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

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 220 306 321
Rank change year-on-year +86 +15 -3
Permanent jobs citing Disaster Recovery 1,319 1,149 2,006
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.33% 1.13% 1.27%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.55% 1.18% 1.33%
Number of salaries quoted 1,159 851 1,178
10th Percentile £33,000 £33,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £41,933 £42,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,150 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -0.27% -4.09% +15.00%
75th Percentile £70,000 £70,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £89,000 £90,000 £87,875
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £47,915
% change year-on-year - +4.35% +6.48%

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 84,937 97,101 150,579
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.64% 95.61% 95.65%
Number of salaries quoted 59,853 57,006 82,680
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £33,515
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,180 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.10% +1.97% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,750
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 8 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 8 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 +92 1,196 £55,600 +0.82% 281
UK excluding London +43 885 £50,000 - 183
Work from Home +40 500 £60,000 +0.80% 117
London +131 391 £75,000 +15.38% 108
North of England +79 316 £47,500 +5.56% 54
North West +103 195 £47,500 +5.56% 28
South East +69 161 £57,500 - 52
Midlands +15 156 £46,500 -7.00% 29
West Midlands +38 103 £52,500 +5.00% 16
East of England +27 87 £50,000 -9.09% 18
Yorkshire +33 76 £50,000 +25.00% 19
South West -65 69 £51,716 +11.59% 15
Scotland -20 63 £50,000 -16.00% 10
East Midlands -22 53 £43,250 -16.14% 13
North East +23 47 £44,500 +11.25% 7
Wales +10 27 £32,500 -7.14% 1
Northern Ireland +17 5 £41,750 -30.42% 6
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
1 156 (11.83%) Microsoft Exchange
2 112 (8.49%) SharePoint
3 21 (1.59%) IIS
4 18 (1.36%) WebSphere
5 12 (0.91%) Apache
5 12 (0.91%) WebLogic
6 11 (0.83%) Tomcat
7 10 (0.76%) JBoss
8 8 (0.61%) Confluence
9 7 (0.53%) WildFly
10 5 (0.38%) GlassFish
11 4 (0.30%) Apache Airflow
11 4 (0.30%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
11 4 (0.30%) Jupyter
11 4 (0.30%) SAS
11 4 (0.30%) WordPress
12 3 (0.23%) MQSeries
12 3 (0.23%) Oracle HTTP Server
13 2 (0.15%) CMS
13 2 (0.15%) Oracle Application Server
Applications
1 54 (4.09%) Microsoft Office
2 22 (1.67%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.23%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.15%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.076%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 23 (1.74%) Dynamics CRM
2 14 (1.06%) Teamcenter
3 9 (0.68%) 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
7 2 (0.15%) Adaptiv
7 2 (0.15%) Oracle Receivables
7 2 (0.15%) SAP Business One
8 1 (0.076%) Magento
8 1 (0.076%) Oracle Applications
8 1 (0.076%) Oracle Financial Analyzer
8 1 (0.076%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 624 (47.31%) Azure
2 309 (23.43%) Microsoft 365
3 223 (16.91%) AWS
4 132 (10.01%) Power Platform
5 103 (7.81%) Entra ID
6 86 (6.52%) GCP
7 70 (5.31%) IaaS
8 60 (4.55%) SaaS
9 49 (3.71%) PaaS
10 44 (3.34%) OneDrive
11 32 (2.43%) OCI
12 30 (2.27%) Amazon S3
12 30 (2.27%) Azure DevOps
13 29 (2.20%) Nutanix
14 24 (1.82%) PowerApps
15 22 (1.67%) Cloud Computing
16 21 (1.59%) Azure Monitor
17 19 (1.44%) Google Workspace
17 19 (1.44%) Power Automate
17 19 (1.44%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 330 (25.02%) Firewall
2 208 (15.77%) DNS
3 164 (12.43%) WAN
4 154 (11.68%) DHCP
5 127 (9.63%) LAN
6 115 (8.72%) VPN
7 102 (7.73%) SAN
8 84 (6.37%) Broadband
