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 11 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 196 253 216
Rank change year-on-year +57 -37 +90
Permanent jobs citing Disaster Recovery 939 571 1,376
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.02% 1.29% 1.29%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.39% 1.39% 1.57%
Number of salaries quoted 719 453 1,131
10th Percentile £33,000 £37,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,250 £46,875 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,446 £62,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.49% +13.64% -4.35%
75th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £69,375
90th Percentile £93,750 £90,000 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £48,500 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -11.82% +10.00% -

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 67,331 40,980 87,741
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 72.88% 92.69% 82.42%
Number of salaries quoted 46,057 21,831 62,274
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,000 £29,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -9.54%
75th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +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 11 June 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 11 June 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 +43 836 £60,000 -4.38% 238
UK excluding London +48 535 £48,500 -11.82% 209
London +45 343 £76,250 +4.10% 66
Work from Home +77 277 £60,000 +9.09% 107
North of England +65 197 £47,500 -13.64% 36
South East +8 124 £52,500 -4.55% 66
Yorkshire +30 103 £47,500 -24.00% 15
Midlands +38 97 £52,500 +14.13% 49
North West +44 76 £50,000 -9.09% 21
West Midlands +35 74 £52,500 -6.67% 28
East of England -10 38 £53,725 +1.85% 18
South West -82 30 £40,000 -27.27% 25
Scotland +29 25 £38,000 -30.91% 7
East Midlands -18 22 £55,000 +37.50% 21
North East -43 18 £42,500 -15.00%
Wales -28 14 £43,000 -14.00% 9
Northern Ireland -27 8 - - 4
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
1 112 (11.93%) Microsoft Exchange
2 104 (11.08%) SharePoint
3 13 (1.38%) IIS
4 4 (0.43%) Apache Spark
4 4 (0.43%) Confluence
5 3 (0.32%) Apache
6 2 (0.21%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.11%) BizTalk Server
7 1 (0.11%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.11%) Site Server
7 1 (0.11%) WebLogic
7 1 (0.11%) WordPress
Applications
1 22 (2.34%) Microsoft Office
2 16 (1.70%) MS Visio
3 8 (0.85%) PlantUML
4 4 (0.43%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 9 (0.96%) FLEXCUBE
2 5 (0.53%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (0.43%) NetSuite
3 4 (0.43%) Oracle EBS
4 3 (0.32%) SAP S/4HANA
5 2 (0.21%) Markit EDM
5 2 (0.21%) Sage 200
5 2 (0.21%) SAP ERP
6 1 (0.11%) Elite 3E
6 1 (0.11%) Misys Equation
6 1 (0.11%) Misys Midas
6 1 (0.11%) Oracle 11i
6 1 (0.11%) Oracle ERP
6 1 (0.11%) Q-Pulse
6 1 (0.11%) SAP EHS
6 1 (0.11%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 490 (52.18%) Azure
2 290 (30.88%) Microsoft 365
3 172 (18.32%) Entra ID
4 139 (14.80%) AWS
5 62 (6.60%) SaaS
6 59 (6.28%) Nutanix
7 57 (6.07%) IaaS
8 50 (5.32%) Datadog
9 48 (5.11%) PaaS
10 41 (4.37%) Azure DevOps
11 35 (3.73%) Azure Monitor
12 34 (3.62%) GitHub
12 34 (3.62%) Power Platform
13 32 (3.41%) Microsoft Purview
14 31 (3.30%) GCP
15 25 (2.66%) Cloud Computing
15 25 (2.66%) GitHub Actions
15 25 (2.66%) OneDrive
16 22 (2.34%) Azure AKS
17 19 (2.02%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 292 (31.10%) Firewall
2 204 (21.73%) DNS
3 186 (19.81%) VPN
4 154 (16.40%) DHCP
5 135 (14.38%) WAN
6 94 (10.01%) VLAN
7 92 (9.80%) LAN
8 78 (8.31%) Network Security
9 75 (7.99%) Wi-Fi
10 71 (7.56%) TCP/IP
11 66 (7.03%) SAN
12 42 (4.47%) Wireless
13 30 (3.19%) SD-WAN
14 26 (2.77%) Cisco ISE
14 26 (2.77%) SSL
15 24 (2.56%) Remote Desktop
16 22 (2.34%) VoIP
17 20 (2.13%) Internet
