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 16 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 172 259 203
Rank change year-on-year +87 -56 +23
Permanent jobs citing Disaster Recovery 1,320 565 1,068
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.16% 1.14% 1.37%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.59% 1.29% 1.69%
Number of salaries quoted 927 441 657
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,250 £36,000
25th Percentile £42,250 £43,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% - +2.56%
75th Percentile £77,500 £79,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £94,750 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £50,000

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 83,236 43,812 63,193
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 72.95% 88.75% 81.16%
Number of salaries quoted 57,755 24,707 35,897
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,500 £32,000
25th Percentile £41,750 £36,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £96,250 £95,000
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 16 September 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 16 September 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 +81 1,156 £57,500 -4.17% 990
UK excluding London +100 875 £50,000 - 611
London +53 396 £75,000 - 473
Work from Home +104 392 £60,000 - 362
North of England +61 245 £47,500 -9.52% 147
South East +64 226 £50,000 - 185
Midlands +52 154 £57,500 +4.55% 101
North West +60 135 £47,500 +8.57% 79
West Midlands +41 118 £59,522 -2.82% 57
Yorkshire +47 97 £47,500 -17.39% 58
South West -52 73 £49,375 +3.95% 53
East of England -1 59 £45,500 +40.00% 40
Scotland +49 52 £40,800 -27.47% 52
Northern Ireland -38 47 - - 18
East Midlands -21 36 £45,000 - 44
Wales -58 21 £45,000 -21.74% 18
North East -67 13 £52,500 - 14

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
1 163 (12.35%) SharePoint
2 149 (11.29%) Microsoft Exchange
3 27 (2.05%) IIS
4 22 (1.67%) Apache
5 16 (1.21%) nginx
6 11 (0.83%) Apache Spark
7 5 (0.38%) Confluence
8 4 (0.30%) OpenStack
9 3 (0.23%) WordPress
10 2 (0.15%) WebLogic
11 1 (0.076%) CICS
11 1 (0.076%) FactoryTalk
11 1 (0.076%) Site Server
Applications
1 19 (1.44%) PlantUML
2 18 (1.36%) Microsoft Office
3 12 (0.91%) MS Visio
4 11 (0.83%) Microsoft Excel
5 3 (0.23%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.076%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 11 (0.83%) FLEXCUBE
2 6 (0.45%) Raiser’s Edge
3 5 (0.38%) JDE EnterpriseOne
3 5 (0.38%) Sage 200
4 4 (0.30%) NetSuite
5 3 (0.23%) Dynamics CRM
5 3 (0.23%) Q-Pulse
6 2 (0.15%) Adobe Campaign
6 2 (0.15%) Integrated Workplace Management System
6 2 (0.15%) SAP S/4HANA
7 1 (0.076%) Bloomberg TOMS
7 1 (0.076%) Eikon
7 1 (0.076%) Misys Equation
7 1 (0.076%) Misys Midas
7 1 (0.076%) Oracle Applications
7 1 (0.076%) Oracle EBS
7 1 (0.076%) Sage 50
7 1 (0.076%) SAP EHS
