Disaster Recovery Contracts in the UK excluding London

Disaster Recovery
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 148 185 213
Rank change year-on-year +37 +28 +36
Contract jobs citing Disaster Recovery 215 231 281
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.68% 1.12% 1.17%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.86% 1.32% 1.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 141 171 219
10th Percentile £322 £313 £325
25th Percentile £408 £411 £414
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -2.38% +10.53%
75th Percentile £588 £608 £613
90th Percentile £663 £656 £676
UK median daily rate £475 £500 £520
% change year-on-year -5.00% -3.85% +6.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 6 6
10th Percentile £18.75 £41.17 £16.85
25th Percentile £22.48 - £19.14
Median hourly rate £63.75 £61.60 £40.42
Median % change year-on-year +3.48% +52.42% -37.82%
75th Percentile £65.62 £66.03 £57.02
90th Percentile £73.47 £71.25 £57.33
UK median hourly rate £22.05 £58.30 £54.83
% change year-on-year -62.17% +6.33% -5.28%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding 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 the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 11,544 17,537 21,420
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 90.36% 84.72% 89.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,245 10,476 14,867
10th Percentile £235 £250 £255
25th Percentile £375 £378 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £662 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 827 2,058 1,303
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.33 £11.00
25th Percentile £17.31 £15.24 £15.75
Median hourly rate £27.50 £37.34 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.35% +6.69% +75.00%
75th Percentile £64.50 £60.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £72.98
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.58 £36.00
% change year-on-year -18.48% -1.18% +44.00%

Disaster Recovery
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Disaster Recovery as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Disaster Recovery in the UK excluding London

Disaster Recovery
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Disaster Recovery in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Disaster Recovery in the UK excluding London

Disaster Recovery
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Disaster Recovery in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 3 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Disaster Recovery in the UK excluding London

Disaster Recovery
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Disaster Recovery in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Disaster Recovery in the UK excluding London

Disaster Recovery
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Disaster Recovery in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 3 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Disaster Recovery in the UK excluding London

Disaster Recovery
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding 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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 3 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
North of England +36 84 £445 -16.67% 108
North West +20 55 £448 -16.67% 65
South East +3 49 £550 -4.35% 126
Yorkshire +28 29 £388 -8.17% 33
Scotland +5 26 £575 +20.95% 23
South West +19 23 £550 +8.70% 43
Midlands +20 22 £519 +29.69% 45
West Midlands +19 20 £500 +17.65% 28
East of England +41 10 £600 +35.75% 36
Wales +10 4 £375 -16.67% 15
East Midlands +10 2 £550 +37.50% 13
Northern Ireland - 2 - - 3
Disaster Recovery
UK

