Disaster Recovery Contracts in England

Disaster Recovery
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England 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 9 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 181 188 254
Rank change year-on-year +7 +66 +38
Contract jobs citing Disaster Recovery 403 484 482
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 1.49% 1.30% 0.99%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.64% 1.52% 1.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 263 352 352
10th Percentile £350 £325 £363
25th Percentile £404 £383 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £600 £608 £613
90th Percentile £675 £700 £690
UK median daily rate £492 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -1.60% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 17 7
10th Percentile £20.24 £23.80 £16.85
25th Percentile £22.68 £30.00 £21.43
Median hourly rate £32.39 £61.60 £57.33
Median % change year-on-year -47.43% +7.45% +3.39%
75th Percentile £64.88 - £91.25
90th Percentile £78.83 £75.00 £93.75
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £61.60 £58.67
% change year-on-year +1.46% +5.00% -3.23%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 24,505 31,932 43,517
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 90.78% 85.68% 89.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,746 20,751 30,509
10th Percentile £300 £306 £325
25th Percentile £406 £413 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £638 £645 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £775
UK median daily rate £505 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.81% -4.55% +0.92%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,256 2,274 1,546
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.79 £13.29
25th Percentile £17.87 £16.06 £17.72
Median hourly rate £25.15 £38.12 £40.54
Median % change year-on-year -34.02% -5.96% +57.86%
75th Percentile £54.00 £61.60 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.16 £72.50 £77.47
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £37.50 £40.00
% change year-on-year -32.93% -6.25% +53.85%

Disaster Recovery
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Disaster Recovery in England

Disaster Recovery
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Disaster Recovery in England

Disaster Recovery
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Disaster Recovery in England over the 6 months to 9 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Disaster Recovery in England

Disaster Recovery
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Disaster Recovery in England

Disaster Recovery
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Disaster Recovery in England over the 6 months to 9 July 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Disaster Recovery in England

Disaster Recovery
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Disaster Recovery within the England region over the 6 months to 9 July 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London -21 161 £500 +5.26% 166
North of England +28 76 £450 -11.24% 106
South East +30 71 £523 -5.00% 103
North West +14 41 £450 -18.18% 54
Yorkshire +3 35 £390 -10.34% 37
Midlands +20 33 £450 +12.50% 72
West Midlands +21 30 £450 +4.65% 49
South West +38 29 £520 -5.45% 47
East of England +13 20 £475 +13.10% 42
East Midlands 0 2 £550 +37.50% 22
Disaster Recovery
UK

