Disaster Recovery Contracts

Disaster Recovery
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 15 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
15 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 190 257 279
Rank change year-on-year +67 +22 0
Contract jobs citing Disaster Recovery 508 591 874
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.19% 1.03% 1.00%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.38% 1.15% 1.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 384 431 566
10th Percentile £313 £363 £320
25th Percentile £398 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £505 £491
Median % change year-on-year -0.99% +2.90% +3.32%
75th Percentile £608 £588 £598
90th Percentile £700 £688 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £525 £475
% change year-on-year - +10.53% +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 7 19
10th Percentile £23.80 £16.85 £21.00
25th Percentile £38.15 £21.43 £28.59
Median hourly rate £61.60 £54.83 £55.45
Median % change year-on-year +12.35% -1.12% +94.56%
75th Percentile - £57.33 £68.28
90th Percentile £67.50 £58.40 £76.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £61.60 £40.42 £55.45
% change year-on-year +52.42% -27.11% +117.45%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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 requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 36,687 51,295 79,236
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.22% 89.83% 90.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,611 35,552 55,630
10th Percentile £300 £325 £343
25th Percentile £413 £438 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.16%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £476
% change year-on-year - +5.04% +8.51%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,428 1,693 1,906
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.77 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.13 £15.63
Median hourly rate £36.05 £36.00 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +0.13% +40.19% +4.82%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.52
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +7.14% +75.00% -6.98%

Disaster Recovery
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Disaster Recovery in the UK

Disaster Recovery
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Disaster Recovery in the UK

Disaster Recovery
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Disaster Recovery over the 6 months to 15 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Disaster Recovery in the UK

Disaster Recovery
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Disaster Recovery in the UK

Disaster Recovery
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Disaster Recovery over the 6 months to 15 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Disaster Recovery in the UK

Disaster Recovery
Top 15 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 15 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
England +62 446 £500 -4.76% 274
London +83 238 £494 -0.22% 103
UK excluding London +20 226 £525 - 184
Work from Home +64 182 £500 - 107
South East +62 79 £575 +4.55% 49
North of England +33 60 £534 +22.06% 55
North West +26 40 £540 +13.68% 32
South West -23 32 £550 -8.33% 14
Scotland +28 31 £475 -5.00% 10
Midlands +10 17 £400 - 33
Yorkshire +21 16 £465 +17.72% 17
West Midlands +9 11 £413 +3.13% 18
East of England +5 8 £442 -19.64% 19
East Midlands +4 6 £400 +6.67% 15
North East - 4 £475 - 6

