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 4 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 165 257 211
Rank change year-on-year +92 -46 +22
Permanent jobs citing Disaster Recovery 1,318 576 1,016
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.19% 1.17% 1.28%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.64% 1.33% 1.59%
Number of salaries quoted 944 451 687
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,250 £35,900
25th Percentile £42,250 £42,750 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £56,509
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +6.18% -3.40%
75th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £76,250
90th Percentile £93,500 £97,500 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £51,375 £50,000
% change year-on-year -2.68% +2.75% -

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 80,539 43,404 64,098
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.01% 88.47% 80.63%
Number of salaries quoted 56,017 24,525 38,712
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,500 £36,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £96,650 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £52,000
% change year-on-year +15.79% -8.65% -5.04%

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 4 September 2026.

Salary histogram for Disaster Recovery in the UK

Disaster Recovery
Top 17 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 4 September 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 +84 1,152 £57,500 -4.17% 653
UK excluding London +81 871 £50,000 -2.68% 410
London +62 398 £75,000 - 326
Work from Home +86 397 £60,000 - 259
North of England +75 246 £47,500 -11.63% 102
South East +63 224 £50,000 - 113
Midlands +45 148 £57,500 - 70
North West +60 134 £47,500 -11.63% 48
West Midlands +49 114 £59,250 +3.04% 45
Yorkshire +31 97 £47,500 -24.00% 38
South West -62 71 £48,000 +1.05% 51
East of England +6 62 £53,725 +65.31% 25
Scotland +46 52 £47,500 -9.52% 32
Northern Ireland -45 49 - - 18
East Midlands -23 34 £45,000 -14.29% 25
Wales -53 21 £45,000 -21.74% 7
North East -65 15 £52,500 +1.20% 20

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
1 162 (12.29%) SharePoint
2 146 (11.08%) Microsoft Exchange
3 27 (2.05%) IIS
4 21 (1.59%) Apache
5 15 (1.14%) nginx
6 11 (0.83%) Apache Spark
7 5 (0.38%) Confluence
8 4 (0.30%) OpenStack
9 3 (0.23%) WordPress
10 2 (0.15%) WebLogic
11 1 (0.076%) Apache Airflow
11 1 (0.076%) CICS
11 1 (0.076%) Site Server
Applications
1 19 (1.44%) PlantUML
2 18 (1.37%) Microsoft Office
3 12 (0.91%) MS Visio
4 11 (0.83%) Microsoft Excel
5 3 (0.23%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.076%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 11 (0.83%) FLEXCUBE
2 6 (0.46%) Raiser’s Edge
3 5 (0.38%) JDE EnterpriseOne
3 5 (0.38%) Sage 200
4 4 (0.30%) NetSuite
5 3 (0.23%) Dynamics CRM
5 3 (0.23%) Q-Pulse
6 2 (0.15%) Adobe Campaign
6 2 (0.15%) Integrated Workplace Management System
6 2 (0.15%) SAP S/4HANA
