Disaster Recovery Job Trends

Disaster Recovery
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Disaster Recovery skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 26 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 223 204 218
Rank change year-on-year -19 +14 +115
Permanent jobs citing Disaster Recovery 794 656 1,326
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.89% 1.56% 1.39%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.19% 1.68% 1.62%
Number of salaries quoted 597 530 1,181
10th Percentile £32,750 £36,250 £33,500
25th Percentile £45,749 £44,000 £41,933
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% -
75th Percentile £85,000 £77,188 £70,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £90,125 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £53,300 £50,000
% change year-on-year -1.50% +6.60% -

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 66,694 39,010 81,874
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 74.98% 92.82% 85.70%
Number of salaries quoted 41,292 22,669 59,633
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £39,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -10.57%
75th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £98,750 £102,500 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -9.09%

Disaster Recovery
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Disaster Recovery job vacancy trend in the UK

Disaster Recovery
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Disaster Recovery.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Disaster Recovery

Disaster Recovery
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Disaster Recovery over the 6 months to 26 April 2026.

Salary histogram for Disaster Recovery in the UK

Disaster Recovery
Top 18 Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 26 April 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
England -29 687 £60,000 - 201
UK excluding London -52 435 £52,500 -1.50% 186
London +21 300 £85,000 +13.33% 51
Work from Home +33 245 £65,000 +8.33% 131
North of England -26 147 £53,000 +2.66% 58
South East -17 100 £60,000 -7.69% 55
Yorkshire -8 82 £52,370 -4.78% 15
Midlands -29 71 £52,500 +5.00% 28
West Midlands -7 59 £52,500 +2.44% 19
North West -44 46 £55,000 +22.22% 34
East of England -38 29 £63,750 +27.50% 10
South West -90 28 £42,500 -22.73% 25
Scotland -14 25 £38,000 -24.67% 8
North East -41 19 £51,000 +50.00% 9
Northern Ireland -21 18 - - 6
Wales - 13 £38,500 - 3
East Midlands -68 11 £60,000 +50.00% 9
Channel Islands - 5 £75,000 -

