatype Nexus
8 2 (0.37%) Gatling
8 2 (0.37%) Oracle APEX
8 2 (0.37%) Visual Studio
9 1 (0.19%) Bitbucket
9 1 (0.19%) ERwin
9 1 (0.19%) Hudson
9 1 (0.19%) Katalon Studio
9 1 (0.19%) Octopus Deploy
9 1 (0.19%) Terragrunt
General
1 138 (25.70%) Social Skills
2 116 (21.60%) Finance
3 55 (10.24%) Public Sector
4 44 (8.19%) Analytical Skills
5 41 (7.64%) Banking
6 17 (3.17%) Telecoms
7 16 (2.98%) Organisational Skills
8 15 (2.79%) Presentation Skills
9 12 (2.23%) Financial Institution
10 11 (2.05%) Marketing
11 10 (1.86%) Documentation Skills
12 8 (1.49%) Manufacturing
12 8 (1.49%) Military
13 6 (1.12%) Billing
13 6 (1.12%) Electronics
13 6 (1.12%) Police
14 3 (0.56%) Advertising
14 3 (0.56%) Law
14 3 (0.56%) Legal
14 3 (0.56%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 75 (13.97%) Architect
2 62 (11.55%) DBA
3 56 (10.43%) Senior
4 47 (8.75%) Analyst
5 37 (6.89%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 35 (6.52%) SQL DBA
7 30 (5.59%) Administrator
8 29 (5.40%) Developer
9 27 (5.03%) Support Engineer
10 24 (4.47%) Lead
11 23 (4.28%) C# Developer
12 22 (4.10%) Consultant
13 20 (3.72%) Technical Architect
14 18 (3.35%) Oracle Architect
15 17 (3.17%) Network Engineer
16 16 (2.98%) .NET Developer
16 16 (2.98%) Implementation Specialist
17 15 (2.79%) C# .NET Developer
17 15 (2.79%) PostgreSQL DBA
18 14 (2.61%) Database Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (7.64%) .NET
2 28 (5.21%) LDAP
3 27 (5.03%) Kafka
4 21 (3.91%) .NET Framework
5 16 (2.98%) Middleware
6 14 (2.61%) JSON
7 13 (2.42%) XML
8 12 (2.23%) Elastic Stack
8 12 (2.23%) YAML
9 9 (1.68%) SAP Basis
9 9 (1.68%) WinForms
9 9 (1.68%) WPF
10 8 (1.49%) AWS CDK
10 8 (1.49%) REST
10 8 (1.49%) WCF
11 6 (1.12%) GraphQL
11 6 (1.12%) SAP Fiori
11 6 (1.12%) SOAP
12 5 (0.93%) OAuth
12 5 (0.93%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 84 (15.64%) Replication
2 54 (10.06%) Data Centre
3 39 (7.26%) Clustering
4 29 (5.40%) Management Information System
5 19 (3.54%) PKI
6 17 (3.17%) Public Cloud
7 14 (2.61%) Self-Motivation
7 14 (2.61%) Video Conferencing
8 13 (2.42%) Blog
9 11 (2.05%) Mainframe
10 10 (1.86%) Distributed Systems
10 10 (1.86%) Linux Command Line
11 9 (1.68%) Cloud Native
12 8 (1.49%) Hybrid Cloud
13 7 (1.30%) CMDB
14 5 (0.93%) Data Protection Act
14 5 (0.93%) Security Posture
15 4 (0.74%) Client/Server
15 4 (0.74%) IoT
16 3 (0.56%) Enterprise Storage
Operating Systems
1 159 (29.61%) Windows
2 124 (23.09%) Linux
3 70 (13.04%) Windows Server
4 40 (7.45%) Unix
5 35 (6.52%) Windows Server 2016
6 32 (5.96%) Windows Server 2012
7 22 (4.10%) Windows 10
8 19 (3.54%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 19 (3.54%) Windows Server 2019
9 16 (2.98%) Solaris
10 15 (2.79%) Oracle Linux
11 14 (2.61%) Windows XP
12 13 (2.42%) VMS
12 13 (2.42%) zOS
13 7 (1.30%) CentOS
14 6 (1.12%) Ubuntu
15 2 (0.37%) Windows 7
16 1 (0.19%) Android
16 1 (0.19%) HPUX
16 1 (0.19%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 147 (27.37%) High Availability
2 121 (22.53%) Business Continuity
3 111 (20.67%) Problem-Solving
4 108 (20.11%) ITIL
5 84 (15.64%) Migration
6 79 (14.71%) Agile
7 72 (13.41%) DevOps
7 72 (13.41%) Performance Tuning
8 68 (12.66%) Cybersecurity
9 63 (11.73%) Roadmaps
10 55 (10.24%) Capacity Management
11 51 (9.50%) Infrastructure as Code
12 49 (9.12%) Data Protection
