Disaster Recovery Contracts with Work from Home Options

Disaster Recovery
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 11 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 180 217 311
Rank change year-on-year +37 +94 -19
Contract jobs citing Disaster Recovery 176 257 364
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 1.19% 1.08% 0.83%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.37% 1.20% 0.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 127 201 259
10th Percentile £344 £385 £340
25th Percentile £403 £400 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £494 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.20% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £555 £558 £588
90th Percentile £693 £683 £675
UK median daily rate £497 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -0.60% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 6
10th Percentile £29.09 - £41.25
25th Percentile £41.62 - £62.50
Median hourly rate £65.00 £60.00 £65.50
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -8.40% +191.11%
75th Percentile £71.25 - £67.50
90th Percentile £73.50 - £83.75
UK median hourly rate £61.60 £54.83 £60.63
% change year-on-year +12.35% -9.56% +137.75%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 12,892 21,388 39,955
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 87.30% 89.62% 91.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,688 15,183 29,114
10th Percentile £325 £363 £363
25th Percentile £425 £450 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +5.42%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 574 493 516
10th Percentile £14.91 £18.49 £14.94
25th Percentile £23.81 £25.75 £20.75
Median hourly rate £42.75 £52.50 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -18.57% +31.25% +66.67%
75th Percentile £60.00 £67.50 £59.25
90th Percentile £74.35 £78.60 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £35.02 £25.68
% change year-on-year +4.24% +36.35% +11.65%

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 11 June 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 11 June 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 10 (5.68%) Confluence
2 8 (4.55%) Microsoft Exchange
3 7 (3.98%) SharePoint
4 6 (3.41%) OpenStack
5 3 (1.70%) Apache Spark
5 3 (1.70%) Oracle Self-Service HR
6 2 (1.14%) CICS
7 1 (0.57%) IIS
7 1 (0.57%) OpenEdge
7 1 (0.57%) SAS
7 1 (0.57%) WebLogic
Applications
1 3 (1.70%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.14%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.57%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.57%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 7 (3.98%) Teamcenter
2 6 (3.41%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.57%) MFGPRO
3 1 (0.57%) Sage 50
Cloud Services
1 43 (24.43%) Azure
2 36 (20.45%) AWS
3 25 (14.20%) Serverless
4 16 (9.09%) PaaS
5 15 (8.52%) GCP
5 15 (8.52%) SaaS
6 12 (6.82%) Amazon S3
7 11 (6.25%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 11 (6.25%) AWS Lambda
7 11 (6.25%) Power Platform
8 10 (5.68%) Azure DevOps
9 9 (5.11%) Amazon EC2
9 9 (5.11%) Cloud Computing
10 8 (4.55%) AWS CloudFormation
11 7 (3.98%) Amazon OpenSearch
11 7 (3.98%) Azure Data Factory
11 7 (3.98%) Azure Logic Apps
11 7 (3.98%) Entra ID
11 7 (3.98%) IaaS
11 7 (3.98%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 20 (11.36%) Firewall
2 14 (7.95%) SAN
3 7 (3.98%) DNS
3 7 (3.98%) FTP
4 6 (3.41%) DHCP
4 6 (3.41%) WAN
5 5 (2.84%) Kerberos
