Disaster Recovery Job Trends in the East Midlands

Disaster Recovery
England > East Midlands

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

6 months to
14 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 135 87 107
Rank change year-on-year -48 +20 +33
Permanent jobs citing Disaster Recovery 12 28 55
As % of all permanent jobs in the East Midlands 0.36% 1.75% 1.57%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.47% 1.93% 1.89%
Number of salaries quoted 12 9 53
10th Percentile £36,200 £26,250 £34,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £32,500 £44,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,250 £40,000 £51,716
Median % change year-on-year +40.63% -22.65% +3.43%
75th Percentile £60,938 £62,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £65,408 £63,000 £65,000
England median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £57,046
% change year-on-year +4.17% +5.18% +5.64%

All Process & Methodology Skills
East Midlands

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 East Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,546 1,451 2,903
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East Midlands 76.07% 90.91% 82.87%
Number of salaries quoted 1,537 829 2,274
10th Percentile £26,500 £25,625 £25,750
25th Percentile £31,250 £32,500 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £47,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.26% +4.44% -10.00%
75th Percentile £61,250 £62,500 £57,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £72,500 £68,750
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -12.00%

Disaster Recovery
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

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

Disaster Recovery job vacancy trend in the East Midlands

Disaster Recovery
Salary Trend in the East Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Disaster Recovery.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Disaster Recovery

Disaster Recovery
Salary Histogram in the East Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Disaster Recovery in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 14 March 2026.

Salary histogram for Disaster Recovery in the East Midlands

Disaster Recovery
Job Locations in the East Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Disaster Recovery within the East Midlands region over the 6 months to 14 March 2026. 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
Leicestershire -3 5 £45,000 - 6
Northamptonshire -11 4 £60,000 +77.78% 4
Nottinghamshire -14 1 £27,500 -42.11% 2
Lincolnshire -26 1 £62,500 +19.05% 3
Disaster Recovery
England

Disaster Recovery
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East Midlands 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 7 (58.33%) Microsoft Exchange
1 7 (58.33%) SharePoint
2 1 (8.33%) CMS
Business Applications
1 1 (8.33%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 10 (83.33%) Azure
2 9 (75.00%) Microsoft 365
3 3 (25.00%) iPaaS
3 3 (25.00%) OneDrive
3 3 (25.00%) SaaS
4 2 (16.67%) Entra ID
5 1 (8.33%) Azure Sentinel
5 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Purview
5 1 (8.33%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 5 (41.67%) Firewall
1 5 (41.67%) VLAN
2 4 (33.33%) DHCP
2 4 (33.33%) DNS
2 4 (33.33%) SAN
2 4 (33.33%) TCP/IP
3 2 (16.67%) LAN
3 2 (16.67%) VPN
3 2 (16.67%) WAN
3 2 (16.67%) Wireless
4 1 (8.33%) Cisco ISE
4 1 (8.33%) IPsec
4 1 (8.33%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (8.33%) SQL Server
General
1 5 (41.67%) Social Skills
2 3 (25.00%) Documentation Skills
2 3 (25.00%) Law
3 1 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (8.33%) Finance
3 1 (8.33%) Marketing
3 1 (8.33%) Organisational Skills
3 1 (8.33%) Public Sector
3 1 (8.33%) Retail
Job Titles
1 4 (33.33%) IT Manager
1 4 (33.33%) Support Engineer
2 3 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 3 (25.00%) Infrastructure Manager
2 3 (25.00%) Infrastructure Operations Manager
2 3 (25.00%) Infrastructure Support
2 3 (25.00%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
2 3 (25.00%) IT Engineer
2 3 (25.00%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
2 3 (25.00%) IT Infrastructure Manager
2 3 (25.00%) IT Operations Manager
2 3 (25.00%) IT Security Manager
2 3 (25.00%) IT Support
2 3 (25.00%) IT Support Engineer
2 3 (25.00%) Network Infrastructure Manager
2 3 (25.00%) Network Security Manager
2 3 (25.00%) Operational Security Manager
2 3 (25.00%) Operations Manager
2 3 (25.00%) Security Manager
2 3 (25.00%) Security Operations Manager
Miscellaneous
1 3 (25.00%) Clustering
1 3 (25.00%) Enterprise Software
1 3 (25.00%) Replication
2 1 (8.33%) Data Centre
2 1 (8.33%) Low-Code
2 1 (8.33%) Mobile App
2 1 (8.33%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 4 (33.33%) Windows
2 3 (25.00%) Windows Server
3 1 (8.33%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (50.00%) Business Continuity
2 4 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
2 4 (33.33%) IT Strategy
2 4 (33.33%) Risk Management
3 3 (25.00%) Data Security
3 3 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 3 (25.00%) Security Operations
4 2 (16.67%) DevOps
4 2 (16.67%) Roadmaps
5 1 (8.33%) Change Control
5 1 (8.33%) Coaching
5 1 (8.33%) Continuous Improvement
5 1 (8.33%) High Availability
5 1 (8.33%) Information Governance
5 1 (8.33%) Kalman Filter
5 1 (8.33%) Line Management
5 1 (8.33%) Microservices
5 1 (8.33%) Network Management
5 1 (8.33%) Process Improvement
5 1 (8.33%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 3 (25.00%) PowerShell
1 3 (25.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (8.33%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (33.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (25.00%) Cyber Essentials
2 3 (25.00%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
2 3 (25.00%) GDPR
3 1 (8.33%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 9 (75.00%) Active Directory
2 3 (25.00%) Hyper-V
3 1 (8.33%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (25.00%) Failover Clustering
2 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 6 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 4 (33.33%) VMware
3 3 (25.00%) Veeam
4 1 (8.33%) CheckPoint
4 1 (8.33%) Cisco
4 1 (8.33%) F5
4 1 (8.33%) Meraki
4 1 (8.33%) SAP