Disaster Recovery
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Disaster Recovery skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Disaster Recovery over the 6 months to 28 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 224 299 325
Rank change year-on-year +75 +26 -7
Permanent jobs citing Disaster Recovery 1,336 1,131 2,067
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.30% 1.16% 1.24%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.55% 1.22% 1.29%
Number of salaries quoted 1,141 823 1,184
10th Percentile £33,000 £33,100 £35,000
25th Percentile £41,750 £42,078 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £56,125
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +2.45% +6.90%
75th Percentile £70,000 £72,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £89,000 £93,500 £86,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +5.56%

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 permanent job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 86,445 93,025 160,114
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 84.24% 95.56% 95.90%
Number of salaries quoted 60,550 54,985 83,280
10th Percentile £29,250 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.84% +1.67% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%

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
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Disaster Recovery in the UK

Disaster Recovery
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Disaster Recovery over the 6 months to 28 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Disaster Recovery in the UK

Disaster Recovery
Top 18 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Disaster Recovery within the UK over the 6 months to 28 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +85 1,211 £55,000 -4.35% 279
UK excluding London +44 907 £50,000 - 192
Work from Home +55 521 £60,000 +0.80% 114
London +133 387 £75,000 +15.38% 102
North of England +71 303 £46,533 +3.41% 56
North West +104 187 £47,250 +5.00% 29
Midlands +23 185 £46,500 -7.00% 28
South East +67 167 £57,500 - 49
West Midlands +47 111 £52,500 +5.00% 16
East of England +13 87 £50,000 -14.89% 20
East Midlands -19 74 £42,500 -14.20% 12
Yorkshire +20 71 £50,000 +25.00% 18
Scotland -18 65 £50,000 -13.04% 16
South West -75 65 £51,522 +14.49% 25
North East +20 47 £45,000 +12.50% 9
Wales +3 27 £32,500 -13.33% 2
Northern Ireland +12 5 £41,750 -42.41% 1
Channel Islands - 4 £85,000 -

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
1 145 (10.85%) Microsoft Exchange
2 105 (7.86%) SharePoint
3 22 (1.65%) IIS
4 18 (1.35%) WebSphere
5 15 (1.12%) Apache
6 12 (0.90%) WebLogic
7 11 (0.82%) Tomcat
8 10 (0.75%) JBoss
9 8 (0.60%) Confluence
10 7 (0.52%) WildFly
11 5 (0.37%) GlassFish
12 4 (0.30%) Apache Airflow
12 4 (0.30%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
12 4 (0.30%) Jupyter
12 4 (0.30%) SAS
12 4 (0.30%) WordPress
13 3 (0.22%) MQSeries
13 3 (0.22%) Oracle HTTP Server
14 2 (0.15%) Oracle Application Server
14 2 (0.15%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 53 (3.97%) Microsoft Office
