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 12 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 106 98 85
Rank change year-on-year -8 -13 +54
Contract jobs citing Disaster Recovery 21 30 55
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 1.17% 1.40% 2.09%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.28% 1.53% 2.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 17 48
10th Percentile £379 - £350
25th Percentile £452 - £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £350 £510
Median % change year-on-year +64.29% -31.37% -0.49%
75th Percentile £659 £613 £638
90th Percentile £756 £651 £690
Central London median daily rate £563 £500 £510
% change year-on-year +12.50% -1.96% -4.00%

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 1,644 1,961 2,365
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 91.49% 91.81% 89.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,155 1,209 1,674
10th Percentile £330 £370 £363
25th Percentile £419 £474 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £578 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +0.43% -
75th Percentile £675 £688 £694
90th Percentile £754 £788 £813
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 16 11
10th Percentile £20.06 £16.25 £17.00
25th Percentile £25.88 £22.00 £17.97
Median hourly rate £34.00 £40.50 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.05% +62.00% -51.46%
75th Percentile £52.19 £97.38 £42.38
90th Percentile £63.75 £124.75 £73.75
Central London median hourly rate £31.00 £35.00 £25.50
% change year-on-year -11.43% +37.25% -49.50%

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 12 December 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 1 (4.76%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (4.76%) OpenText MBPM
1 1 (4.76%) Oracle BPM
Cloud Services
1 10 (47.62%) Azure
2 8 (38.10%) AWS
3 3 (14.29%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 3 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (14.29%) GCP
3 3 (14.29%) GitHub
3 3 (14.29%) GitHub Actions
3 3 (14.29%) IaaS
3 3 (14.29%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (9.52%) Amazon EC2
4 2 (9.52%) Amazon ECS
4 2 (9.52%) Amazon EKS
4 2 (9.52%) Amazon S3
4 2 (9.52%) AWS CloudTrail
4 2 (9.52%) Azure Monitor
4 2 (9.52%) Datadog
4 2 (9.52%) Entra ID
4 2 (9.52%) Sumo Logic
4 2 (9.52%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 1 (4.76%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (19.05%) Firewall
2 3 (14.29%) DNS
2 3 (14.29%) Network Security
3 2 (9.52%) DHCP
3 2 (9.52%) VPN
4 1 (4.76%) LAN
4 1 (4.76%) NAS
4 1 (4.76%) SAN
4 1 (4.76%) WAN
4 1 (4.76%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (9.52%) Amazon Aurora
1 2 (9.52%) Amazon RDS
1 2 (9.52%) MySQL
1 2 (9.52%) SQL Server
2 1 (4.76%) CouchDB
2 1 (4.76%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (4.76%) Oracle Database
2 1 (4.76%) Oracle Exadata
2 1 (4.76%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (4.76%) Redis
Development Applications
1 2 (9.52%) Jenkins
2 1 (4.76%) Bitbucket
2 1 (4.76%) JIRA
General
1 13 (61.90%) Finance
2 7 (33.33%) Social Skills
3 5 (23.81%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (19.05%) Banking
5 3 (14.29%) Influencing Skills
6 2 (9.52%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (4.76%) Back Office
7 1 (4.76%) Corporate Banking
7 1 (4.76%) Financial Institution
7 1 (4.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (4.76%) International Banking
7 1 (4.76%) Investment Banking
7 1 (4.76%) Legal
7 1 (4.76%) Public Sector
7 1 (4.76%) Retail
7 1 (4.76%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 4 (19.05%) Architect
2 2 (9.52%) Azure Architect
2 2 (9.52%) Cloud Architect
2 2 (9.52%) DBA
2 2 (9.52%) DevOps Engineer
2 2 (9.52%) Lead
2 2 (9.52%) Migration Architect
2 2 (9.52%) Platform Engineer
3 1 (4.76%) AWS Engineer
