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 16 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 227 195 217
Rank change year-on-year -32 +22 +115
Permanent jobs citing Disaster Recovery 780 670 1,339
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.91% 1.62% 1.42%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.20% 1.74% 1.65%
Number of salaries quoted 586 549 1,198
10th Percentile £32,750 £36,250 £33,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £43,750 £41,796
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% -
75th Percentile £85,000 £75,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £96,250 £90,000 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £53,150 £50,000
% change year-on-year -1.22% +6.30% -

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 64,759 38,558 80,920
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 75.53% 92.98% 86.03%
Number of salaries quoted 39,875 22,521 59,469
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -10.54%
75th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £102,500 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,600 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.94% +5.20% -8.26%

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 16 April 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 16 April 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 -27 674 £60,000 - 219
UK excluding London -45 425 £52,500 -1.22% 190
London +24 296 £85,000 +13.33% 57
Work from Home +19 241 £65,000 +8.33% 90
North of England -29 142 £51,000 +2.00% 54
South East -18 107 £60,000 -7.69% 63
Yorkshire -6 80 £47,500 -13.64% 20
Midlands -41 61 £52,500 +7.69% 29
West Midlands +3 53 £52,500 +5.00% 23
North West -47 43 £55,000 +22.22% 29
East of England -40 28 £65,000 +30.00% 14
South West -101 28 £40,000 -27.27% 22
Scotland -22 25 £38,000 -24.67% 7
Northern Ireland -20 20 - - 1
North East -27 19 £51,000 +59.38% 7
Wales - 10 £31,500 - 5
East Midlands -67 7 £60,000 +50.00% 6
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
1 100 (12.82%) Microsoft Exchange
2 80 (10.26%) SharePoint
3 8 (1.03%) IIS
4 5 (0.64%) Confluence
5 4 (0.51%) Apache Spark
6 3 (0.38%) Apache
7 2 (0.26%) Apache Airflow
7 2 (0.26%) BizTalk Server
7 2 (0.26%) CICS
8 1 (0.13%) CMS
8 1 (0.13%) Tomcat
Applications
1 25 (3.21%) Microsoft Office
2 10 (1.28%) MS Visio
3 4 (0.51%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (0.26%) Weka
5 1 (0.13%) Acrobat
5 1 (0.13%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 5 (0.64%) Oracle EBS
2 4 (0.51%) Markit EDM
3 3 (0.38%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (0.38%) FLEXCUBE
4 2 (0.26%) NetSuite
4 2 (0.26%) SAP ERP
4 2 (0.26%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.13%) Elite 3E
5 1 (0.13%) Oracle 11i
5 1 (0.13%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.13%) Sage 200
5 1 (0.13%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 423 (54.23%) Azure
2 239 (30.64%) Microsoft 365
3 151 (19.36%) Entra ID
4 130 (16.67%) AWS
5 67 (8.59%) Nutanix
6 48 (6.15%) SaaS
7 46 (5.90%) Azure DevOps
8 45 (5.77%) Azure Monitor
8 45 (5.77%) Datadog
9 41 (5.26%) IaaS
10 37 (4.74%) GitHub
11 35 (4.49%) PaaS
12 34 (4.36%) Microsoft Purview
12 34 (4.36%) OneDrive
13 32 (4.10%) GCP
14 24 (3.08%) Azure AKS
14 24 (3.08%) GitHub Actions
15 21 (2.69%) Power Platform
15 21 (2.69%) Serverless
16 18 (2.31%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 232 (29.74%) Firewall
2 166 (21.28%) DNS
3 162 (20.77%) VPN
4 137 (17.56%) DHCP
5 110 (14.10%) WAN
6 81 (10.38%) VLAN
7 67 (8.59%) LAN
8 61 (7.82%) Wi-Fi
9 56 (7.18%) TCP/IP
10 55 (7.05%) SAN
11 49 (6.28%) Network Security
12 35 (4.49%) Wireless
13 31 (3.97%) Remote Desktop
14 25 (3.21%) SD-WAN
15 17 (2.18%) NAS
16 16 (2.05%) Cisco ISE
17 15 (1.92%) BGP
18 13 (1.67%) VoIP
19 9 (1.15%) Intrusion Detection
