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 27 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 209 175 196
Rank change year-on-year -34 +21 +146
Permanent jobs citing Disaster Recovery 714 825 1,186
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.02% 1.74% 1.57%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.30% 1.87% 1.78%
Number of salaries quoted 545 527 1,079
10th Percentile £32,500 £38,750 £33,400
25th Percentile £45,000 £46,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.35% +8.49%
75th Percentile £87,500 £77,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £104,000 £91,250 £80,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £53,300 £52,500
% change year-on-year -1.50% +1.52% +5.00%

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 55,039 44,035 66,669
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 78.92% 92.97% 88.39%
Number of salaries quoted 32,968 22,033 51,326
10th Percentile £29,000 £33,750 £29,487
25th Percentile £38,541 £45,651 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,001 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -12.00%
75th Percentile £76,250 £81,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £102,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -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 27 February 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 27 February 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 -42 620 £62,500 +4.17% 155
UK excluding London -66 366 £52,500 -1.50% 125
London +21 285 £80,000 +10.34% 42
Work from Home +28 218 £67,500 +8.00% 64
North of England -25 137 £47,500 +5.56% 39
Yorkshire +1 81 £47,500 -9.52% 13
South East -29 81 £63,000 -3.08% 32
Midlands -34 58 £52,500 -1.50% 27
West Midlands +1 41 £55,000 +3.19% 18
North West -51 37 £41,250 -8.33% 26
South West -30 29 £42,500 -30.33% 8
Northern Ireland - 21 - -
North East -2 19 £55,473 +40.44% 1
East of England -34 18 £62,500 +10.62% 14
East Midlands -48 16 £45,000 -25.00% 9
Scotland -51 11 £48,000 -13.43% 8
Wales -3 9 £29,750 -47.58% 3
Channel Islands - 4 £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 (16.53%) Microsoft Exchange
2 100 (14.01%) SharePoint
3 9 (1.26%) IIS
4 5 (0.70%) Tomcat
5 4 (0.56%) WebSphere
5 4 (0.56%) WebSphere Application Server
6 3 (0.42%) Confluence
7 2 (0.28%) Apache
7 2 (0.28%) Apache Spark
7 2 (0.28%) BizTalk Server
7 2 (0.28%) CICS
7 2 (0.28%) CMS
8 1 (0.14%) Apache Airflow
8 1 (0.14%) Site Server
8 1 (0.14%) Skype for Business
8 1 (0.14%) WebLogic
Applications
1 30 (4.20%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (0.84%) MS Visio
3 5 (0.70%) Spreadsheet
4 4 (0.56%) Microsoft Excel
5 2 (0.28%) Acrobat
5 2 (0.28%) Weka
Business Applications
1 5 (0.70%) Oracle EBS
2 4 (0.56%) Markit EDM
3 3 (0.42%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (0.42%) FLEXCUBE
4 2 (0.28%) Dynamics AX
5 1 (0.14%) Elite 3E
5 1 (0.14%) Oracle 11i
