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

6 months to
3 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 216 259 218
Rank change year-on-year +43 -41 +92
Permanent jobs citing Disaster Recovery 906 559 1,359
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.97% 1.28% 1.32%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.32% 1.38% 1.59%
Number of salaries quoted 689 443 1,138
10th Percentile £33,000 £37,500 £33,000
25th Percentile £42,250 £46,250 £41,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,598 £62,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.24% +13.64% -4.35%
75th Percentile £78,000 £77,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £93,657 £90,000 £88,663
UK excluding London median annual salary £48,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -12.73% +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 68,780 40,561 85,340
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.82% 93.18% 83.19%
Number of salaries quoted 44,959 21,364 61,218
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,500 £29,250
25th Percentile £41,000 £40,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -9.69%
75th Percentile £78,750 £77,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,967 £50,000
% change year-on-year +3.01% +1.93% -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 3 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 3 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 +37 802 £60,000 -4.00% 321
UK excluding London +35 517 £48,000 -12.73% 233
London +51 329 £76,250 +3.39% 126
Work from Home +96 273 £60,000 +6.67% 197
North of England +57 196 £47,500 -13.64% 51
South East +3 110 £55,000 -4.35% 75
Yorkshire +27 102 £47,500 -24.00% 23
Midlands +21 92 £52,500 +14.13% 43
North West +31 73 £50,000 -9.09% 27
West Midlands +16 73 £52,500 -4.55% 29
East of England -14 36 £61,250 +15.57% 18
South West -95 30 £37,500 -31.82% 30
Scotland +17 26 £38,000 -30.91% 5
North East -43 21 £42,500 -15.00% 1
East Midlands -15 18 £55,000 +37.50% 14
Wales -28 14 £43,000 -14.00% 7
Northern Ireland -29 9 - - 11
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
1 109 (12.03%) Microsoft Exchange
2 96 (10.60%) SharePoint
3 10 (1.10%) IIS
4 4 (0.44%) Apache Spark
4 4 (0.44%) Confluence
5 3 (0.33%) Apache
6 2 (0.22%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.11%) BizTalk Server
7 1 (0.11%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.11%) WebLogic
7 1 (0.11%) WordPress
Applications
1 22 (2.43%) Microsoft Office
2 16 (1.77%) MS Visio
3 7 (0.77%) PlantUML
4 3 (0.33%) Microsoft Excel
5 1 (0.11%) Weka
Business Applications
1 8 (0.88%) FLEXCUBE
2 5 (0.55%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (0.44%) NetSuite
3 4 (0.44%) Oracle EBS
4 3 (0.33%) Markit EDM
4 3 (0.33%) SAP S/4HANA
5 2 (0.22%) 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%) Sage 200
6 1 (0.11%) SAP EHS
6 1 (0.11%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 482 (53.20%) Azure
2 278 (30.68%) Microsoft 365
3 164 (18.10%) Entra ID
4 139 (15.34%) AWS
5 63 (6.95%) Nutanix
6 60 (6.62%) SaaS
7 54 (5.96%) IaaS
8 50 (5.52%) Datadog
9 44 (4.86%) PaaS
10 41 (4.53%) Azure DevOps
11 36 (3.97%) Azure Monitor
12 34 (3.75%) GitHub
13 31 (3.42%) GCP
13 31 (3.42%) Power Platform
14 30 (3.31%) Microsoft Purview
15 26 (2.87%) OneDrive
16 24 (2.65%) GitHub Actions
17 22 (2.43%) Azure AKS
17 22 (2.43%) Cloud Computing
18 21 (2.32%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 277 (30.57%) Firewall
2 196 (21.63%) DNS
3 180 (19.87%) VPN
4 147 (16.23%) DHCP
5 128 (14.13%) WAN
6 90 (9.93%) VLAN
7 82 (9.05%) LAN
8 72 (7.95%) Network Security
9 70 (7.73%) Wi-Fi
10 65 (7.17%) SAN
10 65 (7.17%) TCP/IP
11 39 (4.30%) Wireless
12 31 (3.42%) SD-WAN
13 26 (2.87%) Cisco ISE
13 26 (2.87%) Remote Desktop
14 25 (2.76%) SSL
15 20 (2.21%) VoIP