5 5 (2.84%) NAS
5 5 (2.84%) TCP/IP
5 5 (2.84%) VLAN
6 4 (2.27%) SD-WAN
7 3 (1.70%) LAN
7 3 (1.70%) SSH
8 2 (1.14%) BGP
8 2 (1.14%) Cisco ASA
8 2 (1.14%) Cisco Nexus
8 2 (1.14%) OSPF
8 2 (1.14%) VPN
8 2 (1.14%) Wi-Fi
9 1 (0.57%) Fibre Channel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (20.45%) SQL Server
2 20 (11.36%) MongoDB
2 20 (11.36%) PostgreSQL
3 14 (7.95%) Amazon RDS
4 10 (5.68%) Hadoop
4 10 (5.68%) Oracle Database
5 8 (4.55%) Relational Database
6 7 (3.98%) Informix
6 7 (3.98%) MySQL
6 7 (3.98%) NoSQL
6 7 (3.98%) Oracle Reports
6 7 (3.98%) RDBMS
7 6 (3.41%) Azure SQL Database
7 6 (3.41%) Elasticsearch
8 5 (2.84%) OLTP
8 5 (2.84%) Power BI
9 4 (2.27%) Amazon Redshift
10 3 (1.70%) Big Data
10 3 (1.70%) BigQuery
10 3 (1.70%) InfluxDB
Development Applications
1 14 (7.95%) Git
1 14 (7.95%) Jenkins
2 10 (5.68%) JIRA
3 5 (2.84%) TeamCity
4 4 (2.27%) Artifactory
4 4 (2.27%) Subversion
5 2 (1.14%) Sonatype Nexus
5 2 (1.14%) Visual Studio
6 1 (0.57%) LoadRunner
6 1 (0.57%) Postman
6 1 (0.57%) SoapUI
General
1 45 (25.57%) Finance
2 44 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 22 (12.50%) Public Sector
4 20 (11.36%) Banking
5 15 (8.52%) Analytical Skills
6 12 (6.82%) Organisational Skills
7 9 (5.11%) Presentation Skills
8 6 (3.41%) Police
8 6 (3.41%) Telecoms
9 4 (2.27%) Documentation Skills
9 4 (2.27%) Marketing
10 3 (1.70%) Manufacturing
11 2 (1.14%) Electronics
12 1 (0.57%) Automotive
12 1 (0.57%) Financial Institution
12 1 (0.57%) Fire and Rescue
12 1 (0.57%) Retail
Job Titles
1 33 (18.75%) DBA
2 25 (14.20%) Architect
3 22 (12.50%) Senior
4 19 (10.80%) SQL DBA
5 11 (6.25%) Administrator
6 10 (5.68%) Analyst
6 10 (5.68%) Developer
7 9 (5.11%) Lead
8 8 (4.55%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 8 (4.55%) Solutions Architect
8 8 (4.55%) Support Engineer
9 7 (3.98%) AWS Engineer
9 7 (3.98%) Data Engineer
9 7 (3.98%) Implementation Specialist
9 7 (3.98%) Oracle Architect
9 7 (3.98%) PostgreSQL DBA
9 7 (3.98%) Senior DBA
9 7 (3.98%) Senior SQL DBA
9 7 (3.98%) SQL Server DBA
10 6 (3.41%) Network Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (8.52%) Kafka
2 13 (7.39%) LDAP
3 9 (5.11%) .NET
3 9 (5.11%) REST
4 8 (4.55%) AWS CDK
5 7 (3.98%) JSON
5 7 (3.98%) Middleware
5 7 (3.98%) XML
6 6 (3.41%) CSS
6 6 (3.41%) HTML
6 6 (3.41%) HTML5 Canvas
7 5 (2.84%) SAML
8 4 (2.27%) ARM Templates
8 4 (2.27%) AWS SAM
8 4 (2.27%) SOAP
8 4 (2.27%) YAML
9 3 (1.70%) .NET Core
9 3 (1.70%) GraphQL
9 3 (1.70%) OpenID
9 3 (1.70%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 38 (21.59%) Replication
2 17 (9.66%) Data Centre
3 16 (9.09%) Clustering
4 10 (5.68%) Management Information System
5 8 (4.55%) Video Conferencing
6 7 (3.98%) Blog
6 7 (3.98%) Self-Motivation
7 6 (3.41%) Cloud Native
7 6 (3.41%) Hybrid Cloud
8 3 (1.70%) CMDB
8 3 (1.70%) Distributed Systems
8 3 (1.70%) Onboarding
9 2 (1.14%) Client/Server
9 2 (1.14%) Cyber Threat
9 2 (1.14%) Equities
9 2 (1.14%) Mainframe
10 1 (0.57%) Cyberattack
10 1 (0.57%) N-Tier
10 1 (0.57%) Public Cloud
10 1 (0.57%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 60 (34.09%) Windows
2 46 (26.14%) Linux
3 26 (14.77%) Windows Server
4 17 (9.66%) Unix
5 12 (6.82%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 10 (5.68%) Windows Server 2016
7 9 (5.11%) Windows Server 2012
8 5 (2.84%) Oracle Linux
8 5 (2.84%) Solaris
9 4 (2.27%) Windows 10
9 4 (2.27%) zOS
10 1 (0.57%) AIX
10 1 (0.57%) CentOS
10 1 (0.57%) HPUX