19 9 (1.15%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 71 (9.10%) SQL Server
2 27 (3.46%) Amazon RDS
3 21 (2.69%) Azure SQL Database
4 16 (2.05%) MySQL
5 13 (1.67%) PostgreSQL
6 12 (1.54%) Data Lake
6 12 (1.54%) Delta Lake
6 12 (1.54%) Oracle Database
7 11 (1.41%) Power BI
8 9 (1.15%) Data Warehouse
9 8 (1.03%) Amazon Aurora
10 7 (0.90%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 6 (0.77%) MongoDB
12 5 (0.64%) Geospatial Data
12 5 (0.64%) GIS
13 4 (0.51%) Elasticsearch
13 4 (0.51%) Oracle Database 12c
13 4 (0.51%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 3 (0.38%) Oracle Exadata
14 3 (0.38%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 28 (3.59%) Git
2 18 (2.31%) Chocolatey
3 14 (1.79%) JIRA
4 12 (1.54%) Jenkins
5 5 (0.64%) GitLab
5 5 (0.64%) Sonatype Nexus
6 4 (0.51%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 4 (0.51%) LabVIEW
6 4 (0.51%) MLflow
6 4 (0.51%) Selenium
6 4 (0.51%) Visual Studio Code
7 3 (0.38%) Bitbucket
7 3 (0.38%) Maven
7 3 (0.38%) TeamCity
8 2 (0.26%) Artifactory
8 2 (0.26%) Octopus Deploy
8 2 (0.26%) Robot Framework
8 2 (0.26%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 2 (0.26%) TestRail
9 1 (0.13%) Yeoman
General
1 301 (38.59%) Social Skills
2 175 (22.44%) Finance
3 127 (16.28%) Analytical Skills
4 53 (6.79%) Banking
5 37 (4.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 35 (4.49%) Law
7 30 (3.85%) Public Sector
8 28 (3.59%) Retail
9 26 (3.33%) Organisational Skills
10 22 (2.82%) Legal
10 22 (2.82%) Manufacturing
11 16 (2.05%) Documentation Skills
12 15 (1.92%) Influencing Skills
13 14 (1.79%) Financial Institution
14 12 (1.54%) Telecoms
15 11 (1.41%) Back Office
15 11 (1.41%) Marketing
15 11 (1.41%) Presentation Skills
16 8 (1.03%) Advertising
17 6 (0.77%) French Language
Job Titles
1 130 (16.67%) Senior
2 121 (15.51%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 82 (10.51%) Cloud Engineer
4 78 (10.00%) IT Engineer
5 74 (9.49%) IT Support
6 70 (8.97%) Support Engineer
7 65 (8.33%) IT Manager
8 64 (8.21%) Lead
9 54 (6.92%) Azure Engineer
10 44 (5.64%) IT Support Engineer
10 44 (5.64%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
11 42 (5.38%) Architect
12 39 (5.00%) Analyst
13 29 (3.72%) Platform Engineer
14 27 (3.46%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
15 25 (3.21%) DevOps Engineer
15 25 (3.21%) Security Engineer
16 23 (2.95%) Security Manager
16 23 (2.95%) Support Technician
17 22 (2.82%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (2.31%) SAML
2 15 (1.92%) OAuth
3 13 (1.67%) YAML
4 12 (1.54%) ADO
4 12 (1.54%) PySpark
5 10 (1.28%) ARM Templates
5 10 (1.28%) REST
6 8 (1.03%) RESTful
7 7 (0.90%) Loki
8 5 (0.64%) Middleware
9 4 (0.51%) .NET
9 4 (0.51%) EDI
9 4 (0.51%) Elastic Stack
9 4 (0.51%) Kafka
9 4 (0.51%) web3js
10 3 (0.38%) ActiveMQ
10 3 (0.38%) LAMP
10 3 (0.38%) ODBC
10 3 (0.38%) RAML
10 3 (0.38%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 76 (9.74%) Hybrid Cloud
2 56 (7.18%) Management Information System
3 53 (6.79%) Data Centre
4 42 (5.38%) Replication
5 37 (4.74%) Cloud Native
6 34 (4.36%) Driving Licence
6 34 (4.36%) Public Cloud
7 32 (4.10%) Onboarding
8 31 (3.97%) Cyber Threat
9 30 (3.85%) Data Protection Act
10 26 (3.33%) Security Posture
11 22 (2.82%) Self-Motivation
12 18 (2.31%) CMDB
13 16 (2.05%) Enterprise Software
14 15 (1.92%) PKI
15 14 (1.79%) Legacy Systems
16 13 (1.67%) Enterprise Storage
16 13 (1.67%) NHS
17 11 (1.41%) Clustering
18 9 (1.15%) Cyber Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 247 (31.67%) Windows
2 166 (21.28%) Windows Server
3 71 (9.10%) Linux
4 26 (3.33%) Windows 10
5 18 (2.31%) Apple iOS
6 17 (2.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 16 (2.05%) VMS
8 12 (1.54%) Ubuntu
9 9 (1.15%) CentOS
9 9 (1.15%) Mac OS
9 9 (1.15%) Unix
10 8 (1.03%) Windows Server 2016
11 7 (0.90%) Windows Server 2019
12 5 (0.64%) Android
13 4 (0.51%) AIX
13 4 (0.51%) Oracle Linux
