Disaster Recovery Jobs in the UK excluding London

Disaster Recovery
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 306 225 275
Rank change year-on-year -81 +50 -3
Permanent jobs citing Disaster Recovery 319 918 729
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.80% 1.23% 1.27%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.87% 1.49% 1.33%
Number of salaries quoted 267 773 482
10th Percentile £32,000 £31,250 £32,200
25th Percentile £40,000 £39,720 £38,010
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £67,500 £61,250 £62,833
90th Percentile £77,500 £69,750 £75,000
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
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 36,721 61,614 54,758
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 92.53% 82.28% 95.52%
Number of salaries quoted 17,560 42,296 28,644
10th Percentile £26,250 £27,250 £30,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,564 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.13% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £82,500
UK median annual salary £57,000 £55,000 £60,899
% change year-on-year +3.64% -9.69% +1.50%

Disaster Recovery
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Disaster Recovery as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Disaster Recovery in the UK excluding London

Disaster Recovery
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Disaster Recovery in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Disaster Recovery in the UK excluding London

Disaster Recovery
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Disaster Recovery in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 31 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Disaster Recovery in the UK excluding London

Disaster Recovery
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Disaster Recovery within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 31 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
South East +9 91 £57,500 - 79
North of England -116 83 £55,000 +19.48% 78
South West +109 64 £55,000 +6.75% 30
North West -129 40 £55,000 +17.02% 50
Midlands -75 37 £46,000 -1.08% 58
East of England -4 32 £53,500 +7.00% 33
Yorkshire +11 25 £62,500 +25.00% 13
North East +20 18 £50,000 +11.11% 15
East Midlands -17 18 £40,000 -5.88% 22
West Midlands -35 18 £52,500 - 35
Scotland +67 10 £55,000 +10.00% 26
Northern Ireland +38 1 £57,500 +37.72% 15
Wales +14 1 £50,000 +53.85% 16
Isle of Man - 1 £34,500 -
Disaster Recovery
UK

