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

6 months to
20 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 170 257 222
Rank change year-on-year +87 -35 +22
Permanent jobs citing Disaster Recovery 1,285 607 1,036
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.20% 1.22% 1.25%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.63% 1.36% 1.54%
Number of salaries quoted 930 472 760
10th Percentile £35,000 £33,750 £34,500
25th Percentile £42,250 £42,500 £43,911
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -5.98%
75th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £75,250
90th Percentile £92,500 £93,750 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £51,500 £49,000
% change year-on-year -2.91% +5.10% -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 78,808 44,479 67,117
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.30% 89.14% 80.83%
Number of salaries quoted 54,325 25,171 42,850
10th Percentile £31,000 £28,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.71%
75th Percentile £78,750 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,250 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +15.79% -5.00% -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 20 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 20 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 +68 1,116 £57,500 -4.17% 532
UK excluding London +80 838 £50,000 -2.91% 348
London +51 399 £75,000 - 259
Work from Home +104 397 £60,000 +9.09% 207
North of England +80 236 £47,500 -11.63% 74
South East +60 218 £50,000 - 105
Midlands +45 134 £56,250 - 63
North West +57 129 £47,500 -11.63% 26
West Midlands +36 100 £57,500 - 43
Yorkshire +38 93 £47,500 -24.00% 39
South West -73 64 £50,000 +11.11% 44
East of England +11 62 £49,863 +4.97% 26
Scotland +38 52 £47,500 -13.64% 21
Northern Ireland -38 49 - - 9
East Midlands -17 34 £45,000 -14.29% 20
Wales -42 23 £45,000 -21.74% 13
North East -66 14 £48,000 -1.54% 12
Channel Islands - 2 £75,000 - 1

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
1 139 (10.82%) SharePoint
2 131 (10.19%) Microsoft Exchange
3 25 (1.95%) IIS
4 19 (1.48%) Apache
5 13 (1.01%) nginx
6 11 (0.86%) Apache Spark
7 6 (0.47%) Confluence
8 3 (0.23%) OpenStack
8 3 (0.23%) WordPress
9 2 (0.16%) Apache Airflow
9 2 (0.16%) WebLogic
10 1 (0.078%) CICS
10 1 (0.078%) Site Server
Applications
1 19 (1.48%) Microsoft Office
2 18 (1.40%) PlantUML
3 12 (0.93%) MS Visio
4 10 (0.78%) Microsoft Excel
5 3 (0.23%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.078%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 12 (0.93%) FLEXCUBE
2 6 (0.47%) Raiser’s Edge
3 5 (0.39%) JDE EnterpriseOne
3 5 (0.39%) Sage 200
4 4 (0.31%) NetSuite
5 3 (0.23%) Dynamics CRM
5 3 (0.23%) Q-Pulse
6 2 (0.16%) Adobe Campaign
6 2 (0.16%) Integrated Workplace Management System
6 2 (0.16%) SAP S/4HANA
7 1 (0.078%) Bloomberg TOMS
7 1 (0.078%) Eikon
7 1 (0.078%) Misys Equation
7 1 (0.078%) Misys Midas
