Disaster Recovery Job Trends in the Thames Valley

Disaster Recovery
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the Thames Valley requiring Disaster Recovery skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 140 134 155
Rank change year-on-year -6 +21 +44
Permanent jobs citing Disaster Recovery 26 45 41
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 0.65% 1.33% 1.03%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.80% 1.45% 1.15%
Number of salaries quoted 18 36 39
10th Percentile £39,250 £43,911 £41,775
25th Percentile £45,000 £49,063 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,000 £55,000 £59,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% -6.78% -5.60%
75th Percentile £79,688 £69,688 £66,778
90th Percentile £85,000 £83,750 £70,750
South East median annual salary £63,000 £52,500 £58,250
% change year-on-year +20.00% -9.87% +16.50%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,244 3,105 3,553
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 80.48% 91.76% 89.27%
Number of salaries quoted 1,761 1,382 2,457
10th Percentile £30,000 £35,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £35,500 £45,000 £39,085
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +9.09% -
75th Percentile £68,750 £76,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £90,000 £83,750
South East median annual salary £50,000 £58,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -13.79% +10.48% -4.55%

Disaster Recovery
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Disaster Recovery job vacancy trend in the Thames Valley

Disaster Recovery
Salary Trend in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Disaster Recovery.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Disaster Recovery

Disaster Recovery
Salary Histogram in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution for jobs citing Disaster Recovery in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 13 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Disaster Recovery in the Thames Valley

Disaster Recovery
Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Disaster Recovery within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 13 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
Buckinghamshire 0 15 £60,000 +14.29% 2
Berkshire -8 8 £50,750 -14.16% 12
Oxfordshire +10 3 £45,000 -18.18% 4
Disaster Recovery
South East

Disaster Recovery
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 1 (3.85%) CMS
1 1 (3.85%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (3.85%) SharePoint
1 1 (3.85%) Skype for Business
Cloud Services
1 15 (57.69%) Azure
2 8 (30.77%) Microsoft 365
3 5 (19.23%) AWS
4 4 (15.38%) Entra ID
5 1 (3.85%) Amazon SageMaker
5 1 (3.85%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (3.85%) GCP
5 1 (3.85%) GitHub
5 1 (3.85%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 9 (34.62%) Firewall
1 9 (34.62%) Wireless
2 8 (30.77%) SAN
3 7 (26.92%) DNS
4 6 (23.08%) DHCP
4 6 (23.08%) NAS
4 6 (23.08%) TCP/IP
4 6 (23.08%) VLAN
5 4 (15.38%) LAN
5 4 (15.38%) WAN
6 3 (11.54%) VPN
7 1 (3.85%) Network Security
7 1 (3.85%) VoIP
7 1 (3.85%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.85%) BusinessObjects
1 1 (3.85%) BusinessObjects Web Intelligence
1 1 (3.85%) Oracle Database
1 1 (3.85%) SAP Data Services
General
1 8 (30.77%) Social Skills
2 5 (19.23%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (15.38%) Finance
4 2 (7.69%) Documentation Skills
4 2 (7.69%) Influencing Skills
4 2 (7.69%) Retail
5 1 (3.85%) Electronics
5 1 (3.85%) Manufacturing
5 1 (3.85%) Marketing
5 1 (3.85%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (3.85%) Pharmaceutical
5 1 (3.85%) Public Sector
5 1 (3.85%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 7 (26.92%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 4 (15.38%) Infrastructure Manager
3 3 (11.54%) Analyst
3 3 (11.54%) IT Analyst
3 3 (11.54%) Resilience Manager
4 2 (7.69%) 3rd Line Support
4 2 (7.69%) 3rd Line Support Technician
4 2 (7.69%) Infrastructure Analyst
4 2 (7.69%) IT Infrastructure Analyst
4 2 (7.69%) IT Support
4 2 (7.69%) IT Support Technician
4 2 (7.69%) IT Technician
4 2 (7.69%) Senior
4 2 (7.69%) Support Technician
4 2 (7.69%) Test Manager
5 1 (3.85%) Administrator
5 1 (3.85%) Head of IT
5 1 (3.85%) SAP Administrator
5 1 (3.85%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (3.85%) Service Desk Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (3.85%) LangGraph
1 1 (3.85%) ModSecurity
1 1 (3.85%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 2 (7.69%) Enterprise Software
1 2 (7.69%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (3.85%) AI Agents
Operating Systems
1 7 (26.92%) Windows
2 5 (19.23%) Windows Server
3 2 (7.69%) Apple iOS
4 1 (3.85%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (65.38%) Business Continuity
2 11 (42.31%) Cybersecurity
3 9 (34.62%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 8 (30.77%) Agile
5 7 (26.92%) High Availability
5 7 (26.92%) Proactive Monitoring
6 6 (23.08%) Collaborative Working
6 6 (23.08%) Continuous Improvement
6 6 (23.08%) Dashboard Development
6 6 (23.08%) Infrastructure Monitoring
6 6 (23.08%) ITIL
6 6 (23.08%) Sprint Planning
6 6 (23.08%) Sprint Retrospective
7 5 (19.23%) Problem-Solving
7 5 (19.23%) Scenario Testing
8 3 (11.54%) Business Continuity Management
8 3 (11.54%) Infrastructure as Code
8 3 (11.54%) IT Strategy
8 3 (11.54%) Regulatory Compliance
8 3 (11.54%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (7.69%) PowerShell
2 1 (3.85%) Bash
2 1 (3.85%) Go
2 1 (3.85%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (11.54%) Security Cleared
2 2 (7.69%) ISTQB
2 2 (7.69%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
2 2 (7.69%) SC Cleared
3 1 (3.85%) Degree
3 1 (3.85%) MCSE
3 1 (3.85%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (3.85%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.85%) GDPR
System Software
1 10 (38.46%) Hyper-V
1 10 (38.46%) VMware Infrastructure
2 7 (26.92%) Active Directory
3 6 (23.08%) Virtual Machines
3 6 (23.08%) vSphere
4 2 (7.69%) Virtual Servers
5 1 (3.85%) Docker
5 1 (3.85%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 3 (11.54%) Terraform
2 2 (7.69%) Ansible
2 2 (7.69%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (3.85%) Argo
3 1 (3.85%) Kubeflow
3 1 (3.85%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 14 (53.85%) Microsoft
2 11 (42.31%) VMware
3 6 (23.08%) LogicMonitor
3 6 (23.08%) Palo Alto
4 2 (7.69%) SAP
4 2 (7.69%) ServiceNow
4 2 (7.69%) Workday
5 1 (3.85%) Citrix
5 1 (3.85%) Oracle