16 17 (1.88%) NAS
17 15 (1.66%) BGP
17 15 (1.66%) Cisco Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 80 (8.83%) SQL Server
2 33 (3.64%) Amazon RDS
3 20 (2.21%) Azure SQL Database
4 14 (1.55%) Power BI
5 11 (1.21%) PostgreSQL
6 10 (1.10%) Data Lake
6 10 (1.10%) Delta Lake
6 10 (1.10%) MySQL
7 9 (0.99%) Data Warehouse
7 9 (0.99%) Oracle Database
8 6 (0.66%) Amazon Aurora
8 6 (0.66%) MongoDB
8 6 (0.66%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 6 (0.66%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 5 (0.55%) Geospatial Data
9 5 (0.55%) GIS
9 5 (0.55%) NoSQL
10 4 (0.44%) Elasticsearch
11 3 (0.33%) DynamoDB
11 3 (0.33%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 19 (2.10%) Chocolatey
1 19 (2.10%) Git
2 13 (1.43%) JIRA
3 7 (0.77%) Jenkins
4 6 (0.66%) Visual Studio Code
5 4 (0.44%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 4 (0.44%) LabVIEW
5 4 (0.44%) MLflow
6 3 (0.33%) Bitbucket
6 3 (0.33%) GitLab
6 3 (0.33%) Selenium
7 2 (0.22%) Sonatype Nexus
7 2 (0.22%) TeamCity
7 2 (0.22%) Terragrunt
8 1 (0.11%) LoadRunner
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
1 331 (36.53%) Social Skills
2 165 (18.21%) Finance
3 143 (15.78%) Analytical Skills
4 63 (6.95%) Banking
5 44 (4.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 40 (4.42%) Law
6 40 (4.42%) Legal
7 36 (3.97%) Public Sector
8 30 (3.31%) Organisational Skills
9 26 (2.87%) Retail
10 22 (2.43%) Manufacturing
11 18 (1.99%) Telecoms
12 16 (1.77%) Influencing Skills
13 14 (1.55%) Back Office
13 14 (1.55%) Documentation Skills
14 11 (1.21%) Advertising
15 10 (1.10%) Financial Institution
16 8 (0.88%) Mandarin Language
16 8 (0.88%) Marketing
17 7 (0.77%) French Language
Job Titles
1 180 (19.87%) Senior
2 147 (16.23%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 114 (12.58%) IT Support
4 101 (11.15%) IT Engineer
5 86 (9.49%) Cloud Engineer
6 82 (9.05%) Support Engineer
7 67 (7.40%) IT Manager
8 65 (7.17%) IT Support Engineer
9 60 (6.62%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
10 59 (6.51%) Lead
11 58 (6.40%) Azure Engineer
12 51 (5.63%) Architect
13 50 (5.52%) Analyst
14 36 (3.97%) Platform Engineer
15 34 (3.75%) Administrator
16 29 (3.20%) Network Engineer
17 28 (3.09%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
18 27 (2.98%) Security Manager
19 26 (2.87%) Security Engineer
19 26 (2.87%) Senior Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (1.66%) SAML
2 10 (1.10%) OAuth
2 10 (1.10%) PySpark
3 9 (0.99%) ARM Templates
3 9 (0.99%) YAML
4 8 (0.88%) ADO
4 8 (0.88%) Microsoft Graph
4 8 (0.88%) Middleware
4 8 (0.88%) REST
5 7 (0.77%) Kafka
6 6 (0.66%) Loki
7 5 (0.55%) RESTful
8 4 (0.44%) .NET
8 4 (0.44%) web3js
9 3 (0.33%) FIX Protocol
9 3 (0.33%) JSON
9 3 (0.33%) Node.js
9 3 (0.33%) ODBC
9 3 (0.33%) Playwright
10 2 (0.22%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 88 (9.71%) Data Centre
2 67 (7.40%) Hybrid Cloud
3 66 (7.28%) Management Information System
4 50 (5.52%) Replication
5 46 (5.08%) Cloud Native
5 46 (5.08%) Driving Licence
6 39 (4.30%) Security Posture
7 38 (4.19%) Onboarding
8 36 (3.97%) Cyber Threat
9 35 (3.86%) Public Cloud
10 31 (3.42%) Data Protection Act
11 30 (3.31%) PKI
12 27 (2.98%) Enterprise Storage
12 27 (2.98%) Self-Motivation
13 24 (2.65%) CMDB
14 22 (2.43%) NHS
15 16 (1.77%) Legacy Systems
16 14 (1.55%) Clustering
17 13 (1.43%) iSeries
18 12 (1.32%) CCTV
Operating Systems
1 312 (34.44%) Windows
2 202 (22.30%) Windows Server
3 82 (9.05%) Linux
4 22 (2.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 20 (2.21%) Windows 10
6 19 (2.10%) Windows Server 2019
7 18 (1.99%) Mac OS
8 17 (1.88%) Windows Server 2016
9 14 (1.55%) Apple iOS
10 13 (1.43%) Ubuntu
10 13 (1.43%) Unix
11 11 (1.21%) VMS
12 9 (0.99%) CentOS
13 8 (0.88%) AIX
13 8 (0.88%) Oracle Linux
14 5 (0.55%) Android
14 5 (0.55%) Solaris
15 2 (0.22%) Amazon Linux
