Disaster Recovery Contracts in England

Disaster Recovery
UK > England

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

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 187 259 280
Rank change year-on-year +72 +21 +19
Contract jobs citing Disaster Recovery 460 487 698
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 1.25% 1.02% 0.99%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.45% 1.13% 1.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 351 353 458
10th Percentile £300 £363 £325
25th Percentile £383 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £608 £623 £600
90th Percentile £700 £690 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 6 11
10th Percentile £23.80 £16.85 £20.00
25th Percentile £25.35 £19.14 £33.51
Median hourly rate £61.60 £40.42 £55.45
Median % change year-on-year +52.42% -27.11% +83.31%
75th Percentile - £57.02 £67.50
90th Percentile £65.73 £57.33 £70.00
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
England

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 England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 31,636 42,957 64,216
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.67% 89.97% 90.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,638 30,177 45,793
10th Percentile £300 £325 £338
25th Percentile £413 £444 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £545
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +0.92% +9.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £769 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,325 1,518 1,713
10th Percentile £12.85 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.66 £15.25
Median hourly rate £37.50 £37.15 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +0.94% +48.60% +11.11%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £49.41
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.50 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year +1.39% +40.19% +9.70%

Disaster Recovery
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Disaster Recovery in England

Disaster Recovery
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Disaster Recovery in England

Disaster Recovery
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Disaster Recovery in England over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Disaster Recovery in England

Disaster Recovery
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Disaster Recovery in England

Disaster Recovery
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Disaster Recovery in England over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Disaster Recovery in England

Disaster Recovery
Contract Job Locations in England

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 England region over the 6 months to 2 June 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
London +69 238 £475 -5.00% 100
South East +55 84 £575 +4.55% 50
North of England +42 59 £534 +35.19% 60
North West +21 38 £550 +27.17% 33
South West -20 33 £550 -8.33% 20
Midlands +6 20 £400 - 34
Yorkshire +25 17 £445 +12.66% 19
East of England +11 17 £420 -23.64% 28
West Midlands +8 14 £425 +6.25% 20
East Midlands -1 6 £400 +6.67% 14
North East - 4 £475 - 9
Disaster Recovery
UK

