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 29 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 94 95 100
Rank change year-on-year +1 +5 +45
Contract jobs citing Disaster Recovery 26 28 47
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 1.52% 1.34% 1.68%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.61% 1.46% 1.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 17 40
10th Percentile - - £361
25th Percentile £404 - £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 £350 £510
Median % change year-on-year +49.29% -31.37% -5.56%
75th Percentile £638 £500 £611
90th Percentile £726 £615 £688
Central London median daily rate £536 £350 £500
% change year-on-year +53.21% -30.00% -7.41%

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 1,612 1,922 2,509
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 94.55% 91.74% 89.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,118 1,181 1,754
10th Percentile £325 £363 £363
25th Percentile £420 £463 £464
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £585
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -1.71% +1.74%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £697
90th Percentile £763 £783 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 17 16
10th Percentile £16.90 £16.70 £14.25
25th Percentile £21.07 £23.13 £17.00
Median hourly rate £27.75 £42.50 £31.25
Median % change year-on-year -34.71% +36.00% -38.12%
75th Percentile £44.63 £112.00 £48.19
90th Percentile £63.75 £137.50 £60.88
Central London median hourly rate £28.00 £35.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year -20.00% +27.27% -36.40%

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 29 October 2025.

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 2 (7.69%) Confluence
1 2 (7.69%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 3 (11.54%) OpenText MBPM
1 3 (11.54%) Oracle BPM
2 1 (3.85%) Oracle Assets
2 1 (3.85%) Oracle Cash Management
2 1 (3.85%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (3.85%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
Cloud Services
1 7 (26.92%) Azure
2 4 (15.38%) IaaS
3 3 (11.54%) AWS
3 3 (11.54%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (11.54%) GitHub
3 3 (11.54%) GitHub Actions
3 3 (11.54%) Microsoft 365
3 3 (11.54%) PaaS
3 3 (11.54%) Power Automate
3 3 (11.54%) Power Platform
3 3 (11.54%) SaaS
4 2 (7.69%) Azure Monitor
4 2 (7.69%) Entra ID
4 2 (7.69%) GCP
4 2 (7.69%) PowerApps
5 1 (3.85%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (3.85%) AWS CloudTrail
5 1 (3.85%) Datadog
5 1 (3.85%) Sumo Logic
5 1 (3.85%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 4 (15.38%) Firewall
2 2 (7.69%) DNS
2 2 (7.69%) Network Security
2 2 (7.69%) WAN
3 1 (3.85%) DHCP
3 1 (3.85%) LAN
3 1 (3.85%) VPN
3 1 (3.85%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (26.92%) SQL Server
2 1 (3.85%) Amazon Aurora
2 1 (3.85%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (3.85%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (3.85%) CouchDB
2 1 (3.85%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (3.85%) MySQL
2 1 (3.85%) Oracle Database
2 1 (3.85%) Oracle Exadata
2 1 (3.85%) Power BI
2 1 (3.85%) Redis
2 1 (3.85%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 2 (7.69%) JIRA
2 1 (3.85%) Bitbucket
2 1 (3.85%) Jenkins
General
1 19 (73.08%) Finance
2 5 (19.23%) Analytical Skills
2 5 (19.23%) Banking
2 5 (19.23%) Social Skills
3 2 (7.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 2 (7.69%) Influencing Skills
3 2 (7.69%) International Banking
3 2 (7.69%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (3.85%) Back Office
4 1 (3.85%) Corporate Banking
4 1 (3.85%) Financial Institution
4 1 (3.85%) Front Office
4 1 (3.85%) General Ledger
4 1 (3.85%) Investment Banking
4 1 (3.85%) Legal
4 1 (3.85%) Retail
4 1 (3.85%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 7 (26.92%) Developer
2 3 (11.54%) BPM Developer
3 2 (7.69%) .NET Developer
3 2 (7.69%) Applications Developer
3 2 (7.69%) Architect
