Disaster Recovery Contracts in England

Disaster Recovery
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Disaster Recovery skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Disaster Recovery over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 181 276 273
Rank change year-on-year +95 -3 +24
Contract jobs citing Disaster Recovery 470 498 719
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 1.27% 0.99% 1.01%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.47% 1.09% 1.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 359 371 458
10th Percentile £310 £350 £319
25th Percentile £389 £400 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £495
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +6.06% +4.21%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £600
90th Percentile £700 £700 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £514 £487
% change year-on-year -2.72% +5.54% +2.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 6 13
10th Percentile £21.87 £16.85 £20.25
25th Percentile £23.80 £19.14 £21.25
Median hourly rate £58.30 £40.42 £50.77
Median % change year-on-year +44.25% -20.40% +78.14%
75th Percentile £61.60 £57.02 £69.05
90th Percentile £68.25 £57.33 £69.81
UK median hourly rate £58.30 £54.83 £57.89
% change year-on-year +6.33% -5.28% +124.80%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Disaster Recovery is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 31,985 45,619 64,566
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.53% 90.25% 90.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,974 32,022 45,804
10th Percentile £300 £325 £331
25th Percentile £413 £445 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +9.69%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £769 £749
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,225 1,607 1,769
10th Percentile £12.86 £10.94 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.31 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.50 £37.50 £24.35
Median % change year-on-year -5.33% +54.00% +1.46%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £63.15
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £37.34 £25.00
% change year-on-year -6.27% +49.36% -

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 27 April 2024.

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 27 April 2024.

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 27 April 2024. 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 +96 258 £494 -0.22% 112
South East +66 82 £575 +4.55% 44
North of England +41 58 £534 +36.92% 48
North West +27 45 £534 +36.92% 30
South West -18 35 £505 -15.92% 16
Midlands +2 16 £500 +29.03% 30
West Midlands +25 15 £463 -7.50% 21
Yorkshire +13 9 £423 +6.96% 15
East of England +5 7 £442 -37.96% 20
North East - 4 £475 - 3
East Midlands +3 1 £700 +86.67% 9
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 25 (5.32%) Microsoft Exchange
2 13 (2.77%) IIS
3 12 (2.55%) OpenStack
4 11 (2.34%) Confluence
4 11 (2.34%) SharePoint
5 6 (1.28%) Apache
6 5 (1.06%) nginx
7 4 (0.85%) CICS
8 2 (0.43%) Oracle Self-Service HR
8 2 (0.43%) Tomcat
9 1 (0.21%) Apache Airflow
9 1 (0.21%) Exchange Server 2007
9 1 (0.21%) Exchange Server 2010
9 1 (0.21%) OpenEdge
9 1 (0.21%) Skype for Business
9 1 (0.21%) WebLogic
9 1 (0.21%) WebSphere
Applications
1 28 (5.96%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (1.70%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.43%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 10 (2.13%) Remedy ITSM
2 7 (1.49%) Oracle EBS
2 7 (1.49%) Teamcenter
3 6 (1.28%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.21%) Dynamics GP
4 1 (0.21%) Dynamics NAV
4 1 (0.21%) MFGPRO
4 1 (0.21%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (0.21%) Sage 50
4 1 (0.21%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 131 (27.87%) Azure
2 78 (16.60%) AWS
3 41 (8.72%) GCP
4 38 (8.09%) PaaS
5 27 (5.74%) Microsoft 365
6 24 (5.11%) SaaS
7 22 (4.68%) GitHub
7 22 (4.68%) Serverless
8 18 (3.83%) OCI
