Disaster Recovery Contract Job Trends in Scotland

Disaster Recovery
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Scotland requiring Disaster Recovery skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 64 99 96
Rank change year-on-year +35 -3 +26
Contract jobs citing Disaster Recovery 46 17 44
As % of all contract jobs in Scotland 2.98% 1.01% 1.88%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.41% 1.13% 2.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 12 29
10th Percentile £324 £383 £432
25th Percentile £425 £411 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £515
Median % change year-on-year +5.37% -7.86% +7.29%
75th Percentile £550 £505 £569
90th Percentile £573 £524 £590
UK median daily rate £475 £473 £533
% change year-on-year +0.53% -11.35% +2.50%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,350 1,502 2,138
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 87.38% 89.35% 91.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 777 887 1,319
10th Percentile £239 £229 £250
25th Percentile £381 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £450 £488
Median % change year-on-year +2.78% -7.69% +2.63%
75th Percentile £550 £538 £588
90th Percentile £625 £650 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £530
% change year-on-year -4.76% -0.94% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 92 44 54
10th Percentile £13.97 £15.07 £12.13
25th Percentile £17.87 £19.59 £16.00
Median hourly rate £20.00 £23.00 £18.00
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +27.78% +1.58%
75th Percentile £25.15 £24.18 £55.00
90th Percentile £49.66 £32.66 £70.38
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £43.84
% change year-on-year -22.62% -25.86% +25.25%

Disaster Recovery
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Disaster Recovery job vacancy trend in Scotland

Disaster Recovery
Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

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

Disaster Recovery
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Disaster Recovery in Scotland over the 6 months to 17 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Disaster Recovery in Scotland

Disaster Recovery
Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

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

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

Disaster Recovery
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

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 Scotland region over the 6 months to 17 December 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
Glasgow +16 21 £450 +16.13% 3
Edinburgh +16 17 £525 +7.14% 4
South Lanarkshire - 2 £550 -
Fife +1 1 £43 -91.00%
Disaster Recovery
UK

