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 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 192 253 282
Rank change year-on-year +61 +29 0
Contract jobs citing Disaster Recovery 504 596 863
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.18% 1.04% 0.98%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.38% 1.16% 1.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 381 438 561
10th Percentile £313 £363 £320
25th Percentile £390 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £523 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.31% +4.50% +5.26%
75th Percentile £608 £600 £600
90th Percentile £700 £688 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £523 £525 £478
% change year-on-year -0.48% +9.95% +6.70%
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% +94.56%

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 36,622 51,397 80,021
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.09% 89.76% 90.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,613 35,611 56,174
10th Percentile £300 £325 £344
25th Percentile £413 £439 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +7.07%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £480
% change year-on-year - +4.17% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,439 1,690 1,913
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.77 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +1.39% +40.19% +7.00%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.00 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +8.57% +75.00% -6.54%

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 20 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 20 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 20 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 +67 446 £500 -4.76% 292
London +75 236 £494 -1.22% 112
UK excluding London +18 225 £523 -0.48% 198
Work from Home +55 179 £500 - 114
South East +64 80 £575 +4.55% 57
North of England +44 60 £534 +35.19% 58
North West +25 40 £540 +24.86% 30
South West -31 32 £550 -8.33% 17
Scotland +20 28 £475 -5.00% 12
Midlands -3 18 £400 - 33
Yorkshire +20 16 £465 +17.72% 20
West Midlands +13 12 £425 +6.25% 17
East of England +4 8 £442 -19.64% 18
East Midlands +5 6 £400 +6.67% 16
North East - 4 £475 - 8

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 (4.56%) Microsoft Exchange
2 14 (2.78%) IIS
2 14 (2.78%) SharePoint
3 13 (2.58%) Confluence
4 12 (2.38%) OpenStack
5 7 (1.39%) Apache Spark
6 5 (0.99%) Apache
6 5 (0.99%) CICS
6 5 (0.99%) nginx
7 3 (0.60%) Oracle Self-Service HR
7 3 (0.60%) SAS
8 2 (0.40%) WebLogic
9 1 (0.20%) Apache Airflow
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 (4.37%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (1.98%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.40%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 11 (2.18%) Teamcenter
2 10 (1.98%) Remedy ITSM
3 8 (1.59%) SAP S/4HANA
4 7 (1.39%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.20%) Dynamics GP
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
1 135 (26.79%) Azure
2 83 (16.47%) AWS
3 49 (9.72%) GCP
4 41 (8.13%) PaaS
5 36 (7.14%) Serverless
6 27 (5.36%) Microsoft 365
7 21 (4.17%) SaaS
8 20 (3.97%) GitHub
8 20 (3.97%) OCI
9 19 (3.77%) Amazon S3
10 17 (3.37%) Cloud Computing
11 16 (3.17%) IaaS
12 14 (2.78%) Azure DevOps
12 14 (2.78%) Entra ID
13 12 (2.38%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 12 (2.38%) AWS Lambda
14 11 (2.18%) Nutanix
15 10 (1.98%) Azure Logic Apps
16 9 (1.79%) Amazon EC2
16 9 (1.79%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 81 (16.07%) Firewall
2 53 (10.52%) SAN
3 44 (8.73%) DNS
4 29 (5.75%) DHCP
5 26 (5.16%) WAN
6 23 (4.56%) LAN
7 19 (3.77%) Internet
8 16 (3.17%) FTP
8 16 (3.17%) Network Security
9 15 (2.98%) NAS
10 13 (2.58%) TCP/IP
