Disaster Recovery Job Trends in England

Disaster Recovery
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in England requiring Disaster Recovery skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 224 225 206
Rank change year-on-year +1 -19 +112
Permanent jobs citing Disaster Recovery 706 602 1,201
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.88% 1.53% 1.43%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.18% 1.64% 1.67%
Number of salaries quoted 550 489 1,055
10th Percentile £33,000 £36,250 £33,750
25th Percentile £46,250 £44,000 £41,933
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £57,046
Median % change year-on-year - +5.18% +3.44%
75th Percentile £85,000 £76,250 £72,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £90,000 £90,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +9.09% -0.27%

All Process & Methodology Skills
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 England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 59,619 36,635 71,719
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 74.07% 93.38% 85.22%
Number of salaries quoted 39,039 20,695 53,834
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,250 £29,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £42,000 £39,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% -12.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £93,750
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +9.09% -10.10%

Disaster Recovery
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Disaster Recovery job vacancy trend in England

Disaster Recovery
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Disaster Recovery.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Disaster Recovery

Disaster Recovery
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Disaster Recovery in England over the 6 months to 11 May 2026.

Salary histogram for Disaster Recovery in England

Disaster Recovery
Job Locations in 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 England region over the 6 months to 11 May 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
London +28 306 £80,000 +6.67% 77
North of England -1 153 £52,000 -5.45% 57
South East -4 98 £57,500 -11.54% 71
Yorkshire -1 85 £52,370 -4.78% 20
Midlands -13 77 £52,500 +7.69% 45
West Midlands +9 64 £50,000 -2.44% 31
North West -15 52 £50,000 +11.11% 34
East of England -19 30 £62,500 +25.00% 16
South West -89 30 £42,500 -26.09% 20
North East -42 16 £58,446 +71.90% 3
East Midlands -38 12 £60,000 +50.00% 13
Disaster Recovery
UK