9 17 (3.62%) Entra ID
10 15 (3.19%) IaaS
11 13 (2.77%) Azure DevOps
11 13 (2.77%) Cloud Computing
11 13 (2.77%) Nutanix
12 11 (2.34%) Rubrik
13 10 (2.13%) Azure API Management
13 10 (2.13%) Azure Logic Apps
14 8 (1.70%) Azure Data Factory
15 7 (1.49%) Azure Key Vault
15 7 (1.49%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 91 (19.36%) Firewall
2 58 (12.34%) SAN
3 48 (10.21%) DNS
4 33 (7.02%) DHCP
5 25 (5.32%) WAN
6 23 (4.89%) Network Security
6 23 (4.89%) VPN
7 22 (4.68%) LAN
8 18 (3.83%) Internet
9 17 (3.62%) NAS
10 16 (3.40%) TCP/IP
11 13 (2.77%) FTP
12 12 (2.55%) Wireless
13 11 (2.34%) OSPF
14 9 (1.91%) BGP
15 8 (1.70%) Cisco ASA
15 8 (1.70%) DMZ
15 8 (1.70%) Kerberos
15 8 (1.70%) VLAN
16 7 (1.49%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 71 (15.11%) SQL Server
2 51 (10.85%) Oracle Database
3 37 (7.87%) PostgreSQL
4 25 (5.32%) MongoDB
5 17 (3.62%) NoSQL
6 13 (2.77%) Hadoop
6 13 (2.77%) RDBMS
6 13 (2.77%) Relational Database
7 12 (2.55%) MySQL
7 12 (2.55%) Oracle Reports
8 10 (2.13%) Azure SQL Database
9 8 (1.70%) Elasticsearch
9 8 (1.70%) OLTP
9 8 (1.70%) SAP HANA
10 7 (1.49%) Power BI
11 6 (1.28%) Amazon RDS
11 6 (1.28%) Couchbase
12 5 (1.06%) Data Warehouse
12 5 (1.06%) DB2
12 5 (1.06%) OLAP
Development Applications
1 24 (5.11%) Git
2 18 (3.83%) Jenkins
3 15 (3.19%) JIRA
4 10 (2.13%) GitLab
5 8 (1.70%) TeamCity
6 7 (1.49%) Artifactory
6 7 (1.49%) Subversion
7 4 (0.85%) Sonatype Nexus
8 2 (0.43%) Gatling
8 2 (0.43%) Oracle APEX
8 2 (0.43%) Visual Studio
9 1 (0.21%) ERwin
9 1 (0.21%) Hudson
9 1 (0.21%) Katalon Studio
9 1 (0.21%) Octopus Deploy
9 1 (0.21%) Terragrunt
General
1 110 (23.40%) Social Skills
2 108 (22.98%) Finance
3 39 (8.30%) Public Sector
4 36 (7.66%) Analytical Skills
5 35 (7.45%) Banking
6 17 (3.62%) Telecoms
7 12 (2.55%) Financial Institution
8 11 (2.34%) Marketing
9 10 (2.13%) Documentation Skills
10 8 (1.70%) Manufacturing
10 8 (1.70%) Military
10 8 (1.70%) Organisational Skills
11 7 (1.49%) Presentation Skills
12 6 (1.28%) Billing
12 6 (1.28%) Electronics
12 6 (1.28%) Police
13 3 (0.64%) Advertising
13 3 (0.64%) Law
13 3 (0.64%) Legal
13 3 (0.64%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 65 (13.83%) Architect
2 47 (10.00%) Analyst
3 42 (8.94%) DBA
4 35 (7.45%) Senior
5 33 (7.02%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 27 (5.74%) Developer
6 27 (5.74%) Support Engineer
7 23 (4.89%) C# Developer
8 22 (4.68%) Administrator
8 22 (4.68%) Lead
9 18 (3.83%) SQL DBA
10 17 (3.62%) Consultant
10 17 (3.62%) Network Engineer
10 17 (3.62%) Technical Architect
11 16 (3.40%) .NET Developer
12 15 (3.19%) C# .NET Developer
13 14 (2.98%) Database Specialist
13 14 (2.98%) Oracle Architect
13 14 (2.98%) PostgreSQL DBA
14 13 (2.77%) Implementation Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (8.09%) .NET
2 24 (5.11%) LDAP
3 23 (4.89%) Kafka
4 21 (4.47%) .NET Framework
5 16 (3.40%) Middleware
6 13 (2.77%) JSON
7 12 (2.55%) XML
7 12 (2.55%) YAML
8 11 (2.34%) Elastic Stack
9 9 (1.91%) SAP Basis
9 9 (1.91%) WinForms
9 9 (1.91%) WPF
10 8 (1.70%) REST
10 8 (1.70%) WCF
11 6 (1.28%) GraphQL
11 6 (1.28%) SAP Fiori
11 6 (1.28%) SOAP
12 5 (1.06%) LAPP Stack
12 5 (1.06%) OAuth
12 5 (1.06%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 65 (13.83%) Replication
2 47 (10.00%) Data Centre
3 36 (7.66%) Clustering
4 26 (5.53%) Management Information System
5 19 (4.04%) PKI
6 17 (3.62%) Public Cloud
7 14 (2.98%) Self-Motivation
7 14 (2.98%) Video Conferencing
8 10 (2.13%) Linux Command Line
9 9 (1.91%) Blog
10 8 (1.70%) Distributed Systems
10 8 (1.70%) Hybrid Cloud
11 7 (1.49%) CMDB
12 6 (1.28%) Mainframe
13 5 (1.06%) Cloud Native
13 5 (1.06%) Data Protection Act
13 5 (1.06%) Security Posture
14 3 (0.64%) Onboarding
14 3 (0.64%) Team-Oriented Environment
14 3 (0.64%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 144 (30.64%) Windows
2 113 (24.04%) Linux
3 67 (14.26%) Windows Server
4 37 (7.87%) Unix
5 35 (7.45%) Windows Server 2016
6 32 (6.81%) Windows Server 2012
7 22 (4.68%) Windows 10
