Disaster Recovery Job Trends in the South West

Disaster Recovery
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the South West requiring Disaster Recovery skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 150 144 157
Rank change year-on-year -6 +13 +53
Permanent jobs citing Disaster Recovery 35 49 58
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 0.70% 1.14% 1.32%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.96% 1.35% 1.45%
Number of salaries quoted 27 31 48
10th Percentile £29,000 £37,199 £28,150
25th Percentile £32,500 £48,500 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £51,500 £42,250
Median % change year-on-year -17.48% +21.89% +4.97%
75th Percentile £49,375 £68,375 £66,778
90th Percentile £58,450 £73,750 £70,225
England median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% -4.17% +14.29%

All Process & Methodology Skills
South 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 South West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,635 3,643 4,000
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 72.48% 84.45% 91.35%
Number of salaries quoted 2,465 1,869 3,032
10th Percentile £27,750 £30,000 £30,775
25th Percentile £33,750 £40,000 £41,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +1.85% +6.32%
75th Percentile £65,000 £68,750 £67,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £82,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

Disaster Recovery
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Disaster Recovery job vacancy trend in the South West

Disaster Recovery
Salary Trend in the South West

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

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

Disaster Recovery
Salary Histogram in the South West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Disaster Recovery in the South West over the 6 months to 1 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Disaster Recovery in the South West

Disaster Recovery
Job Locations in the South 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 South West region over the 6 months to 1 January 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
Dorset - 12 £35,000 - 3
Bristol -12 11 £42,500 -13.27% 4
Gloucestershire +18 5 £45,678 -33.80% 4
Devon +6 5 £47,500 +48.43% 1
Wiltshire +8 2 £73,750 +31.11% 1
Disaster Recovery
England

