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 3 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 169 257 176
Rank change year-on-year +88 -81 +40
Permanent jobs citing Disaster Recovery 1,377 572 1,084
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.17% 1.15% 1.45%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.59% 1.29% 1.78%
Number of salaries quoted 945 451 618
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £45,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% - +0.80%
75th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £102,500 £95,375
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £51,750 £50,000
% change year-on-year -3.38% +3.50% -4.76%

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 86,399 44,171 61,013
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.12% 89.11% 81.89%
Number of salaries quoted 59,417 24,443 33,150
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £58,700
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -6.30% -2.17%
75th Percentile £78,750 £75,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +15.79% -9.52% -2.78%

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 3 October 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 3 October 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 +88 1,212 £57,500 -4.17% 1,014
UK excluding London +94 895 £50,000 -3.38% 655
London +36 428 £75,000 +3.45% 452
Work from Home +105 414 £62,500 - 452
North of England +64 245 £47,500 -9.52% 162
South East +68 240 £50,000 - 175
Midlands +47 164 £56,250 -5.46% 93
North West +48 138 £47,500 +5.56% 84
West Midlands +33 118 £59,386 -8.64% 49
Yorkshire +34 94 £47,500 -11.63% 66
South West -42 73 £50,000 +5.26% 76
East of England -5 60 £44,161 +35.88% 45
Northern Ireland -46 47 - - 26
East Midlands -17 46 £44,736 -14.79% 44
Scotland +40 45 £45,900 -12.57% 56
Wales -54 23 £45,000 -21.74% 26
North East -65 13 £53,750 +2.38% 14

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
1 177 (12.85%) Microsoft Exchange
2 173 (12.56%) SharePoint
3 27 (1.96%) IIS
4 22 (1.60%) Apache
5 18 (1.31%) nginx
6 11 (0.80%) Apache Spark
7 5 (0.36%) Confluence
7 5 (0.36%) OpenStack
8 3 (0.22%) WordPress
9 2 (0.15%) WebLogic
10 1 (0.073%) CICS
10 1 (0.073%) FactoryTalk
10 1 (0.073%) Site Server
Applications
1 19 (1.38%) PlantUML
2 18 (1.31%) Microsoft Office
3 12 (0.87%) MS Visio
4 11 (0.80%) Microsoft Excel
5 3 (0.22%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.073%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 11 (0.80%) FLEXCUBE
2 6 (0.44%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (0.44%) Raiser’s Edge
3 5 (0.36%) JDE EnterpriseOne
3 5 (0.36%) Sage 200
4 4 (0.29%) NetSuite
5 3 (0.22%) Q-Pulse
6 2 (0.15%) Adobe Campaign
6 2 (0.15%) Integrated Workplace Management System
7 1 (0.073%) Bloomberg TOMS
7 1 (0.073%) Eikon
7 1 (0.073%) Misys Equation
7 1 (0.073%) Misys Midas
7 1 (0.073%) Oracle Applications
7 1 (0.073%) Oracle EBS
