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 17 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 107 94 80
Rank change year-on-year -13 -14 +68
Contract jobs citing Disaster Recovery 23 26 48
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 1.11% 1.45% 2.05%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.26% 1.58% 2.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 17 44
10th Percentile £370 £350 -
25th Percentile £505 £425 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £543 £385
Median % change year-on-year +10.60% +40.91% -18.52%
75th Percentile £816 £640 £591
90th Percentile £819 £696 £664
Central London median daily rate £588 £575 £385
% change year-on-year +2.17% +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 1,828 1,645 2,104
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 88.27% 91.64% 89.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,260 1,048 1,496
10th Percentile £356 £363 £350
25th Percentile £436 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £541 £575 £568
Median % change year-on-year -5.87% +1.32% -5.42%
75th Percentile £663 £685 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -6.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 9 11
10th Percentile £18.75 £22.00 £18.93
25th Percentile £19.11 £24.66 £20.07
Median hourly rate £27.75 £32.50 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -14.62% -18.75% +14.29%
75th Percentile £46.29 £48.75 £44.29
90th Percentile £59.13 £112.00 £50.25
Central London median hourly rate £26.11 £31.75 £27.81
% change year-on-year -17.76% +14.17% -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 17 March 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 (4.35%) Confluence
1 1 (4.35%) Microsoft Exchange
Business Applications
1 1 (4.35%) Veritas eDiscovery
Cloud Services
1 10 (43.48%) Azure
2 8 (34.78%) AWS
3 5 (21.74%) Microsoft 365
4 3 (13.04%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 3 (13.04%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (13.04%) GCP
4 3 (13.04%) GitHub
4 3 (13.04%) GitHub Actions
4 3 (13.04%) IaaS
4 3 (13.04%) Rubrik
5 2 (8.70%) Amazon EC2
5 2 (8.70%) Amazon ECS
5 2 (8.70%) Amazon EKS
5 2 (8.70%) Amazon S3
5 2 (8.70%) AWS CloudTrail
5 2 (8.70%) Azure Monitor
5 2 (8.70%) Datadog
5 2 (8.70%) Sumo Logic
5 2 (8.70%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 1 (4.35%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 4 (17.39%) Network Security
2 3 (13.04%) Firewall
3 2 (8.70%) DNS
3 2 (8.70%) SAN
3 2 (8.70%) VPN
4 1 (4.35%) DHCP
4 1 (4.35%) NAS
4 1 (4.35%) Unified Communications
4 1 (4.35%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (8.70%) Amazon Aurora
1 2 (8.70%) Amazon RDS
1 2 (8.70%) MySQL
2 1 (4.35%) BusinessObjects
2 1 (4.35%) BusinessObjects Web Intelligence
2 1 (4.35%) CouchDB
2 1 (4.35%) Oracle Database
2 1 (4.35%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (4.35%) Redis
2 1 (4.35%) SAP Data Services
2 1 (4.35%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (8.70%) Jenkins
2 1 (4.35%) Bitbucket
2 1 (4.35%) JIRA
General
1 9 (39.13%) Social Skills
2 8 (34.78%) Finance
3 4 (17.39%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (8.70%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (4.35%) Banking
5 1 (4.35%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (4.35%) International Banking
5 1 (4.35%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (4.35%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (17.39%) Architect
1 4 (17.39%) Consultant
2 3 (13.04%) Business Consultant
2 3 (13.04%) Business Continuity Consultant
2 3 (13.04%) Cloud Engineer
2 3 (13.04%) Disaster Recovery Consultant
2 3 (13.04%) IT Consultant
3 2 (8.70%) Azure Architect
3 2 (8.70%) Backup Engineer
3 2 (8.70%) Cloud Architect
3 2 (8.70%) DevOps Engineer
3 2 (8.70%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (8.70%) IT Engineer
3 2 (8.70%) Migration Architect
3 2 (8.70%) Platform Engineer
3 2 (8.70%) VMware Engineer
4 1 (4.35%) Business Manager
4 1 (4.35%) Change Manager
4 1 (4.35%) Infrastructure Architect
4 1 (4.35%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (4.35%) .NET
1 1 (4.35%) .NET Framework
1 1 (4.35%) Memcached
1 1 (4.35%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 3 (13.04%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (8.70%) Cloud Native
2 2 (8.70%) Replication
3 1 (4.35%) BYOD
3 1 (4.35%) CMDB
3 1 (4.35%) Data Centre
3 1 (4.35%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 4 (17.39%) Windows
2 3 (13.04%) Windows Server
3 2 (8.70%) VMS
4 1 (4.35%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (39.13%) Business Continuity
2 7 (30.43%) Infrastructure as Code
3 6 (26.09%) DevOps
3 6 (26.09%) Problem-Solving
4 5 (21.74%) Change Management
4 5 (21.74%) Migration
4 5 (21.74%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 4 (17.39%) CI/CD
5 4 (17.39%) Data Protection
5 4 (17.39%) High Availability
5 4 (17.39%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 3 (13.04%) Cloud Operations
6 3 (13.04%) Cloud Security
6 3 (13.04%) Containerisation
6 3 (13.04%) Continuous Improvement
6 3 (13.04%) Cost Optimisation
6 3 (13.04%) Cybersecurity
6 3 (13.04%) Infrastructure Automation
7 2 (8.70%) Root Cause Analysis
7 2 (8.70%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (13.04%) PowerShell
1 3 (13.04%) Python
2 2 (8.70%) Bash
3 1 (4.35%) C#
3 1 (4.35%) PHP
3 1 (4.35%) PL/SQL
3 1 (4.35%) SQL
3 1 (4.35%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (21.74%) Azure Certification
1 5 (21.74%) Security Cleared
2 4 (17.39%) SC Cleared
3 2 (8.70%) Degree
3 2 (8.70%) Microsoft Certification
3 2 (8.70%) VCAP
3 2 (8.70%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 1 (4.35%) AWS Certification
4 1 (4.35%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (4.35%) CISM
4 1 (4.35%) CISSP
4 1 (4.35%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (4.35%) Master's Degree
4 1 (4.35%) MCSA
4 1 (4.35%) MCSE
4 1 (4.35%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (13.04%) Cyber Essentials
1 3 (13.04%) GDPR
2 2 (8.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (8.70%) NIST
2 2 (8.70%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 1 (4.35%) Data Quality
3 1 (4.35%) PCI DSS
3 1 (4.35%) QA
System Software
1 4 (17.39%) Docker
1 4 (17.39%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (13.04%) Active Directory
2 3 (13.04%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (8.70%) VMware ESXi
3 2 (8.70%) VMware NSX
3 2 (8.70%) vSphere
4 1 (4.35%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 8 (34.78%) Terraform
2 5 (21.74%) Ansible
3 3 (13.04%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (8.70%) Kubernetes
4 2 (8.70%) PowerCLI
4 2 (8.70%) vCenter Server
5 1 (4.35%) Active Directory Federation Services
Vendors
1 9 (39.13%) Microsoft
2 5 (21.74%) VMware
3 1 (4.35%) Atlassian
3 1 (4.35%) BMC
3 1 (4.35%) CheckPoint
3 1 (4.35%) Citrix
3 1 (4.35%) CyberArk
3 1 (4.35%) Datto
3 1 (4.35%) Oracle
3 1 (4.35%) SAP
3 1 (4.35%) ServiceNow
3 1 (4.35%) Tenable
3 1 (4.35%) Veeam
3 1 (4.35%) Zerto