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 13 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 150 184 208
Rank change year-on-year +34 +24 +28
Contract jobs citing Disaster Recovery 224 225 276
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.75% 1.10% 1.17%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.94% 1.30% 1.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 145 170 215
10th Percentile £323 £324 £325
25th Percentile £408 £411 £403
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - +10.53%
75th Percentile £588 £608 £613
90th Percentile £675 £665 £669
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +2.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 7 6
10th Percentile £18.75 £45.26 £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% -27.11%
75th Percentile £65.62 £64.55 £57.02
90th Percentile £73.47 £70.50 £57.33
UK median hourly rate £22.05 £61.60 £54.83
% change year-on-year -64.20% +12.35% -1.12%

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 11,573 17,298 21,028
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 90.48% 84.45% 89.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,212 10,313 14,528
10th Percentile £235 £250 £256
25th Percentile £375 £380 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £478 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.40% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £581 £600 £600
90th Percentile £656 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £518 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -1.43% -4.55% +3.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 834 2,056 1,281
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.32 £11.00
25th Percentile £17.30 £15.25 £15.44
Median hourly rate £25.23 £38.06 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -33.72% +8.74% +75.00%
75th Percentile £63.75 £61.26 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.90 £73.75
UK median hourly rate £28.30 £36.50 £36.00
% change year-on-year -22.48% +1.39% +40.19%

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 13 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 13 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 13 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 +47 82 £445 -16.67% 88
South East +18 54 £540 -6.09% 132
North West +30 52 £447 -17.18% 52
Yorkshire +35 30 £389 -8.20% 25
Scotland +4 26 £575 +20.95% 10
Midlands +26 25 £544 +35.94% 36
South West +37 24 £550 - 32
West Midlands +29 23 £538 +34.38% 22
East of England +26 11 £600 +35.75% 51
Wales +7 4 £375 -16.67% 16
Northern Ireland - 3 £350 - 4
East Midlands +5 2 £550 +37.50% 11
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 (8.04%) Confluence
2 14 (6.25%) Microsoft Exchange
3 12 (5.36%) SharePoint
4 4 (1.79%) Apache
5 3 (1.34%) IIS
5 3 (1.34%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 3 (1.34%) Oracle Workflow
5 3 (1.34%) WebLogic
6 2 (0.89%) BizTalk Server
6 2 (0.89%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.45%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 6 (2.68%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.45%) Adobe Creative Suite
Business Applications
1 6 (2.68%) Oracle ERP
2 5 (2.23%) Oracle EBS R12
3 3 (1.34%) Oracle EBS
3 3 (1.34%) Remedy ITSM
4 2 (0.89%) NetSuite
4 2 (0.89%) Oracle Assets
4 2 (0.89%) SAP PM
4 2 (0.89%) Workday HCM
5 1 (0.45%) BASE24
5 1 (0.45%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 61 (27.23%) Azure
2 42 (18.75%) AWS
3 29 (12.95%) Microsoft 365
4 16 (7.14%) Entra ID
4 16 (7.14%) IaaS
5 15 (6.70%) Serverless
6 10 (4.46%) PaaS
7 9 (4.02%) Power Platform
8 8 (3.57%) SaaS
9 7 (3.13%) OCI
9 7 (3.13%) OpenShift
10 6 (2.68%) AWS Lambda
11 5 (2.23%) Amazon S3
11 5 (2.23%) GitHub
12 4 (1.79%) Amazon EC2
12 4 (1.79%) AWS CloudFormation
12 4 (1.79%) GCP
12 4 (1.79%) GitHub Actions