Disaster Recovery
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 43 (13.48%) Microsoft Exchange
2 23 (7.21%) SharePoint
3 13 (4.08%) IIS
4 3 (0.94%) Apache
4 3 (0.94%) Skype for Business
5 2 (0.63%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.31%) BizTalk Server
6 1 (0.31%) Cloud Foundry
6 1 (0.31%) Confluence
6 1 (0.31%) Exchange Server 2013
6 1 (0.31%) nginx
6 1 (0.31%) Office Communications Server
6 1 (0.31%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.31%) SharePoint 2010
6 1 (0.31%) SharePoint Server
6 1 (0.31%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.31%) WordPress
Applications
1 8 (2.51%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.63%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.31%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.31%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (0.63%) SAP GRC
1 2 (0.63%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.31%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.31%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.31%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.31%) Sage 200
Cloud Services
1 154 (48.28%) Azure
2 85 (26.65%) Microsoft 365
3 68 (21.32%) AWS
4 31 (9.72%) Entra ID
5 19 (5.96%) Azure DevOps
5 19 (5.96%) GCP
6 15 (4.70%) GitHub
6 15 (4.70%) IaaS
7 14 (4.39%) PaaS
8 12 (3.76%) Azure Key Vault
9 10 (3.13%) SaaS
10 9 (2.82%) Rubrik
11 8 (2.51%) Azure Monitor
12 7 (2.19%) Nutanix
13 6 (1.88%) Azure Sentinel
13 6 (1.88%) OneDrive
14 5 (1.57%) Amazon EC2
14 5 (1.57%) Amazon S3
14 5 (1.57%) Power Platform
14 5 (1.57%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 86 (26.96%) Firewall
2 70 (21.94%) DNS
3 62 (19.44%) VPN
4 60 (18.81%) DHCP
5 43 (13.48%) VLAN
6 31 (9.72%) SAN
7 30 (9.40%) Network Security
8 29 (9.09%) NAS
9 28 (8.78%) WAN
10 23 (7.21%) LAN
11 20 (6.27%) TCP/IP
12 17 (5.33%) Intrusion Detection
13 16 (5.02%) VoIP
14 12 (3.76%) SD-WAN
15 10 (3.13%) ADSL
16 7 (2.19%) VSAN
17 6 (1.88%) BGP
17 6 (1.88%) MPLS
17 6 (1.88%) Unified Communications
18 5 (1.57%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (12.54%) SQL Server
2 21 (6.58%) Amazon RDS
3 13 (4.08%) PostgreSQL
4 12 (3.76%) MySQL
5 9 (2.82%) Azure SQL Database
5 9 (2.82%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 8 (2.51%) MongoDB
7 7 (2.19%) NoSQL
8 5 (1.57%) Data Warehouse
9 4 (1.25%) Power BI
10 3 (0.94%) RDBMS
10 3 (0.94%) Relational Database
10 3 (0.94%) Tableau
11 2 (0.63%) Apache Hive
11 2 (0.63%) Big Data
11 2 (0.63%) Bigtable
11 2 (0.63%) Elasticsearch
11 2 (0.63%) HBase
11 2 (0.63%) Oracle Database
11 2 (0.63%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 7 (2.19%) Jenkins
2 5 (1.57%) Oracle Forms
3 4 (1.25%) Git
3 4 (1.25%) GitLab
4 3 (0.94%) Bitbucket
4 3 (0.94%) JIRA
5 2 (0.63%) Octopus Deploy
6 1 (0.31%) Jaeger
6 1 (0.31%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 1 (0.31%) Subversion
General
1 113 (35.42%) Social Skills
2 43 (13.48%) Finance
3 22 (6.90%) Manufacturing
4 18 (5.64%) Analytical Skills
5 15 (4.70%) Law
6 11 (3.45%) Banking
6 11 (3.45%) Telecoms
7 8 (2.51%) Public Sector
8 7 (2.19%) Games
8 7 (2.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 7 (2.19%) Pharmaceutical
9 6 (1.88%) Legal
9 6 (1.88%) Retail
9 6 (1.88%) Tech for Good
10 5 (1.57%) Marketing
11 3 (0.94%) Advertising
11 3 (0.94%) Electronics
12 2 (0.63%) Organisational Skills
13 1 (0.31%) Aerospace
13 1 (0.31%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 54 (16.93%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 49 (15.36%) Analyst
3 38 (11.91%) IT Support
4 35 (10.97%) IT Engineer
4 35 (10.97%) Senior
5 32 (10.03%) Support Engineer
6 30 (9.40%) IT Analyst
7 29 (9.09%) Cloud Engineer
8 23 (7.21%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
8 23 (7.21%) IT Support Engineer
8 23 (7.21%) Lead
9 21 (6.58%) Infrastructure Support
9 21 (6.58%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
9 21 (6.58%) Support Analyst
10 18 (5.64%) DBA
10 18 (5.64%) IT Manager
11 17 (5.33%) 2nd Line Support
12 15 (4.70%) IT Support Analyst
13 14 (4.39%) SQL DBA
14 13 (4.08%) Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (3.45%) Middleware
2 6 (1.88%) YAML
3 4 (1.25%) .NET
4 3 (0.94%) Elastic Stack
4 3 (0.94%) SAP Basis
5 2 (0.63%) FIDO
5 2 (0.63%) JWT
5 2 (0.63%) LDAP
5 2 (0.63%) OAuth
5 2 (0.63%) OAuth2
5 2 (0.63%) OpenID
5 2 (0.63%) RabbitMQ
5 2 (0.63%) RESTful
5 2 (0.63%) SAML
5 2 (0.63%) SAP Fiori
5 2 (0.63%) SOAP
5 2 (0.63%) Software Packaging
6 1 (0.31%) HTML5
6 1 (0.31%) Kafka
6 1 (0.31%) Memcached
Miscellaneous
1 20 (6.27%) Clustering
2 18 (5.64%) Cyber Threat
3 15 (4.70%) Data Centre
3 15 (4.70%) Management Information System
4 9 (2.82%) Security Posture
