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 2 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 119 94 93
Rank change year-on-year -25 -1 +52
Contract jobs citing Disaster Recovery 21 27 33
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.86% 1.52% 1.55%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.00% 1.62% 1.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 24 28
10th Percentile £423 - £250
25th Percentile £513 £404 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £525 £375
Median % change year-on-year +19.05% +40.00% -20.63%
75th Percentile £668 £638 £419
90th Percentile £819 £687 £638
Central London median daily rate £625 £525 £375
% change year-on-year +19.05% +40.00% -22.48%

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 2,108 1,669 1,940
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 85.90% 93.82% 91.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,425 1,068 1,350
10th Percentile £366 £350 £363
25th Percentile £453 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £554 £575
Median % change year-on-year -0.63% -3.74% -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £560
% change year-on-year - -1.79% -6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 20 15
10th Percentile £17.60 £17.02 £20.04
25th Percentile £18.46 £24.43 £20.36
Median hourly rate £20.25 £29.75 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year -31.93% +10.19% -22.86%
75th Percentile £42.74 £50.75 £40.92
90th Percentile £59.72 £66.25 £67.35
Central London median hourly rate £25.77 £31.00 £27.81
% change year-on-year -16.87% +11.47% -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 2 July 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 (4.76%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 6 (28.57%) Azure
2 2 (9.52%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (9.52%) Rubrik
3 1 (4.76%) AWS
3 1 (4.76%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (4.76%) Entra ID
3 1 (4.76%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 2 (9.52%) DNS
2 1 (4.76%) 2G
2 1 (4.76%) 4G
2 1 (4.76%) DHCP
2 1 (4.76%) Firewall
2 1 (4.76%) Network Security
2 1 (4.76%) Radio Access Network
2 1 (4.76%) SAN
2 1 (4.76%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (33.33%) SQL Server
2 5 (23.81%) Oracle Database
3 1 (4.76%) BusinessObjects
3 1 (4.76%) BusinessObjects Web Intelligence
3 1 (4.76%) SAP Data Services
3 1 (4.76%) SQL Server Analysis Services
3 1 (4.76%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 1 (4.76%) JIRA
General
1 7 (33.33%) Banking
1 7 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 4 (19.05%) Finance
3 1 (4.76%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (23.81%) C# Developer
1 5 (23.81%) Developer
2 3 (14.29%) Business Consultant
2 3 (14.29%) Business Continuity Consultant
2 3 (14.29%) Consultant
2 3 (14.29%) Disaster Recovery Consultant
2 3 (14.29%) IT Consultant
3 2 (9.52%) Applications Support
3 2 (9.52%) Backup Engineer
3 2 (9.52%) Cloud Engineer
3 2 (9.52%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (9.52%) IT Engineer
4 1 (4.76%) Applications Manager
4 1 (4.76%) Applications Support Engineer
4 1 (4.76%) Applications Support Manager
4 1 (4.76%) Infrastructure Architect
4 1 (4.76%) Migration Engineer
4 1 (4.76%) SAP Administrator
4 1 (4.76%) Server Engineer
4 1 (4.76%) Support Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (23.81%) .NET
1 5 (23.81%) .NET Framework
2 1 (4.76%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 3 (14.29%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (4.76%) AS400
2 1 (4.76%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 8 (38.10%) Windows
2 6 (28.57%) Windows Server
3 1 (4.76%) VMS
3 1 (4.76%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (23.81%) Business Continuity
1 5 (23.81%) Data Analysis
1 5 (23.81%) Unit Testing
2 3 (14.29%) Data Protection
2 3 (14.29%) High Availability
2 3 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 3 (14.29%) Migration
2 3 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (9.52%) Decision-Making
3 2 (9.52%) DevOps
3 2 (9.52%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (9.52%) Knowledge Transfer
3 2 (9.52%) Performance Tuning
3 2 (9.52%) Roadmaps
3 2 (9.52%) Root Cause Analysis
3 2 (9.52%) Runbook
3 2 (9.52%) Service Management
3 2 (9.52%) Stakeholder Management
4 1 (4.76%) Database Security
4 1 (4.76%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 6 (28.57%) SQL
2 5 (23.81%) C#
2 5 (23.81%) PL/SQL
2 5 (23.81%) T-SQL
3 2 (9.52%) PowerShell
4 1 (4.76%) COBOL
4 1 (4.76%) Python
4 1 (4.76%) RPG
Qualifications
1 2 (9.52%) SC Cleared
1 2 (9.52%) Security Cleared
2 1 (4.76%) AWS Certification
2 1 (4.76%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 1 (4.76%) Azure Certification
2 1 (4.76%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (4.76%) Degree
2 1 (4.76%) PMI Certification
2 1 (4.76%) PMP
2 1 (4.76%) TOGAF Certification
2 1 (4.76%) VCAP
2 1 (4.76%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (28.57%) QA
2 1 (4.76%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (4.76%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (9.52%) Active Directory
1 2 (9.52%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (4.76%) Docker
2 1 (4.76%) Hyper-V
2 1 (4.76%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (4.76%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (4.76%) VMware NSX
2 1 (4.76%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 2 (9.52%) Terraform
2 1 (4.76%) Ansible
2 1 (4.76%) ITRS Geneos
2 1 (4.76%) Kubernetes
2 1 (4.76%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (4.76%) PowerCLI
2 1 (4.76%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 6 (28.57%) Microsoft
2 5 (23.81%) Citrix
2 5 (23.81%) Oracle
3 1 (4.76%) Dynatrace
3 1 (4.76%) Huawei
3 1 (4.76%) IBM
3 1 (4.76%) SAP
3 1 (4.76%) ServiceNow
3 1 (4.76%) VMware