Disaster Recovery Job Trends in the North of England

Disaster Recovery
England > North of England

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

6 months to
11 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 146 215 151
Rank change year-on-year +69 -64 +77
Permanent jobs citing Disaster Recovery 227 102 287
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 1.09% 1.09% 1.57%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.55% 1.20% 1.97%
Number of salaries quoted 171 84 263
10th Percentile £32,500 £32,000 £30,251
25th Percentile £36,875 £41,250 £39,470
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £55,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% +15.79% +1.06%
75th Percentile £58,696 £65,000 £61,250
90th Percentile £70,400 £73,886 £65,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £62,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.00% +13.64% -7.60%

All Process & Methodology Skills
North 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 North of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 14,600 8,499 14,585
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 70.36% 90.55% 79.67%
Number of salaries quoted 10,936 4,193 10,815
10th Percentile £30,000 £25,771 £27,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £33,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% - -9.09%
75th Percentile £71,235 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £82,500 £80,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -12.00%

Disaster Recovery
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Disaster Recovery job vacancy trend in the North of England

Disaster Recovery
Salary Trend in the North of England

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

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

Disaster Recovery
Salary Histogram in the North of England

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

Salary histogram for Disaster Recovery in the North of England

Disaster Recovery
Job Locations in the North 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 North of England region over the 6 months to 11 July 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
Yorkshire +50 109 £50,000 -20.00% 19
North West +36 102 £50,000 -6.98% 29
North East -54 16 £42,500 -12.82% 6
Disaster Recovery
England