Disaster Recovery
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 20 (4.96%) Confluence
2 18 (4.47%) SharePoint
3 15 (3.72%) IIS
4 12 (2.98%) Microsoft Exchange
5 5 (1.24%) Apache
5 5 (1.24%) WebLogic
6 4 (0.99%) Apache Spark
6 4 (0.99%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 4 (0.99%) Oracle Workflow
7 3 (0.74%) Anypoint
8 2 (0.50%) Apache Airflow
8 2 (0.50%) CICS
8 2 (0.50%) Mule
8 2 (0.50%) nginx
8 2 (0.50%) OpenStack
9 1 (0.25%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 12 (2.98%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (1.99%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.50%) AutoCAD
3 2 (0.50%) MicroStation
3 2 (0.50%) Revit
4 1 (0.25%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 15 (3.72%) Oracle Assets
2 12 (2.98%) Oracle EBS
2 12 (2.98%) Oracle EBS R12
2 12 (2.98%) Oracle ERP
3 7 (1.74%) Oracle E-Business Tax
3 7 (1.74%) Oracle General Ledger
3 7 (1.74%) Oracle Payables
4 4 (0.99%) OpenText MBPM
4 4 (0.99%) Oracle BPM
5 3 (0.74%) Remedy ITSM
6 2 (0.50%) BASE24
6 2 (0.50%) NetSuite
6 2 (0.50%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 2 (0.50%) SAP PM
7 1 (0.25%) Oracle Cash Management
7 1 (0.25%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 119 (29.53%) Azure
2 90 (22.33%) AWS
3 33 (8.19%) GCP
4 28 (6.95%) Microsoft 365
5 27 (6.70%) Entra ID
6 21 (5.21%) SaaS
7 20 (4.96%) Serverless
8 18 (4.47%) Azure DevOps
8 18 (4.47%) GitHub
8 18 (4.47%) IaaS
9 14 (3.47%) Power Platform
10 11 (2.73%) Azure Monitor
10 11 (2.73%) PaaS
11 10 (2.48%) Azure Data Factory
12 9 (2.23%) GitHub Actions
13 8 (1.99%) Amazon EC2
13 8 (1.99%) AWS CloudFormation
13 8 (1.99%) Azure Storage
13 8 (1.99%) Nutanix
14 7 (1.74%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 59 (14.64%) Firewall
2 29 (7.20%) DNS
3 24 (5.96%) SAN
4 22 (5.46%) VPN
5 21 (5.21%) Network Security
6 19 (4.71%) Internet
7 16 (3.97%) TCP/IP
8 15 (3.72%) WAN
9 14 (3.47%) DHCP
10 12 (2.98%) NAS
11 11 (2.73%) SSL
12 9 (2.23%) LAN
13 7 (1.74%) Intrusion Detection
14 5 (1.24%) HTTPS
14 5 (1.24%) Kerberos
14 5 (1.24%) SD-WAN
14 5 (1.24%) SSH
14 5 (1.24%) VLAN
14 5 (1.24%) Wireless
15 4 (0.99%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 52 (12.90%) SQL Server
2 34 (8.44%) Oracle Database
3 25 (6.20%) PostgreSQL
4 20 (4.96%) Oracle Reports
5 18 (4.47%) MongoDB
5 18 (4.47%) NoSQL
6 16 (3.97%) Relational Database
7 11 (2.73%) RDBMS
8 10 (2.48%) Amazon RDS
8 10 (2.48%) Azure SQL Database
8 10 (2.48%) Power BI
9 9 (2.23%) MySQL
10 8 (1.99%) Data Warehouse
11 7 (1.74%) Elasticsearch
12 6 (1.49%) DB2
13 4 (0.99%) Hadoop
13 4 (0.99%) Oracle BI EE
13 4 (0.99%) Oracle Exadata
14 3 (0.74%) DynamoDB
14 3 (0.74%) Oracle Database 12c
Development Applications
1 14 (3.47%) JIRA
2 13 (3.23%) Jenkins
3 9 (2.23%) Git
4 7 (1.74%) GitLab
5 6 (1.49%) TeamCity
6 3 (0.74%) Subversion
7 2 (0.50%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.25%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 1 (0.25%) JMeter
8 1 (0.25%) LoadRunner
8 1 (0.25%) NeoLoad
8 1 (0.25%) Selenium
8 1 (0.25%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 92 (22.83%) Social Skills
2 86 (21.34%) Finance
3 67 (16.63%) Analytical Skills
4 44 (10.92%) Banking