5 1 (0.14%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.14%) Sage 200
5 1 (0.14%) SAP ERP
5 1 (0.14%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.14%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 393 (55.04%) Azure
2 237 (33.19%) Microsoft 365
3 169 (23.67%) Entra ID
4 129 (18.07%) AWS
5 58 (8.12%) Nutanix
6 51 (7.14%) Azure Monitor
6 51 (7.14%) SaaS
7 46 (6.44%) GCP
8 43 (6.02%) Azure DevOps
8 43 (6.02%) IaaS
9 39 (5.46%) GitHub
10 38 (5.32%) PaaS
11 36 (5.04%) OneDrive
12 35 (4.90%) Microsoft Purview
13 34 (4.76%) Datadog
14 24 (3.36%) GitHub Actions
14 24 (3.36%) Serverless
15 22 (3.08%) Amazon EKS
16 20 (2.80%) AWS CloudFormation
16 20 (2.80%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 211 (29.55%) Firewall
2 172 (24.09%) DNS
3 150 (21.01%) DHCP
4 147 (20.59%) VPN
5 110 (15.41%) WAN
6 77 (10.78%) VLAN
7 66 (9.24%) TCP/IP
8 65 (9.10%) LAN
9 52 (7.28%) Wi-Fi
10 49 (6.86%) SAN
11 35 (4.90%) SD-WAN
12 34 (4.76%) Network Security
12 34 (4.76%) Wireless
13 25 (3.50%) Remote Desktop
14 22 (3.08%) VoIP
15 19 (2.66%) NAS
16 16 (2.24%) BGP
17 15 (2.10%) SSL
18 9 (1.26%) Cisco ISE
19 7 (0.98%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 58 (8.12%) SQL Server
2 24 (3.36%) Amazon RDS
3 20 (2.80%) PostgreSQL
4 19 (2.66%) Azure SQL Database
5 18 (2.52%) Oracle Database
6 15 (2.10%) MySQL
7 12 (1.68%) Power BI
8 9 (1.26%) Data Lake
8 9 (1.26%) Delta Lake
9 8 (1.12%) Amazon Aurora
9 8 (1.12%) MongoDB
10 6 (0.84%) BigQuery
10 6 (0.84%) Data Warehouse
10 6 (0.84%) DB2
10 6 (0.84%) Oracle Exadata
10 6 (0.84%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 5 (0.70%) Geospatial Data
11 5 (0.70%) GIS
11 5 (0.70%) Oracle Database 12c
12 4 (0.56%) Oracle Database 11g
Development Applications
1 29 (4.06%) Git
2 19 (2.66%) Jenkins
3 13 (1.82%) JIRA
4 12 (1.68%) Chocolatey
5 6 (0.84%) GitLab
5 6 (0.84%) Selenium
6 5 (0.70%) Sonatype Nexus
7 4 (0.56%) Bitbucket
7 4 (0.56%) LabVIEW
8 3 (0.42%) LoadRunner
8 3 (0.42%) Maven
8 3 (0.42%) TeamCity
9 2 (0.28%) Artifactory
9 2 (0.28%) Octopus Deploy
9 2 (0.28%) Robot Framework
9 2 (0.28%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
9 2 (0.28%) TestRail
10 1 (0.14%) JMeter
10 1 (0.14%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 272 (38.10%) Social Skills
2 201 (28.15%) Finance
3 103 (14.43%) Analytical Skills
4 49 (6.86%) Banking
5 48 (6.72%) Law
6 35 (4.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 30 (4.20%) Public Sector
8 28 (3.92%) Retail
9 22 (3.08%) Documentation Skills
10 20 (2.80%) Financial Institution
11 19 (2.66%) Organisational Skills
12 17 (2.38%) Manufacturing
13 14 (1.96%) Legal
14 13 (1.82%) Back Office
15 10 (1.40%) Telecoms
16 9 (1.26%) Presentation Skills
17 7 (0.98%) French Language
17 7 (0.98%) Influencing Skills
17 7 (0.98%) Marketing
18 6 (0.84%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 126 (17.65%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 105 (14.71%) Senior
3 82 (11.48%) Cloud Engineer
