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 11 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 171 250 221
Rank change year-on-year +79 -29 +35
Permanent jobs citing Disaster Recovery 1,237 619 1,041
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.17% 1.24% 1.25%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.59% 1.39% 1.54%
Number of salaries quoted 884 485 772
10th Percentile £34,772 £33,750 £34,500
25th Percentile £42,000 £42,500 £43,911
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -6.80%
75th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £93,750 £94,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £48,625 £52,500 £49,000
% change year-on-year -7.38% +7.14% -2.00%

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 78,019 44,452 67,790
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.52% 89.29% 81.16%
Number of salaries quoted 53,759 25,267 43,796
10th Percentile £30,750 £28,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -9.09%
75th Percentile £78,750 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £48,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +14.58% -4.00% -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 11 August 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 11 August 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 +62 1,067 £57,500 -4.17% 484
UK excluding London +73 805 £48,625 -7.38% 341
London +51 380 £75,000 - 200
Work from Home +86 379 £60,000 +9.09% 180
North of England +59 224 £47,500 -11.63% 79
South East +48 215 £50,000 - 104
Midlands +19 126 £55,000 - 58
North West +55 125 £47,500 -11.63% 35
West Midlands +25 93 £55,000 -4.35% 42
Yorkshire +29 84 £44,000 -29.60% 37
East of England +1 60 £53,725 +2.33% 23
South West -82 59 £50,000 +5.26% 41
Northern Ireland -28 50 - - 8
Scotland +43 47 £48,000 -10.70% 19
East Midlands -14 33 £45,000 -2.70% 16
Wales -39 22 £45,000 -21.74% 15
North East -63 15 £43,500 -10.77% 8
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
1 130 (10.51%) Microsoft Exchange
2 125 (10.11%) SharePoint
3 25 (2.02%) IIS
4 17 (1.37%) Apache
5 12 (0.97%) nginx
6 10 (0.81%) Apache Spark
7 6 (0.49%) Confluence
8 3 (0.24%) WordPress
9 2 (0.16%) Apache Airflow
9 2 (0.16%) OpenStack
9 2 (0.16%) WebLogic
10 1 (0.081%) Site Server
Applications
1 19 (1.54%) Microsoft Office
2 17 (1.37%) PlantUML
3 12 (0.97%) MS Visio
4 7 (0.57%) Microsoft Excel
5 3 (0.24%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.081%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 12 (0.97%) FLEXCUBE
2 6 (0.49%) Raiser’s Edge
3 5 (0.40%) JDE EnterpriseOne
3 5 (0.40%) Sage 200
4 4 (0.32%) NetSuite
5 3 (0.24%) Dynamics CRM
5 3 (0.24%) Q-Pulse
5 3 (0.24%) SAP S/4HANA
6 2 (0.16%) Adobe Campaign
7 1 (0.081%) Bloomberg TOMS
7 1 (0.081%) Misys Equation
7 1 (0.081%) Misys Midas
7 1 (0.081%) Sage 50
7 1 (0.081%) SAP EHS
