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

6 months to
19 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 225 200 221
Rank change year-on-year -25 +21 +108
Permanent jobs citing Disaster Recovery 784 663 1,324
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.90% 1.59% 1.40%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.20% 1.71% 1.63%
Number of salaries quoted 588 544 1,182
10th Percentile £32,500 £36,250 £33,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £43,938 £41,656
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% -
75th Percentile £85,000 £76,250 £68,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £90,000 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £53,300 £50,000
% change year-on-year -1.50% +6.60% -

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 65,473 38,805 81,335
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 75.33% 92.93% 85.93%
Number of salaries quoted 40,444 22,598 59,573
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% -10.57%
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% -8.90%

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 19 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 19 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 -41 675 £60,000 - 247
UK excluding London -39 430 £52,500 -1.50% 219
London +18 293 £85,000 +13.33% 66
Work from Home +24 244 £65,000 +8.33% 107
North of England -28 145 £51,000 -1.21% 61
South East -26 103 £60,000 -7.69% 61
Yorkshire -3 82 £47,500 -13.64% 20
Midlands -34 65 £52,500 +5.00% 39
West Midlands -5 57 £52,500 +5.00% 27
North West -41 44 £55,000 +22.22% 32
East of England -41 29 £63,750 +27.50% 14
South West -97 28 £40,000 -27.27% 26
Scotland -23 26 £38,000 -24.67% 16
Northern Ireland -20 19 - - 1
North East -28 19 £51,000 +50.00% 12
Wales - 11 £31,500 - 6
East Midlands -70 7 £60,000 +50.00% 12
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
1 103 (13.14%) Microsoft Exchange
2 84 (10.71%) SharePoint
3 9 (1.15%) 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%) Tomcat
Applications
1 25 (3.19%) 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%) Dynamics CRM
1 5 (0.64%) Oracle EBS
2 4 (0.51%) Markit EDM
3 3 (0.38%) FLEXCUBE
3 3 (0.38%) NetSuite
4 2 (0.26%) SAP ERP
4 2 (0.26%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.13%) Elite 3E
5 1 (0.13%) Misys Equation
5 1 (0.13%) Misys Midas
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
1 429 (54.72%) Azure
2 242 (30.87%) Microsoft 365
3 152 (19.39%) Entra ID
4 131 (16.71%) AWS
5 66 (8.42%) Nutanix
6 49 (6.25%) SaaS
7 46 (5.87%) Azure DevOps
8 45 (5.74%) Datadog
9 44 (5.61%) Azure Monitor
10 41 (5.23%) IaaS
11 37 (4.72%) GitHub
12 35 (4.46%) OneDrive
12 35 (4.46%) PaaS
13 34 (4.34%) Microsoft Purview
14 32 (4.08%) GCP
15 24 (3.06%) Azure AKS
15 24 (3.06%) GitHub Actions
16 21 (2.68%) Power Platform
16 21 (2.68%) Serverless
17 18 (2.30%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 235 (29.97%) Firewall
2 169 (21.56%) DNS
3 165 (21.05%) VPN
4 139 (17.73%) DHCP
5 114 (14.54%) WAN
6 83 (10.59%) VLAN
7 70 (8.93%) LAN
8 61 (7.78%) Wi-Fi
9 60 (7.65%) TCP/IP
10 56 (7.14%) SAN
11 51 (6.51%) Network Security
12 36 (4.59%) Wireless
13 31 (3.95%) Remote Desktop
14 26 (3.32%) SD-WAN
15 18 (2.30%) NAS
16 16 (2.04%) Cisco ISE
17 15 (1.91%) BGP
18 14 (1.79%) VoIP
19 10 (1.28%) SSL
20 9 (1.15%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 71 (9.06%) SQL Server
2 28 (3.57%) Amazon RDS
3 21 (2.68%) Azure SQL Database
4 16 (2.04%) MySQL
5 12 (1.53%) Data Lake
