Disaster Recovery Contracts in the City of London

Disaster Recovery
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of 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 3 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 88 92 145
Rank change year-on-year +4 +53 +6
Contract jobs citing Disaster Recovery 27 33 24
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 1.50% 1.55% 0.69%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.60% 1.70% 0.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 28 21
10th Percentile - £250 -
25th Percentile £404 £350 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £375 £473
Median % change year-on-year +40.00% -20.63% -12.50%
75th Percentile £638 £419 £575
90th Percentile £687 £638 £695
Central London median daily rate £525 £375 £484
% change year-on-year +40.00% -22.48% -10.42%

All Process and Methodology Skills
City of 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 City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,687 1,944 3,153
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 93.88% 91.05% 91.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,080 1,349 2,115
10th Percentile £350 £363 £350
25th Percentile £450 £463 £478
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £560 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -2.62% -4.17% +4.35%
75th Percentile £688 £688 £725
90th Percentile £775 £800 £825
Central London median daily rate £550 £560 £600
% change year-on-year -1.79% -6.67% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 15 24
10th Percentile £17.02 £20.04 £14.25
25th Percentile £24.43 £20.36 £16.33
Median hourly rate £29.75 £27.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +10.19% -22.86% -18.83%
75th Percentile £50.75 £40.92 £57.50
90th Percentile £66.25 £67.35 £88.30
Central London median hourly rate £31.00 £27.81 £35.00
% change year-on-year +11.47% -20.54% -18.13%

Disaster Recovery
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for Disaster Recovery in the City of London

Disaster Recovery
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

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

Daily rate trend for Disaster Recovery in the City of London

Disaster Recovery
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Disaster Recovery in the City of London over the 6 months to 3 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Disaster Recovery in the City of London

