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

6 months to
24 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 167 254 220
Rank change year-on-year +87 -34 +14
Permanent jobs citing Disaster Recovery 1,286 609 1,045
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.19% 1.22% 1.25%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.62% 1.37% 1.55%
Number of salaries quoted 927 475 749
10th Percentile £35,000 £32,600 £34,900
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 £76,875 £76,250
90th Percentile £92,500 £96,000 £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 79,395 44,536 67,357
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.20% 88.97% 80.72%
Number of salaries quoted 54,920 25,310 42,355
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% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £78,750 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £96,250 £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 24 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 24 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 +63 1,119 £57,500 -4.17% 320
UK excluding London +72 843 £50,000 -2.91% 267
Work from Home +95 398 £60,000 +4.35% 131
London +56 396 £75,000 - 107
North of England +69 237 £47,500 -11.63% 54
South East +61 220 £50,000 - 91
Midlands +36 137 £57,500 +2.22% 47
North West +56 130 £47,500 -11.63% 20
West Midlands +48 103 £57,500 - 37
Yorkshire +43 93 £47,500 -24.00% 27
South West -72 64 £50,000 +11.11% 43
East of England +3 62 £49,863 +27.04% 17
Scotland +47 52 £47,500 -13.64% 9
Northern Ireland -38 49 - - 4
East Midlands -13 34 £45,000 -14.29% 10
Wales -38 22 £45,000 -21.74% 8
North East -62 14 £48,000 -1.54% 10
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
1 144 (11.20%) SharePoint
2 135 (10.50%) Microsoft Exchange
3 26 (2.02%) IIS
4 20 (1.56%) Apache
5 14 (1.09%) nginx
6 12 (0.93%) 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 18 (1.40%) Microsoft Office
1 18 (1.40%) PlantUML
2 12 (0.93%) MS Visio
3 10 (0.78%) Microsoft Excel
4 3 (0.23%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.078%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 11 (0.86%) 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
1 667 (51.87%) Azure
2 396 (30.79%) Microsoft 365
3 250 (19.44%) AWS
4 236 (18.35%) Entra ID
5 137 (10.65%) SaaS
6 97 (7.54%) IaaS
7 73 (5.68%) PaaS
8 54 (4.20%) Power Platform
9 43 (3.34%) Cloud Computing
10 39 (3.03%) Azure DevOps
11 38 (2.95%) GCP
12 33 (2.57%) Datadog
12 33 (2.57%) Nutanix
13 30 (2.33%) Azure Monitor
13 30 (2.33%) OneDrive
14 28 (2.18%) GitHub
14 28 (2.18%) Microsoft Copilot
15 27 (2.10%) GitHub Actions
16 23 (1.79%) Amazon EC2
16 23 (1.79%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 361 (28.07%) Firewall
2 292 (22.71%) DNS
3 214 (16.64%) VPN
4 212 (16.49%) DHCP
5 160 (12.44%) WAN
6 132 (10.26%) VLAN
7 131 (10.19%) LAN
8 114 (8.86%) Wi-Fi
9 107 (8.32%) Network Security
10 100 (7.78%) TCP/IP
11 67 (5.21%) Wireless
12 63 (4.90%) SAN
13 47 (3.65%) Internet
14 38 (2.95%) SD-WAN
14 38 (2.95%) SSL
15 37 (2.88%) VoIP
16 30 (2.33%) Cisco ISE
17 24 (1.87%) Cisco Nexus
17 24 (1.87%) NAS
18 14 (1.09%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 90 (7.00%) SQL Server
2 37 (2.88%) Amazon RDS
3 33 (2.57%) Power BI
4 31 (2.41%) Azure SQL Database
5 17 (1.32%) PostgreSQL
6 15 (1.17%) Data Warehouse
7 13 (1.01%) Oracle Database
8 11 (0.86%) Data Lake
