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 15 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 174 191 256
Rank change year-on-year +17 +65 +10
Contract jobs citing Disaster Recovery 356 447 493
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 1.47% 1.23% 1.01%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.61% 1.42% 1.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 231 349 361
10th Percentile £350 £310 £350
25th Percentile £404 £388 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
75th Percentile £609 £615 £613
90th Percentile £688 £700 £690
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +2.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 10 6
10th Percentile £18.65 £23.49 £16.85
25th Percentile £20.24 £30.98 £19.14
Median hourly rate £21.63 £61.60 £40.42
Median % change year-on-year -64.89% +52.42% -23.90%
75th Percentile £65.62 - £57.02
90th Percentile £70.85 £68.25 £57.33
UK median hourly rate £22.05 £61.60 £54.83
% change year-on-year -64.20% +12.35% -1.12%

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 22,085 31,523 43,947
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 91.23% 86.44% 90.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,441 20,648 30,851
10th Percentile £308 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £448
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £673
90th Percentile £750 £750 £764
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% +3.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 936 2,245 1,554
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.89 £10.63
25th Percentile £18.20 £16.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.00 £36.50 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -20.55% -2.67% +50.00%
75th Percentile £62.63 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £28.30 £36.50 £36.40
% change year-on-year -22.48% +0.29% +41.73%

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 15 May 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 15 May 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 15 May 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 -28 146 £500 +1.24% 363
North of England +39 81 £445 -16.67% 123
South East +20 52 £540 -6.09% 163
North West +20 51 £447 -17.18% 79
Yorkshire +31 30 £389 -12.58% 29
Midlands +26 25 £544 +35.94% 51
South West +36 24 £550 - 34
West Midlands +26 23 £538 +34.38% 32
East of England +34 18 £500 +13.12% 51
East Midlands +7 2 £550 +37.50% 16
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 19 (5.34%) Confluence
2 17 (4.78%) Microsoft Exchange
2 17 (4.78%) SharePoint
3 15 (4.21%) IIS
4 4 (1.12%) Apache
4 4 (1.12%) OpenStack
4 4 (1.12%) WebLogic
5 3 (0.84%) Apache Spark
5 3 (0.84%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 3 (0.84%) Oracle Workflow
6 2 (0.56%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.56%) BizTalk Server
7 1 (0.28%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 10 (2.81%) Microsoft Excel