5 31 (7.69%) Public Sector
6 17 (4.22%) Telecoms
7 9 (2.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 8 (1.99%) General Ledger
8 8 (1.99%) Retail
9 7 (1.74%) Investment Banking
9 7 (1.74%) Legal
9 7 (1.74%) Manufacturing
10 6 (1.49%) Documentation Skills
10 6 (1.49%) Organisational Skills
11 4 (0.99%) Marketing
11 4 (0.99%) Military
12 3 (0.74%) Electronics
12 3 (0.74%) Financial Institution
12 3 (0.74%) Local Government
12 3 (0.74%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 42 (10.42%) Administrator
2 35 (8.68%) DBA
3 32 (7.94%) Architect
4 31 (7.69%) Developer
5 28 (6.95%) Senior
6 26 (6.45%) Analyst
7 19 (4.71%) Consultant
7 19 (4.71%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 19 (4.71%) Lead
8 17 (4.22%) C# Developer
9 15 (3.72%) Azure Engineer
9 15 (3.72%) IT Manager
10 13 (3.23%) Cloud Engineer
10 13 (3.23%) Network Engineer
11 12 (2.98%) C# WPF Developer
11 12 (2.98%) WPF Developer
12 11 (2.73%) C# WCF Developer
12 11 (2.73%) Service Manager
12 11 (2.73%) Solutions Architect
12 11 (2.73%) WCF Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (5.96%) .NET
2 20 (4.96%) Kafka
3 17 (4.22%) REST
4 15 (3.72%) WPF
5 14 (3.47%) XML
6 13 (3.23%) .NET Framework
6 13 (3.23%) Middleware
7 12 (2.98%) WinForms
8 11 (2.73%) WCF
9 10 (2.48%) Elastic Stack
10 9 (2.23%) JSON
10 9 (2.23%) LDAP
11 8 (1.99%) RFC 2544
12 6 (1.49%) HTML
13 5 (1.24%) Apache NiFi
13 5 (1.24%) ARM Templates
14 4 (0.99%) CSS
14 4 (0.99%) HTML5 Canvas
14 4 (0.99%) RESTful
14 4 (0.99%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 47 (11.66%) Data Centre
2 40 (9.93%) Replication
3 14 (3.47%) Clustering
4 12 (2.98%) Onboarding
5 11 (2.73%) Hybrid Cloud
5 11 (2.73%) Mainframe
6 9 (2.23%) Enterprise Storage
6 9 (2.23%) PKI
7 8 (1.99%) Data Protection Act
7 8 (1.99%) Legacy Applications
7 8 (1.99%) Legacy Systems
7 8 (1.99%) Security Posture
7 8 (1.99%) Video Conferencing
8 7 (1.74%) Linux Command Line
8 7 (1.74%) SCADA
9 6 (1.49%) Cloud Native
9 6 (1.49%) Cyber Threat
9 6 (1.49%) Distributed Systems
10 5 (1.24%) Management Information System
11 4 (0.99%) Fibre Optics
Operating Systems
1 100 (24.81%) Windows
2 58 (14.39%) Linux
3 46 (11.41%) Windows Server
4 22 (5.46%) Unix
5 16 (3.97%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 10 (2.48%) Solaris
7 6 (1.49%) CentOS
7 6 (1.49%) Ubuntu
7 6 (1.49%) Windows Server 2016
8 5 (1.24%) HPUX
8 5 (1.24%) Windows Server 2012
8 5 (1.24%) Windows Server 2019
9 3 (0.74%) VMS
9 3 (0.74%) Windows 10
9 3 (0.74%) zOS
10 2 (0.50%) AIX
10 2 (0.50%) Android
10 2 (0.50%) Mac OS
11 1 (0.25%) OpenVMS
11 1 (0.25%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 102 (25.31%) High Availability
2 90 (22.33%) Problem-Solving
3 82 (20.35%) Business Continuity
4 65 (16.13%) DevOps
5 62 (15.38%) Performance Tuning
6 59 (14.64%) ITIL
7 53 (13.15%) Migration
8 49 (12.16%) Cybersecurity
9 45 (11.17%) Agile
10 39 (9.68%) CI/CD
11 36 (8.93%) Stakeholder Management
12 34 (8.44%) Change Management
12 34 (8.44%) Containerisation
12 34 (8.44%) Infrastructure as Code
13 33 (8.19%) Analytics
14 32 (7.94%) Problem Management
15 31 (7.69%) BCP
16 28 (6.95%) Mentoring
17 27 (6.70%) Business Continuity Planning