7 1 (0.073%) Sage 50
7 1 (0.073%) SAP EHS
7 1 (0.073%) SAP S/4HANA
7 1 (0.073%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 712 (51.71%) Azure
2 417 (30.28%) Microsoft 365
3 295 (21.42%) Entra ID
4 258 (18.74%) AWS
5 153 (11.11%) SaaS
6 107 (7.77%) IaaS
7 79 (5.74%) PaaS
8 54 (3.92%) GCP
9 52 (3.78%) Azure DevOps
9 52 (3.78%) Cloud Computing
9 52 (3.78%) Power Platform
10 50 (3.63%) OneDrive
11 47 (3.41%) Azure Monitor
12 37 (2.69%) GitHub
13 32 (2.32%) Microsoft Copilot
14 30 (2.18%) Google Workspace
15 27 (1.96%) Amazon EC2
15 27 (1.96%) Datadog
16 24 (1.74%) GitHub Actions
16 24 (1.74%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 365 (26.51%) Firewall
2 335 (24.33%) DNS
3 240 (17.43%) DHCP
4 235 (17.07%) VPN
5 162 (11.76%) WAN
6 148 (10.75%) VLAN
7 131 (9.51%) LAN
8 123 (8.93%) TCP/IP
9 118 (8.57%) Wi-Fi
10 99 (7.19%) Network Security
11 93 (6.75%) Wireless
12 58 (4.21%) SAN
13 52 (3.78%) Internet
14 45 (3.27%) SD-WAN
15 41 (2.98%) SSL
16 38 (2.76%) VoIP
17 27 (1.96%) Cisco ISE
18 24 (1.74%) Cisco Nexus
19 22 (1.60%) NAS
20 18 (1.31%) BGP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 101 (7.33%) SQL Server
2 43 (3.12%) Amazon RDS
3 38 (2.76%) Azure SQL Database
4 35 (2.54%) PostgreSQL
5 33 (2.40%) Power BI
6 16 (1.16%) Data Warehouse
7 14 (1.02%) Metadata
7 14 (1.02%) MySQL
7 14 (1.02%) Oracle Database
8 12 (0.87%) Data Lake
9 8 (0.58%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 7 (0.51%) MongoDB
11 6 (0.44%) Relational Database
12 5 (0.36%) NoSQL
12 5 (0.36%) SQL Server Analysis Services
12 5 (0.36%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 4 (0.29%) DynamoDB
14 3 (0.22%) Elasticsearch
14 3 (0.22%) NonStop SQL
14 3 (0.22%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 19 (1.38%) JIRA
2 16 (1.16%) Git
2 16 (1.16%) GitLab
3 11 (0.80%) Chocolatey
4 10 (0.73%) JUnit
4 10 (0.73%) Spock
5 9 (0.65%) Jenkins
6 5 (0.36%) Bitbucket
6 5 (0.36%) Claude Code
7 4 (0.29%) IntelliJ
7 4 (0.29%) Maven
7 4 (0.29%) TeamCity
8 3 (0.22%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 2 (0.15%) git-flow
9 2 (0.15%) Selenium
9 2 (0.15%) Terragrunt
9 2 (0.15%) Visual Studio Code
10 1 (0.073%) Flyway
10 1 (0.073%) MLflow
10 1 (0.073%) Yeoman
General
1 467 (33.91%) Social Skills
2 267 (19.39%) Finance
3 182 (13.22%) Analytical Skills
4 86 (6.25%) Law
5 85 (6.17%) Legal
6 72 (5.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 66 (4.79%) Banking
8 62 (4.50%) Manufacturing
9 47 (3.41%) Retail
10 45 (3.27%) Documentation Skills
11 44 (3.20%) Public Sector
12 37 (2.69%) Organisational Skills
13 33 (2.40%) Influencing Skills
14 24 (1.74%) Back Office
15 22 (1.60%) Telecoms
16 16 (1.16%) Aerospace
17 15 (1.09%) Financial Institution
18 12 (0.87%) Police
19 10 (0.73%) Presentation Skills
20 9 (0.65%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 267 (19.39%) Senior
2 194 (14.09%) IT Support
3 190 (13.80%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 148 (10.75%) IT Engineer