13 4 (0.51%) Rocky
14 2 (0.26%) zOS
15 1 (0.13%) Debian
15 1 (0.13%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 293 (37.56%) Business Continuity
2 240 (30.77%) Cybersecurity
3 199 (25.51%) ITIL
4 198 (25.38%) Problem-Solving
5 171 (21.92%) Continuous Improvement
6 166 (21.28%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 139 (17.82%) High Availability
8 125 (16.03%) DevOps
9 106 (13.59%) Incident Response
10 105 (13.46%) Service Delivery
11 98 (12.56%) Infrastructure as Code
12 87 (11.15%) CI/CD
13 86 (11.03%) Change Management
14 85 (10.90%) Data Protection
15 84 (10.77%) Mentoring
15 84 (10.77%) Migration
16 82 (10.51%) Cloud Security
17 80 (10.26%) Stakeholder Management
18 73 (9.36%) Service Management
18 73 (9.36%) Vulnerability Remediation
Programming Languages
1 147 (18.85%) PowerShell
2 107 (13.72%) Python
3 84 (10.77%) SQL
4 36 (4.62%) Bash
5 13 (1.67%) Java
6 12 (1.54%) Bicep
6 12 (1.54%) Kusto Query Language
7 9 (1.15%) JavaScript
7 9 (1.15%) Scala
7 9 (1.15%) Shell Script
7 9 (1.15%) T-SQL
8 8 (1.03%) Go
9 5 (0.64%) C#
10 4 (0.51%) Korn
11 3 (0.38%) PL/SQL
11 3 (0.38%) TypeScript
12 2 (0.26%) COBOL
12 2 (0.26%) JCL
13 1 (0.13%) Perl
13 1 (0.13%) RPG
Qualifications
1 94 (12.05%) Degree
2 52 (6.67%) Microsoft Certification
3 47 (6.03%) Azure Certification
4 43 (5.51%) Computer Science Degree
4 43 (5.51%) Security Cleared
5 38 (4.87%) Cisco Certification
6 31 (3.97%) SC Cleared
7 29 (3.72%) CCNP
8 25 (3.21%) CISSP
9 23 (2.95%) CEH
10 15 (1.92%) CCNA
11 14 (1.79%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 13 (1.67%) AWS Certification
13 11 (1.41%) BPSS Clearance
13 11 (1.41%) MCSE
14 10 (1.28%) CISM
15 9 (1.15%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 9 (1.15%) Microsoft Certified Professional
16 8 (1.03%) HNC
16 8 (1.03%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 122 (15.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 77 (9.87%) Cyber Essentials
2 77 (9.87%) GDPR
3 67 (8.59%) NIST
4 57 (7.31%) SLA
5 38 (4.87%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 32 (4.10%) PCI DSS
7 24 (3.08%) SOC 2
8 22 (2.82%) GRC
9 18 (2.31%) Data Quality
10 16 (2.05%) ISO 22301
11 15 (1.92%) PMO
12 11 (1.41%) Actionable Recommendations
13 7 (0.90%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
14 6 (0.77%) QA
15 5 (0.64%) NCSC
16 4 (0.51%) DICOM
16 4 (0.51%) HIPAA
16 4 (0.51%) HL7
17 3 (0.38%) ISAE 3402
System Software
1 244 (31.28%) Active Directory
2 169 (21.67%) VMware Infrastructure
3 108 (13.85%) Hyper-V
4 39 (5.00%) Docker
5 33 (4.23%) Virtual Machines
6 26 (3.33%) vSphere
7 17 (2.18%) Firmware
8 16 (2.05%) VMware ESXi
9 14 (1.79%) Virtual Desktop
10 7 (0.90%) vCloud
10 7 (0.90%) Virtual Servers
11 6 (0.77%) KVM
11 6 (0.77%) Oracle RAC
12 4 (0.51%) VMware NSX
13 3 (0.38%) Microsoft Virtual Server
14 2 (0.26%) EMC RecoverPoint
14 2 (0.26%) RACF
14 2 (0.26%) VMware Workstation
15 1 (0.13%) Postfix
15 1 (0.13%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 107 (13.72%) Terraform
2 105 (13.46%) Microsoft Intune
3 65 (8.33%) Kubernetes
4 64 (8.21%) Ansible
5 25 (3.21%) SCCM
6 14 (1.79%) Grafana
7 13 (1.67%) VxRail
8 11 (1.41%) Prometheus
9 10 (1.28%) FortiGate
10 9 (1.15%) Nagios
10 9 (1.15%) Single Sign-On
10 9 (1.15%) vCenter Server
11 8 (1.03%) Data Guard
12 6 (0.77%) Packer
13 5 (0.64%) Oracle RMAN
14 4 (0.51%) Argo
14 4 (0.51%) Backup Exec
14 4 (0.51%) Dell DRAC
15 3 (0.38%) Avamar
15 3 (0.38%) Puppet
Vendors
1 383 (49.10%) Microsoft
2 235 (30.13%) VMware
3 66 (8.46%) Cisco
4 55 (7.05%) Dell
5 41 (5.26%) HP
6 38 (4.87%) Commvault
7 36 (4.62%) Veeam
8 35 (4.49%) Palo Alto
9 33 (4.23%) Nimble Storage
10 28 (3.59%) Dell Compellent
11 27 (3.46%) Tenable
11 27 (3.46%) Zscaler
12 26 (3.33%) Dynatrace
13 25 (3.21%) Oracle
14 24 (3.08%) Meraki
15 19 (2.44%) AppDynamics
15 19 (2.44%) Fortinet
16 18 (2.31%) Splunk
17 17 (2.18%) Databricks
17 17 (2.18%) EMC