7 1 (0.078%) Oracle Applications
7 1 (0.078%) Oracle EBS
7 1 (0.078%) Sage 50
7 1 (0.078%) SAP EHS
7 1 (0.078%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 665 (51.75%) Azure
2 393 (30.58%) Microsoft 365
3 251 (19.53%) AWS
4 232 (18.05%) Entra ID
5 138 (10.74%) SaaS
6 97 (7.55%) IaaS
7 73 (5.68%) PaaS
8 54 (4.20%) Power Platform
9 41 (3.19%) Cloud Computing
10 40 (3.11%) GCP
11 38 (2.96%) Azure DevOps
12 35 (2.72%) Nutanix
13 34 (2.65%) Datadog
14 30 (2.33%) Azure Monitor
15 29 (2.26%) OneDrive
16 27 (2.10%) GitHub
16 27 (2.10%) Microsoft Copilot
17 26 (2.02%) GitHub Actions
18 23 (1.79%) Amazon EC2
18 23 (1.79%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 360 (28.02%) Firewall
2 291 (22.65%) DNS
3 213 (16.58%) VPN
4 212 (16.50%) DHCP
5 159 (12.37%) WAN
6 132 (10.27%) VLAN
7 130 (10.12%) LAN
8 112 (8.72%) Wi-Fi
9 107 (8.33%) Network Security
10 99 (7.70%) TCP/IP
11 66 (5.14%) Wireless
12 65 (5.06%) SAN
13 46 (3.58%) Internet
14 37 (2.88%) SD-WAN
14 37 (2.88%) SSL
15 36 (2.80%) VoIP
16 30 (2.33%) Cisco ISE
17 24 (1.87%) NAS
18 23 (1.79%) Cisco Nexus
19 14 (1.09%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 93 (7.24%) SQL Server
2 37 (2.88%) Amazon RDS
3 33 (2.57%) Power BI
4 31 (2.41%) Azure SQL Database
5 18 (1.40%) PostgreSQL
6 14 (1.09%) Data Warehouse
6 14 (1.09%) Oracle Database
7 12 (0.93%) MySQL
8 10 (0.78%) Data Lake
9 8 (0.62%) Metadata
9 8 (0.62%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 6 (0.47%) MongoDB
10 6 (0.47%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 5 (0.39%) NoSQL
11 5 (0.39%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 4 (0.31%) DynamoDB
12 4 (0.31%) Elasticsearch
13 3 (0.23%) Big Data
13 3 (0.23%) NonStop SQL
13 3 (0.23%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 22 (1.71%) JIRA
2 21 (1.63%) Git
3 16 (1.25%) Chocolatey
4 13 (1.01%) GitLab
5 8 (0.62%) Jenkins
5 8 (0.62%) JUnit
5 8 (0.62%) Spock
6 6 (0.47%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 6 (0.47%) Visual Studio Code
7 5 (0.39%) Bitbucket
8 4 (0.31%) MLflow
9 2 (0.16%) git-flow
9 2 (0.16%) IntelliJ
9 2 (0.16%) Maven
9 2 (0.16%) Selenium
9 2 (0.16%) TeamCity
9 2 (0.16%) Terragrunt
9 2 (0.16%) Yeoman
10 1 (0.078%) Claude Code
General
1 432 (33.62%) Social Skills
2 227 (17.67%) Finance
3 173 (13.46%) Analytical Skills
4 85 (6.61%) Legal
5 76 (5.91%) Law
6 72 (5.60%) Banking
7 61 (4.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 58 (4.51%) Manufacturing
9 39 (3.04%) Documentation Skills
10 37 (2.88%) Organisational Skills
10 37 (2.88%) Retail
11 36 (2.80%) Public Sector
12 35 (2.72%) Influencing Skills
13 23 (1.79%) Telecoms
14 18 (1.40%) Back Office
15 13 (1.01%) Aerospace
15 13 (1.01%) Financial Institution
16 12 (0.93%) Mandarin Language
17 11 (0.86%) Presentation Skills
18 9 (0.70%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 245 (19.07%) Senior
2 186 (14.47%) IT Support
3 162 (12.61%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 147 (11.44%) IT Engineer
