Disaster Recovery Job Trends in Northern Ireland

Disaster Recovery
UK > Northern Ireland

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Northern Ireland requiring Disaster Recovery skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 60 34 56
Rank change year-on-year -26 +22 +19
Permanent jobs citing Disaster Recovery 11 1 5
As % of all permanent jobs in Northern Ireland 1.18% 0.41% 0.94%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.55% 0.45% 1.10%
Number of salaries quoted 0 1 2
10th Percentile - - £32,975
25th Percentile - £56,250 £35,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) - £57,500 £41,750
Median % change year-on-year - +37.72% -36.98%
75th Percentile - £58,750 £48,563
90th Percentile - - £51,525
UK median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.00% +13.64% -1.92%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Northern Ireland

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 Northern Ireland.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 708 222 454
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 76.13% 90.98% 85.66%
Number of salaries quoted 298 54 293
10th Percentile - £30,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £26,250 £35,584 £33,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,500 £53,750 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -15.35% +2.38% +5.00%
75th Percentile £70,000 £69,313 £65,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £88,083 £87,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £59,684 £55,000
% change year-on-year +0.53% +8.52% -9.84%

Disaster Recovery
Job Vacancy Trend in Northern Ireland

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

Disaster Recovery job vacancy trend in Northern Ireland

Disaster Recovery
Salary Trend in Northern Ireland

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Northern Ireland citing Disaster Recovery.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Northern Ireland citing Disaster Recovery

Disaster Recovery
Job Locations in Northern Ireland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Disaster Recovery within the Northern Ireland region over the 6 months to 17 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
County Antrim -17 10 - -
County Londonderry - 1 - -
Disaster Recovery
UK

Disaster Recovery
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Northern Ireland 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:

Cloud Services
1 10 (90.91%) AWS
1 10 (90.91%) Azure
1 10 (90.91%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 10 (90.91%) DHCP
1 10 (90.91%) DNS
1 10 (90.91%) Remote Desktop
2 1 (9.09%) Fibre Channel
2 1 (9.09%) SAN
General
1 11 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 11 (100.00%) Cloud Engineer
2 1 (9.09%) Data Centre Engineer
2 1 (9.09%) Senior
2 1 (9.09%) Senior Cloud Engineer
2 1 (9.09%) Senior Storage Engineer
2 1 (9.09%) Storage Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 10 (90.91%) Hybrid Cloud
1 10 (90.91%) Public Cloud
2 1 (9.09%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 10 (90.91%) Windows
1 10 (90.91%) Windows Server
2 1 (9.09%) Linux
2 1 (9.09%) Oracle Linux
2 1 (9.09%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (100.00%) Business Continuity
1 11 (100.00%) High Availability
1 11 (100.00%) ITIL
2 10 (90.91%) Business Strategy
2 10 (90.91%) Change Management
2 10 (90.91%) Coaching
2 10 (90.91%) ITSM
2 10 (90.91%) Knowledge Transfer
2 10 (90.91%) Mentoring
2 10 (90.91%) Server Management
2 10 (90.91%) Storage Management
2 10 (90.91%) Vulnerability Remediation
3 1 (9.09%) Computer Science
3 1 (9.09%) Data Protection
3 1 (9.09%) Problem Management
3 1 (9.09%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 1 (9.09%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1 (9.09%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (9.09%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (90.91%) SLA
System Software
1 11 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 10 (90.91%) Active Directory
2 10 (90.91%) Hyper-V
3 1 (9.09%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 1 (9.09%) Ansible
1 1 (9.09%) EMC NetWorker
1 1 (9.09%) Grafana
1 1 (9.09%) Graylog
1 1 (9.09%) Nagios
Vendors
1 11 (100.00%) VMware
2 10 (90.91%) Dell
2 10 (90.91%) Dell Compellent
2 10 (90.91%) HP
2 10 (90.91%) Nimble Storage
3 1 (9.09%) Commvault
3 1 (9.09%) Oracle
3 1 (9.09%) Zerto