Disaster Recovery Contracts in Scotland

Disaster Recovery
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 3 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 92 89 120
Rank change year-on-year -3 +31 +35
Contract jobs citing Disaster Recovery 32 26 38
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 1.84% 1.37% 1.45%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.01% 1.58% 1.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 15 31
10th Percentile £356 £389 £400
25th Percentile £497 £410 £414
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £547 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +15.21% -5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £592 £498 £525
90th Percentile £675 £600 £557
UK median daily rate £480 £486 £520
% change year-on-year -1.29% -6.49% +4.00%

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 1,596 1,650 2,406
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 91.83% 87.03% 91.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 889 1,016 1,619
10th Percentile £263 £208 £250
25th Percentile £370 £355 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £467 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +3.78% -5.26% -
75th Percentile £538 £540 £550
90th Percentile £600 £650 £625
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 86 59 56
10th Percentile £16.59 £12.30 £12.13
25th Percentile £17.44 £14.25 £13.15
Median hourly rate £20.00 £19.59 £18.33
Median % change year-on-year +2.09% +6.90% -31.75%
75th Percentile £25.15 £40.94 £55.00
90th Percentile £28.19 £54.00 £63.75
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £40.33 £42.50
% change year-on-year -37.63% -5.12% +60.38%

Disaster Recovery
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Disaster Recovery in Scotland

Disaster Recovery
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for Disaster Recovery in Scotland

Disaster Recovery
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Disaster Recovery in Scotland over the 6 months to 3 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Disaster Recovery in Scotland

Disaster Recovery
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Hourly rate trend for Disaster Recovery in Scotland

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 3 August 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
Edinburgh +7 18 £536 +8.55% 12
Glasgow -7 13 £550 +37.50% 6
Disaster Recovery
UK