Disaster Recovery
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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
1 101 (12.72%) Microsoft Exchange
2 85 (10.71%) SharePoint
3 8 (1.01%) IIS
4 4 (0.50%) Apache Spark
4 4 (0.50%) Confluence
5 3 (0.38%) Apache
6 2 (0.25%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.25%) BizTalk Server
6 2 (0.25%) CICS
7 1 (0.13%) Tomcat
Applications
1 24 (3.02%) Microsoft Office
2 11 (1.39%) MS Visio
3 4 (0.50%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (0.25%) Weka
5 1 (0.13%) Acrobat
5 1 (0.13%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 6 (0.76%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (0.63%) Oracle EBS
3 4 (0.50%) Markit EDM
3 4 (0.50%) NetSuite
4 3 (0.38%) FLEXCUBE
4 3 (0.38%) SAP S/4HANA
5 2 (0.25%) SAP ERP
6 1 (0.13%) Elite 3E
6 1 (0.13%) Misys Equation
6 1 (0.13%) Misys Midas
6 1 (0.13%) Oracle 11i
6 1 (0.13%) Oracle ERP
6 1 (0.13%) Sage 200
6 1 (0.13%) SAP EHS
6 1 (0.13%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 433 (54.53%) Azure
2 244 (30.73%) Microsoft 365
3 152 (19.14%) Entra ID
4 132 (16.62%) AWS
5 67 (8.44%) Nutanix
6 50 (6.30%) SaaS
7 48 (6.05%) Datadog
8 44 (5.54%) Azure DevOps
8 44 (5.54%) Azure Monitor
9 42 (5.29%) IaaS
10 38 (4.79%) GitHub
11 37 (4.66%) PaaS
12 35 (4.41%) OneDrive
13 33 (4.16%) Microsoft Purview
14 31 (3.90%) GCP
15 25 (3.15%) GitHub Actions
16 24 (3.02%) Azure AKS
16 24 (3.02%) Power Platform
17 21 (2.64%) Serverless
18 18 (2.27%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 238 (29.97%) Firewall
2 171 (21.54%) DNS
3 164 (20.65%) VPN
4 139 (17.51%) DHCP
5 114 (14.36%) WAN
6 82 (10.33%) VLAN
7 70 (8.82%) LAN
8 64 (8.06%) Wi-Fi
9 61 (7.68%) SAN
10 60 (7.56%) TCP/IP
11 53 (6.68%) Network Security
12 38 (4.79%) Wireless
13 31 (3.90%) Remote Desktop
14 26 (3.27%) SD-WAN
15 20 (2.52%) NAS
16 17 (2.14%) Cisco ISE
17 14 (1.76%) VoIP
18 13 (1.64%) BGP
19 11 (1.39%) SSL
20 10 (1.26%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 74 (9.32%) SQL Server
2 28 (3.53%) Amazon RDS
3 22 (2.77%) Azure SQL Database
4 14 (1.76%) MySQL
5 12 (1.51%) Data Lake
5 12 (1.51%) Delta Lake
5 12 (1.51%) Power BI
6 10 (1.26%) PostgreSQL
7 9 (1.13%) Data Warehouse
8 8 (1.01%) Amazon Aurora
8 8 (1.01%) Oracle Database
9 7 (0.88%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 5 (0.63%) Geospatial Data
10 5 (0.63%) GIS
10 5 (0.63%) MongoDB
11 4 (0.50%) Elasticsearch
11 4 (0.50%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 3 (0.38%) Oracle Exadata
12 3 (0.38%) SAP HANA
12 3 (0.38%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 28 (3.53%) Git
2 20 (2.52%) Chocolatey
3 12 (1.51%) JIRA
4 10 (1.26%) Jenkins
5 5 (0.63%) Sonatype Nexus
5 5 (0.63%) Visual Studio Code
6 4 (0.50%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 4 (0.50%) Bitbucket
6 4 (0.50%) GitLab
6 4 (0.50%) LabVIEW
6 4 (0.50%) MLflow
7 3 (0.38%) Maven
7 3 (0.38%) Selenium
7 3 (0.38%) TeamCity
8 2 (0.25%) Artifactory
8 2 (0.25%) Octopus Deploy
8 2 (0.25%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
9 1 (0.13%) Robot Framework
9 1 (0.13%) Team Foundation Server
9 1 (0.13%) Yeoman
General
1 302 (38.04%) Social Skills
2 169 (21.28%) Finance
3 134 (16.88%) Analytical Skills
4 56 (7.05%) Banking
