Disaster Recovery Contract Job Trends in London

Disaster Recovery
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London requiring Disaster Recovery skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 233 177 154
Rank change year-on-year -56 -23 +126
Contract jobs citing Disaster Recovery 149 211 287
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.03% 1.44% 1.58%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.13% 1.60% 1.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 107 119 217
10th Percentile £404 £275 £350
25th Percentile £415 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £480 £550
Median % change year-on-year +9.38% -12.73% +10.00%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £638
90th Percentile £688 £700 £700
England median daily rate £467 £450 £533
% change year-on-year +3.78% -15.57% +1.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 2
Median hourly rate £30.00 - £22.00
England median hourly rate £40.00 £38.00 £70.14
% change year-on-year +5.26% -45.82% +60.62%

All Process & Methodology Skills
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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 13,193 13,182 16,214
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 91.50% 90.18% 89.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,713 8,439 11,605
10th Percentile £350 £350 £350
25th Percentile £425 £450 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -2.22% -4.66%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £756 £800 £788
England median daily rate £500 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 225 163 243
10th Percentile £18.25 £18.13 £17.15
25th Percentile £24.61 £23.80 £20.00
Median hourly rate £31.50 £35.00 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +7.69% -13.33%
75th Percentile £53.13 £54.50 £58.38
90th Percentile £69.12 £80.75 £73.75
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year -28.14% -22.22% +26.76%

Disaster Recovery
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Disaster Recovery relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in London.

Disaster Recovery job vacancy trend in London

Disaster Recovery
Daily Rate Trend in London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Disaster Recovery.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Disaster Recovery

Disaster Recovery
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Disaster Recovery in London over the 6 months to 1 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Disaster Recovery in London

Disaster Recovery
Hourly Rate Trend in London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Disaster Recovery.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Disaster Recovery

Disaster Recovery
Contract Job Locations in London

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 London region over the 6 months to 1 January 2026. 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
Central London -13 21 £575 +15.00% 30
West London - 10 £603 - 3
South London - 2 £413 -
Disaster Recovery
England