Disaster Recovery
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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 94 (13.31%) Microsoft Exchange
2 81 (11.47%) SharePoint
3 9 (1.27%) IIS
4 4 (0.57%) Apache Spark
4 4 (0.57%) Confluence
5 2 (0.28%) Apache
5 2 (0.28%) BizTalk Server
6 1 (0.14%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.14%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.14%) Tomcat
Applications
1 25 (3.54%) Microsoft Office
2 15 (2.12%) MS Visio
3 4 (0.57%) Microsoft Excel
4 3 (0.42%) PlantUML
5 1 (0.14%) Acrobat
Business Applications
1 5 (0.71%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (0.57%) FLEXCUBE
2 4 (0.57%) NetSuite
2 4 (0.57%) Oracle EBS
3 3 (0.42%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.28%) SAP ERP
5 1 (0.14%) Elite 3E
5 1 (0.14%) Misys Equation
5 1 (0.14%) Misys Midas
5 1 (0.14%) Oracle 11i
5 1 (0.14%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.14%) Sage 200
5 1 (0.14%) SAP EHS
5 1 (0.14%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 385 (54.53%) Azure
2 230 (32.58%) Microsoft 365
3 141 (19.97%) Entra ID
4 99 (14.02%) AWS
5 52 (7.37%) Datadog
6 50 (7.08%) SaaS
7 43 (6.09%) Azure Monitor
8 41 (5.81%) Nutanix
9 36 (5.10%) Azure DevOps
9 36 (5.10%) GitHub
9 36 (5.10%) IaaS
9 36 (5.10%) PaaS
10 34 (4.82%) OneDrive
11 31 (4.39%) Microsoft Purview
12 27 (3.82%) GitHub Actions
13 26 (3.68%) GCP
14 25 (3.54%) Azure AKS
15 23 (3.26%) Power Platform
16 17 (2.41%) Mimecast
17 16 (2.27%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 233 (33.00%) Firewall
2 160 (22.66%) VPN
3 149 (21.10%) DNS
4 116 (16.43%) WAN
5 112 (15.86%) DHCP
6 74 (10.48%) VLAN
7 70 (9.92%) LAN
8 62 (8.78%) Wi-Fi
9 60 (8.50%) SAN
10 53 (7.51%) Network Security
11 51 (7.22%) TCP/IP
12 41 (5.81%) Wireless
13 30 (4.25%) SD-WAN
14 21 (2.97%) Cisco ISE
15 19 (2.69%) NAS
16 16 (2.27%) Remote Desktop
17 15 (2.12%) VoIP
18 13 (1.84%) SSL
19 12 (1.70%) BGP
19 12 (1.70%) Cisco Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 71 (10.06%) SQL Server
2 28 (3.97%) Amazon RDS
3 24 (3.40%) Azure SQL Database
4 12 (1.70%) Data Lake
4 12 (1.70%) Delta Lake
5 9 (1.27%) MySQL
5 9 (1.27%) Power BI
6 8 (1.13%) Amazon Aurora
7 6 (0.85%) Oracle Database
7 6 (0.85%) PostgreSQL
8 5 (0.71%) Data Warehouse
8 5 (0.71%) MongoDB
8 5 (0.71%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 4 (0.57%) Elasticsearch
9 4 (0.57%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 3 (0.42%) BigQuery
10 3 (0.42%) DynamoDB
10 3 (0.42%) SAP HANA
10 3 (0.42%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 2 (0.28%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 23 (3.26%) Git
2 20 (2.83%) Chocolatey
3 11 (1.56%) JIRA
4 9 (1.27%) Jenkins
5 6 (0.85%) Visual Studio Code
6 5 (0.71%) Sonatype Nexus
7 4 (0.57%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 4 (0.57%) LabVIEW
8 3 (0.42%) Bitbucket
8 3 (0.42%) GitLab
8 3 (0.42%) Maven
8 3 (0.42%) MLflow
8 3 (0.42%) TeamCity
9 2 (0.28%) Artifactory
9 2 (0.28%) Octopus Deploy
9 2 (0.28%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
10 1 (0.14%) JMeter
10 1 (0.14%) LoadRunner
10 1 (0.14%) Team Foundation Server
10 1 (0.14%) Yeoman
General
1 251 (35.55%) Social Skills
2 140 (19.83%) Finance
3 114 (16.15%) Analytical Skills
4 54 (7.65%) Banking
5 29 (4.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 28 (3.97%) Law
6 28 (3.97%) Public Sector
7 23 (3.26%) Legal
7 23 (3.26%) Organisational Skills
8 21 (2.97%) Retail
9 18 (2.55%) Manufacturing
10 14 (1.98%) Documentation Skills
11 13 (1.84%) Influencing Skills
11 13 (1.84%) Telecoms
12 10 (1.42%) Advertising
12 10 (1.42%) Back Office
13 9 (1.27%) Marketing
14 8 (1.13%) Financial Institution
14 8 (1.13%) Presentation Skills
15 7 (0.99%) French Language
Job Titles
1 126 (17.85%) Senior
2 106 (15.01%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 79 (11.19%) IT Support
4 77 (10.91%) IT Engineer
5 66 (9.35%) Cloud Engineer
5 66 (9.35%) Support Engineer
6 56 (7.93%) Azure Engineer
7 53 (7.51%) IT Manager
8 50 (7.08%) Lead
9 48 (6.80%) IT Support Engineer
10 42 (5.95%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
11 37 (5.24%) Analyst
12 36 (5.10%) Platform Engineer
13 32 (4.53%) Architect
14 26 (3.68%) Security Engineer
15 24 (3.40%) Security Manager
16 23 (3.26%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
17 22 (3.12%) DevOps Engineer
18 21 (2.97%) Security Specialist
19 20 (2.83%) Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (1.84%) OAuth
1 13 (1.84%) YAML
2 12 (1.70%) ADO
2 12 (1.70%) PySpark
2 12 (1.70%) SAML
3 9 (1.27%) Middleware
4 8 (1.13%) ARM Templates
5 7 (0.99%) Loki
6 6 (0.85%) Kafka
7 5 (0.71%) Microsoft Graph
7 5 (0.71%) REST
8 4 (0.57%) .NET
8 4 (0.57%) RESTful
8 4 (0.57%) web3js
9 3 (0.42%) ActiveMQ
9 3 (0.42%) RAML
9 3 (0.42%) SOAP
10 2 (0.28%) Apache NiFi
10 2 (0.28%) Keycloak
10 2 (0.28%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 53 (7.51%) Data Centre