18 17 (1.81%) NAS
19 15 (1.60%) BGP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 84 (8.95%) SQL Server
2 31 (3.30%) Amazon RDS
3 22 (2.34%) Azure SQL Database
4 17 (1.81%) Power BI
5 11 (1.17%) PostgreSQL
6 10 (1.06%) MySQL
7 9 (0.96%) Data Lake
7 9 (0.96%) Data Warehouse
7 9 (0.96%) Delta Lake
7 9 (0.96%) Oracle Database
8 7 (0.75%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 6 (0.64%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 5 (0.53%) Geospatial Data
10 5 (0.53%) GIS
10 5 (0.53%) MongoDB
10 5 (0.53%) NoSQL
11 4 (0.43%) Amazon Aurora
11 4 (0.43%) Elasticsearch
11 4 (0.43%) SQL Server Analysis Services
12 3 (0.32%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 19 (2.02%) Chocolatey
1 19 (2.02%) Git
2 14 (1.49%) JIRA
3 7 (0.75%) Jenkins
4 6 (0.64%) Visual Studio Code
5 4 (0.43%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 4 (0.43%) MLflow
6 3 (0.32%) Bitbucket
6 3 (0.32%) GitLab
6 3 (0.32%) LabVIEW
6 3 (0.32%) Selenium
7 2 (0.21%) Sonatype Nexus
7 2 (0.21%) TeamCity
7 2 (0.21%) Terragrunt
8 1 (0.11%) Artifactory
8 1 (0.11%) Maven
8 1 (0.11%) Octopus Deploy
8 1 (0.11%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 1 (0.11%) Team Foundation Server
8 1 (0.11%) Yeoman
General
1 342 (36.42%) Social Skills
2 171 (18.21%) Finance
3 143 (15.23%) Analytical Skills
4 65 (6.92%) Banking
5 46 (4.90%) Legal
6 45 (4.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 43 (4.58%) Law
8 37 (3.94%) Public Sector
9 33 (3.51%) Organisational Skills
10 26 (2.77%) Retail
11 25 (2.66%) Manufacturing
12 18 (1.92%) Influencing Skills
13 17 (1.81%) Documentation Skills
13 17 (1.81%) Telecoms
14 15 (1.60%) Back Office
15 11 (1.17%) Advertising
16 10 (1.06%) Financial Institution
17 9 (0.96%) Mandarin Language
18 7 (0.75%) French Language
18 7 (0.75%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 188 (20.02%) Senior
2 149 (15.87%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 126 (13.42%) IT Support
4 110 (11.71%) IT Engineer
5 89 (9.48%) Support Engineer
6 81 (8.63%) Cloud Engineer
7 71 (7.56%) IT Support Engineer
8 69 (7.35%) IT Manager
9 62 (6.60%) Lead
10 59 (6.28%) Azure Engineer
11 58 (6.18%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
12 57 (6.07%) Analyst
13 54 (5.75%) Architect
14 38 (4.05%) Platform Engineer
15 34 (3.62%) Administrator
16 29 (3.09%) Network Engineer
16 29 (3.09%) Security Engineer
17 28 (2.98%) Security Manager
18 27 (2.88%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
19 26 (2.77%) IT Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (1.60%) SAML
2 11 (1.17%) Middleware
3 10 (1.06%) ARM Templates
3 10 (1.06%) OAuth
4 9 (0.96%) PySpark
4 9 (0.96%) YAML
5 8 (0.85%) ADO
5 8 (0.85%) Microsoft Graph
5 8 (0.85%) REST
6 7 (0.75%) Kafka
7 5 (0.53%) RESTful
8 4 (0.43%) .NET
8 4 (0.43%) FIX Protocol
8 4 (0.43%) Loki
8 4 (0.43%) web3js
9 3 (0.32%) JSON
9 3 (0.32%) Node.js
9 3 (0.32%) ODBC
9 3 (0.32%) Playwright
10 2 (0.21%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 90 (9.58%) Data Centre
2 70 (7.45%) Management Information System
3 63 (6.71%) Hybrid Cloud
4 53 (5.64%) Replication
5 49 (5.22%) Cloud Native
5 49 (5.22%) Driving Licence
6 44 (4.69%) Security Posture
7 39 (4.15%) Cyber Threat
7 39 (4.15%) Onboarding
8 33 (3.51%) Public Cloud
9 31 (3.30%) Data Protection Act
9 31 (3.30%) Self-Motivation
10 30 (3.19%) PKI
11 29 (3.09%) Enterprise Storage
12 25 (2.66%) NHS
13 24 (2.56%) CMDB
14 17 (1.81%) Legacy Systems
15 16 (1.70%) Clustering
16 15 (1.60%) Virtual Team
17 14 (1.49%) iSeries
Operating Systems
1 324 (34.50%) Windows
2 211 (22.47%) Windows Server
3 86 (9.16%) Linux
4 22 (2.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 21 (2.24%) Mac OS
5 21 (2.24%) Windows 10
5 21 (2.24%) Windows Server 2019
6 17 (1.81%) Windows Server 2016
7 14 (1.49%) Unix
8 13 (1.38%) Apple iOS
8 13 (1.38%) Ubuntu
9 11 (1.17%) VMS
10 9 (0.96%) AIX
10 9 (0.96%) CentOS