Disaster Recovery
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 23 (4.53%) Microsoft Exchange
2 14 (2.76%) Confluence
3 13 (2.56%) IIS
3 13 (2.56%) SharePoint
4 12 (2.36%) OpenStack
5 7 (1.38%) Apache Spark
6 5 (0.98%) Apache
6 5 (0.98%) CICS
6 5 (0.98%) nginx
7 3 (0.59%) Oracle Self-Service HR
7 3 (0.59%) SAS
8 2 (0.39%) WebLogic
9 1 (0.20%) Cloud Foundry
9 1 (0.20%) Exchange Server 2007
9 1 (0.20%) Exchange Server 2010
9 1 (0.20%) OpenEdge
9 1 (0.20%) SharePoint Server
9 1 (0.20%) Skype for Business
9 1 (0.20%) Tomcat
9 1 (0.20%) WebSphere
Applications
1 22 (4.33%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (1.77%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.39%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 11 (2.17%) Teamcenter
2 10 (1.97%) Remedy ITSM
3 8 (1.57%) SAP S/4HANA
4 7 (1.38%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.20%) Dynamics GP
5 1 (0.20%) Dynamics NAV
5 1 (0.20%) MFGPRO
5 1 (0.20%) Payment Gateway
5 1 (0.20%) Sage 50
5 1 (0.20%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 137 (26.97%) Azure
2 86 (16.93%) AWS
3 50 (9.84%) GCP
4 41 (8.07%) PaaS
5 36 (7.09%) Serverless
6 26 (5.12%) Microsoft 365
7 21 (4.13%) SaaS
8 20 (3.94%) GitHub
8 20 (3.94%) OCI
9 19 (3.74%) Amazon S3
10 17 (3.35%) Cloud Computing
11 16 (3.15%) IaaS
12 14 (2.76%) Entra ID
13 13 (2.56%) Azure DevOps
14 12 (2.36%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 12 (2.36%) AWS Lambda
15 11 (2.17%) Nutanix
16 10 (1.97%) Azure Logic Apps
17 9 (1.77%) Amazon EC2
17 9 (1.77%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 84 (16.54%) Firewall
2 53 (10.43%) SAN
3 44 (8.66%) DNS
4 29 (5.71%) DHCP
5 27 (5.31%) WAN
6 24 (4.72%) LAN
7 18 (3.54%) Internet
8 17 (3.35%) Network Security
9 16 (3.15%) FTP
10 15 (2.95%) NAS
11 13 (2.56%) TCP/IP
12 12 (2.36%) VPN
12 12 (2.36%) Wireless
13 11 (2.17%) OSPF
14 9 (1.77%) BGP
15 8 (1.57%) Cisco ASA
16 7 (1.38%) Cisco Nexus
16 7 (1.38%) MPLS
16 7 (1.38%) Wi-Fi
17 6 (1.18%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 93 (18.31%) SQL Server
2 53 (10.43%) Oracle Database
3 51 (10.04%) PostgreSQL
4 39 (7.68%) MongoDB
5 24 (4.72%) Hadoop
6 20 (3.94%) Amazon RDS
7 17 (3.35%) NoSQL
8 15 (2.95%) Relational Database
9 13 (2.56%) MySQL
9 13 (2.56%) RDBMS
10 12 (2.36%) Oracle Reports
11 11 (2.17%) Azure SQL Database
12 10 (1.97%) OLTP
12 10 (1.97%) SAP HANA
13 9 (1.77%) Amazon Redshift
13 9 (1.77%) BigQuery
14 8 (1.57%) Big Data
14 8 (1.57%) Data Lake
14 8 (1.57%) DB2
14 8 (1.57%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 29 (5.71%) Git
2 26 (5.12%) Jenkins
3 16 (3.15%) JIRA
4 10 (1.97%) GitLab
5 7 (1.38%) Artifactory
5 7 (1.38%) Subversion
6 6 (1.18%) TeamCity
7 4 (0.79%) Sonatype Nexus
8 2 (0.39%) Gatling
8 2 (0.39%) Visual Studio
9 1 (0.20%) Bitbucket
9 1 (0.20%) Hudson
9 1 (0.20%) Katalon Studio
9 1 (0.20%) Octopus Deploy
9 1 (0.20%) Oracle APEX
General
1 132 (25.98%) Social Skills
2 103 (20.28%) Finance
3 56 (11.02%) Public Sector
4 40 (7.87%) Analytical Skills
4 40 (7.87%) Banking
5 17 (3.35%) Telecoms
6 16 (3.15%) Organisational Skills
7 14 (2.76%) Presentation Skills
8 12 (2.36%) Marketing