11 11 (2.18%) VPN
11 11 (2.18%) Wireless
12 10 (1.98%) OSPF
13 8 (1.59%) BGP
14 7 (1.39%) Cisco ASA
14 7 (1.39%) MPLS
15 6 (1.19%) EIGRP
15 6 (1.19%) VLAN
15 6 (1.19%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 89 (17.66%) SQL Server
2 53 (10.52%) Oracle Database
3 50 (9.92%) PostgreSQL
4 38 (7.54%) MongoDB
5 23 (4.56%) Hadoop
6 20 (3.97%) Amazon RDS
7 17 (3.37%) NoSQL
8 14 (2.78%) Relational Database
9 13 (2.58%) MySQL
9 13 (2.58%) RDBMS
10 12 (2.38%) Oracle Reports
11 11 (2.18%) Azure SQL Database
12 10 (1.98%) OLTP
12 10 (1.98%) SAP HANA
13 9 (1.79%) Amazon Redshift
13 9 (1.79%) BigQuery
14 8 (1.59%) Data Lake
14 8 (1.59%) Elasticsearch
15 7 (1.39%) Amazon Athena
15 7 (1.39%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 28 (5.56%) Git
2 25 (4.96%) Jenkins
3 15 (2.98%) JIRA
4 10 (1.98%) GitLab
5 7 (1.39%) Artifactory
5 7 (1.39%) Subversion
6 6 (1.19%) TeamCity
7 4 (0.79%) Sonatype Nexus
8 2 (0.40%) Gatling
8 2 (0.40%) Visual Studio
9 1 (0.20%) Hudson
9 1 (0.20%) Katalon Studio
9 1 (0.20%) LoadRunner
9 1 (0.20%) Octopus Deploy
9 1 (0.20%) Oracle APEX
9 1 (0.20%) Postman
9 1 (0.20%) SoapUI
General
1 133 (26.39%) Social Skills
2 102 (20.24%) Finance
3 53 (10.52%) Public Sector
4 40 (7.94%) Banking
5 39 (7.74%) Analytical Skills
6 17 (3.37%) Telecoms
7 16 (3.17%) Organisational Skills
8 14 (2.78%) Presentation Skills
9 12 (2.38%) Marketing
10 11 (2.18%) Financial Institution
11 10 (1.98%) Documentation Skills
12 9 (1.79%) Manufacturing
12 9 (1.79%) Military
13 7 (1.39%) Electronics
14 6 (1.19%) Police
15 4 (0.79%) Billing
16 3 (0.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 3 (0.60%) Investment Banking
17 2 (0.40%) Advertising
17 2 (0.40%) Legal
Job Titles
1 79 (15.67%) Architect
2 61 (12.10%) DBA
3 50 (9.92%) Senior
4 41 (8.13%) Analyst
5 39 (7.74%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 37 (7.34%) SQL DBA
7 31 (6.15%) Administrator
8 26 (5.16%) Support Engineer
9 25 (4.96%) Lead
10 24 (4.76%) Consultant
10 24 (4.76%) Developer
11 23 (4.56%) Technical Architect
12 18 (3.57%) C# Developer
13 16 (3.17%) Implementation Specialist
13 16 (3.17%) Oracle Architect
13 16 (3.17%) Solutions Architect
14 14 (2.78%) Database Specialist
14 14 (2.78%) PostgreSQL DBA
15 13 (2.58%) Infrastructure Support
16 12 (2.38%) SQL Server DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (7.14%) .NET
2 31 (6.15%) Kafka
3 25 (4.96%) LDAP
4 16 (3.17%) .NET Framework
4 16 (3.17%) Middleware
5 13 (2.58%) JSON
6 12 (2.38%) XML
7 11 (2.18%) WinForms
7 11 (2.18%) WPF
7 11 (2.18%) YAML
8 10 (1.98%) WCF
9 9 (1.79%) Elastic Stack
9 9 (1.79%) SAP Basis
10 8 (1.59%) AWS CDK
10 8 (1.59%) REST
10 8 (1.59%) SAP Fiori
11 6 (1.19%) SOAP
12 5 (0.99%) OAuth
12 5 (0.99%) OpenID
12 5 (0.99%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 80 (15.87%) Replication
2 51 (10.12%) Data Centre
3 38 (7.54%) Clustering
4 29 (5.75%) Management Information System
5 16 (3.17%) Public Cloud
6 13 (2.58%) Blog
6 13 (2.58%) PKI
7 12 (2.38%) Video Conferencing
8 11 (2.18%) Self-Motivation
9 10 (1.98%) Linux Command Line
10 9 (1.79%) Cloud Native
10 9 (1.79%) Mainframe
11 8 (1.59%) Distributed Systems
12 7 (1.39%) Hybrid Cloud
13 6 (1.19%) CMDB
14 5 (0.99%) Data Protection Act
14 5 (0.99%) Security Posture
15 4 (0.79%) Client/Server
15 4 (0.79%) Onboarding
16 3 (0.60%) N-Tier
Operating Systems
1 154 (30.56%) Windows
2 119 (23.61%) Linux
3 70 (13.89%) Windows Server
4 38 (7.54%) Unix
5 32 (6.35%) Windows Server 2016
6 30 (5.95%) Windows Server 2012
7 24 (4.76%) Windows 10
8 17 (3.37%) Windows Server 2019
9 15 (2.98%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 15 (2.98%) Windows XP
10 14 (2.78%) Solaris
11 13 (2.58%) Oracle Linux
11 13 (2.58%) VMS
11 13 (2.58%) zOS
12 6 (1.19%) CentOS
12 6 (1.19%) Ubuntu
13 2 (0.40%) Windows 7
14 1 (0.20%) Android
14 1 (0.20%) HPUX