Cloud Services
1 689 (52.20%) Azure
2 407 (30.83%) Microsoft 365
3 266 (20.15%) Entra ID
4 252 (19.09%) AWS
5 145 (10.98%) SaaS
6 105 (7.95%) IaaS
7 77 (5.83%) PaaS
8 50 (3.79%) Cloud Computing
8 50 (3.79%) Power Platform
9 43 (3.26%) GCP
10 41 (3.11%) OneDrive
11 39 (2.95%) Azure DevOps
12 38 (2.88%) Azure Monitor
13 34 (2.58%) Datadog
14 33 (2.50%) Microsoft Copilot
15 27 (2.05%) GitHub
16 25 (1.89%) OCI
17 24 (1.82%) Amazon EC2
17 24 (1.82%) GitHub Actions
18 23 (1.74%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 362 (27.42%) Firewall
2 310 (23.48%) DNS
3 226 (17.12%) VPN
4 219 (16.59%) DHCP
5 160 (12.12%) WAN
6 142 (10.76%) VLAN
7 129 (9.77%) LAN
8 117 (8.86%) Wi-Fi
9 103 (7.80%) TCP/IP
10 101 (7.65%) Network Security
11 79 (5.98%) Wireless
12 62 (4.70%) SAN
13 51 (3.86%) Internet
14 42 (3.18%) SD-WAN
15 40 (3.03%) VoIP
16 39 (2.95%) SSL
17 28 (2.12%) Cisco ISE
18 25 (1.89%) Cisco Nexus
19 22 (1.67%) NAS
20 15 (1.14%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 92 (6.97%) SQL Server
2 38 (2.88%) Amazon RDS
3 33 (2.50%) Azure SQL Database
4 31 (2.35%) Power BI
5 22 (1.67%) PostgreSQL
6 16 (1.21%) Data Warehouse
7 13 (0.98%) Oracle Database
8 12 (0.91%) Metadata
9 11 (0.83%) Data Lake
9 11 (0.83%) MySQL
10 8 (0.61%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 6 (0.45%) SQL Server Analysis Services
12 5 (0.38%) MongoDB
12 5 (0.38%) NoSQL
12 5 (0.38%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 4 (0.30%) DynamoDB
13 4 (0.30%) Elasticsearch
14 3 (0.23%) NonStop SQL
14 3 (0.23%) Relational Database
14 3 (0.23%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 19 (1.44%) JIRA
2 17 (1.29%) Git
3 16 (1.21%) Chocolatey
4 14 (1.06%) GitLab
5 10 (0.76%) JUnit
5 10 (0.76%) Spock
6 7 (0.53%) Jenkins
7 5 (0.38%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 5 (0.38%) Bitbucket
8 4 (0.30%) IntelliJ
8 4 (0.30%) Maven
8 4 (0.30%) Visual Studio Code
9 2 (0.15%) git-flow
9 2 (0.15%) Selenium
9 2 (0.15%) Terragrunt
10 1 (0.076%) Claude Code
10 1 (0.076%) MLflow
10 1 (0.076%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
10 1 (0.076%) TeamCity
10 1 (0.076%) Yeoman
General
1 442 (33.48%) Social Skills
2 242 (18.33%) Finance
3 184 (13.94%) Analytical Skills
4 82 (6.21%) Legal
5 80 (6.06%) Law
6 68 (5.15%) Banking
7 65 (4.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 59 (4.47%) Manufacturing
9 43 (3.26%) Documentation Skills
10 40 (3.03%) Retail
11 37 (2.80%) Public Sector
12 36 (2.73%) Influencing Skills
13 32 (2.42%) Organisational Skills
14 22 (1.67%) Telecoms
15 19 (1.44%) Back Office
16 15 (1.14%) Aerospace
17 12 (0.91%) Financial Institution
18 11 (0.83%) Mandarin Language
18 11 (0.83%) Presentation Skills
19 8 (0.61%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 255 (19.32%) Senior
2 192 (14.55%) IT Support
3 177 (13.41%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 145 (10.98%) IT Engineer
5 144 (10.91%) IT Manager