5 146 (11.36%) IT Manager
6 118 (9.18%) Support Engineer
7 100 (7.78%) Architect
8 98 (7.63%) IT Support Engineer
9 84 (6.54%) Analyst
10 69 (5.37%) Lead
11 65 (5.06%) Service Manager
12 61 (4.75%) Cloud Engineer
13 58 (4.51%) Resilience Manager
14 57 (4.44%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
15 56 (4.36%) IT Services Manager
16 55 (4.28%) Azure Engineer
17 51 (3.97%) Network Engineer
18 40 (3.11%) IT Analyst
19 39 (3.04%) Administrator
20 38 (2.96%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 163 (12.68%) Terraform
2 70 (5.45%) Middleware
3 14 (1.09%) ARM Templates
4 9 (0.70%) Kafka
5 8 (0.62%) AngularJS
5 8 (0.62%) Microsoft Graph
5 8 (0.62%) Spring
5 8 (0.62%) Web Services
6 7 (0.54%) FIX Protocol
7 5 (0.39%) .NET
7 5 (0.39%) AWS CDK
7 5 (0.39%) ModSecurity
7 5 (0.39%) SAML
8 4 (0.31%) web3js
9 3 (0.23%) 802.1X
9 3 (0.23%) EDI
9 3 (0.23%) Nuxt
9 3 (0.23%) ODBC
9 3 (0.23%) PySpark
9 3 (0.23%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 109 (8.48%) Data Centre
2 93 (7.24%) Cyber Threat
3 83 (6.46%) Management Information System
4 79 (6.15%) Cloud Native
5 69 (5.37%) Driving Licence
6 66 (5.14%) Onboarding
7 65 (5.06%) Hybrid Cloud
8 60 (4.67%) Replication
8 60 (4.67%) Security Posture
9 50 (3.89%) Self-Motivation
10 33 (2.57%) Enterprise Storage
11 32 (2.49%) PKI
12 28 (2.18%) NHS
13 26 (2.02%) CCTV
13 26 (2.02%) Enterprise Software
14 24 (1.87%) Clustering
15 22 (1.71%) Public Cloud
16 21 (1.63%) Virtual Team
17 20 (1.56%) CMDB
17 20 (1.56%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 430 (33.46%) Windows
2 302 (23.50%) Windows Server
3 139 (10.82%) Linux
4 33 (2.57%) Windows Server 2019
5 29 (2.26%) Windows 10
6 25 (1.95%) Mac OS
6 25 (1.95%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 25 (1.95%) Ubuntu
7 23 (1.79%) Unix
8 22 (1.71%) Windows Server 2016
9 13 (1.01%) AIX
10 11 (0.86%) Oracle Linux
11 10 (0.78%) CentOS
12 9 (0.70%) Solaris
12 9 (0.70%) VMS
13 5 (0.39%) Debian
14 4 (0.31%) Windows Server 2012
15 2 (0.16%) Amazon Linux
15 2 (0.16%) Apple iOS
15 2 (0.16%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 524 (40.78%) Business Continuity
2 393 (30.58%) Cybersecurity
3 343 (26.69%) Continuous Improvement
4 341 (26.54%) Problem-Solving
5 262 (20.39%) ITIL
6 235 (18.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 215 (16.73%) DevOps
8 205 (15.95%) High Availability
9 181 (14.09%) Incident Response
10 175 (13.62%) Stakeholder Management
11 172 (13.39%) Information Security
12 167 (13.00%) Infrastructure as Code
13 165 (12.84%) Service Delivery
14 148 (11.52%) Agile
15 145 (11.28%) Project Delivery
16 139 (10.82%) Mentoring
17 136 (10.58%) CI/CD
18 126 (9.81%) Risk Management
19 124 (9.65%) Cloud Security
20 121 (9.42%) AI
Programming Languages
1 189 (14.71%) PowerShell
2 127 (9.88%) Python
3 120 (9.34%) SQL
4 54 (4.20%) Bash
5 28 (2.18%) Bicep
6 25 (1.95%) Shell Script
7 18 (1.40%) Java