Disaster Recovery
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

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

Hourly rate trend for Disaster Recovery in the City of London

Disaster Recovery
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of 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 3 (11.11%) SharePoint
2 2 (7.41%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 3 (11.11%) OpenText MBPM
1 3 (11.11%) Oracle BPM
2 1 (3.70%) Oracle Assets
2 1 (3.70%) Oracle Cash Management
2 1 (3.70%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (3.70%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
Cloud Services
1 3 (11.11%) Azure
1 3 (11.11%) Power Automate
1 3 (11.11%) Power Platform
2 2 (7.41%) AWS
2 2 (7.41%) GitHub
2 2 (7.41%) IaaS
2 2 (7.41%) Nutanix
2 2 (7.41%) PaaS
2 2 (7.41%) PowerApps
2 2 (7.41%) SaaS
3 1 (3.70%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (3.70%) Azure AKS
3 1 (3.70%) Azure Data Factory
3 1 (3.70%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (3.70%) Azure Monitor
3 1 (3.70%) Azure Storage
3 1 (3.70%) Azure Table
3 1 (3.70%) Cloud Computing
3 1 (3.70%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (3.70%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.70%) DNS
1 1 (3.70%) Firewall
1 1 (3.70%) Kerberos
1 1 (3.70%) TCP/IP
1 1 (3.70%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (33.33%) SQL Server
2 1 (3.70%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (3.70%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (3.70%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (3.70%) MongoDB
2 1 (3.70%) Oracle Database
2 1 (3.70%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (3.70%) Power BI
2 1 (3.70%) Relational Database
2 1 (3.70%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 4 (14.81%) JIRA
2 1 (3.70%) Subversion
2 1 (3.70%) TeamCity
General
1 18 (66.67%) Finance
2 8 (29.63%) Banking
3 4 (14.81%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (11.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 3 (11.11%) Investment Banking
4 3 (11.11%) Social Skills
5 2 (7.41%) International Banking
6 1 (3.70%) Corporate Banking
6 1 (3.70%) Financial Institution
6 1 (3.70%) Front Office
6 1 (3.70%) General Ledger
6 1 (3.70%) Legal
6 1 (3.70%) Retail
6 1 (3.70%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 9 (33.33%) Developer
2 4 (14.81%) .NET Developer
2 4 (14.81%) Administrator
2 4 (14.81%) C# .NET Developer
2 4 (14.81%) C# Developer
2 4 (14.81%) DBA
3 3 (11.11%) Applications Developer
3 3 (11.11%) BPM Developer
4 2 (7.41%) Azure Engineer
4 2 (7.41%) Delivery Manager
4 2 (7.41%) Power Apps Developer
4 2 (7.41%) Power Platform Developer
5 1 (3.70%) Cloud Engineer
5 1 (3.70%) DevOps Engineer
5 1 (3.70%) Infrastructure Delivery Manager
5 1 (3.70%) MongoDB DBA
5 1 (3.70%) Risk Consultant
5 1 (3.70%) Site Engineer
5 1 (3.70%) Technical Delivery Manager
5 1 (3.70%) Testing Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (29.63%) .NET
2 4 (14.81%) REST
3 3 (11.11%) WPF
4 2 (7.41%) CSS
4 2 (7.41%) HTML
4 2 (7.41%) HTML5 Canvas
5 1 (3.70%) .NET Core
5 1 (3.70%) ADO
5 1 (3.70%) ARM Templates
5 1 (3.70%) Kafka
5 1 (3.70%) LDAP
5 1 (3.70%) Middleware
5 1 (3.70%) Oracle Fusion
5 1 (3.70%) PySpark
5 1 (3.70%) WinForms
Miscellaneous
1 3 (11.11%) Replication
2 2 (7.41%) Clustering
2 2 (7.41%) Wiki
3 1 (3.70%) Data Centre
3 1 (3.70%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (3.70%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (3.70%) Fixed Income
3 1 (3.70%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 1 (3.70%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 6 (22.22%) Windows
2 2 (7.41%) Linux
2 2 (7.41%) Unix
2 2 (7.41%) Windows Server
3 1 (3.70%) OpenVMS
3 1 (3.70%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (25.93%) Data Analysis
1 7 (25.93%) Unit Testing
2 6 (22.22%) High Availability
3 5 (18.52%) Business Continuity
3 5 (18.52%) Performance Tuning
3 5 (18.52%) Problem-Solving
3 5 (18.52%) Stakeholder Management
4 3 (11.11%) CI/CD
4 3 (11.11%) Data Security
4 3 (11.11%) DevOps
4 3 (11.11%) Incident Management
4 3 (11.11%) ITIL
4 3 (11.11%) Migration
4 3 (11.11%) Programme Management
5 2 (7.41%) Business Continuity Planning
5 2 (7.41%) Collaborative Working
5 2 (7.41%) Cybersecurity
5 2 (7.41%) Incident Response
5 2 (7.41%) Observability
5 2 (7.41%) Performance Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 9 (33.33%) C#
1 9 (33.33%) SQL
2 5 (18.52%) JavaScript
2 5 (18.52%) Python
3 4 (14.81%) PowerShell
4 3 (11.11%) Bash
5 1 (3.70%) Bicep
5 1 (3.70%) C
5 1 (3.70%) Java
5 1 (3.70%) Perl
5 1 (3.70%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (3.70%) Azure Certification
1 1 (3.70%) CISA
1 1 (3.70%) CISSP
1 1 (3.70%) Degree
1 1 (3.70%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
1 1 (3.70%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
1 1 (3.70%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (3.70%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (29.63%) QA
2 2 (7.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (3.70%) Data Quality
3 1 (3.70%) GAAP
3 1 (3.70%) GRC
3 1 (3.70%) IFRS
3 1 (3.70%) NIST
3 1 (3.70%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 2 (7.41%) Active Directory
2 1 (3.70%) NFS
2 1 (3.70%) Veritas File System
2 1 (3.70%) Veritas Volume Manager
2 1 (3.70%) Virtual Servers
2 1 (3.70%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (3.70%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (3.70%) Ansible
1 1 (3.70%) Control-M
1 1 (3.70%) Grafana
1 1 (3.70%) Istio
1 1 (3.70%) ITRS Geneos
1 1 (3.70%) Kubernetes
1 1 (3.70%) Netcool
1 1 (3.70%) Prometheus
1 1 (3.70%) QRadar
1 1 (3.70%) Red Hat Satellite
1 1 (3.70%) SCCM
1 1 (3.70%) Terraform
1 1 (3.70%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 10 (37.04%) Oracle
2 3 (11.11%) OpenText
2 3 (11.11%) VMware
3 2 (7.41%) ServiceNow
4 1 (3.70%) BMC
4 1 (3.70%) Commvault
4 1 (3.70%) Confluent
4 1 (3.70%) CyberArk
4 1 (3.70%) IBM
4 1 (3.70%) Microsoft
4 1 (3.70%) MobileIron
4 1 (3.70%) Qualys
4 1 (3.70%) Red Hat
4 1 (3.70%) SaltStack
4 1 (3.70%) Splunk