Disaster Recovery Contracts with Work from Home Options

Disaster Recovery
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and a requirement for Disaster Recovery skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Disaster Recovery over the 6 months to 5 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 174 240 289
Rank change year-on-year +66 +49 -9
Contract jobs citing Disaster Recovery 182 258 401
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 1.20% 1.01% 0.90%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.37% 1.13% 0.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 132 193 267
10th Percentile £336 £385 £319
25th Percentile £400 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £563 £600
90th Percentile £688 £698 £700
UK median daily rate £500 £518 £488
% change year-on-year -3.38% +6.15% +2.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 7
10th Percentile £29.09 - £27.50
25th Percentile £41.62 - £47.50
Median hourly rate £65.00 £60.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -7.69% +188.89%
75th Percentile £71.25 - £67.50
90th Percentile £73.50 - £80.50
UK median hourly rate £58.30 £54.83 £55.45
% change year-on-year +6.33% -1.12% +117.45%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

Disaster Recovery is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a WFH option and a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 13,319 22,924 40,623
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 87.90% 89.76% 91.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,917 16,193 29,494
10th Percentile £325 £363 £362
25th Percentile £425 £450 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +8.25%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £630
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 575 527 541
10th Percentile £15.17 £18.67 £13.75
25th Percentile £24.63 £30.00 £20.00
Median hourly rate £42.50 £55.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.73% +57.14% +40.00%
75th Percentile £60.00 £68.75 £55.25
90th Percentile £75.15 £80.25 £67.50
UK median hourly rate £35.95 £35.80 £25.00
% change year-on-year +0.42% +43.20% +2.04%

Disaster Recovery
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Disaster Recovery as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Disaster Recovery trend for jobs with a WFH option

Disaster Recovery
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Disaster Recovery.

Disaster Recovery daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Disaster Recovery
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Disaster Recovery over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

Disaster Recovery daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Disaster Recovery
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Disaster Recovery.

Disaster Recovery hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Disaster Recovery
Hourly Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Hourly rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Disaster Recovery over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