10 1 (0.57%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 58 (32.95%) High Availability
2 38 (21.59%) Agile
2 38 (21.59%) DevOps
3 37 (21.02%) Migration
4 34 (19.32%) Business Continuity
5 31 (17.61%) ITIL
6 29 (16.48%) Problem-Solving
7 27 (15.34%) Infrastructure as Code
8 24 (13.64%) Performance Tuning
8 24 (13.64%) Roadmaps
9 22 (12.50%) Cybersecurity
10 18 (10.23%) Analytics
11 17 (9.66%) Capacity Management
11 17 (9.66%) Service Management
12 15 (8.52%) Time Management
13 14 (7.95%) Continuous Improvement
14 13 (7.39%) Capacity Planning
14 13 (7.39%) Decision-Making
15 12 (6.82%) Business Strategy
15 12 (6.82%) ITSM
Programming Languages
1 44 (25.00%) SQL
2 29 (16.48%) Python
3 27 (15.34%) PowerShell
4 14 (7.95%) Bash
5 10 (5.68%) JavaScript
6 9 (5.11%) PL/SQL
7 8 (4.55%) C#
7 8 (4.55%) TypeScript
8 7 (3.98%) Java
9 6 (3.41%) Bicep
10 4 (2.27%) C++
10 4 (2.27%) T-SQL
11 3 (1.70%) Go
12 2 (1.14%) COBOL
12 2 (1.14%) Perl
12 2 (1.14%) REXX
13 1 (0.57%) VB
13 1 (0.57%) VB.NET
13 1 (0.57%) VBA
Qualifications
1 30 (17.05%) Security Cleared
2 21 (11.93%) SC Cleared
3 15 (8.52%) Degree
4 8 (4.55%) Microsoft Certification
5 5 (2.84%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (2.84%) CTC Cleared
5 5 (2.84%) MCSE
6 3 (1.70%) AWS Certification
6 3 (1.70%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (1.70%) MCITP
6 3 (1.70%) MCTS
6 3 (1.70%) SAP Certification
7 1 (0.57%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (0.57%) Network+ Certification
7 1 (0.57%) OCP
7 1 (0.57%) Oracle Certification
7 1 (0.57%) PMP
7 1 (0.57%) PRINCE2 Certification
7 1 (0.57%) VERITAS Certified Professional (VCP)
7 1 (0.57%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (4.55%) SLA
2 7 (3.98%) GDPR
2 7 (3.98%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 3 (1.70%) Data Quality
3 3 (1.70%) NIST
4 2 (1.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (1.14%) QA
5 1 (0.57%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.57%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.57%) Disclosure Scotland
5 1 (0.57%) IASME
5 1 (0.57%) IFRS
5 1 (0.57%) IFRS 17
5 1 (0.57%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 42 (23.86%) Active Directory
2 12 (6.82%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (4.55%) Docker
4 7 (3.98%) HDFS
4 7 (3.98%) NFS
5 6 (3.41%) Firmware
5 6 (3.41%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.57%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.57%) Oracle RAC
6 1 (0.57%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.57%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 23 (13.07%) Ansible
2 19 (10.80%) Terraform
3 17 (9.66%) SCCM
4 11 (6.25%) Grafana
4 11 (6.25%) Kubernetes
5 6 (3.41%) Single Sign-On
6 5 (2.84%) EMC NetWorker
6 5 (2.84%) Netcool
6 5 (2.84%) Tivoli
6 5 (2.84%) Tivoli Storage Manager
7 4 (2.27%) BladeLogic
7 4 (2.27%) ITRS Geneos
8 3 (1.70%) Microsoft Clustering
9 2 (1.14%) Data Guard
9 2 (1.14%) Galera Cluster
9 2 (1.14%) Puppet
9 2 (1.14%) vCenter Server
10 1 (0.57%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.57%) Prometheus
10 1 (0.57%) WSUS
Vendors
1 39 (22.16%) Microsoft
2 32 (18.18%) Oracle
3 18 (10.23%) VMware
4 17 (9.66%) Citrix
5 16 (9.09%) Cisco
5 16 (9.09%) ServiceNow
6 14 (7.95%) Dell
6 14 (7.95%) EMC
6 14 (7.95%) HP
7 12 (6.82%) Isilon
8 11 (6.25%) CheckPoint
8 11 (6.25%) Qualys
9 9 (5.11%) SAP
9 9 (5.11%) Splunk
10 8 (4.55%) Avaya
10 8 (4.55%) CyberArk
10 8 (4.55%) IBM
11 6 (3.41%) Google
11 6 (3.41%) Red Hat
11 6 (3.41%) Remedy