Disaster Recovery Contract Job Trends in the City of London

Disaster Recovery
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the City of London requiring Disaster Recovery skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 23 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 112 96 86
Rank change year-on-year -16 -10 +64
Contract jobs citing Disaster Recovery 20 25 43
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.89% 1.41% 1.93%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.04% 1.52% 2.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 20 39
10th Percentile £400 £395 £330
25th Percentile £494 £423 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 £559 £385
Median % change year-on-year +5.15% +45.13% -22.22%
75th Percentile £785 £620 £609
90th Percentile £819 £694 £678
Central London median daily rate £588 £575 £385
% change year-on-year +2.17% +49.35% -20.41%

All Process & 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 1,924 1,644 2,014
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 85.66% 92.83% 90.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,317 1,049 1,427
10th Percentile £363 £363 £356
25th Percentile £450 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £565
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +1.77% -5.83%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £805
Central London median daily rate £550 £571 £550
% change year-on-year -3.72% +3.86% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 11 13
10th Percentile £17.99 £22.00 £19.13
25th Percentile £18.75 £24.66 £20.22
Median hourly rate £30.03 £31.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -3.12% +24.00% -42.20%
75th Percentile £51.00 £46.25 £40.00
90th Percentile £59.72 £63.75 £48.57
Central London median hourly rate £26.56 £30.04 £27.81
% change year-on-year -11.59% +8.00% -20.54%

Disaster Recovery
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Disaster Recovery relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Disaster Recovery job vacancy trend in the City of London

Disaster Recovery
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Disaster Recovery.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Disaster Recovery

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 23 April 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Disaster Recovery in the City of London

Disaster Recovery
Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Disaster Recovery.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Disaster Recovery

Disaster Recovery
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Business Applications
1 1 (5.00%) Veritas eDiscovery
Cloud Services
1 8 (40.00%) Azure
2 6 (30.00%) AWS
3 4 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
4 3 (15.00%) Rubrik
5 2 (10.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 2 (10.00%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (10.00%) Azure Monitor
5 2 (10.00%) GCP
5 2 (10.00%) GitHub
5 2 (10.00%) GitHub Actions
5 2 (10.00%) IaaS
6 1 (5.00%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (5.00%) Amazon S3
6 1 (5.00%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (5.00%) AWS CloudTrail
6 1 (5.00%) Datadog
6 1 (5.00%) PaaS
6 1 (5.00%) SaaS
6 1 (5.00%) Sumo Logic
6 1 (5.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (10.00%) Network Security
1 2 (10.00%) SAN
2 1 (5.00%) 2G
2 1 (5.00%) 4G
2 1 (5.00%) DHCP
2 1 (5.00%) DNS
2 1 (5.00%) Firewall
2 1 (5.00%) NAS
2 1 (5.00%) Radio Access Network
2 1 (5.00%) Unified Communications
2 1 (5.00%) VPN
2 1 (5.00%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.00%) Amazon Aurora
1 1 (5.00%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (5.00%) BusinessObjects
1 1 (5.00%) BusinessObjects Web Intelligence
1 1 (5.00%) MySQL
1 1 (5.00%) Oracle Database
1 1 (5.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (5.00%) SAP Data Services
1 1 (5.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (5.00%) Jenkins
General
1 8 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 6 (30.00%) Finance
3 2 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (5.00%) Banking
4 1 (5.00%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (5.00%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (5.00%) International Banking
4 1 (5.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (15.00%) Architect
1 3 (15.00%) Business Consultant
1 3 (15.00%) Business Continuity Consultant
1 3 (15.00%) Cloud Engineer
1 3 (15.00%) Consultant
1 3 (15.00%) Disaster Recovery Consultant
1 3 (15.00%) IT Consultant
2 2 (10.00%) Backup Engineer
2 2 (10.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 2 (10.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (10.00%) IT Engineer
2 2 (10.00%) VMware Engineer
3 1 (5.00%) Azure Architect
3 1 (5.00%) C# .NET Developer
3 1 (5.00%) Lead
3 1 (5.00%) Lead Solutions Architect
3 1 (5.00%) Migration Architect
3 1 (5.00%) SC Cleared DBA
3 1 (5.00%) Senior
3 1 (5.00%) Senior VMware Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.00%) .NET
1 1 (5.00%) .NET Framework
1 1 (5.00%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 3 (15.00%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (5.00%) BYOD
2 1 (5.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (5.00%) CMDB
2 1 (5.00%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 4 (20.00%) Windows
2 3 (15.00%) Windows Server
3 2 (10.00%) VMS
4 1 (5.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (35.00%) Business Continuity
2 5 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 4 (20.00%) DevOps
3 4 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 4 (20.00%) Migration
3 4 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (15.00%) Change Management
4 3 (15.00%) CI/CD
4 3 (15.00%) Data Protection
4 3 (15.00%) High Availability
4 3 (15.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 2 (10.00%) Cloud Operations
5 2 (10.00%) Cloud Security
5 2 (10.00%) Containerisation
5 2 (10.00%) Cost Optimisation
5 2 (10.00%) Infrastructure Automation
5 2 (10.00%) ITIL
5 2 (10.00%) Observability
5 2 (10.00%) Roadmaps
5 2 (10.00%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (15.00%) PowerShell
2 2 (10.00%) Python
3 1 (5.00%) Bash
3 1 (5.00%) C#
3 1 (5.00%) PL/SQL
3 1 (5.00%) SQL
3 1 (5.00%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 4 (20.00%) Azure Certification
2 4 (20.00%) SC Cleared
3 2 (10.00%) Microsoft Certification
3 2 (10.00%) VCAP
3 2 (10.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 1 (5.00%) AWS Certification
4 1 (5.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (5.00%) Degree
4 1 (5.00%) MCSA
4 1 (5.00%) MCSE
4 1 (5.00%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (10.00%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (5.00%) Data Quality
2 1 (5.00%) GDPR
2 1 (5.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (5.00%) NIST
2 1 (5.00%) QA
2 1 (5.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 3 (15.00%) Docker
1 3 (15.00%) Virtual Machines
1 3 (15.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (10.00%) Active Directory
2 2 (10.00%) VMware ESXi
2 2 (10.00%) VMware NSX
2 2 (10.00%) vSphere
3 1 (5.00%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 6 (30.00%) Terraform
2 4 (20.00%) Ansible
3 3 (15.00%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (10.00%) Kubernetes
4 2 (10.00%) PowerCLI
4 2 (10.00%) vCenter Server
5 1 (5.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
Vendors
1 7 (35.00%) Microsoft
2 4 (20.00%) VMware
3 1 (5.00%) BMC
3 1 (5.00%) Citrix
3 1 (5.00%) Datto
3 1 (5.00%) Huawei
3 1 (5.00%) Oracle
3 1 (5.00%) SAP
3 1 (5.00%) ServiceNow
3 1 (5.00%) Veeam
3 1 (5.00%) Zerto