Disaster Recovery Job Trends in the South East

Disaster Recovery
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the South East requiring Disaster Recovery skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 196 190 228
Rank change year-on-year -6 +38 +65
Permanent jobs citing Disaster Recovery 96 81 162
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 0.67% 1.04% 0.99%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.93% 1.15% 1.18%
Number of salaries quoted 78 66 142
10th Percentile £32,175 £37,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,563 £45,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £65,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% +13.04% -
75th Percentile £70,000 £75,000 £63,750
90th Percentile £77,875 £77,500 £68,750
England median annual salary £61,250 £62,500 £57,046
% change year-on-year -2.00% +9.56% -0.36%

All Process & Methodology Skills
South East

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 South East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 10,378 7,062 13,780
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 71.93% 90.56% 84.12%
Number of salaries quoted 7,020 3,367 9,785
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,000 £27,500
25th Percentile £39,775 £36,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £54,625 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.69% +9.25% -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £68,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £83,000 £77,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +9.09% -12.00%

Disaster Recovery
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Disaster Recovery job vacancy trend in the South East

Disaster Recovery
Salary Trend in the South East

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Disaster Recovery.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Disaster Recovery

Disaster Recovery
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Disaster Recovery in the South East over the 6 months to 16 May 2026.

Salary histogram for Disaster Recovery in the South East

Disaster Recovery
Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Disaster Recovery within the South East region over the 6 months to 16 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
Kent -6 33 £34,500 -37.27% 2
Thames Valley -2 22 £60,000 -7.69% 29
Surrey -34 19 £60,000 +4.35% 5
Buckinghamshire 0 10 £60,000 -2.04% 6
Berkshire 0 7 £77,500 +37.78% 15
Hampshire -20 7 £70,000 +16.67% 3
Oxfordshire -10 5 £42,500 -39.29% 8
East Sussex - 5 £40,000 - 2
West Sussex - 4 £70,000 - 2
Home Counties - 2 £85,000 -
Disaster Recovery
England