5 12 (1.53%) Delta Lake
5 12 (1.53%) PostgreSQL
6 11 (1.40%) Oracle Database
6 11 (1.40%) Power BI
7 9 (1.15%) Data Warehouse
8 8 (1.02%) Amazon Aurora
9 7 (0.89%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 6 (0.77%) MongoDB
11 5 (0.64%) Geospatial Data
11 5 (0.64%) GIS
12 4 (0.51%) Elasticsearch
12 4 (0.51%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 3 (0.38%) BigQuery
13 3 (0.38%) Oracle Database 12c
13 3 (0.38%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 28 (3.57%) Git
2 18 (2.30%) Chocolatey
3 14 (1.79%) JIRA
4 12 (1.53%) 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
1 306 (39.03%) Social Skills
2 168 (21.43%) Finance
3 129 (16.45%) Analytical Skills
4 54 (6.89%) Banking
5 38 (4.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 35 (4.46%) Law
7 31 (3.95%) Public Sector
8 28 (3.57%) Retail
9 26 (3.32%) Organisational Skills
10 22 (2.81%) Legal
10 22 (2.81%) Manufacturing
11 15 (1.91%) Documentation Skills
11 15 (1.91%) Influencing Skills
12 14 (1.79%) Financial Institution
12 14 (1.79%) Telecoms
13 12 (1.53%) Back Office
13 12 (1.53%) Presentation Skills
14 11 (1.40%) Marketing
15 8 (1.02%) Advertising
16 6 (0.77%) French Language
Job Titles
1 131 (16.71%) Senior
2 121 (15.43%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 82 (10.46%) Cloud Engineer
4 80 (10.20%) IT Engineer
5 76 (9.69%) IT Support
6 74 (9.44%) Support Engineer
7 66 (8.42%) IT Manager
8 64 (8.16%) Lead
9 55 (7.02%) Azure Engineer
10 47 (5.99%) IT Support Engineer
11 45 (5.74%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
12 42 (5.36%) Architect
13 37 (4.72%) Analyst
14 29 (3.70%) Platform Engineer
15 26 (3.32%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
16 25 (3.19%) DevOps Engineer
16 25 (3.19%) Security Engineer
17 24 (3.06%) Security Manager
18 23 (2.93%) Support Technician
19 22 (2.81%) Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (2.30%) SAML
2 15 (1.91%) OAuth
3 13 (1.66%) YAML
4 12 (1.53%) ADO
4 12 (1.53%) PySpark
5 10 (1.28%) ARM Templates
5 10 (1.28%) REST
6 8 (1.02%) RESTful
7 7 (0.89%) Loki
8 5 (0.64%) Middleware
9 4 (0.51%) .NET
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%) EDI
10 3 (0.38%) LAMP
10 3 (0.38%) ODBC
10 3 (0.38%) RAML
10 3 (0.38%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 76 (9.69%) Hybrid Cloud
2 57 (7.27%) Management Information System
3 55 (7.02%) Data Centre
4 41 (5.23%) Replication
5 37 (4.72%) Cloud Native
6 35 (4.46%) Public Cloud
7 34 (4.34%) Driving Licence
8 32 (4.08%) Cyber Threat
8 32 (4.08%) Onboarding
9 30 (3.83%) Data Protection Act
10 27 (3.44%) Security Posture
11 22 (2.81%) Self-Motivation
12 18 (2.30%) CMDB
13 16 (2.04%) PKI
14 14 (1.79%) Enterprise Software
14 14 (1.79%) Legacy Systems
14 14 (1.79%) NHS
15 13 (1.66%) Enterprise Storage
16 11 (1.40%) Clustering
17 9 (1.15%) CCTV
Operating Systems
1 247 (31.51%) Windows
2 167 (21.30%) Windows Server
3 69 (8.80%) Linux
4 26 (3.32%) Windows 10
5 18 (2.30%) Apple iOS
6 17 (2.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 16 (2.04%) VMS
8 13 (1.66%) Ubuntu
9 10 (1.28%) CentOS
9 10 (1.28%) Mac OS
10 8 (1.02%) Unix
10 8 (1.02%) Windows Server 2016
11 7 (0.89%) 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%) Debian
14 2 (0.26%) zOS
15 1 (0.13%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 292 (37.24%) Business Continuity
2 244 (31.12%) Cybersecurity
3 202 (25.77%) Problem-Solving
4 199 (25.38%) ITIL
5 173 (22.07%) Continuous Improvement
6 167 (21.30%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 140 (17.86%) High Availability
