Disaster Recovery Jobs in England

Disaster Recovery
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England requiring Disaster Recovery skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Disaster Recovery over the 6 months leading up to 16 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 272 212 298
Rank change year-on-year -60 +86 +2
Permanent jobs citing Disaster Recovery 576 1,200 1,030
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 1.17% 1.40% 1.16%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.24% 1.64% 1.21%
Number of salaries quoted 462 1,047 738
10th Percentile £36,350 £33,750 £34,450
25th Percentile £45,813 £41,933 £42,241
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £57,046 £57,250
Median % change year-on-year +9.56% -0.36% +4.09%
75th Percentile £76,250 £72,250 £72,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £90,000 £93,750
UK median annual salary £62,500 £55,000 £55,150
% change year-on-year +13.64% -0.27% -2.39%

All Process and 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 46,314 73,328 84,833
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 94.13% 85.41% 95.62%
Number of salaries quoted 23,693 53,833 50,206
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,000 £34,324
25th Percentile £42,000 £40,000 £46,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -12.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £76,000 £73,250 £82,500
90th Percentile £98,474 £93,750 £102,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £61,180
% change year-on-year +4.55% -10.10% +1.97%

Disaster Recovery
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Disaster Recovery as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Disaster Recovery in England

Disaster Recovery
Salary Trend in England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Disaster Recovery in England.

Salary trend for Disaster Recovery in England

Disaster Recovery
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Disaster Recovery in England over the 6 months to 16 May 2025.

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 16 May 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
London +14 240 £75,000 - 302
North of England -104 93 £55,000 +15.79% 97
South East +25 81 £65,000 +13.04% 143
South West +113 73 £57,500 +11.18% 29
North West -122 52 £55,000 +15.79% 63
Midlands -49 47 £46,000 -1.08% 39
East of England -5 37 £53,000 +6.00% 44
Yorkshire +21 27 £60,000 +20.00% 22
West Midlands -25 24 £50,000 -4.76% 24
East Midlands -5 22 £40,000 -5.88% 12
North East +12 14 £33,000 -26.67% 13
Disaster Recovery
UK