6 114 (8.64%) Support Engineer
7 100 (7.58%) Architect
8 99 (7.50%) Analyst
9 95 (7.20%) IT Support Engineer
10 67 (5.08%) Service Manager
11 65 (4.92%) Lead
12 64 (4.85%) Resilience Manager
13 60 (4.55%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
14 59 (4.47%) IT Services Manager
15 58 (4.39%) Network Engineer
16 56 (4.24%) Cloud Engineer
17 51 (3.86%) Azure Engineer
18 46 (3.48%) IT Analyst
19 41 (3.11%) Administrator
20 38 (2.88%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 164 (12.42%) Terraform
2 73 (5.53%) Middleware
3 13 (0.98%) ARM Templates
4 10 (0.76%) AngularJS
4 10 (0.76%) Spring
5 8 (0.61%) Microsoft Graph
5 8 (0.61%) Web Services
6 7 (0.53%) FIX Protocol
6 7 (0.53%) Kafka
7 6 (0.45%) .NET
7 6 (0.45%) SAML
8 5 (0.38%) ModSecurity
8 5 (0.38%) REST
9 4 (0.30%) AWS CDK
9 4 (0.30%) JSON
9 4 (0.30%) OpenTelemetry
10 3 (0.23%) 802.1X
10 3 (0.23%) Nuxt
10 3 (0.23%) Ruby on Rails
10 3 (0.23%) web3js
Miscellaneous
1 111 (8.41%) Data Centre
2 90 (6.82%) Cyber Threat
3 80 (6.06%) Management Information System
4 79 (5.98%) Cloud Native
5 75 (5.68%) Onboarding
6 71 (5.38%) Driving Licence
7 62 (4.70%) Replication
8 60 (4.55%) Security Posture
9 54 (4.09%) Hybrid Cloud
10 46 (3.48%) Self-Motivation
11 33 (2.50%) Enterprise Storage
12 32 (2.42%) PKI
13 30 (2.27%) NHS
14 26 (1.97%) Enterprise Software
15 24 (1.82%) CCTV
16 22 (1.67%) Clustering
16 22 (1.67%) Private Cloud
17 20 (1.52%) Enterprise Cloud
17 20 (1.52%) Virtual Team
18 19 (1.44%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 452 (34.24%) Windows
2 325 (24.62%) Windows Server
3 149 (11.29%) Linux
4 35 (2.65%) Windows Server 2019
5 29 (2.20%) Windows 10
6 27 (2.05%) Ubuntu
7 24 (1.82%) Mac OS
8 21 (1.59%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 21 (1.59%) Unix
8 21 (1.59%) Windows Server 2016
9 15 (1.14%) VMS
10 12 (0.91%) AIX
11 10 (0.76%) Oracle Linux
12 9 (0.68%) Solaris
13 8 (0.61%) CentOS
14 5 (0.38%) Debian
15 4 (0.30%) Windows Server 2012
16 2 (0.15%) Amazon Linux
16 2 (0.15%) Embedded Linux
16 2 (0.15%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 531 (40.23%) Business Continuity
2 401 (30.38%) Cybersecurity
3 374 (28.33%) Continuous Improvement
4 351 (26.59%) Problem-Solving
5 264 (20.00%) ITIL
6 254 (19.24%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 213 (16.14%) DevOps
8 201 (15.23%) High Availability
9 190 (14.39%) Stakeholder Management
10 176 (13.33%) Infrastructure as Code
11 175 (13.26%) Incident Response
12 170 (12.88%) Information Security
13 166 (12.58%) Service Delivery
14 163 (12.35%) Project Delivery
15 142 (10.76%) Agile
16 140 (10.61%) Cloud Security
17 139 (10.53%) Mentoring
18 136 (10.30%) CI/CD
19 132 (10.00%) AI
19 132 (10.00%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 198 (15.00%) PowerShell
2 129 (9.77%) Python
3 122 (9.24%) SQL
4 58 (4.39%) Bash
5 30 (2.27%) Bicep
6 23 (1.74%) Shell Script
7 22 (1.67%) Java
8 15 (1.14%) JavaScript