7 1 (0.076%) Bloomberg TOMS
7 1 (0.076%) Eikon
7 1 (0.076%) Misys Equation
7 1 (0.076%) Misys Midas
7 1 (0.076%) Oracle Applications
7 1 (0.076%) Oracle EBS
7 1 (0.076%) Sage 50
7 1 (0.076%) SAP EHS
7 1 (0.076%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 696 (52.81%) Azure
2 412 (31.26%) Microsoft 365
3 256 (19.42%) AWS
4 253 (19.20%) Entra ID
5 146 (11.08%) SaaS
6 102 (7.74%) IaaS
7 76 (5.77%) PaaS
8 54 (4.10%) Power Platform
9 46 (3.49%) Cloud Computing
10 43 (3.26%) Azure DevOps
11 41 (3.11%) OneDrive
12 40 (3.03%) GCP
13 35 (2.66%) Azure Monitor
13 35 (2.66%) Datadog
14 33 (2.50%) Microsoft Copilot
15 30 (2.28%) Nutanix
16 28 (2.12%) GitHub
17 26 (1.97%) GitHub Actions
18 24 (1.82%) OCI
19 23 (1.75%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 365 (27.69%) Firewall
2 307 (23.29%) DNS
3 223 (16.92%) VPN
4 220 (16.69%) DHCP
5 162 (12.29%) WAN
6 138 (10.47%) VLAN
7 132 (10.02%) LAN
8 117 (8.88%) Wi-Fi
9 104 (7.89%) Network Security
10 100 (7.59%) TCP/IP
11 76 (5.77%) Wireless
12 64 (4.86%) SAN
13 51 (3.87%) Internet
14 41 (3.11%) SD-WAN
15 40 (3.03%) VoIP
16 39 (2.96%) SSL
17 29 (2.20%) Cisco ISE
18 25 (1.90%) Cisco Nexus
19 23 (1.75%) NAS
20 15 (1.14%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 91 (6.90%) SQL Server
2 36 (2.73%) Amazon RDS
3 33 (2.50%) Power BI
4 30 (2.28%) Azure SQL Database
5 19 (1.44%) PostgreSQL
6 16 (1.21%) Data Warehouse
7 13 (0.99%) Oracle Database
8 11 (0.83%) Data Lake
8 11 (0.83%) MySQL
9 10 (0.76%) Metadata
10 8 (0.61%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 6 (0.46%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 6 (0.46%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 5 (0.38%) MongoDB
12 5 (0.38%) NoSQL
13 4 (0.30%) DynamoDB
13 4 (0.30%) Elasticsearch
14 3 (0.23%) NonStop SQL
14 3 (0.23%) Relational Database
14 3 (0.23%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 20 (1.52%) Git
1 20 (1.52%) JIRA
2 16 (1.21%) Chocolatey
3 14 (1.06%) GitLab
4 10 (0.76%) JUnit
4 10 (0.76%) Spock
5 7 (0.53%) Jenkins
6 6 (0.46%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 6 (0.46%) Visual Studio Code
7 5 (0.38%) Bitbucket
8 4 (0.30%) IntelliJ
8 4 (0.30%) Maven
9 3 (0.23%) MLflow
10 2 (0.15%) git-flow
10 2 (0.15%) Selenium
10 2 (0.15%) Terragrunt
10 2 (0.15%) Yeoman
11 1 (0.076%) Claude Code
11 1 (0.076%) TeamCity
General
1 441 (33.46%) Social Skills
2 236 (17.91%) Finance
3 183 (13.88%) Analytical Skills
4 84 (6.37%) Legal
5 77 (5.84%) Law
6 69 (5.24%) Banking
7 63 (4.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 59 (4.48%) Manufacturing
9 41 (3.11%) Documentation Skills
10 39 (2.96%) Retail
11 38 (2.88%) Public Sector
12 35 (2.66%) Influencing Skills
12 35 (2.66%) Organisational Skills
13 23 (1.75%) Telecoms
14 18 (1.37%) Back Office
15 14 (1.06%) Financial Institution
16 13 (0.99%) Aerospace
17 12 (0.91%) Mandarin Language
17 12 (0.91%) Presentation Skills
18 9 (0.68%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 253 (19.20%) Senior