Disaster Recovery
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 24 (5.22%) Microsoft Exchange
2 17 (3.70%) SharePoint
3 16 (3.48%) IIS
4 8 (1.74%) Apache Spark
4 8 (1.74%) Confluence
5 7 (1.52%) OpenStack
6 3 (0.65%) CICS
6 3 (0.65%) Oracle Self-Service HR
7 1 (0.22%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.22%) Exchange Server 2007
7 1 (0.22%) Exchange Server 2010
7 1 (0.22%) OpenEdge
7 1 (0.22%) Skype for Business
7 1 (0.22%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.22%) WebLogic
7 1 (0.22%) WebSphere
Applications
1 23 (5.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (1.96%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.43%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 10 (2.17%) Remedy ITSM
2 9 (1.96%) SAP S/4HANA
3 7 (1.52%) Oracle EBS
3 7 (1.52%) Teamcenter
4 1 (0.22%) Dynamics GP
4 1 (0.22%) MFGPRO
4 1 (0.22%) Sage 50
4 1 (0.22%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 128 (27.83%) Azure
2 69 (15.00%) AWS
3 47 (10.22%) GCP
4 31 (6.74%) Microsoft 365
5 29 (6.30%) PaaS
6 23 (5.00%) Serverless
7 20 (4.35%) GitHub
7 20 (4.35%) SaaS
8 19 (4.13%) OCI
9 17 (3.70%) Cloud Computing
9 17 (3.70%) Entra ID
10 14 (3.04%) Azure DevOps
11 13 (2.83%) Amazon S3
12 12 (2.61%) IaaS
12 12 (2.61%) Power Platform
13 11 (2.39%) Nutanix
14 10 (2.17%) Azure Logic Apps
15 9 (1.96%) Azure API Management
15 9 (1.96%) Rubrik
16 8 (1.74%) Azure Key Vault
Communications & Networking
1 83 (18.04%) Firewall
2 56 (12.17%) SAN
3 43 (9.35%) DNS
4 30 (6.52%) DHCP
5 25 (5.43%) WAN
6 23 (5.00%) LAN
7 22 (4.78%) Internet
8 16 (3.48%) Network Security
9 15 (3.26%) NAS
9 15 (3.26%) VPN
10 14 (3.04%) TCP/IP
11 13 (2.83%) FTP
12 12 (2.61%) Wireless
13 10 (2.17%) OSPF
14 8 (1.74%) BGP
14 8 (1.74%) Extranet
15 7 (1.52%) Cisco ASA
15 7 (1.52%) MPLS
15 7 (1.52%) Wi-Fi
16 6 (1.30%) EIGRP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 76 (16.52%) SQL Server
2 48 (10.43%) Oracle Database
3 29 (6.30%) PostgreSQL
4 22 (4.78%) MongoDB
5 21 (4.57%) Hadoop
6 13 (2.83%) Amazon RDS
6 13 (2.83%) MySQL
7 11 (2.39%) BigQuery
7 11 (2.39%) SAP HANA
8 10 (2.17%) Amazon Redshift
8 10 (2.17%) Azure SQL Database
9 9 (1.96%) Data Lake
9 9 (1.96%) Relational Database
10 8 (1.74%) Amazon Athena
10 8 (1.74%) Big Data
10 8 (1.74%) Elasticsearch
10 8 (1.74%) OLTP
10 8 (1.74%) Oracle Reports
10 8 (1.74%) Power BI
10 8 (1.74%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 23 (5.00%) Git
1 23 (5.00%) Jenkins
2 10 (2.17%) GitLab
3 9 (1.96%) JIRA
4 7 (1.52%) Artifactory
4 7 (1.52%) Subversion
5 5 (1.09%) TeamCity
6 4 (0.87%) Sonatype Nexus
7 2 (0.43%) Gatling
7 2 (0.43%) Visual Studio
8 1 (0.22%) Hudson
8 1 (0.22%) Katalon Studio
8 1 (0.22%) LoadRunner
8 1 (0.22%) Octopus Deploy
8 1 (0.22%) Oracle APEX
8 1 (0.22%) Postman
8 1 (0.22%) SoapUI
General
1 112 (24.35%) Social Skills
2 98 (21.30%) Finance
3 43 (9.35%) Public Sector
4 39 (8.48%) Analytical Skills
5 35 (7.61%) Banking
6 16 (3.48%) Telecoms
7 12 (2.61%) Marketing
8 11 (2.39%) Financial Institution
9 10 (2.17%) Documentation Skills
9 10 (2.17%) Manufacturing
10 9 (1.96%) Military
11 8 (1.74%) Organisational Skills
12 7 (1.52%) Electronics
12 7 (1.52%) Presentation Skills
13 6 (1.30%) Police
14 4 (0.87%) Billing
15 3 (0.65%) French Language
15 3 (0.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 3 (0.65%) Investment Banking
16 2 (0.43%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 70 (15.22%) Architect
2 46 (10.00%) Analyst
3 40 (8.70%) DBA
4 37 (8.04%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 36 (7.83%) Senior
6 29 (6.30%) Support Engineer
7 27 (5.87%) Developer
8 23 (5.00%) Administrator
8 23 (5.00%) SQL DBA
9 22 (4.78%) Lead
10 20 (4.35%) Consultant
10 20 (4.35%) Technical Architect
11 19 (4.13%) C# Developer
12 14 (3.04%) Database Specialist
13 13 (2.83%) Cybersecurity Analyst
13 13 (2.83%) Implementation Specialist
13 13 (2.83%) Infrastructure Support
13 13 (2.83%) Network Engineer
13 13 (2.83%) Solutions Architect
14 12 (2.61%) Server Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (7.39%) .NET
2 27 (5.87%) Kafka
3 20 (4.35%) LDAP
4 17 (3.70%) .NET Framework
5 16 (3.48%) Middleware
6 12 (2.61%) WinForms
6 12 (2.61%) WPF
7 11 (2.39%) REST
7 11 (2.39%) WCF
7 11 (2.39%) YAML
8 10 (2.17%) SAP Basis
9 9 (1.96%) SAP Fiori
10 8 (1.74%) JSON
11 7 (1.52%) SAML
11 7 (1.52%) XML
12 6 (1.30%) OpenID
12 6 (1.30%) SOAP
13 5 (1.09%) .NET Core
13 5 (1.09%) GraphQL
13 5 (1.09%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 63 (13.70%) Replication
2 47 (10.22%) Data Centre
3 33 (7.17%) Clustering
4 26 (5.65%) Management Information System
5 15 (3.26%) PKI
6 12 (2.61%) Public Cloud
