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 28 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 100 92 91
Rank change year-on-year -8 -1 +52
Contract jobs citing Disaster Recovery 26 32 56
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 1.45% 1.47% 2.09%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.56% 1.61% 2.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 19 47
10th Percentile - - £350
25th Percentile £404 - £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £516 £350 £500
Median % change year-on-year +47.50% -30.00% -7.41%
75th Percentile £626 £588 £631
90th Percentile £731 £635 £680
Central London median daily rate £523 £350 £500
% change year-on-year +49.29% -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 1,664 1,992 2,402
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 92.91% 91.50% 89.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,170 1,221 1,697
10th Percentile £338 £375 £363
25th Percentile £418 £475 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - -
75th Percentile £675 £688 £694
90th Percentile £756 £788 £813
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 17 13
10th Percentile £20.02 £16.70 -
25th Percentile £25.75 £22.00 £17.00
Median hourly rate £34.00 £42.50 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +54.55% -47.12%
75th Percentile £47.50 £112.00 £53.00
90th Percentile £63.75 £137.50 £72.75
Central London median hourly rate £28.00 £35.00 £26.75
% change year-on-year -20.00% +30.84% -47.55%

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 28 November 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%) SharePoint
2 1 (3.85%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 2 (7.69%) OpenText MBPM
1 2 (7.69%) Oracle BPM
Cloud Services
1 9 (34.62%) Azure
2 7 (26.92%) AWS
3 3 (11.54%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 3 (11.54%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (11.54%) GitHub
3 3 (11.54%) GitHub Actions
3 3 (11.54%) IaaS
3 3 (11.54%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (7.69%) Amazon ECS
4 2 (7.69%) Amazon EKS
4 2 (7.69%) AWS CloudTrail
4 2 (7.69%) Azure Monitor
4 2 (7.69%) Datadog
4 2 (7.69%) Entra ID
4 2 (7.69%) GCP
4 2 (7.69%) Power Automate
4 2 (7.69%) Power Platform
4 2 (7.69%) PowerApps
4 2 (7.69%) Sumo Logic
4 2 (7.69%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 4 (15.38%) Firewall
2 3 (11.54%) DNS
2 3 (11.54%) Network Security
3 2 (7.69%) DHCP
3 2 (7.69%) VPN
4 1 (3.85%) LAN
4 1 (3.85%) NAS
4 1 (3.85%) SAN
4 1 (3.85%) WAN
4 1 (3.85%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (19.23%) SQL Server
2 2 (7.69%) Amazon Aurora
2 2 (7.69%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (7.69%) MySQL
3 1 (3.85%) CouchDB
3 1 (3.85%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (3.85%) Oracle Database
3 1 (3.85%) Oracle Exadata
3 1 (3.85%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (3.85%) Redis
Development Applications
1 2 (7.69%) Jenkins
2 1 (3.85%) Bitbucket
2 1 (3.85%) JIRA
General
1 16 (61.54%) Finance
2 7 (26.92%) Social Skills
3 5 (19.23%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (15.38%) Banking
5 3 (11.54%) Influencing Skills
6 2 (7.69%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (3.85%) Back Office
7 1 (3.85%) Corporate Banking
7 1 (3.85%) Financial Institution
7 1 (3.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (3.85%) International Banking
7 1 (3.85%) Investment Banking
7 1 (3.85%) Legal
7 1 (3.85%) Retail
7 1 (3.85%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 6 (23.08%) Developer
2 4 (15.38%) Architect
3 2 (7.69%) .NET Developer
3 2 (7.69%) Applications Developer