Disaster Recovery
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 3 (9.38%) Confluence
2 1 (3.13%) Anypoint
2 1 (3.13%) Mule
Cloud Services
1 11 (34.38%) AWS
2 9 (28.13%) Azure
3 5 (15.63%) Amazon S3
3 5 (15.63%) OpenShift
4 4 (12.50%) OCI
5 3 (9.38%) Amazon EC2
5 3 (9.38%) Amazon EKS
5 3 (9.38%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 2 (6.25%) IaaS
6 2 (6.25%) PaaS
7 1 (3.13%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 1 (3.13%) Amazon EMR
7 1 (3.13%) Amazon OpenSearch
7 1 (3.13%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (3.13%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (3.13%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (3.13%) GitHub
7 1 (3.13%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (3.13%) Microsoft 365
7 1 (3.13%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 4 (12.50%) Firewall
1 4 (12.50%) Network Security
1 4 (12.50%) VPN
2 3 (9.38%) SNA
2 3 (9.38%) TCP/IP
3 1 (3.13%) AMQP
3 1 (3.13%) DSL
3 1 (3.13%) TETRA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (18.75%) MongoDB
1 6 (18.75%) SQL Server
2 4 (12.50%) Oracle Exadata
3 3 (9.38%) InfluxDB
4 2 (6.25%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (6.25%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (3.13%) Amazon Athena
5 1 (3.13%) Amazon Aurora
5 1 (3.13%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (3.13%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 5 (15.63%) Git
2 4 (12.50%) JIRA
3 2 (6.25%) GitLab
3 2 (6.25%) Jenkins
4 1 (3.13%) Cypress.io
General
1 16 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 9 (28.13%) Analytical Skills
2 9 (28.13%) Public Sector
3 7 (21.88%) Finance
4 3 (9.38%) Banking
5 1 (3.13%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (3.13%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 8 (25.00%) Architect
2 6 (18.75%) Database Engineer
3 5 (15.63%) Senior
4 4 (12.50%) Administrator
4 4 (12.50%) Enterprise Architect
4 4 (12.50%) Infrastructure Architect
4 4 (12.50%) Senior Database Engineer
4 4 (12.50%) Site Engineer
4 4 (12.50%) Site Reliability Engineer
5 3 (9.38%) Infrastructure Solutions Architect
5 3 (9.38%) Oracle Database Engineer
5 3 (9.38%) Solutions Architect
5 3 (9.38%) Systems Administrator
6 2 (6.25%) Disaster Recovery Specialist
6 2 (6.25%) IT Architect
6 2 (6.25%) Mainframe Specialist
7 1 (3.13%) Communications Engineer
7 1 (3.13%) Data Administrator
7 1 (3.13%) Technical Leader
7 1 (3.13%) Unix Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (9.38%) AWS CDK
1 3 (9.38%) LDAP
1 3 (9.38%) X-Windows
2 1 (3.13%) ActiveMQ
2 1 (3.13%) Apache Camel
2 1 (3.13%) CSS
2 1 (3.13%) HTML
2 1 (3.13%) JWT
2 1 (3.13%) Kafka
2 1 (3.13%) OAuth
2 1 (3.13%) OAuth2
2 1 (3.13%) RabbitMQ
2 1 (3.13%) React
2 1 (3.13%) REST
2 1 (3.13%) RESTful
2 1 (3.13%) SOAP
2 1 (3.13%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (25.00%) Replication
2 7 (21.88%) Mainframe
3 6 (18.75%) Data Centre
4 4 (12.50%) Clustering
5 3 (9.38%) Cloud Native
6 1 (3.13%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (3.13%) Driving Licence
6 1 (3.13%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 21 (65.63%) Linux
2 17 (53.13%) Windows
3 14 (43.75%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 12 (37.50%) Unix
5 9 (28.13%) Solaris
6 7 (21.88%) Windows Server
7 5 (15.63%) AIX
8 4 (12.50%) HPUX
9 3 (9.38%) Mac OS
9 3 (9.38%) zOS
10 2 (6.25%) Oracle Linux
11 1 (3.13%) Data ONTAP
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (43.75%) Agile
2 13 (40.63%) High Availability
3 11 (34.38%) DevOps
3 11 (34.38%) Problem-Solving
4 9 (28.13%) ITIL
5 8 (25.00%) Business Continuity
6 7 (21.88%) Capacity Planning
6 7 (21.88%) CI/CD
6 7 (21.88%) Performance Tuning
6 7 (21.88%) Service Management
7 6 (18.75%) Infrastructure as Code
7 6 (18.75%) Migration
7 6 (18.75%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 5 (15.63%) Database Tuning
8 5 (15.63%) Roadmaps
8 5 (15.63%) Storage Management
8 5 (15.63%) Task Automation
9 4 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
9 4 (12.50%) Incident Management
9 4 (12.50%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 6 (18.75%) Bash
1 6 (18.75%) Python
1 6 (18.75%) Shell Script
2 5 (15.63%) Perl
2 5 (15.63%) SQL
3 4 (12.50%) PowerShell
4 3 (9.38%) JCL
5 1 (3.13%) DataWeave
5 1 (3.13%) Java
5 1 (3.13%) REXX
5 1 (3.13%) T-SQL
5 1 (3.13%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 4 (12.50%) AWS Certification
1 4 (12.50%) Degree
2 3 (9.38%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 3 (9.38%) Azure Certification
2 3 (9.38%) CISSP
3 2 (6.25%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (3.13%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (3.13%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (3.13%) HNC
4 1 (3.13%) ITIL Certification
4 1 (3.13%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (12.50%) Cyber Essentials
1 4 (12.50%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
2 2 (6.25%) Disclosure Scotland
3 1 (3.13%) Accessibility
3 1 (3.13%) SLA
System Software
1 8 (25.00%) Docker
2 5 (15.63%) KVM
2 5 (15.63%) Oracle RAC
3 4 (12.50%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (9.38%) Active Directory
4 3 (9.38%) Hyper-V
4 3 (9.38%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 7 (21.88%) Ansible
2 6 (18.75%) Kubernetes
3 5 (15.63%) Data Guard
3 5 (15.63%) Grafana
3 5 (15.63%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
4 4 (12.50%) Failover Clustering
4 4 (12.50%) Microsoft Clustering
4 4 (12.50%) Oracle Flashback
4 4 (12.50%) Prometheus
4 4 (12.50%) Red Hat Satellite
4 4 (12.50%) Terraform
5 3 (9.38%) HAProxy
5 3 (9.38%) Nagios
5 3 (9.38%) Tivoli NetView
6 2 (6.25%) Fluentd
7 1 (3.13%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 10 (31.25%) Oracle
2 9 (28.13%) Red Hat
3 8 (25.00%) Microsoft
4 7 (21.88%) IBM
5 6 (18.75%) Dynatrace
6 4 (12.50%) Commvault
6 4 (12.50%) Dell
6 4 (12.50%) Sun
6 4 (12.50%) Unisys
7 2 (6.25%) HP
8 1 (3.13%) Avaya
8 1 (3.13%) Cisco
8 1 (3.13%) Citrix
8 1 (3.13%) MuleSoft
8 1 (3.13%) NetApp
8 1 (3.13%) Palo Alto
8 1 (3.13%) Teradata
8 1 (3.13%) VMware