Disaster Recovery Contracts in the City of London

Disaster Recovery
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London requiring Disaster Recovery skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Disaster Recovery over the 6 months leading up to 6 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 105 85 144
Rank change year-on-year -20 +59 -4
Contract jobs citing Disaster Recovery 18 39 27
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 1.02% 1.79% 0.75%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.10% 1.98% 0.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 35 24
10th Percentile £410 £290 £313
25th Percentile £450 £350 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £385 £484
Median % change year-on-year +49.35% -20.41% -9.41%
75th Percentile £627 £634 £556
90th Percentile £684 £684 £678
Central London median daily rate £575 £385 £473
% change year-on-year +49.35% -18.52% -8.92%

All Process and 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 1,639 1,968 3,305
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 93.28% 90.57% 91.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,040 1,396 2,228
10th Percentile £356 £363 £350
25th Percentile £463 £450 £479
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £569 £600
Median % change year-on-year +1.10% -5.21% +4.35%
75th Percentile £688 £688 £730
90th Percentile £775 £813 £825
Central London median daily rate £565 £550 £600
% change year-on-year +2.73% -8.33% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 11 26
10th Percentile £22.00 £19.92 £15.13
25th Percentile £24.00 £20.22 £17.08
Median hourly rate £29.58 £25.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +18.30% -28.57% -13.58%
75th Percentile £45.00 £40.00 £58.75
90th Percentile £62.25 £41.84 £88.30
Central London median hourly rate £29.07 £27.81 £35.00
% change year-on-year +4.53% -20.54% -14.63%

Disaster Recovery
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Job postings citing Disaster Recovery as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Job vacancy trend for Disaster Recovery in the City of London

Disaster Recovery
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Disaster Recovery in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for Disaster Recovery in the City of London

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 6 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Disaster Recovery in the City of London

Disaster Recovery
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Disaster Recovery in the City of London.

Hourly rate trend for Disaster Recovery in the City of London

Disaster Recovery
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 2 (11.11%) Confluence
1 2 (11.11%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 4 (22.22%) Azure
1 4 (22.22%) Nutanix
2 3 (16.67%) AWS
3 2 (11.11%) Cloud Computing
3 2 (11.11%) GCP
3 2 (11.11%) GitHub
4 1 (5.56%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (5.56%) IaaS
4 1 (5.56%) PaaS
4 1 (5.56%) Rubrik
4 1 (5.56%) SaaS
4 1 (5.56%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 2 (11.11%) Kerberos
2 1 (5.56%) DNS
2 1 (5.56%) Firewall
2 1 (5.56%) Intrusion Detection
2 1 (5.56%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (22.22%) SQL Server
2 2 (11.11%) MongoDB
2 2 (11.11%) Oracle Database
3 1 (5.56%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (5.56%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (5.56%) Oracle Database 11g
3 1 (5.56%) Oracle Database 12c
3 1 (5.56%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (5.56%) Relational Database
3 1 (5.56%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 4 (22.22%) JIRA
2 2 (11.11%) Subversion
2 2 (11.11%) TeamCity
3 1 (5.56%) Serena SBM
General
1 8 (44.44%) Banking
1 8 (44.44%) Finance
2 3 (16.67%) Investment Banking
3 2 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (11.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 2 (11.11%) Social Skills
4 1 (5.56%) Financial Institution
4 1 (5.56%) International Banking
4 1 (5.56%) Legal
Job Titles
1 4 (22.22%) Administrator
1 4 (22.22%) DBA
2 3 (16.67%) Senior
3 2 (11.11%) .NET Developer
3 2 (11.11%) C# .NET Developer
3 2 (11.11%) C# Developer
3 2 (11.11%) Developer
3 2 (11.11%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Delivery Manager
4 1 (5.56%) Deployment Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Incident Manager
4 1 (5.56%) IT Risk Consultant
4 1 (5.56%) Linux Administrator
4 1 (5.56%) OpenVMS Administrator
4 1 (5.56%) Oracle DBA
4 1 (5.56%) Senior DBA
4 1 (5.56%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Service Manager
4 1 (5.56%) SQL DBA
4 1 (5.56%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (11.11%) .NET
1 2 (11.11%) LDAP
1 2 (11.11%) REST
2 1 (5.56%) Kafka
2 1 (5.56%) PySpark
2 1 (5.56%) WinForms
2 1 (5.56%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 4 (22.22%) Replication
2 3 (16.67%) Clustering
3 2 (11.11%) Wiki
4 1 (5.56%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (5.56%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (5.56%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 5 (27.78%) Windows
2 3 (16.67%) Linux
2 3 (16.67%) Windows Server
3 2 (11.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (11.11%) Solaris
4 1 (5.56%) OpenVMS
4 1 (5.56%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (33.33%) High Availability
2 5 (27.78%) Performance Tuning
3 4 (22.22%) Business Continuity
3 4 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (16.67%) DevOps
4 3 (16.67%) ITIL
5 2 (11.11%) CI/CD
5 2 (11.11%) Configuration Management
5 2 (11.11%) Cybersecurity
5 2 (11.11%) Data Analysis
5 2 (11.11%) Data Security
5 2 (11.11%) Incident Management
5 2 (11.11%) Incident Response
5 2 (11.11%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 2 (11.11%) Performance Monitoring
5 2 (11.11%) Programme Management
5 2 (11.11%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 2 (11.11%) Stakeholder Management
5 2 (11.11%) Unit Testing
5 2 (11.11%) Wealth Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (33.33%) Python
2 5 (27.78%) SQL
3 4 (22.22%) PowerShell
4 3 (16.67%) Bash
4 3 (16.67%) C#
5 2 (11.11%) Java
5 2 (11.11%) Perl
6 1 (5.56%) PL/SQL
6 1 (5.56%) Ruby
6 1 (5.56%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (5.56%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
1 1 (5.56%) PRINCE2 Certification
1 1 (5.56%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (11.11%) QA
2 1 (5.56%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (5.56%) Data Quality
2 1 (5.56%) GDPR
2 1 (5.56%) GRC
2 1 (5.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (5.56%) NIST
2 1 (5.56%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 4 (22.22%) Active Directory
2 2 (11.11%) VMware ESXi
2 2 (11.11%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (5.56%) Docker
3 1 (5.56%) NFS
3 1 (5.56%) Oracle RAC
3 1 (5.56%) Veritas File System
3 1 (5.56%) Veritas Volume Manager
3 1 (5.56%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 3 (16.67%) Ansible
2 2 (11.11%) Control-M
2 2 (11.11%) QRadar
2 2 (11.11%) SCCM
2 2 (11.11%) Tivoli
3 1 (5.56%) Data Guard
3 1 (5.56%) EMC NetWorker
3 1 (5.56%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
3 1 (5.56%) Kubernetes
3 1 (5.56%) Netcool
3 1 (5.56%) Red Hat Satellite
3 1 (5.56%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 5 (27.78%) Oracle
1 5 (27.78%) VMware
2 3 (16.67%) Red Hat
3 2 (11.11%) BMC
3 2 (11.11%) Commvault
3 2 (11.11%) CyberArk
3 2 (11.11%) IBM
3 2 (11.11%) Qualys
3 2 (11.11%) ServiceNow
3 2 (11.11%) Splunk
4 1 (5.56%) Confluent
4 1 (5.56%) EMC
4 1 (5.56%) SaltStack
4 1 (5.56%) SAP
4 1 (5.56%) Serena
4 1 (5.56%) Sybase