Disaster Recovery Job Trends in the City of London

Disaster Recovery
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the City of London requiring Disaster Recovery skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 91 96 111
Rank change year-on-year +5 +15 +53
Permanent jobs citing Disaster Recovery 44 71 56
As % of all permanent jobs in the City of London 1.91% 2.67% 2.00%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.21% 2.80% 2.11%
Number of salaries quoted 41 50 53
10th Percentile £43,375 £46,000 £52,500
25th Percentile £62,500 £50,000 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £62,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +36.00% -10.71% +21.74%
75th Percentile £97,500 £90,938 £80,000
90th Percentile £140,000 £113,875 £83,750
Central London median annual salary £80,000 £65,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +23.08% -7.14% +16.67%

All Process & Methodology Skills
City of London

Disaster Recovery falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the City of London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,992 2,540 2,654
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 86.35% 95.67% 94.75%
Number of salaries quoted 1,457 1,620 2,368
10th Percentile £42,500 £47,000 £40,750
25th Percentile £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.33% - -
75th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £96,250
90th Percentile £113,750 £117,500 £115,000
Central London median annual salary £77,500 £75,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +3.33% - -

Disaster Recovery
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Disaster Recovery relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Disaster Recovery job vacancy trend in the City of London

Disaster Recovery
Salary Trend in the City of London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Disaster Recovery.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Disaster Recovery

Disaster Recovery
Salary Histogram in the City of London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Disaster Recovery in the City of London over the 6 months to 14 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Disaster Recovery in the City of London

