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 13 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 102 97 80
Rank change year-on-year -5 -17 +56
Contract jobs citing Disaster Recovery 21 26 51
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 1.16% 1.38% 2.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.29% 1.50% 2.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 16 44
10th Percentile £379 - -
25th Percentile £503 £350 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £521 £475
Median % change year-on-year +10.31% +9.74% -
75th Percentile £797 £615 £611
90th Percentile £819 £685 £684
Central London median daily rate £575 £575 £485
% change year-on-year - +18.56% -0.51%

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 1,626 1,728 2,165
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 89.59% 92.01% 89.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,141 1,052 1,547
10th Percentile £350 £372 £363
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% - -2.13%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £688
90th Percentile £765 £790 £800
Central London median daily rate £538 £575 £573
% change year-on-year -6.52% +0.44% -0.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 11 10
10th Percentile £19.94 £14.00 £17.00
25th Percentile £20.50 £22.00 £17.48
Median hourly rate £28.00 £38.50 £26.25
Median % change year-on-year -27.27% +46.67% -37.13%
75th Percentile £42.30 £112.00 £44.56
90th Percentile £45.56 £137.50 £74.13
Central London median hourly rate £26.11 £35.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year -25.40% +27.27% -32.10%

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 13 January 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%) Microsoft Exchange
Business Applications
1 1 (4.76%) Veritas eDiscovery
Cloud Services
1 9 (42.86%) Azure
2 8 (38.10%) AWS
3 3 (14.29%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 3 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (14.29%) GCP
3 3 (14.29%) GitHub
3 3 (14.29%) GitHub Actions
3 3 (14.29%) IaaS
3 3 (14.29%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (9.52%) Amazon EC2
4 2 (9.52%) Amazon ECS
4 2 (9.52%) Amazon EKS
4 2 (9.52%) Amazon S3
4 2 (9.52%) AWS CloudTrail
4 2 (9.52%) Azure Monitor
4 2 (9.52%) Datadog
4 2 (9.52%) Entra ID
4 2 (9.52%) Sumo Logic
4 2 (9.52%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 1 (4.76%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 4 (19.05%) Firewall
2 3 (14.29%) Network Security
3 2 (9.52%) DNS
3 2 (9.52%) VPN
4 1 (4.76%) DHCP
4 1 (4.76%) LAN
4 1 (4.76%) NAS
4 1 (4.76%) SAN
4 1 (4.76%) Unified Communications
4 1 (4.76%) WAN
4 1 (4.76%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (9.52%) Amazon Aurora
1 2 (9.52%) Amazon RDS
1 2 (9.52%) MySQL
2 1 (4.76%) CouchDB
2 1 (4.76%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (4.76%) Oracle Database
2 1 (4.76%) Oracle Exadata
2 1 (4.76%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (4.76%) Redis
2 1 (4.76%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (9.52%) Jenkins
2 1 (4.76%) Bitbucket
2 1 (4.76%) JIRA
General
1 9 (42.86%) Finance
2 8 (38.10%) Social Skills
3 5 (23.81%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (14.29%) Influencing Skills
5 2 (9.52%) Banking
5 2 (9.52%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (4.76%) Back Office
6 1 (4.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (4.76%) International Banking
6 1 (4.76%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (19.05%) Architect
1 4 (19.05%) Consultant
2 3 (14.29%) Business Consultant
2 3 (14.29%) Business Continuity Consultant
2 3 (14.29%) Disaster Recovery Consultant
2 3 (14.29%) IT Consultant
