Disaster Recovery Job Trends in the East of England

Disaster Recovery
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the East of England requiring Disaster Recovery skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 30 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 141 125 99
Rank change year-on-year -16 -26 +58
Permanent jobs citing Disaster Recovery 18 55 37
As % of all permanent jobs in the East of England 0.43% 1.53% 1.73%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.57% 1.77% 1.95%
Number of salaries quoted 13 27 33
10th Percentile - £30,950 £42,400
25th Percentile £31,250 £43,125 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £52,500 £58,500
Median % change year-on-year -19.05% -10.26% +11.43%
75th Percentile £67,500 £61,750 £73,750
90th Percentile £90,750 £65,000 £75,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% -4.17% +14.29%

All Process & Methodology Skills
East of England

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 of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,157 3,107 1,902
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 75.74% 86.62% 88.80%
Number of salaries quoted 1,843 1,235 1,375
10th Percentile £27,500 £30,200 £27,000
25th Percentile £33,500 £43,125 £39,085
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% - -
75th Percentile £65,000 £73,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £85,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

Disaster Recovery
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

Disaster Recovery job vacancy trend in the East of England

Disaster Recovery
Salary Trend in the East of England

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

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Disaster Recovery

Disaster Recovery
Salary Histogram in the East of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Disaster Recovery in the East of England over the 6 months to 30 December 2025.

Salary histogram for Disaster Recovery in the East of England

Disaster Recovery
Job Locations in the East of England

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 of England region over the 6 months to 30 December 2025. 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
Cambridgeshire +12 7 £85,000 +70.00% 23
Suffolk -23 7 £32,500 -45.83% 9
Essex -20 3 £57,500 +9.52% 16
Hertfordshire -4 1 £65,000 +20.93% 25
Disaster Recovery
England

Disaster Recovery
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England 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 1 (5.56%) Confluence
Applications
1 6 (33.33%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 14 (77.78%) Azure
2 8 (44.44%) AWS
3 7 (38.89%) Microsoft 365
4 3 (16.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 3 (16.67%) Amazon EC2
4 3 (16.67%) Amazon EKS
4 3 (16.67%) Amazon ElastiCache
4 3 (16.67%) Amazon OpenSearch
4 3 (16.67%) CloudFront
4 3 (16.67%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 2 (11.11%) Power Platform
6 1 (5.56%) Azure AKS
6 1 (5.56%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (5.56%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (5.56%) Azure Key Vault
6 1 (5.56%) Azure Monitor
6 1 (5.56%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (5.56%) IaaS
6 1 (5.56%) PowerApps
6 1 (5.56%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (38.89%) DHCP
1 7 (38.89%) DNS
2 6 (33.33%) TCP/IP
2 6 (33.33%) VLAN
3 4 (22.22%) SAN
4 1 (5.56%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (16.67%) Amazon Aurora
1 3 (16.67%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (5.56%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (5.56%) MongoDB
2 1 (5.56%) Power BI
2 1 (5.56%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (5.56%) Git
1 1 (5.56%) JIRA
General
1 3 (16.67%) Social Skills
2 2 (11.11%) Finance
3 1 (5.56%) Law
3 1 (5.56%) Police
3 1 (5.56%) Public Sector
3 1 (5.56%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 6 (33.33%) IT Support
1 6 (33.33%) IT Support Technician
1 6 (33.33%) IT Technician
1 6 (33.33%) Support Technician
2 4 (22.22%) Infrastructure Manager
2 4 (22.22%) Technical Infrastructure Manager
2 4 (22.22%) Technical Manager
3 3 (16.67%) AWS Engineer
3 3 (16.67%) AWS Platform Engineer
3 3 (16.67%) Cloud Engineer
3 3 (16.67%) Cloud Platform Engineer
3 3 (16.67%) Linux Engineer
3 3 (16.67%) Platform Engineer
4 2 (11.11%) DBA
4 2 (11.11%) Senior
4 2 (11.11%) SQL DBA
5 1 (5.56%) Administrator
5 1 (5.56%) Project Manager
5 1 (5.56%) Senior Manager
5 1 (5.56%) Senior Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (16.67%) Loki
2 1 (5.56%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 4 (22.22%) Data Centre
1 4 (22.22%) Enterprise Software
1 4 (22.22%) Enterprise Storage
1 4 (22.22%) Management Information System
2 1 (5.56%) Cloud Native
2 1 (5.56%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 11 (61.11%) Windows
1 11 (61.11%) Windows Server
2 7 (38.89%) Linux
3 6 (33.33%) Windows 10
4 1 (5.56%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (61.11%) Problem-Solving
2 8 (44.44%) High Availability
3 6 (33.33%) Performance Tuning
3 6 (33.33%) User Experience
4 5 (27.78%) Business Continuity
4 5 (27.78%) Information Security
4 5 (27.78%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 5 (27.78%) ITIL
5 4 (22.22%) AI
5 4 (22.22%) Asset Management
5 4 (22.22%) Change Management
5 4 (22.22%) Computer Science
5 4 (22.22%) Cybersecurity
5 4 (22.22%) Data Centre Operations
5 4 (22.22%) DevOps
5 4 (22.22%) Enterprise Architecture
5 4 (22.22%) Infrastructure as Code
5 4 (22.22%) IT Governance
5 4 (22.22%) ITSM
5 4 (22.22%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 8 (44.44%) PowerShell
2 6 (33.33%) VBScript
3 4 (22.22%) Bash
3 4 (22.22%) Python
4 2 (11.11%) SQL
5 1 (5.56%) Go
5 1 (5.56%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 12 (66.67%) Microsoft Certification
2 7 (38.89%) Degree
3 6 (33.33%) MCSA
4 4 (22.22%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (22.22%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 1 (5.56%) Azure Certification
5 1 (5.56%) SC Cleared
5 1 (5.56%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 5 (27.78%) Active Directory
1 5 (27.78%) Hyper-V
2 4 (22.22%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (22.22%) vSphere
3 1 (5.56%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 4 (22.22%) Active Directory Federation Services
1 4 (22.22%) Kubernetes
1 4 (22.22%) Terraform
2 3 (16.67%) Grafana
2 3 (16.67%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 13 (72.22%) Microsoft
2 5 (27.78%) Dell
3 4 (22.22%) CrowdStrike
3 4 (22.22%) Fortinet
3 4 (22.22%) Palo Alto
3 4 (22.22%) Veeam
3 4 (22.22%) VMware