8 11 (0.86%) MySQL
9 9 (0.70%) Metadata
10 8 (0.62%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 6 (0.47%) SQL Server Analysis Services
12 5 (0.39%) MongoDB
12 5 (0.39%) NoSQL
12 5 (0.39%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 4 (0.31%) DynamoDB
13 4 (0.31%) Elasticsearch
14 3 (0.23%) Big Data
14 3 (0.23%) Delta Lake
14 3 (0.23%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 21 (1.63%) JIRA
2 19 (1.48%) Git
3 15 (1.17%) Chocolatey
4 13 (1.01%) GitLab
5 8 (0.62%) JUnit
5 8 (0.62%) Spock
6 7 (0.54%) Jenkins
7 6 (0.47%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 6 (0.47%) Visual Studio Code
8 5 (0.39%) Bitbucket
9 4 (0.31%) MLflow
10 2 (0.16%) git-flow
10 2 (0.16%) IntelliJ
10 2 (0.16%) Maven
10 2 (0.16%) Selenium
10 2 (0.16%) Terragrunt
10 2 (0.16%) Yeoman
11 1 (0.078%) Claude Code
11 1 (0.078%) TeamCity
General
1 434 (33.75%) Social Skills
2 224 (17.42%) Finance
3 173 (13.45%) Analytical Skills
4 85 (6.61%) Legal
5 75 (5.83%) Law
6 69 (5.37%) Banking
7 59 (4.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 59 (4.59%) Manufacturing
8 40 (3.11%) Documentation Skills
9 37 (2.88%) Organisational Skills
9 37 (2.88%) Retail
10 36 (2.80%) Influencing Skills
11 34 (2.64%) Public Sector
12 22 (1.71%) Telecoms
13 18 (1.40%) Back Office
14 13 (1.01%) Aerospace
14 13 (1.01%) Financial Institution
15 12 (0.93%) Mandarin Language
16 11 (0.86%) Presentation Skills
17 9 (0.70%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 245 (19.05%) Senior
2 191 (14.85%) IT Support
3 166 (12.91%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 149 (11.59%) IT Engineer
5 143 (11.12%) IT Manager
6 119 (9.25%) Support Engineer
7 100 (7.78%) IT Support Engineer
8 98 (7.62%) Architect
9 87 (6.77%) Analyst
10 71 (5.52%) Lead
11 65 (5.05%) Service Manager
12 61 (4.74%) Cloud Engineer
13 58 (4.51%) Resilience Manager
13 58 (4.51%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
14 56 (4.35%) IT Services Manager
15 54 (4.20%) Azure Engineer
16 52 (4.04%) Network Engineer
17 42 (3.27%) IT Analyst
18 39 (3.03%) Security Engineer
19 38 (2.95%) Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 161 (12.52%) Terraform
2 70 (5.44%) 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 92 (7.15%) Cyber Threat
3 82 (6.38%) Management Information System
4 79 (6.14%) Cloud Native
5 69 (5.37%) Driving Licence
6 68 (5.29%) Onboarding
7 65 (5.05%) Hybrid Cloud
8 60 (4.67%) Security Posture
9 59 (4.59%) Replication
10 49 (3.81%) Self-Motivation
11 33 (2.57%) Enterprise Storage
12 32 (2.49%) PKI
13 29 (2.26%) NHS
14 27 (2.10%) CCTV
15 26 (2.02%) Enterprise Software
16 24 (1.87%) Clustering
17 22 (1.71%) Public Cloud
18 21 (1.63%) Virtual Team
19 20 (1.56%) Private Cloud
20 19 (1.48%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 433 (33.67%) Windows
2 306 (23.79%) Windows Server
3 138 (10.73%) Linux
4 33 (2.57%) Windows Server 2019
5 29 (2.26%) Windows 10
6 25 (1.94%) Mac OS
6 25 (1.94%) Ubuntu
7 23 (1.79%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 22 (1.71%) Unix
9 21 (1.63%) Windows Server 2016
10 12 (0.93%) AIX
11 10 (0.78%) Oracle Linux
12 9 (0.70%) CentOS
12 9 (0.70%) Solaris
12 9 (0.70%) VMS
13 4 (0.31%) Debian
13 4 (0.31%) Windows Server 2012
14 2 (0.16%) Amazon Linux
14 2 (0.16%) Apple iOS
14 2 (0.16%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 527 (40.98%) Business Continuity
2 393 (30.56%) Cybersecurity
