Disaster Recovery Job Trends in Manchester

Disaster Recovery
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Manchester requiring Disaster Recovery skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 112 105 115
Rank change year-on-year -7 +10 +80
Permanent jobs citing Disaster Recovery 19 53 39
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 0.65% 1.98% 1.55%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.81% 2.11% 1.71%
Number of salaries quoted 17 31 37
10th Percentile £37,500 £40,000 £48,016
25th Percentile £41,250 £41,119 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £48,500 £65,066
Median % change year-on-year +13.40% -25.46% +23.93%
75th Percentile £62,500 £57,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £90,900 £68,114 £77,750
North West median annual salary £41,250 £45,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% -18.18% +10.00%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Manchester

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 Manchester.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,340 2,513 2,285
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 79.59% 94.01% 90.89%
Number of salaries quoted 1,420 1,183 1,830
10th Percentile £28,250 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,744 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -
75th Percentile £72,500 £72,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £87,500 £87,500 £84,056
North West median annual salary £50,000 £52,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -3.85% -0.95% -4.55%

Disaster Recovery
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Disaster Recovery job vacancy trend in Manchester

Disaster Recovery
Salary Trend in Manchester

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Disaster Recovery.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Disaster Recovery

Disaster Recovery
Salary Histogram in Manchester

Salary distribution for jobs citing Disaster Recovery in Manchester over the 6 months to 15 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Disaster Recovery in Manchester

Disaster Recovery
Job Locations in Manchester

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Disaster Recovery within the Manchester region over the 6 months to 15 January 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
Bolton +9 1 - - 2
Salford +3 1 £57,500 - 2
Disaster Recovery
North West

Disaster Recovery
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Manchester 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 4 (21.05%) SharePoint
2 3 (15.79%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 11 (57.89%) Azure
2 7 (36.84%) Azure DevOps
3 6 (31.58%) Azure Monitor
3 6 (31.58%) Entra ID
3 6 (31.58%) Microsoft 365
4 5 (26.32%) Power Automate
5 4 (21.05%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 3 (15.79%) AWS CloudFormation
6 3 (15.79%) Copilot Studio
6 3 (15.79%) Microsoft Copilot
6 3 (15.79%) OneDrive
6 3 (15.79%) SaaS
7 2 (10.53%) Azure AKS
7 2 (10.53%) Azure Functions
7 2 (10.53%) Azure Logic Apps
7 2 (10.53%) Azure Storage
7 2 (10.53%) GitHub
7 2 (10.53%) GitHub Actions
7 2 (10.53%) iPaaS
7 2 (10.53%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 3 (15.79%) DHCP
1 3 (15.79%) DNS
1 3 (15.79%) Firewall
2 2 (10.53%) Internet
2 2 (10.53%) NAS
3 1 (5.26%) Network Security
3 1 (5.26%) SD-WAN
3 1 (5.26%) TCP/IP
3 1 (5.26%) VLAN
3 1 (5.26%) VPN
3 1 (5.26%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.26%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (5.26%) NoSQL
1 1 (5.26%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (10.53%) Git
General
1 6 (31.58%) Social Skills
2 3 (15.79%) Organisational Skills
3 2 (10.53%) Documentation Skills
3 2 (10.53%) Marketing
3 2 (10.53%) Retail
4 1 (5.26%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (5.26%) Finance
4 1 (5.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (5.26%) Legal
Job Titles
1 7 (36.84%) Cloud Engineer
2 6 (31.58%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 5 (26.32%) Senior
4 3 (15.79%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (10.53%) Azure Engineer
5 2 (10.53%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (10.53%) Senior Cloud Engineer
6 1 (5.26%) 2nd Line Support
6 1 (5.26%) Architect
6 1 (5.26%) AWS Architect
6 1 (5.26%) AWS DevOps
6 1 (5.26%) AWS Solution Architect
6 1 (5.26%) DevOps Architect
6 1 (5.26%) Head of Cybersecurity
6 1 (5.26%) Head of Security
6 1 (5.26%) IT Manager
6 1 (5.26%) IT Support
6 1 (5.26%) Senior DevOps
6 1 (5.26%) Solutions Architect
6 1 (5.26%) TOGAF Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (10.53%) ARM Templates
1 2 (10.53%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 4 (21.05%) Cloud Native
2 3 (15.79%) AI Agents
3 2 (10.53%) Driving Licence
3 2 (10.53%) Onboarding
4 1 (5.26%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (5.26%) Cyber Defence
4 1 (5.26%) Data Centre
4 1 (5.26%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (5.26%) Management Information System
4 1 (5.26%) Private Cloud
4 1 (5.26%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 4 (21.05%) Windows
1 4 (21.05%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (47.37%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 8 (42.11%) Business Continuity
2 8 (42.11%) DevOps
2 8 (42.11%) Problem-Solving
3 6 (31.58%) CI/CD
4 5 (26.32%) High Availability
4 5 (26.32%) Infrastructure as Code
5 4 (21.05%) Business Strategy
5 4 (21.05%) Cloud Security
5 4 (21.05%) Containerisation
5 4 (21.05%) Cybersecurity
6 3 (15.79%) AI
6 3 (15.79%) Capacity Planning
6 3 (15.79%) Identity Access Management
6 3 (15.79%) Incident Response
6 3 (15.79%) Infrastructure Automation
6 3 (15.79%) Infrastructure Management
6 3 (15.79%) IT Strategy
6 3 (15.79%) Network Virtualisation
6 3 (15.79%) Storage Management
Programming Languages
1 11 (57.89%) PowerShell
2 3 (15.79%) Python
3 2 (10.53%) Bicep
3 2 (10.53%) SQL
4 1 (5.26%) C#
4 1 (5.26%) Java
Qualifications
1 4 (21.05%) Azure Certification
2 2 (10.53%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (5.26%) AWS Certification
3 1 (5.26%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (5.26%) CISM
3 1 (5.26%) CISSP
3 1 (5.26%) CRISC
3 1 (5.26%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (15.79%) NIST
2 1 (5.26%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (5.26%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
2 1 (5.26%) GDPR
2 1 (5.26%) GRC
2 1 (5.26%) HIPAA
2 1 (5.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 8 (42.11%) Active Directory
2 6 (31.58%) Virtual Machines
3 5 (26.32%) Virtual Desktop
4 4 (21.05%) Docker
5 1 (5.26%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 5 (26.32%) Terraform
2 4 (21.05%) Kubernetes
2 4 (21.05%) Prometheus
3 3 (15.79%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (5.26%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 11 (57.89%) Microsoft
2 3 (15.79%) Foundry
3 2 (10.53%) VMware
4 1 (5.26%) CrowdStrike
4 1 (5.26%) Fortinet
4 1 (5.26%) Google