Disaster Recovery Contracts in Edinburgh

Disaster Recovery
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 52 59 76
Rank change year-on-year +7 +17 +37
Contract jobs citing Disaster Recovery 15 13 36
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 2.40% 1.60% 2.76%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.53% 1.81% 2.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 6 34
10th Percentile - £410 £408
25th Percentile £506 £422 £466
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £582 £467 £500
Median % change year-on-year +24.63% -6.60% -4.76%
75th Percentile £647 £611 £547
90th Percentile £675 £669 £572
Scotland median daily rate £575 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +20.95% -5.00% +11.11%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Edinburgh

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 Edinburgh.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 594 720 1,240
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 95.04% 88.34% 95.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 333 422 884
10th Percentile £214 £233 £254
25th Percentile £403 £413 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £471 £484 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.59% +1.79% -
75th Percentile £541 £575 £545
90th Percentile £630 £663 £625
Scotland median daily rate £463 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -2.63% - +2.15%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 31 11
10th Percentile - £15.10 £13.16
25th Percentile £17.30 £16.25 £17.72
Median hourly rate £22.44 £22.87 £21.26
Median % change year-on-year -1.89% +7.57% -46.85%
75th Percentile £25.59 £60.75 £53.75
90th Percentile £42.35 - £54.50
Scotland median hourly rate £21.59 £19.34 £17.72
% change year-on-year +11.66% +9.11% -55.69%

Disaster Recovery
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

Job postings citing Disaster Recovery as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh.

Job vacancy trend for Disaster Recovery in Edinburgh

Disaster Recovery
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Disaster Recovery in Edinburgh.

Daily rate trend for Disaster Recovery in Edinburgh

Disaster Recovery
Daily Rate Histogram in Edinburgh

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Disaster Recovery in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Disaster Recovery in Edinburgh

Disaster Recovery
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Edinburgh

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Disaster Recovery in Edinburgh.

Hourly rate trend for Disaster Recovery in Edinburgh

Disaster Recovery
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Edinburgh 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 3 (20.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 5 (33.33%) AWS
2 4 (26.67%) Amazon S3
3 3 (20.00%) Amazon EC2
3 3 (20.00%) AWS Lambda
3 3 (20.00%) Azure
3 3 (20.00%) Serverless
4 1 (6.67%) Amazon EMR
4 1 (6.67%) IaaS
4 1 (6.67%) OCI
4 1 (6.67%) PaaS
4 1 (6.67%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 3 (20.00%) SNA
1 3 (20.00%) TCP/IP
2 1 (6.67%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (26.67%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (20.00%) Oracle Database
3 2 (13.33%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (13.33%) SQL Server
4 1 (6.67%) Amazon Athena
4 1 (6.67%) InfluxDB
4 1 (6.67%) MongoDB
4 1 (6.67%) Oracle Database 10g
4 1 (6.67%) Oracle Exadata
4 1 (6.67%) Oracle Reports
4 1 (6.67%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (20.00%) JIRA
2 1 (6.67%) Jenkins
General
1 7 (46.67%) Analytical Skills
2 6 (40.00%) Finance
2 6 (40.00%) Social Skills
3 3 (20.00%) Public Sector
4 2 (13.33%) Banking
5 1 (6.67%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (53.33%) Architect
2 5 (33.33%) Infrastructure Architect
3 3 (20.00%) Cloud Architect
3 3 (20.00%) Infrastructure Solutions Architect
3 3 (20.00%) Solutions Architect
4 2 (13.33%) Mainframe Specialist
5 1 (6.67%) Administrator
5 1 (6.67%) AWS Architect
5 1 (6.67%) Data Administrator
5 1 (6.67%) Database Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) DBA
5 1 (6.67%) Network Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Oracle DBA
5 1 (6.67%) Security Architect
5 1 (6.67%) Senior
5 1 (6.67%) Senior Database Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Unix Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) z/OS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (6.67%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 7 (46.67%) Mainframe
2 5 (33.33%) Data Centre
2 5 (33.33%) Replication
3 2 (13.33%) Cloud Native
4 1 (6.67%) Clustering
4 1 (6.67%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (6.67%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 7 (46.67%) Windows
2 6 (40.00%) Linux
2 6 (40.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 6 (40.00%) Solaris
3 4 (26.67%) HPUX
4 3 (20.00%) zOS
5 2 (13.33%) Unix
6 1 (6.67%) AIX
6 1 (6.67%) Data ONTAP
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (66.67%) High Availability
2 8 (53.33%) DevOps
3 7 (46.67%) Agile
4 5 (33.33%) ITIL
5 4 (26.67%) Capacity Planning
5 4 (26.67%) Problem-Solving
5 4 (26.67%) Service Management
6 3 (20.00%) Analytical Thinking
6 3 (20.00%) Business Continuity
6 3 (20.00%) Change Management
6 3 (20.00%) Computer Science
6 3 (20.00%) Cost Optimisation
6 3 (20.00%) Database Migration
6 3 (20.00%) DevSecOps
6 3 (20.00%) ITSM
6 3 (20.00%) Migration
6 3 (20.00%) Network Monitoring
6 3 (20.00%) Planning and Forecasting
6 3 (20.00%) Software Engineering
6 3 (20.00%) Systems Thinking
Programming Languages
1 4 (26.67%) JCL
2 2 (13.33%) SQL
3 1 (6.67%) Bash
3 1 (6.67%) Perl
3 1 (6.67%) Python
3 1 (6.67%) REXX
3 1 (6.67%) Shell Script
3 1 (6.67%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (26.67%) AWS Certification
1 4 (26.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 3 (20.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 3 (20.00%) Degree
3 1 (6.67%) Azure Certification
3 1 (6.67%) CISSP
3 1 (6.67%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (20.00%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (6.67%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (6.67%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
2 1 (6.67%) Data Quality
System Software
1 4 (26.67%) Virtual Machines
2 2 (13.33%) Oracle RAC
3 1 (6.67%) Hyper-V
3 1 (6.67%) KVM
3 1 (6.67%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (20.00%) Tivoli NetView
2 2 (13.33%) Data Guard
3 1 (6.67%) Ansible
3 1 (6.67%) Failover Clustering
3 1 (6.67%) Grafana
3 1 (6.67%) HAProxy
3 1 (6.67%) Microsoft Clustering
3 1 (6.67%) Nagios
3 1 (6.67%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
3 1 (6.67%) Oracle Flashback
3 1 (6.67%) Oracle RMAN
3 1 (6.67%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 7 (46.67%) IBM
2 5 (33.33%) Oracle
3 4 (26.67%) Sun
3 4 (26.67%) Unisys
4 3 (20.00%) Dynatrace
5 2 (13.33%) Commvault
5 2 (13.33%) HP
5 2 (13.33%) Red Hat
6 1 (6.67%) Dell
6 1 (6.67%) Microsoft
6 1 (6.67%) NetApp
6 1 (6.67%) Palo Alto
6 1 (6.67%) Teradata
6 1 (6.67%) VMware