3 1 (4.76%) AWS Platform Engineer
3 1 (4.76%) BPM Developer
3 1 (4.76%) Cloud Engineer
3 1 (4.76%) Cloud Platform Engineer
3 1 (4.76%) Lead Solutions Architect
3 1 (4.76%) Migration Specialist
3 1 (4.76%) Oracle Data Architect
3 1 (4.76%) PostgreSQL DBA
3 1 (4.76%) SC Cleared DBA
3 1 (4.76%) Testing Manager
3 1 (4.76%) Transformation Director
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (9.52%) .NET
2 1 (4.76%) Memcached
2 1 (4.76%) Oracle GoldenGate
Miscellaneous
1 4 (19.05%) Replication
2 3 (14.29%) Data Centre
2 3 (14.29%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (9.52%) Cloud Native
4 1 (4.76%) CMDB
4 1 (4.76%) Fat Client
4 1 (4.76%) Management Information System
4 1 (4.76%) Onboarding
4 1 (4.76%) Security Operations Centre
4 1 (4.76%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 3 (14.29%) Windows
1 3 (14.29%) Windows Server
2 2 (9.52%) Linux
3 1 (4.76%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (42.86%) Business Continuity
2 8 (38.10%) Problem-Solving
3 6 (28.57%) Migration
3 6 (28.57%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 5 (23.81%) DevOps
4 5 (23.81%) Infrastructure as Code
4 5 (23.81%) ITIL
5 4 (19.05%) Change Management
5 4 (19.05%) Cybersecurity
5 4 (19.05%) Information Security
6 3 (14.29%) Business Strategy
6 3 (14.29%) CI/CD
6 3 (14.29%) Cloud Operations
6 3 (14.29%) Containerisation
6 3 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
6 3 (14.29%) Cost Optimisation
6 3 (14.29%) Data Security
6 3 (14.29%) Project Management
6 3 (14.29%) Regulatory Compliance
6 3 (14.29%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (19.05%) Python
2 3 (14.29%) Bash
2 3 (14.29%) PowerShell
2 3 (14.29%) SQL
3 2 (9.52%) PL/SQL
4 1 (4.76%) C#
4 1 (4.76%) JavaScript
4 1 (4.76%) PHP
Qualifications
1 4 (19.05%) Azure Certification
2 3 (14.29%) Security Cleared
3 2 (9.52%) CISSP
3 2 (9.52%) Microsoft Certification
3 2 (9.52%) SC Cleared
4 1 (4.76%) CISA
4 1 (4.76%) CISM
4 1 (4.76%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (4.76%) Degree
4 1 (4.76%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
4 1 (4.76%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
4 1 (4.76%) Master's Degree
4 1 (4.76%) MCSA
4 1 (4.76%) OCP
4 1 (4.76%) Oracle Certification
4 1 (4.76%) PRINCE2 Certification
4 1 (4.76%) VCAP
4 1 (4.76%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (19.05%) GDPR
1 4 (19.05%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (14.29%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 2 (9.52%) Cyber Essentials
3 2 (9.52%) Data Quality
3 2 (9.52%) NIST
3 2 (9.52%) QA
4 1 (4.76%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (4.76%) HIPAA
4 1 (4.76%) ISO 9001
4 1 (4.76%) ISO/IEC 20000
4 1 (4.76%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 5 (23.81%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (19.05%) Active Directory
3 3 (14.29%) Docker
4 2 (9.52%) Hyper-V
5 1 (4.76%) Oracle RAC
5 1 (4.76%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (4.76%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (4.76%) VMware NSX
5 1 (4.76%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 6 (28.57%) Terraform
2 4 (19.05%) Ansible
3 2 (9.52%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (4.76%) Data Guard
4 1 (4.76%) Kubernetes
4 1 (4.76%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
4 1 (4.76%) Oracle RMAN
4 1 (4.76%) PowerCLI
4 1 (4.76%) SCCM
4 1 (4.76%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 7 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 6 (28.57%) VMware
3 3 (14.29%) Oracle
4 1 (4.76%) Atlassian
4 1 (4.76%) BMC
4 1 (4.76%) CheckPoint
4 1 (4.76%) Cisco
4 1 (4.76%) Citrix
4 1 (4.76%) CyberArk
4 1 (4.76%) Datto
4 1 (4.76%) Google
4 1 (4.76%) Infoblox
4 1 (4.76%) OpenText
4 1 (4.76%) Palo Alto
4 1 (4.76%) ServiceNow
4 1 (4.76%) Tenable
4 1 (4.76%) Veeam
4 1 (4.76%) Zerto