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 10 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 180 242 206
Rank change year-on-year +62 -36 +85
Permanent jobs citing Disaster Recovery 1,113 624 1,380
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.14% 1.27% 1.35%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.54% 1.41% 1.64%
Number of salaries quoted 817 498 1,108
10th Percentile £33,900 £36,250 £33,000
25th Percentile £42,250 £46,250 £42,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £62,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +13.64% -5.98%
75th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £92,500 £91,625 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -

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 72,315 44,278 84,054
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.86% 90.47% 82.35%
Number of salaries quoted 49,904 24,657 59,064
10th Percentile £30,250 £28,822 £29,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -8.71%
75th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £54,772 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +9.54% - -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 10 July 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 10 July 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 +53 970 £57,500 -8.00% 283
UK excluding London +59 677 £50,000 -9.09% 230
London +62 368 £75,000 - 104
Work from Home +89 340 £60,000 +4.35% 139
North of England +56 223 £48,750 -11.36% 52
South East +20 176 £50,000 -4.76% 81
Midlands +25 108 £55,000 -2.22% 37
Yorkshire +44 105 £50,000 -20.00% 18
North West +41 102 £50,000 -8.05% 29
West Midlands +38 82 £55,000 -4.35% 21
East of England +8 49 £45,000 -15.09% 14
South West -84 39 £43,750 -20.45% 21
Northern Ireland -29 34 - - 11
Scotland +33 31 £44,150 -19.73% 10
East Midlands -20 25 £55,000 +18.92% 16
North East -51 16 £42,500 -12.82% 6
Wales -35 15 £43,000 -25.22% 11
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
1 118 (10.60%) Microsoft Exchange
2 113 (10.15%) SharePoint
3 19 (1.71%) IIS
4 10 (0.90%) Apache
5 9 (0.81%) Apache Spark
6 3 (0.27%) Confluence
6 3 (0.27%) nginx
6 3 (0.27%) WordPress
7 2 (0.18%) Apache Airflow
7 2 (0.18%) OpenStack
8 1 (0.090%) Site Server
8 1 (0.090%) WebLogic
Applications
1 19 (1.71%) Microsoft Office
2 15 (1.35%) MS Visio
3 14 (1.26%) PlantUML
4 7 (0.63%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 12 (1.08%) FLEXCUBE
2 6 (0.54%) Raiser’s Edge
3 4 (0.36%) NetSuite
3 4 (0.36%) Sage 200
4 3 (0.27%) Dynamics CRM
4 3 (0.27%) JDE EnterpriseOne
4 3 (0.27%) Q-Pulse
4 3 (0.27%) SAP S/4HANA
5 2 (0.18%) Adobe Campaign
5 2 (0.18%) Oracle EBS
5 2 (0.18%) SAP ERP
6 1 (0.090%) Elite 3E
6 1 (0.090%) Misys Equation
6 1 (0.090%) Misys Midas
6 1 (0.090%) SAP EHS
Cloud Services
1 567 (50.94%) Azure
2 330 (29.65%) Microsoft 365
3 196 (17.61%) AWS