10 9 (0.96%) Oracle Linux
11 6 (0.64%) Solaris
12 4 (0.43%) Android
13 2 (0.21%) Amazon Linux
13 2 (0.21%) Debian
14 1 (0.11%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 337 (35.89%) Business Continuity
2 295 (31.42%) Cybersecurity
3 235 (25.03%) Problem-Solving
4 221 (23.54%) Continuous Improvement
5 200 (21.30%) ITIL
6 195 (20.77%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 148 (15.76%) High Availability
8 140 (14.91%) Incident Response
9 122 (12.99%) DevOps
10 113 (12.03%) Service Delivery
11 109 (11.61%) Infrastructure as Code
12 107 (11.40%) Cloud Security
13 102 (10.86%) Stakeholder Management
14 95 (10.12%) Data Protection
15 92 (9.80%) Change Management
15 92 (9.80%) Migration
16 90 (9.58%) Service Management
17 87 (9.27%) CI/CD
18 86 (9.16%) Risk Management
19 85 (9.05%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 149 (15.87%) PowerShell
2 102 (10.86%) SQL
3 97 (10.33%) Python
4 42 (4.47%) Bash
5 14 (1.49%) Shell Script
6 12 (1.28%) Bicep
7 10 (1.06%) Java
8 9 (0.96%) Korn
8 9 (0.96%) Kusto Query Language
9 8 (0.85%) PL/SQL
9 8 (0.85%) T-SQL
10 7 (0.75%) JavaScript
11 6 (0.64%) Scala
12 5 (0.53%) C#
12 5 (0.53%) TypeScript
13 3 (0.32%) Go
14 2 (0.21%) RPG
15 1 (0.11%) C
15 1 (0.11%) COBOL
15 1 (0.11%) Perl
Qualifications
1 110 (11.71%) Degree
2 72 (7.67%) Cisco Certification
3 67 (7.14%) Microsoft Certification
4 59 (6.28%) Azure Certification
5 57 (6.07%) CCNP
6 50 (5.32%) Security Cleared
7 41 (4.37%) Computer Science Degree
8 39 (4.15%) SC Cleared
9 36 (3.83%) CCNA
10 27 (2.88%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 25 (2.66%) CISSP
11 25 (2.66%) Postgraduate
12 16 (1.70%) CEH
13 13 (1.38%) CISM
13 13 (1.38%) MCSE
14 10 (1.06%) AWS Certification
14 10 (1.06%) Master's Degree
14 10 (1.06%) VCAP
15 9 (0.96%) DBS Check
15 9 (0.96%) VCDX
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 139 (14.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 102 (10.86%) Cyber Essentials
3 98 (10.44%) GDPR
4 90 (9.58%) NIST
5 60 (6.39%) SLA
6 47 (5.01%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 47 (5.01%) PCI DSS
7 29 (3.09%) PMO
8 23 (2.45%) GRC
9 22 (2.34%) SOC 2
10 20 (2.13%) Data Quality
11 18 (1.92%) ISO 22301
12 11 (1.17%) Actionable Recommendations
12 11 (1.17%) COBIT
13 8 (0.85%) NCSC
14 6 (0.64%) QA
15 5 (0.53%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
16 4 (0.43%) DICOM
16 4 (0.43%) HIPAA
16 4 (0.43%) HL7
System Software
1 278 (29.61%) Active Directory
2 217 (23.11%) VMware Infrastructure
3 128 (13.63%) Hyper-V
4 38 (4.05%) vSphere
5 29 (3.09%) Docker
6 27 (2.88%) Virtual Machines
7 20 (2.13%) Firmware
8 17 (1.81%) Virtual Desktop
8 17 (1.81%) VMware ESXi
9 10 (1.06%) Oracle RAC
9 10 (1.06%) VMware NSX
10 9 (0.96%) vCloud
11 6 (0.64%) KVM
11 6 (0.64%) Virtual Servers
12 3 (0.32%) DFS Replication
12 3 (0.32%) EMC RecoverPoint
12 3 (0.32%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 3 (0.32%) VMware Server
13 2 (0.21%) VMware Workstation
14 1 (0.11%) Xen
Systems Management
1 133 (14.16%) Microsoft Intune
2 117 (12.46%) Terraform
3 64 (6.82%) Ansible
4 61 (6.50%) Kubernetes
5 27 (2.88%) SCCM
6 25 (2.66%) Single Sign-On
7 22 (2.34%) VxRail
8 20 (2.13%) FortiGate
9 9 (0.96%) Data Guard
9 9 (0.96%) Grafana
9 9 (0.96%) Nagios
9 9 (0.96%) Packer
9 9 (0.96%) Prometheus
10 8 (0.85%) Dell DRAC
10 8 (0.85%) Oracle RMAN
10 8 (0.85%) vCenter Server
11 7 (0.75%) EMC NetWorker
12 6 (0.64%) Avamar
12 6 (0.64%) Jamf Pro
12 6 (0.64%) WSUS
Vendors
1 473 (50.37%) Microsoft
2 286 (30.46%) VMware
3 122 (12.99%) Cisco
4 67 (7.14%) Veeam
5 56 (5.96%) Dell
6 48 (5.11%) Palo Alto
7 44 (4.69%) HP
8 35 (3.73%) Meraki
8 35 (3.73%) Nimble Storage
9 34 (3.62%) Commvault
10 31 (3.30%) Splunk
11 30 (3.19%) Tenable
12 27 (2.88%) EMC
12 27 (2.88%) Oracle
13 24 (2.56%) Fortinet
13 24 (2.56%) SolarWinds
14 23 (2.45%) Dynatrace
14 23 (2.45%) IBM
14 23 (2.45%) Sophos
14 23 (2.45%) Zscaler