2 19 (1.42%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.22%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.15%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.075%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 22 (1.65%) Dynamics CRM
2 14 (1.05%) Teamcenter
3 8 (0.60%) NEC Housing
4 5 (0.37%) SAP ERP
5 4 (0.30%) Sage 200
5 4 (0.30%) SAP WM
6 3 (0.22%) Dynamics NAV
6 3 (0.22%) Maximo
6 3 (0.22%) Oracle Financial Analyzer
7 2 (0.15%) Adaptiv
7 2 (0.15%) Oracle Receivables
8 1 (0.075%) Magento
8 1 (0.075%) Oracle Applications
8 1 (0.075%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 625 (46.78%) Azure
2 300 (22.46%) Microsoft 365
3 223 (16.69%) AWS
4 129 (9.66%) Power Platform
5 100 (7.49%) Entra ID
6 84 (6.29%) GCP
7 69 (5.16%) IaaS
8 59 (4.42%) SaaS
9 47 (3.52%) PaaS
10 41 (3.07%) OneDrive
11 35 (2.62%) OCI
12 30 (2.25%) Amazon S3
12 30 (2.25%) Nutanix
13 28 (2.10%) Azure DevOps
14 22 (1.65%) Azure Monitor
15 21 (1.57%) Cloud Computing
15 21 (1.57%) Serverless
16 20 (1.50%) PowerApps
17 18 (1.35%) GitHub
17 18 (1.35%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 328 (24.55%) Firewall
2 209 (15.64%) DNS
3 159 (11.90%) WAN
4 155 (11.60%) DHCP
5 126 (9.43%) LAN
6 112 (8.38%) VPN
7 101 (7.56%) SAN
8 84 (6.29%) Broadband
9 79 (5.91%) TCP/IP
10 75 (5.61%) Network Security
11 60 (4.49%) Wi-Fi
12 52 (3.89%) SD-WAN
13 50 (3.74%) VLAN
13 50 (3.74%) Wireless
14 49 (3.67%) Internet
15 35 (2.62%) VoIP
16 28 (2.10%) Intrusion Detection
17 26 (1.95%) NAS
18 23 (1.72%) SSL
19 19 (1.42%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 239 (17.89%) SQL Server
2 109 (8.16%) Power BI
3 92 (6.89%) Azure SQL Database
4 43 (3.22%) MySQL
5 33 (2.47%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 31 (2.32%) Amazon RDS
6 31 (2.32%) MongoDB
7 25 (1.87%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 20 (1.50%) Data Warehouse
9 18 (1.35%) BigQuery
9 18 (1.35%) Oracle Database
10 17 (1.27%) Relational Database
11 16 (1.20%) DB2
12 14 (1.05%) Elasticsearch
13 13 (0.97%) Data Hub
13 13 (0.97%) NoSQL
14 12 (0.90%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
14 12 (0.90%) PostgreSQL
15 11 (0.82%) SQL Server Analysis Services
16 6 (0.45%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 35 (2.62%) Git
2 33 (2.47%) Jenkins
3 22 (1.65%) JIRA
4 12 (0.90%) GitLab
4 12 (0.90%) TeamCity
5 7 (0.52%) Katalon Studio
5 7 (0.52%) Visual Studio
6 6 (0.45%) JMeter
7 5 (0.37%) Gatling
7 5 (0.37%) JUnit
7 5 (0.37%) LoadRunner
7 5 (0.37%) Subversion
8 4 (0.30%) Selenium
8 4 (0.30%) Visual Studio Code
9 3 (0.22%) Bitbucket
9 3 (0.22%) CircleCI
9 3 (0.22%) TestNG
9 3 (0.22%) Travis CI
10 2 (0.15%) git-flow
10 2 (0.15%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 460 (34.43%) Social Skills
2 285 (21.33%) Finance
3 163 (12.20%) Analytical Skills
4 106 (7.93%) Legal
5 74 (5.54%) Banking
6 67 (5.01%) Telecoms
7 66 (4.94%) Retail
8 50 (3.74%) Law
9 39 (2.92%) Organisational Skills
10 34 (2.54%) Manufacturing
11 33 (2.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 28 (2.10%) Documentation Skills
13 27 (2.02%) Financial Institution
14 23 (1.72%) Presentation Skills