Disaster Recovery
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Scotland 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 1 (2.17%) Anypoint
1 1 (2.17%) Mule
Business Applications
1 4 (8.70%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 35 (76.09%) AWS
2 20 (43.48%) Azure
3 15 (32.61%) Serverless
4 8 (17.39%) AWS Lambda
5 7 (15.22%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 7 (15.22%) Amazon S3
5 7 (15.22%) Snowflake
5 7 (15.22%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 6 (13.04%) AWS CloudFormation
6 6 (13.04%) OpenShift
7 5 (10.87%) Amazon EKS
8 4 (8.70%) Amazon EventBridge
8 4 (8.70%) Amazon Kinesis
9 3 (6.52%) Amazon EC2
9 3 (6.52%) IaaS
9 3 (6.52%) SaaS
10 2 (4.35%) Amazon ECS
10 2 (4.35%) Amazon SQS
10 2 (4.35%) PaaS
11 1 (2.17%) Amazon OpenSearch
Communications & Networking
1 5 (10.87%) Network Security
2 3 (6.52%) Firewall
2 3 (6.52%) VPN
3 2 (4.35%) Internet
3 2 (4.35%) TETRA
4 1 (2.17%) AMQP
4 1 (2.17%) DHCP
4 1 (2.17%) DNS
4 1 (2.17%) DSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (21.74%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (15.22%) Data Warehouse
3 5 (10.87%) MongoDB
4 4 (8.70%) DynamoDB
5 3 (6.52%) Amazon Athena
5 3 (6.52%) Elasticsearch
6 2 (4.35%) Amazon Aurora
6 2 (4.35%) InfluxDB
7 1 (2.17%) NoSQL
7 1 (2.17%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 4 (8.70%) Git
2 3 (6.52%) JIRA
3 2 (4.35%) GitLab
3 2 (4.35%) Jenkins
4 1 (2.17%) Cypress.io
General
1 16 (34.78%) Public Sector
2 12 (26.09%) Finance
3 9 (19.57%) Social Skills
4 6 (13.04%) Banking
5 3 (6.52%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (4.35%) Telecoms
7 1 (2.17%) Investment Banking
7 1 (2.17%) Military
Job Titles
1 13 (28.26%) Architect
2 5 (10.87%) Data Architect
2 5 (10.87%) Snowflake Architect
3 4 (8.70%) Senior
3 4 (8.70%) Site Engineer
3 4 (8.70%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 3 (6.52%) Developer
4 3 (6.52%) Disaster Recovery Specialist
4 3 (6.52%) Enterprise Architect
4 3 (6.52%) OAT Tester
4 3 (6.52%) Tester
5 2 (4.35%) Administrator
5 2 (4.35%) Communications Engineer
5 2 (4.35%) Principal Architect
5 2 (4.35%) Release Manager
5 2 (4.35%) Senior Solutions Architect
5 2 (4.35%) Service Manager
5 2 (4.35%) Software Developer
5 2 (4.35%) Solutions Architect
5 2 (4.35%) Unix Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (15.22%) AWS CDK
2 4 (8.70%) Node.js
3 3 (6.52%) OAuth
3 3 (6.52%) PyTorch
3 3 (6.52%) React
4 2 (4.35%) FastAPI
4 2 (4.35%) Hugging Face
4 2 (4.35%) JWT
4 2 (4.35%) Kafka
4 2 (4.35%) NumPy
4 2 (4.35%) OAuth2
4 2 (4.35%) OpenCV
4 2 (4.35%) Pandas
4 2 (4.35%) RabbitMQ
4 2 (4.35%) SQLAlchemy
5 1 (2.17%) Apache Camel
5 1 (2.17%) REST
5 1 (2.17%) RESTful
5 1 (2.17%) Spring Boot
5 1 (2.17%) Spring Security
Miscellaneous
1 12 (26.09%) Cloud Native
2 8 (17.39%) Distributed Systems
2 8 (17.39%) Hybrid Cloud
3 4 (8.70%) Data Centre
3 4 (8.70%) IVR
3 4 (8.70%) NHS
4 3 (6.52%) Clustering
4 3 (6.52%) CMDB
5 2 (4.35%) Driving Licence
5 2 (4.35%) Public Cloud
6 1 (2.17%) Cyber Security Posture
6 1 (2.17%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (2.17%) FMCG
6 1 (2.17%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (2.17%) Onboarding
6 1 (2.17%) Operational Technology
6 1 (2.17%) Security Posture
6 1 (2.17%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (2.17%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 9 (19.57%) Linux
2 8 (17.39%) Unix
3 6 (13.04%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (10.87%) Windows
4 5 (10.87%) Windows Server
5 2 (4.35%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 20 (43.48%) Infrastructure as Code
3 19 (41.30%) DevOps
3 19 (41.30%) Migration
4 17 (36.96%) High Availability
5 16 (34.78%) Problem-Solving
6 14 (30.43%) Agile
7 12 (26.09%) ITIL
8 10 (21.74%) Machine Learning
9 9 (19.57%) AI
9 9 (19.57%) Roadmaps
10 8 (17.39%) Continuous Improvement
10 8 (17.39%) Enterprise Architecture
11 7 (15.22%) Business Continuity
11 7 (15.22%) Cost Management
11 7 (15.22%) Data Security
11 7 (15.22%) Performance Optimisation
12 6 (13.04%) CRM
12 6 (13.04%) Design Patterns
12 6 (13.04%) ITSM
Programming Languages
1 19 (41.30%) Python
2 9 (19.57%) Bash
3 5 (10.87%) Shell Script
4 4 (8.70%) Java
4 4 (8.70%) Perl
4 4 (8.70%) PowerShell
5 2 (4.35%) Korn
5 2 (4.35%) TypeScript
6 1 (2.17%) DataWeave
6 1 (2.17%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 4 (8.70%) AWS Certification
1 4 (8.70%) Degree
1 4 (8.70%) Security Cleared
2 3 (6.52%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 3 (6.52%) Azure Certification
2 3 (6.52%) CISSP
2 3 (6.52%) PMI Certification
2 3 (6.52%) PMP
2 3 (6.52%) PRINCE2 Certification
2 3 (6.52%) SC Cleared
3 2 (4.35%) BPSS Clearance
3 2 (4.35%) HNC
3 2 (4.35%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (2.17%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (2.17%) ITIL Certification
4 1 (2.17%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (8.70%) GDPR
1 4 (8.70%) PCI DSS
2 3 (6.52%) HIPAA
2 3 (6.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (6.52%) PMO
2 3 (6.52%) QA
2 3 (6.52%) SLA
3 1 (2.17%) Accessibility
3 1 (2.17%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (2.17%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 8 (17.39%) Docker
2 4 (8.70%) KVM
3 1 (2.17%) Active Directory
3 1 (2.17%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 15 (32.61%) Terraform
2 12 (26.09%) Ansible
3 8 (17.39%) Grafana
3 8 (17.39%) Kubernetes
4 4 (8.70%) Prometheus
5 3 (6.52%) Red Hat Satellite
6 2 (4.35%) Fluentd
6 2 (4.35%) HAProxy
6 2 (4.35%) Nagios
7 1 (2.17%) Kibana
7 1 (2.17%) Microsoft Clustering
Vendors
1 7 (15.22%) Greenplum
1 7 (15.22%) ServiceNow
2 5 (10.87%) Oracle
2 5 (10.87%) Red Hat
3 4 (8.70%) Avaya
3 4 (8.70%) Cisco
3 4 (8.70%) Salesforce
4 3 (6.52%) Commvault
4 3 (6.52%) Genesys
4 3 (6.52%) IBM
4 3 (6.52%) Pega
5 2 (4.35%) Microsoft
6 1 (2.17%) BT
6 1 (2.17%) Citrix
6 1 (2.17%) Confluent
6 1 (2.17%) MuleSoft
6 1 (2.17%) SAP
6 1 (2.17%) VMware