9 80 (6.07%) Network Security
10 79 (5.99%) TCP/IP
11 63 (4.78%) Wi-Fi
12 55 (4.17%) SD-WAN
13 52 (3.94%) Internet
14 51 (3.87%) Wireless
15 50 (3.79%) VLAN
16 39 (2.96%) VoIP
17 29 (2.20%) Intrusion Detection
18 27 (2.05%) NAS
19 24 (1.82%) SSL
20 20 (1.52%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 239 (18.12%) SQL Server
2 112 (8.49%) Power BI
3 94 (7.13%) Azure SQL Database
4 44 (3.34%) MySQL
5 33 (2.50%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 32 (2.43%) Amazon RDS
6 32 (2.43%) MongoDB
7 26 (1.97%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 19 (1.44%) Relational Database
9 18 (1.36%) BigQuery
9 18 (1.36%) Oracle Database
10 16 (1.21%) Data Warehouse
10 16 (1.21%) DB2
11 15 (1.14%) Elasticsearch
12 13 (0.99%) Data Hub
13 12 (0.91%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
13 12 (0.91%) NoSQL
13 12 (0.91%) PostgreSQL
14 11 (0.83%) SQL Server Analysis Services
15 6 (0.45%) InfluxDB
Development Applications
1 35 (2.65%) Git
2 33 (2.50%) Jenkins
3 22 (1.67%) JIRA
4 14 (1.06%) GitLab
5 12 (0.91%) TeamCity
6 7 (0.53%) Katalon Studio
6 7 (0.53%) Visual Studio
7 6 (0.45%) JMeter
8 5 (0.38%) Gatling
8 5 (0.38%) JUnit
8 5 (0.38%) LoadRunner
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%) TestNG
10 3 (0.23%) Travis CI
11 2 (0.15%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 469 (35.56%) Social Skills
2 284 (21.53%) Finance
3 156 (11.83%) Analytical Skills
4 76 (5.76%) Legal
5 75 (5.69%) Banking
6 67 (5.08%) Telecoms
7 47 (3.56%) Law
8 40 (3.03%) Organisational Skills
8 40 (3.03%) Retail
9 34 (2.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 34 (2.58%) Manufacturing
10 28 (2.12%) Documentation Skills
11 27 (2.05%) Financial Institution
12 20 (1.52%) Presentation Skills
12 20 (1.52%) Public Sector
13 13 (0.99%) Local Government
14 12 (0.91%) Influencing Skills
15 10 (0.76%) Back Office
16 7 (0.53%) Marketing
17 6 (0.45%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 183 (13.87%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 172 (13.04%) Senior
3 136 (10.31%) DBA
4 117 (8.87%) Analyst
5 113 (8.57%) IT Manager
6 100 (7.58%) IT Engineer
7 99 (7.51%) SQL DBA
8 93 (7.05%) Lead
9 71 (5.38%) Network Engineer
10 59 (4.47%) Administrator
11 56 (4.25%) Cloud Engineer
12 52 (3.94%) Support Engineer
13 51 (3.87%) Architect
13 51 (3.87%) IT Support
14 44 (3.34%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
15 36 (2.73%) Infrastructure Manager
15 36 (2.73%) Security Analyst
15 36 (2.73%) Systems Engineer
16 35 (2.65%) Consultant
17 33 (2.50%) IT Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (1.90%) Middleware
2 22 (1.67%) YAML
3 21 (1.59%) 802.1X
4 19 (1.44%) Elastic Stack
4 19 (1.44%) Kafka
4 19 (1.44%) LDAP
5 15 (1.14%) HTML
6 13 (0.99%) ARM Templates
7 10 (0.76%) .NET
8 9 (0.68%) Web Services
9 8 (0.61%) SAML
10 7 (0.53%) CSS
10 7 (0.53%) Node.js
11 6 (0.45%) React
12 5 (0.38%) AngularJS
12 5 (0.38%) BREW
12 5 (0.38%) SAP Basis
12 5 (0.38%) SAP Fiori
13 4 (0.30%) Spring
13 4 (0.30%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 154 (11.68%) Data Centre
2 153 (11.60%) Management Information System
3 99 (7.51%) Replication
4 65 (4.93%) Clustering
5 49 (3.71%) Security Posture
6 48 (3.64%) Public Cloud
7 44 (3.34%) Cyber Threat
8 43 (3.26%) Self-Motivation
9 29 (2.20%) Data Protection Act
10 27 (2.05%) Cyberattack
11 25 (1.90%) IoT
12 22 (1.67%) Driving Licence
13 21 (1.59%) Cloud Native
14 20 (1.52%) Data Fabric
14 20 (1.52%) PMI
15 18 (1.36%) Hybrid Cloud
16 15 (1.14%) Onboarding
17 11 (0.83%) Enterprise Cloud
17 11 (0.83%) Enterprise Software
18 10 (0.76%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 478 (36.24%) Windows
2 266 (20.17%) Linux
2 266 (20.17%) Windows Server
3 76 (5.76%) VMS
4 62 (4.70%) Windows Server 2019
5 53 (4.02%) Windows Server 2016
6 42 (3.18%) Windows 10
7 38 (2.88%) Unix
8 36 (2.73%) Windows Server 2012
9 35 (2.65%) Solaris
10 25 (1.90%) zOS