Disaster Recovery
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 65 (11.28%) Microsoft Exchange
2 42 (7.29%) SharePoint
3 13 (2.26%) IIS
4 9 (1.56%) Confluence
5 7 (1.22%) CMS
6 3 (0.52%) Skype for Business
7 2 (0.35%) Apache
7 2 (0.35%) Apache Spark
7 2 (0.35%) nginx
8 1 (0.17%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
8 1 (0.17%) Exchange Server 2013
8 1 (0.17%) Office Communications Server
8 1 (0.17%) OpenStack
8 1 (0.17%) SharePoint 2010
8 1 (0.17%) SharePoint Server
8 1 (0.17%) WordPress
Applications
1 36 (6.25%) Microsoft Office
2 11 (1.91%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.52%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.17%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 8 (1.39%) Remedy ITSM
2 4 (0.69%) Fidessa
2 4 (0.69%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.35%) SAP GRC
4 1 (0.17%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 279 (48.44%) Azure
2 171 (29.69%) Microsoft 365
3 141 (24.48%) AWS
4 67 (11.63%) Entra ID
5 42 (7.29%) GCP
6 30 (5.21%) Cloud Computing
7 25 (4.34%) SaaS
8 23 (3.99%) Azure DevOps
8 23 (3.99%) GitHub
8 23 (3.99%) PaaS
9 22 (3.82%) IaaS
10 19 (3.30%) Azure Monitor
11 16 (2.78%) OneDrive
12 12 (2.08%) Azure Sentinel
12 12 (2.08%) Rubrik
13 11 (1.91%) Google Workspace
13 11 (1.91%) Nutanix
14 10 (1.74%) Azure Key Vault
14 10 (1.74%) Power Platform
14 10 (1.74%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 153 (26.56%) Firewall
2 95 (16.49%) DNS
3 92 (15.97%) VPN
4 79 (13.72%) DHCP
5 66 (11.46%) Network Security
6 64 (11.11%) VLAN
7 54 (9.38%) WAN
8 50 (8.68%) TCP/IP
9 46 (7.99%) LAN
10 45 (7.81%) SAN
11 36 (6.25%) NAS
12 33 (5.73%) Intrusion Detection
13 24 (4.17%) Wireless
14 21 (3.65%) VoIP
15 20 (3.47%) SD-WAN
16 16 (2.78%) BGP
17 15 (2.60%) Wi-Fi
18 14 (2.43%) OSPF
19 13 (2.26%) Internet
19 13 (2.26%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 69 (11.98%) SQL Server
2 24 (4.17%) Amazon RDS
3 12 (2.08%) MySQL
3 12 (2.08%) Oracle Reports
3 12 (2.08%) PostgreSQL
3 12 (2.08%) Relational Database
4 11 (1.91%) Azure SQL Database
4 11 (1.91%) Data Warehouse
4 11 (1.91%) NoSQL
5 9 (1.56%) Tableau
6 7 (1.22%) MongoDB
7 5 (0.87%) Power BI
8 4 (0.69%) ClickHouse
8 4 (0.69%) Data Lake
8 4 (0.69%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 3 (0.52%) Amazon Aurora
9 3 (0.52%) DynamoDB
9 3 (0.52%) Oracle Database
10 2 (0.35%) Big Data
10 2 (0.35%) Couchbase
Development Applications
1 15 (2.60%) Git
2 11 (1.91%) JIRA
3 8 (1.39%) Jenkins
4 5 (0.87%) Octopus Deploy
4 5 (0.87%) Oracle Forms
5 3 (0.52%) FitNesse
5 3 (0.52%) Selenium
5 3 (0.52%) SonarQube
5 3 (0.52%) TeamCity
6 2 (0.35%) GitLab
7 1 (0.17%) Artifactory
7 1 (0.17%) Jaeger
7 1 (0.17%) Oracle APEX
7 1 (0.17%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (0.17%) Subversion
General
1 199 (34.55%) Social Skills
2 154 (26.74%) Finance
3 60 (10.42%) Analytical Skills
4 49 (8.51%) Banking
5 24 (4.17%) Manufacturing
6 21 (3.65%) Law
7 18 (3.13%) Investment Banking
8 17 (2.95%) Telecoms
9 16 (2.78%) Organisational Skills
10 13 (2.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 12 (2.08%) Marketing
11 12 (2.08%) Public Sector
11 12 (2.08%) Retail
12 10 (1.74%) Legal
13 7 (1.22%) Games
13 7 (1.22%) Tech for Good
14 6 (1.04%) Front Office
15 5 (0.87%) Military
16 4 (0.69%) Electronics
16 4 (0.69%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 106 (18.40%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 74 (12.85%) Senior
3 70 (12.15%) Analyst
4 43 (7.47%) Cloud Engineer
5 39 (6.77%) IT Engineer
5 39 (6.77%) Support Engineer
6 38 (6.60%) IT Support
7 37 (6.42%) Lead
8 31 (5.38%) IT Manager
9 29 (5.03%) IT Analyst
10 28 (4.86%) Support Analyst
11 27 (4.69%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
12 26 (4.51%) Infrastructure Support
13 25 (4.34%) Administrator
14 24 (4.17%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
15 23 (3.99%) Architect
16 22 (3.82%) IT Support Engineer
17 20 (3.47%) Security Engineer
18 19 (3.30%) Azure Engineer
18 19 (3.30%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (4.17%) .NET
2 13 (2.26%) Middleware
3 9 (1.56%) HTML
4 8 (1.39%) CSS
4 8 (1.39%) SAML
5 7 (1.22%) .NET Framework
5 7 (1.22%) AngularJS
5 7 (1.22%) ASP.NET
5 7 (1.22%) ASP.NET MVC
5 7 (1.22%) Entity Framework
5 7 (1.22%) LDAP
5 7 (1.22%) LINQ
5 7 (1.22%) OAuth
5 7 (1.22%) OpenID
5 7 (1.22%) React
5 7 (1.22%) RESTful
5 7 (1.22%) XML
5 7 (1.22%) YAML
6 5 (0.87%) REST
6 5 (0.87%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 58 (10.07%) Management Information System
2 45 (7.81%) Data Centre
3 41 (7.12%) Clustering
4 37 (6.42%) Cyber Threat
5 27 (4.69%) Cloud Native
6 22 (3.82%) Hybrid Cloud
6 22 (3.82%) Replication
7 17 (2.95%) Security Posture