13 3 (1.34%) Azure Data Factory
13 3 (1.34%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 37 (16.52%) Firewall
2 23 (10.27%) Network Security
3 15 (6.70%) SAN
4 12 (5.36%) DNS
5 10 (4.46%) Internet
5 10 (4.46%) Intrusion Detection
5 10 (4.46%) VPN
6 9 (4.02%) WAN
7 8 (3.57%) SSL
7 8 (3.57%) TCP/IP
8 7 (3.13%) NAS
9 6 (2.68%) LAN
9 6 (2.68%) Wireless
10 5 (2.23%) DHCP
11 4 (1.79%) iSCSI
11 4 (1.79%) Remote Desktop
11 4 (1.79%) SNA
11 4 (1.79%) VoIP
11 4 (1.79%) Wi-Fi
12 3 (1.34%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (14.73%) SQL Server
2 22 (9.82%) Oracle Database
3 20 (8.93%) Oracle Reports
4 18 (8.04%) PostgreSQL
5 14 (6.25%) MongoDB
6 11 (4.91%) NoSQL
7 9 (4.02%) Power BI
8 7 (3.13%) RDBMS
8 7 (3.13%) Relational Database
9 6 (2.68%) Elasticsearch
10 5 (2.23%) MySQL
11 4 (1.79%) Amazon RDS
11 4 (1.79%) GIS
11 4 (1.79%) Oracle Exadata
12 3 (1.34%) Azure SQL Database
12 3 (1.34%) Oracle BI EE
12 3 (1.34%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 2 (0.89%) Data Warehouse
13 2 (0.89%) MSDE
13 2 (0.89%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 10 (4.46%) JIRA
2 6 (2.68%) Jenkins
3 5 (2.23%) Git
4 2 (0.89%) Bitbucket
4 2 (0.89%) GitLab
4 2 (0.89%) TeamCity
5 1 (0.45%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 1 (0.45%) JMeter
5 1 (0.45%) LoadRunner
5 1 (0.45%) NeoLoad
5 1 (0.45%) Selenium
General
1 55 (24.55%) Social Skills
2 51 (22.77%) Analytical Skills
3 42 (18.75%) Finance
4 22 (9.82%) Public Sector
5 14 (6.25%) Banking
6 11 (4.91%) Telecoms
7 6 (2.68%) Military
8 4 (1.79%) Retail
9 2 (0.89%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (0.89%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.45%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.45%) Local Government
10 1 (0.45%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.45%) Pharmaceutical
10 1 (0.45%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 28 (12.50%) Administrator
2 26 (11.61%) Senior
3 25 (11.16%) Architect
3 25 (11.16%) DBA
4 15 (6.70%) IT Manager
5 14 (6.25%) Analyst
6 13 (5.80%) Backup Engineer
7 12 (5.36%) Lead
8 11 (4.91%) Commvault Engineer
8 11 (4.91%) Service Manager
8 11 (4.91%) Solutions Architect
9 10 (4.46%) Infrastructure Architect
9 10 (4.46%) Resilience Manager
9 10 (4.46%) Systems Administrator
10 9 (4.02%) Consultant
10 9 (4.02%) IT Services Manager
10 9 (4.02%) Support Engineer
11 8 (3.57%) Infrastructure Analyst
11 8 (3.57%) SQL DBA
12 7 (3.13%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (6.70%) Kafka
2 8 (3.57%) LDAP
2 8 (3.57%) Middleware
2 8 (3.57%) XML
3 7 (3.13%) JSON
4 6 (2.68%) REST
5 5 (2.23%) Elastic Stack
6 4 (1.79%) .NET
6 4 (1.79%) Apache NiFi
7 3 (1.34%) X-Windows
8 2 (0.89%) 802.1X
8 2 (0.89%) ASP.NET
8 2 (0.89%) HTML
8 2 (0.89%) Loki
8 2 (0.89%) ModSecurity
8 2 (0.89%) RFC 2544
8 2 (0.89%) SAML
8 2 (0.89%) Web Services
8 2 (0.89%) YAML
9 1 (0.45%) Lambda Expressions
Miscellaneous
1 37 (16.52%) Data Centre
2 25 (11.16%) Replication
3 12 (5.36%) Mainframe
4 11 (4.91%) Clustering
5 8 (3.57%) Video Conferencing
6 7 (3.13%) SCADA
7 5 (2.23%) Linux Command Line
8 4 (1.79%) Cloud Native
8 4 (1.79%) PKI
9 3 (1.34%) Cyber Threat
9 3 (1.34%) IVR
9 3 (1.34%) Legacy Systems
9 3 (1.34%) Onboarding
10 2 (0.89%) Distributed Systems
10 2 (0.89%) Hybrid Cloud
10 2 (0.89%) IoT
10 2 (0.89%) Legacy Applications
10 2 (0.89%) Management Information System
10 2 (0.89%) PMI
10 2 (0.89%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 55 (24.55%) Windows
2 46 (20.54%) Linux
3 31 (13.84%) Windows Server
4 18 (8.04%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 18 (8.04%) Solaris
5 16 (7.14%) Unix
6 11 (4.91%) HPUX
7 9 (4.02%) AIX
8 5 (2.23%) Android
8 5 (2.23%) CentOS
8 5 (2.23%) Mac OS
8 5 (2.23%) Ubuntu
9 4 (1.79%) zOS
10 3 (1.34%) Windows 10
10 3 (1.34%) Windows Server 2016
11 1 (0.45%) Apple iOS