1 10 (2.81%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.28%) Adobe Creative Suite
Business Applications
1 10 (2.81%) Oracle EBS
2 9 (2.53%) Oracle Assets
3 6 (1.69%) Oracle EBS R12
3 6 (1.69%) Oracle E-Business Tax
3 6 (1.69%) Oracle ERP
3 6 (1.69%) Oracle General Ledger
3 6 (1.69%) Oracle Payables
4 3 (0.84%) Remedy ITSM
5 2 (0.56%) BASE24
5 2 (0.56%) NetSuite
5 2 (0.56%) SAP PM
5 2 (0.56%) Workday HCM
6 1 (0.28%) OpenText MBPM
6 1 (0.28%) Oracle BPM
6 1 (0.28%) Oracle Cash Management
6 1 (0.28%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 1 (0.28%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 104 (29.21%) Azure
2 82 (23.03%) AWS
3 33 (9.27%) Microsoft 365
4 27 (7.58%) Entra ID
5 26 (7.30%) GCP
6 22 (6.18%) IaaS
7 21 (5.90%) GitHub
8 20 (5.62%) Serverless
9 18 (5.06%) SaaS
10 14 (3.93%) Azure DevOps
10 14 (3.93%) PaaS
11 13 (3.65%) Nutanix
12 11 (3.09%) Cloud Computing
13 10 (2.81%) Power Platform
14 8 (2.25%) Amazon ELB
14 8 (2.25%) AWS Lambda
14 8 (2.25%) GitHub Actions
14 8 (2.25%) OpenShift
15 7 (1.97%) AWS CloudFormation
15 7 (1.97%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 47 (13.20%) Firewall
2 30 (8.43%) DNS
3 23 (6.46%) Network Security
4 20 (5.62%) Internet
5 19 (5.34%) TCP/IP
6 17 (4.78%) VPN
7 15 (4.21%) SAN
8 13 (3.65%) SSL
9 11 (3.09%) Intrusion Detection
9 11 (3.09%) WAN
10 10 (2.81%) DHCP
11 8 (2.25%) NAS
12 7 (1.97%) Kerberos
12 7 (1.97%) LAN
12 7 (1.97%) Wireless
13 5 (1.40%) HTTPS
13 5 (1.40%) Remote Desktop
13 5 (1.40%) SSH
14 4 (1.12%) iSCSI
14 4 (1.12%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 57 (16.01%) SQL Server
2 33 (9.27%) Oracle Database
3 26 (7.30%) PostgreSQL
4 19 (5.34%) Oracle Reports
5 18 (5.06%) MongoDB
6 14 (3.93%) NoSQL
7 13 (3.65%) Relational Database
8 10 (2.81%) RDBMS
9 9 (2.53%) MySQL
9 9 (2.53%) Power BI
10 8 (2.25%) Amazon RDS
11 7 (1.97%) Azure SQL Database
11 7 (1.97%) Data Warehouse
12 6 (1.69%) Elasticsearch
13 4 (1.12%) GIS
13 4 (1.12%) Hadoop
13 4 (1.12%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 3 (0.84%) Data Lake
14 3 (0.84%) Oracle BI EE
14 3 (0.84%) Oracle Exadata
Development Applications
1 13 (3.65%) Jenkins
2 12 (3.37%) JIRA
2 12 (3.37%) TeamCity
3 10 (2.81%) Git
4 9 (2.53%) Subversion
5 3 (0.84%) GitLab
6 1 (0.28%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 1 (0.28%) JMeter
6 1 (0.28%) LoadRunner
6 1 (0.28%) NeoLoad
6 1 (0.28%) Selenium
6 1 (0.28%) Serena SBM
General
1 79 (22.19%) Social Skills
2 74 (20.79%) Finance
3 54 (15.17%) Analytical Skills
4 36 (10.11%) Banking
5 26 (7.30%) Public Sector
6 14 (3.93%) Telecoms
7 7 (1.97%) General Ledger
8 6 (1.69%) Investment Banking
8 6 (1.69%) Military
9 5 (1.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 5 (1.40%) Legal
9 5 (1.40%) Organisational Skills
9 5 (1.40%) Retail
10 4 (1.12%) Documentation Skills
11 3 (0.84%) Financial Institution
12 2 (0.56%) International Banking