7 1 (0.081%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 643 (51.98%) Azure
2 367 (29.67%) Microsoft 365
3 245 (19.81%) AWS
4 215 (17.38%) Entra ID
5 130 (10.51%) SaaS
6 89 (7.19%) IaaS
7 69 (5.58%) PaaS
8 50 (4.04%) Power Platform
9 41 (3.31%) Nutanix
10 38 (3.07%) Cloud Computing
10 38 (3.07%) GCP
11 35 (2.83%) Azure DevOps
12 34 (2.75%) Datadog
13 25 (2.02%) GitHub
14 24 (1.94%) GitHub Actions
15 22 (1.78%) Amazon EC2
15 22 (1.78%) AWS CloudFormation
15 22 (1.78%) Azure Monitor
15 22 (1.78%) Google Workspace
16 20 (1.62%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 352 (28.46%) Firewall
2 284 (22.96%) DNS
3 214 (17.30%) VPN
4 206 (16.65%) DHCP
5 155 (12.53%) WAN
6 129 (10.43%) VLAN
7 126 (10.19%) LAN
8 111 (8.97%) Wi-Fi
9 101 (8.16%) Network Security
10 94 (7.60%) TCP/IP
11 65 (5.25%) SAN
12 60 (4.85%) Wireless
13 42 (3.40%) Internet
14 35 (2.83%) SSL
15 34 (2.75%) SD-WAN
15 34 (2.75%) VoIP
16 29 (2.34%) Cisco ISE
17 25 (2.02%) NAS
18 22 (1.78%) Cisco Nexus
19 13 (1.05%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 91 (7.36%) SQL Server
2 36 (2.91%) Amazon RDS
3 30 (2.43%) Power BI
4 29 (2.34%) Azure SQL Database
5 17 (1.37%) PostgreSQL
6 13 (1.05%) Data Warehouse
6 13 (1.05%) Oracle Database
7 12 (0.97%) MySQL
8 9 (0.73%) Data Lake
9 8 (0.65%) Metadata
9 8 (0.65%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 6 (0.49%) MongoDB
10 6 (0.49%) NoSQL
10 6 (0.49%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 5 (0.40%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 4 (0.32%) DynamoDB
12 4 (0.32%) Elasticsearch
13 3 (0.24%) Big Data
13 3 (0.24%) NonStop SQL
13 3 (0.24%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 20 (1.62%) Git
1 20 (1.62%) JIRA
2 16 (1.29%) Chocolatey
3 13 (1.05%) GitLab
4 8 (0.65%) Jenkins
4 8 (0.65%) JUnit
4 8 (0.65%) Spock
5 6 (0.49%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 6 (0.49%) Visual Studio Code
6 5 (0.40%) Bitbucket
7 4 (0.32%) MLflow
8 2 (0.16%) git-flow
8 2 (0.16%) IntelliJ
8 2 (0.16%) Maven
8 2 (0.16%) Selenium
8 2 (0.16%) TeamCity
8 2 (0.16%) Terragrunt
8 2 (0.16%) Yeoman
9 1 (0.081%) Claude Code
General
1 418 (33.79%) Social Skills
2 222 (17.95%) Finance
3 163 (13.18%) Analytical Skills
4 80 (6.47%) Legal
5 75 (6.06%) Law
6 67 (5.42%) Banking
7 62 (5.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 52 (4.20%) Manufacturing
9 38 (3.07%) Documentation Skills
10 37 (2.99%) Organisational Skills
11 36 (2.91%) Retail
12 32 (2.59%) Influencing Skills
13 29 (2.34%) Public Sector
14 24 (1.94%) Telecoms
15 18 (1.46%) Back Office
16 13 (1.05%) Aerospace
16 13 (1.05%) Financial Institution
17 12 (0.97%) Mandarin Language
18 11 (0.89%) Presentation Skills
19 9 (0.73%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 236 (19.08%) Senior
2 184 (14.87%) IT Support
3 157 (12.69%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 145 (11.72%) IT Engineer
5 141 (11.40%) IT Manager
6 118 (9.54%) Support Engineer
