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 7 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 160 252 184
Rank change year-on-year +92 -68 +33
Permanent jobs citing Disaster Recovery 1,385 576 1,066
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.17% 1.16% 1.46%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.60% 1.30% 1.78%
Number of salaries quoted 947 452 605
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £44,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% - +0.80%
75th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £97,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £51,375 £50,250
% change year-on-year -2.68% +2.24% -4.29%

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 86,487 44,218 59,966
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.18% 89.02% 81.93%
Number of salaries quoted 59,402 24,461 32,381
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,325 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -
75th Percentile £78,750 £75,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +15.79% -9.52% -2.78%

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 7 October 2026.

Salary histogram for Disaster Recovery in the UK

Disaster Recovery
Top 17 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 7 October 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 +71 1,217 £57,500 -4.17% 1,008
UK excluding London +104 900 £50,000 -2.68% 594
London +39 427 £75,000 +3.45% 466
Work from Home +100 420 £62,500 - 410
North of England +69 247 £47,500 -8.43% 151
South East +74 240 £52,500 +5.00% 176
Midlands +51 166 £55,000 -7.56% 85
North West +51 140 £47,500 +11.76% 73
West Midlands +31 118 £59,250 -8.85% 48
Yorkshire +41 93 £46,250 -11.90% 69
South West -39 75 £50,000 +5.26% 70
East of England +1 60 £44,161 +3.91% 39
East Midlands -7 48 £44,736 -14.79% 37
Northern Ireland -44 47 - - 22
Scotland +42 44 £51,000 -2.86% 40
Wales -47 23 £45,000 -21.74% 13
North East -70 14 £52,500 - 11

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
1 179 (12.92%) Microsoft Exchange
2 171 (12.35%) SharePoint
3 26 (1.88%) IIS
4 23 (1.66%) Apache
5 18 (1.30%) nginx
6 11 (0.79%) Apache Spark
7 5 (0.36%) OpenStack
8 4 (0.29%) Confluence
9 3 (0.22%) WordPress
10 2 (0.14%) WebLogic
11 1 (0.072%) CICS
11 1 (0.072%) FactoryTalk
11 1 (0.072%) Site Server
Applications
1 19 (1.37%) PlantUML
2 18 (1.30%) Microsoft Office
3 11 (0.79%) Microsoft Excel
4 10 (0.72%) MS Visio
5 3 (0.22%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.072%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 11 (0.79%) FLEXCUBE
2 7 (0.51%) Dynamics CRM
3 6 (0.43%) Raiser’s Edge
4 5 (0.36%) JDE EnterpriseOne
4 5 (0.36%) Sage 200
5 4 (0.29%) NetSuite
6 3 (0.22%) Q-Pulse
7 2 (0.14%) Adobe Campaign
7 2 (0.14%) Integrated Workplace Management System
8 1 (0.072%) Bloomberg TOMS
8 1 (0.072%) Eikon
8 1 (0.072%) Misys Equation
8 1 (0.072%) Misys Midas
8 1 (0.072%) Oracle Applications
8 1 (0.072%) Oracle EBS