9 11 (2.17%) Financial Institution
10 10 (1.97%) Documentation Skills
11 9 (1.77%) Manufacturing
11 9 (1.77%) Military
12 7 (1.38%) Electronics
13 6 (1.18%) Police
14 4 (0.79%) Billing
15 3 (0.59%) Advertising
15 3 (0.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 2 (0.39%) Legal
16 2 (0.39%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 78 (15.35%) Architect
2 63 (12.40%) DBA
3 53 (10.43%) Senior
4 44 (8.66%) Analyst
5 39 (7.68%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 39 (7.68%) SQL DBA
6 31 (6.10%) Administrator
7 26 (5.12%) Support Engineer
8 25 (4.92%) Lead
9 24 (4.72%) Consultant
9 24 (4.72%) Developer
10 23 (4.53%) Technical Architect
11 18 (3.54%) C# Developer
12 16 (3.15%) Implementation Specialist
12 16 (3.15%) Oracle Architect
12 16 (3.15%) Solutions Architect
13 14 (2.76%) Database Specialist
13 14 (2.76%) PostgreSQL DBA
14 13 (2.56%) Infrastructure Support
14 13 (2.56%) SQL Server DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (7.09%) .NET
2 32 (6.30%) Kafka
3 25 (4.92%) LDAP
4 16 (3.15%) .NET Framework
4 16 (3.15%) Middleware
5 13 (2.56%) JSON
6 12 (2.36%) XML
7 11 (2.17%) YAML
8 10 (1.97%) Elastic Stack
8 10 (1.97%) WinForms
8 10 (1.97%) WPF
9 9 (1.77%) SAP Basis
9 9 (1.77%) WCF
10 8 (1.57%) AWS CDK
10 8 (1.57%) REST
10 8 (1.57%) SAP Fiori
11 5 (0.98%) AWS SAM
11 5 (0.98%) GraphQL
11 5 (0.98%) LAPP Stack
11 5 (0.98%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 80 (15.75%) Replication
2 52 (10.24%) Data Centre
3 38 (7.48%) Clustering
4 29 (5.71%) Management Information System
5 17 (3.35%) Public Cloud
6 13 (2.56%) Blog
6 13 (2.56%) PKI
6 13 (2.56%) Video Conferencing
7 12 (2.36%) Self-Motivation
8 10 (1.97%) Linux Command Line
9 9 (1.77%) Cloud Native
9 9 (1.77%) Distributed Systems
9 9 (1.77%) Mainframe
10 7 (1.38%) Hybrid Cloud
11 6 (1.18%) CMDB
12 5 (0.98%) Data Protection Act
12 5 (0.98%) Security Posture
13 4 (0.79%) Client/Server
13 4 (0.79%) Onboarding
14 3 (0.59%) N-Tier
Operating Systems
1 153 (30.12%) Windows
2 120 (23.62%) Linux
3 70 (13.78%) Windows Server
4 39 (7.68%) Unix
5 32 (6.30%) Windows Server 2016
6 30 (5.91%) Windows Server 2012
7 22 (4.33%) Windows 10
8 17 (3.35%) Windows Server 2019
9 15 (2.95%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 15 (2.95%) Windows XP
10 14 (2.76%) Solaris
11 13 (2.56%) Oracle Linux
11 13 (2.56%) VMS
11 13 (2.56%) zOS
12 6 (1.18%) CentOS
12 6 (1.18%) Ubuntu
13 2 (0.39%) Windows 7
14 1 (0.20%) Android
14 1 (0.20%) HPUX
14 1 (0.20%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 139 (27.36%) High Availability
2 112 (22.05%) Business Continuity
3 108 (21.26%) Problem-Solving
4 98 (19.29%) ITIL
5 78 (15.35%) Migration
5 78 (15.35%) Performance Tuning
6 72 (14.17%) DevOps
7 68 (13.39%) Agile
8 62 (12.20%) Cybersecurity
9 61 (12.01%) Roadmaps
10 51 (10.04%) Capacity Management
11 48 (9.45%) Data Protection
12 47 (9.25%) Infrastructure as Code
13 46 (9.06%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 41 (8.07%) Project Management
15 39 (7.68%) Analytics
15 39 (7.68%) Computer Science
16 38 (7.48%) Business Strategy
16 38 (7.48%) Storage Management
