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 26 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 118 100 105
Rank change year-on-year -18 +5 +5
Contract jobs citing Disaster Recovery 24 27 22
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 1.08% 1.55% 1.04%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.20% 1.64% 1.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 22 15
10th Percentile £416 - -
25th Percentile £494 £404 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £538 £350
Median % change year-on-year +16.28% +53.57% -33.81%
75th Percentile £668 £629 £444
90th Percentile £694 £683 £626
Central London median daily rate £625 £538 £350
% change year-on-year +16.28% +53.57% -32.69%

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 1,993 1,643 1,947
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 89.33% 94.21% 91.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,373 1,101 1,216
10th Percentile £368 £325 £371
25th Percentile £456 £423 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £690
90th Percentile £775 £773 £792
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% -3.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 19 19
10th Percentile £16.98 £16.96 £15.60
25th Percentile £17.60 £22.88 £21.25
Median hourly rate £21.00 £28.15 £38.50
Median % change year-on-year -25.40% -26.88% +40.00%
75th Percentile £32.05 £50.25 £102.25
90th Percentile £50.59 £68.75 £137.50
Central London median hourly rate £25.57 £28.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year -10.30% -18.57% +30.84%

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 26 September 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 (4.17%) Confluence
1 1 (4.17%) IIS
1 1 (4.17%) JBoss
1 1 (4.17%) WebLogic
Business Applications
1 1 (4.17%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 9 (37.50%) Azure
2 3 (12.50%) AWS
3 1 (4.17%) Azure Data Factory
3 1 (4.17%) Azure Databricks
3 1 (4.17%) Azure Key Vault
3 1 (4.17%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 1 (4.17%) Entra ID
3 1 (4.17%) Power Platform
3 1 (4.17%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 2 (8.33%) DNS
2 1 (4.17%) DHCP
2 1 (4.17%) Firewall
2 1 (4.17%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (41.67%) SQL Server
2 4 (16.67%) Oracle Database
3 2 (8.33%) Azure SQL Database
3 2 (8.33%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (8.33%) SQL Server Analysis Services
3 2 (8.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 1 (4.17%) Apache Cassandra
4 1 (4.17%) Data Lake
4 1 (4.17%) Delta Lake
4 1 (4.17%) Metadata
4 1 (4.17%) Power BI
4 1 (4.17%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (4.17%) Sybase ASE
4 1 (4.17%) Sybase IQ
Development Applications
1 3 (12.50%) JIRA
General
1 12 (50.00%) Banking
2 11 (45.83%) Finance
3 7 (29.17%) Social Skills
4 2 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (8.33%) Public Sector
5 1 (4.17%) Financial Institution
5 1 (4.17%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (4.17%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 6 (25.00%) Architect
2 4 (16.67%) C# Developer
2 4 (16.67%) Developer
3 3 (12.50%) DBA
3 3 (12.50%) Solutions Architect
4 2 (8.33%) Applications Support
4 2 (8.33%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
4 2 (8.33%) SQL DBA
5 1 (4.17%) Active Directory Engineer
5 1 (4.17%) Cassandra Engineer
5 1 (4.17%) Data Centre Architect
5 1 (4.17%) Data Engineer
5 1 (4.17%) Data Protection Engineer
5 1 (4.17%) Infrastructure Delivery Manager
5 1 (4.17%) Infrastructure Solutions Architect
5 1 (4.17%) Platform Engineer
5 1 (4.17%) Server Migration Engineer
5 1 (4.17%) Technical Delivery Manager
5 1 (4.17%) Technical Infrastructure Manager
5 1 (4.17%) Unix Linux Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (16.67%) .NET
1 4 (16.67%) .NET Framework
2 2 (8.33%) Web Services
3 1 (4.17%) LangChain
3 1 (4.17%) LlamaIndex
3 1 (4.17%) Middleware
3 1 (4.17%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 4 (16.67%) Data Centre
1 4 (16.67%) Replication
2 2 (8.33%) Cloud Native
2 2 (8.33%) Clustering
2 2 (8.33%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (8.33%) Enterprise Storage
2 2 (8.33%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (4.17%) AS400
Operating Systems
1 8 (33.33%) Windows
2 6 (25.00%) Windows Server
3 2 (8.33%) Linux
3 2 (8.33%) Unix
4 1 (4.17%) AIX
4 1 (4.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (4.17%) Solaris
4 1 (4.17%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (33.33%) High Availability
2 7 (29.17%) Business Continuity
2 7 (29.17%) Migration
3 6 (25.00%) Performance Tuning
4 5 (20.83%) Knowledge Transfer
4 5 (20.83%) Stakeholder Management
5 4 (16.67%) AI
5 4 (16.67%) BCP
5 4 (16.67%) Data Analysis
5 4 (16.67%) Database Security
5 4 (16.67%) Decision-Making
5 4 (16.67%) Enterprise Architecture
5 4 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
5 4 (16.67%) Roadmaps
5 4 (16.67%) Unit Testing
6 3 (12.50%) Business Continuity Planning
6 3 (12.50%) Data Encryption
6 3 (12.50%) Machine Learning
6 3 (12.50%) Mentoring
6 3 (12.50%) Runbook
Programming Languages
1 9 (37.50%) SQL
2 5 (20.83%) PowerShell
3 4 (16.67%) C#
3 4 (16.67%) PL/SQL
3 4 (16.67%) T-SQL
4 2 (8.33%) Python
5 1 (4.17%) Bicep
5 1 (4.17%) COBOL
5 1 (4.17%) CQL
5 1 (4.17%) Java
5 1 (4.17%) Perl
5 1 (4.17%) RPG
Qualifications
1 4 (16.67%) SC Cleared
1 4 (16.67%) Security Cleared
2 1 (4.17%) Azure Certification
2 1 (4.17%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (4.17%) Degree
2 1 (4.17%) ITIL Certification
2 1 (4.17%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (4.17%) PMI Certification
2 1 (4.17%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (25.00%) QA
2 1 (4.17%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (12.50%) Active Directory
2 2 (8.33%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (4.17%) Oracle RAC
3 1 (4.17%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (4.17%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 1 (4.17%) Ansible
1 1 (4.17%) Data Guard
1 1 (4.17%) Failover Clustering
1 1 (4.17%) Grafana
1 1 (4.17%) ITRS Geneos
1 1 (4.17%) Microsoft Clustering
1 1 (4.17%) Prometheus
1 1 (4.17%) Red Hat Satellite
1 1 (4.17%) SCOM
Vendors
1 7 (29.17%) Microsoft
2 6 (25.00%) Oracle
3 4 (16.67%) Citrix
4 2 (8.33%) NetApp
4 2 (8.33%) VMware
5 1 (4.17%) BMC
5 1 (4.17%) Commvault
5 1 (4.17%) Databricks
5 1 (4.17%) Dell
5 1 (4.17%) Dynatrace
5 1 (4.17%) EMC
5 1 (4.17%) IBM
5 1 (4.17%) Pure Storage
5 1 (4.17%) Red Hat
5 1 (4.17%) Remedy
5 1 (4.17%) ServiceNow
5 1 (4.17%) Sybase
5 1 (4.17%) VocaLink