Disaster Recovery
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South West 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 7 (20.00%) SharePoint
2 6 (17.14%) Microsoft Exchange
3 5 (14.29%) IIS
Applications
1 4 (11.43%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (11.43%) Microsoft Office
1 4 (11.43%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (5.71%) Dynamics AX
Cloud Services
1 21 (60.00%) Azure
2 14 (40.00%) Microsoft 365
3 9 (25.71%) Entra ID
4 5 (14.29%) AWS
4 5 (14.29%) OneDrive
5 2 (5.71%) Dynamics 365
5 2 (5.71%) GCP
5 2 (5.71%) Mimecast
6 1 (2.86%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (2.86%) Azure AKS
6 1 (2.86%) Azure Key Vault
6 1 (2.86%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 1 (2.86%) OpenShift
6 1 (2.86%) PaaS
6 1 (2.86%) Serverless
6 1 (2.86%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 15 (42.86%) Firewall
2 12 (34.29%) DNS
3 10 (28.57%) VoIP
4 7 (20.00%) VLAN
4 7 (20.00%) VPN
5 6 (17.14%) DHCP
6 5 (14.29%) Cisco IOS
6 5 (14.29%) IPsec
6 5 (14.29%) Wi-Fi
6 5 (14.29%) Wireless
7 4 (11.43%) Unified Communications
8 2 (5.71%) WAN
9 1 (2.86%) Internet
9 1 (2.86%) LAN
9 1 (2.86%) Network Security
9 1 (2.86%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (14.29%) Amazon RDS
1 5 (14.29%) SQL Server
2 3 (8.57%) MySQL
3 2 (5.71%) MongoDB
3 2 (5.71%) Oracle Database
3 2 (5.71%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (2.86%) Airbyte
4 1 (2.86%) BigQuery
4 1 (2.86%) Couchbase
4 1 (2.86%) Redis
Development Applications
1 1 (2.86%) Git
General
1 17 (48.57%) Social Skills
2 9 (25.71%) Finance
3 7 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (14.29%) Advertising
4 5 (14.29%) Marketing
4 5 (14.29%) Public Sector
4 5 (14.29%) Telecoms
5 4 (11.43%) Electronics
5 4 (11.43%) Legal
5 4 (11.43%) Manufacturing
6 3 (8.57%) Retail
7 1 (2.86%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (2.86%) Police
Job Titles
1 9 (25.71%) IT Support
2 8 (22.86%) 2nd Line Support
2 8 (22.86%) Support Engineer
3 7 (20.00%) Administrator
3 7 (20.00%) Senior
4 6 (17.14%) Lead
4 6 (17.14%) Senior Support Engineer
5 5 (14.29%) ICT Support
5 5 (14.29%) ICT Support Technician
5 5 (14.29%) ICT Technician
5 5 (14.29%) IT Engineer
5 5 (14.29%) IT Support Engineer
5 5 (14.29%) Senior IT Engineer
5 5 (14.29%) Senior IT Support
5 5 (14.29%) Support Technician
6 4 (11.43%) 2nd Line Engineer
6 4 (11.43%) 2nd/3rd Line Support
6 4 (11.43%) 2nd/3rd Line Support Engineer
6 4 (11.43%) 3rd Line Engineer
6 4 (11.43%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.86%) ARM Templates
1 1 (2.86%) Laravel
Miscellaneous
1 7 (20.00%) Clustering
2 4 (11.43%) Analytical Mindset
2 4 (11.43%) CMDB
3 3 (8.57%) CCTV
4 2 (5.71%) Cloud Native
4 2 (5.71%) Driving Licence
4 2 (5.71%) Replication
5 1 (2.86%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 21 (60.00%) Windows
2 16 (45.71%) Windows Server
3 10 (28.57%) Mac OS
4 7 (20.00%) Linux
5 5 (14.29%) Android
5 5 (14.29%) Apple iOS
5 5 (14.29%) Windows 10
6 4 (11.43%) Windows Server 2019
7 2 (5.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (2.86%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (31.43%) Asset Management
1 11 (31.43%) ITIL
2 10 (28.57%) Mentoring
3 9 (25.71%) Cloud Security
4 6 (17.14%) Business Continuity
4 6 (17.14%) Migration
5 5 (14.29%) AI
5 5 (14.29%) Business Intelligence
5 5 (14.29%) Coaching
5 5 (14.29%) Collaborative Culture
5 5 (14.29%) Containerisation
5 5 (14.29%) Customer Experience
5 5 (14.29%) IT Strategy
5 5 (14.29%) Remote Monitoring and Management
5 5 (14.29%) Server Building
5 5 (14.29%) Server Management
6 4 (11.43%) Invoice Processing
6 4 (11.43%) Problem-Solving
6 4 (11.43%) Server Patching
6 4 (11.43%) Strategic Thinking
Programming Languages
1 12 (34.29%) PowerShell
2 4 (11.43%) Bash
2 4 (11.43%) Python
3 1 (2.86%) Bicep
3 1 (2.86%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (14.29%) ACMT
1 5 (14.29%) MCP
1 5 (14.29%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
2 4 (11.43%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
3 2 (5.71%) Azure Certification
4 1 (2.86%) AWS Certification
4 1 (2.86%) DV Cleared
4 1 (2.86%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (2.86%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (17.14%) Cyber Essentials
2 3 (8.57%) GDPR
2 3 (8.57%) PCI DSS
3 1 (2.86%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 1 (2.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (2.86%) NCSC
3 1 (2.86%) SLA
System Software
1 18 (51.43%) VMware Infrastructure
2 13 (37.14%) Active Directory
3 11 (31.43%) Hyper-V
4 7 (20.00%) VMware ESXi
5 5 (14.29%) Docker
6 4 (11.43%) Virtual Machines
7 2 (5.71%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 14 (40.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 7 (20.00%) Kubernetes
2 7 (20.00%) vCenter Server
3 5 (14.29%) Autotask
4 4 (11.43%) Terraform
5 2 (5.71%) Data Guard
5 2 (5.71%) Nagios
6 1 (2.86%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 24 (68.57%) Microsoft
2 18 (51.43%) VMware
3 11 (31.43%) Cisco
4 9 (25.71%) Datto
5 7 (20.00%) Oracle
6 5 (14.29%) Apple
6 5 (14.29%) Sophos
6 5 (14.29%) Veeam
7 4 (11.43%) SAP
8 2 (5.71%) DocuSign
8 2 (5.71%) Fortinet
8 2 (5.71%) Google
8 2 (5.71%) Meraki
8 2 (5.71%) SolarWinds
8 2 (5.71%) Workday
9 1 (2.86%) Acronis
9 1 (2.86%) New Relic
9 1 (2.86%) Splunk
9 1 (2.86%) Ubiquiti