5 38 (4.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 33 (4.16%) Law
7 31 (3.90%) Public Sector
8 27 (3.40%) Organisational Skills
8 27 (3.40%) Retail
9 24 (3.02%) Legal
10 21 (2.64%) Manufacturing
11 16 (2.02%) Telecoms
12 14 (1.76%) Documentation Skills
12 14 (1.76%) Influencing Skills
13 12 (1.51%) Back Office
14 11 (1.39%) Financial Institution
14 11 (1.39%) Marketing
14 11 (1.39%) Presentation Skills
15 8 (1.01%) Advertising
16 6 (0.76%) French Language
Job Titles
1 139 (17.51%) Senior
2 121 (15.24%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 83 (10.45%) IT Engineer
4 82 (10.33%) Cloud Engineer
5 79 (9.95%) IT Support
6 75 (9.45%) Support Engineer
7 65 (8.19%) Lead
8 64 (8.06%) IT Manager
9 56 (7.05%) Azure Engineer
10 49 (6.17%) IT Support Engineer
11 48 (6.05%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
12 45 (5.67%) Architect
13 35 (4.41%) Analyst
14 31 (3.90%) Platform Engineer
15 26 (3.27%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
15 26 (3.27%) Security Engineer
15 26 (3.27%) Security Manager
16 25 (3.15%) DevOps Engineer
17 21 (2.64%) Head of IT
17 21 (2.64%) Senior Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (2.14%) SAML
2 14 (1.76%) OAuth
3 13 (1.64%) YAML
4 12 (1.51%) ADO
4 12 (1.51%) PySpark
5 10 (1.26%) ARM Templates
5 10 (1.26%) REST
6 7 (0.88%) Loki
6 7 (0.88%) Middleware
7 6 (0.76%) RESTful
8 4 (0.50%) .NET
8 4 (0.50%) Kafka
8 4 (0.50%) web3js
9 3 (0.38%) ActiveMQ
9 3 (0.38%) Elastic Stack
9 3 (0.38%) ODBC
9 3 (0.38%) RAML
9 3 (0.38%) SOAP
10 2 (0.25%) EDI
10 2 (0.25%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 74 (9.32%) Hybrid Cloud
2 58 (7.30%) Management Information System
3 56 (7.05%) Data Centre
4 40 (5.04%) Replication
5 37 (4.66%) Onboarding
6 36 (4.53%) Cloud Native
7 35 (4.41%) Cyber Threat
7 35 (4.41%) Public Cloud
8 34 (4.28%) Driving Licence
9 31 (3.90%) Data Protection Act
10 27 (3.40%) Security Posture
11 22 (2.77%) Self-Motivation
12 18 (2.27%) CMDB
13 16 (2.02%) PKI
14 15 (1.89%) Enterprise Storage
14 15 (1.89%) Legacy Systems
14 15 (1.89%) NHS
15 14 (1.76%) Enterprise Software
16 11 (1.39%) Clustering
17 10 (1.26%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 252 (31.74%) Windows
2 169 (21.28%) Windows Server
3 69 (8.69%) Linux
4 26 (3.27%) Windows 10
5 18 (2.27%) Apple iOS
6 17 (2.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 16 (2.02%) VMS
8 14 (1.76%) Ubuntu
9 10 (1.26%) CentOS
9 10 (1.26%) Mac OS
10 8 (1.01%) Unix
10 8 (1.01%) Windows Server 2016
11 7 (0.88%) Windows Server 2019
12 5 (0.63%) Android
13 4 (0.50%) AIX
13 4 (0.50%) Oracle Linux
13 4 (0.50%) Solaris
14 3 (0.38%) Rocky
15 2 (0.25%) Debian
15 2 (0.25%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 301 (37.91%) Business Continuity
2 244 (30.73%) Cybersecurity
3 201 (25.31%) Problem-Solving
4 197 (24.81%) ITIL
5 181 (22.80%) Continuous Improvement
6 167 (21.03%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 143 (18.01%) High Availability
8 125 (15.74%) DevOps
9 115 (14.48%) Incident Response
10 106 (13.35%) Service Delivery
11 95 (11.96%) Infrastructure as Code
12 90 (11.34%) Change Management
13 87 (10.96%) Cloud Security
13 87 (10.96%) Data Protection
13 87 (10.96%) Mentoring
14 86 (10.83%) Migration