Disaster Recovery
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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 11 (7.38%) Apache
1 11 (7.38%) IIS
2 8 (5.37%) Apache Spark
2 8 (5.37%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (2.01%) SharePoint
4 2 (1.34%) Confluence
4 2 (1.34%) Oracle HTTP Server
4 2 (1.34%) Tomcat
4 2 (1.34%) WebLogic
Applications
1 9 (6.04%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (4.70%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 6 (4.03%) Veritas eDiscovery
2 3 (2.01%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.67%) DELMIA
3 1 (0.67%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 46 (30.87%) Azure
2 36 (24.16%) AWS
3 18 (12.08%) Microsoft 365
4 17 (11.41%) GCP
5 11 (7.38%) Amazon S3
6 10 (6.71%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 10 (6.71%) Power Platform
7 9 (6.04%) AWS CloudFormation
7 9 (6.04%) GitHub
8 8 (5.37%) Amazon SQS
8 8 (5.37%) Collibra
8 8 (5.37%) Entra ID
9 7 (4.70%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 7 (4.70%) IaaS
9 7 (4.70%) Serverless
10 6 (4.03%) AWS Lambda
11 5 (3.36%) Azure DevOps
12 4 (2.68%) PaaS
12 4 (2.68%) SaaS
13 3 (2.01%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 15 (10.07%) DNS
2 14 (9.40%) Firewall
3 10 (6.71%) Internet
4 8 (5.37%) LAN
4 8 (5.37%) VPN
5 6 (4.03%) DHCP
5 6 (4.03%) WAN
6 5 (3.36%) Network Security
7 4 (2.68%) TCP/IP
8 3 (2.01%) SAN
8 3 (2.01%) Wi-Fi
9 2 (1.34%) HTTP
9 2 (1.34%) NAS
9 2 (1.34%) SSL
9 2 (1.34%) VLAN
10 1 (0.67%) Ethernet
10 1 (0.67%) Kerberos
10 1 (0.67%) MPLS
10 1 (0.67%) SDH
10 1 (0.67%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (14.09%) SQL Server
2 14 (9.40%) Oracle Database
3 11 (7.38%) Data Lake
4 10 (6.71%) Power BI
5 8 (5.37%) Amazon Athena
5 8 (5.37%) BigQuery
5 8 (5.37%) Mixpanel
5 8 (5.37%) OLAP
5 8 (5.37%) OLTP
6 6 (4.03%) PostgreSQL
7 5 (3.36%) Amazon RDS
7 5 (3.36%) DynamoDB
8 4 (2.68%) Elasticsearch
8 4 (2.68%) NoSQL
9 3 (2.01%) Amazon Aurora
9 3 (2.01%) Data Warehouse
10 2 (1.34%) Data Hub
10 2 (1.34%) DB2
10 2 (1.34%) MySQL
10 2 (1.34%) SAP BW
Development Applications
1 9 (6.04%) Jenkins
2 7 (4.70%) Visual Studio
3 5 (3.36%) Git
4 4 (2.68%) Subversion
4 4 (2.68%) TeamCity
5 3 (2.01%) JIRA
6 2 (1.34%) IBM UrbanCode
6 2 (1.34%) Team Foundation Server
7 1 (0.67%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.67%) ERwin
7 1 (0.67%) LoadRunner
7 1 (0.67%) QADirector
7 1 (0.67%) Selenium
General
1 54 (36.24%) Finance
2 38 (25.50%) Social Skills
3 17 (11.41%) Banking
4 10 (6.71%) Analytical Skills
5 9 (6.04%) Public Sector
6 7 (4.70%) Influencing Skills
7 6 (4.03%) Financial Institution
7 6 (4.03%) Manufacturing
8 5 (3.36%) Documentation Skills
9 3 (2.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (2.01%) Local Government
10 2 (1.34%) International Banking
10 2 (1.34%) Police
10 2 (1.34%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.67%) Electronics
11 1 (0.67%) Law
11 1 (0.67%) Legal
11 1 (0.67%) Marketing
11 1 (0.67%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.67%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 18 (12.08%) Architect
1 18 (12.08%) Developer
2 17 (11.41%) C# Developer
3 15 (10.07%) DBA
4 14 (9.40%) Lead
5 11 (7.38%) Administrator
6 8 (5.37%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 7 (4.70%) C# WCF Developer
7 7 (4.70%) C# WPF Developer
7 7 (4.70%) WCF Developer
7 7 (4.70%) WPF Developer
8 6 (4.03%) Cloud Engineer
8 6 (4.03%) Consultant
8 6 (4.03%) Data Engineer
8 6 (4.03%) DevOps Engineer
8 6 (4.03%) Principal Engineer
8 6 (4.03%) Principal Software Engineer
8 6 (4.03%) Software Engineer
8 6 (4.03%) VMware Engineer
8 6 (4.03%) Windows Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (12.08%) .NET
2 17 (11.41%) .NET Framework
3 10 (6.71%) Kafka
3 10 (6.71%) REST
4 9 (6.04%) WinForms
4 9 (6.04%) WPF
5 8 (5.37%) Great Expectations
6 7 (4.70%) WCF
7 6 (4.03%) Node.js
8 5 (3.36%) Elastic Stack
8 5 (3.36%) JSON
8 5 (3.36%) Middleware
9 4 (2.68%) FIX Protocol
9 4 (2.68%) Ultra Messaging
9 4 (2.68%) XML
10 3 (2.01%) Oracle GoldenGate
11 2 (1.34%) LDAP
11 2 (1.34%) Microsoft Graph
11 2 (1.34%) Spring
12 1 (0.67%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 23 (15.44%) Cloud Native
2 21 (14.09%) Replication
3 9 (6.04%) Hybrid Cloud
