Disaster Recovery Jobs in Scotland

Disaster Recovery
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 21 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 141 215 187
Rank change year-on-year +74 -28 +16
Permanent jobs citing Disaster Recovery 16 64 27
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 0.53% 0.95% 0.59%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.57% 1.04% 0.62%
Number of salaries quoted 14 57 22
10th Percentile £29,250 £41,050 £37,500
25th Percentile £37,813 £42,500 £46,318
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,445 £50,000 £57,263
Median % change year-on-year +0.89% -12.68% +9.07%
75th Percentile £63,750 £56,250 £62,833
90th Percentile £75,518 £61,250 -
UK median annual salary £62,500 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +13.64% -4.35% +2.22%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,797 6,183 4,341
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 92.65% 92.19% 94.35%
Number of salaries quoted 1,381 2,393 2,164
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,750 £32,491
25th Percentile £40,000 £40,000 £42,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,000 £52,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -8.70% +4.55%
75th Percentile £62,342 £65,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £82,500 £80,000 £85,000
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 Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Disaster Recovery in Scotland

Disaster Recovery
Salary Trend in Scotland

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

Salary trend for Disaster Recovery in Scotland

Disaster Recovery
Salary Histogram in Scotland

Salary distribution for jobs citing Disaster Recovery in Scotland over the 6 months to 21 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Disaster Recovery in Scotland

Disaster Recovery
Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Disaster Recovery within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 21 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
Edinburgh +19 7 £50,000 -9.09% 7
Glasgow +147 5 £50,000 - 9
Aberdeen +30 1 - -
Dundee +11 1 £50,890 -11.50%
Renfrewshire -17 1 £60,000 +14.29% 3
Argyll and Bute - 1 - -
Disaster Recovery
UK

Disaster Recovery
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 3 (18.75%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (6.25%) IIS
Applications
1 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 3 (18.75%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (12.50%) Azure
3 1 (6.25%) Amazon S3
3 1 (6.25%) AWS
3 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Purview
3 1 (6.25%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (12.50%) DHCP
1 2 (12.50%) DNS
1 2 (12.50%) Firewall
1 2 (12.50%) LAN
1 2 (12.50%) VPN
2 1 (6.25%) VLAN
2 1 (6.25%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.25%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (6.25%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (6.25%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (6.25%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (6.25%) Git
1 1 (6.25%) GitLab
1 1 (6.25%) Jenkins
General
1 4 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (18.75%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (18.75%) Finance
3 1 (6.25%) Automotive
3 1 (6.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (6.25%) Manufacturing
3 1 (6.25%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (6.25%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (31.25%) Analyst
2 4 (25.00%) IT Analyst
3 3 (18.75%) Senior
3 3 (18.75%) Service Analyst
4 2 (12.50%) 2nd Line Service Desk Analyst
4 2 (12.50%) DBA
4 2 (12.50%) Information Manager
4 2 (12.50%) Information Security Manager
4 2 (12.50%) Security Manager
4 2 (12.50%) Service Desk Analyst
5 1 (6.25%) Azure SQL DBA
5 1 (6.25%) Disaster Recovery Analyst
5 1 (6.25%) Information Security Analyst
5 1 (6.25%) IT Technician
5 1 (6.25%) Senior DBA
5 1 (6.25%) Senior IT Technician
5 1 (6.25%) Senior Technician
5 1 (6.25%) Service Continuity Analyst
5 1 (6.25%) Unix Linux Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Windows Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (6.25%) FIDO
1 1 (6.25%) JWT
1 1 (6.25%) OAuth
1 1 (6.25%) OAuth2
1 1 (6.25%) OpenID
1 1 (6.25%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (6.25%) Algorithms
1 1 (6.25%) Cyber Threat
1 1 (6.25%) Data Centre
1 1 (6.25%) Data Structures
1 1 (6.25%) Management Information System
1 1 (6.25%) Onboarding
1 1 (6.25%) Renewable Energy
1 1 (6.25%) SCADA
1 1 (6.25%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 6 (37.50%) Windows
2 4 (25.00%) Windows Server
3 3 (18.75%) Linux
4 2 (12.50%) AIX
4 2 (12.50%) Solaris
5 1 (6.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (6.25%) Unix
5 1 (6.25%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (6.25%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (31.25%) Business Continuity
1 5 (31.25%) Cybersecurity
2 3 (18.75%) Continuous Improvement
2 3 (18.75%) Information Security
3 2 (12.50%) Business Impact Analysis
3 2 (12.50%) Data Analysis
3 2 (12.50%) Data Protection
3 2 (12.50%) High Availability
3 2 (12.50%) Impact Analysis
3 2 (12.50%) Incident Management
3 2 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 2 (12.50%) ITIL
3 2 (12.50%) Performance Tuning
3 2 (12.50%) Risk Assessment
3 2 (12.50%) Security Operations
3 2 (12.50%) Service Delivery
3 2 (12.50%) Validation
4 1 (6.25%) Cloud Security
4 1 (6.25%) Customer Service
4 1 (6.25%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 1 (6.25%) Java
1 1 (6.25%) Rust
1 1 (6.25%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (12.50%) CISM
1 2 (12.50%) Degree
1 2 (12.50%) SC Cleared
1 2 (12.50%) Security Cleared
2 1 (6.25%) CCDP
2 1 (6.25%) CCNP
2 1 (6.25%) CCSP
2 1 (6.25%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (6.25%) CISSP
2 1 (6.25%) DV Cleared
2 1 (6.25%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (18.75%) ISO 22301
1 3 (18.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (12.50%) NIST
3 1 (6.25%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 5 (31.25%) Active Directory
2 4 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (12.50%) Hyper-V
4 1 (6.25%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (6.25%) Ansible
1 1 (6.25%) Kubernetes
1 1 (6.25%) Progress Chef
1 1 (6.25%) Single Sign-On
1 1 (6.25%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (25.00%) VMware
2 2 (12.50%) Microsoft
3 1 (6.25%) ForgeRock
3 1 (6.25%) Oracle
3 1 (6.25%) Ping Identity
3 1 (6.25%) Red Hat