4 71 (9.94%) Support Engineer
5 59 (8.26%) IT Engineer
6 58 (8.12%) Lead
7 57 (7.98%) IT Support
8 51 (7.14%) IT Manager
9 44 (6.16%) Analyst
10 40 (5.60%) Azure Engineer
11 38 (5.32%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
12 31 (4.34%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
13 29 (4.06%) DevOps Engineer
14 27 (3.78%) Architect
14 27 (3.78%) IT Support Engineer
15 25 (3.50%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
15 25 (3.50%) Support Technician
16 24 (3.36%) Infrastructure Support
17 23 (3.22%) Infrastructure Manager
17 23 (3.22%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (2.52%) SAML
2 15 (2.10%) OAuth
3 13 (1.82%) YAML
4 12 (1.68%) ADO
5 11 (1.54%) REST
6 9 (1.26%) PySpark
7 8 (1.12%) LDAP
7 8 (1.12%) RESTful
8 7 (0.98%) .NET
8 7 (0.98%) ARM Templates
8 7 (0.98%) EDI
8 7 (0.98%) Loki
9 6 (0.84%) Elastic Stack
10 5 (0.70%) Middleware
11 4 (0.56%) AWS SAM
11 4 (0.56%) Kafka
11 4 (0.56%) LAPP Stack
11 4 (0.56%) SOAP
11 4 (0.56%) WebSphere MQ
12 3 (0.42%) RAML
Miscellaneous
1 69 (9.66%) Hybrid Cloud
2 48 (6.72%) Management Information System
3 33 (4.62%) Data Centre
3 33 (4.62%) Onboarding
3 33 (4.62%) Replication
4 31 (4.34%) Public Cloud
5 30 (4.20%) Cloud Native
6 28 (3.92%) Enterprise Software
7 26 (3.64%) Data Protection Act
8 25 (3.50%) Cyber Threat
8 25 (3.50%) Driving Licence
9 20 (2.80%) PKI
10 19 (2.66%) Self-Motivation
11 17 (2.38%) CMDB
11 17 (2.38%) Security Posture
12 16 (2.24%) Clustering
13 14 (1.96%) Legacy Systems
14 9 (1.26%) Product Ownership
15 8 (1.12%) Distributed Systems
15 8 (1.12%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 249 (34.87%) Windows
2 174 (24.37%) Windows Server
3 85 (11.90%) Linux
4 29 (4.06%) Windows 10
5 20 (2.80%) Unix
6 17 (2.38%) Apple iOS
7 16 (2.24%) Mac OS
8 15 (2.10%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 15 (2.10%) VMS
9 7 (0.98%) Android
10 6 (0.84%) Windows Server 2019
11 5 (0.70%) Windows Server 2016
12 4 (0.56%) CentOS
12 4 (0.56%) Oracle Linux
12 4 (0.56%) Rocky
12 4 (0.56%) Ubuntu
13 3 (0.42%) AIX
14 2 (0.28%) Windows Server 2012
14 2 (0.28%) zOS
15 1 (0.14%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 239 (33.47%) Business Continuity
2 187 (26.19%) Cybersecurity
3 181 (25.35%) Problem-Solving
4 172 (24.09%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 169 (23.67%) ITIL
6 149 (20.87%) Continuous Improvement
7 141 (19.75%) High Availability
8 131 (18.35%) DevOps
9 109 (15.27%) Infrastructure as Code
10 101 (14.15%) Incident Response
11 99 (13.87%) CI/CD
12 95 (13.31%) Migration
13 81 (11.34%) Service Delivery
14 74 (10.36%) Risk Management
14 74 (10.36%) Stakeholder Management
15 71 (9.94%) Data Protection
15 71 (9.94%) ITSM
16 68 (9.52%) Change Management
17 66 (9.24%) Cloud Security
17 66 (9.24%) Customer Service
Programming Languages
1 169 (23.67%) PowerShell
2 116 (16.25%) Python
3 79 (11.06%) SQL
4 40 (5.60%) Bash
5 20 (2.80%) Java
6 15 (2.10%) Bicep
7 12 (1.68%) JavaScript