8 13 (1.01%) JavaScript
9 12 (0.93%) Korn
10 11 (0.86%) PL/SQL
10 11 (0.86%) TypeScript
11 6 (0.47%) Kusto Query Language
11 6 (0.47%) Search Processing Language
12 5 (0.39%) COBOL
12 5 (0.39%) T-SQL
13 4 (0.31%) C#
13 4 (0.31%) Go
14 3 (0.23%) Ruby
14 3 (0.23%) XAML
15 2 (0.16%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 147 (11.44%) Degree
2 100 (7.78%) Azure Certification
3 99 (7.70%) CISSP
4 98 (7.63%) Cisco Certification
5 86 (6.69%) Microsoft Certification
6 84 (6.54%) CISM
7 81 (6.30%) Security Cleared
8 71 (5.53%) CCNP
9 61 (4.75%) SC Cleared
10 58 (4.51%) ITIL Certification
11 51 (3.97%) CCNA
12 44 (3.42%) Computer Science Degree
13 38 (2.96%) Postgraduate
14 31 (2.41%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
15 29 (2.26%) AWS Certification
16 19 (1.48%) CompTIA Security+
17 18 (1.40%) DV Cleared
17 18 (1.40%) Master's Degree
18 15 (1.17%) CEH
18 15 (1.17%) CRISC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 140 (10.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 135 (10.51%) NIST
3 114 (8.87%) GDPR
4 111 (8.64%) Cyber Essentials
5 80 (6.23%) SLA
6 78 (6.07%) ISO 22301
7 50 (3.89%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 43 (3.35%) PCI DSS
9 40 (3.11%) GRC
10 27 (2.10%) Data Quality
11 26 (2.02%) PMO
12 22 (1.71%) SOC 2
13 19 (1.48%) NCSC
14 16 (1.25%) COBIT
15 14 (1.09%) QA
16 8 (0.62%) SOC 1
17 5 (0.39%) Actionable Recommendations
17 5 (0.39%) ISO 9001
17 5 (0.39%) ISO/IEC 20000
17 5 (0.39%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 347 (27.00%) Active Directory
2 283 (22.02%) VMware Infrastructure
3 191 (14.86%) Hyper-V
4 53 (4.12%) Docker
5 51 (3.97%) vSphere
6 33 (2.57%) Virtual Machines
7 28 (2.18%) VMware ESXi
8 27 (2.10%) Firmware
8 27 (2.10%) Virtual Desktop
9 14 (1.09%) VMware NSX
10 13 (1.01%) Oracle RAC
11 9 (0.70%) vCloud
12 6 (0.47%) KVM
12 6 (0.47%) Squid
13 5 (0.39%) Virtual Servers
14 3 (0.23%) DFS Replication
14 3 (0.23%) EMC RecoverPoint
14 3 (0.23%) VMware Server
15 2 (0.16%) iptables
15 2 (0.16%) Microsoft Virtual Server
Systems Management
1 169 (13.15%) Microsoft Intune
2 84 (6.54%) Ansible
2 84 (6.54%) Kubernetes
3 36 (2.80%) Single Sign-On
4 33 (2.57%) FortiGate
5 25 (1.95%) SCCM
6 18 (1.40%) VxRail
7 14 (1.09%) Data Guard
7 14 (1.09%) Jamf Pro
8 12 (0.93%) Nagios
8 12 (0.93%) Oracle RMAN
8 12 (0.93%) Prometheus
8 12 (0.93%) vCenter Server
9 10 (0.78%) Grafana
10 8 (0.62%) Dell DRAC
10 8 (0.62%) Proxmox
11 7 (0.54%) Avamar
11 7 (0.54%) Packer
12 6 (0.47%) EMC VPLEX
12 6 (0.47%) Puppet
Vendors
1 627 (48.79%) Microsoft
2 337 (26.23%) VMware
3 193 (15.02%) Cisco
4 87 (6.77%) Veeam
5 68 (5.29%) Palo Alto
6 48 (3.74%) Oracle
7 47 (3.66%) Splunk
8 41 (3.19%) Fortinet
9 40 (3.11%) Dell
10 39 (3.04%) SonicWALL
11 37 (2.88%) Meraki
12 33 (2.57%) Aruba
12 33 (2.57%) Google
12 33 (2.57%) HP
13 30 (2.33%) Sophos
14 29 (2.26%) SolarWinds
15 27 (2.10%) Apple
15 27 (2.10%) Qualys
16 25 (1.95%) IBM
17 24 (1.87%) AppDynamics