12 2 (0.56%) Manufacturing
12 2 (0.56%) Pharmaceutical
12 2 (0.56%) Presentation Skills
12 2 (0.56%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 43 (12.08%) Administrator
2 38 (10.67%) DBA
3 37 (10.39%) Senior
4 28 (7.87%) Architect
5 22 (6.18%) Developer
6 21 (5.90%) Analyst
7 18 (5.06%) IT Manager
7 18 (5.06%) Lead
8 17 (4.78%) Consultant
9 16 (4.49%) SQL DBA
10 15 (4.21%) C# Developer
11 14 (3.93%) Cloud Engineer
11 14 (3.93%) Linux Administrator
12 13 (3.65%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 13 (3.65%) Service Manager
13 12 (3.37%) Azure Engineer
13 12 (3.37%) Resilience Manager
14 11 (3.09%) Backup Engineer
14 11 (3.09%) C# WPF Developer
14 11 (3.09%) WPF Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (5.90%) .NET
2 18 (5.06%) REST
3 16 (4.49%) Kafka
4 12 (3.37%) .NET Framework
4 12 (3.37%) WPF
5 11 (3.09%) Middleware
5 11 (3.09%) WinForms
6 10 (2.81%) LDAP
6 10 (2.81%) WCF
7 9 (2.53%) Elastic Stack
7 9 (2.53%) XML
8 8 (2.25%) JSON
9 4 (1.12%) Apache NiFi
10 3 (0.84%) 802.1X
10 3 (0.84%) HTML
10 3 (0.84%) Web Services
11 2 (0.56%) ASP.NET
11 2 (0.56%) SAML
11 2 (0.56%) SOAP
11 2 (0.56%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 38 (10.67%) Replication
2 35 (9.83%) Data Centre
3 25 (7.02%) Clustering
4 14 (3.93%) Onboarding
5 10 (2.81%) Hybrid Cloud
6 8 (2.25%) PKI
6 8 (2.25%) Security Posture
6 8 (2.25%) Video Conferencing
7 7 (1.97%) Data Protection Act
7 7 (1.97%) Linux Command Line
8 6 (1.69%) Mainframe
8 6 (1.69%) SCADA
9 5 (1.40%) Legacy Applications
9 5 (1.40%) Legacy Systems
10 4 (1.12%) Cyber Threat
10 4 (1.12%) Distributed Systems
10 4 (1.12%) Management Information System
10 4 (1.12%) Private Cloud
10 4 (1.12%) Virtual Team
11 3 (0.84%) IVR
Operating Systems
1 90 (25.28%) Windows
2 53 (14.89%) Linux
3 48 (13.48%) Windows Server
4 20 (5.62%) Unix
5 18 (5.06%) Solaris
6 12 (3.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 7 (1.97%) HPUX
8 5 (1.40%) Android
9 4 (1.12%) AIX
9 4 (1.12%) CentOS
9 4 (1.12%) Ubuntu
9 4 (1.12%) Windows Server 2016
10 3 (0.84%) Windows 10
11 2 (0.56%) Mac OS
11 2 (0.56%) VMS
11 2 (0.56%) Windows Server 2019
12 1 (0.28%) OpenVMS
12 1 (0.28%) Oracle Linux
12 1 (0.28%) Rocky
12 1 (0.28%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 101 (28.37%) High Availability
2 85 (23.88%) Problem-Solving
3 80 (22.47%) Business Continuity
4 63 (17.70%) Performance Tuning
5 62 (17.42%) DevOps
6 51 (14.33%) Migration
7 49 (13.76%) ITIL
8 42 (11.80%) Agile
9 41 (11.52%) CI/CD
10 40 (11.24%) Cybersecurity
11 36 (10.11%) Problem Management
12 35 (9.83%) Change Management
12 35 (9.83%) Stakeholder Management
13 34 (9.55%) BCP
14 32 (8.99%) Infrastructure as Code
15 29 (8.15%) Analytics
16 27 (7.58%) Business Continuity Planning
17 25 (7.02%) Containerisation
17 25 (7.02%) Database Security
18 24 (6.74%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 75 (21.07%) SQL
2 59 (16.57%) Python
3 45 (12.64%) PowerShell
4 28 (7.87%) Bash
