Disaster Recovery Contract Job Trends in South London

Disaster Recovery
London > South London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in South London requiring Disaster Recovery skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 46 - 41
Rank change year-on-year - - +15
Contract jobs citing Disaster Recovery 5 0 2
As % of all contract jobs in South London 1.73% - 0.72%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.00% - 0.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 2
10th Percentile £320 - £480
25th Percentile £406 - £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 - £575
Median % change year-on-year - - +12.20%
75th Percentile £639 - £656
90th Percentile £693 - £690
London median daily rate £545 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +9.00% - +1.27%

All Process & Methodology Skills
South 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 South London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 250 181 250
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South London 86.51% 85.38% 90.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 170 123 174
10th Percentile £412 £353 £188
25th Percentile £457 £438 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.29% +5.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £557 £600 £588
90th Percentile £678 £760 £646
London median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 6 21
10th Percentile £54.42 £15.84 £17.00
25th Percentile £54.55 £20.38 £19.25
Median hourly rate £61.22 £53.80 £23.50
Median % change year-on-year +13.79% +128.94% -46.11%
75th Percentile £66.50 £78.40 £49.88
90th Percentile £67.70 £80.80 £83.75
London median hourly rate £35.50 £37.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year -4.05% +23.33% -16.67%

Disaster Recovery
Job Vacancy Trend in South London

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

Disaster Recovery job vacancy trend in South London

Disaster Recovery
Daily Rate Trend in South London

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

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

Disaster Recovery
Daily Rate Histogram in South London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Disaster Recovery in South London over the 6 months to 20 February 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Disaster Recovery in South London

Disaster Recovery
Hourly Rate Trend in South London

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

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

Disaster Recovery
Contract Job Locations in South 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 South London region over the 6 months to 20 February 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
Croydon - 5 £550 - 1
Disaster Recovery
London

Disaster Recovery
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South 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:

Cloud Services
1 5 (100.00%) AWS
2 3 (60.00%) Azure
2 3 (60.00%) GCP
3 1 (20.00%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) Firewall
1 1 (20.00%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) PostgreSQL
General
1 1 (20.00%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Architect
2 2 (40.00%) Administrator
2 2 (40.00%) DBA
2 2 (40.00%) Technical Architect
3 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Architect
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Cloud Native
1 2 (40.00%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (20.00%) Management Information System
2 1 (20.00%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Architectural Patterns
1 3 (60.00%) Business Continuity
1 3 (60.00%) DevOps
1 3 (60.00%) High Availability
1 3 (60.00%) SFIA
1 3 (60.00%) TOGAF
2 2 (40.00%) Observability
2 2 (40.00%) Patch Management
2 2 (40.00%) Performance Monitoring
2 2 (40.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 1 (20.00%) Architectural Design
3 1 (20.00%) CI/CD
3 1 (20.00%) Identity Access Management
3 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (20.00%) Key Management
3 1 (20.00%) Load Balancing
3 1 (20.00%) Mentoring
3 1 (20.00%) Network Design
3 1 (20.00%) Security Architecture
3 1 (20.00%) Zero Trust
Qualifications
1 5 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 5 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (60.00%) AWS Certification
2 3 (60.00%) TOGAF Certification
3 2 (40.00%) DV Cleared
4 1 (20.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (20.00%) Azure Certification
System Software
1 3 (60.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (60.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (20.00%) Terraform