3 345 (26.83%) Continuous Improvement
4 338 (26.28%) Problem-Solving
5 262 (20.37%) ITIL
6 237 (18.43%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 215 (16.72%) DevOps
8 203 (15.79%) High Availability
9 180 (14.00%) Incident Response
10 177 (13.76%) Stakeholder Management
11 171 (13.30%) Information Security
12 167 (12.99%) Infrastructure as Code
13 165 (12.83%) Service Delivery
14 147 (11.43%) Agile
15 146 (11.35%) Project Delivery
16 139 (10.81%) Mentoring
17 136 (10.58%) CI/CD
18 126 (9.80%) Cloud Security
18 126 (9.80%) Risk Management
19 123 (9.56%) AI
Programming Languages
1 189 (14.70%) PowerShell
2 127 (9.88%) Python
3 120 (9.33%) SQL
4 53 (4.12%) Bash
5 28 (2.18%) Bicep
6 23 (1.79%) Shell Script
7 18 (1.40%) Java
8 13 (1.01%) JavaScript
9 11 (0.86%) Korn
9 11 (0.86%) TypeScript
10 10 (0.78%) PL/SQL
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%) Go
14 3 (0.23%) C#
14 3 (0.23%) Ruby
14 3 (0.23%) XAML
15 2 (0.16%) RPG
Qualifications
1 149 (11.59%) Degree
2 101 (7.85%) Azure Certification
3 99 (7.70%) CISSP
4 98 (7.62%) Cisco Certification
5 89 (6.92%) Microsoft Certification
6 84 (6.53%) CISM
7 80 (6.22%) Security Cleared
8 71 (5.52%) CCNP
9 59 (4.59%) SC Cleared
10 58 (4.51%) ITIL Certification
11 51 (3.97%) CCNA
12 44 (3.42%) Computer Science Degree
13 40 (3.11%) Postgraduate
14 31 (2.41%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
15 29 (2.26%) AWS Certification
16 20 (1.56%) CompTIA Security+
17 19 (1.48%) DV Cleared
18 18 (1.40%) Master's Degree
19 15 (1.17%) CRISC
19 15 (1.17%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 139 (10.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 134 (10.42%) NIST
3 114 (8.86%) GDPR
4 112 (8.71%) Cyber Essentials
5 80 (6.22%) SLA
6 77 (5.99%) ISO 22301
7 51 (3.97%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 43 (3.34%) PCI DSS
9 40 (3.11%) GRC
10 28 (2.18%) Data Quality
11 25 (1.94%) PMO
12 22 (1.71%) SOC 2
13 19 (1.48%) NCSC
14 16 (1.24%) COBIT
15 14 (1.09%) QA
16 8 (0.62%) SOC 1
17 5 (0.39%) Actionable Recommendations
17 5 (0.39%) ISO/IEC 20000
17 5 (0.39%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
17 5 (0.39%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 348 (27.06%) Active Directory
2 288 (22.40%) VMware Infrastructure
3 194 (15.09%) Hyper-V
4 51 (3.97%) Docker
5 50 (3.89%) vSphere
6 34 (2.64%) Virtual Machines
7 28 (2.18%) Firmware
7 28 (2.18%) VMware ESXi
8 26 (2.02%) Virtual Desktop
9 15 (1.17%) VMware NSX
10 12 (0.93%) 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
1 172 (13.37%) Microsoft Intune
2 81 (6.30%) Ansible
2 81 (6.30%) Kubernetes
3 35 (2.72%) Single Sign-On
4 33 (2.57%) FortiGate
5 23 (1.79%) SCCM
6 18 (1.40%) VxRail
7 15 (1.17%) Jamf Pro
8 13 (1.01%) Data Guard
8 13 (1.01%) vCenter Server
9 12 (0.93%) Prometheus
10 11 (0.86%) Nagios
10 11 (0.86%) Oracle RMAN
11 10 (0.78%) Grafana
12 8 (0.62%) Dell DRAC
12 8 (0.62%) Proxmox
13 7 (0.54%) Avamar
13 7 (0.54%) Packer
14 6 (0.47%) EMC VPLEX
14 6 (0.47%) WSUS
Vendors
1 630 (48.99%) Microsoft
2 338 (26.28%) VMware
3 194 (15.09%) Cisco
4 89 (6.92%) Veeam
5 69 (5.37%) Palo Alto
6 46 (3.58%) Oracle
6 46 (3.58%) Splunk
7 42 (3.27%) SonicWALL
8 41 (3.19%) Fortinet
9 40 (3.11%) Dell
10 37 (2.88%) Meraki
11 34 (2.64%) Aruba
11 34 (2.64%) Google
12 33 (2.57%) HP
13 30 (2.33%) Sophos
14 29 (2.26%) SolarWinds
15 28 (2.18%) Apple
15 28 (2.18%) Qualys
16 24 (1.87%) IBM
17 23 (1.79%) ServiceNow