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 23 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 178 249 206
Rank change year-on-year +71 -43 +68
Permanent jobs citing Disaster Recovery 1,155 635 1,224
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.15% 1.29% 1.32%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.56% 1.44% 1.62%
Number of salaries quoted 833 503 963
10th Percentile £34,500 £34,600 £33,750
25th Percentile £41,500 £44,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -6.80%
75th Percentile £77,500 £76,875 £70,500
90th Percentile £92,500 £92,250 £91,991
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.52% +5.00% -

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 73,858 44,154 75,761
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.61% 89.93% 81.83%
Number of salaries quoted 51,064 24,939 51,848
10th Percentile £30,500 £28,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,599 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,043 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.01% +0.08% -8.71%
75th Percentile £78,750 £76,250 £73,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,528 £93,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% - -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 23 July 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 23 July 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 +50 994 £57,500 -4.17% 329
UK excluding London +60 723 £47,500 -9.52% 257
London +53 369 £75,000 - 119
Work from Home +85 358 £60,000 +9.09% 127
North of England +68 227 £47,500 -11.63% 72
South East +42 189 £50,000 - 81
North West +51 112 £47,500 -11.63% 38
Midlands +24 111 £55,000 - 35
Yorkshire +43 99 £47,500 -24.00% 29
West Midlands +20 83 £55,000 -4.35% 24
Northern Ireland -25 52 - - 4
East of England +14 50 £44,250 -15.71% 20
South West -88 42 £48,750 -2.50% 25
Scotland +40 34 £47,500 -11.63% 14
East Midlands -22 28 £55,000 +18.92% 11
Wales -38 16 £43,000 -25.22% 14
North East -58 16 £42,500 -12.82% 5
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
1 119 (10.30%) Microsoft Exchange
2 114 (9.87%) SharePoint
3 20 (1.73%) IIS
4 13 (1.13%) Apache
5 10 (0.87%) Apache Spark
6 6 (0.52%) nginx
7 3 (0.26%) Confluence
7 3 (0.26%) WordPress
8 2 (0.17%) Apache Airflow
8 2 (0.17%) OpenStack
9 1 (0.087%) Site Server
9 1 (0.087%) WebLogic
Applications
1 19 (1.65%) Microsoft Office
2 15 (1.30%) MS Visio
3 14 (1.21%) PlantUML
4 6 (0.52%) Microsoft Excel
5 1 (0.087%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 14 (1.21%) FLEXCUBE
2 6 (0.52%) Raiser’s Edge
3 5 (0.43%) JDE EnterpriseOne
3 5 (0.43%) Sage 200
4 4 (0.35%) NetSuite
5 3 (0.26%) Dynamics CRM
5 3 (0.26%) Q-Pulse
5 3 (0.26%) SAP S/4HANA
6 2 (0.17%) Adobe Campaign
7 1 (0.087%) Bloomberg TOMS
7 1 (0.087%) Misys Equation
7 1 (0.087%) Misys Midas
7 1 (0.087%) Oracle EBS
7 1 (0.087%) SAP EHS
7 1 (0.087%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 595 (51.52%) Azure
2 341 (29.52%) Microsoft 365