Disaster Recovery
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 6 (13.64%) SharePoint
2 1 (2.27%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 2 (4.55%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 16 (36.36%) Azure
2 14 (31.82%) Microsoft 365
3 7 (15.91%) AWS
4 5 (11.36%) Nutanix
5 4 (9.09%) Amazon EC2
5 4 (9.09%) Amazon S3
5 4 (9.09%) AWS CloudFormation
5 4 (9.09%) Entra ID
5 4 (9.09%) OneDrive
5 4 (9.09%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 3 (6.82%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 3 (6.82%) Amazon EKS
7 2 (4.55%) Amazon ElastiCache
7 2 (4.55%) Amazon OpenSearch
7 2 (4.55%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (4.55%) CloudFront
7 2 (4.55%) Cohesity
7 2 (4.55%) GCP
7 2 (4.55%) Serverless
8 1 (2.27%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 5 (11.36%) Firewall
1 5 (11.36%) WAN
2 4 (9.09%) DHCP
2 4 (9.09%) DNS
2 4 (9.09%) LAN
2 4 (9.09%) TCP/IP
3 2 (4.55%) SAN
3 2 (4.55%) VPN
4 1 (2.27%) NAS
4 1 (2.27%) SD-WAN
4 1 (2.27%) VLAN
4 1 (2.27%) VSAN
4 1 (2.27%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (13.64%) Oracle Database
1 6 (13.64%) Oracle Exadata
2 3 (6.82%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (6.82%) MySQL
3 2 (4.55%) Amazon Aurora
Development Applications
1 1 (2.27%) Git
1 1 (2.27%) GitLab
1 1 (2.27%) Jenkins
General
1 20 (45.45%) Finance
2 15 (34.09%) Social Skills
3 5 (11.36%) Banking
4 4 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (9.09%) Wholesale Banking
5 2 (4.55%) Back Office
5 2 (4.55%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (4.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (4.55%) Influencing Skills
5 2 (4.55%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (2.27%) Advertising
6 1 (2.27%) Financial Institution
6 1 (2.27%) Law
6 1 (2.27%) Legal
Job Titles
1 7 (15.91%) Architect
1 7 (15.91%) Support Engineer
2 6 (13.64%) Database Architect
2 6 (13.64%) Lead
2 6 (13.64%) Oracle Architect
3 5 (11.36%) Disaster Recovery Specialist
4 4 (9.09%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 4 (9.09%) Linux Engineer
5 3 (6.82%) AWS Engineer
5 3 (6.82%) Azure Infrastructure Lead
5 3 (6.82%) Head of IT
5 3 (6.82%) IT Technical Specialist
5 3 (6.82%) Linux Support
5 3 (6.82%) Linux Support Engineer
5 3 (6.82%) Security Engineer
5 3 (6.82%) Systems Engineer
5 3 (6.82%) Technical Specialist
6 2 (4.55%) AWS Platform Engineer
6 2 (4.55%) Cloud Platform Engineer
6 2 (4.55%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (6.82%) LAMP
2 2 (4.55%) Loki
3 1 (2.27%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (2.27%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 5 (11.36%) Data Centre
1 5 (11.36%) Hybrid Cloud
1 5 (11.36%) Onboarding
2 4 (9.09%) CCTV
3 2 (4.55%) AS400
3 2 (4.55%) Cloud Native
3 2 (4.55%) Management Information System
3 2 (4.55%) Security Posture
4 1 (2.27%) Derivative
4 1 (2.27%) Digital Signage
4 1 (2.27%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 7 (15.91%) Windows
2 6 (13.64%) Linux
3 3 (6.82%) CentOS
3 3 (6.82%) Rocky
3 3 (6.82%) Ubuntu
4 2 (4.55%) Windows Server
5 1 (2.27%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (29.55%) Business Continuity
2 12 (27.27%) Cybersecurity
3 11 (25.00%) Computer Science
4 8 (18.18%) BCP
4 8 (18.18%) Continuous Improvement
4 8 (18.18%) Service Management
5 7 (15.91%) Budgeting
5 7 (15.91%) Contract Negotiation
5 7 (15.91%) DevOps
5 7 (15.91%) Infrastructure as Code
5 7 (15.91%) Performance Tuning
6 6 (13.64%) CI/CD
6 6 (13.64%) Cost Optimisation
6 6 (13.64%) Data Modelling
6 6 (13.64%) DataOps
6 6 (13.64%) High Availability
6 6 (13.64%) Incident Response
6 6 (13.64%) Information Security
6 6 (13.64%) Resilience Testing
6 6 (13.64%) Runbook
Programming Languages
1 8 (18.18%) Python
2 7 (15.91%) PowerShell
3 4 (9.09%) Bash
4 3 (6.82%) Shell Script
5 1 (2.27%) SQL
Qualifications
1 16 (36.36%) Degree
2 6 (13.64%) Computer Science Degree
2 6 (13.64%) OCP
2 6 (13.64%) Oracle Certification
3 3 (6.82%) CISSP
4 2 (4.55%) AWS Certification
4 2 (4.55%) Azure Certification
4 2 (4.55%) CEH
4 2 (4.55%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (2.27%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 1 (2.27%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (2.27%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (18.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (9.09%) NIST
3 3 (6.82%) GDPR
4 2 (4.55%) ISO 9001
4 2 (4.55%) ISO/IEC 20000
4 2 (4.55%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
4 2 (4.55%) SLA
5 1 (2.27%) Basel III
5 1 (2.27%) MiFID
5 1 (2.27%) SOC 2
System Software
1 6 (13.64%) Oracle RAC
2 5 (11.36%) Active Directory
3 4 (9.09%) BitLocker
3 4 (9.09%) Docker
4 3 (6.82%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (4.55%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 7 (15.91%) Ansible
1 7 (15.91%) Nagios
1 7 (15.91%) Terraform
2 6 (13.64%) Data Guard
2 6 (13.64%) Kubernetes
2 6 (13.64%) Microsoft Intune
2 6 (13.64%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
2 6 (13.64%) Oracle RMAN
3 4 (9.09%) Grafana
3 4 (9.09%) SCCM
4 3 (6.82%) Prometheus
5 1 (2.27%) Progress Chef
5 1 (2.27%) Puppet
Vendors
1 14 (31.82%) Microsoft
2 7 (15.91%) VMware
3 6 (13.64%) Delphix
3 6 (13.64%) Oracle
4 5 (11.36%) Cisco
5 4 (9.09%) Fortinet
5 4 (9.09%) Symantec
6 3 (6.82%) Commvault
7 2 (4.55%) CrowdStrike
7 2 (4.55%) CyberArk
7 2 (4.55%) Google
7 2 (4.55%) iManage
7 2 (4.55%) Palo Alto
7 2 (4.55%) Rapid7
7 2 (4.55%) ServiceNow
7 2 (4.55%) Thales
8 1 (2.27%) AppDynamics
8 1 (2.27%) Broadcom
8 1 (2.27%) Meraki
8 1 (2.27%) Splunk