Disaster Recovery Contracts in Scotland

Disaster Recovery
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland with 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 17 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
17 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 94 118 144
Rank change year-on-year +24 +26 -50
Contract jobs citing Disaster Recovery 28 50 31
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 1.31% 1.86% 0.91%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.48% 2.01% 0.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 45 24
10th Percentile £410 £370 £263
25th Percentile £454 £425 £367
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +11.11% -
75th Percentile £509 £538 £547
90th Percentile £625 £563 £575
UK median daily rate £500 £523 £500
% change year-on-year -4.31% +4.50% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £40.00
UK median hourly rate £61.60 £54.83 £55.45
% change year-on-year +12.35% -1.12% +94.56%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

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 advertised in Scotland with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,887 2,493 3,174
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 88.10% 92.54% 93.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,158 1,767 2,243
10th Percentile £219 £260 £250
25th Percentile £369 £406 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £470
Median % change year-on-year - +1.06% +10.59%
75th Percentile £575 £550 £550
90th Percentile £650 £650 £625
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 92 55 46
10th Percentile £12.30 £10.63 £15.04
25th Percentile £15.92 £11.25 £18.29
Median hourly rate £19.50 £16.00 £37.43
Median % change year-on-year +21.88% -57.25% -6.43%
75th Percentile £42.71 £50.74 £48.75
90th Percentile £60.75 £67.13 £56.00
UK median hourly rate £36.05 £35.65 £25.68
% change year-on-year +1.11% +38.82% +5.90%

Disaster Recovery
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Job postings citing Disaster Recovery as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Job vacancy trend for Disaster Recovery in Scotland

Disaster Recovery
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Disaster Recovery in Scotland.

Daily rate trend for Disaster Recovery in Scotland

Disaster Recovery
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Disaster Recovery in Scotland over the 6 months to 17 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Disaster Recovery in Scotland

Disaster Recovery
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Disaster Recovery in Scotland.

Hourly rate trend for Disaster Recovery in Scotland

Disaster Recovery
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

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 Scotland region over the 6 months to 17 May 2024. 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
Edinburgh +21 13 £467 -6.60% 4
Glasgow +11 13 £475 +15.85% 5
Disaster Recovery
UK

Disaster Recovery
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 4 (14.29%) Confluence
2 2 (7.14%) SAS
Business Applications
1 1 (3.57%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 9 (32.14%) AWS
2 8 (28.57%) Azure
2 8 (28.57%) Serverless
3 7 (25.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 7 (25.00%) Amazon EC2
3 7 (25.00%) Amazon S3
3 7 (25.00%) AWS CloudFormation
3 7 (25.00%) AWS Lambda
4 5 (17.86%) Amazon OpenSearch
4 5 (17.86%) OpenShift
5 3 (10.71%) AWS CodeBuild
5 3 (10.71%) AWS CodeCommit
5 3 (10.71%) AWS CodePipeline
5 3 (10.71%) IaaS
5 3 (10.71%) iPaaS
5 3 (10.71%) PaaS
6 2 (7.14%) Microsoft 365
6 2 (7.14%) OneDrive
7 1 (3.57%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 4 (14.29%) Firewall
2 3 (10.71%) LAN
2 3 (10.71%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (42.86%) PostgreSQL
2 11 (39.29%) MongoDB
3 8 (28.57%) Amazon RDS
4 7 (25.00%) SQL Server
5 6 (21.43%) Informix
6 3 (10.71%) Amazon Aurora
6 3 (10.71%) InfluxDB
7 2 (7.14%) Oracle Database
8 1 (3.57%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 5 (17.86%) JIRA
General
1 18 (64.29%) Social Skills
2 11 (39.29%) Public Sector
3 4 (14.29%) Finance
4 3 (10.71%) Banking
5 2 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 13 (46.43%) Senior
2 7 (25.00%) DBA
2 7 (25.00%) SQL DBA
3 4 (14.29%) Administrator
3 4 (14.29%) Architect
3 4 (14.29%) Data Engineer
3 4 (14.29%) Database Engineer
3 4 (14.29%) Senior DBA
3 4 (14.29%) Senior SQL DBA
3 4 (14.29%) Senior SQL Server DBA
3 4 (14.29%) SQL Server DBA
4 3 (10.71%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 3 (10.71%) Senior Data Engineer
4 3 (10.71%) Technical Architect
5 2 (7.14%) Lead
5 2 (7.14%) Senior Architect
5 2 (7.14%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (7.14%) Senior Technical Architect
6 1 (3.57%) Development Engineer
6 1 (3.57%) IT Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (28.57%) AWS CDK
2 3 (10.71%) .NET
2 3 (10.71%) J2EE
2 3 (10.71%) Web Services
3 2 (7.14%) ISPF
4 1 (3.57%) Kafka
4 1 (3.57%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 8 (28.57%) Replication
2 4 (14.29%) Cloud Native
3 3 (10.71%) Client/Server
3 3 (10.71%) N-Tier
4 2 (7.14%) Cyber Defence
4 2 (7.14%) IBM Mainframe
4 2 (7.14%) Mainframe
5 1 (3.57%) Clustering
5 1 (3.57%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 5 (17.86%) Linux
1 5 (17.86%) Windows
2 2 (7.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (7.14%) zOS
3 1 (3.57%) Oracle Linux
3 1 (3.57%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (67.86%) High Availability
2 8 (28.57%) Agile
2 8 (28.57%) Infrastructure as Code
2 8 (28.57%) Kanban
2 8 (28.57%) Roadmaps
2 8 (28.57%) Scrum
3 6 (21.43%) Problem Management
3 6 (21.43%) Problem-Solving
4 5 (17.86%) Migration
5 4 (14.29%) Technical Leadership
6 3 (10.71%) Architecture Governance
6 3 (10.71%) Community of Practice
6 3 (10.71%) Continuous Improvement
6 3 (10.71%) Enterprise Architecture
6 3 (10.71%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 3 (10.71%) Innovative Thinking
6 3 (10.71%) Integration Patterns
6 3 (10.71%) Project Delivery
6 3 (10.71%) SOA
6 3 (10.71%) Strategic Thinking
Programming Languages
1 11 (39.29%) SQL
2 8 (28.57%) TypeScript
3 7 (25.00%) PowerShell
4 5 (17.86%) T-SQL
5 2 (7.14%) Assembly Language
5 2 (7.14%) JCL
5 2 (7.14%) REXX
6 1 (3.57%) C
6 1 (3.57%) JavaScript
6 1 (3.57%) Python
Qualifications
1 5 (17.86%) SC Cleared
1 5 (17.86%) Security Cleared
2 1 (3.57%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (3.57%) Degree
2 1 (3.57%) Master's Degree
2 1 (3.57%) MCSE
2 1 (3.57%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (7.14%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (3.57%) ISO 20022
2 1 (3.57%) ISO 8583
System Software
1 3 (10.71%) Hyper-V
1 3 (10.71%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (7.14%) ACF2
2 2 (7.14%) RACF
2 2 (7.14%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 7 (25.00%) Ansible
1 7 (25.00%) Grafana
2 1 (3.57%) Kibana
Vendors
1 7 (25.00%) Microsoft
1 7 (25.00%) Oracle
2 4 (14.29%) Atlassian
2 4 (14.29%) Commvault
3 3 (10.71%) Red Hat
3 3 (10.71%) VMware
4 2 (7.14%) BMC
4 2 (7.14%) Broadcom
4 2 (7.14%) IBM
5 1 (3.57%) ServiceNow
5 1 (3.57%) SolarWinds