11 1 (0.45%) Data ONTAP
11 1 (0.45%) Rocky
11 1 (0.45%) Windows Server 2012
11 1 (0.45%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 68 (30.36%) Problem-Solving
2 66 (29.46%) High Availability
3 50 (22.32%) Business Continuity
4 44 (19.64%) Performance Tuning
5 42 (18.75%) ITIL
6 41 (18.30%) Change Management
7 39 (17.41%) Migration
8 36 (16.07%) DevOps
9 35 (15.63%) Problem Management
10 32 (14.29%) Agile
11 25 (11.16%) Capacity Planning
11 25 (11.16%) Cybersecurity
12 24 (10.71%) BCP
12 24 (10.71%) Task Automation
13 19 (8.48%) Business Continuity Planning
13 19 (8.48%) Data Migration
14 18 (8.04%) Analytics
14 18 (8.04%) Project Delivery
15 17 (7.59%) Service Management
16 16 (7.14%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 32 (14.29%) SQL
2 25 (11.16%) Python
3 24 (10.71%) PowerShell
4 13 (5.80%) Bash
5 12 (5.36%) Perl
6 11 (4.91%) Shell Script
7 5 (2.23%) JCL
8 3 (1.34%) PL/SQL
8 3 (1.34%) T-SQL
9 2 (0.89%) ActionScript
9 2 (0.89%) ActionScript 2.0
9 2 (0.89%) Bicep
9 2 (0.89%) C
9 2 (0.89%) C#
9 2 (0.89%) JavaScript
9 2 (0.89%) Korn
9 2 (0.89%) Kusto Query Language
9 2 (0.89%) REXX
10 1 (0.45%) C++
10 1 (0.45%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 53 (23.66%) Security Cleared
2 30 (13.39%) SC Cleared
3 14 (6.25%) Degree
3 14 (6.25%) DV Cleared
4 13 (5.80%) Azure Certification
5 9 (4.02%) Microsoft Certification
6 5 (2.23%) AWS Certification
6 5 (2.23%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 5 (2.23%) CCNP
6 5 (2.23%) Cisco Certification
7 4 (1.79%) Computer Science Degree
8 3 (1.34%) BPSS Clearance
8 3 (1.34%) ITIL Certification
9 2 (0.89%) CCNA
9 2 (0.89%) CISSP
9 2 (0.89%) Citrix Certification
9 2 (0.89%) PMI Certification
9 2 (0.89%) RHCE
9 2 (0.89%) Tableau Certification
9 2 (0.89%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (6.25%) SLA
2 12 (5.36%) Data Quality
3 9 (4.02%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 7 (3.13%) Cyber Essentials
5 5 (2.23%) ISO 22301
5 5 (2.23%) ISO/IEC 20000
5 5 (2.23%) QA
6 4 (1.79%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 4 (1.79%) PCI DSS
6 4 (1.79%) PMO
7 3 (1.34%) Disclosure Scotland
7 3 (1.34%) ISO 31000
7 3 (1.34%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 2 (0.89%) GDPR
8 2 (0.89%) NCSC
9 1 (0.45%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.45%) GxP
9 1 (0.45%) ISO 8583
9 1 (0.45%) NIST
9 1 (0.45%) NIST 800
System Software
1 30 (13.39%) Active Directory
2 21 (9.38%) VMware Infrastructure
3 16 (7.14%) Docker
4 11 (4.91%) vSphere
5 9 (4.02%) Hyper-V
5 9 (4.02%) Oracle RAC
5 9 (4.02%) Virtual Servers
6 8 (3.57%) Virtual Machines
7 6 (2.68%) Firmware
8 5 (2.23%) Apache ZooKeeper
9 4 (1.79%) Microsoft Virtual Server
10 3 (1.34%) KVM
10 3 (1.34%) Veritas Cluster Server
11 2 (0.89%) Virtual Desktop
11 2 (0.89%) VMware ESXi
12 1 (0.45%) NFS
12 1 (0.45%) Samba
12 1 (0.45%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 20 (8.93%) Ansible
1 20 (8.93%) Terraform
2 18 (8.04%) Kubernetes
3 17 (7.59%) Microsoft Intune
4 16 (7.14%) Oracle RMAN
5 14 (6.25%) Grafana
6 11 (4.91%) Prometheus
7 8 (3.57%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
8 6 (2.68%) Data Guard
8 6 (2.68%) Progress Chef
8 6 (2.68%) Puppet
8 6 (2.68%) SCCM
9 5 (2.23%) EMC NetWorker
10 4 (1.79%) Failover Clustering
10 4 (1.79%) FortiGate
10 4 (1.79%) Kibana
10 4 (1.79%) logstash
10 4 (1.79%) NetBackup
10 4 (1.79%) Oracle Flashback
10 4 (1.79%) Tivoli NetView
Vendors
1 53 (23.66%) Oracle
2 50 (22.32%) Microsoft
3 33 (14.73%) VMware
4 18 (8.04%) IBM
5 15 (6.70%) Cisco
5 15 (6.70%) Commvault
5 15 (6.70%) Red Hat
6 11 (4.91%) HP
7 9 (4.02%) Dell
8 8 (3.57%) Splunk
8 8 (3.57%) Sun
9 7 (3.13%) Dynatrace
9 7 (3.13%) EMC
9 7 (3.13%) Unisys
10 6 (2.68%) Brocade
10 6 (2.68%) ServiceNow
10 6 (2.68%) Veritas
11 5 (2.23%) Apple
11 5 (2.23%) Confluent
12 4 (1.79%) SAP