17 35 (6.89%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 112 (22.05%) SQL
2 80 (15.75%) PowerShell
3 68 (13.39%) Python
4 42 (8.27%) Bash
5 34 (6.69%) C#
6 30 (5.91%) PL/SQL
7 26 (5.12%) T-SQL
8 18 (3.54%) Java
9 16 (3.15%) VB
9 16 (3.15%) VBA
10 12 (2.36%) Go
11 9 (1.77%) Bicep
11 9 (1.77%) JavaScript
12 8 (1.57%) TypeScript
13 7 (1.38%) C++
13 7 (1.38%) REXX
13 7 (1.38%) VB.NET
14 6 (1.18%) Shell Script
15 5 (0.98%) COBOL
15 5 (0.98%) Perl
Qualifications
1 103 (20.28%) Security Cleared
2 82 (16.14%) SC Cleared
3 76 (14.96%) Degree
4 25 (4.92%) DV Cleared
5 22 (4.33%) Microsoft Certification
6 21 (4.13%) Cisco Certification
6 21 (4.13%) Computer Science Degree
7 20 (3.94%) CCNP
8 17 (3.35%) CCNA
9 13 (2.56%) MCSE
10 8 (1.57%) MCITP
10 8 (1.57%) MCTS
11 7 (1.38%) CISSP
12 5 (0.98%) CISM
12 5 (0.98%) CTC Cleared
12 5 (0.98%) SAP Certification
13 4 (0.79%) AWS Certification
13 4 (0.79%) Azure Certification
14 3 (0.59%) BPSS Clearance
14 3 (0.59%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (5.51%) NIST
2 23 (4.53%) SLA
3 19 (3.74%) QA
4 16 (3.15%) GDPR
5 13 (2.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 10 (1.97%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 7 (1.38%) Cyber Essentials
8 6 (1.18%) GRC
9 5 (0.98%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
10 4 (0.79%) Data Quality
11 3 (0.59%) COBIT
11 3 (0.59%) IASME
11 3 (0.59%) ISO 22301
11 3 (0.59%) PCI DSS
12 2 (0.39%) Accessibility
12 2 (0.39%) Disclosure Scotland
13 1 (0.20%) IFRS
13 1 (0.20%) ISO 20022
13 1 (0.20%) ISO 8583
13 1 (0.20%) NCSC
System Software
1 103 (20.28%) Active Directory
2 68 (13.39%) VMware Infrastructure
3 27 (5.31%) Virtual Machines
4 25 (4.92%) Hyper-V
5 20 (3.94%) Docker
6 19 (3.74%) VMware ESXi
7 17 (3.35%) HDFS
7 17 (3.35%) NFS
8 14 (2.76%) vSphere
9 9 (1.77%) Firmware
10 8 (1.57%) KVM
11 5 (0.98%) vCloud
12 4 (0.79%) Virtual Servers
12 4 (0.79%) VMware NSX
13 3 (0.59%) Microsoft Virtual Server
13 3 (0.59%) Virtual Desktop
14 2 (0.39%) ACF2
14 2 (0.39%) Microsoft App-V
14 2 (0.39%) RACF
14 2 (0.39%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 63 (12.40%) Terraform
2 51 (10.04%) Ansible
3 40 (7.87%) SCCM
4 33 (6.50%) Kubernetes
5 24 (4.72%) NetBackup
6 20 (3.94%) EMC NetWorker
6 20 (3.94%) Grafana
6 20 (3.94%) SCOM
7 19 (3.74%) vCenter Server
8 17 (3.35%) WSUS
9 10 (1.97%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 9 (1.77%) Prometheus
11 8 (1.57%) ITRS Geneos
11 8 (1.57%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
12 7 (1.38%) BladeLogic
12 7 (1.38%) Single Sign-On
12 7 (1.38%) Tivoli Storage Manager
13 6 (1.18%) Netcool
13 6 (1.18%) Tivoli
13 6 (1.18%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 115 (22.64%) Microsoft
2 112 (22.05%) Oracle
3 79 (15.55%) VMware
4 54 (10.63%) Citrix
5 52 (10.24%) Cisco
6 42 (8.27%) Dell
7 39 (7.68%) EMC
8 38 (7.48%) HP
9 29 (5.71%) SAP
10 27 (5.31%) Palo Alto
11 25 (4.92%) CheckPoint
12 23 (4.53%) Isilon
12 23 (4.53%) Red Hat
13 21 (4.13%) ServiceNow
14 20 (3.94%) SolarWinds
15 18 (3.54%) Juniper
16 16 (3.15%) F5
16 16 (3.15%) Splunk
16 16 (3.15%) Veeam
17 15 (2.95%) 3PAR