4 188 (16.89%) Entra ID
5 98 (8.81%) SaaS
6 66 (5.93%) IaaS
7 59 (5.30%) PaaS
8 49 (4.40%) Nutanix
9 45 (4.04%) Power Platform
10 42 (3.77%) Datadog
11 37 (3.32%) Azure DevOps
12 33 (2.96%) GCP
13 29 (2.61%) Cloud Computing
13 29 (2.61%) GitHub
13 29 (2.61%) Microsoft Purview
14 25 (2.25%) Azure Monitor
15 24 (2.16%) GitHub Actions
16 22 (1.98%) Mimecast
17 20 (1.80%) Amazon EC2
18 19 (1.71%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 349 (31.36%) Firewall
2 243 (21.83%) DNS
3 215 (19.32%) VPN
4 185 (16.62%) DHCP
5 152 (13.66%) WAN
6 131 (11.77%) VLAN
7 121 (10.87%) LAN
8 97 (8.72%) Wi-Fi
9 91 (8.18%) Network Security
10 90 (8.09%) TCP/IP
11 61 (5.48%) SAN
12 55 (4.94%) Wireless
13 36 (3.23%) Internet
14 28 (2.52%) Cisco ISE
15 27 (2.43%) SD-WAN
15 27 (2.43%) SSL
16 26 (2.34%) VoIP
17 19 (1.71%) Remote Desktop
18 18 (1.62%) NAS
19 17 (1.53%) Cisco Nexus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 91 (8.18%) SQL Server
2 36 (3.23%) Amazon RDS
3 27 (2.43%) Azure SQL Database
3 27 (2.43%) Power BI
4 13 (1.17%) Data Warehouse
5 12 (1.08%) PostgreSQL
6 11 (0.99%) MySQL
6 11 (0.99%) Oracle Database
7 9 (0.81%) Data Lake
7 9 (0.81%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 7 (0.63%) Metadata
9 6 (0.54%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 5 (0.45%) Delta Lake
10 5 (0.45%) Geospatial Data
10 5 (0.45%) GIS
10 5 (0.45%) NoSQL
10 5 (0.45%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 4 (0.36%) Elasticsearch
11 4 (0.36%) MongoDB
12 3 (0.27%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 20 (1.80%) JIRA
2 17 (1.53%) Chocolatey
3 15 (1.35%) Git
4 8 (0.72%) GitLab
5 6 (0.54%) Visual Studio Code
6 5 (0.45%) Jenkins
7 4 (0.36%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 4 (0.36%) JUnit
7 4 (0.36%) MLflow
7 4 (0.36%) Spock
8 3 (0.27%) Selenium
9 2 (0.18%) Bitbucket
9 2 (0.18%) Terragrunt
9 2 (0.18%) Yeoman
10 1 (0.090%) Claude Code
10 1 (0.090%) IntelliJ
10 1 (0.090%) Maven
10 1 (0.090%) Team Foundation Server
10 1 (0.090%) TeamCity
General
1 392 (35.22%) Social Skills
2 193 (17.34%) Finance
3 146 (13.12%) Analytical Skills
4 74 (6.65%) Law
5 70 (6.29%) Banking
6 65 (5.84%) Legal
7 47 (4.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 39 (3.50%) Organisational Skills
9 38 (3.41%) Manufacturing
10 37 (3.32%) Public Sector
11 32 (2.88%) Documentation Skills
12 29 (2.61%) Retail
13 28 (2.52%) Influencing Skills
14 21 (1.89%) Back Office
14 21 (1.89%) Telecoms
15 11 (0.99%) Financial Institution
15 11 (0.99%) Mandarin Language
16 8 (0.72%) Advertising
16 8 (0.72%) Marketing
17 7 (0.63%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 219 (19.68%) Senior
2 163 (14.65%) IT Support
3 161 (14.47%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 135 (12.13%) IT Engineer
5 115 (10.33%) IT Manager
6 105 (9.43%) Support Engineer
7 85 (7.64%) IT Support Engineer
8 76 (6.83%) Lead