5 132 (9.59%) IT Manager
6 118 (8.57%) Support Engineer
7 110 (7.99%) Architect
8 104 (7.55%) Analyst
9 98 (7.12%) IT Support Engineer
10 76 (5.52%) Lead
11 71 (5.16%) Service Manager
12 69 (5.01%) Resilience Manager
13 62 (4.50%) Network Engineer
14 60 (4.36%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
15 59 (4.28%) IT Services Manager
16 58 (4.21%) Cloud Engineer
17 49 (3.56%) Administrator
18 46 (3.34%) Azure Engineer
19 44 (3.20%) IT Analyst
20 41 (2.98%) IT Support Assistant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 188 (13.65%) Terraform
2 75 (5.45%) Middleware
3 16 (1.16%) ARM Templates
4 11 (0.80%) REST
5 10 (0.73%) AngularJS
5 10 (0.73%) Spring
6 9 (0.65%) Microsoft Graph
6 9 (0.65%) OpenTelemetry
6 9 (0.65%) SAML
7 8 (0.58%) .NET
7 8 (0.58%) Web Services
8 7 (0.51%) FIX Protocol
8 7 (0.51%) Kafka
9 5 (0.36%) ModSecurity
10 4 (0.29%) 802.1X
10 4 (0.29%) AWS CDK
10 4 (0.29%) JSON
10 4 (0.29%) LDAP
10 4 (0.29%) React
10 4 (0.29%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 109 (7.92%) Data Centre
2 86 (6.25%) Cloud Native
3 85 (6.17%) Cyber Threat
4 83 (6.03%) Onboarding
5 80 (5.81%) Management Information System
6 79 (5.74%) Driving Licence
7 68 (4.94%) Replication
8 65 (4.72%) Hybrid Cloud
9 64 (4.65%) Security Posture
10 44 (3.20%) Self-Motivation
11 38 (2.76%) Enterprise Storage
12 37 (2.69%) PKI
13 33 (2.40%) Enterprise Software
14 30 (2.18%) NHS
15 24 (1.74%) Distributed Systems
16 23 (1.67%) Clustering
17 22 (1.60%) CCTV
17 22 (1.60%) Virtual Team
18 21 (1.53%) Enterprise Cloud
18 21 (1.53%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 484 (35.15%) Windows
2 359 (26.07%) Windows Server
3 149 (10.82%) Linux
4 41 (2.98%) Windows 10
5 40 (2.90%) Windows Server 2019
6 25 (1.82%) Mac OS
7 24 (1.74%) Ubuntu
8 23 (1.67%) Windows Server 2016
9 22 (1.60%) Unix
10 19 (1.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 14 (1.02%) VMS
12 12 (0.87%) AIX
13 10 (0.73%) Oracle Linux
14 9 (0.65%) Solaris
15 7 (0.51%) CentOS
16 6 (0.44%) Debian
17 4 (0.29%) Windows Server 2012
18 2 (0.15%) Amazon Linux
18 2 (0.15%) Apple iOS
18 2 (0.15%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 552 (40.09%) Business Continuity
2 411 (29.85%) Continuous Improvement
2 411 (29.85%) Cybersecurity
3 365 (26.51%) Problem-Solving
4 276 (20.04%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 259 (18.81%) ITIL
6 232 (16.85%) DevOps
7 215 (15.61%) Stakeholder Management
8 214 (15.54%) High Availability
9 200 (14.52%) Infrastructure as Code
10 181 (13.14%) Incident Response
11 175 (12.71%) Project Delivery
12 173 (12.56%) Information Security
13 169 (12.27%) Service Delivery
14 157 (11.40%) CI/CD
15 152 (11.04%) Cloud Security
16 148 (10.75%) Migration
17 142 (10.31%) Agile
17 142 (10.31%) AI
18 140 (10.17%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 217 (15.76%) PowerShell
2 141 (10.24%) Python
3 133 (9.66%) SQL
4 64 (4.65%) Bash
5 40 (2.90%) Bicep
6 27 (1.96%) Java
7 24 (1.74%) Shell Script
