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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 223 319 317
Rank change year-on-year +96 -2 -2
Permanent jobs citing Disaster Recovery 1,325 1,123 2,001
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.35% 1.07% 1.30%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.57% 1.12% 1.36%
Number of salaries quoted 1,176 833 1,206
10th Percentile £33,000 £33,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £41,887 £41,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% +15.00%
75th Percentile £70,000 £69,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £88,500 £87,500
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 84,305 100,095 147,310
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.99% 95.64% 95.57%
Number of salaries quoted 59,591 58,745 83,129
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.29% +3.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £82,500 £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 27 April 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 27 April 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 +109 1,202 £57,046 +3.72% 267
UK excluding London +63 883 £50,000 - 180
Work from Home +63 496 £60,000 +4.35% 105
London +135 398 £74,000 +13.85% 112
North of England +98 316 £47,500 +5.56% 48
North West +110 193 £50,000 +11.11% 30
South East +80 163 £57,500 +4.55% 44
Midlands +29 161 £46,500 -7.00% 30
West Midlands +52 108 £48,250 -3.50% 21
East of England +18 80 £50,000 -5.21% 20
Yorkshire +48 78 £50,000 +25.00% 15
South West -35 68 £51,716 +14.69% 16
Scotland -18 62 £50,000 -4.76% 17
East Midlands -11 53 £45,000 -12.74% 9
North East +24 47 £44,500 +11.25% 3
Wales +15 27 £32,500 -13.33% 4
Northern Ireland +21 5 £41,750 -30.42% 5
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
1 160 (12.08%) Microsoft Exchange
2 116 (8.75%) SharePoint
3 21 (1.58%) IIS
4 18 (1.36%) WebSphere
5 12 (0.91%) WebLogic
6 11 (0.83%) Apache
6 11 (0.83%) Tomcat
7 10 (0.75%) JBoss
8 7 (0.53%) Confluence
8 7 (0.53%) WildFly
9 5 (0.38%) GlassFish
9 5 (0.38%) WordPress
10 4 (0.30%) Apache Airflow
10 4 (0.30%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
10 4 (0.30%) Jupyter
10 4 (0.30%) SAS
11 3 (0.23%) CMS
11 3 (0.23%) MQSeries
11 3 (0.23%) NetWeaver
11 3 (0.23%) Oracle HTTP Server
Applications
1 55 (4.15%) Microsoft Office
2 22 (1.66%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.23%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.15%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.075%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 24 (1.81%) Dynamics CRM
2 14 (1.06%) Teamcenter
3 10 (0.75%) NEC Housing
4 5 (0.38%) SAP ERP
5 4 (0.30%) Sage 200
5 4 (0.30%) SAP WM
6 3 (0.23%) Dynamics NAV
6 3 (0.23%) Maximo
6 3 (0.23%) SAP Business One
6 3 (0.23%) SAP SD
7 2 (0.15%) Adaptiv
7 2 (0.15%) Oracle Receivables
7 2 (0.15%) Payment Gateway
8 1 (0.075%) Magento