15 21 (1.57%) Public Sector
16 13 (0.97%) Local Government
17 10 (0.75%) Back Office
18 7 (0.52%) Influencing Skills
18 7 (0.52%) Investment Banking
18 7 (0.52%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 182 (13.62%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 169 (12.65%) Senior
3 145 (10.85%) Analyst
4 137 (10.25%) DBA
5 112 (8.38%) IT Manager
6 105 (7.86%) Lead
7 99 (7.41%) SQL DBA
8 97 (7.26%) IT Engineer
9 65 (4.87%) Network Engineer
10 56 (4.19%) Architect
11 55 (4.12%) Administrator
11 55 (4.12%) Cloud Engineer
12 54 (4.04%) IT Support
13 53 (3.97%) Support Engineer
14 43 (3.22%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
15 36 (2.69%) Infrastructure Manager
15 36 (2.69%) Security Analyst
16 34 (2.54%) Business Analyst
16 34 (2.54%) Consultant
16 34 (2.54%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (2.02%) Middleware
2 21 (1.57%) 802.1X
2 21 (1.57%) YAML
3 19 (1.42%) LDAP
4 18 (1.35%) Elastic Stack
4 18 (1.35%) Kafka
5 12 (0.90%) .NET
5 12 (0.90%) ARM Templates
5 12 (0.90%) HTML
6 9 (0.67%) Web Services
7 8 (0.60%) SAML
7 8 (0.60%) XML
8 7 (0.52%) Node.js
9 6 (0.45%) CSS
9 6 (0.45%) React
10 5 (0.37%) BREW
10 5 (0.37%) Flash
10 5 (0.37%) Ruby on Rails
10 5 (0.37%) SAP Basis
10 5 (0.37%) SAP Fiori
Miscellaneous
1 154 (11.53%) Data Centre
1 154 (11.53%) Management Information System
2 99 (7.41%) Replication
3 60 (4.49%) Clustering
4 49 (3.67%) Public Cloud
5 47 (3.52%) Security Posture
6 45 (3.37%) Cyber Threat
7 41 (3.07%) Self-Motivation
8 30 (2.25%) Data Protection Act
9 28 (2.10%) Cyberattack
10 27 (2.02%) IoT
11 22 (1.65%) Cloud Native
11 22 (1.65%) Driving Licence
12 20 (1.50%) Data Fabric
12 20 (1.50%) PMI
13 19 (1.42%) Hybrid Cloud
14 17 (1.27%) Onboarding
15 11 (0.82%) Enterprise Cloud
15 11 (0.82%) Enterprise Software
16 10 (0.75%) CCTV
Operating Systems
1 470 (35.18%) Windows
2 265 (19.84%) Linux
3 253 (18.94%) Windows Server
4 76 (5.69%) VMS
5 59 (4.42%) Windows Server 2019
6 50 (3.74%) Windows Server 2016
7 43 (3.22%) Windows 10
8 40 (2.99%) Unix
9 36 (2.69%) Solaris
10 33 (2.47%) Windows Server 2012
11 25 (1.87%) zOS
12 20 (1.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13 19 (1.42%) CentOS
14 16 (1.20%) AIX
14 16 (1.20%) Ubuntu
15 15 (1.12%) Android
16 12 (0.90%) Oracle Linux
16 12 (0.90%) Windows XP
17 11 (0.82%) Windows 7
18 10 (0.75%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 340 (25.45%) Business Continuity
2 295 (22.08%) Cybersecurity
3 284 (21.26%) ITIL
4 263 (19.69%) Problem-Solving
5 224 (16.77%) High Availability
6 219 (16.39%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 190 (14.22%) Performance Tuning
8 171 (12.80%) Information Security
9 144 (10.78%) DevOps
10 139 (10.40%) Project Management
11 136 (10.18%) Continuous Improvement
12 124 (9.28%) Collaborative Working
13 123 (9.21%) Business Intelligence
14 116 (8.68%) Data Protection
15 106 (7.93%) Mentoring
16 103 (7.71%) Agile
17 100 (7.49%) Migration
18 96 (7.19%) Capacity Planning
18 96 (7.19%) Customer Service
19 95 (7.11%) Incident Response
Programming Languages
1 250 (18.71%) SQL
2 163 (12.20%) PowerShell