5 21 (5.90%) C#
6 20 (5.62%) Perl
7 18 (5.06%) PL/SQL
8 16 (4.49%) T-SQL
9 10 (2.81%) VB
9 10 (2.81%) VBA
10 7 (1.97%) ActionScript
10 7 (1.97%) ActionScript 2.0
10 7 (1.97%) C
10 7 (1.97%) JavaScript
10 7 (1.97%) Shell Script
11 5 (1.40%) Bicep
12 3 (0.84%) Java
12 3 (0.84%) Kusto Query Language
13 2 (0.56%) C++
13 2 (0.56%) COBOL
Qualifications
1 71 (19.94%) Security Cleared
2 43 (12.08%) SC Cleared
3 18 (5.06%) Degree
4 17 (4.78%) DV Cleared
5 13 (3.65%) Azure Certification
6 10 (2.81%) Microsoft Certification
7 5 (1.40%) CCNP
7 5 (1.40%) Cisco Certification
7 5 (1.40%) CISSP
8 4 (1.12%) DBS Check
8 4 (1.12%) ITIL Certification
8 4 (1.12%) VCAP
9 3 (0.84%) AWS Certification
9 3 (0.84%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 3 (0.84%) PMI Certification
9 3 (0.84%) RHCE
9 3 (0.84%) RHCSA
10 2 (0.56%) CCNA
10 2 (0.56%) Citrix Certification
10 2 (0.56%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (6.74%) QA
2 22 (6.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 20 (5.62%) GDPR
4 15 (4.21%) Data Quality
4 15 (4.21%) SLA
5 13 (3.65%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 9 (2.53%) ISO 22301
7 8 (2.25%) NIST
8 7 (1.97%) PCI DSS
9 6 (1.69%) GRC
9 6 (1.69%) NCSC
10 5 (1.40%) ISO/IEC 20000
11 4 (1.12%) Cyber Essentials
11 4 (1.12%) ISO 31000
11 4 (1.12%) PMO
12 3 (0.84%) HIPAA
13 2 (0.56%) GxP
13 2 (0.56%) ISO 8583
14 1 (0.28%) 21 CFR Part 11
14 1 (0.28%) GAAP
System Software
1 51 (14.33%) Active Directory
2 28 (7.87%) VMware Infrastructure
3 24 (6.74%) Docker
4 15 (4.21%) Virtual Machines
5 12 (3.37%) VMware ESXi
6 11 (3.09%) vSphere
7 9 (2.53%) Virtual Servers
8 6 (1.69%) Firmware
8 6 (1.69%) Hyper-V
8 6 (1.69%) NFS
9 5 (1.40%) Apache ZooKeeper
9 5 (1.40%) Oracle RAC
10 4 (1.12%) Microsoft Virtual Server
10 4 (1.12%) Veritas File System
10 4 (1.12%) Veritas Volume Manager
10 4 (1.12%) VMware NSX
11 3 (0.84%) Virtual Desktop
12 2 (0.56%) KVM
13 1 (0.28%) Veritas Cluster Server
13 1 (0.28%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 44 (12.36%) Terraform
2 42 (11.80%) Ansible
3 27 (7.58%) Kubernetes
4 24 (6.74%) Microsoft Intune
5 14 (3.93%) Oracle RMAN
6 12 (3.37%) Grafana
7 11 (3.09%) Prometheus
8 9 (2.53%) EMC NetWorker
8 9 (2.53%) QRadar
9 8 (2.25%) Red Hat Satellite
9 8 (2.25%) SCCM
9 8 (2.25%) Tivoli
10 6 (1.69%) Progress Chef
10 6 (1.69%) Puppet
10 6 (1.69%) Tivoli Storage Manager
11 5 (1.40%) NetBackup
12 4 (1.12%) FortiGate
12 4 (1.12%) Kibana
12 4 (1.12%) logstash
12 4 (1.12%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
Vendors
1 77 (21.63%) Oracle
2 66 (18.54%) Microsoft
3 48 (13.48%) VMware
4 24 (6.74%) IBM
5 19 (5.34%) Red Hat
6 18 (5.06%) ServiceNow
7 17 (4.78%) Splunk
8 15 (4.21%) Cisco
8 15 (4.21%) Google
9 14 (3.93%) Commvault
10 13 (3.65%) CyberArk
10 13 (3.65%) Qualys
11 11 (3.09%) Citrix
11 11 (3.09%) EMC
11 11 (3.09%) HP
12 8 (2.25%) SaltStack
13 6 (1.69%) Confluent
13 6 (1.69%) SAP
13 6 (1.69%) SolarWinds
14 5 (1.40%) IBM Sterling