7 97 (7.84%) IT Support Engineer
8 91 (7.36%) Architect
9 79 (6.39%) Analyst
10 67 (5.42%) Lead
11 64 (5.17%) Cloud Engineer
12 61 (4.93%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
13 60 (4.85%) Service Manager
14 58 (4.69%) Resilience Manager
15 54 (4.37%) IT Services Manager
16 51 (4.12%) Azure Engineer
17 50 (4.04%) Network Engineer
18 39 (3.15%) IT Analyst
19 37 (2.99%) Administrator
20 36 (2.91%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 63 (5.09%) Middleware
2 13 (1.05%) ARM Templates
3 9 (0.73%) Kafka
4 8 (0.65%) AngularJS
4 8 (0.65%) Microsoft Graph
4 8 (0.65%) Spring
4 8 (0.65%) Web Services
5 7 (0.57%) FIX Protocol
6 5 (0.40%) .NET
6 5 (0.40%) AWS CDK
6 5 (0.40%) ModSecurity
6 5 (0.40%) SAML
7 4 (0.32%) web3js
8 3 (0.24%) EDI
8 3 (0.24%) JSON
8 3 (0.24%) Nuxt
8 3 (0.24%) ODBC
8 3 (0.24%) PySpark
8 3 (0.24%) REST
8 3 (0.24%) Ruby on Rails
Miscellaneous
1 108 (8.73%) Data Centre
2 94 (7.60%) Cyber Threat
3 83 (6.71%) Management Information System
4 78 (6.31%) Cloud Native
5 72 (5.82%) Driving Licence
6 70 (5.66%) Hybrid Cloud
7 62 (5.01%) Onboarding
8 60 (4.85%) Replication
8 60 (4.85%) Security Posture
9 51 (4.12%) Self-Motivation
10 33 (2.67%) Enterprise Storage
11 32 (2.59%) PKI
12 28 (2.26%) NHS
13 25 (2.02%) Enterprise Software
13 25 (2.02%) Public Cloud
14 24 (1.94%) CCTV
15 23 (1.86%) Clustering
16 21 (1.70%) Virtual Team
17 19 (1.54%) CMDB
17 19 (1.54%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 420 (33.95%) Windows
2 289 (23.36%) Windows Server
3 132 (10.67%) Linux
4 30 (2.43%) Windows Server 2019
5 27 (2.18%) Windows 10
6 26 (2.10%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 25 (2.02%) Mac OS
8 23 (1.86%) Unix
9 22 (1.78%) Ubuntu
9 22 (1.78%) Windows Server 2016
10 12 (0.97%) AIX
11 11 (0.89%) Oracle Linux
12 10 (0.81%) CentOS
13 9 (0.73%) Solaris
13 9 (0.73%) VMS
14 4 (0.32%) Windows Server 2012
15 3 (0.24%) Debian
16 2 (0.16%) Amazon Linux
16 2 (0.16%) Apple iOS
16 2 (0.16%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 507 (40.99%) Business Continuity
2 366 (29.59%) Cybersecurity
3 334 (27.00%) Problem-Solving
4 325 (26.27%) Continuous Improvement
5 259 (20.94%) ITIL
6 224 (18.11%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 211 (17.06%) DevOps
8 197 (15.93%) High Availability
9 167 (13.50%) Incident Response
10 159 (12.85%) Infrastructure as Code
11 158 (12.77%) Stakeholder Management
12 156 (12.61%) Information Security
13 151 (12.21%) Service Delivery
14 136 (10.99%) Agile
15 133 (10.75%) Project Delivery
16 131 (10.59%) CI/CD
17 128 (10.35%) Mentoring
18 118 (9.54%) Cloud Security
19 115 (9.30%) Change Management
20 113 (9.14%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 186 (15.04%) PowerShell
2 123 (9.94%) Python
3 114 (9.22%) SQL
4 50 (4.04%) Bash
5 25 (2.02%) Bicep
5 25 (2.02%) Shell Script
6 17 (1.37%) Java
7 12 (0.97%) JavaScript
8 11 (0.89%) Korn