7 12 (1.68%) Kusto Query Language
8 11 (1.54%) Go
9 10 (1.40%) Shell Script
10 9 (1.26%) Scala
11 8 (1.12%) T-SQL
12 7 (0.98%) C#
13 4 (0.56%) Korn
13 4 (0.56%) TypeScript
14 3 (0.42%) PL/SQL
14 3 (0.42%) VBScript
15 2 (0.28%) COBOL
15 2 (0.28%) JCL
Qualifications
1 108 (15.13%) Degree
2 53 (7.42%) Microsoft Certification
3 52 (7.28%) Azure Certification
4 48 (6.72%) Computer Science Degree
4 48 (6.72%) Security Cleared
5 33 (4.62%) SC Cleared
6 30 (4.20%) Cisco Certification
7 29 (4.06%) AWS Certification
8 22 (3.08%) CCNP
9 19 (2.66%) CISSP
10 18 (2.52%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 17 (2.38%) CEH
12 14 (1.96%) BPSS Clearance
13 13 (1.82%) CISM
14 12 (1.68%) ITIL Certification
14 12 (1.68%) Microsoft Certified Professional
15 11 (1.54%) HNC
15 11 (1.54%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
16 10 (1.40%) CCNA
16 10 (1.40%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 118 (16.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 78 (10.92%) GDPR
3 70 (9.80%) Cyber Essentials
4 65 (9.10%) NIST
5 52 (7.28%) SLA
6 37 (5.18%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 24 (3.36%) PCI DSS
8 23 (3.22%) SOC 2
9 15 (2.10%) ISO 22301
10 9 (1.26%) Data Quality
11 8 (1.12%) Actionable Recommendations
11 8 (1.12%) ISAE 3402
12 7 (0.98%) GRC
13 6 (0.84%) NCSC
13 6 (0.84%) PMO
13 6 (0.84%) QA
14 4 (0.56%) DICOM
14 4 (0.56%) HL7
15 3 (0.42%) Basel III
15 3 (0.42%) MiFID
System Software
1 246 (34.45%) Active Directory
2 142 (19.89%) VMware Infrastructure
3 103 (14.43%) Hyper-V
4 50 (7.00%) Docker
5 34 (4.76%) Virtual Machines
6 23 (3.22%) vSphere
7 17 (2.38%) VMware ESXi
8 13 (1.82%) Virtual Servers
9 10 (1.40%) Firmware
9 10 (1.40%) Virtual Desktop
10 9 (1.26%) Oracle RAC
11 8 (1.12%) vCloud
12 5 (0.70%) KVM
13 3 (0.42%) Microsoft Virtual Server
14 2 (0.28%) BitLocker
14 2 (0.28%) RACF
14 2 (0.28%) VMware Workstation
14 2 (0.28%) XenDesktop
15 1 (0.14%) EMC RecoverPoint
15 1 (0.14%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 118 (16.53%) Microsoft Intune
2 115 (16.11%) Terraform
3 73 (10.22%) Kubernetes
4 69 (9.66%) Ansible
5 20 (2.80%) SCCM
6 19 (2.66%) Grafana
7 16 (2.24%) Prometheus
8 11 (1.54%) Data Guard
8 11 (1.54%) Nagios
8 11 (1.54%) vCenter Server
9 9 (1.26%) Oracle RMAN
9 9 (1.26%) VxRail
10 8 (1.12%) Puppet
11 7 (0.98%) FortiGate
11 7 (0.98%) Single Sign-On
12 6 (0.84%) Avamar
12 6 (0.84%) Failover Clustering
12 6 (0.84%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
13 5 (0.70%) Nessus
13 5 (0.70%) SCOM
Vendors
1 336 (47.06%) Microsoft
2 194 (27.17%) VMware
3 57 (7.98%) Cisco
4 48 (6.72%) Dell
5 35 (4.90%) Veeam
6 31 (4.34%) Commvault
7 28 (3.92%) Oracle
8 27 (3.78%) HP
9 24 (3.36%) Palo Alto
9 24 (3.36%) Zscaler
10 23 (3.22%) Dynatrace
11 22 (3.08%) Dell Compellent
11 22 (3.08%) Meraki
11 22 (3.08%) Nimble Storage
12 20 (2.80%) Tenable
13 17 (2.38%) Google
14 16 (2.24%) Adobe
15 15 (2.10%) Fortinet
16 14 (1.96%) IBM
16 14 (1.96%) Splunk