Disaster Recovery
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North 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 30 (13.22%) SharePoint
2 29 (12.78%) Microsoft Exchange
3 15 (6.61%) IIS
Applications
1 13 (5.73%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (2.64%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (1.32%) Q-Pulse
1 3 (1.32%) Sage 200
2 2 (0.88%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 111 (48.90%) Azure
2 102 (44.93%) Microsoft 365
3 72 (31.72%) Entra ID
4 30 (13.22%) AWS
5 20 (8.81%) Microsoft Purview
6 16 (7.05%) Power Platform
7 11 (4.85%) Microsoft Copilot
8 10 (4.41%) Azure Monitor
9 8 (3.52%) Azure DevOps
10 6 (2.64%) GitHub
10 6 (2.64%) GitHub Actions
10 6 (2.64%) Nutanix
11 5 (2.20%) Copilot Studio
11 5 (2.20%) Google Workspace
11 5 (2.20%) Power Automate
11 5 (2.20%) SaaS
11 5 (2.20%) Snowflake
12 4 (1.76%) Mimecast
13 3 (1.32%) Amazon EKS
13 3 (1.32%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 84 (37.00%) Firewall
2 56 (24.67%) DNS
3 54 (23.79%) DHCP
4 31 (13.66%) TCP/IP
5 28 (12.33%) VLAN
6 24 (10.57%) LAN
6 24 (10.57%) VPN
7 21 (9.25%) WAN
8 18 (7.93%) Network Security
9 17 (7.49%) SAN
10 15 (6.61%) Wi-Fi
11 9 (3.96%) Structured Cabling
11 9 (3.96%) VoIP
12 7 (3.08%) NAS
12 7 (3.08%) NGFW
12 7 (3.08%) Remote Desktop
13 5 (2.20%) Cisco IOS
13 5 (2.20%) SNMP
14 3 (1.32%) SD-WAN
14 3 (1.32%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (5.73%) SQL Server
2 6 (2.64%) Amazon RDS
2 6 (2.64%) Power BI
3 2 (0.88%) MySQL
3 2 (0.88%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 1 (0.44%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (0.44%) NonStop SQL
4 1 (0.44%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (0.44%) Relational Database
4 1 (0.44%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 4 (1.76%) GitLab
1 4 (1.76%) JUnit
1 4 (1.76%) Spock
2 2 (0.88%) JIRA
2 2 (0.88%) Terragrunt
3 1 (0.44%) Git
3 1 (0.44%) IntelliJ
3 1 (0.44%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.44%) Maven
General
1 105 (46.26%) Social Skills
2 46 (20.26%) Analytical Skills
3 26 (11.45%) Finance
4 16 (7.05%) Public Sector
5 15 (6.61%) Legal
6 14 (6.17%) Law
7 13 (5.73%) Documentation Skills
7 13 (5.73%) Manufacturing
8 12 (5.29%) Organisational Skills
9 5 (2.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 5 (2.20%) Retail
10 3 (1.32%) Aviation
10 3 (1.32%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (0.88%) French Language
11 2 (0.88%) Social Housing
11 2 (0.88%) Telecoms
12 1 (0.44%) Aeronautics
12 1 (0.44%) Aerospace
12 1 (0.44%) Financial Institution
12 1 (0.44%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 43 (18.94%) IT Support
2 42 (18.50%) IT Manager
3 33 (14.54%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 33 (14.54%) Senior
4 27 (11.89%) Lead
5 24 (10.57%) Analyst
5 24 (10.57%) Support Engineer
6 13 (5.73%) IT Analyst
6 13 (5.73%) IT Engineer
6 13 (5.73%) IT Support Technician
6 13 (5.73%) IT Technician
6 13 (5.73%) Support Technician
7 12 (5.29%) IT Support Engineer
8 10 (4.41%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
8 10 (4.41%) IT Operations Manager
8 10 (4.41%) IT Support Analyst
8 10 (4.41%) Operations Manager
8 10 (4.41%) Security Engineer
8 10 (4.41%) Support Analyst
9 9 (3.96%) Security Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (3.96%) Middleware
2 7 (3.08%) Microsoft Graph
3 4 (1.76%) AngularJS
3 4 (1.76%) Spring
4 2 (0.88%) ARM Templates
4 2 (0.88%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 26 (11.45%) Driving Licence
2 20 (8.81%) Data Protection Act
2 20 (8.81%) Hybrid Cloud
3 15 (6.61%) Data Centre
4 14 (6.17%) Self-Motivation
5 13 (5.73%) Onboarding
6 10 (4.41%) Security Posture
7 9 (3.96%) CCTV
8 8 (3.52%) Management Information System
9 7 (3.08%) Operational Technology
10 6 (2.64%) Cyber Threat
10 6 (2.64%) Manufacturing Execution System
10 6 (2.64%) Replication
11 5 (2.20%) Analytical Mindset
11 5 (2.20%) Clustering
11 5 (2.20%) Enterprise Storage
11 5 (2.20%) Legacy Systems
11 5 (2.20%) PKI
11 5 (2.20%) Public Cloud
11 5 (2.20%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 102 (44.93%) Windows
2 73 (32.16%) Windows Server
3 12 (5.29%) Windows Server 2019
4 10 (4.41%) Windows Server 2016
5 9 (3.96%) Windows 10
6 8 (3.52%) Mac OS
7 4 (1.76%) Linux
8 3 (1.32%) VMS
9 1 (0.44%) CentOS
9 1 (0.44%) Solaris
9 1 (0.44%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.44%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 99 (43.61%) Business Continuity
2 92 (40.53%) Cybersecurity
3 80 (35.24%) Continuous Improvement
4 61 (26.87%) Problem-Solving
5 43 (18.94%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 43 (18.94%) Stakeholder Management
6 42 (18.50%) ITIL
7 40 (17.62%) BCP
8 36 (15.86%) Service Delivery
9 35 (15.42%) Business Continuity Planning
9 35 (15.42%) Incident Response
10 34 (14.98%) Incident Management
11 32 (14.10%) Risk Management
12 31 (13.66%) Data Protection
12 31 (13.66%) High Availability
13 30 (13.22%) AI
14 29 (12.78%) Migration
15 27 (11.89%) Decision-Making
15 27 (11.89%) Security Architecture
15 27 (11.89%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 53 (23.35%) PowerShell
2 27 (11.89%) SQL
3 16 (7.05%) Bash
4 9 (3.96%) Python
5 5 (2.20%) Bicep
6 4 (1.76%) Java
6 4 (1.76%) JavaScript
6 4 (1.76%) TypeScript
7 2 (0.88%) XAML
8 1 (0.44%) COBOL
8 1 (0.44%) Groovy
8 1 (0.44%) Shell Script
8 1 (0.44%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 21 (9.25%) Microsoft Certification
2 18 (7.93%) Azure Certification
3 15 (6.61%) Degree
4 9 (3.96%) Cisco Certification
5 7 (3.08%) CCNA
6 6 (2.64%) Security Cleared
6 6 (2.64%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 5 (2.20%) SC Cleared
8 4 (1.76%) MCSA
9 3 (1.32%) CCNP
9 3 (1.32%) CISM
9 3 (1.32%) CISSP
10 2 (0.88%) CEH
10 2 (0.88%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
10 2 (0.88%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
10 2 (0.88%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 1 (0.44%) AWS Certification
11 1 (0.44%) BC Cleared
11 1 (0.44%) DV Cleared
11 1 (0.44%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 47 (20.70%) Cyber Essentials
1 47 (20.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 32 (14.10%) NIST
3 28 (12.33%) GDPR
4 15 (6.61%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 12 (5.29%) SLA
6 5 (2.20%) GRC
7 4 (1.76%) PCI DSS
7 4 (1.76%) SOC 2
8 3 (1.32%) NCSC
9 2 (0.88%) Actionable Recommendations
9 2 (0.88%) ISO/IEC 20000
10 1 (0.44%) ISO 22301
10 1 (0.44%) ISO 8583
System Software
1 77 (33.92%) Active Directory
2 56 (24.67%) VMware Infrastructure
3 40 (17.62%) Hyper-V
4 5 (2.20%) Docker
5 4 (1.76%) VMware ESXi
5 4 (1.76%) vSphere
6 3 (1.32%) DFS Replication
6 3 (1.32%) Virtual Machines
7 2 (0.88%) KVM
7 2 (0.88%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 2 (0.88%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 50 (22.03%) Microsoft Intune
2 16 (7.05%) Terraform
3 12 (5.29%) FortiGate
4 6 (2.64%) VxRail
4 6 (2.64%) WSUS
5 5 (2.20%) Jamf Pro
5 5 (2.20%) Kubernetes
6 4 (1.76%) Ansible
6 4 (1.76%) Microsoft Clustering
7 3 (1.32%) SCCM
8 2 (0.88%) Single Sign-On
8 2 (0.88%) vCenter Server
8 2 (0.88%) ZABBIX
9 1 (0.44%) Functional Safety
9 1 (0.44%) Grafana
9 1 (0.44%) PowerCLI
9 1 (0.44%) Prometheus
9 1 (0.44%) Puppet
Vendors
1 148 (65.20%) Microsoft
2 67 (29.52%) VMware
3 28 (12.33%) Cisco
4 24 (10.57%) Veeam
5 14 (6.17%) Dell
5 14 (6.17%) HP
6 9 (3.96%) Commvault
6 9 (3.96%) Meraki
6 9 (3.96%) SonicWALL
6 9 (3.96%) Sophos
7 7 (3.08%) Apple
7 7 (3.08%) Zerto
8 6 (2.64%) Palo Alto
8 6 (2.64%) Tenable
9 5 (2.20%) Atlassian
9 5 (2.20%) Dell Compellent
9 5 (2.20%) Nimble Storage
9 5 (2.20%) Okta
9 5 (2.20%) SolarWinds
9 5 (2.20%) Splunk