15 84 (10.58%) CI/CD
16 79 (9.95%) Stakeholder Management
17 76 (9.57%) Risk Management
18 74 (9.32%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 139 (17.51%) PowerShell
2 100 (12.59%) Python
3 83 (10.45%) SQL
4 37 (4.66%) Bash
5 12 (1.51%) Kusto Query Language
6 11 (1.39%) Bicep
6 11 (1.39%) Java
7 9 (1.13%) Scala
7 9 (1.13%) Shell Script
7 9 (1.13%) T-SQL
8 8 (1.01%) JavaScript
9 6 (0.76%) Go
10 5 (0.63%) C#
11 4 (0.50%) Korn
12 3 (0.38%) COBOL
12 3 (0.38%) PL/SQL
12 3 (0.38%) TypeScript
13 2 (0.25%) JCL
13 2 (0.25%) RPG
14 1 (0.13%) Perl
Qualifications
1 98 (12.34%) Degree
2 50 (6.30%) Microsoft Certification
3 48 (6.05%) Azure Certification
4 46 (5.79%) Cisco Certification
4 46 (5.79%) Computer Science Degree
5 41 (5.16%) Security Cleared
6 37 (4.66%) CCNP
7 29 (3.65%) SC Cleared
8 26 (3.27%) CISSP
9 22 (2.77%) CEH
10 18 (2.27%) CCNA
11 17 (2.14%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 13 (1.64%) AWS Certification
13 12 (1.51%) MCSE
14 11 (1.39%) BPSS Clearance
14 11 (1.39%) Postgraduate
15 10 (1.26%) CISM
16 9 (1.13%) Microsoft Certified Professional
17 8 (1.01%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
17 8 (1.01%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 124 (15.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 83 (10.45%) GDPR
3 81 (10.20%) Cyber Essentials
4 71 (8.94%) NIST
5 63 (7.93%) SLA
6 39 (4.91%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 35 (4.41%) PCI DSS
8 25 (3.15%) SOC 2
9 24 (3.02%) GRC
10 21 (2.64%) Data Quality
11 18 (2.27%) PMO
12 16 (2.02%) ISO 22301
13 11 (1.39%) Actionable Recommendations
14 7 (0.88%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
15 6 (0.76%) NCSC
15 6 (0.76%) QA
16 4 (0.50%) COBIT
16 4 (0.50%) DICOM
16 4 (0.50%) HIPAA
16 4 (0.50%) HL7
System Software
1 248 (31.23%) Active Directory
2 175 (22.04%) VMware Infrastructure
3 107 (13.48%) Hyper-V
4 37 (4.66%) Docker
5 32 (4.03%) Virtual Machines
6 30 (3.78%) vSphere
7 17 (2.14%) Firmware
7 17 (2.14%) Virtual Desktop
8 16 (2.02%) VMware ESXi
9 6 (0.76%) KVM
9 6 (0.76%) Oracle RAC
9 6 (0.76%) vCloud
9 6 (0.76%) Virtual Servers
9 6 (0.76%) VMware NSX
10 3 (0.38%) Microsoft Virtual Server
11 2 (0.25%) EMC RecoverPoint
11 2 (0.25%) RACF
11 2 (0.25%) VMware Workstation
12 1 (0.13%) VMware Server
12 1 (0.13%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 110 (13.85%) Microsoft Intune
2 105 (13.22%) Terraform
3 64 (8.06%) Kubernetes
4 62 (7.81%) Ansible
5 27 (3.40%) SCCM
6 15 (1.89%) VxRail
7 13 (1.64%) Grafana
8 11 (1.39%) FortiGate
9 10 (1.26%) Prometheus
9 10 (1.26%) Single Sign-On
10 8 (1.01%) vCenter Server
11 7 (0.88%) Data Guard
11 7 (0.88%) Nagios
11 7 (0.88%) Packer
12 5 (0.63%) Dell DRAC
12 5 (0.63%) Oracle RMAN
13 4 (0.50%) Argo
13 4 (0.50%) Avamar
13 4 (0.50%) Backup Exec
13 4 (0.50%) WSUS
Vendors
1 395 (49.75%) Microsoft
2 245 (30.86%) VMware
3 72 (9.07%) Cisco
4 57 (7.18%) Dell
5 43 (5.42%) HP
6 41 (5.16%) Veeam
7 37 (4.66%) Commvault
7 37 (4.66%) Palo Alto
8 35 (4.41%) Nimble Storage
9 30 (3.78%) Tenable
10 28 (3.53%) Dell Compellent
11 27 (3.40%) Zscaler
12 26 (3.27%) Dynatrace
12 26 (3.27%) Meraki
13 23 (2.90%) Oracle
14 21 (2.64%) AppDynamics
15 19 (2.39%) Fortinet
16 18 (2.27%) EMC
16 18 (2.27%) Splunk
17 17 (2.14%) Databricks