2 51 (7.22%) Hybrid Cloud
3 47 (6.66%) Management Information System
4 38 (5.38%) Onboarding
5 35 (4.96%) Cyber Threat
6 33 (4.67%) Cloud Native
6 33 (4.67%) Replication
7 30 (4.25%) Security Posture
8 29 (4.11%) Data Protection Act
9 28 (3.97%) Driving Licence
10 23 (3.26%) Public Cloud
11 21 (2.97%) Self-Motivation
12 19 (2.69%) CMDB
13 18 (2.55%) PKI
14 16 (2.27%) Enterprise Storage
15 13 (1.84%) Legacy Systems
15 13 (1.84%) NHS
16 11 (1.56%) CCTV
16 11 (1.56%) Enterprise Software
16 11 (1.56%) iSeries
Operating Systems
1 227 (32.15%) Windows
2 146 (20.68%) Windows Server
3 63 (8.92%) Linux
4 24 (3.40%) Windows 10
5 18 (2.55%) Apple iOS
6 17 (2.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 14 (1.98%) VMS
8 13 (1.84%) Ubuntu
9 12 (1.70%) Mac OS
10 9 (1.27%) CentOS
11 6 (0.85%) Unix
12 5 (0.71%) Android
13 4 (0.57%) AIX
13 4 (0.57%) Oracle Linux
13 4 (0.57%) Windows Server 2016
14 3 (0.42%) Solaris
14 3 (0.42%) Windows Server 2019
15 2 (0.28%) Amazon Linux
15 2 (0.28%) Debian
16 1 (0.14%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 260 (36.83%) Business Continuity
2 221 (31.30%) Cybersecurity
3 162 (22.95%) Continuous Improvement
4 161 (22.80%) ITIL
5 156 (22.10%) Problem-Solving
6 147 (20.82%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 115 (16.29%) High Availability
8 109 (15.44%) DevOps
9 108 (15.30%) Incident Response
10 97 (13.74%) Service Delivery
11 94 (13.31%) Infrastructure as Code
12 82 (11.61%) Cloud Security
13 79 (11.19%) CI/CD
13 79 (11.19%) Migration
14 77 (10.91%) Stakeholder Management
15 74 (10.48%) Service Management
16 72 (10.20%) Data Protection
17 70 (9.92%) Change Management
17 70 (9.92%) Risk Management
18 68 (9.63%) Incident Management
Programming Languages
1 129 (18.27%) PowerShell
2 92 (13.03%) Python
3 75 (10.62%) SQL
4 40 (5.67%) Bash
5 12 (1.70%) Kusto Query Language
6 10 (1.42%) Bicep
7 9 (1.27%) Scala
8 8 (1.13%) Java
9 7 (0.99%) Shell Script
9 7 (0.99%) T-SQL
10 5 (0.71%) C#
10 5 (0.71%) Korn
11 4 (0.57%) Go
11 4 (0.57%) PL/SQL
12 2 (0.28%) JavaScript
12 2 (0.28%) RPG
13 1 (0.14%) COBOL
13 1 (0.14%) Perl
13 1 (0.14%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 84 (11.90%) Degree
2 46 (6.52%) Cisco Certification
2 46 (6.52%) Microsoft Certification
3 43 (6.09%) Azure Certification
4 40 (5.67%) Computer Science Degree
5 36 (5.10%) CCNP
5 36 (5.10%) Security Cleared
6 26 (3.68%) SC Cleared
7 24 (3.40%) CCNA
8 21 (2.97%) CEH
8 21 (2.97%) CISSP
9 16 (2.27%) Postgraduate
10 11 (1.56%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 9 (1.27%) AWS Certification
11 9 (1.27%) BPSS Clearance
11 9 (1.27%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 7 (0.99%) CISM
12 7 (0.99%) Master's Degree
12 7 (0.99%) MCSE
13 6 (0.85%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 119 (16.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 82 (11.61%) GDPR
3 79 (11.19%) Cyber Essentials
4 73 (10.34%) NIST
5 51 (7.22%) SLA
6 38 (5.38%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 37 (5.24%) PCI DSS
8 24 (3.40%) SOC 2
9 22 (3.12%) GRC
10 21 (2.97%) Data Quality
11 16 (2.27%) ISO 22301
12 14 (1.98%) PMO
13 11 (1.56%) Actionable Recommendations
14 7 (0.99%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
14 7 (0.99%) QA
15 5 (0.71%) COBIT
16 4 (0.57%) HIPAA
16 4 (0.57%) NCSC
17 3 (0.42%) SOC 1
18 2 (0.28%) Basel III
System Software
1 223 (31.59%) Active Directory
2 141 (19.97%) VMware Infrastructure
3 80 (11.33%) Hyper-V
4 30 (4.25%) Docker
5 29 (4.11%) Virtual Machines
6 20 (2.83%) vSphere
7 18 (2.55%) Firmware
8 17 (2.41%) Virtual Desktop
9 15 (2.12%) VMware ESXi
10 6 (0.85%) Virtual Servers
11 4 (0.57%) Oracle RAC
12 3 (0.42%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 3 (0.42%) vCloud
12 3 (0.42%) VMware NSX
13 2 (0.28%) EMC RecoverPoint
13 2 (0.28%) VMware Server
14 1 (0.14%) KVM
14 1 (0.14%) Terminal Services
14 1 (0.14%) Xen
14 1 (0.14%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 111 (15.72%) Microsoft Intune
2 105 (14.87%) Terraform
3 64 (9.07%) Kubernetes
4 57 (8.07%) Ansible
5 27 (3.82%) SCCM
6 14 (1.98%) VxRail
7 12 (1.70%) Single Sign-On
8 11 (1.56%) FortiGate
8 11 (1.56%) Prometheus
9 10 (1.42%) Grafana
10 8 (1.13%) vCenter Server
11 6 (0.85%) Packer
12 5 (0.71%) Data Guard
12 5 (0.71%) Nagios
12 5 (0.71%) WSUS
13 4 (0.57%) Argo
13 4 (0.57%) Backup Exec
13 4 (0.57%) Oracle RMAN
14 3 (0.42%) Dell DRAC
15 2 (0.28%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 368 (52.12%) Microsoft
2 207 (29.32%) VMware
3 79 (11.19%) Cisco
4 43 (6.09%) Palo Alto
5 38 (5.38%) Dell
6 35 (4.96%) Veeam
7 34 (4.82%) Commvault
7 34 (4.82%) HP
8 31 (4.39%) Tenable
9 27 (3.82%) Zscaler
10 26 (3.68%) Meraki
11 24 (3.40%) Splunk
12 23 (3.26%) Dynatrace
13 21 (2.97%) AppDynamics
13 21 (2.97%) EMC
13 21 (2.97%) Fortinet
14 18 (2.55%) Citrix
14 18 (2.55%) F5
14 18 (2.55%) Oracle
15 17 (2.41%) Nimble Storage