Disaster Recovery Jobs in the South West

Disaster Recovery
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South 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 15 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 104 226 156
Rank change year-on-year +122 -70 +86
Permanent jobs citing Disaster Recovery 73 67 117
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 2.05% 0.72% 1.74%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.20% 0.87% 1.84%
Number of salaries quoted 65 62 69
10th Percentile £37,500 £25,063 £30,725
25th Percentile £41,250 £35,000 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £51,716 £45,186
Median % change year-on-year +11.18% +14.45% +0.41%
75th Percentile £67,500 £61,167 £62,833
90th Percentile £73,750 £61,250 £75,000
England median annual salary £62,500 £55,700 £57,500
% change year-on-year +12.21% -3.13% +4.55%

All Process and 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 3,324 7,721 6,349
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 93.29% 83.42% 94.42%
Number of salaries quoted 1,907 5,559 3,544
10th Percentile £27,250 £28,500 £30,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £37,500 £38,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,600 £51,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.14% -2.86% +5.00%
75th Percentile £63,750 £65,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £78,750 £80,000 £81,250
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 South West

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

Job vacancy trend for Disaster Recovery in the South West

Disaster Recovery
Salary Trend in the South West

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

Salary trend for Disaster Recovery in the South West

Disaster Recovery
Salary Histogram in the South West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Disaster Recovery in the South West over the 6 months to 15 May 2025.

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 15 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
Bristol +71 31 £60,000 +24.35% 9
Somerset +31 27 £40,000 - 3
Wiltshire +38 6 £50,000 -12.35% 8
Gloucestershire +53 4 £64,500 +104.76% 7
Dorset +36 4 £62,500 +35.14% 1
Devon +13 1 £67,500 +10.80% 3
Disaster Recovery
England