9 73 (6.56%) Cloud Engineer
10 72 (6.47%) Architect
11 62 (5.57%) Analyst
12 60 (5.39%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
13 52 (4.67%) Azure Engineer
14 44 (3.95%) Service Manager
15 42 (3.77%) Network Engineer
16 40 (3.59%) IT Services Manager
17 37 (3.32%) IT Analyst
17 37 (3.32%) Resilience Manager
18 35 (3.14%) Administrator
18 35 (3.14%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (3.95%) Middleware
2 14 (1.26%) ARM Templates
3 10 (0.90%) SAML
4 8 (0.72%) Microsoft Graph
5 7 (0.63%) Kafka
6 6 (0.54%) FIX Protocol
6 6 (0.54%) REST
7 5 (0.45%) OAuth
7 5 (0.45%) PySpark
7 5 (0.45%) RESTful
8 4 (0.36%) AngularJS
8 4 (0.36%) Spring
8 4 (0.36%) Web Services
8 4 (0.36%) web3js
8 4 (0.36%) YAML
9 3 (0.27%) ADO
9 3 (0.27%) Apache NiFi
9 3 (0.27%) Nuxt
9 3 (0.27%) ODBC
9 3 (0.27%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 103 (9.25%) Data Centre
2 76 (6.83%) Management Information System
3 75 (6.74%) Cyber Threat
4 67 (6.02%) Cloud Native
5 65 (5.84%) Driving Licence
5 65 (5.84%) Hybrid Cloud
6 56 (5.03%) Security Posture
7 53 (4.76%) Self-Motivation
8 52 (4.67%) Replication
9 41 (3.68%) Onboarding
10 36 (3.23%) Data Protection Act
10 36 (3.23%) PKI
11 30 (2.70%) Enterprise Storage
12 28 (2.52%) NHS
12 28 (2.52%) Public Cloud
13 23 (2.07%) CMDB
14 22 (1.98%) CCTV
15 20 (1.80%) Legacy Systems
15 20 (1.80%) Virtual Team
16 19 (1.71%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 376 (33.78%) Windows
2 253 (22.73%) Windows Server
3 104 (9.34%) Linux
4 27 (2.43%) Windows Server 2019
5 23 (2.07%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 21 (1.89%) Mac OS
6 21 (1.89%) Windows Server 2016
7 19 (1.71%) Unix
8 18 (1.62%) Windows 10
9 14 (1.26%) Ubuntu
10 12 (1.08%) AIX
10 12 (1.08%) Oracle Linux
11 10 (0.90%) CentOS
12 8 (0.72%) Solaris
12 8 (0.72%) VMS
13 5 (0.45%) Apple iOS
13 5 (0.45%) Windows Server 2012
14 2 (0.18%) Amazon Linux
14 2 (0.18%) Debian
14 2 (0.18%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 434 (38.99%) Business Continuity
2 351 (31.54%) Cybersecurity
3 288 (25.88%) Problem-Solving
4 286 (25.70%) Continuous Improvement
5 236 (21.20%) ITIL
6 216 (19.41%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 178 (15.99%) High Availability
8 174 (15.63%) Incident Response
9 170 (15.27%) DevOps
10 135 (12.13%) Infrastructure as Code
11 134 (12.04%) Stakeholder Management
12 132 (11.86%) Service Delivery
13 124 (11.14%) Information Security
14 117 (10.51%) Cloud Security
15 116 (10.42%) Data Protection
16 109 (9.79%) Change Management
16 109 (9.79%) Project Delivery
17 108 (9.70%) CI/CD
18 107 (9.61%) Risk Management
19 103 (9.25%) Agile
Programming Languages
1 164 (14.73%) PowerShell
2 116 (10.42%) Python
3 109 (9.79%) SQL
4 46 (4.13%) Bash
5 21 (1.89%) Bicep
6 17 (1.53%) Shell Script
7 13 (1.17%) Java
8 11 (0.99%) JavaScript
8 11 (0.99%) Korn
8 11 (0.99%) PL/SQL