3 2 (7.69%) C# .NET Developer
3 2 (7.69%) C# Developer
3 2 (7.69%) DevOps Engineer
3 2 (7.69%) Power Apps Developer
3 2 (7.69%) Power Platform Developer
3 2 (7.69%) Security Engineer
4 1 (3.85%) Applications Support Specialist
4 1 (3.85%) AWS Platform Engineer
4 1 (3.85%) Cloud Platform Engineer
4 1 (3.85%) Infrastructure Manager
4 1 (3.85%) Lead
4 1 (3.85%) Oracle Data Architect
4 1 (3.85%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 1 (3.85%) SQL DBA
4 1 (3.85%) SQL Server DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (26.92%) .NET
2 2 (7.69%) CSS
2 2 (7.69%) HTML
2 2 (7.69%) HTML5 Canvas
2 2 (7.69%) REST
2 2 (7.69%) WPF
3 1 (3.85%) .NET Core
3 1 (3.85%) ADO
3 1 (3.85%) ARM Templates
3 1 (3.85%) Memcached
3 1 (3.85%) Middleware
3 1 (3.85%) Oracle Fusion
3 1 (3.85%) Oracle GoldenGate
Miscellaneous
1 4 (15.38%) Data Centre
2 3 (11.54%) Hybrid Cloud
2 3 (11.54%) Replication
3 1 (3.85%) Cloud Native
3 1 (3.85%) Fat Client
3 1 (3.85%) Fixed Income
3 1 (3.85%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 1 (3.85%) Management Information System
3 1 (3.85%) Onboarding
3 1 (3.85%) Security Operations Centre
3 1 (3.85%) Thin Client
3 1 (3.85%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 5 (19.23%) Windows
2 3 (11.54%) Windows Server
3 2 (7.69%) Linux
4 1 (3.85%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (30.77%) Business Continuity
2 7 (26.92%) Problem-Solving
3 6 (23.08%) Migration
4 5 (19.23%) Data Analysis
4 5 (19.23%) Information Security
4 5 (19.23%) Unit Testing
5 4 (15.38%) Cybersecurity
5 4 (15.38%) Data Security
5 4 (15.38%) DevOps
5 4 (15.38%) Infrastructure as Code
5 4 (15.38%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 3 (11.54%) Business Strategy
6 3 (11.54%) Change Management
6 3 (11.54%) CI/CD
6 3 (11.54%) Continuous Improvement
6 3 (11.54%) Data Encryption
6 3 (11.54%) High Availability
6 3 (11.54%) Project Delivery
6 3 (11.54%) Project Management
6 3 (11.54%) Regulatory Compliance
Programming Languages
1 7 (26.92%) C#
1 7 (26.92%) SQL
2 5 (19.23%) JavaScript
2 5 (19.23%) Python
3 4 (15.38%) Bash
3 4 (15.38%) PowerShell
4 3 (11.54%) PL/SQL
5 1 (3.85%) Bicep
5 1 (3.85%) C
5 1 (3.85%) Java
5 1 (3.85%) PHP
Qualifications
1 3 (11.54%) Azure Certification
1 3 (11.54%) Microsoft Certification
2 2 (7.69%) CISSP
2 2 (7.69%) Degree
3 1 (3.85%) CISA
3 1 (3.85%) CISM
3 1 (3.85%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (3.85%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
3 1 (3.85%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
3 1 (3.85%) Master's Degree
3 1 (3.85%) MCSA
3 1 (3.85%) OCP
3 1 (3.85%) Oracle Certification
3 1 (3.85%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (26.92%) QA
2 3 (11.54%) GDPR
2 3 (11.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (7.69%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (3.85%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (3.85%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (3.85%) Data Quality
4 1 (3.85%) GAAP
4 1 (3.85%) HIPAA
4 1 (3.85%) IFRS
4 1 (3.85%) ISO 9001
4 1 (3.85%) ISO/IEC 20000
4 1 (3.85%) NIST
4 1 (3.85%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 3 (11.54%) Active Directory
1 3 (11.54%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (7.69%) Hyper-V
3 1 (3.85%) Docker
3 1 (3.85%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 4 (15.38%) Terraform
2 1 (3.85%) Ansible
2 1 (3.85%) Data Guard
2 1 (3.85%) Grafana
2 1 (3.85%) Istio
2 1 (3.85%) ITRS Geneos
2 1 (3.85%) Kubernetes
2 1 (3.85%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (3.85%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
2 1 (3.85%) Oracle RMAN
2 1 (3.85%) Prometheus
2 1 (3.85%) SCCM
Vendors
1 8 (30.77%) Oracle
2 6 (23.08%) Microsoft
3 3 (11.54%) OpenText
3 3 (11.54%) VMware
4 1 (3.85%) Atlassian
4 1 (3.85%) CheckPoint
4 1 (3.85%) Cisco
4 1 (3.85%) Citrix
4 1 (3.85%) CyberArk
4 1 (3.85%) Google
4 1 (3.85%) Infoblox
4 1 (3.85%) MobileIron
4 1 (3.85%) Palo Alto
4 1 (3.85%) ServiceNow
4 1 (3.85%) Tenable