2 190 (14.42%) IT Support
3 168 (12.75%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 146 (11.08%) IT Engineer
5 145 (11.00%) IT Manager
6 115 (8.73%) Support Engineer
7 103 (7.81%) Architect
8 96 (7.28%) Analyst
8 96 (7.28%) IT Support Engineer
9 68 (5.16%) Lead
10 65 (4.93%) Service Manager
11 61 (4.63%) Cloud Engineer
12 59 (4.48%) Resilience Manager
13 57 (4.32%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
14 56 (4.25%) Azure Engineer
14 56 (4.25%) IT Services Manager
14 56 (4.25%) Network Engineer
15 45 (3.41%) IT Analyst
16 40 (3.03%) Administrator
17 39 (2.96%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 164 (12.44%) Terraform
2 73 (5.54%) Middleware
3 14 (1.06%) ARM Templates
4 10 (0.76%) AngularJS
4 10 (0.76%) Spring
5 8 (0.61%) Kafka
5 8 (0.61%) Microsoft Graph
5 8 (0.61%) Web Services
6 7 (0.53%) FIX Protocol
7 6 (0.46%) SAML
8 5 (0.38%) .NET
8 5 (0.38%) AWS CDK
8 5 (0.38%) ModSecurity
9 4 (0.30%) REST
9 4 (0.30%) web3js
10 3 (0.23%) 802.1X
10 3 (0.23%) EDI
10 3 (0.23%) JSON
10 3 (0.23%) Nuxt
10 3 (0.23%) Ruby on Rails
Miscellaneous
1 111 (8.42%) Data Centre
2 91 (6.90%) Cyber Threat
3 82 (6.22%) Management Information System
4 78 (5.92%) Cloud Native
5 75 (5.69%) Onboarding
6 69 (5.24%) Driving Licence
7 61 (4.63%) Hybrid Cloud
7 61 (4.63%) Security Posture
8 59 (4.48%) Replication
9 47 (3.57%) Self-Motivation
10 32 (2.43%) PKI
11 31 (2.35%) Enterprise Storage
12 30 (2.28%) NHS
13 26 (1.97%) Enterprise Software
14 25 (1.90%) CCTV
14 25 (1.90%) Public Cloud
15 23 (1.75%) Private Cloud
16 22 (1.67%) Clustering
17 21 (1.59%) CMDB
17 21 (1.59%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 448 (33.99%) Windows
2 319 (24.20%) Windows Server
3 144 (10.93%) Linux
4 35 (2.66%) Windows Server 2019
5 28 (2.12%) Windows 10
6 27 (2.05%) Ubuntu
7 25 (1.90%) Mac OS
8 22 (1.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 22 (1.67%) Windows Server 2016
9 21 (1.59%) Unix
10 13 (0.99%) VMS
11 12 (0.91%) AIX
12 10 (0.76%) Oracle Linux
13 9 (0.68%) CentOS
13 9 (0.68%) Solaris
14 5 (0.38%) Debian
15 4 (0.30%) Windows Server 2012
16 2 (0.15%) Amazon Linux
16 2 (0.15%) Embedded Linux
17 1 (0.076%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 537 (40.74%) Business Continuity
2 410 (31.11%) Cybersecurity
3 362 (27.47%) Continuous Improvement
4 345 (26.18%) Problem-Solving
5 270 (20.49%) ITIL
6 243 (18.44%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 220 (16.69%) DevOps
8 206 (15.63%) High Availability
9 186 (14.11%) Stakeholder Management
10 183 (13.88%) Incident Response
11 174 (13.20%) Information Security
11 174 (13.20%) Infrastructure as Code
12 171 (12.97%) Service Delivery
13 160 (12.14%) Project Delivery
14 146 (11.08%) Agile
14 146 (11.08%) Mentoring
15 141 (10.70%) CI/CD
16 134 (10.17%) Risk Management
17 133 (10.09%) AI
17 133 (10.09%) Cloud Security
Programming Languages
1 196 (14.87%) PowerShell
2 130 (9.86%) Python
3 121 (9.18%) SQL
4 55 (4.17%) Bash
5 27 (2.05%) Bicep
6 23 (1.75%) Shell Script