Disaster Recovery
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 18 (8.37%) Confluence
2 14 (6.51%) Microsoft Exchange
3 13 (6.05%) SharePoint
4 4 (1.86%) Apache
5 3 (1.40%) IIS
6 2 (0.93%) BizTalk Server
7 1 (0.47%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 5 (2.33%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.47%) Adobe Creative Suite
Business Applications
1 2 (0.93%) NetSuite
1 2 (0.93%) Remedy ITSM
1 2 (0.93%) Workday HCM
2 1 (0.47%) BASE24
2 1 (0.47%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (0.47%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 59 (27.44%) Azure
2 41 (19.07%) AWS
3 29 (13.49%) Microsoft 365
4 16 (7.44%) Entra ID
4 16 (7.44%) IaaS
4 16 (7.44%) Serverless
5 10 (4.65%) PaaS
6 7 (3.26%) OpenShift
6 7 (3.26%) Power Platform
7 6 (2.79%) SaaS
8 5 (2.33%) Amazon S3
9 4 (1.86%) Amazon EC2
9 4 (1.86%) AWS Lambda
9 4 (1.86%) GCP
9 4 (1.86%) OCI
10 3 (1.40%) Amazon ELB
10 3 (1.40%) AWS CloudFormation
10 3 (1.40%) GitHub
11 2 (0.93%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 2 (0.93%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 34 (15.81%) Firewall
2 24 (11.16%) Network Security
3 13 (6.05%) SAN
4 10 (4.65%) Internet
4 10 (4.65%) Intrusion Detection
4 10 (4.65%) VPN
5 9 (4.19%) DNS
6 8 (3.72%) SSL
6 8 (3.72%) TCP/IP
6 8 (3.72%) WAN
7 7 (3.26%) NAS
8 6 (2.79%) Wireless
9 5 (2.33%) DHCP
9 5 (2.33%) LAN
10 4 (1.86%) Remote Desktop
10 4 (1.86%) SNA
11 3 (1.40%) iSCSI
11 3 (1.40%) MPLS
11 3 (1.40%) VoIP
11 3 (1.40%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (15.35%) SQL Server
2 23 (10.70%) Oracle Reports
3 21 (9.77%) PostgreSQL
4 18 (8.37%) Oracle Database
5 17 (7.91%) MongoDB
6 12 (5.58%) NoSQL
7 10 (4.65%) RDBMS
7 10 (4.65%) Relational Database
8 8 (3.72%) MySQL
9 7 (3.26%) Power BI
10 6 (2.79%) Elasticsearch
11 4 (1.86%) Amazon RDS
11 4 (1.86%) Oracle Exadata
12 3 (1.40%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 2 (0.93%) Data Warehouse
13 2 (0.93%) GIS
13 2 (0.93%) MSDE
13 2 (0.93%) Tableau
14 1 (0.47%) DTS
14 1 (0.47%) Oracle Database 10g
Development Applications
1 8 (3.72%) JIRA
2 7 (3.26%) Jenkins
3 5 (2.33%) Git
4 3 (1.40%) Bitbucket
5 2 (0.93%) JMeter
6 1 (0.47%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 1 (0.47%) LoadRunner
6 1 (0.47%) NeoLoad
6 1 (0.47%) Selenium
6 1 (0.47%) TestDirector
General
1 51 (23.72%) Social Skills
2 49 (22.79%) Analytical Skills
3 39 (18.14%) Finance
4 22 (10.23%) Public Sector
5 14 (6.51%) Banking
6 9 (4.19%) Telecoms
7 6 (2.79%) Military
8 2 (0.93%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (0.93%) Local Government
8 2 (0.93%) Manufacturing
8 2 (0.93%) Retail
9 1 (0.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.47%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.47%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.47%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (0.47%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 26 (12.09%) Senior
2 25 (11.63%) Administrator
2 25 (11.63%) DBA
3 22 (10.23%) Architect
4 15 (6.98%) IT Manager
5 13 (6.05%) Analyst
5 13 (6.05%) Backup Engineer
6 12 (5.58%) Lead
7 11 (5.12%) Commvault Engineer
7 11 (5.12%) Service Manager
8 10 (4.65%) Resilience Manager
9 9 (4.19%) Infrastructure Architect
9 9 (4.19%) IT Services Manager
9 9 (4.19%) Solutions Architect
9 9 (4.19%) Support Engineer
10 8 (3.72%) Consultant
10 8 (3.72%) Infrastructure Analyst
10 8 (3.72%) SQL DBA
11 7 (3.26%) Cloud Architect
11 7 (3.26%) Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (7.44%) Kafka
2 11 (5.12%) XML
3 10 (4.65%) JSON
4 8 (3.72%) LDAP
4 8 (3.72%) Middleware
5 6 (2.79%) REST
6 5 (2.33%) Elastic Stack
7 4 (1.86%) .NET
7 4 (1.86%) Apache NiFi
8 3 (1.40%) X-Windows
9 2 (0.93%) 802.1X
9 2 (0.93%) ASP.NET
9 2 (0.93%) HTML
9 2 (0.93%) Loki
9 2 (0.93%) ModSecurity
9 2 (0.93%) RFC 2544
9 2 (0.93%) SAML
9 2 (0.93%) Web Services
9 2 (0.93%) YAML
10 1 (0.47%) AWS Amplify
Miscellaneous
1 37 (17.21%) Data Centre
2 25 (11.63%) Replication
3 12 (5.58%) Mainframe
4 11 (5.12%) Clustering
5 8 (3.72%) Video Conferencing
6 5 (2.33%) SCADA
7 4 (1.86%) Linux Command Line
7 4 (1.86%) PKI
8 3 (1.40%) Cyber Threat
8 3 (1.40%) IVR
8 3 (1.40%) Legacy Systems
8 3 (1.40%) Onboarding
8 3 (1.40%) Virtual Team
9 2 (0.93%) Cloud Native
9 2 (0.93%) Distributed Systems