8 1 (0.075%) Oracle Applications
8 1 (0.075%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
Cloud Services
1 626 (47.25%) Azure
2 316 (23.85%) Microsoft 365
3 226 (17.06%) AWS
4 132 (9.96%) Power Platform
5 105 (7.92%) Entra ID
6 87 (6.57%) GCP
7 72 (5.43%) IaaS
8 59 (4.45%) SaaS
9 47 (3.55%) PaaS
10 44 (3.32%) OneDrive
11 34 (2.57%) Azure DevOps
12 32 (2.42%) Amazon S3
12 32 (2.42%) Nutanix
13 31 (2.34%) OCI
14 26 (1.96%) PowerApps
15 23 (1.74%) Cloud Computing
16 22 (1.66%) Azure Monitor
17 21 (1.58%) Google Workspace
17 21 (1.58%) Power Automate
18 19 (1.43%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 329 (24.83%) Firewall
2 214 (16.15%) DNS
3 164 (12.38%) WAN
4 159 (12.00%) DHCP
5 128 (9.66%) LAN
6 118 (8.91%) VPN
7 106 (8.00%) SAN
8 84 (6.34%) Broadband
9 80 (6.04%) TCP/IP
10 79 (5.96%) Network Security
11 65 (4.91%) Wi-Fi
12 55 (4.15%) SD-WAN
13 53 (4.00%) Wireless
14 52 (3.92%) VLAN
15 51 (3.85%) Internet
16 40 (3.02%) VoIP
17 29 (2.19%) Intrusion Detection
17 29 (2.19%) NAS
18 25 (1.89%) SSL
19 20 (1.51%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 245 (18.49%) SQL Server
2 114 (8.60%) Power BI
3 94 (7.09%) Azure SQL Database
4 44 (3.32%) MySQL
5 36 (2.72%) Amazon RDS
6 33 (2.49%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 31 (2.34%) MongoDB
8 27 (2.04%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 19 (1.43%) Oracle Database
9 19 (1.43%) Relational Database
10 18 (1.36%) BigQuery
11 16 (1.21%) DB2
12 15 (1.13%) Data Warehouse
12 15 (1.13%) Elasticsearch
13 13 (0.98%) Data Hub
14 12 (0.91%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
14 12 (0.91%) NoSQL
14 12 (0.91%) PostgreSQL
15 11 (0.83%) SQL Server Analysis Services
16 6 (0.45%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 34 (2.57%) Jenkins
2 33 (2.49%) Git
3 21 (1.58%) JIRA
4 16 (1.21%) GitLab
5 11 (0.83%) TeamCity
6 7 (0.53%) Visual Studio
7 6 (0.45%) Gatling
7 6 (0.45%) JMeter
7 6 (0.45%) JUnit
7 6 (0.45%) LoadRunner
8 5 (0.38%) Katalon Studio
8 5 (0.38%) Subversion
9 4 (0.30%) Selenium
9 4 (0.30%) Visual Studio Code
10 3 (0.23%) Bitbucket
10 3 (0.23%) CircleCI
10 3 (0.23%) Maven
10 3 (0.23%) Sonatype Nexus
10 3 (0.23%) TestNG
10 3 (0.23%) Travis CI
General
1 468 (35.32%) Social Skills
2 282 (21.28%) Finance
3 153 (11.55%) Analytical Skills
4 75 (5.66%) Banking
5 69 (5.21%) Legal
6 64 (4.83%) Telecoms
7 46 (3.47%) Law
8 40 (3.02%) Organisational Skills
9 39 (2.94%) Retail
10 37 (2.79%) Manufacturing
11 34 (2.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 27 (2.04%) Financial Institution
13 25 (1.89%) Documentation Skills
14 20 (1.51%) Public Sector
15 15 (1.13%) Presentation Skills
16 13 (0.98%) Local Government
17 10 (0.75%) Back Office
17 10 (0.75%) Influencing Skills
18 7 (0.53%) Marketing
19 6 (0.45%) Billing
Job Titles
1 191 (14.42%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 177 (13.36%) Senior
3 137 (10.34%) DBA
4 113 (8.53%) Analyst
5 111 (8.38%) IT Manager
