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 23 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 113 99 94
Rank change year-on-year -14 -5 +35
Contract jobs citing Disaster Recovery 21 23 26
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.90% 1.25% 1.26%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.02% 1.33% 1.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 20 18
10th Percentile £416 - -
25th Percentile £463 £404 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £613 £431 £363
Median % change year-on-year +42.03% +18.97% -30.29%
75th Percentile £668 £616 £388
90th Percentile £679 £646 £539
Central London median daily rate £613 £431 £375
% change year-on-year +42.03% +15.00% -29.08%

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 2,052 1,730 1,891
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 87.77% 94.23% 91.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,407 1,136 1,255
10th Percentile £379 £325 £375
25th Percentile £456 £425 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £788
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% -3.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 23 16
10th Percentile - £17.62 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.60 £24.21 £19.79
Median hourly rate £20.25 £28.15 £26.63
Median % change year-on-year -28.06% +5.73% -3.18%
75th Percentile £35.14 £50.25 £82.19
90th Percentile £61.25 £63.75 £137.50
Central London median hourly rate £24.65 £28.79 £26.78
% change year-on-year -14.38% +7.49% -23.49%

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 23 August 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%) Confluence
1 1 (4.76%) IIS
Business Applications
1 1 (4.76%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 6 (28.57%) Azure
2 1 (4.76%) Azure Data Factory
2 1 (4.76%) Azure Key Vault
2 1 (4.76%) Azure Synapse Analytics
2 1 (4.76%) Entra ID
2 1 (4.76%) Power Platform
2 1 (4.76%) Rubrik
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%) Radio Access Network
2 1 (4.76%) SAN
2 1 (4.76%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (52.38%) SQL Server
2 5 (23.81%) Oracle Database
3 2 (9.52%) Azure SQL Database
3 2 (9.52%) SQL Server Analysis Services
3 2 (9.52%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 1 (4.76%) Apache Cassandra
4 1 (4.76%) Data Lake
4 1 (4.76%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (4.76%) Delta Lake
4 1 (4.76%) Metadata
4 1 (4.76%) Power BI
4 1 (4.76%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 3 (14.29%) JIRA
General
1 9 (42.86%) Banking
2 6 (28.57%) Finance
2 6 (28.57%) Social Skills
3 2 (9.52%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (9.52%) Public Sector
4 1 (4.76%) Financial Institution
4 1 (4.76%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (4.76%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 5 (23.81%) C# Developer
1 5 (23.81%) Developer
2 2 (9.52%) Applications Support
2 2 (9.52%) Architect
2 2 (9.52%) DBA
2 2 (9.52%) Senior
2 2 (9.52%) SQL DBA
3 1 (4.76%) Active Directory Engineer
3 1 (4.76%) Applications Support Engineer
3 1 (4.76%) C# .NET Developer
3 1 (4.76%) Cassandra Engineer
3 1 (4.76%) Data Engineer
3 1 (4.76%) Data Protection Engineer
3 1 (4.76%) Engineering Specialist
3 1 (4.76%) Infrastructure Architect
3 1 (4.76%) Infrastructure Manager
3 1 (4.76%) Lead
3 1 (4.76%) Senior VMware Engineer
3 1 (4.76%) Server Engineer
3 1 (4.76%) Server Migration Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (23.81%) .NET
1 5 (23.81%) .NET Framework
2 2 (9.52%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 3 (14.29%) Replication
2 2 (9.52%) Clustering
2 2 (9.52%) Data Centre
2 2 (9.52%) Enterprise Storage
2 2 (9.52%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (4.76%) AS400
3 1 (4.76%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 9 (42.86%) Windows
2 7 (33.33%) Windows Server
3 1 (4.76%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (28.57%) High Availability
2 5 (23.81%) Data Analysis
2 5 (23.81%) Knowledge Transfer
2 5 (23.81%) Performance Tuning
2 5 (23.81%) Unit Testing
3 4 (19.05%) Database Security
3 4 (19.05%) Migration
3 4 (19.05%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (19.05%) Stakeholder Management
4 3 (14.29%) Business Continuity
4 3 (14.29%) Data Encryption
4 3 (14.29%) Incident Management
4 3 (14.29%) ITIL
4 3 (14.29%) Key Management
4 3 (14.29%) Mentoring
4 3 (14.29%) Roadmaps
4 3 (14.29%) Runbook
4 3 (14.29%) Server Migrations
4 3 (14.29%) Service Management
5 2 (9.52%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 10 (47.62%) SQL
2 5 (23.81%) C#
2 5 (23.81%) PL/SQL
2 5 (23.81%) PowerShell
2 5 (23.81%) T-SQL
3 1 (4.76%) Bicep
3 1 (4.76%) COBOL
3 1 (4.76%) CQL
3 1 (4.76%) Python
3 1 (4.76%) RPG
Qualifications
1 5 (23.81%) SC Cleared
1 5 (23.81%) Security Cleared
2 1 (4.76%) Azure Certification
2 1 (4.76%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (4.76%) Degree
2 1 (4.76%) ITIL Certification
2 1 (4.76%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (4.76%) PMI Certification
2 1 (4.76%) PMP
2 1 (4.76%) VCAP
2 1 (4.76%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (33.33%) QA
2 1 (4.76%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (14.29%) Active Directory
1 3 (14.29%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (9.52%) VMware ESXi
2 2 (9.52%) vSphere
3 1 (4.76%) Oracle RAC
3 1 (4.76%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (4.76%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 1 (4.76%) Ansible
1 1 (4.76%) Data Guard
1 1 (4.76%) Grafana
1 1 (4.76%) ITRS Geneos
1 1 (4.76%) Microsoft Clustering
1 1 (4.76%) PowerCLI
1 1 (4.76%) Prometheus
1 1 (4.76%) SCOM
1 1 (4.76%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 6 (28.57%) Oracle
2 5 (23.81%) Citrix
2 5 (23.81%) Microsoft
3 3 (14.29%) VMware
4 2 (9.52%) NetApp
5 1 (4.76%) BMC
5 1 (4.76%) Commvault
5 1 (4.76%) Databricks
5 1 (4.76%) Dell
5 1 (4.76%) Dynatrace
5 1 (4.76%) EMC
5 1 (4.76%) Huawei
5 1 (4.76%) IBM
5 1 (4.76%) Pure Storage
5 1 (4.76%) Remedy
5 1 (4.76%) ServiceNow