11 20 (1.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 17 (1.29%) AIX
12 17 (1.29%) CentOS
13 16 (1.21%) Android
14 14 (1.06%) Ubuntu
15 12 (0.91%) Oracle Linux
15 12 (0.91%) Windows XP
16 11 (0.83%) Apple iOS
16 11 (0.83%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 329 (24.94%) Business Continuity
2 305 (23.12%) Cybersecurity
3 267 (20.24%) ITIL
4 250 (18.95%) Problem-Solving
5 230 (17.44%) High Availability
6 219 (16.60%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 192 (14.56%) Performance Tuning
8 180 (13.65%) Information Security
9 147 (11.14%) DevOps
10 137 (10.39%) Project Management
11 134 (10.16%) Continuous Improvement
12 124 (9.40%) Collaborative Working
13 123 (9.33%) Business Intelligence
14 122 (9.25%) Data Protection
15 112 (8.49%) Agile
16 103 (7.81%) Mentoring
17 102 (7.73%) Migration
18 101 (7.66%) Customer Service
18 101 (7.66%) Incident Response
19 95 (7.20%) Capacity Planning
Programming Languages
1 250 (18.95%) SQL
2 169 (12.81%) PowerShell
3 115 (8.72%) T-SQL
4 87 (6.60%) Python
5 67 (5.08%) Bash
6 27 (2.05%) PL/SQL
7 26 (1.97%) C#
8 25 (1.90%) Perl
9 20 (1.52%) Java
10 11 (0.83%) Shell Script
11 10 (0.76%) RPG
12 9 (0.68%) JavaScript
13 8 (0.61%) PHP
14 6 (0.45%) ABAP
15 5 (0.38%) Bicep
15 5 (0.38%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 4 (0.30%) VBA
17 2 (0.15%) ActionScript
17 2 (0.15%) Korn
17 2 (0.15%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 225 (17.06%) Degree
2 142 (10.77%) Microsoft Certification
3 102 (7.73%) Cisco Certification
4 88 (6.67%) CISSP
5 72 (5.46%) CCNA
6 57 (4.32%) Computer Science Degree
6 57 (4.32%) Security Cleared
7 45 (3.41%) CCNP
8 44 (3.34%) CISM
9 40 (3.03%) SC Cleared
10 36 (2.73%) MCSE
11 33 (2.50%) CISA
12 30 (2.27%) Azure Certification
13 28 (2.12%) PMI Certification
14 26 (1.97%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
15 25 (1.90%) MCSA
16 24 (1.82%) CompTIA Security+
17 22 (1.67%) GIAC
18 21 (1.59%) DV Cleared
19 18 (1.36%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 149 (11.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 64 (4.85%) GDPR
3 49 (3.71%) Cyber Essentials
4 46 (3.49%) SLA
5 43 (3.26%) PCI DSS
6 33 (2.50%) Data Quality
7 28 (2.12%) NIST
8 24 (1.82%) ISO 22301
9 21 (1.59%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
10 19 (1.44%) Accessibility
10 19 (1.44%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 15 (1.14%) COBIT
12 12 (0.91%) NCSC
13 11 (0.83%) QA
14 10 (0.76%) HIPAA
15 8 (0.61%) 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
1 377 (28.58%) Active Directory
2 226 (17.13%) VMware Infrastructure
3 147 (11.14%) Virtual Machines
4 118 (8.95%) Hyper-V
5 59 (4.47%) Docker
6 41 (3.11%) Virtual Servers
7 39 (2.96%) VMware ESXi
8 29 (2.20%) Firmware
9 25 (1.90%) vSphere
10 22 (1.67%) Virtual Desktop
11 15 (1.14%) VMware NSX
12 12 (0.91%) 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 (0.076%) Microsoft App-V
16 1 (0.076%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 91 (6.90%) Terraform
2 73 (5.53%) Ansible
3 69 (5.23%) Microsoft Intune
4 65 (4.93%) Kubernetes
5 35 (2.65%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 35 (2.65%) SCCM
6 33 (2.50%) SCOM
7 32 (2.43%) vCenter Server
8 28 (2.12%) FortiGate
9 25 (1.90%) ZABBIX
10 23 (1.74%) Nagios
11 22 (1.67%) WSUS
12 20 (1.52%) Grafana
13 18 (1.36%) VxRail
14 16 (1.21%) NetBackup
15 14 (1.06%) Puppet
16 13 (0.99%) EMC NetWorker
16 13 (0.99%) Graphite
16 13 (0.99%) HAProxy
17 12 (0.91%) Opsgenie
Vendors
1 546 (41.39%) Microsoft
2 279 (21.15%) VMware
3 175 (13.27%) Cisco
4 101 (7.66%) Oracle
5 100 (7.58%) Veeam
6 59 (4.47%) Citrix
7 51 (3.87%) Dell
8 50 (3.79%) HP
9 45 (3.41%) NetApp
10 43 (3.26%) IBM
11 42 (3.18%) Google
12 40 (3.03%) SolarWinds
12 40 (3.03%) Splunk
13 35 (2.65%) Aruba
14 32 (2.43%) Juniper
14 32 (2.43%) ServiceNow
15 30 (2.27%) F5
16 27 (2.05%) Commvault
17 26 (1.97%) Palo Alto
18 25 (1.90%) Meraki