6 100 (7.55%) SQL DBA
7 99 (7.47%) IT Engineer
8 92 (6.94%) Lead
9 72 (5.43%) Network Engineer
10 59 (4.45%) Administrator
11 56 (4.23%) Cloud Engineer
12 50 (3.77%) Support Engineer
13 49 (3.70%) IT Support
14 46 (3.47%) Architect
15 44 (3.32%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
16 35 (2.64%) Consultant
16 35 (2.64%) Infrastructure Manager
17 34 (2.57%) Systems Engineer
18 33 (2.49%) Azure Engineer
18 33 (2.49%) Security Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (1.66%) Middleware
2 20 (1.51%) 802.1X
2 20 (1.51%) YAML
3 19 (1.43%) LDAP
4 18 (1.36%) Elastic Stack
4 18 (1.36%) Kafka
5 15 (1.13%) ARM Templates
5 15 (1.13%) HTML
6 9 (0.68%) .NET
6 9 (0.68%) Web Services
7 8 (0.60%) React
7 8 (0.60%) SAML
8 7 (0.53%) CSS
8 7 (0.53%) Node.js
9 5 (0.38%) AngularJS
9 5 (0.38%) BREW
9 5 (0.38%) LAMP
9 5 (0.38%) SAP Basis
9 5 (0.38%) SAP Fiori
10 4 (0.30%) Akka
Miscellaneous
1 157 (11.85%) Data Centre
2 154 (11.62%) Management Information System
3 100 (7.55%) Replication
4 65 (4.91%) Clustering
5 49 (3.70%) Security Posture
6 46 (3.47%) Public Cloud
7 43 (3.25%) Self-Motivation
8 42 (3.17%) Cyber Threat
9 29 (2.19%) Data Protection Act
10 28 (2.11%) IoT
11 26 (1.96%) Cyberattack
12 21 (1.58%) Driving Licence
13 20 (1.51%) Data Fabric
14 19 (1.43%) Cloud Native
14 19 (1.43%) Hybrid Cloud
15 18 (1.36%) PMI
16 15 (1.13%) Onboarding
17 12 (0.91%) Enterprise Software
18 10 (0.75%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
18 10 (0.75%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 484 (36.53%) Windows
2 271 (20.45%) Linux
3 269 (20.30%) Windows Server
4 77 (5.81%) VMS
5 61 (4.60%) Windows Server 2019
6 51 (3.85%) Windows Server 2016
7 46 (3.47%) Windows 10
8 38 (2.87%) Unix
8 38 (2.87%) Windows Server 2012
9 34 (2.57%) Solaris
10 25 (1.89%) zOS
11 19 (1.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 17 (1.28%) AIX
12 17 (1.28%) Android
12 17 (1.28%) Mac OS
13 16 (1.21%) Apple iOS
14 15 (1.13%) CentOS
15 13 (0.98%) Ubuntu
15 13 (0.98%) Windows 7
16 12 (0.91%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 331 (24.98%) Business Continuity
2 305 (23.02%) Cybersecurity
3 276 (20.83%) ITIL
4 252 (19.02%) Problem-Solving
5 235 (17.74%) High Availability
6 225 (16.98%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 188 (14.19%) Performance Tuning
8 180 (13.58%) Information Security
9 154 (11.62%) DevOps
10 134 (10.11%) Project Management
11 128 (9.66%) Continuous Improvement
12 125 (9.43%) Collaborative Working
13 124 (9.36%) Data Protection
14 123 (9.28%) Business Intelligence
15 109 (8.23%) Agile
16 106 (8.00%) Customer Service
17 104 (7.85%) Migration
18 103 (7.77%) Mentoring
19 98 (7.40%) Capacity Planning
20 95 (7.17%) Incident Response
Programming Languages
1 250 (18.87%) SQL
2 168 (12.68%) PowerShell
3 116 (8.75%) T-SQL
4 91 (6.87%) Python
5 70 (5.28%) Bash
6 28 (2.11%) PL/SQL
7 27 (2.04%) Perl
8 25 (1.89%) C#
8 25 (1.89%) Java
9 12 (0.91%) JavaScript