13 45 (8.38%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 43 (8.01%) Project Management
15 41 (7.64%) Computer Science
16 40 (7.45%) Storage Management
17 39 (7.26%) Business Strategy
18 37 (6.89%) Problem Management
19 36 (6.70%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 111 (20.67%) SQL
2 89 (16.57%) PowerShell
3 66 (12.29%) Python
4 43 (8.01%) Bash
5 41 (7.64%) C#
6 35 (6.52%) PL/SQL
7 34 (6.33%) T-SQL
8 22 (4.10%) VBA
9 21 (3.91%) VB
10 13 (2.42%) VB.NET
11 11 (2.05%) Go
11 11 (2.05%) Java
12 9 (1.68%) Bicep
13 8 (1.49%) JavaScript
13 8 (1.49%) Shell Script
13 8 (1.49%) TypeScript
14 7 (1.30%) C++
14 7 (1.30%) REXX
15 5 (0.93%) COBOL
15 5 (0.93%) Perl
Qualifications
1 115 (21.42%) Security Cleared
2 94 (17.50%) SC Cleared
3 74 (13.78%) Degree
4 22 (4.10%) DV Cleared
5 20 (3.72%) Cisco Certification
5 20 (3.72%) Computer Science Degree
6 19 (3.54%) CCNP
6 19 (3.54%) Microsoft Certification
7 16 (2.98%) CCNA
8 13 (2.42%) MCSE
9 7 (1.30%) CISSP
10 5 (0.93%) AWS Certification
10 5 (0.93%) CISM
10 5 (0.93%) CTC Cleared
10 5 (0.93%) SAP Certification
11 4 (0.74%) Azure Certification
11 4 (0.74%) RHCE
12 3 (0.56%) CCA
12 3 (0.56%) PMI Certification
12 3 (0.56%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (5.21%) NIST
2 25 (4.66%) QA
3 24 (4.47%) SLA
4 19 (3.54%) GDPR
5 15 (2.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 11 (2.05%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 9 (1.68%) Cyber Essentials
8 6 (1.12%) GRC
9 5 (0.93%) Data Quality
9 5 (0.93%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
10 4 (0.74%) ISO 22301
10 4 (0.74%) PCI DSS
11 3 (0.56%) COBIT
11 3 (0.56%) IASME
12 2 (0.37%) Accessibility
12 2 (0.37%) Disclosure Scotland
13 1 (0.19%) IFRS
13 1 (0.19%) IFRS 17
13 1 (0.19%) ISO 20022
13 1 (0.19%) NCSC
System Software
1 105 (19.55%) Active Directory
2 73 (13.59%) VMware Infrastructure
3 30 (5.59%) Virtual Machines
4 26 (4.84%) Hyper-V
5 24 (4.47%) Docker
6 18 (3.35%) VMware ESXi
7 17 (3.17%) HDFS
7 17 (3.17%) NFS
8 14 (2.61%) vSphere
9 8 (1.49%) Firmware
9 8 (1.49%) KVM
10 5 (0.93%) vCloud
11 4 (0.74%) Virtual Servers
11 4 (0.74%) VMware NSX
12 3 (0.56%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 3 (0.56%) RACF
12 3 (0.56%) Virtual Desktop
13 2 (0.37%) Microsoft App-V
13 2 (0.37%) Oracle RAC
13 2 (0.37%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 66 (12.29%) Terraform
2 60 (11.17%) Ansible
3 42 (7.82%) SCCM
4 37 (6.89%) Kubernetes
5 25 (4.66%) NetBackup
6 22 (4.10%) Grafana
7 21 (3.91%) EMC NetWorker
8 20 (3.72%) SCOM
9 18 (3.35%) vCenter Server
10 16 (2.98%) WSUS
11 12 (2.23%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 11 (2.05%) Prometheus
13 8 (1.49%) ITRS Geneos
13 8 (1.49%) Netcool
13 8 (1.49%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
13 8 (1.49%) Tivoli
13 8 (1.49%) Tivoli Storage Manager
14 7 (1.30%) BladeLogic
14 7 (1.30%) Single Sign-On
15 6 (1.12%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 119 (22.16%) Oracle
2 113 (21.04%) Microsoft
3 82 (15.27%) VMware
4 60 (11.17%) Citrix
5 56 (10.43%) Cisco
6 44 (8.19%) Dell
7 42 (7.82%) HP
8 41 (7.64%) EMC
9 32 (5.96%) Palo Alto
10 28 (5.21%) SAP
11 26 (4.84%) Red Hat
11 26 (4.84%) ServiceNow
12 25 (4.66%) CheckPoint
13 24 (4.47%) Isilon
14 20 (3.72%) F5
14 20 (3.72%) SolarWinds
15 19 (3.54%) Splunk
16 17 (3.17%) Juniper
17 16 (2.98%) 3PAR
17 16 (2.98%) Qualys