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 8 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 114 104 83
Rank change year-on-year -10 -21 +64
Contract jobs citing Disaster Recovery 16 18 39
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.70% 1.04% 1.79%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.82% 1.11% 1.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 15 35
10th Percentile £385 £410 £290
25th Percentile £463 £450 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £575 £385
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +49.35% -20.41%
75th Percentile £816 £627 £634
90th Percentile £819 £684 £684
Central London median daily rate £600 £575 £385
% change year-on-year +4.35% +49.35% -18.52%

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 1,946 1,619 1,966
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 85.05% 93.26% 90.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,321 1,021 1,389
10th Percentile £363 £350 £356
25th Percentile £450 £459 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £570
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +0.88% -5.00%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £825
Central London median daily rate £550 £563 £550
% change year-on-year -2.22% +2.27% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 12 11
10th Percentile £17.99 £22.00 £19.92
25th Percentile £18.75 £24.00 £20.22
Median hourly rate £29.78 £29.58 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +0.70% +18.30% -28.57%
75th Percentile £49.78 £45.00 £40.00
90th Percentile £59.72 £62.25 £41.84
Central London median hourly rate £26.56 £29.07 £27.81
% change year-on-year -8.65% +4.53% -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 8 May 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 (6.25%) Microsoft Exchange
Business Applications
1 1 (6.25%) Veritas eDiscovery
Cloud Services
1 5 (31.25%) Azure
2 4 (25.00%) AWS
3 3 (18.75%) Microsoft 365
3 3 (18.75%) Rubrik
4 2 (12.50%) GCP
5 1 (6.25%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 2 (12.50%) SAN
2 1 (6.25%) 2G
2 1 (6.25%) 4G
2 1 (6.25%) NAS
2 1 (6.25%) Network Security
2 1 (6.25%) Radio Access Network
2 1 (6.25%) Unified Communications
2 1 (6.25%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.25%) BusinessObjects
1 1 (6.25%) BusinessObjects Web Intelligence
1 1 (6.25%) Oracle Database
1 1 (6.25%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (6.25%) SAP Data Services
1 1 (6.25%) SQL Server
General
1 6 (37.50%) Social Skills
2 3 (18.75%) Finance
3 1 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (6.25%) Banking
3 1 (6.25%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (6.25%) International Banking
3 1 (6.25%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (18.75%) Business Consultant
1 3 (18.75%) Business Continuity Consultant
1 3 (18.75%) Consultant
1 3 (18.75%) Disaster Recovery Consultant
1 3 (18.75%) IT Consultant
2 2 (12.50%) Backup Engineer
2 2 (12.50%) Cloud Engineer
2 2 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (12.50%) IT Engineer
2 2 (12.50%) VMware Engineer
3 1 (6.25%) .NET Developer
3 1 (6.25%) Business Change Manager
3 1 (6.25%) C# .NET Developer
3 1 (6.25%) C# Developer
3 1 (6.25%) Change Manager
3 1 (6.25%) Engineering Specialist
3 1 (6.25%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
3 1 (6.25%) PostgreSQL DBA
3 1 (6.25%) SC Cleared DBA
3 1 (6.25%) Senior VMware Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (6.25%) .NET
1 1 (6.25%) .NET Framework
1 1 (6.25%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 2 (12.50%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (6.25%) BYOD
2 1 (6.25%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 3 (18.75%) Windows
2 2 (12.50%) VMS
2 2 (12.50%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (31.25%) Business Continuity
2 3 (18.75%) Data Protection
2 3 (18.75%) High Availability
2 3 (18.75%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 2 (12.50%) Change Management
3 2 (12.50%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (12.50%) Migration
3 2 (12.50%) Performance Monitoring
3 2 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (12.50%) Root Cause Analysis
4 1 (6.25%) BCP
4 1 (6.25%) Business Intelligence
4 1 (6.25%) Data Analysis
4 1 (6.25%) ITIL
4 1 (6.25%) ITSM
4 1 (6.25%) Problem Management
4 1 (6.25%) Quality Management
4 1 (6.25%) Service Management
4 1 (6.25%) Stakeholder Management
4 1 (6.25%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 1 (6.25%) C#
1 1 (6.25%) PL/SQL
1 1 (6.25%) PowerShell
1 1 (6.25%) SQL
1 1 (6.25%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (31.25%) Security Cleared
2 4 (25.00%) SC Cleared
3 2 (12.50%) VCAP
3 2 (12.50%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 1 (6.25%) AWS Certification
4 1 (6.25%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (6.25%) Azure Certification
4 1 (6.25%) Degree
4 1 (6.25%) MCSA
4 1 (6.25%) MCSE
4 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (6.25%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.25%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (6.25%) Data Quality
1 1 (6.25%) NIST
1 1 (6.25%) QA
System Software
1 3 (18.75%) Virtual Machines
2 2 (12.50%) Docker
2 2 (12.50%) VMware ESXi
2 2 (12.50%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (12.50%) VMware NSX
2 2 (12.50%) vSphere
3 1 (6.25%) Active Directory
3 1 (6.25%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 2 (12.50%) Ansible
1 2 (12.50%) Kubernetes
1 2 (12.50%) Microsoft Intune
1 2 (12.50%) PowerCLI
1 2 (12.50%) Terraform
1 2 (12.50%) vCenter Server
2 1 (6.25%) Active Directory Federation Services
Vendors
1 4 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (18.75%) VMware
3 1 (6.25%) BMC
3 1 (6.25%) Citrix
3 1 (6.25%) Huawei
3 1 (6.25%) Oracle
3 1 (6.25%) SAP
3 1 (6.25%) ServiceNow
3 1 (6.25%) Zerto