14 1 (0.20%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 137 (27.18%) High Availability
2 109 (21.63%) Business Continuity
3 108 (21.43%) Problem-Solving
4 98 (19.44%) ITIL
5 78 (15.48%) Performance Tuning
6 77 (15.28%) Migration
7 72 (14.29%) DevOps
8 68 (13.49%) Agile
9 61 (12.10%) Cybersecurity
10 60 (11.90%) Roadmaps
11 49 (9.72%) Capacity Management
12 48 (9.52%) Data Protection
13 47 (9.33%) Infrastructure as Code
13 47 (9.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 41 (8.13%) Project Management
15 38 (7.54%) Analytics
15 38 (7.54%) Business Strategy
15 38 (7.54%) Computer Science
16 37 (7.34%) Storage Management
17 35 (6.94%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 111 (22.02%) SQL
2 77 (15.28%) PowerShell
3 67 (13.29%) Python
4 42 (8.33%) Bash
5 34 (6.75%) C#
6 30 (5.95%) PL/SQL
7 24 (4.76%) T-SQL
8 17 (3.37%) Java
9 16 (3.17%) VB
9 16 (3.17%) VBA
10 12 (2.38%) Go
11 9 (1.79%) Bicep
11 9 (1.79%) JavaScript
12 8 (1.59%) TypeScript
13 7 (1.39%) C++
13 7 (1.39%) REXX
14 6 (1.19%) VB.NET
15 5 (0.99%) COBOL
15 5 (0.99%) Perl
15 5 (0.99%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 101 (20.04%) Security Cleared
2 79 (15.67%) SC Cleared
3 75 (14.88%) Degree
4 25 (4.96%) DV Cleared
5 22 (4.37%) Microsoft Certification
6 21 (4.17%) Computer Science Degree
7 20 (3.97%) Cisco Certification
8 19 (3.77%) CCNP
9 17 (3.37%) CCNA
10 13 (2.58%) MCSE
11 8 (1.59%) MCITP
11 8 (1.59%) MCTS
12 7 (1.39%) CISSP
13 5 (0.99%) CISM
13 5 (0.99%) CTC Cleared
13 5 (0.99%) SAP Certification
14 4 (0.79%) AWS Certification
14 4 (0.79%) Azure Certification
15 3 (0.60%) BPSS Clearance
15 3 (0.60%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (5.36%) NIST
2 23 (4.56%) SLA
3 19 (3.77%) QA
4 15 (2.98%) GDPR
5 10 (1.98%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 10 (1.98%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 6 (1.19%) Cyber Essentials
6 6 (1.19%) GRC
7 5 (0.99%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
8 4 (0.79%) Data Quality
9 3 (0.60%) COBIT
9 3 (0.60%) IASME
9 3 (0.60%) ISO 22301
10 2 (0.40%) Accessibility
10 2 (0.40%) Disclosure Scotland
11 1 (0.20%) IFRS
11 1 (0.20%) IFRS 17
11 1 (0.20%) ISO 20022
11 1 (0.20%) ISO 8583
11 1 (0.20%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 104 (20.63%) Active Directory
2 67 (13.29%) VMware Infrastructure
3 27 (5.36%) Virtual Machines
4 25 (4.96%) Hyper-V
5 20 (3.97%) Docker
6 19 (3.77%) VMware ESXi
7 17 (3.37%) NFS
8 16 (3.17%) HDFS
9 14 (2.78%) vSphere
10 9 (1.79%) Firmware
11 8 (1.59%) KVM
12 5 (0.99%) vCloud
13 4 (0.79%) Virtual Servers
14 3 (0.60%) Microsoft Virtual Server
14 3 (0.60%) Virtual Desktop
14 3 (0.60%) VMware NSX
15 2 (0.40%) ACF2
15 2 (0.40%) Microsoft App-V
15 2 (0.40%) RACF
15 2 (0.40%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 63 (12.50%) Terraform
2 51 (10.12%) Ansible
3 40 (7.94%) SCCM
4 32 (6.35%) Kubernetes
5 24 (4.76%) NetBackup
6 20 (3.97%) EMC NetWorker
6 20 (3.97%) Grafana
6 20 (3.97%) SCOM
7 19 (3.77%) vCenter Server
8 17 (3.37%) WSUS
9 10 (1.98%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 9 (1.79%) Prometheus
11 8 (1.59%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
12 7 (1.39%) BladeLogic
12 7 (1.39%) ITRS Geneos
12 7 (1.39%) Single Sign-On
12 7 (1.39%) Tivoli Storage Manager
13 6 (1.19%) Netcool
13 6 (1.19%) Tivoli
13 6 (1.19%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 115 (22.82%) Microsoft
2 111 (22.02%) Oracle
3 78 (15.48%) VMware
4 55 (10.91%) Citrix
5 51 (10.12%) Cisco
6 42 (8.33%) Dell
7 39 (7.74%) EMC
8 38 (7.54%) HP
9 28 (5.56%) SAP
10 26 (5.16%) Palo Alto
11 25 (4.96%) CheckPoint
12 23 (4.56%) Isilon
12 23 (4.56%) Red Hat
13 21 (4.17%) ServiceNow
14 20 (3.97%) SolarWinds
15 18 (3.57%) Juniper
16 16 (3.17%) Veeam
17 15 (2.98%) 3PAR
17 15 (2.98%) F5
17 15 (2.98%) Google