18 26 (6.45%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 86 (21.34%) SQL
2 58 (14.39%) Python
3 50 (12.41%) PowerShell
4 27 (6.70%) C#
5 24 (5.96%) Bash
6 21 (5.21%) PL/SQL
7 16 (3.97%) T-SQL
8 14 (3.47%) JavaScript
9 13 (3.23%) VB
10 12 (2.98%) Shell Script
11 11 (2.73%) Bicep
11 11 (2.73%) Perl
11 11 (2.73%) VBA
12 8 (1.99%) C
13 7 (1.74%) ActionScript
13 7 (1.74%) ActionScript 2.0
14 5 (1.24%) Java
15 4 (0.99%) JCL
16 3 (0.74%) COBOL
17 2 (0.50%) C++
Qualifications
1 81 (20.10%) Security Cleared
2 58 (14.39%) SC Cleared
3 20 (4.96%) Degree
4 19 (4.71%) Azure Certification
5 14 (3.47%) DV Cleared
6 9 (2.23%) Microsoft Certification
7 7 (1.74%) AWS Certification
7 7 (1.74%) CCNP
7 7 (1.74%) Cisco Certification
7 7 (1.74%) VCAP
8 6 (1.49%) CCNA
8 6 (1.49%) CISSP
9 5 (1.24%) DBS Check
10 4 (0.99%) ITIL Certification
10 4 (0.99%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 3 (0.74%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 3 (0.74%) Computer Science Degree
11 3 (0.74%) Master's Degree
12 2 (0.50%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 2 (0.50%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (7.69%) QA
2 27 (6.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 23 (5.71%) GDPR
4 15 (3.72%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 15 (3.72%) SLA
5 13 (3.23%) Data Quality
6 10 (2.48%) ISO 22301
7 9 (2.23%) NIST
8 7 (1.74%) GRC
8 7 (1.74%) ISO/IEC 20000
8 7 (1.74%) PCI DSS
9 5 (1.24%) NCSC
10 4 (0.99%) Accessibility
10 4 (0.99%) HIPAA
10 4 (0.99%) ISO 31000
11 2 (0.50%) Cyber Essentials
11 2 (0.50%) GxP
11 2 (0.50%) ISO 8583
12 1 (0.25%) NIST 800
12 1 (0.25%) PMO
System Software
1 51 (12.66%) Active Directory
2 32 (7.94%) VMware Infrastructure
3 22 (5.46%) Docker
4 15 (3.72%) Virtual Machines
5 11 (2.73%) vSphere
6 9 (2.23%) Hyper-V
6 9 (2.23%) VMware ESXi
7 7 (1.74%) Firmware
7 7 (1.74%) Oracle RAC
7 7 (1.74%) Virtual Servers
8 6 (1.49%) VMware NSX
9 5 (1.24%) Apache ZooKeeper
9 5 (1.24%) Virtual Desktop
10 3 (0.74%) NFS
11 2 (0.50%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 1 (0.25%) Microsoft App-V
12 1 (0.25%) Veritas Cluster Server
12 1 (0.25%) Veritas File System
12 1 (0.25%) Veritas Volume Manager
12 1 (0.25%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 51 (12.66%) Terraform
2 38 (9.43%) Ansible
3 25 (6.20%) Kubernetes
4 23 (5.71%) Microsoft Intune
5 20 (4.96%) Oracle RMAN
6 15 (3.72%) Grafana
6 15 (3.72%) NetBackup
7 14 (3.47%) Prometheus
8 7 (1.74%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
8 7 (1.74%) SCCM
9 5 (1.24%) EMC NetWorker
9 5 (1.24%) Kibana
9 5 (1.24%) logstash
10 4 (0.99%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
10 4 (0.99%) FortiGate
10 4 (0.99%) PowerCLI
10 4 (0.99%) Progress Chef
10 4 (0.99%) Puppet
10 4 (0.99%) vCenter Server
10 4 (0.99%) vRealize
Vendors
1 88 (21.84%) Oracle
2 72 (17.87%) Microsoft
3 50 (12.41%) VMware
4 24 (5.96%) IBM
5 22 (5.46%) Cisco
6 19 (4.71%) Citrix
6 19 (4.71%) Red Hat
7 17 (4.22%) Google
7 17 (4.22%) HP
7 17 (4.22%) ServiceNow
8 14 (3.47%) Veritas
9 13 (3.23%) Commvault
10 12 (2.98%) NetApp
11 11 (2.73%) EMC
11 11 (2.73%) Splunk
12 10 (2.48%) CyberArk
12 10 (2.48%) Qualys
13 8 (1.99%) 3PAR
13 8 (1.99%) SAP
14 7 (1.74%) Nimble Storage