3 2 (9.52%) Azure Architect
3 2 (9.52%) Cloud Architect
3 2 (9.52%) DBA
3 2 (9.52%) DevOps Engineer
3 2 (9.52%) Lead
3 2 (9.52%) Migration Architect
3 2 (9.52%) Platform Engineer
4 1 (4.76%) Cloud Engineer
4 1 (4.76%) Cloud Platform Engineer
4 1 (4.76%) Migration Specialist
4 1 (4.76%) Oracle Data Architect
4 1 (4.76%) PostgreSQL DBA
4 1 (4.76%) SC Cleared DBA
4 1 (4.76%) Subject Matter Expert
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (4.76%) .NET
1 1 (4.76%) Memcached
1 1 (4.76%) Oracle GoldenGate
Miscellaneous
1 3 (14.29%) Replication
2 2 (9.52%) Cloud Native
2 2 (9.52%) Data Centre
2 2 (9.52%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (4.76%) BYOD
3 1 (4.76%) CMDB
3 1 (4.76%) Fat Client
3 1 (4.76%) Management Information System
3 1 (4.76%) Onboarding
3 1 (4.76%) Security Operations Centre
3 1 (4.76%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 3 (14.29%) Windows
1 3 (14.29%) Windows Server
2 2 (9.52%) Linux
3 1 (4.76%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (52.38%) Business Continuity
2 8 (38.10%) Problem-Solving
3 7 (33.33%) Migration
4 5 (23.81%) DevOps
4 5 (23.81%) Infrastructure as Code
4 5 (23.81%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 4 (19.05%) Change Management
6 3 (14.29%) Business Strategy
6 3 (14.29%) CI/CD
6 3 (14.29%) Cloud Operations
6 3 (14.29%) Containerisation
6 3 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
6 3 (14.29%) Cost Optimisation
6 3 (14.29%) Cybersecurity
6 3 (14.29%) High Availability
6 3 (14.29%) Information Security
6 3 (14.29%) ITIL
6 3 (14.29%) Roadmaps
7 2 (9.52%) Cloud Security
7 2 (9.52%) Technology Strategy
Programming Languages
1 4 (19.05%) Python
2 3 (14.29%) Bash
2 3 (14.29%) PowerShell
3 2 (9.52%) PL/SQL
3 2 (9.52%) SQL
4 1 (4.76%) PHP
Qualifications
1 4 (19.05%) Azure Certification
2 3 (14.29%) Security Cleared
3 2 (9.52%) Degree
3 2 (9.52%) Microsoft Certification
3 2 (9.52%) SC Cleared
4 1 (4.76%) CISM
4 1 (4.76%) CISSP
4 1 (4.76%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (4.76%) Master's Degree
4 1 (4.76%) MCSA
4 1 (4.76%) MCSE
4 1 (4.76%) OCP
4 1 (4.76%) Oracle Certification
4 1 (4.76%) VCAP
4 1 (4.76%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (19.05%) GDPR
2 3 (14.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (9.52%) Cyber Essentials
3 2 (9.52%) Data Quality
3 2 (9.52%) NIST
3 2 (9.52%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (4.76%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (4.76%) HIPAA
4 1 (4.76%) ISO 9001
4 1 (4.76%) ISO/IEC 20000
4 1 (4.76%) PCI DSS
4 1 (4.76%) QA
System Software
1 4 (19.05%) Active Directory
1 4 (19.05%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (14.29%) Docker
3 1 (4.76%) Hyper-V
3 1 (4.76%) Oracle RAC
3 1 (4.76%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (4.76%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (4.76%) VMware NSX
3 1 (4.76%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 6 (28.57%) Terraform
2 4 (19.05%) Ansible
3 2 (9.52%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (4.76%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 1 (4.76%) Data Guard
4 1 (4.76%) Kubernetes
4 1 (4.76%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
4 1 (4.76%) Oracle RMAN
4 1 (4.76%) PowerCLI
4 1 (4.76%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 7 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 5 (23.81%) VMware
3 2 (9.52%) Oracle
4 1 (4.76%) Atlassian
4 1 (4.76%) BMC
4 1 (4.76%) CheckPoint
4 1 (4.76%) Cisco
4 1 (4.76%) Citrix
4 1 (4.76%) CyberArk
4 1 (4.76%) Datto
4 1 (4.76%) Google
4 1 (4.76%) Infoblox
4 1 (4.76%) Palo Alto
4 1 (4.76%) ServiceNow
4 1 (4.76%) Tenable
4 1 (4.76%) Veeam
4 1 (4.76%) Zerto