3 114 (8.53%) T-SQL
4 88 (6.59%) Python
5 66 (4.94%) Bash
6 28 (2.10%) Perl
7 26 (1.95%) PL/SQL
8 24 (1.80%) C#
9 20 (1.50%) Java
10 13 (0.97%) Shell Script
11 10 (0.75%) RPG
12 9 (0.67%) JavaScript
13 8 (0.60%) PHP
14 5 (0.37%) ABAP
14 5 (0.37%) Bicep
14 5 (0.37%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 4 (0.30%) VBA
16 3 (0.22%) ActionScript
17 2 (0.15%) C++
17 2 (0.15%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 251 (18.79%) Degree
2 141 (10.55%) Microsoft Certification
3 97 (7.26%) Cisco Certification
4 81 (6.06%) CISSP
5 70 (5.24%) CCNA
6 63 (4.72%) Computer Science Degree
7 56 (4.19%) Security Cleared
8 45 (3.37%) CCNP
8 45 (3.37%) CISM
9 41 (3.07%) SC Cleared
10 33 (2.47%) MCSE
11 32 (2.40%) CISA
12 30 (2.25%) Azure Certification
13 26 (1.95%) PMI Certification
13 26 (1.95%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
14 25 (1.87%) MCSA
15 22 (1.65%) GIAC
16 21 (1.57%) CompTIA Security+
16 21 (1.57%) DV Cleared
17 18 (1.35%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 149 (11.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 67 (5.01%) GDPR
3 45 (3.37%) Cyber Essentials
4 42 (3.14%) PCI DSS
5 41 (3.07%) QA
6 38 (2.84%) Data Quality
6 38 (2.84%) SLA
7 30 (2.25%) NIST
8 23 (1.72%) ISO 22301
9 22 (1.65%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
10 19 (1.42%) Accessibility
11 18 (1.35%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 16 (1.20%) COBIT
13 12 (0.90%) NCSC
14 10 (0.75%) HIPAA
15 8 (0.60%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 6 (0.45%) GRC
16 6 (0.45%) ISO 9001
16 6 (0.45%) PMO
17 4 (0.30%) HMG Security Policy Framework
System Software
1 365 (27.32%) Active Directory
2 226 (16.92%) VMware Infrastructure
3 149 (11.15%) Virtual Machines
4 110 (8.23%) Hyper-V
5 55 (4.12%) Docker
6 41 (3.07%) Virtual Servers
7 39 (2.92%) VMware ESXi
8 27 (2.02%) Firmware
9 26 (1.95%) vSphere
10 23 (1.72%) Virtual Desktop
11 15 (1.12%) VMware NSX
12 13 (0.97%) Microsoft Virtual Server
13 5 (0.37%) KVM
13 5 (0.37%) Terminal Services
14 3 (0.22%) Oracle RAC
14 3 (0.22%) VirtualBox
15 2 (0.15%) Ceph
15 2 (0.15%) VMware Workstation
16 1 (0.075%) BitLocker
16 1 (0.075%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 89 (6.66%) Terraform
2 73 (5.46%) Ansible
3 69 (5.16%) Microsoft Intune
4 64 (4.79%) Kubernetes
5 36 (2.69%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 36 (2.69%) SCCM
6 32 (2.40%) vCenter Server
7 31 (2.32%) SCOM
8 25 (1.87%) ZABBIX
9 24 (1.80%) FortiGate
10 23 (1.72%) Nagios
11 21 (1.57%) Grafana
11 21 (1.57%) WSUS
12 18 (1.35%) VxRail
13 16 (1.20%) NetBackup
14 15 (1.12%) Puppet
15 13 (0.97%) EMC NetWorker
16 12 (0.90%) Graphite
16 12 (0.90%) HAProxy
16 12 (0.90%) Opsgenie
Vendors
1 536 (40.12%) Microsoft
2 281 (21.03%) VMware
3 169 (12.65%) Cisco
4 105 (7.86%) Oracle
5 98 (7.34%) Veeam
6 56 (4.19%) Citrix
7 50 (3.74%) Dell
8 48 (3.59%) HP
9 45 (3.37%) NetApp
10 43 (3.22%) Google
11 42 (3.14%) IBM
11 42 (3.14%) SolarWinds
12 36 (2.69%) Splunk
13 33 (2.47%) Aruba
14 32 (2.40%) Juniper
15 29 (2.17%) F5
16 26 (1.95%) Commvault
16 26 (1.95%) Palo Alto
16 26 (1.95%) Red Hat
16 26 (1.95%) ServiceNow