8 1 (0.072%) Sage 50
8 1 (0.072%) SAP EHS
8 1 (0.072%) SAP S/4HANA
8 1 (0.072%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 717 (51.77%) Azure
2 418 (30.18%) Microsoft 365
3 297 (21.44%) Entra ID
4 261 (18.84%) AWS
5 156 (11.26%) SaaS
6 108 (7.80%) IaaS
7 79 (5.70%) PaaS
8 56 (4.04%) GCP
9 55 (3.97%) Power Platform
10 54 (3.90%) Azure DevOps
11 53 (3.83%) Cloud Computing
12 50 (3.61%) Azure Monitor
12 50 (3.61%) OneDrive
13 39 (2.82%) GitHub
14 33 (2.38%) Google Workspace
15 32 (2.31%) Microsoft Copilot
16 27 (1.95%) Amazon EC2
17 25 (1.81%) Datadog
17 25 (1.81%) GitHub Actions
18 24 (1.73%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 362 (26.14%) Firewall
2 339 (24.48%) DNS
3 244 (17.62%) DHCP
4 236 (17.04%) VPN
5 156 (11.26%) WAN
6 146 (10.54%) VLAN
7 127 (9.17%) TCP/IP
8 126 (9.10%) LAN
9 116 (8.38%) Wi-Fi
10 98 (7.08%) Network Security
11 90 (6.50%) Wireless
12 58 (4.19%) SAN
13 52 (3.75%) Internet
14 44 (3.18%) SD-WAN
15 39 (2.82%) SSL
16 38 (2.74%) VoIP
17 25 (1.81%) Cisco ISE
18 24 (1.73%) Cisco Nexus
19 22 (1.59%) NAS
20 18 (1.30%) BGP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 102 (7.36%) SQL Server
2 44 (3.18%) Amazon RDS
3 40 (2.89%) Azure SQL Database
4 37 (2.67%) PostgreSQL
5 34 (2.45%) Power BI
6 16 (1.16%) Data Warehouse
7 14 (1.01%) Metadata
7 14 (1.01%) MySQL
7 14 (1.01%) Oracle Database
8 12 (0.87%) Data Lake
9 8 (0.58%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 7 (0.51%) MongoDB
11 6 (0.43%) Relational Database
12 5 (0.36%) NoSQL
12 5 (0.36%) SQL Server Analysis Services
12 5 (0.36%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 4 (0.29%) DynamoDB
14 3 (0.22%) Elasticsearch
14 3 (0.22%) NonStop SQL
14 3 (0.22%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 19 (1.37%) JIRA
2 17 (1.23%) GitLab
3 16 (1.16%) Git
4 11 (0.79%) Chocolatey
5 10 (0.72%) JUnit
5 10 (0.72%) Spock
6 9 (0.65%) Jenkins
7 6 (0.43%) TeamCity
8 5 (0.36%) Bitbucket
8 5 (0.36%) Claude Code
9 4 (0.29%) IntelliJ
9 4 (0.29%) Maven
10 3 (0.22%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 2 (0.14%) git-flow
11 2 (0.14%) Selenium
11 2 (0.14%) Terragrunt
11 2 (0.14%) Visual Studio Code
12 1 (0.072%) MLflow
12 1 (0.072%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
12 1 (0.072%) Yeoman
General
1 476 (34.37%) Social Skills
2 270 (19.49%) Finance
3 185 (13.36%) Analytical Skills
4 88 (6.35%) Law
5 84 (6.06%) Legal
6 75 (5.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 68 (4.91%) Banking
8 61 (4.40%) Manufacturing
9 49 (3.54%) Retail
10 46 (3.32%) Documentation Skills
10 46 (3.32%) Public Sector
11 38 (2.74%) Organisational Skills
12 33 (2.38%) Influencing Skills
13 25 (1.81%) Back Office
14 22 (1.59%) Telecoms
15 17 (1.23%) Financial Institution
16 16 (1.16%) Aerospace
17 13 (0.94%) Police
18 10 (0.72%) Presentation Skills
19 9 (0.65%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 267 (19.28%) Senior
2 193 (13.94%) IT Support
3 191 (13.79%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 145 (10.47%) IT Engineer