10 11 (0.83%) PHP
11 10 (0.75%) RPG
11 10 (0.75%) Shell Script
12 8 (0.60%) ABAP
13 7 (0.53%) Bicep
14 5 (0.38%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 4 (0.30%) VBA
16 3 (0.23%) C++
17 2 (0.15%) ActionScript
17 2 (0.15%) Korn
Qualifications
1 231 (17.43%) Degree
2 138 (10.42%) Microsoft Certification
3 103 (7.77%) Cisco Certification
4 89 (6.72%) CISSP
5 72 (5.43%) CCNA
6 58 (4.38%) Computer Science Degree
7 53 (4.00%) Security Cleared
8 45 (3.40%) CCNP
8 45 (3.40%) CISM
9 36 (2.72%) MCSE
9 36 (2.72%) SC Cleared
10 34 (2.57%) CISA
11 31 (2.34%) Azure Certification
12 26 (1.96%) CompTIA Security+
12 26 (1.96%) PMI Certification
12 26 (1.96%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13 25 (1.89%) MCSA
14 22 (1.66%) GIAC
15 20 (1.51%) CompTIA CySA+
16 19 (1.43%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 147 (11.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 60 (4.53%) GDPR
3 53 (4.00%) SLA
4 49 (3.70%) Cyber Essentials
5 46 (3.47%) PCI DSS
6 35 (2.64%) Data Quality
7 27 (2.04%) NIST
8 22 (1.66%) ISO 22301
9 21 (1.58%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 21 (1.58%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
10 19 (1.43%) Accessibility
11 15 (1.13%) COBIT
12 12 (0.91%) NCSC
13 11 (0.83%) QA
14 10 (0.75%) HIPAA
15 9 (0.68%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 6 (0.45%) GRC
16 6 (0.45%) ISO 9001
17 5 (0.38%) PMO
18 4 (0.30%) HMG Security Policy Framework
System Software
1 384 (28.98%) Active Directory
2 238 (17.96%) VMware Infrastructure
3 151 (11.40%) Virtual Machines
4 123 (9.28%) Hyper-V
5 62 (4.68%) Docker
6 43 (3.25%) Virtual Servers
7 39 (2.94%) VMware ESXi
8 30 (2.26%) Firmware
9 25 (1.89%) vSphere
10 19 (1.43%) Virtual Desktop
11 15 (1.13%) VMware NSX
12 14 (1.06%) Microsoft Virtual Server
13 4 (0.30%) Terminal Services
14 3 (0.23%) Oracle RAC
14 3 (0.23%) VirtualBox
15 2 (0.15%) Ceph
15 2 (0.15%) KVM
15 2 (0.15%) VMware Workstation
16 1 (0.075%) Microsoft App-V
16 1 (0.075%) PowerHA
Systems Management
1 94 (7.09%) Terraform
2 71 (5.36%) Ansible
3 69 (5.21%) Microsoft Intune
4 66 (4.98%) Kubernetes
5 34 (2.57%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 34 (2.57%) SCOM
6 33 (2.49%) SCCM
7 32 (2.42%) vCenter Server
8 30 (2.26%) FortiGate
9 25 (1.89%) ZABBIX
10 24 (1.81%) WSUS
11 23 (1.74%) Nagios
12 19 (1.43%) Grafana
13 18 (1.36%) VxRail
14 16 (1.21%) NetBackup
15 15 (1.13%) Puppet
16 13 (0.98%) EMC NetWorker
16 13 (0.98%) HAProxy
17 12 (0.91%) Graphite
17 12 (0.91%) Opsgenie
Vendors
1 547 (41.28%) Microsoft
2 291 (21.96%) VMware
3 179 (13.51%) Cisco
4 104 (7.85%) Veeam
5 100 (7.55%) Oracle
6 60 (4.53%) Citrix
7 52 (3.92%) Dell
8 48 (3.62%) HP
9 45 (3.40%) NetApp
10 43 (3.25%) Google
11 42 (3.17%) IBM
12 41 (3.09%) SolarWinds
13 40 (3.02%) ServiceNow
14 38 (2.87%) Splunk
15 36 (2.72%) Aruba
16 31 (2.34%) Juniper
17 30 (2.26%) F5
18 29 (2.19%) Meraki
19 28 (2.11%) Commvault
20 26 (1.96%) Palo Alto