Disaster Recovery hourly rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Disaster Recovery
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 16 (8.79%) Confluence
2 8 (4.40%) Microsoft Exchange
2 8 (4.40%) OpenStack
3 3 (1.65%) CICS
4 2 (1.10%) Apache
4 2 (1.10%) nginx
4 2 (1.10%) Oracle Self-Service HR
5 1 (0.55%) IIS
5 1 (0.55%) OpenEdge
5 1 (0.55%) SAS
5 1 (0.55%) WebLogic
Applications
1 1 (0.55%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.55%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 7 (3.85%) Teamcenter
2 6 (3.30%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.55%) Dynamics NAV
3 1 (0.55%) MFGPRO
3 1 (0.55%) Sage 50
Cloud Services
1 43 (23.63%) Azure
2 38 (20.88%) AWS
3 24 (13.19%) Serverless
4 20 (10.99%) PaaS
5 16 (8.79%) SaaS
6 14 (7.69%) GCP
7 10 (5.49%) AWS Lambda
8 9 (4.95%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 9 (4.95%) Cloud Computing
8 9 (4.95%) IaaS
9 7 (3.85%) Azure DevOps
9 7 (3.85%) Nutanix
9 7 (3.85%) Rubrik
10 6 (3.30%) Amazon EC2
10 6 (3.30%) Amazon S3
10 6 (3.30%) Azure API Management
10 6 (3.30%) Azure Data Factory
10 6 (3.30%) Azure Logic Apps
10 6 (3.30%) Power Platform
11 5 (2.75%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 25 (13.74%) Firewall
2 15 (8.24%) SAN
3 11 (6.04%) DNS
4 9 (4.95%) DHCP
5 8 (4.40%) TCP/IP
6 7 (3.85%) FTP
6 7 (3.85%) Kerberos
6 7 (3.85%) NAS
6 7 (3.85%) VLAN
7 4 (2.20%) LAN
7 4 (2.20%) WAN
8 3 (1.65%) VPN
9 2 (1.10%) BGP
9 2 (1.10%) Cisco ASA
9 2 (1.10%) Cisco Nexus
9 2 (1.10%) OSPF
9 2 (1.10%) SD-WAN
9 2 (1.10%) SSH
9 2 (1.10%) Wi-Fi
10 1 (0.55%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (21.98%) SQL Server
2 26 (14.29%) PostgreSQL
3 25 (13.74%) MongoDB
4 12 (6.59%) NoSQL
5 11 (6.04%) Oracle Database
5 11 (6.04%) Relational Database
6 10 (5.49%) Oracle Reports
6 10 (5.49%) RDBMS
7 9 (4.95%) Amazon RDS
8 7 (3.85%) Hadoop
9 6 (3.30%) Power BI
10 5 (2.75%) Azure SQL Database
10 5 (2.75%) Informix
10 5 (2.75%) OLTP
11 4 (2.20%) Elasticsearch
11 4 (2.20%) MySQL
12 3 (1.65%) DB2
12 3 (1.65%) OLAP
13 2 (1.10%) Amazon Redshift
13 2 (1.10%) Couchbase
Development Applications
1 16 (8.79%) JIRA
2 15 (8.24%) Git
3 14 (7.69%) Jenkins
4 7 (3.85%) TeamCity
5 4 (2.20%) Artifactory
5 4 (2.20%) Subversion
6 2 (1.10%) Sonatype Nexus
6 2 (1.10%) Visual Studio
General
1 49 (26.92%) Finance
2 43 (23.63%) Social Skills
3 24 (13.19%) Public Sector
4 20 (10.99%) Banking
5 14 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
6 12 (6.59%) Organisational Skills
7 9 (4.95%) Presentation Skills
8 6 (3.30%) Police
8 6 (3.30%) Telecoms
9 3 (1.65%) Documentation Skills
9 3 (1.65%) Manufacturing
9 3 (1.65%) Marketing
10 2 (1.10%) Advertising
11 1 (0.55%) Automotive
11 1 (0.55%) Electronics
11 1 (0.55%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.55%) Fire and Rescue
11 1 (0.55%) Law
11 1 (0.55%) Retail
11 1 (0.55%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 38 (20.88%) DBA
2 28 (15.38%) Senior
3 23 (12.64%) SQL DBA
4 22 (12.09%) Architect
5 13 (7.14%) Analyst
6 11 (6.04%) Lead
6 11 (6.04%) Senior DBA
6 11 (6.04%) Senior SQL DBA
7 10 (5.49%) PostgreSQL DBA
8 9 (4.95%) Administrator
8 9 (4.95%) SQL Server DBA
9 8 (4.40%) AWS Engineer
9 8 (4.40%) Support Engineer
10 7 (3.85%) Consultant
10 7 (3.85%) Data Engineer
10 7 (3.85%) Implementation Specialist
10 7 (3.85%) Oracle Architect
11 6 (3.30%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 6 (3.30%) Network Architect
11 6 (3.30%) Senior SQL Server DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (8.79%) LDAP
2 15 (8.24%) Kafka
3 10 (5.49%) JSON
3 10 (5.49%) XML
4 9 (4.95%) .NET
5 7 (3.85%) Middleware
6 6 (3.30%) AWS CDK
6 6 (3.30%) Elastic Stack
7 5 (2.75%) AWS SAM
8 4 (2.20%) YAML
9 3 (1.65%) .NET Core
9 3 (1.65%) ARM Templates
9 3 (1.65%) GraphQL
9 3 (1.65%) REST
9 3 (1.65%) SOAP
10 2 (1.10%) FIX Protocol
10 2 (1.10%) LAPP Stack
10 2 (1.10%) React
10 2 (1.10%) SailPoint
10 2 (1.10%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 36 (19.78%) Replication
2 19 (10.44%) Data Centre
3 15 (8.24%) Clustering
4 10 (5.49%) Management Information System
5 8 (4.40%) Video Conferencing
6 7 (3.85%) Blog