7 17 (2.95%) Self-Motivation
8 11 (1.91%) Data Protection Act
9 10 (1.74%) Onboarding
9 10 (1.74%) PKI
9 10 (1.74%) Product Ownership
10 8 (1.39%) Blackberry
10 8 (1.39%) Public Cloud
11 7 (1.22%) Cyberattack
11 7 (1.22%) Enterprise Cloud
11 7 (1.22%) Operational Technology
12 6 (1.04%) Cyber Security Posture
12 6 (1.04%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 220 (38.19%) Windows
2 146 (25.35%) Windows Server
3 127 (22.05%) Linux
4 34 (5.90%) Unix
5 21 (3.65%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 21 (3.65%) Windows Server 2019
6 20 (3.47%) Windows 10
7 18 (3.13%) Windows Server 2016
8 14 (2.43%) Windows Server 2012
9 13 (2.26%) Ubuntu
10 12 (2.08%) AIX
11 9 (1.56%) CentOS
12 8 (1.39%) Windows Server 2008
13 7 (1.22%) Mac OS
13 7 (1.22%) Rocky
14 6 (1.04%) VMS
15 5 (0.87%) Android
15 5 (0.87%) Apple iOS
15 5 (0.87%) Debian
15 5 (0.87%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 170 (29.51%) Business Continuity
2 128 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
3 123 (21.35%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 119 (20.66%) ITIL
5 105 (18.23%) Cybersecurity
6 104 (18.06%) High Availability
7 89 (15.45%) CI/CD
8 88 (15.28%) DevOps
9 70 (12.15%) Continuous Improvement
10 64 (11.11%) Data Protection
11 62 (10.76%) Mentoring
12 57 (9.90%) Incident Management
12 57 (9.90%) Infrastructure Management
13 54 (9.38%) Agile
13 54 (9.38%) IT Strategy
14 52 (9.03%) Infrastructure as Code
14 52 (9.03%) Migration
14 52 (9.03%) Project Management
15 51 (8.85%) Risk Management
16 50 (8.68%) BCP
Programming Languages
1 132 (22.92%) PowerShell
2 79 (13.72%) SQL
3 55 (9.55%) Python
4 22 (3.82%) C#
5 21 (3.65%) Bash
6 19 (3.30%) Java
7 17 (2.95%) JavaScript
7 17 (2.95%) T-SQL
8 8 (1.39%) Perl
9 7 (1.22%) Bicep
9 7 (1.22%) Shell Script
10 6 (1.04%) R
11 3 (0.52%) Go
11 3 (0.52%) PHP
11 3 (0.52%) PL/SQL
12 2 (0.35%) C++
12 2 (0.35%) Ruby
12 2 (0.35%) VBA
13 1 (0.17%) Groovy
13 1 (0.17%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 61 (10.59%) Degree
2 50 (8.68%) Microsoft Certification
3 47 (8.16%) Azure Certification
4 42 (7.29%) Security Cleared
5 33 (5.73%) Cisco Certification
6 31 (5.38%) AWS Certification
7 24 (4.17%) DV Cleared
8 18 (3.13%) CCNA
8 18 (3.13%) SC Cleared
9 17 (2.95%) Computer Science Degree
10 16 (2.78%) CISM
11 15 (2.60%) CISSP
12 13 (2.26%) ITIL Certification
13 12 (2.08%) Network+ Certification
14 11 (1.91%) A+ Certification
14 11 (1.91%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 11 (1.91%) CompTIA Security+
14 11 (1.91%) MCSA
15 10 (1.74%) CCNP
15 10 (1.74%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 66 (11.46%) GDPR
2 53 (9.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 42 (7.29%) SLA
4 31 (5.38%) Cyber Essentials
4 31 (5.38%) NIST
5 16 (2.78%) PCI DSS
6 13 (2.26%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 10 (1.74%) QA
8 9 (1.56%) HIPAA
9 7 (1.22%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
10 6 (1.04%) ISO 22301
10 6 (1.04%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 5 (0.87%) NCSC
12 4 (0.69%) Accessibility
12 4 (0.69%) Data Quality
12 4 (0.69%) GRC
13 2 (0.35%) COBIT
14 1 (0.17%) ISO 13485
14 1 (0.17%) ISO 9001
14 1 (0.17%) PMO
System Software
1 157 (27.26%) Active Directory
2 123 (21.35%) VMware Infrastructure
3 72 (12.50%) Hyper-V
4 30 (5.21%) Virtual Machines
5 26 (4.51%) VMware ESXi
6 25 (4.34%) Docker
7 19 (3.30%) vSphere
8 8 (1.39%) Firmware
8 8 (1.39%) Virtual Desktop
9 7 (1.22%) Veritas Cluster Server
10 6 (1.04%) VMware NSX
11 3 (0.52%) DFS Replication
12 2 (0.35%) HDFS
12 2 (0.35%) pfSense
12 2 (0.35%) Postfix
12 2 (0.35%) Virtual Servers
13 1 (0.17%) ISA Server
13 1 (0.17%) Squid
13 1 (0.17%) Terminal Server
13 1 (0.17%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 69 (11.98%) Microsoft Intune
2 50 (8.68%) Ansible
3 46 (7.99%) Kubernetes
3 46 (7.99%) Terraform
4 32 (5.56%) SCCM
5 23 (3.99%) Single Sign-On
6 13 (2.26%) Progress Chef
7 11 (1.91%) FortiGate
7 11 (1.91%) NetBackup
8 9 (1.56%) vCenter Server
9 8 (1.39%) Puppet
10 7 (1.22%) Grafana
11 6 (1.04%) Prometheus
12 5 (0.87%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 5 (0.87%) Failover Clustering
12 5 (0.87%) Jamf Pro
12 5 (0.87%) QRadar
13 4 (0.69%) SCOM
14 3 (0.52%) Control-M
14 3 (0.52%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 261 (45.31%) Microsoft
2 165 (28.65%) VMware
3 65 (11.28%) Cisco
4 52 (9.03%) Google
5 35 (6.08%) Oracle
5 35 (6.08%) Veeam
6 22 (3.82%) Citrix
6 22 (3.82%) Red Hat
7 20 (3.47%) ServiceNow
8 18 (3.13%) Palo Alto
9 17 (2.95%) Fortinet
9 17 (2.95%) SolarWinds
10 14 (2.43%) Commvault
11 13 (2.26%) SAP
12 12 (2.08%) Dell
12 12 (2.08%) EMC
12 12 (2.08%) Meraki
12 12 (2.08%) Splunk
13 11 (1.91%) Zerto
14 9 (1.56%) HP