Disaster Recovery Contract Job Trends in West London

Disaster Recovery
London > West London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in West London requiring Disaster Recovery skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 30 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 54 40 37
Rank change year-on-year -14 -3 +27
Contract jobs citing Disaster Recovery 7 3 6
As % of all contract jobs in West London 1.50% 1.08% 2.02%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.73% 1.23% 2.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 3
10th Percentile £534 - £310
25th Percentile £584 - £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 - £350
Median % change year-on-year - - -36.36%
75th Percentile £638 - £425
90th Percentile - - £470
London median daily rate £531 £480 £425
% change year-on-year +10.68% +12.94% -20.93%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £20.24 -
Median hourly rate - £21.63 £23.80
Median % change year-on-year - -9.14% -
75th Percentile - £23.01 £40.65
90th Percentile - - £50.76
London median hourly rate £16.04 £21.63 £23.80
% change year-on-year -25.83% -9.14% -

All Process & Methodology Skills
West 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 West London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 405 244 273
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West London 86.72% 87.77% 91.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 246 152 198
10th Percentile £240 £225 £270
25th Percentile £400 £350 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £411 £475
Median % change year-on-year +26.60% -13.53% -15.56%
75th Percentile £688 £500 £588
90th Percentile £775 £554 £650
London median daily rate £550 £538 £550
% change year-on-year +2.33% -2.27% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 35 18
10th Percentile £23.19 £22.27 £19.96
25th Percentile £26.25 - £23.80
Median hourly rate £27.50 £25.15 £45.75
Median % change year-on-year +9.34% -45.03% -31.72%
75th Percentile £28.75 £35.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £35.50 £50.20 £70.10
London median hourly rate £35.50 £32.00 £35.50
% change year-on-year +10.94% -9.86% -11.25%

Disaster Recovery
Job Vacancy Trend in West London

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

Disaster Recovery job vacancy trend in West London

Disaster Recovery
Daily Rate Trend in West London

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

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

Disaster Recovery
Hourly Rate Trend in West London

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

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

Disaster Recovery
Contract Job Locations in West 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 West London region over the 6 months to 30 August 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
Richmond upon Thames - 4 £625 -
Harrow - 1 £500 -
Disaster Recovery
London

Disaster Recovery
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West 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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (42.86%) Apache
1 3 (42.86%) Apache Spark
2 1 (14.29%) Oracle SOA Suite
Business Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Eloqua
1 1 (14.29%) Oracle Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 5 (71.43%) Azure
2 4 (57.14%) AWS
2 4 (57.14%) Power Platform
3 3 (42.86%) Amazon S3
3 3 (42.86%) Amazon SQS
3 3 (42.86%) AWS CloudFormation
3 3 (42.86%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 3 (42.86%) Collibra
3 3 (42.86%) GCP
4 1 (14.29%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (14.29%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (14.29%) Amazon ECS
4 1 (14.29%) Amazon EKS
4 1 (14.29%) Apigee
4 1 (14.29%) Azure Sentinel
4 1 (14.29%) GitHub
4 1 (14.29%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (14.29%) DNS
1 1 (14.29%) Firewall
1 1 (14.29%) LAN
1 1 (14.29%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (57.14%) Power BI
2 3 (42.86%) Amazon Athena
2 3 (42.86%) BigQuery
2 3 (42.86%) Data Lake
2 3 (42.86%) Mixpanel
2 3 (42.86%) OLAP
2 3 (42.86%) OLTP
3 1 (14.29%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (14.29%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
3 1 (14.29%) Oracle BI EE
3 1 (14.29%) Oracle Database
3 1 (14.29%) Oracle ODI
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) JIRA
General
1 1 (14.29%) Local Government
1 1 (14.29%) Public Sector
1 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Data Engineer
1 3 (42.86%) Lead
1 3 (42.86%) Lead Data Engineer
1 3 (42.86%) Principal Data Engineer
1 3 (42.86%) Principal Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Analyst
2 1 (14.29%) AWS DevOps
2 1 (14.29%) AWS DevOps Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) AWS Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Cybersecurity Manager
2 1 (14.29%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) IT Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Operations Analyst
2 1 (14.29%) Report Analyst
2 1 (14.29%) Security Manager
2 1 (14.29%) Service Analyst
2 1 (14.29%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (57.14%) Terraform
2 3 (42.86%) Great Expectations
2 3 (42.86%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 3 (42.86%) Cloud Native
2 1 (14.29%) Cyber Threat
2 1 (14.29%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (14.29%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (14.29%) NHS
2 1 (14.29%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 1 (14.29%) Linux
1 1 (14.29%) Windows
1 1 (14.29%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (57.14%) Business Intelligence
1 4 (57.14%) CI/CD
1 4 (57.14%) DevOps
1 4 (57.14%) ETL
1 4 (57.14%) Infrastructure as Code
1 4 (57.14%) Observability
2 3 (42.86%) AI
2 3 (42.86%) Analytics
2 3 (42.86%) Batch Processing
2 3 (42.86%) Data Architecture
2 3 (42.86%) Data Engineering
2 3 (42.86%) Data Governance
2 3 (42.86%) Data Modelling
2 3 (42.86%) Data Privacy
2 3 (42.86%) Dimensional Modelling
2 3 (42.86%) LLM
2 3 (42.86%) Machine Learning
2 3 (42.86%) MapReduce
2 3 (42.86%) Monte Carlo Method
2 3 (42.86%) RBAC
Programming Languages
1 4 (57.14%) Python
2 3 (42.86%) C#
2 3 (42.86%) SQL
3 1 (14.29%) Bash
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (57.14%) GDPR
2 3 (42.86%) Data Quality
3 1 (14.29%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (14.29%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 1 (14.29%) GRC
3 1 (14.29%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 1 (14.29%) Active Directory
1 1 (14.29%) Virtual Machines
1 1 (14.29%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (14.29%) Ansible
1 1 (14.29%) Grafana
1 1 (14.29%) Kubernetes
1 1 (14.29%) Prometheus
1 1 (14.29%) Puppet
Vendors
1 3 (42.86%) Databricks
1 3 (42.86%) Google
1 3 (42.86%) Microsoft
2 1 (14.29%) Cisco
2 1 (14.29%) Fortinet
2 1 (14.29%) Hyperion
2 1 (14.29%) Oracle
2 1 (14.29%) Salesforce
2 1 (14.29%) ServiceNow
2 1 (14.29%) VMware