4 8 (5.37%) Distributed Systems
4 8 (5.37%) Onboarding
5 6 (4.03%) Data Centre
6 5 (3.36%) BYOD
6 5 (3.36%) Clustering
7 4 (2.68%) Algorithms
8 3 (2.01%) Client/Server
8 3 (2.01%) Data Protection Act
8 3 (2.01%) Legacy Systems
8 3 (2.01%) PKI
8 3 (2.01%) Public Cloud
9 2 (1.34%) Enterprise Software
9 2 (1.34%) Hedge funds
9 2 (1.34%) IoT
9 2 (1.34%) NHS
9 2 (1.34%) Security Operations Centre
10 1 (0.67%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 38 (25.50%) Windows
2 28 (18.79%) Linux
3 24 (16.11%) Windows Server
4 9 (6.04%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 9 (6.04%) VMS
5 6 (4.03%) Unix
6 5 (3.36%) Ubuntu
7 4 (2.68%) CentOS
7 4 (2.68%) Solaris
7 4 (2.68%) Windows Server 2016
8 2 (1.34%) Windows Server 2012
9 1 (0.67%) AIX
9 1 (0.67%) Windows Server 2008
9 1 (0.67%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (26.17%) DevOps
2 35 (23.49%) CI/CD
3 33 (22.15%) High Availability
4 29 (19.46%) Business Continuity
5 28 (18.79%) Migration
6 27 (18.12%) Infrastructure as Code
7 25 (16.78%) ITIL
8 21 (14.09%) Problem-Solving
9 19 (12.75%) Business Intelligence
10 16 (10.74%) Data Analysis
10 16 (10.74%) Observability
11 15 (10.07%) Analytics
11 15 (10.07%) Change Management
11 15 (10.07%) RBAC
11 15 (10.07%) Roadmaps
12 14 (9.40%) Data Modelling
12 14 (9.40%) Machine Learning
13 13 (8.72%) Continuous Improvement
13 13 (8.72%) Data Protection
13 13 (8.72%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 38 (25.50%) Python
1 38 (25.50%) SQL
2 25 (16.78%) C#
3 21 (14.09%) PowerShell
4 19 (12.75%) PL/SQL
5 17 (11.41%) T-SQL
6 12 (8.05%) Bash
7 10 (6.71%) VB
8 9 (6.04%) VBA
9 8 (5.37%) Java
10 6 (4.03%) Shell Script
11 4 (2.68%) Perl
12 1 (0.67%) Bicep
12 1 (0.67%) Kotlin
12 1 (0.67%) PHP
12 1 (0.67%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 23 (15.44%) Degree
2 19 (12.75%) Security Cleared
3 12 (8.05%) SC Cleared
4 11 (7.38%) Azure Certification
4 11 (7.38%) Microsoft Certification
5 8 (5.37%) AWS Certification
6 6 (4.03%) Cisco Certification
6 6 (4.03%) DV Cleared
6 6 (4.03%) MCSA
7 5 (3.36%) MCSE
8 4 (2.68%) CISM
8 4 (2.68%) CISSP
8 4 (2.68%) Computer Science Degree
8 4 (2.68%) RHCE
9 3 (2.01%) CCNP
10 2 (1.34%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 2 (1.34%) CCNA
10 2 (1.34%) RHCSA
10 2 (1.34%) TOGAF Certification
10 2 (1.34%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (14.09%) GDPR
2 19 (12.75%) QA
3 10 (6.71%) Data Quality
4 9 (6.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 7 (4.70%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 6 (4.03%) SLA
7 4 (2.68%) NIST
8 3 (2.01%) Actionable Recommendations
9 2 (1.34%) Cyber Essentials
9 2 (1.34%) GRC
9 2 (1.34%) MiFID
9 2 (1.34%) SOC 2
10 1 (0.67%) 21 CFR Part 11
10 1 (0.67%) Accessibility
10 1 (0.67%) COBIT
10 1 (0.67%) ISO 9001
10 1 (0.67%) ISO/IEC 20000
10 1 (0.67%) ISO/IEC 42001
10 1 (0.67%) ITGC
10 1 (0.67%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 23 (15.44%) Active Directory
2 21 (14.09%) VMware Infrastructure
3 17 (11.41%) Docker
4 8 (5.37%) VMware ESXi
5 6 (4.03%) vSphere
6 5 (3.36%) Virtual Machines
7 4 (2.68%) NFS
7 4 (2.68%) Veritas File System
7 4 (2.68%) Veritas Volume Manager
8 3 (2.01%) Oracle RAC
8 3 (2.01%) Virtual Desktop
9 2 (1.34%) Firmware
9 2 (1.34%) Hyper-V
9 2 (1.34%) KVM
9 2 (1.34%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 25 (16.78%) Terraform
2 17 (11.41%) Microsoft Intune
3 15 (10.07%) Kubernetes
4 13 (8.72%) Ansible
5 7 (4.70%) ITRS Geneos
6 6 (4.03%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 6 (4.03%) Red Hat Satellite
7 5 (3.36%) vCenter Server
8 4 (2.68%) Kibana
8 4 (2.68%) logstash
8 4 (2.68%) QRadar
8 4 (2.68%) SCCM
9 3 (2.01%) Oracle RMAN
9 3 (2.01%) Puppet
10 2 (1.34%) Data Guard
10 2 (1.34%) Nagios
10 2 (1.34%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
10 2 (1.34%) Progress Chef
10 2 (1.34%) Prometheus
10 2 (1.34%) Rancher
Vendors
1 31 (20.81%) Microsoft
2 28 (18.79%) Oracle
3 25 (16.78%) VMware
4 19 (12.75%) Citrix
5 9 (6.04%) Google
5 9 (6.04%) Veeam
6 8 (5.37%) Databricks
6 8 (5.37%) Red Hat
6 8 (5.37%) Splunk
7 7 (4.70%) Solace
8 5 (3.36%) CyberArk
9 4 (2.68%) IBM
9 4 (2.68%) Qualys
9 4 (2.68%) SaltStack
9 4 (2.68%) ServiceNow
9 4 (2.68%) TIBCO
10 3 (2.01%) Cisco
10 3 (2.01%) SAP
11 2 (1.34%) Commvault
11 2 (1.34%) Dell