8 126 (16.07%) DevOps
9 108 (13.78%) Incident Response
10 107 (13.65%) Service Delivery
11 98 (12.50%) Infrastructure as Code
12 88 (11.22%) Change Management
13 87 (11.10%) CI/CD
13 87 (11.10%) Data Protection
14 84 (10.71%) Mentoring
14 84 (10.71%) Migration
15 83 (10.59%) Cloud Security
16 80 (10.20%) Stakeholder Management
17 74 (9.44%) Service Management
18 73 (9.31%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 146 (18.62%) PowerShell
2 105 (13.39%) Python
3 82 (10.46%) SQL
4 37 (4.72%) Bash
5 13 (1.66%) Java
6 12 (1.53%) Bicep
6 12 (1.53%) Kusto Query Language
7 10 (1.28%) Shell Script
8 9 (1.15%) JavaScript
8 9 (1.15%) Scala
8 9 (1.15%) T-SQL
9 8 (1.02%) Go
10 5 (0.64%) C#
11 4 (0.51%) Korn
12 3 (0.38%) COBOL
12 3 (0.38%) PL/SQL
12 3 (0.38%) TypeScript
13 2 (0.26%) JCL
13 2 (0.26%) RPG
14 1 (0.13%) Perl
Qualifications
1 95 (12.12%) Degree
2 52 (6.63%) Microsoft Certification
3 46 (5.87%) Azure Certification
4 44 (5.61%) Computer Science Degree
5 42 (5.36%) Security Cleared
6 39 (4.97%) Cisco Certification
7 30 (3.83%) CCNP
7 30 (3.83%) SC Cleared
8 24 (3.06%) CISSP
9 23 (2.93%) CEH
10 15 (1.91%) CCNA
11 14 (1.79%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 13 (1.66%) AWS Certification
13 11 (1.40%) BPSS Clearance
13 11 (1.40%) MCSE
14 9 (1.15%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 9 (1.15%) CISM
14 9 (1.15%) Microsoft Certified Professional
14 9 (1.15%) Postgraduate
15 8 (1.02%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 122 (15.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 79 (10.08%) GDPR
3 78 (9.95%) Cyber Essentials
4 67 (8.55%) NIST
5 59 (7.53%) SLA
6 39 (4.97%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 33 (4.21%) PCI DSS
8 25 (3.19%) SOC 2
9 23 (2.93%) GRC
10 19 (2.42%) Data Quality
11 16 (2.04%) ISO 22301
11 16 (2.04%) PMO
12 11 (1.40%) Actionable Recommendations
13 7 (0.89%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
13 7 (0.89%) QA
14 6 (0.77%) NCSC
15 4 (0.51%) DICOM
15 4 (0.51%) HIPAA
15 4 (0.51%) HL7
16 3 (0.38%) GxP
System Software
1 247 (31.51%) Active Directory
2 169 (21.56%) VMware Infrastructure
3 110 (14.03%) Hyper-V
4 40 (5.10%) Docker
5 32 (4.08%) Virtual Machines
6 26 (3.32%) vSphere
7 17 (2.17%) Firmware
8 15 (1.91%) Virtual Desktop
8 15 (1.91%) VMware ESXi
9 7 (0.89%) vCloud
9 7 (0.89%) Virtual Servers
10 6 (0.77%) KVM
10 6 (0.77%) Oracle RAC
11 4 (0.51%) VMware NSX
12 3 (0.38%) Microsoft Virtual Server
13 2 (0.26%) EMC RecoverPoint
13 2 (0.26%) RACF
13 2 (0.26%) VMware Workstation
14 1 (0.13%) Postfix
14 1 (0.13%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 108 (13.78%) Microsoft Intune
1 108 (13.78%) Terraform
2 66 (8.42%) Kubernetes
3 64 (8.16%) Ansible
4 25 (3.19%) SCCM
5 14 (1.79%) Grafana
5 14 (1.79%) VxRail
6 11 (1.40%) Prometheus
7 10 (1.28%) FortiGate
8 9 (1.15%) Nagios
8 9 (1.15%) Single Sign-On
9 8 (1.02%) Data Guard
9 8 (1.02%) vCenter Server
10 6 (0.77%) Packer
11 5 (0.64%) Oracle RMAN
12 4 (0.51%) Argo
12 4 (0.51%) Backup Exec
12 4 (0.51%) Dell DRAC
12 4 (0.51%) Puppet
12 4 (0.51%) WSUS
Vendors
1 389 (49.62%) Microsoft
2 236 (30.10%) VMware
3 67 (8.55%) Cisco
4 56 (7.14%) Dell
5 42 (5.36%) HP
6 39 (4.97%) Commvault
7 38 (4.85%) Veeam
8 35 (4.46%) Palo Alto
9 33 (4.21%) Nimble Storage
10 28 (3.57%) Dell Compellent
10 28 (3.57%) Tenable
11 27 (3.44%) Zscaler
12 26 (3.32%) Meraki
13 25 (3.19%) Dynatrace
14 24 (3.06%) Oracle
15 19 (2.42%) AppDynamics
15 19 (2.42%) Fortinet
16 18 (2.30%) Splunk
17 17 (2.17%) Databricks
17 17 (2.17%) EMC