9 14 (1.06%) TypeScript
10 11 (0.83%) Korn
11 10 (0.76%) PL/SQL
12 7 (0.53%) Kusto Query Language
13 6 (0.45%) Search Processing Language
14 5 (0.38%) COBOL
14 5 (0.38%) T-SQL
15 4 (0.30%) Go
15 4 (0.30%) Groovy
15 4 (0.30%) XAML
16 3 (0.23%) C#
16 3 (0.23%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 137 (10.38%) Degree
2 99 (7.50%) Azure Certification
3 98 (7.42%) CISSP
4 97 (7.35%) Cisco Certification
5 88 (6.67%) Security Cleared
6 85 (6.44%) Microsoft Certification
7 83 (6.29%) CISM
8 69 (5.23%) CCNP
9 63 (4.77%) SC Cleared
10 59 (4.47%) ITIL Certification
11 51 (3.86%) CCNA
12 46 (3.48%) Postgraduate
13 40 (3.03%) Computer Science Degree
14 30 (2.27%) AWS Certification
15 28 (2.12%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
16 22 (1.67%) CompTIA Security+
17 20 (1.52%) DV Cleared
18 19 (1.44%) Master's Degree
19 17 (1.29%) Network+ Certification
20 15 (1.14%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 148 (11.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 139 (10.53%) NIST
3 119 (9.02%) Cyber Essentials
4 112 (8.48%) GDPR
5 82 (6.21%) ISO 22301
5 82 (6.21%) SLA
6 53 (4.02%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 40 (3.03%) PCI DSS
8 35 (2.65%) GRC
9 27 (2.05%) Data Quality
10 24 (1.82%) PMO
11 22 (1.67%) NCSC
11 22 (1.67%) SOC 2
12 17 (1.29%) COBIT
13 15 (1.14%) QA
14 8 (0.61%) ISO 9001
15 7 (0.53%) SOC 1
16 5 (0.38%) ISO/IEC 20000
17 4 (0.30%) Sarbanes-Oxley
18 3 (0.23%) ISO 8583
System Software
1 362 (27.42%) Active Directory
2 293 (22.20%) VMware Infrastructure
3 201 (15.23%) Hyper-V
4 52 (3.94%) vSphere
5 49 (3.71%) Docker
6 46 (3.48%) Virtual Machines
7 32 (2.42%) Firmware
8 27 (2.05%) Virtual Desktop
8 27 (2.05%) VMware ESXi
9 17 (1.29%) VMware NSX
10 12 (0.91%) Oracle RAC
11 9 (0.68%) vCloud
12 6 (0.45%) Squid
13 5 (0.38%) Virtual Servers
14 4 (0.30%) KVM
15 3 (0.23%) DFS Replication
15 3 (0.23%) VMware Server
16 2 (0.15%) EMC RecoverPoint
16 2 (0.15%) iptables
16 2 (0.15%) Microsoft Virtual Server
Systems Management
1 189 (14.32%) Microsoft Intune
2 83 (6.29%) Ansible
3 81 (6.14%) Kubernetes
4 43 (3.26%) Single Sign-On
5 31 (2.35%) FortiGate
6 30 (2.27%) SCCM
7 17 (1.29%) VxRail
8 16 (1.21%) Jamf Pro
9 15 (1.14%) Prometheus
10 13 (0.98%) Data Guard
11 12 (0.91%) Grafana
12 11 (0.83%) Nagios
12 11 (0.83%) Oracle RMAN
12 11 (0.83%) vCenter Server
13 8 (0.61%) Dell DRAC
13 8 (0.61%) Proxmox
14 7 (0.53%) Avamar
14 7 (0.53%) Puppet
14 7 (0.53%) WSUS
15 6 (0.45%) EMC VPLEX
Vendors
1 651 (49.32%) Microsoft
2 342 (25.91%) VMware
3 200 (15.15%) Cisco
4 98 (7.42%) Veeam
5 70 (5.30%) Palo Alto
6 51 (3.86%) Oracle
7 50 (3.79%) Fortinet
8 47 (3.56%) SonicWALL
9 45 (3.41%) Splunk
10 41 (3.11%) Meraki
11 38 (2.88%) Aruba
12 37 (2.80%) Google
13 35 (2.65%) Dell
13 35 (2.65%) SolarWinds
14 30 (2.27%) Qualys
15 28 (2.12%) Sophos
16 27 (2.05%) HP
16 27 (2.05%) ServiceNow
17 26 (1.97%) AppDynamics
17 26 (1.97%) Apple