5 131 (9.46%) IT Manager
6 116 (8.38%) Support Engineer
7 112 (8.09%) Architect
8 105 (7.58%) Analyst
9 96 (6.93%) IT Support Engineer
10 76 (5.49%) Lead
11 74 (5.34%) Resilience Manager
12 71 (5.13%) Service Manager
13 61 (4.40%) Network Engineer
14 59 (4.26%) IT Services Manager
14 59 (4.26%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
15 58 (4.19%) Cloud Engineer
16 49 (3.54%) Administrator
17 47 (3.39%) Azure Engineer
18 43 (3.10%) IT Analyst
19 42 (3.03%) IT Support Assistant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 195 (14.08%) Terraform
2 76 (5.49%) Middleware
3 16 (1.16%) ARM Templates
4 12 (0.87%) REST
5 11 (0.79%) OpenTelemetry
5 11 (0.79%) SAML
6 10 (0.72%) AngularJS
6 10 (0.72%) Spring
7 9 (0.65%) .NET
7 9 (0.65%) Microsoft Graph
8 8 (0.58%) Kafka
8 8 (0.58%) Web Services
9 6 (0.43%) FIX Protocol
9 6 (0.43%) RESTful
10 5 (0.36%) ModSecurity
11 4 (0.29%) 802.1X
11 4 (0.29%) AWS CDK
11 4 (0.29%) JSON
11 4 (0.29%) LDAP
11 4 (0.29%) React
Miscellaneous
1 106 (7.65%) Data Centre
2 89 (6.43%) Cloud Native
3 86 (6.21%) Cyber Threat
4 84 (6.06%) Driving Licence
4 84 (6.06%) Onboarding
5 79 (5.70%) Management Information System
6 68 (4.91%) Replication
7 66 (4.77%) Hybrid Cloud
8 65 (4.69%) Security Posture
9 44 (3.18%) Self-Motivation
10 37 (2.67%) Enterprise Storage
11 35 (2.53%) PKI
12 34 (2.45%) Enterprise Software
13 30 (2.17%) NHS
14 26 (1.88%) Distributed Systems
15 23 (1.66%) Clustering
16 22 (1.59%) CCTV
17 21 (1.52%) Enterprise Cloud
17 21 (1.52%) Legacy Systems
17 21 (1.52%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 488 (35.23%) Windows
2 361 (26.06%) Windows Server
3 150 (10.83%) Linux
4 43 (3.10%) Windows 10
5 41 (2.96%) Windows Server 2019
6 25 (1.81%) Mac OS
7 24 (1.73%) Windows Server 2016
8 23 (1.66%) Ubuntu
9 22 (1.59%) Unix
10 19 (1.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 14 (1.01%) VMS
12 12 (0.87%) AIX
13 10 (0.72%) Oracle Linux
14 9 (0.65%) Solaris
15 7 (0.51%) CentOS
16 6 (0.43%) Debian
17 4 (0.29%) Windows Server 2012
18 2 (0.14%) Amazon Linux
18 2 (0.14%) Apple iOS
18 2 (0.14%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 558 (40.29%) Business Continuity
2 419 (30.25%) Cybersecurity
3 417 (30.11%) Continuous Improvement
4 372 (26.86%) Problem-Solving
5 277 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 255 (18.41%) ITIL
7 237 (17.11%) DevOps
8 216 (15.60%) Stakeholder Management
9 214 (15.45%) High Availability
10 205 (14.80%) Infrastructure as Code
11 181 (13.07%) Incident Response
12 174 (12.56%) Information Security
12 174 (12.56%) Project Delivery
13 168 (12.13%) Service Delivery
14 163 (11.77%) CI/CD
15 159 (11.48%) Cloud Security
16 152 (10.97%) Migration
17 143 (10.32%) Agile
17 143 (10.32%) AI
18 138 (9.96%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 221 (15.96%) PowerShell
2 144 (10.40%) Python
3 135 (9.75%) SQL
4 68 (4.91%) Bash
5 43 (3.10%) Bicep
6 29 (2.09%) Java
7 24 (1.73%) Shell Script