3 221 (19.13%) AWS
4 188 (16.28%) Entra ID
5 121 (10.48%) SaaS
6 72 (6.23%) IaaS
7 60 (5.19%) PaaS
8 48 (4.16%) Power Platform
9 44 (3.81%) Nutanix
10 39 (3.38%) Datadog
11 35 (3.03%) GCP
12 31 (2.68%) Azure DevOps
13 30 (2.60%) Cloud Computing
14 24 (2.08%) GitHub
15 23 (1.99%) GitHub Actions
16 22 (1.90%) Azure Monitor
17 21 (1.82%) Mimecast
18 20 (1.73%) Amazon EC2
19 19 (1.65%) Google Workspace
19 19 (1.65%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 345 (29.87%) Firewall
2 249 (21.56%) DNS
3 214 (18.53%) VPN
4 184 (15.93%) DHCP
5 155 (13.42%) WAN
6 130 (11.26%) VLAN
7 123 (10.65%) LAN
8 99 (8.57%) Wi-Fi
9 95 (8.23%) Network Security
10 91 (7.88%) TCP/IP
11 60 (5.19%) SAN
12 57 (4.94%) Wireless
13 40 (3.46%) Internet
14 32 (2.77%) SD-WAN
15 31 (2.68%) Cisco ISE
15 31 (2.68%) SSL
16 29 (2.51%) VoIP
17 19 (1.65%) Cisco Nexus
18 18 (1.56%) NAS
19 17 (1.47%) BGP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 87 (7.53%) SQL Server
2 36 (3.12%) Amazon RDS
3 29 (2.51%) Power BI
4 28 (2.42%) Azure SQL Database
5 14 (1.21%) PostgreSQL
6 13 (1.13%) Data Warehouse
6 13 (1.13%) Oracle Database
7 11 (0.95%) MySQL
8 8 (0.69%) Metadata
9 7 (0.61%) Data Lake
9 7 (0.61%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 5 (0.43%) NoSQL
11 4 (0.35%) Elasticsearch
11 4 (0.35%) MongoDB
11 4 (0.35%) SQL Server Analysis Services
12 3 (0.26%) Big Data
12 3 (0.26%) DynamoDB
12 3 (0.26%) NonStop SQL
12 3 (0.26%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 3 (0.26%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 21 (1.82%) JIRA
2 16 (1.39%) Chocolatey
3 14 (1.21%) Git
4 11 (0.95%) GitLab
5 6 (0.52%) JUnit
5 6 (0.52%) Spock
5 6 (0.52%) Visual Studio Code
6 5 (0.43%) Jenkins
7 4 (0.35%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 4 (0.35%) MLflow
8 2 (0.17%) Bitbucket
8 2 (0.17%) Selenium
8 2 (0.17%) Terragrunt
8 2 (0.17%) Yeoman
9 1 (0.087%) Claude Code
9 1 (0.087%) IntelliJ
9 1 (0.087%) Maven
9 1 (0.087%) TeamCity
General
1 396 (34.29%) Social Skills
2 206 (17.84%) Finance
3 144 (12.47%) Analytical Skills
4 73 (6.32%) Law
5 71 (6.15%) Banking
6 69 (5.97%) Legal
7 50 (4.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 44 (3.81%) Manufacturing
9 38 (3.29%) Organisational Skills
10 36 (3.12%) Public Sector
11 34 (2.94%) Retail
12 31 (2.68%) Documentation Skills
13 30 (2.60%) Influencing Skills
14 22 (1.90%) Telecoms
15 20 (1.73%) Back Office
16 13 (1.13%) Financial Institution
17 12 (1.04%) Mandarin Language
18 8 (0.69%) Advertising
18 8 (0.69%) Presentation Skills
19 7 (0.61%) French Language
Job Titles
1 227 (19.65%) Senior
2 172 (14.89%) IT Support
3 150 (12.99%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 141 (12.21%) IT Manager
5 138 (11.95%) IT Engineer
6 111 (9.61%) Support Engineer
7 90 (7.79%) IT Support Engineer
8 74 (6.41%) Architect
9 68 (5.89%) Analyst
10 65 (5.63%) Cloud Engineer
10 65 (5.63%) Lead
11 64 (5.54%) Service Manager
12 59 (5.11%) IT Services Manager
13 56 (4.85%) Resilience Manager