9 9 (0.81%) TypeScript
10 7 (0.63%) Kusto Query Language
10 7 (0.63%) T-SQL
11 5 (0.45%) C#
12 4 (0.36%) Go
12 4 (0.36%) Search Processing Language
13 3 (0.27%) Ruby
13 3 (0.27%) Scala
14 2 (0.18%) RPG
14 2 (0.18%) XAML
Qualifications
1 122 (10.96%) Degree
2 88 (7.91%) Cisco Certification
3 77 (6.92%) Microsoft Certification
4 71 (6.38%) Azure Certification
5 70 (6.29%) CISSP
6 66 (5.93%) CCNP
7 61 (5.48%) Security Cleared
8 57 (5.12%) CISM
9 50 (4.49%) CCNA
10 42 (3.77%) SC Cleared
11 39 (3.50%) Computer Science Degree
12 30 (2.70%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13 29 (2.61%) ITIL Certification
14 28 (2.52%) Postgraduate
15 18 (1.62%) AWS Certification
16 16 (1.44%) CEH
17 15 (1.35%) CISA
18 14 (1.26%) Master's Degree
19 13 (1.17%) CRISC
19 13 (1.17%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 160 (14.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 133 (11.95%) NIST
3 124 (11.14%) GDPR
4 119 (10.69%) Cyber Essentials
5 64 (5.75%) SLA
6 54 (4.85%) ISO 22301
6 54 (4.85%) PCI DSS
7 49 (4.40%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 29 (2.61%) PMO
9 28 (2.52%) GRC
10 27 (2.43%) SOC 2
11 25 (2.25%) Data Quality
12 16 (1.44%) COBIT
13 11 (0.99%) NCSC
14 10 (0.90%) Actionable Recommendations
15 8 (0.72%) SOC 1
16 6 (0.54%) QA
17 5 (0.45%) HL7
17 5 (0.45%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
18 4 (0.36%) DICOM
System Software
1 303 (27.22%) Active Directory
2 261 (23.45%) VMware Infrastructure
3 173 (15.54%) Hyper-V
4 44 (3.95%) vSphere
5 41 (3.68%) Docker
6 29 (2.61%) Virtual Machines
7 25 (2.25%) VMware ESXi
8 22 (1.98%) Virtual Desktop
9 21 (1.89%) Firmware
10 13 (1.17%) Oracle RAC
11 10 (0.90%) VMware NSX
12 9 (0.81%) vCloud
13 7 (0.63%) KVM
14 4 (0.36%) EMC RecoverPoint
14 4 (0.36%) Virtual Servers
15 3 (0.27%) DFS Replication
15 3 (0.27%) Squid
15 3 (0.27%) VMware Server
16 2 (0.18%) Microsoft Virtual Server
16 2 (0.18%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 139 (12.49%) Microsoft Intune
1 139 (12.49%) Terraform
2 76 (6.83%) Kubernetes
3 74 (6.65%) Ansible
4 28 (2.52%) Single Sign-On
5 27 (2.43%) SCCM
6 25 (2.25%) FortiGate
7 20 (1.80%) VxRail
8 12 (1.08%) Data Guard
8 12 (1.08%) Nagios
8 12 (1.08%) vCenter Server
9 11 (0.99%) Oracle RMAN
10 10 (0.90%) Prometheus
11 9 (0.81%) Dell DRAC
11 9 (0.81%) Grafana
11 9 (0.81%) Jamf Pro
11 9 (0.81%) Packer
12 7 (0.63%) EMC NetWorker
13 6 (0.54%) EMC VPLEX
13 6 (0.54%) WSUS
Vendors
1 546 (49.06%) Microsoft
2 319 (28.66%) VMware
3 164 (14.73%) Cisco
4 74 (6.65%) Veeam
5 59 (5.30%) Palo Alto
6 50 (4.49%) Dell
7 40 (3.59%) HP
7 40 (3.59%) Splunk
8 38 (3.41%) Meraki
9 36 (3.23%) Oracle
10 35 (3.14%) Fortinet
11 30 (2.70%) Commvault
11 30 (2.70%) Nimble Storage
11 30 (2.70%) Sophos
12 28 (2.52%) Tenable
13 27 (2.43%) SolarWinds
14 26 (2.34%) Aruba
15 25 (2.25%) Google
16 24 (2.16%) IBM
17 23 (2.07%) EMC