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

6 months to
30 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 114 92 86
Rank change year-on-year -22 -6 +65
Contract jobs citing Disaster Recovery 17 25 36
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.73% 1.48% 1.67%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.85% 1.58% 1.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 22 33
10th Percentile £395 £404 £270
25th Percentile £513 £406 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £525 £385
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% +36.36% -22.22%
75th Percentile £742 £638 £419
90th Percentile £819 £691 £680
Central London median daily rate £600 £525 £385
% change year-on-year +14.29% +36.36% -22.22%

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 1,990 1,584 1,957
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 85.26% 93.62% 90.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,365 1,004 1,368
10th Percentile £356 £356 £350
25th Percentile £450 £454 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year - -2.22% -6.25%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 14 11
10th Percentile £17.84 £18.15 £19.92
25th Percentile £18.75 £23.98 £20.22
Median hourly rate £27.50 £28.33 £26.25
Median % change year-on-year -2.91% +7.90% -25.00%
75th Percentile £52.49 £41.48 £40.00
90th Percentile £62.89 £59.25 £41.84
Central London median hourly rate £26.56 £28.33 £27.81
% change year-on-year -6.25% +1.85% -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 30 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 (5.88%) Microsoft Exchange
Business Applications
1 1 (5.88%) Veritas eDiscovery
Cloud Services
1 4 (23.53%) Azure
2 3 (17.65%) Microsoft 365
2 3 (17.65%) Rubrik
3 2 (11.76%) AWS
3 2 (11.76%) GCP
4 1 (5.88%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.88%) 2G
1 1 (5.88%) 4G
1 1 (5.88%) Network Security
1 1 (5.88%) Radio Access Network
1 1 (5.88%) SAN
1 1 (5.88%) Unified Communications
1 1 (5.88%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (23.53%) SQL Server
2 3 (17.65%) Oracle Database
3 1 (5.88%) BusinessObjects
3 1 (5.88%) BusinessObjects Web Intelligence
3 1 (5.88%) SAP Data Services
General
1 6 (35.29%) Social Skills
2 4 (23.53%) Banking
3 3 (17.65%) Finance
4 1 (5.88%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (5.88%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (5.88%) International Banking
4 1 (5.88%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (17.65%) Business Consultant
1 3 (17.65%) Business Continuity Consultant
1 3 (17.65%) C# Developer
1 3 (17.65%) Consultant
1 3 (17.65%) Developer
1 3 (17.65%) Disaster Recovery Consultant
1 3 (17.65%) IT Consultant
2 2 (11.76%) Backup Engineer
2 2 (11.76%) Cloud Engineer
2 2 (11.76%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (11.76%) IT Engineer
3 1 (5.88%) .NET Developer
3 1 (5.88%) Administrator
3 1 (5.88%) Architect
3 1 (5.88%) Business Change Manager
3 1 (5.88%) Business Manager
3 1 (5.88%) Change Manager
3 1 (5.88%) Infrastructure Architect
3 1 (5.88%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
3 1 (5.88%) SAP Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (17.65%) .NET
1 3 (17.65%) .NET Framework
2 1 (5.88%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 2 (11.76%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (5.88%) BYOD
2 1 (5.88%) CMDB
2 1 (5.88%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 5 (29.41%) Windows
2 4 (23.53%) Windows Server
3 1 (5.88%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (29.41%) Business Continuity
2 3 (17.65%) Data Analysis
2 3 (17.65%) Data Protection
2 3 (17.65%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 3 (17.65%) Unit Testing
3 2 (11.76%) Change Management
3 2 (11.76%) High Availability
3 2 (11.76%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (11.76%) Migration
3 2 (11.76%) Root Cause Analysis
4 1 (5.88%) BCP
4 1 (5.88%) Business Intelligence
4 1 (5.88%) Data Security
4 1 (5.88%) ITIL
4 1 (5.88%) ITSM
4 1 (5.88%) Performance Testing
4 1 (5.88%) Problem Management
4 1 (5.88%) Quality Management
4 1 (5.88%) Service Management
4 1 (5.88%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (17.65%) C#
1 3 (17.65%) PL/SQL
1 3 (17.65%) SQL
1 3 (17.65%) T-SQL
2 1 (5.88%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 3 (17.65%) Security Cleared
2 2 (11.76%) SC Cleared
3 1 (5.88%) AWS Certification
3 1 (5.88%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (5.88%) Azure Certification
3 1 (5.88%) Degree
3 1 (5.88%) MCSA
3 1 (5.88%) MCSE
3 1 (5.88%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (5.88%) TOGAF Certification
3 1 (5.88%) VCAP
3 1 (5.88%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (23.53%) QA
2 1 (5.88%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (5.88%) Data Quality
2 1 (5.88%) NIST
System Software
1 2 (11.76%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (5.88%) Active Directory
2 1 (5.88%) Docker
2 1 (5.88%) Hyper-V
2 1 (5.88%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (5.88%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (5.88%) VMware NSX
2 1 (5.88%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 2 (11.76%) Microsoft Intune
1 2 (11.76%) Terraform
2 1 (5.88%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 1 (5.88%) Ansible
2 1 (5.88%) Kubernetes
2 1 (5.88%) PowerCLI
2 1 (5.88%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 4 (23.53%) Microsoft
2 3 (17.65%) Citrix
2 3 (17.65%) Oracle
3 2 (11.76%) VMware
4 1 (5.88%) BMC
4 1 (5.88%) Huawei
4 1 (5.88%) SAP
4 1 (5.88%) ServiceNow
4 1 (5.88%) Zerto