6 7 (3.85%) Hybrid Cloud
6 7 (3.85%) Self-Motivation
7 6 (3.30%) Cloud Native
8 4 (2.20%) Public Cloud
9 3 (1.65%) CMDB
9 3 (1.65%) Distributed Systems
9 3 (1.65%) Mainframe
10 2 (1.10%) Client/Server
10 2 (1.10%) Cyber Threat
10 2 (1.10%) Equities
10 2 (1.10%) Onboarding
10 2 (1.10%) Operational Technology
10 2 (1.10%) Team-Oriented Environment
11 1 (0.55%) Cyberattack
Operating Systems
1 60 (32.97%) Windows
2 47 (25.82%) Linux
3 29 (15.93%) Windows Server
4 19 (10.44%) Unix
5 12 (6.59%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 9 (4.95%) Windows Server 2012
6 9 (4.95%) Windows Server 2016
7 7 (3.85%) Oracle Linux
7 7 (3.85%) Solaris
8 5 (2.75%) zOS
9 4 (2.20%) Windows 10
10 3 (1.65%) CentOS
11 2 (1.10%) Ubuntu
11 2 (1.10%) VMS
12 1 (0.55%) HPUX
12 1 (0.55%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 61 (33.52%) High Availability
2 40 (21.98%) Agile
2 40 (21.98%) DevOps
3 36 (19.78%) Business Continuity
4 32 (17.58%) ITIL
5 28 (15.38%) Migration
5 28 (15.38%) Problem-Solving
6 27 (14.84%) Roadmaps
7 25 (13.74%) Infrastructure as Code
8 23 (12.64%) Cybersecurity
9 22 (12.09%) Performance Tuning
10 18 (9.89%) Capacity Management
10 18 (9.89%) Service Management
11 17 (9.34%) Continuous Improvement
11 17 (9.34%) Problem Management
12 16 (8.79%) Mentoring
13 15 (8.24%) Time Management
14 14 (7.69%) Analytics
15 13 (7.14%) Configuration Management
15 13 (7.14%) ITSM
Programming Languages
1 41 (22.53%) SQL
2 32 (17.58%) PowerShell
2 32 (17.58%) Python
3 19 (10.44%) Bash
4 9 (4.95%) PL/SQL
5 8 (4.40%) C#
5 8 (4.40%) T-SQL
6 6 (3.30%) Go
6 6 (3.30%) TypeScript
7 5 (2.75%) Bicep
7 5 (2.75%) JavaScript
8 4 (2.20%) C++
8 4 (2.20%) Java
9 2 (1.10%) COBOL
9 2 (1.10%) Perl
9 2 (1.10%) REXX
10 1 (0.55%) VB
10 1 (0.55%) VB.NET
10 1 (0.55%) VBA
Qualifications
1 35 (19.23%) Security Cleared
2 27 (14.84%) SC Cleared
3 14 (7.69%) Degree
4 8 (4.40%) Microsoft Certification
5 5 (2.75%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (2.75%) CTC Cleared
6 4 (2.20%) MCSE
7 3 (1.65%) BPSS Clearance
7 3 (1.65%) MCITP
7 3 (1.65%) MCTS
7 3 (1.65%) SAP Certification
8 2 (1.10%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.55%) CompTIA Security+
9 1 (0.55%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 1 (0.55%) Network+ Certification
9 1 (0.55%) OCP
9 1 (0.55%) Oracle Certification
9 1 (0.55%) PMI Certification
9 1 (0.55%) PMP
9 1 (0.55%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (4.95%) GDPR
1 9 (4.95%) Sarbanes-Oxley
1 9 (4.95%) SLA
2 6 (3.30%) NIST
3 4 (2.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (1.65%) Data Quality
5 2 (1.10%) PCI DSS
5 2 (1.10%) QA
6 1 (0.55%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.55%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.55%) Disclosure Scotland
6 1 (0.55%) GRC
6 1 (0.55%) IASME
6 1 (0.55%) IFRS
6 1 (0.55%) IFRS 17
System Software
1 41 (22.53%) Active Directory
2 15 (8.24%) VMware Infrastructure
3 11 (6.04%) Docker
4 9 (4.95%) Virtual Machines
5 7 (3.85%) HDFS
5 7 (3.85%) NFS
6 6 (3.30%) Firmware
7 2 (1.10%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.55%) Oracle RAC
8 1 (0.55%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.55%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 26 (14.29%) Ansible
2 21 (11.54%) Terraform
3 17 (9.34%) SCCM
4 14 (7.69%) Kubernetes
5 11 (6.04%) Grafana
6 7 (3.85%) EMC NetWorker
6 7 (3.85%) Netcool
6 7 (3.85%) Tivoli
6 7 (3.85%) Tivoli Storage Manager
7 4 (2.20%) BladeLogic
7 4 (2.20%) ITRS Geneos
8 3 (1.65%) Prometheus
8 3 (1.65%) Single Sign-On
9 2 (1.10%) Data Guard
9 2 (1.10%) Microsoft Clustering
9 2 (1.10%) Puppet
9 2 (1.10%) ZABBIX
10 1 (0.55%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.55%) vCenter Server
10 1 (0.55%) WSUS
Vendors
1 34 (18.68%) Microsoft
1 34 (18.68%) Oracle
2 21 (11.54%) VMware
3 19 (10.44%) ServiceNow
4 17 (9.34%) Cisco
4 17 (9.34%) Citrix
5 16 (8.79%) Dell
5 16 (8.79%) HP
6 15 (8.24%) EMC
7 14 (7.69%) Isilon
8 13 (7.14%) Qualys
9 11 (6.04%) Splunk
10 10 (5.49%) CheckPoint
10 10 (5.49%) IBM
11 9 (4.95%) CyberArk
11 9 (4.95%) SAP
12 8 (4.40%) Avaya
13 7 (3.85%) Serena
14 6 (3.30%) Atlassian
14 6 (3.30%) Remedy