8 17 (1.23%) JavaScript
9 14 (1.02%) TypeScript
10 11 (0.80%) Korn
11 10 (0.73%) PL/SQL
12 7 (0.51%) Go
12 7 (0.51%) Kusto Query Language
13 6 (0.44%) Groovy
13 6 (0.44%) Search Processing Language
14 5 (0.36%) COBOL
14 5 (0.36%) T-SQL
15 4 (0.29%) C#
15 4 (0.29%) XAML
16 3 (0.22%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 133 (9.66%) Degree
2 111 (8.06%) Security Cleared
3 104 (7.55%) Azure Certification
4 96 (6.97%) CISSP
5 93 (6.75%) Cisco Certification
6 88 (6.39%) Microsoft Certification
7 84 (6.10%) SC Cleared
8 83 (6.03%) CISM
9 65 (4.72%) CCNP
10 61 (4.43%) ITIL Certification
11 52 (3.78%) CCNA
12 46 (3.34%) Postgraduate
13 41 (2.98%) Computer Science Degree
14 31 (2.25%) AWS Certification
15 26 (1.89%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
16 22 (1.60%) CompTIA Security+
17 20 (1.45%) DV Cleared
18 19 (1.38%) Master's Degree
19 17 (1.23%) Network+ Certification
20 16 (1.16%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 152 (11.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 142 (10.31%) NIST
3 127 (9.22%) Cyber Essentials
4 118 (8.57%) GDPR
5 90 (6.54%) ISO 22301
6 83 (6.03%) SLA
7 60 (4.36%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 45 (3.27%) PCI DSS
9 35 (2.54%) GRC
10 27 (1.96%) Data Quality
11 26 (1.89%) SOC 2
12 23 (1.67%) NCSC
13 20 (1.45%) PMO
14 17 (1.23%) COBIT
15 15 (1.09%) QA
16 11 (0.80%) ISO 9001
17 7 (0.51%) SOC 1
18 5 (0.36%) ISO/IEC 20000
19 4 (0.29%) Accessibility
19 4 (0.29%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 389 (28.25%) Active Directory
2 298 (21.64%) VMware Infrastructure
3 214 (15.54%) Hyper-V
4 57 (4.14%) vSphere
5 56 (4.07%) Virtual Machines
6 55 (3.99%) Docker
7 38 (2.76%) Firmware
8 30 (2.18%) VMware ESXi
9 26 (1.89%) Virtual Desktop
10 15 (1.09%) VMware NSX
11 12 (0.87%) Oracle RAC
12 7 (0.51%) vCloud
13 6 (0.44%) Squid
14 5 (0.36%) Virtual Servers
15 4 (0.29%) DFS Replication
15 4 (0.29%) KVM
16 3 (0.22%) VMware Server
17 2 (0.15%) EMC RecoverPoint
17 2 (0.15%) iptables
17 2 (0.15%) Microsoft Virtual Server
Systems Management
1 197 (14.31%) Microsoft Intune
2 93 (6.75%) Kubernetes
3 89 (6.46%) Ansible
4 51 (3.70%) Single Sign-On
5 33 (2.40%) FortiGate
6 25 (1.82%) SCCM
7 24 (1.74%) Grafana
8 21 (1.53%) Prometheus
9 17 (1.23%) VxRail
10 16 (1.16%) Jamf Pro
11 13 (0.94%) Data Guard
12 12 (0.87%) Puppet
13 11 (0.80%) Nagios
13 11 (0.80%) Oracle RMAN
13 11 (0.80%) vCenter Server
14 8 (0.58%) Dell DRAC
14 8 (0.58%) Progress Chef
14 8 (0.58%) Proxmox
15 7 (0.51%) Avamar
15 7 (0.51%) WSUS
Vendors
1 676 (49.09%) Microsoft
2 349 (25.34%) VMware
3 207 (15.03%) Cisco
4 110 (7.99%) Veeam
5 72 (5.23%) Palo Alto
6 60 (4.36%) Fortinet
7 53 (3.85%) Oracle
8 49 (3.56%) SonicWALL
9 47 (3.41%) Google
10 46 (3.34%) Meraki
11 44 (3.20%) Splunk
12 42 (3.05%) Aruba
13 41 (2.98%) SolarWinds
14 39 (2.83%) Dell
15 30 (2.18%) Qualys
16 27 (1.96%) Apple
17 26 (1.89%) HP
17 26 (1.89%) Sophos
18 25 (1.82%) ServiceNow
19 24 (1.74%) Citrix