3 2 (7.69%) Azure Architect
3 2 (7.69%) BPM Developer
3 2 (7.69%) C# .NET Developer
3 2 (7.69%) C# Developer
3 2 (7.69%) Cloud Architect
3 2 (7.69%) DBA
3 2 (7.69%) DevOps Engineer
3 2 (7.69%) Lead
3 2 (7.69%) Migration Architect
3 2 (7.69%) Platform 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%) AWS Platform Engineer
4 1 (3.85%) Cloud Platform Engineer
4 1 (3.85%) Oracle Data Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (19.23%) .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%) Memcached
3 1 (3.85%) Oracle GoldenGate
Miscellaneous
1 4 (15.38%) Replication
2 3 (11.54%) Data Centre
2 3 (11.54%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (7.69%) Cloud Native
4 1 (3.85%) Fat Client
4 1 (3.85%) Management Information System
4 1 (3.85%) Onboarding
4 1 (3.85%) Security Operations Centre
4 1 (3.85%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 5 (19.23%) Windows
2 3 (11.54%) Windows Server
3 2 (7.69%) Linux
4 1 (3.85%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (30.77%) Business Continuity
1 8 (30.77%) Migration
1 8 (30.77%) Problem-Solving
2 6 (23.08%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 5 (19.23%) DevOps
3 5 (19.23%) Infrastructure as Code
4 4 (15.38%) Cybersecurity
4 4 (15.38%) Data Analysis
4 4 (15.38%) Information Security
4 4 (15.38%) ITIL
4 4 (15.38%) Unit Testing
5 3 (11.54%) Change Management
5 3 (11.54%) Cloud Operations
5 3 (11.54%) Continuous Improvement
5 3 (11.54%) Data Encryption
5 3 (11.54%) Data Security
5 3 (11.54%) High Availability
5 3 (11.54%) Project Management
5 3 (11.54%) Risk Management
5 3 (11.54%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (15.38%) C#
1 4 (15.38%) JavaScript
1 4 (15.38%) Python
1 4 (15.38%) SQL
2 3 (11.54%) Bash
2 3 (11.54%) PowerShell
3 2 (7.69%) PL/SQL
4 1 (3.85%) PHP
Qualifications
1 4 (15.38%) Azure Certification
2 2 (7.69%) CISSP
2 2 (7.69%) Microsoft Certification
2 2 (7.69%) SC Cleared
2 2 (7.69%) Security Cleared
3 1 (3.85%) CISA
3 1 (3.85%) CISM
3 1 (3.85%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (3.85%) 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
3 1 (3.85%) VCAP
3 1 (3.85%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (19.23%) QA
2 4 (15.38%) GDPR
2 4 (15.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (11.54%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 2 (7.69%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (3.85%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (3.85%) Data Quality
5 1 (3.85%) HIPAA
5 1 (3.85%) ISO 9001
5 1 (3.85%) ISO/IEC 20000
5 1 (3.85%) NIST
5 1 (3.85%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 5 (19.23%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (15.38%) Active Directory
3 3 (11.54%) Docker
4 2 (7.69%) Hyper-V
5 1 (3.85%) Oracle RAC
5 1 (3.85%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (3.85%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (3.85%) VMware NSX
5 1 (3.85%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 6 (23.08%) Terraform
2 4 (15.38%) Ansible
3 2 (7.69%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (3.85%) Data Guard
4 1 (3.85%) Kubernetes
4 1 (3.85%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
4 1 (3.85%) Oracle RMAN
4 1 (3.85%) PowerCLI
4 1 (3.85%) SCCM
4 1 (3.85%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 7 (26.92%) Microsoft
2 6 (23.08%) Oracle
3 5 (19.23%) VMware
4 2 (7.69%) OpenText
5 1 (3.85%) Atlassian
5 1 (3.85%) CheckPoint
5 1 (3.85%) Cisco
5 1 (3.85%) Citrix
5 1 (3.85%) CyberArk
5 1 (3.85%) Datto
5 1 (3.85%) Google
5 1 (3.85%) Infoblox
5 1 (3.85%) MobileIron
5 1 (3.85%) Palo Alto
5 1 (3.85%) Tenable
5 1 (3.85%) Veeam