6 12 (2.61%) Video Conferencing
7 11 (2.39%) Self-Motivation
8 10 (2.17%) Linux Command Line
9 9 (1.96%) Blog
10 7 (1.52%) Distributed Systems
10 7 (1.52%) Hybrid Cloud
11 6 (1.30%) Cloud Native
11 6 (1.30%) CMDB
12 5 (1.09%) Data Protection Act
12 5 (1.09%) Mainframe
12 5 (1.09%) Onboarding
12 5 (1.09%) Security Posture
13 4 (0.87%) Fat Client
13 4 (0.87%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 148 (32.17%) Windows
2 106 (23.04%) Linux
3 69 (15.00%) Windows Server
4 36 (7.83%) Unix
5 33 (7.17%) Windows Server 2016
6 30 (6.52%) Windows Server 2012
7 24 (5.22%) Windows 10
8 17 (3.70%) Windows Server 2019
9 15 (3.26%) Windows XP
10 13 (2.83%) Solaris
11 12 (2.61%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 11 (2.39%) Oracle Linux
13 10 (2.17%) zOS
14 8 (1.74%) VMS
15 2 (0.43%) Windows 7
16 1 (0.22%) Android
16 1 (0.22%) HPUX
16 1 (0.22%) Mac OS
16 1 (0.22%) Ubuntu
16 1 (0.22%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 115 (25.00%) High Availability
2 104 (22.61%) Business Continuity
3 99 (21.52%) Problem-Solving
4 97 (21.09%) ITIL
5 73 (15.87%) Performance Tuning
6 71 (15.43%) Cybersecurity
7 70 (15.22%) Migration
8 62 (13.48%) DevOps
9 57 (12.39%) Agile
10 49 (10.65%) Roadmaps
11 46 (10.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 43 (9.35%) Capacity Management
13 42 (9.13%) Project Management
14 41 (8.91%) Data Protection
15 40 (8.70%) Analytics
16 38 (8.26%) Infrastructure as Code
17 37 (8.04%) Business Strategy
17 37 (8.04%) Computer Science
18 36 (7.83%) Storage Management
19 33 (7.17%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 88 (19.13%) SQL
2 73 (15.87%) PowerShell
3 63 (13.70%) Python
4 36 (7.83%) Bash
5 35 (7.61%) C#
6 27 (5.87%) PL/SQL
7 21 (4.57%) T-SQL
8 18 (3.91%) Java
9 17 (3.70%) VB
9 17 (3.70%) VBA
10 10 (2.17%) JavaScript
11 9 (1.96%) Bicep
12 8 (1.74%) Go
13 7 (1.52%) C++
14 6 (1.30%) VB.NET
15 5 (1.09%) Perl
15 5 (1.09%) Shell Script
16 3 (0.65%) COBOL
16 3 (0.65%) REXX
17 2 (0.43%) AWK
Qualifications
1 95 (20.65%) Security Cleared
2 73 (15.87%) Degree
3 72 (15.65%) SC Cleared
4 25 (5.43%) DV Cleared
5 20 (4.35%) Cisco Certification
5 20 (4.35%) Computer Science Degree
5 20 (4.35%) Microsoft Certification
6 19 (4.13%) CCNP
7 17 (3.70%) CCNA
8 11 (2.39%) MCSE
9 8 (1.74%) MCITP
9 8 (1.74%) MCTS
10 5 (1.09%) CTC Cleared
10 5 (1.09%) SAP Certification
11 4 (0.87%) AWS Certification
11 4 (0.87%) Azure Certification
11 4 (0.87%) CISSP
11 4 (0.87%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 3 (0.65%) BPSS Clearance
12 3 (0.65%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (5.22%) NIST
1 24 (5.22%) SLA
2 20 (4.35%) QA
3 12 (2.61%) GDPR
4 8 (1.74%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 7 (1.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 6 (1.30%) Cyber Essentials
7 5 (1.09%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
8 4 (0.87%) Data Quality
8 4 (0.87%) GRC
9 3 (0.65%) IASME
10 2 (0.43%) Accessibility
10 2 (0.43%) ISO 22301
10 2 (0.43%) PCI DSS
11 1 (0.22%) COBIT
11 1 (0.22%) IFRS
11 1 (0.22%) IFRS 17
System Software
1 102 (22.17%) Active Directory
2 68 (14.78%) VMware Infrastructure
3 25 (5.43%) Hyper-V
4 23 (5.00%) Virtual Machines
5 19 (4.13%) VMware ESXi
6 17 (3.70%) Docker
7 16 (3.48%) vSphere
8 13 (2.83%) HDFS
8 13 (2.83%) NFS
9 9 (1.96%) Firmware
10 8 (1.74%) KVM
11 6 (1.30%) Virtual Servers
12 5 (1.09%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 5 (1.09%) vCloud
13 3 (0.65%) BitLocker
13 3 (0.65%) Microsoft App-V
13 3 (0.65%) Virtual Desktop
13 3 (0.65%) VMware NSX
14 2 (0.43%) XenApp
15 1 (0.22%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 55 (11.96%) Terraform
2 41 (8.91%) SCCM
3 38 (8.26%) Ansible
4 30 (6.52%) Kubernetes
5 25 (5.43%) NetBackup
6 21 (4.57%) SCOM
7 20 (4.35%) vCenter Server
8 19 (4.13%) EMC NetWorker
9 17 (3.70%) WSUS
10 11 (2.39%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 9 (1.96%) Single Sign-On
12 8 (1.74%) Grafana
12 8 (1.74%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
13 7 (1.52%) BladeLogic
13 7 (1.52%) ITRS Geneos
14 6 (1.30%) Microsoft Intune
14 6 (1.30%) Tivoli Storage Manager
15 5 (1.09%) Netcool
15 5 (1.09%) Tivoli
16 4 (0.87%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 112 (24.35%) Microsoft
2 99 (21.52%) Oracle
3 78 (16.96%) VMware
4 59 (12.83%) Cisco
5 56 (12.17%) Citrix
6 40 (8.70%) EMC
7 39 (8.48%) Dell
8 38 (8.26%) HP
9 31 (6.74%) Palo Alto
10 25 (5.43%) CheckPoint
10 25 (5.43%) SAP
11 20 (4.35%) SolarWinds
12 19 (4.13%) Isilon
12 19 (4.13%) Juniper
12 19 (4.13%) Red Hat
13 17 (3.70%) F5
13 17 (3.70%) Google
13 17 (3.70%) ServiceNow
14 16 (3.48%) Veeam
15 15 (3.26%) Avaya