8 19 (4.04%) Windows Server 2019
9 16 (3.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 16 (3.40%) Solaris
10 14 (2.98%) Oracle Linux
10 14 (2.98%) Windows XP
11 13 (2.77%) VMS
12 8 (1.70%) zOS
13 6 (1.28%) CentOS
13 6 (1.28%) Ubuntu
14 2 (0.43%) Windows 7
15 1 (0.21%) Android
15 1 (0.21%) HPUX
15 1 (0.21%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 115 (24.47%) Business Continuity
2 112 (23.83%) High Availability
3 103 (21.91%) ITIL
4 95 (20.21%) Problem-Solving
5 71 (15.11%) Migration
6 67 (14.26%) Agile
6 67 (14.26%) Cybersecurity
7 66 (14.04%) DevOps
7 66 (14.04%) Performance Tuning
8 54 (11.49%) Roadmaps
9 46 (9.79%) Capacity Management
10 44 (9.36%) Data Protection
11 43 (9.15%) Infrastructure as Code
12 42 (8.94%) Project Management
13 41 (8.72%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 39 (8.30%) Computer Science
14 39 (8.30%) Storage Management
15 38 (8.09%) Business Strategy
16 34 (7.23%) Mentoring
17 33 (7.02%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 88 (18.72%) SQL
2 75 (15.96%) PowerShell
3 64 (13.62%) Python
4 42 (8.94%) Bash
5 41 (8.72%) C#
6 31 (6.60%) PL/SQL
7 24 (5.11%) T-SQL
8 22 (4.68%) VBA
9 21 (4.47%) VB
10 13 (2.77%) VB.NET
11 11 (2.34%) Go
12 10 (2.13%) Java
13 9 (1.91%) Bicep
14 7 (1.49%) C++
14 7 (1.49%) Shell Script
15 6 (1.28%) JavaScript
16 5 (1.06%) Perl
17 3 (0.64%) COBOL
17 3 (0.64%) REXX
18 2 (0.43%) AWK
Qualifications
1 102 (21.70%) Security Cleared
2 81 (17.23%) SC Cleared
3 71 (15.11%) Degree
4 22 (4.68%) DV Cleared
5 20 (4.26%) Cisco Certification
6 19 (4.04%) CCNP
6 19 (4.04%) Computer Science Degree
7 16 (3.40%) CCNA
7 16 (3.40%) Microsoft Certification
8 10 (2.13%) MCSE
9 6 (1.28%) CISSP
10 5 (1.06%) AWS Certification
10 5 (1.06%) CISM
10 5 (1.06%) CTC Cleared
10 5 (1.06%) SAP Certification
11 4 (0.85%) Azure Certification
11 4 (0.85%) RHCE
12 3 (0.64%) CCA
12 3 (0.64%) PMI Certification
12 3 (0.64%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (5.74%) NIST
2 24 (5.11%) QA
2 24 (5.11%) SLA
3 17 (3.62%) GDPR
4 15 (3.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 11 (2.34%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 9 (1.91%) Cyber Essentials
7 6 (1.28%) GRC
8 5 (1.06%) Data Quality
8 5 (1.06%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 4 (0.85%) PCI DSS
10 3 (0.64%) COBIT
10 3 (0.64%) IASME
10 3 (0.64%) ISO 22301
11 2 (0.43%) Accessibility
12 1 (0.21%) IFRS
12 1 (0.21%) IFRS 17
12 1 (0.21%) NCSC
System Software
1 97 (20.64%) Active Directory
2 70 (14.89%) VMware Infrastructure
3 29 (6.17%) Virtual Machines
4 23 (4.89%) Hyper-V
5 22 (4.68%) Docker
6 18 (3.83%) VMware ESXi
7 14 (2.98%) NFS
7 14 (2.98%) vSphere
8 13 (2.77%) HDFS
9 8 (1.70%) Firmware
9 8 (1.70%) KVM
10 5 (1.06%) vCloud
11 4 (0.85%) Virtual Servers
11 4 (0.85%) VMware NSX
12 3 (0.64%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 3 (0.64%) Virtual Desktop
13 2 (0.43%) BitLocker
13 2 (0.43%) Microsoft App-V
13 2 (0.43%) Oracle RAC
13 2 (0.43%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 64 (13.62%) Terraform
2 52 (11.06%) Ansible
3 42 (8.94%) SCCM
4 34 (7.23%) Kubernetes
5 25 (5.32%) NetBackup
6 21 (4.47%) EMC NetWorker
7 20 (4.26%) SCOM
8 18 (3.83%) vCenter Server
9 16 (3.40%) WSUS
10 15 (3.19%) Grafana
11 12 (2.55%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 11 (2.34%) Prometheus
13 8 (1.70%) Netcool
13 8 (1.70%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
13 8 (1.70%) Tivoli
13 8 (1.70%) Tivoli Storage Manager
14 7 (1.49%) BladeLogic
14 7 (1.49%) ITRS Geneos
14 7 (1.49%) Single Sign-On
15 6 (1.28%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 105 (22.34%) Oracle
2 102 (21.70%) Microsoft
3 78 (16.60%) VMware
4 60 (12.77%) Citrix
5 56 (11.91%) Cisco
6 42 (8.94%) HP
7 41 (8.72%) Dell
7 41 (8.72%) EMC
8 32 (6.81%) Palo Alto
9 25 (5.32%) CheckPoint
10 24 (5.11%) SAP
11 23 (4.89%) ServiceNow
12 22 (4.68%) Red Hat
13 21 (4.47%) Isilon
14 20 (4.26%) F5
15 19 (4.04%) SolarWinds
16 18 (3.83%) Splunk
17 17 (3.62%) Juniper
18 16 (3.40%) 3PAR
18 16 (3.40%) Qualys