8 11 (0.89%) PL/SQL
8 11 (0.89%) TypeScript
9 6 (0.49%) Kusto Query Language
9 6 (0.49%) Search Processing Language
10 5 (0.40%) T-SQL
11 4 (0.32%) C#
11 4 (0.32%) COBOL
11 4 (0.32%) Go
12 3 (0.24%) Ruby
13 2 (0.16%) RPG
13 2 (0.16%) XAML
Qualifications
1 138 (11.16%) Degree
2 99 (8.00%) Cisco Certification
3 95 (7.68%) CISSP
4 94 (7.60%) Azure Certification
5 88 (7.11%) Microsoft Certification
6 81 (6.55%) CISM
7 79 (6.39%) Security Cleared
8 74 (5.98%) CCNP
9 61 (4.93%) SC Cleared
10 55 (4.45%) ITIL Certification
11 51 (4.12%) CCNA
12 40 (3.23%) Computer Science Degree
13 36 (2.91%) Postgraduate
14 34 (2.75%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
15 27 (2.18%) AWS Certification
16 18 (1.46%) DV Cleared
17 17 (1.37%) CompTIA Security+
18 16 (1.29%) Master's Degree
19 15 (1.21%) CEH
19 15 (1.21%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 139 (11.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 132 (10.67%) NIST
3 109 (8.81%) GDPR
4 106 (8.57%) Cyber Essentials
5 77 (6.22%) ISO 22301
5 77 (6.22%) SLA
6 48 (3.88%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 44 (3.56%) PCI DSS
8 31 (2.51%) GRC
9 27 (2.18%) PMO
10 25 (2.02%) Data Quality
11 22 (1.78%) SOC 2
12 16 (1.29%) COBIT
12 16 (1.29%) NCSC
13 13 (1.05%) QA
14 8 (0.65%) SOC 1
15 6 (0.49%) Actionable Recommendations
16 5 (0.40%) ISO/IEC 20000
16 5 (0.40%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
17 4 (0.32%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 336 (27.16%) Active Directory
2 285 (23.04%) VMware Infrastructure
3 189 (15.28%) Hyper-V
4 52 (4.20%) Docker
5 48 (3.88%) vSphere
6 31 (2.51%) Virtual Machines
7 26 (2.10%) VMware ESXi
8 25 (2.02%) Firmware
9 24 (1.94%) Virtual Desktop
10 13 (1.05%) Oracle RAC
10 13 (1.05%) VMware NSX
11 9 (0.73%) KVM
11 9 (0.73%) vCloud
12 6 (0.49%) Squid
13 5 (0.40%) Virtual Servers
14 3 (0.24%) DFS Replication
14 3 (0.24%) EMC RecoverPoint
14 3 (0.24%) VMware Server
15 2 (0.16%) iptables
15 2 (0.16%) Microsoft Virtual Server
Systems Management
1 161 (13.02%) Microsoft Intune
2 155 (12.53%) Terraform
3 81 (6.55%) Ansible
3 81 (6.55%) Kubernetes
4 34 (2.75%) Single Sign-On
5 30 (2.43%) FortiGate
6 26 (2.10%) SCCM
7 18 (1.46%) VxRail
8 13 (1.05%) Data Guard
8 13 (1.05%) Jamf Pro
9 12 (0.97%) Nagios
10 11 (0.89%) Oracle RMAN
10 11 (0.89%) Prometheus
11 10 (0.81%) vCenter Server
12 9 (0.73%) Grafana
13 8 (0.65%) Dell DRAC
14 7 (0.57%) Avamar
14 7 (0.57%) Packer
14 7 (0.57%) Proxmox
14 7 (0.57%) WSUS
Vendors
1 591 (47.78%) Microsoft
2 338 (27.32%) VMware
3 189 (15.28%) Cisco
4 87 (7.03%) Veeam
5 64 (5.17%) Palo Alto
6 46 (3.72%) Splunk
7 44 (3.56%) Oracle
8 43 (3.48%) Dell
9 40 (3.23%) Fortinet
10 38 (3.07%) Meraki
11 37 (2.99%) HP
12 34 (2.75%) SonicWALL
13 32 (2.59%) Aruba
14 31 (2.51%) Google
15 30 (2.43%) Sophos
16 28 (2.26%) SolarWinds
17 26 (2.10%) Apple
18 25 (2.02%) Qualys
19 24 (1.94%) Commvault
19 24 (1.94%) IBM