15 2 (0.22%) Debian
16 1 (0.11%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 324 (35.76%) Business Continuity
2 275 (30.35%) Cybersecurity
3 222 (24.50%) Problem-Solving
4 206 (22.74%) Continuous Improvement
5 205 (22.63%) ITIL
6 191 (21.08%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 143 (15.78%) High Availability
8 131 (14.46%) Incident Response
9 122 (13.47%) DevOps
10 110 (12.14%) Service Delivery
11 105 (11.59%) Infrastructure as Code
12 103 (11.37%) Cloud Security
13 94 (10.38%) Stakeholder Management
14 91 (10.04%) Data Protection
15 90 (9.93%) Change Management
15 90 (9.93%) Migration
16 88 (9.71%) Service Management
17 86 (9.49%) CI/CD
18 84 (9.27%) Mentoring
19 79 (8.72%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 148 (16.34%) PowerShell
2 100 (11.04%) Python
3 99 (10.93%) SQL
4 42 (4.64%) Bash
5 13 (1.43%) Shell Script
6 11 (1.21%) Bicep
7 10 (1.10%) Java
8 9 (0.99%) T-SQL
9 8 (0.88%) Korn
9 8 (0.88%) Kusto Query Language
10 7 (0.77%) JavaScript
10 7 (0.77%) PL/SQL
10 7 (0.77%) Scala
11 5 (0.55%) C#
11 5 (0.55%) TypeScript
12 3 (0.33%) Go
13 2 (0.22%) RPG
14 1 (0.11%) COBOL
14 1 (0.11%) Perl
14 1 (0.11%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 105 (11.59%) Degree
2 69 (7.62%) Cisco Certification
2 69 (7.62%) Microsoft Certification
3 61 (6.73%) Azure Certification
4 54 (5.96%) CCNP
5 46 (5.08%) Security Cleared
6 43 (4.75%) Computer Science Degree
7 37 (4.08%) SC Cleared
8 34 (3.75%) CCNA
9 27 (2.98%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 24 (2.65%) CISSP
11 22 (2.43%) Postgraduate
12 17 (1.88%) CEH
13 13 (1.43%) MCSE
14 12 (1.32%) AWS Certification
14 12 (1.32%) CISM
15 10 (1.10%) VCAP
16 9 (0.99%) BPSS Clearance
16 9 (0.99%) Master's Degree
16 9 (0.99%) VCDX
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 130 (14.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 97 (10.71%) Cyber Essentials
3 90 (9.93%) GDPR
4 87 (9.60%) NIST
5 59 (6.51%) SLA
6 44 (4.86%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 44 (4.86%) PCI DSS
7 29 (3.20%) PMO
8 22 (2.43%) GRC
9 21 (2.32%) SOC 2
10 19 (2.10%) Data Quality
11 18 (1.99%) ISO 22301
12 11 (1.21%) Actionable Recommendations
13 9 (0.99%) COBIT
14 6 (0.66%) NCSC
14 6 (0.66%) QA
15 5 (0.55%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
16 4 (0.44%) HIPAA
16 4 (0.44%) HL7
16 4 (0.44%) SOC 1
System Software
1 273 (30.13%) Active Directory
2 206 (22.74%) VMware Infrastructure
3 121 (13.36%) Hyper-V
4 38 (4.19%) vSphere
5 29 (3.20%) Docker
6 25 (2.76%) Virtual Machines
7 23 (2.54%) Firmware
8 17 (1.88%) Virtual Desktop
8 17 (1.88%) VMware ESXi
9 10 (1.10%) VMware NSX
10 9 (0.99%) Oracle RAC
10 9 (0.99%) vCloud
11 6 (0.66%) KVM
11 6 (0.66%) Virtual Servers
12 3 (0.33%) DFS Replication
12 3 (0.33%) EMC RecoverPoint
12 3 (0.33%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 3 (0.33%) VMware Server
13 2 (0.22%) VMware Workstation
14 1 (0.11%) Xen
Systems Management
1 131 (14.46%) Microsoft Intune
2 114 (12.58%) Terraform
3 61 (6.73%) Ansible
3 61 (6.73%) Kubernetes
4 27 (2.98%) SCCM
5 23 (2.54%) Single Sign-On
6 22 (2.43%) VxRail
7 18 (1.99%) FortiGate
8 10 (1.10%) Grafana
8 10 (1.10%) Prometheus
9 9 (0.99%) Data Guard
9 9 (0.99%) Dell DRAC
9 9 (0.99%) Nagios
9 9 (0.99%) Packer
10 7 (0.77%) EMC NetWorker
10 7 (0.77%) Oracle RMAN
10 7 (0.77%) vCenter Server
11 6 (0.66%) Avamar
11 6 (0.66%) EMC VPLEX
11 6 (0.66%) WSUS
Vendors
1 454 (50.11%) Microsoft
2 277 (30.57%) VMware
3 111 (12.25%) Cisco
4 66 (7.28%) Veeam
5 59 (6.51%) Dell
6 46 (5.08%) HP
7 43 (4.75%) Palo Alto
8 38 (4.19%) Nimble Storage
9 35 (3.86%) Meraki
10 34 (3.75%) Commvault
11 30 (3.31%) Splunk
11 30 (3.31%) Tenable
12 27 (2.98%) Fortinet
13 26 (2.87%) EMC
13 26 (2.87%) Oracle
14 24 (2.65%) SolarWinds
15 23 (2.54%) Dell Compellent
15 23 (2.54%) Dynatrace
15 23 (2.54%) IBM
15 23 (2.54%) Zscaler