7 20 (1.52%) Java
8 15 (1.14%) JavaScript
9 14 (1.06%) TypeScript
10 11 (0.83%) Korn
11 10 (0.76%) PL/SQL
12 6 (0.46%) Kusto Query Language
12 6 (0.46%) Search Processing Language
13 5 (0.38%) COBOL
13 5 (0.38%) T-SQL
14 4 (0.30%) Go
14 4 (0.30%) Groovy
14 4 (0.30%) XAML
15 3 (0.23%) C#
15 3 (0.23%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 145 (11.00%) Degree
2 102 (7.74%) Azure Certification
3 100 (7.59%) CISSP
4 97 (7.36%) Cisco Certification
5 88 (6.68%) Microsoft Certification
6 84 (6.37%) CISM
6 84 (6.37%) Security Cleared
7 70 (5.31%) CCNP
8 62 (4.70%) SC Cleared
9 58 (4.40%) ITIL Certification
10 50 (3.79%) CCNA
11 43 (3.26%) Postgraduate
12 41 (3.11%) Computer Science Degree
13 28 (2.12%) AWS Certification
13 28 (2.12%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
14 21 (1.59%) CompTIA Security+
15 19 (1.44%) DV Cleared
16 18 (1.37%) Master's Degree
17 16 (1.21%) Network+ Certification
18 15 (1.14%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 151 (11.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 140 (10.62%) NIST
3 119 (9.03%) Cyber Essentials
4 115 (8.73%) GDPR
5 86 (6.53%) SLA
6 78 (5.92%) ISO 22301
7 53 (4.02%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 42 (3.19%) PCI DSS
9 40 (3.03%) GRC
10 27 (2.05%) Data Quality
11 24 (1.82%) PMO
12 22 (1.67%) SOC 2
13 20 (1.52%) NCSC
14 16 (1.21%) COBIT
15 14 (1.06%) QA
16 8 (0.61%) ISO 9001
16 8 (0.61%) SOC 1
17 5 (0.38%) ISO/IEC 20000
17 5 (0.38%) Sarbanes-Oxley
18 4 (0.30%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 359 (27.24%) Active Directory
2 295 (22.38%) VMware Infrastructure
3 206 (15.63%) Hyper-V
4 51 (3.87%) Docker
5 48 (3.64%) vSphere
6 38 (2.88%) Virtual Machines
7 30 (2.28%) Firmware
8 28 (2.12%) Virtual Desktop
9 26 (1.97%) VMware ESXi
10 16 (1.21%) VMware NSX
11 12 (0.91%) Oracle RAC
12 9 (0.68%) vCloud
13 6 (0.46%) Squid
14 5 (0.38%) Virtual Servers
15 4 (0.30%) KVM
16 3 (0.23%) DFS Replication
16 3 (0.23%) EMC RecoverPoint
16 3 (0.23%) VMware Server
17 2 (0.15%) iptables
17 2 (0.15%) Microsoft Virtual Server
Systems Management
1 188 (14.26%) Microsoft Intune
2 83 (6.30%) Ansible
3 79 (5.99%) Kubernetes
4 40 (3.03%) Single Sign-On
5 34 (2.58%) FortiGate
6 27 (2.05%) SCCM
7 19 (1.44%) VxRail
8 16 (1.21%) Jamf Pro
9 13 (0.99%) Data Guard
9 13 (0.99%) Prometheus
10 11 (0.83%) Grafana
10 11 (0.83%) Nagios
10 11 (0.83%) Oracle RMAN
10 11 (0.83%) vCenter Server
11 8 (0.61%) Dell DRAC
11 8 (0.61%) Proxmox
12 7 (0.53%) Avamar
12 7 (0.53%) Packer
13 6 (0.46%) EMC VPLEX
13 6 (0.46%) WSUS
Vendors
1 652 (49.47%) Microsoft
2 345 (26.18%) VMware
3 200 (15.17%) Cisco
4 93 (7.06%) Veeam
5 72 (5.46%) Palo Alto
6 48 (3.64%) Oracle
7 46 (3.49%) Fortinet
7 46 (3.49%) SonicWALL
7 46 (3.49%) Splunk
8 40 (3.03%) Meraki
9 39 (2.96%) Dell
10 36 (2.73%) Aruba
10 36 (2.73%) Google
11 34 (2.58%) SolarWinds
12 33 (2.50%) HP
13 30 (2.28%) Qualys
14 29 (2.20%) Sophos
15 28 (2.12%) Apple
16 27 (2.05%) ServiceNow
17 26 (1.97%) AppDynamics