Disaster Recovery
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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 13 (13.54%) Microsoft Exchange
2 7 (7.29%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.04%) Apache
3 1 (1.04%) Confluence
Applications
1 4 (4.17%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (4.17%) NetSuite
2 1 (1.04%) Oracle 11i
2 1 (1.04%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (1.04%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (1.04%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 60 (62.50%) Azure
2 38 (39.58%) Microsoft 365
3 29 (30.21%) AWS
4 16 (16.67%) GCP
5 14 (14.58%) Entra ID
6 10 (10.42%) Nutanix
7 5 (5.21%) IaaS
7 5 (5.21%) Mimecast
7 5 (5.21%) PaaS
8 4 (4.17%) AWS CloudFormation
8 4 (4.17%) SaaS
9 2 (2.08%) Azure Monitor
10 1 (1.04%) Azure DevOps
10 1 (1.04%) Google Workspace
10 1 (1.04%) OCI
10 1 (1.04%) OneDrive
10 1 (1.04%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 46 (47.92%) Firewall
2 33 (34.38%) VPN
3 27 (28.13%) WAN
4 26 (27.08%) DNS
5 25 (26.04%) LAN
6 20 (20.83%) DHCP
7 14 (14.58%) VLAN
8 8 (8.33%) Remote Desktop
9 7 (7.29%) TCP/IP
9 7 (7.29%) Wireless
10 6 (6.25%) SAN
10 6 (6.25%) Wi-Fi
11 5 (5.21%) NAS
11 5 (5.21%) Network Security
12 4 (4.17%) BGP
12 4 (4.17%) IPsec
13 2 (2.08%) VoIP
13 2 (2.08%) VSAN
14 1 (1.04%) Internet
14 1 (1.04%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (4.17%) SQL Server
2 1 (1.04%) MySQL
2 1 (1.04%) Oracle Database
2 1 (1.04%) Oracle Database 12c
2 1 (1.04%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (1.04%) Power BI
2 1 (1.04%) RDBMS
2 1 (1.04%) Relational Database
2 1 (1.04%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 1 (1.04%) Bitbucket
1 1 (1.04%) JIRA
General
1 29 (30.21%) Social Skills
2 14 (14.58%) Analytical Skills
3 13 (13.54%) Finance
4 4 (4.17%) Organisational Skills
4 4 (4.17%) Presentation Skills
4 4 (4.17%) Telecoms
5 3 (3.13%) Retail
6 2 (2.08%) Banking
6 2 (2.08%) French Language
6 2 (2.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (2.08%) Law
7 1 (1.04%) Aerospace
7 1 (1.04%) Health Technology
7 1 (1.04%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 24 (25.00%) IT Support
2 19 (19.79%) IT Engineer
3 18 (18.75%) Support Engineer
4 17 (17.71%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 16 (16.67%) IT Support Engineer
6 15 (15.63%) Senior
7 12 (12.50%) Cloud Engineer
8 8 (8.33%) Infrastructure Support
8 8 (8.33%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
9 7 (7.29%) Analyst
9 7 (7.29%) Architect
9 7 (7.29%) Security Manager
10 5 (5.21%) Administrator
10 5 (5.21%) Consultant
11 4 (4.17%) 3rd Line Support
11 4 (4.17%) Infrastructure Specialist
11 4 (4.17%) Infrastructure Support Analyst
11 4 (4.17%) IT Support Analyst
11 4 (4.17%) IT Support Specialist
11 4 (4.17%) Support Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (4.17%) ARM Templates
2 3 (3.13%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 14 (14.58%) Replication
2 12 (12.50%) Data Centre
3 9 (9.38%) Enterprise Storage
3 9 (9.38%) iSeries
3 9 (9.38%) Onboarding
3 9 (9.38%) Public Cloud
4 8 (8.33%) Hybrid Cloud
5 7 (7.29%) Cyber Threat
6 6 (6.25%) Self-Motivation
7 5 (5.21%) Driving Licence
7 5 (5.21%) Management Information System
8 4 (4.17%) Analytical Mindset
8 4 (4.17%) Cloud Native
8 4 (4.17%) Web Conferencing
9 1 (1.04%) CMDB
9 1 (1.04%) Cyber Security Posture
9 1 (1.04%) Legacy Systems
9 1 (1.04%) PKI
9 1 (1.04%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 37 (38.54%) Windows
2 30 (31.25%) Windows Server
3 8 (8.33%) Linux
4 4 (4.17%) Ubuntu
5 2 (2.08%) Mac OS
6 1 (1.04%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (1.04%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (1.04%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (38.54%) Business Continuity
2 27 (28.13%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 25 (26.04%) Cybersecurity
3 25 (26.04%) ITIL
4 19 (19.79%) Continuous Improvement
4 19 (19.79%) Problem-Solving
5 17 (17.71%) Vulnerability Remediation
6 16 (16.67%) Mentoring
7 13 (13.54%) Process Improvement
8 11 (11.46%) High Availability
8 11 (11.46%) Service Delivery
9 10 (10.42%) Project Delivery
9 10 (10.42%) Service Management
10 9 (9.38%) Data Protection
10 9 (9.38%) ERP
10 9 (9.38%) Incident Response
10 9 (9.38%) ITSM
10 9 (9.38%) Stakeholder Management
10 9 (9.38%) Storage Management
11 8 (8.33%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 9 (9.38%) PowerShell
2 5 (5.21%) Bicep
3 4 (4.17%) Python
4 2 (2.08%) SQL
5 1 (1.04%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 10 (10.42%) Degree
2 8 (8.33%) Microsoft Certification
3 7 (7.29%) CCNA
3 7 (7.29%) Cisco Certification
4 5 (5.21%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (4.17%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 3 (3.13%) MCSE
7 2 (2.08%) Azure Certification
7 2 (2.08%) Network+ Certification
7 2 (2.08%) Security Cleared
7 2 (2.08%) VCAP
7 2 (2.08%) VCDX
8 1 (1.04%) AWS Certification
8 1 (1.04%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (1.04%) CCIE
8 1 (1.04%) CompTIA Security+
8 1 (1.04%) DBS Check
8 1 (1.04%) DV Cleared
8 1 (1.04%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (11.46%) GDPR
2 10 (10.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 9 (9.38%) Cyber Essentials
3 9 (9.38%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 8 (8.33%) Actionable Recommendations
4 8 (8.33%) SLA
5 6 (6.25%) NIST
5 6 (6.25%) PCI DSS
6 4 (4.17%) Data Quality
7 2 (2.08%) PMO
7 2 (2.08%) SOC 2
8 1 (1.04%) GRC
System Software
1 37 (38.54%) VMware Infrastructure
2 36 (37.50%) Hyper-V
3 32 (33.33%) Active Directory
4 9 (9.38%) Firmware
5 5 (5.21%) VMware ESXi
6 4 (4.17%) Docker
7 3 (3.13%) vSphere
8 2 (2.08%) vCloud
8 2 (2.08%) Virtual Machines
8 2 (2.08%) VMware NSX
9 1 (1.04%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 7 (7.29%) Terraform
2 4 (4.17%) Backup Exec
2 4 (4.17%) Kubernetes
2 4 (4.17%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (1.04%) Ansible
3 1 (1.04%) Dell DRAC
3 1 (1.04%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 62 (64.58%) Microsoft
2 47 (48.96%) VMware
3 18 (18.75%) HP
4 16 (16.67%) Veeam
5 11 (11.46%) Cisco
5 11 (11.46%) Dell
6 10 (10.42%) Citrix
6 10 (10.42%) Nimble Storage
7 9 (9.38%) Commvault
7 9 (9.38%) EMC
7 9 (9.38%) IBM
8 8 (8.33%) Dell Compellent
9 7 (7.29%) Google
10 5 (5.21%) Fortinet
11 4 (4.17%) Barracuda Networks
11 4 (4.17%) ConnectWise
11 4 (4.17%) Facebook
11 4 (4.17%) Meraki
11 4 (4.17%) SAP
11 4 (4.17%) Sophos