9 2 (0.93%) Hybrid Cloud
9 2 (0.93%) Legacy Applications
9 2 (0.93%) Management Information System
9 2 (0.93%) PMI
10 1 (0.47%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 54 (25.12%) Windows
2 44 (20.47%) Linux
3 31 (14.42%) Windows Server
4 18 (8.37%) Solaris
5 17 (7.91%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 13 (6.05%) Unix
7 11 (5.12%) HPUX
8 9 (4.19%) AIX
9 4 (1.86%) Android
9 4 (1.86%) CentOS
9 4 (1.86%) Mac OS
9 4 (1.86%) Ubuntu
9 4 (1.86%) zOS
10 3 (1.40%) Windows Server 2016
11 2 (0.93%) Windows 10
12 1 (0.47%) Apple iOS
12 1 (0.47%) Data ONTAP
12 1 (0.47%) Rocky
12 1 (0.47%) Windows Server 2012
12 1 (0.47%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 67 (31.16%) Problem-Solving
2 63 (29.30%) High Availability
3 50 (23.26%) Business Continuity
4 41 (19.07%) ITIL
4 41 (19.07%) Performance Tuning
5 40 (18.60%) Change Management
5 40 (18.60%) Migration
6 37 (17.21%) DevOps
7 35 (16.28%) Agile
8 34 (15.81%) Problem Management
9 25 (11.63%) Cybersecurity
10 24 (11.16%) BCP
11 21 (9.77%) Capacity Planning
11 21 (9.77%) Task Automation
12 19 (8.84%) Business Continuity Planning
12 19 (8.84%) Data Migration
13 17 (7.91%) Project Delivery
14 16 (7.44%) Analytics
14 16 (7.44%) Database Security
14 16 (7.44%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 25 (11.63%) SQL
2 24 (11.16%) PowerShell
3 21 (9.77%) Python
4 13 (6.05%) Bash
5 9 (4.19%) Perl
5 9 (4.19%) Shell Script
6 5 (2.33%) JCL
7 3 (1.40%) T-SQL
8 2 (0.93%) ActionScript
8 2 (0.93%) ActionScript 2.0
8 2 (0.93%) C
8 2 (0.93%) C#
8 2 (0.93%) JavaScript
8 2 (0.93%) Korn
8 2 (0.93%) REXX
9 1 (0.47%) C++
9 1 (0.47%) COBOL
9 1 (0.47%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 53 (24.65%) Security Cleared
2 30 (13.95%) SC Cleared
3 14 (6.51%) DV Cleared
4 13 (6.05%) Azure Certification
5 12 (5.58%) Degree
6 9 (4.19%) Microsoft Certification
7 5 (2.33%) AWS Certification
7 5 (2.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 5 (2.33%) CCNP
7 5 (2.33%) Cisco Certification
8 4 (1.86%) Computer Science Degree
9 3 (1.40%) ITIL Certification
10 2 (0.93%) BPSS Clearance
10 2 (0.93%) CCNA
10 2 (0.93%) CISSP
10 2 (0.93%) Citrix Certification
10 2 (0.93%) PMI Certification
10 2 (0.93%) RHCE
10 2 (0.93%) Tableau Certification
10 2 (0.93%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (5.12%) SLA
2 10 (4.65%) Data Quality
3 7 (3.26%) Cyber Essentials
3 7 (3.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 6 (2.79%) QA
5 5 (2.33%) ISO 22301
5 5 (2.33%) ISO/IEC 20000
6 4 (1.86%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 4 (1.86%) PMO
7 3 (1.40%) Disclosure Scotland
7 3 (1.40%) ISO 31000
8 2 (0.93%) NCSC
8 2 (0.93%) PCI DSS
9 1 (0.47%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.47%) GxP
9 1 (0.47%) IEC 61508
9 1 (0.47%) ISO 8583
9 1 (0.47%) NIST
9 1 (0.47%) NIST 800
9 1 (0.47%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 27 (12.56%) Active Directory
2 21 (9.77%) VMware Infrastructure
3 16 (7.44%) Docker
4 11 (5.12%) vSphere
5 8 (3.72%) Virtual Machines
5 8 (3.72%) Virtual Servers
6 7 (3.26%) Hyper-V
7 6 (2.79%) Firmware
7 6 (2.79%) Oracle RAC
8 5 (2.33%) Apache ZooKeeper
9 4 (1.86%) Microsoft Virtual Server
10 3 (1.40%) KVM
10 3 (1.40%) Veritas Cluster Server
11 2 (0.93%) Virtual Desktop
11 2 (0.93%) VMware ESXi
12 1 (0.47%) NFS
12 1 (0.47%) Samba
12 1 (0.47%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 18 (8.37%) Ansible
1 18 (8.37%) Kubernetes
1 18 (8.37%) Terraform
2 17 (7.91%) Microsoft Intune
3 14 (6.51%) Grafana
4 13 (6.05%) Oracle RMAN
5 11 (5.12%) Prometheus
6 6 (2.79%) Data Guard
6 6 (2.79%) SCCM
7 5 (2.33%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
7 5 (2.33%) Progress Chef
7 5 (2.33%) Puppet
8 4 (1.86%) EMC NetWorker
8 4 (1.86%) Failover Clustering
8 4 (1.86%) FortiGate
8 4 (1.86%) Kibana
8 4 (1.86%) logstash
8 4 (1.86%) NetBackup
8 4 (1.86%) Oracle Flashback
8 4 (1.86%) Tivoli NetView
Vendors
1 48 (22.33%) Oracle
2 46 (21.40%) Microsoft
3 30 (13.95%) VMware
4 18 (8.37%) IBM
5 15 (6.98%) Commvault
6 14 (6.51%) Cisco
6 14 (6.51%) Red Hat
7 11 (5.12%) HP
8 8 (3.72%) Dell
8 8 (3.72%) Splunk
8 8 (3.72%) Sun
9 7 (3.26%) Dynatrace
9 7 (3.26%) Unisys
10 6 (2.79%) EMC
10 6 (2.79%) Veritas
11 5 (2.33%) Apple
11 5 (2.33%) Brocade
11 5 (2.33%) Confluent
12 3 (1.40%) ServiceNow
12 3 (1.40%) Thycotic