Disaster Recovery Jobs in the North West

Disaster Recovery
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 13 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 225 123 218
Rank change year-on-year -102 +95 -13
Permanent jobs citing Disaster Recovery 57 195 80
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 0.71% 1.98% 1.02%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.74% 2.39% 1.06%
Number of salaries quoted 47 187 72
10th Percentile £35,650 £31,250 £33,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £41,250 £41,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £47,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% +5.56% -
75th Percentile £64,682 £62,500 £60,000
90th Percentile £73,886 £71,750 £63,658
England median annual salary £62,500 £57,046 £57,250
% change year-on-year +9.56% -0.36% +4.09%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North West

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 West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 7,697 8,168 7,530
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 95.86% 82.81% 95.63%
Number of salaries quoted 4,045 6,196 3,942
10th Percentile £26,250 £27,500 £30,831
25th Percentile £40,000 £37,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,055 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.11% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £61,000 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £82,500
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -12.00% +4.17%

Disaster Recovery
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Job postings citing Disaster Recovery as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Job vacancy trend for Disaster Recovery in the North West

Disaster Recovery
Salary Trend in the North West

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Disaster Recovery in the North West.

Salary trend for Disaster Recovery in the North West

Disaster Recovery
Salary Histogram in the North West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Disaster Recovery in the North West over the 6 months to 13 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Disaster Recovery in the North West

Disaster Recovery
Job Locations in the North West

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 West region over the 6 months to 13 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
Manchester -3 39 £55,000 - 36
Lancashire -70 7 £42,500 +54.55% 19
Cheshire -22 6 £40,000 -8.05% 3
Merseyside +15 4 £42,500 +3.07% 4
Cumbria -89 1 £32,000 -44.35% 5
Disaster Recovery
England