8 18 (1.30%) JavaScript
9 14 (1.01%) TypeScript
10 11 (0.79%) Korn
11 10 (0.72%) PL/SQL
12 9 (0.65%) Go
13 7 (0.51%) Kusto Query Language
14 6 (0.43%) Groovy
14 6 (0.43%) Search Processing Language
15 5 (0.36%) COBOL
15 5 (0.36%) T-SQL
16 4 (0.29%) C#
16 4 (0.29%) XAML
17 3 (0.22%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 132 (9.53%) Degree
2 116 (8.38%) Security Cleared
3 107 (7.73%) Azure Certification
4 94 (6.79%) CISSP
5 91 (6.57%) Cisco Certification
6 89 (6.43%) Microsoft Certification
6 89 (6.43%) SC Cleared
7 83 (5.99%) CISM
8 63 (4.55%) CCNP
9 61 (4.40%) ITIL Certification
10 52 (3.75%) CCNA
11 47 (3.39%) Postgraduate
12 40 (2.89%) Computer Science Degree
13 32 (2.31%) AWS Certification
14 26 (1.88%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
15 22 (1.59%) CompTIA Security+
16 20 (1.44%) DV Cleared
17 18 (1.30%) Master's Degree
18 17 (1.23%) Network+ Certification
19 16 (1.16%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 152 (10.97%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 141 (10.18%) NIST
3 126 (9.10%) Cyber Essentials
4 116 (8.38%) GDPR
5 95 (6.86%) ISO 22301
6 83 (5.99%) SLA
7 60 (4.33%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 45 (3.25%) PCI DSS
9 34 (2.45%) GRC
10 28 (2.02%) SOC 2
11 27 (1.95%) Data Quality
12 23 (1.66%) NCSC
13 20 (1.44%) PMO
14 17 (1.23%) COBIT
15 15 (1.08%) QA
16 11 (0.79%) ISO 9001
17 7 (0.51%) SOC 1
18 5 (0.36%) ISO/IEC 20000
19 4 (0.29%) ISO 14001
19 4 (0.29%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 391 (28.23%) Active Directory
2 298 (21.52%) VMware Infrastructure
3 214 (15.45%) Hyper-V
4 58 (4.19%) Docker
4 58 (4.19%) Virtual Machines
5 57 (4.12%) vSphere
6 37 (2.67%) Firmware
7 28 (2.02%) VMware ESXi
8 26 (1.88%) Virtual Desktop
9 15 (1.08%) VMware NSX
10 12 (0.87%) Oracle RAC
11 7 (0.51%) vCloud
12 6 (0.43%) Squid
13 5 (0.36%) DFS Replication
13 5 (0.36%) Virtual Servers
14 4 (0.29%) KVM
15 3 (0.22%) VMware Server
16 2 (0.14%) EMC RecoverPoint
16 2 (0.14%) iptables
16 2 (0.14%) Microsoft Virtual Server
Systems Management
1 197 (14.22%) Microsoft Intune
2 98 (7.08%) Kubernetes
3 89 (6.43%) Ansible
4 55 (3.97%) Single Sign-On
5 33 (2.38%) FortiGate
6 27 (1.95%) Grafana
7 26 (1.88%) SCCM
8 23 (1.66%) Prometheus
9 16 (1.16%) Jamf Pro
9 16 (1.16%) VxRail
10 13 (0.94%) Data Guard
11 12 (0.87%) Puppet
12 11 (0.79%) Nagios
12 11 (0.79%) Oracle RMAN
12 11 (0.79%) vCenter Server
13 8 (0.58%) Dell DRAC
13 8 (0.58%) Progress Chef
13 8 (0.58%) Proxmox
14 7 (0.51%) Avamar
15 6 (0.43%) Backup Exec
Vendors
1 676 (48.81%) Microsoft
2 347 (25.05%) VMware
3 206 (14.87%) Cisco
4 107 (7.73%) Veeam
5 69 (4.98%) Palo Alto
6 60 (4.33%) Fortinet
7 53 (3.83%) Oracle
8 51 (3.68%) Google
9 49 (3.54%) SonicWALL
10 45 (3.25%) Meraki
11 42 (3.03%) Aruba
11 42 (3.03%) Splunk
12 41 (2.96%) SolarWinds
13 38 (2.74%) Dell
14 30 (2.17%) Qualys
15 27 (1.95%) Apple
16 26 (1.88%) Sophos
17 25 (1.81%) ServiceNow
18 23 (1.66%) Citrix
18 23 (1.66%) HP