5 8 (2.51%) Cloud Native
5 8 (2.51%) Hybrid Cloud
6 7 (2.19%) Driving Licence
6 7 (2.19%) Operational Technology
6 7 (2.19%) PKI
6 7 (2.19%) Replication
7 6 (1.88%) Cyberattack
7 6 (1.88%) Data Protection Act
8 5 (1.57%) Blackberry
8 5 (1.57%) Public Cloud
9 4 (1.25%) Enterprise Software
9 4 (1.25%) Product Ownership
9 4 (1.25%) Self-Motivation
10 3 (0.94%) CMDB
10 3 (0.94%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 129 (40.44%) Windows
2 85 (26.65%) Windows Server
3 65 (20.38%) Linux
4 12 (3.76%) Ubuntu
5 9 (2.82%) CentOS
5 9 (2.82%) Windows Server 2012
6 7 (2.19%) Rocky
6 7 (2.19%) Unix
7 6 (1.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 5 (1.57%) Debian
8 5 (1.57%) Windows Server 2019
9 3 (0.94%) VMS
9 3 (0.94%) Windows Server 2016
10 2 (0.63%) AIX
10 2 (0.63%) Solaris
10 2 (0.63%) SUSE
11 1 (0.31%) Mac OS
11 1 (0.31%) Windows 10
11 1 (0.31%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 86 (26.96%) Business Continuity
2 73 (22.88%) High Availability
3 63 (19.75%) Cybersecurity
3 63 (19.75%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 63 (19.75%) Problem-Solving
4 53 (16.61%) ITIL
5 52 (16.30%) Continuous Improvement
6 39 (12.23%) DevOps
7 37 (11.60%) Mentoring
8 34 (10.66%) CI/CD
9 31 (9.72%) Service Delivery
10 29 (9.09%) Incident Management
11 27 (8.46%) Data Protection
12 25 (7.84%) Analytics
12 25 (7.84%) BCP
12 25 (7.84%) IT Strategy
13 24 (7.52%) Migration
14 23 (7.21%) Computer Science
14 23 (7.21%) Project Delivery
15 22 (6.90%) Patch Management
Programming Languages
1 78 (24.45%) PowerShell
2 57 (17.87%) SQL
3 23 (7.21%) Python
4 13 (4.08%) T-SQL
5 12 (3.76%) Java
6 9 (2.82%) C#
7 8 (2.51%) Bash
8 6 (1.88%) Bicep
9 3 (0.94%) Perl
9 3 (0.94%) PHP
10 2 (0.63%) Ruby
10 2 (0.63%) Rust
11 1 (0.31%) Go
11 1 (0.31%) JavaScript
11 1 (0.31%) PL/SQL
11 1 (0.31%) SAPscript
11 1 (0.31%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.31%) VB.NET
11 1 (0.31%) VBA
11 1 (0.31%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 38 (11.91%) Security Cleared
2 36 (11.29%) Azure Certification
2 36 (11.29%) Degree
3 27 (8.46%) Microsoft Certification
4 21 (6.58%) DV Cleared
5 20 (6.27%) SC Cleared
6 14 (4.39%) AWS Certification
6 14 (4.39%) Cisco Certification
7 12 (3.76%) CCNA
8 11 (3.45%) HND
8 11 (3.45%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 10 (3.13%) A+ Certification
9 10 (3.13%) Computer Science Degree
9 10 (3.13%) Network+ Certification
10 6 (1.88%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 5 (1.57%) CISSP
11 5 (1.57%) CompTIA Security+
11 5 (1.57%) DBS Check
11 5 (1.57%) Master's Degree
11 5 (1.57%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 47 (14.73%) GDPR
2 29 (9.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 20 (6.27%) NIST
4 16 (5.02%) Cyber Essentials
5 9 (2.82%) SLA
6 8 (2.51%) HIPAA
6 8 (2.51%) QA
7 7 (2.19%) PCI DSS
8 6 (1.88%) ISO 22301
8 6 (1.88%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 4 (1.25%) Data Quality
10 3 (0.94%) Accessibility
11 2 (0.63%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 2 (0.63%) GRC
12 1 (0.31%) Actionable Recommendations
12 1 (0.31%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 1 (0.31%) COBIT
12 1 (0.31%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 99 (31.03%) Active Directory
2 67 (21.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 43 (13.48%) Hyper-V
4 24 (7.52%) Virtual Machines
5 12 (3.76%) Docker
6 9 (2.82%) VMware ESXi
7 7 (2.19%) Firmware
7 7 (2.19%) vSphere
8 6 (1.88%) VMware NSX
9 2 (0.63%) HDFS
9 2 (0.63%) pfSense
9 2 (0.63%) Squid
9 2 (0.63%) VMware Workstation
10 1 (0.31%) ISA Server
10 1 (0.31%) KVM
10 1 (0.31%) NFS
10 1 (0.31%) vCloud
10 1 (0.31%) Veritas Cluster Server
10 1 (0.31%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 31 (9.72%) Microsoft Intune
2 22 (6.90%) Terraform
3 17 (5.33%) Kubernetes
4 15 (4.70%) Ansible
5 9 (2.82%) NetBackup
5 9 (2.82%) Progress Chef
6 6 (1.88%) FortiGate
7 4 (1.25%) Single Sign-On
8 3 (0.94%) Iperf
8 3 (0.94%) Puppet
9 2 (0.63%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 2 (0.63%) Grafana
9 2 (0.63%) Hadoop YARN
9 2 (0.63%) Kibana
9 2 (0.63%) PowerCLI
9 2 (0.63%) Prometheus
9 2 (0.63%) SCOM
9 2 (0.63%) vCenter Server
9 2 (0.63%) vRealize
9 2 (0.63%) VxRail
Vendors
1 145 (45.45%) Microsoft
2 92 (28.84%) VMware
3 19 (5.96%) Google
3 19 (5.96%) Veeam
4 16 (5.02%) Cisco
5 13 (4.08%) Oracle
6 10 (3.13%) SAP
7 9 (2.82%) Commvault
8 7 (2.19%) Fortinet
8 7 (2.19%) Zerto
9 6 (1.88%) Atlassian
9 6 (1.88%) Databricks
9 6 (1.88%) Red Hat
9 6 (1.88%) ServiceNow
10 5 (1.57%) Dell
10 5 (1.57%) HP
10 5 (1.57%) McAfee
10 5 (1.57%) Salesforce
11 4 (1.25%) Genesys
11 4 (1.25%) RedGate