Disaster Recovery
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South 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 10 (13.70%) IIS
2 6 (8.22%) Microsoft Exchange
3 5 (6.85%) SharePoint
4 1 (1.37%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
Cloud Services
1 41 (56.16%) Azure
2 27 (36.99%) Microsoft 365
3 13 (17.81%) AWS
4 10 (13.70%) Entra ID
5 5 (6.85%) Cloud Computing
5 5 (6.85%) OneDrive
6 3 (4.11%) IaaS
6 3 (4.11%) PaaS
6 3 (4.11%) SaaS
6 3 (4.11%) Serverless
7 1 (1.37%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (1.37%) Amazon S3
7 1 (1.37%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (1.37%) Mimecast
7 1 (1.37%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 27 (36.99%) Firewall
2 23 (31.51%) DHCP
2 23 (31.51%) DNS
3 19 (26.03%) VLAN
4 18 (24.66%) VPN
5 13 (17.81%) Network Security
6 11 (15.07%) VoIP
7 10 (13.70%) ADSL
8 5 (6.85%) LAN
8 5 (6.85%) WAN
9 4 (5.48%) Intrusion Detection
10 3 (4.11%) DMZ
10 3 (4.11%) Wireshark
11 2 (2.74%) BGP
11 2 (2.74%) Cisco ISE
11 2 (2.74%) EIGRP
11 2 (2.74%) MPLS
11 2 (2.74%) OSPF
11 2 (2.74%) SD-WAN
11 2 (2.74%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (21.92%) Amazon RDS
2 7 (9.59%) SQL Server
3 4 (5.48%) Azure SQL Database
4 3 (4.11%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 1 (1.37%) Jenkins
1 1 (1.37%) Subversion
General
1 22 (30.14%) Social Skills
2 8 (10.96%) Finance
3 6 (8.22%) Tech for Good
4 5 (6.85%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (5.48%) Public Sector
6 3 (4.11%) Aerospace
7 2 (2.74%) Manufacturing
8 1 (1.37%) Electronics
8 1 (1.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.37%) Marketing
8 1 (1.37%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 27 (36.99%) Analyst
2 24 (32.88%) IT Analyst
3 17 (23.29%) IT Support
4 15 (20.55%) IT Support Analyst
4 15 (20.55%) Support Analyst
5 10 (13.70%) 3rd Line Support
5 10 (13.70%) 3rd Line Support Analyst
5 10 (13.70%) Disaster Recovery Analyst
5 10 (13.70%) Head of IT
6 6 (8.22%) Business Continuity Analyst
6 6 (8.22%) Business IT Analyst
7 5 (6.85%) 2nd Line Support
7 5 (6.85%) 2nd Line Support Analyst
7 5 (6.85%) Lead
8 4 (5.48%) DBA
8 4 (5.48%) Service Analyst
8 4 (5.48%) SQL DBA
9 3 (4.11%) Developer
9 3 (4.11%) Network Manager
9 3 (4.11%) SQL Developer
Miscellaneous
1 8 (10.96%) Cyber Threat
2 5 (6.85%) Data Centre
3 3 (4.11%) Enterprise Software
3 3 (4.11%) Management Information System
4 2 (2.74%) Driving Licence
4 2 (2.74%) Educational Technology
4 2 (2.74%) PKI
5 1 (1.37%) CCTV
5 1 (1.37%) Clustering
5 1 (1.37%) IoT
5 1 (1.37%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (1.37%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 27 (36.99%) Windows
2 25 (34.25%) Windows Server
3 23 (31.51%) Linux
4 4 (5.48%) Windows Server 2012
5 3 (4.11%) Unix
6 2 (2.74%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (1.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (1.37%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (36.99%) Cybersecurity
2 26 (35.62%) Business Continuity
3 22 (30.14%) ITIL
4 17 (23.29%) Problem-Solving
5 13 (17.81%) IT Strategy
6 12 (16.44%) Budget Management
6 12 (16.44%) Project Management
7 10 (13.70%) Continuous Improvement
7 10 (13.70%) Migration
8 9 (12.33%) ERP
8 9 (12.33%) Mentoring
8 9 (12.33%) Regulatory Compliance
9 8 (10.96%) Collaborative Working
9 8 (10.96%) Project Delivery
9 8 (10.96%) Risk Management
10 6 (8.22%) BCP
10 6 (8.22%) Business Continuity Planning
10 6 (8.22%) CI/CD
10 6 (8.22%) Database Security
10 6 (8.22%) Incident Management
Programming Languages
1 17 (23.29%) SQL
2 15 (20.55%) PowerShell
3 3 (4.11%) Bash
3 3 (4.11%) Python
3 3 (4.11%) T-SQL
4 1 (1.37%) Perl
4 1 (1.37%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 10 (13.70%) A+ Certification
1 10 (13.70%) Network+ Certification
2 9 (12.33%) Security Cleared
3 5 (6.85%) Degree
3 5 (6.85%) DV Cleared
4 4 (5.48%) AWS Certification
5 3 (4.11%) Azure Certification
5 3 (4.11%) CCNA
5 3 (4.11%) Cisco Certification
5 3 (4.11%) MCP
5 3 (4.11%) MCSA
5 3 (4.11%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (2.74%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (2.74%) PMI Certification
6 2 (2.74%) PMP
6 2 (2.74%) SC Cleared
7 1 (1.37%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 1 (1.37%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
7 1 (1.37%) CEH
7 1 (1.37%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (21.92%) GDPR
2 5 (6.85%) Cyber Essentials
2 5 (6.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (5.48%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 4 (5.48%) PCI DSS
4 3 (4.11%) SLA
System Software
1 32 (43.84%) Active Directory
2 7 (9.59%) Hyper-V
3 6 (8.22%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (2.74%) Virtual Servers
4 2 (2.74%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 22 (30.14%) Microsoft Intune
2 4 (5.48%) Kubernetes
3 3 (4.11%) Iperf
4 2 (2.74%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 2 (2.74%) SCCM
4 2 (2.74%) Terraform
5 1 (1.37%) Ansible
5 1 (1.37%) Norton AntiVirus
5 1 (1.37%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 23 (31.51%) Microsoft
2 10 (13.70%) VMware
3 5 (6.85%) Cisco
3 5 (6.85%) Fortinet
4 4 (5.48%) SolarWinds
5 3 (4.11%) Palo Alto
5 3 (4.11%) Ruckus Wireless
5 3 (4.11%) SonicWALL
6 2 (2.74%) Juniper
6 2 (2.74%) Nimble Storage
6 2 (2.74%) Red Hat
6 2 (2.74%) Splunk
6 2 (2.74%) Veeam
6 2 (2.74%) Zscaler
7 1 (1.37%) Mitel
7 1 (1.37%) MobileIron
7 1 (1.37%) SAP
7 1 (1.37%) Symantec