Disaster Recovery
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 9 (15.79%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (7.02%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.75%) IIS
Business Applications
1 1 (1.75%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 27 (47.37%) Azure
2 20 (35.09%) Microsoft 365
3 11 (19.30%) AWS
4 10 (17.54%) GCP
5 7 (12.28%) Entra ID
6 2 (3.51%) IaaS
6 2 (3.51%) Mimecast
6 2 (3.51%) SaaS
7 1 (1.75%) Amazon S3
7 1 (1.75%) Cloudflare
7 1 (1.75%) Datadog
7 1 (1.75%) Microsoft Copilot
7 1 (1.75%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 17 (29.82%) DNS
2 16 (28.07%) DHCP
3 13 (22.81%) Firewall
4 7 (12.28%) VSAN
5 6 (10.53%) IPv4
5 6 (10.53%) LAN
5 6 (10.53%) VLAN
5 6 (10.53%) WAN
6 5 (8.77%) NAS
6 5 (8.77%) SAN
7 2 (3.51%) Remote Desktop
7 2 (3.51%) SD-WAN
7 2 (3.51%) SNMP
7 2 (3.51%) VoIP
8 1 (1.75%) MPLS
8 1 (1.75%) VXLAN
8 1 (1.75%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (17.54%) SQL Server
2 6 (10.53%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (8.77%) MongoDB
3 5 (8.77%) NoSQL
4 3 (5.26%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (3.51%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (1.75%) Cloud Spanner
6 1 (1.75%) Couchbase
6 1 (1.75%) MySQL
6 1 (1.75%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 5 (8.77%) Oracle Forms
2 2 (3.51%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.75%) Git
3 1 (1.75%) GitLab
3 1 (1.75%) Jaeger
General
1 21 (36.84%) Finance
2 18 (31.58%) Social Skills
3 11 (19.30%) Banking
4 6 (10.53%) Retail
5 4 (7.02%) Manufacturing
6 3 (5.26%) Law
6 3 (5.26%) Legal
7 2 (3.51%) Telecoms
8 1 (1.75%) Analytical Skills
8 1 (1.75%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 13 (22.81%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 11 (19.30%) Cloud Engineer
3 10 (17.54%) Senior
4 8 (14.04%) IT Engineer
4 8 (14.04%) Resilience Manager
5 6 (10.53%) Analyst
5 6 (10.53%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
5 6 (10.53%) Data Manager
5 6 (10.53%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
6 5 (8.77%) Infrastructure Analyst
7 4 (7.02%) Architect
7 4 (7.02%) AWS DevOps
7 4 (7.02%) AWS Solution Architect
7 4 (7.02%) DBA
7 4 (7.02%) Project Manager
7 4 (7.02%) Senior DevOps
7 4 (7.02%) Senior Manager
7 4 (7.02%) Senior Project Manager
7 4 (7.02%) Senior Solutions Architect
7 4 (7.02%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (21.05%) Middleware
2 3 (5.26%) SAML
3 2 (3.51%) Software Packaging
4 1 (1.75%) FIDO
4 1 (1.75%) JSON
4 1 (1.75%) JWT
4 1 (1.75%) Loki
4 1 (1.75%) OAuth
4 1 (1.75%) OAuth2
4 1 (1.75%) OpenID
4 1 (1.75%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 6 (10.53%) Cyber Threat
1 6 (10.53%) Data Centre
2 5 (8.77%) Cloud Native
2 5 (8.77%) Hybrid Cloud
2 5 (8.77%) Management Information System
2 5 (8.77%) Replication
2 5 (8.77%) Social Media
3 4 (7.02%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (3.51%) Driving Licence
5 1 (1.75%) Algorithms
5 1 (1.75%) CCTV
5 1 (1.75%) Data Structures
5 1 (1.75%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.75%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 29 (50.88%) Windows
2 14 (24.56%) Linux
2 14 (24.56%) Windows Server
3 8 (14.04%) Windows Server 2019
4 6 (10.53%) Unix
5 5 (8.77%) Windows Server 2016
6 4 (7.02%) Windows Vista
7 3 (5.26%) Windows Server 2008
8 1 (1.75%) CentOS
8 1 (1.75%) Debian
8 1 (1.75%) Mac OS
8 1 (1.75%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (29.82%) Business Continuity
1 17 (29.82%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 15 (26.32%) Agile
3 14 (24.56%) Problem-Solving
4 9 (15.79%) Architectural Design
5 8 (14.04%) Incident Management
5 8 (14.04%) Mentoring
6 7 (12.28%) High Availability
6 7 (12.28%) ITIL
6 7 (12.28%) Project Management
7 6 (10.53%) Analytics
7 6 (10.53%) Commercialisation
7 6 (10.53%) Data Encryption
7 6 (10.53%) Data Lineage
7 6 (10.53%) Data Security
7 6 (10.53%) Performance Optimisation
7 6 (10.53%) Stakeholder Management
7 6 (10.53%) Target Operating Model
7 6 (10.53%) Vulnerability Remediation
8 5 (8.77%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 15 (26.32%) SQL
2 13 (22.81%) PowerShell
3 5 (8.77%) Java
3 5 (8.77%) Python
4 4 (7.02%) C#
5 3 (5.26%) T-SQL
6 1 (1.75%) Bash
6 1 (1.75%) Go
6 1 (1.75%) PL/SQL
6 1 (1.75%) Rust
Qualifications
1 10 (17.54%) Azure Certification
2 9 (15.79%) Microsoft Certification
3 6 (10.53%) Degree
4 5 (8.77%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 4 (7.02%) AWS Certification
5 4 (7.02%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 4 (7.02%) DBS Check
5 4 (7.02%) PMI Certification
5 4 (7.02%) PMP
5 4 (7.02%) PRINCE2 Certification
6 1 (1.75%) CCNA
6 1 (1.75%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (1.75%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.75%) ITIL Certification
6 1 (1.75%) MCITP
6 1 (1.75%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (8.77%) GDPR
2 4 (7.02%) HIPAA
2 4 (7.02%) NIST
3 2 (3.51%) Cyber Essentials
3 2 (3.51%) Data Quality
3 2 (3.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (3.51%) PMO
4 1 (1.75%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 1 (1.75%) ISO 22301
4 1 (1.75%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 20 (35.09%) Active Directory
2 7 (12.28%) Hyper-V
3 5 (8.77%) DFS Replication
3 5 (8.77%) Docker
3 5 (8.77%) VMware NSX
4 4 (7.02%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (7.02%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (1.75%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 7 (12.28%) Terraform
2 6 (10.53%) Progress Chef
3 5 (8.77%) Kubernetes
4 4 (7.02%) Microsoft Intune
5 3 (5.26%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (3.51%) Ansible
6 2 (3.51%) FortiGate
7 1 (1.75%) Grafana
7 1 (1.75%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 23 (40.35%) Microsoft
2 15 (26.32%) VMware
3 12 (21.05%) Veeam
4 9 (15.79%) Google
5 8 (14.04%) Oracle
6 6 (10.53%) ServiceNow
7 2 (3.51%) Aderant
7 2 (3.51%) Cisco
7 2 (3.51%) SolarWinds
8 1 (1.75%) Apple
8 1 (1.75%) ConnectWise
8 1 (1.75%) Datto
8 1 (1.75%) ESET
8 1 (1.75%) Facebook
8 1 (1.75%) ForgeRock
8 1 (1.75%) New Relic
8 1 (1.75%) Ping Identity
8 1 (1.75%) Sophos
8 1 (1.75%) Ubiquiti