13 56 (4.85%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
14 50 (4.33%) Azure Engineer
15 45 (3.90%) Network Engineer
16 37 (3.20%) IT Analyst
17 36 (3.12%) Administrator
18 35 (3.03%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 63 (5.45%) Middleware
2 14 (1.21%) ARM Templates
3 9 (0.78%) Kafka
4 8 (0.69%) Microsoft Graph
4 8 (0.69%) SAML
5 7 (0.61%) FIX Protocol
5 7 (0.61%) Web Services
6 6 (0.52%) AngularJS
6 6 (0.52%) Spring
7 4 (0.35%) .NET
7 4 (0.35%) OAuth
7 4 (0.35%) REST
7 4 (0.35%) RESTful
7 4 (0.35%) web3js
8 3 (0.26%) JSON
8 3 (0.26%) Nuxt
8 3 (0.26%) ODBC
8 3 (0.26%) PySpark
8 3 (0.26%) Ruby on Rails
8 3 (0.26%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 107 (9.26%) Data Centre
2 96 (8.31%) Cyber Threat
3 80 (6.93%) Management Information System
4 69 (5.97%) Cloud Native
5 68 (5.89%) Driving Licence
6 63 (5.45%) Hybrid Cloud
7 60 (5.19%) Security Posture
8 53 (4.59%) Self-Motivation
9 52 (4.50%) Replication
10 44 (3.81%) Onboarding
11 36 (3.12%) PKI
12 30 (2.60%) Enterprise Storage
13 28 (2.42%) NHS
14 25 (2.16%) Public Cloud
15 24 (2.08%) Data Protection Act
16 23 (1.99%) CCTV
17 22 (1.90%) CMDB
18 21 (1.82%) Enterprise Software
18 21 (1.82%) Virtual Team
19 20 (1.73%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 387 (33.51%) Windows
2 262 (22.68%) Windows Server
3 113 (9.78%) Linux
4 29 (2.51%) Windows Server 2019
5 25 (2.16%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 23 (1.99%) Mac OS
7 21 (1.82%) Windows 10
7 21 (1.82%) Windows Server 2016
8 20 (1.73%) Unix
9 15 (1.30%) Ubuntu
10 14 (1.21%) AIX
10 14 (1.21%) Oracle Linux
11 10 (0.87%) CentOS
12 8 (0.69%) Solaris
12 8 (0.69%) VMS
13 4 (0.35%) Apple iOS
13 4 (0.35%) Windows Server 2012
14 2 (0.17%) Amazon Linux
14 2 (0.17%) Debian
15 1 (0.087%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 464 (40.17%) Business Continuity
2 352 (30.48%) Cybersecurity
3 304 (26.32%) Problem-Solving
4 295 (25.54%) Continuous Improvement
5 259 (22.42%) ITIL
6 210 (18.18%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 189 (16.36%) DevOps
8 172 (14.89%) High Availability
9 164 (14.20%) Incident Response
10 151 (13.07%) Information Security
11 143 (12.38%) Stakeholder Management
12 137 (11.86%) Service Delivery
13 131 (11.34%) Infrastructure as Code
14 127 (11.00%) Agile
15 116 (10.04%) Project Delivery
16 112 (9.70%) Change Management
17 110 (9.52%) Cloud Security
18 108 (9.35%) CI/CD
19 105 (9.09%) Data Protection
20 104 (9.00%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 167 (14.46%) PowerShell
2 112 (9.70%) SQL
3 110 (9.52%) Python
4 46 (3.98%) Bash
5 23 (1.99%) Shell Script
6 21 (1.82%) Bicep
7 13 (1.13%) Java
7 13 (1.13%) Korn
7 13 (1.13%) PL/SQL
8 10 (0.87%) JavaScript
9 9 (0.78%) TypeScript
10 6 (0.52%) Kusto Query Language
11 5 (0.43%) T-SQL
12 4 (0.35%) COBOL
12 4 (0.35%) Search Processing Language
13 3 (0.26%) C#
13 3 (0.26%) Go
13 3 (0.26%) Ruby
14 2 (0.17%) RPG
14 2 (0.17%) XAML
Qualifications
1 129 (11.17%) Degree
2 94 (8.14%) Cisco Certification
3 92 (7.97%) CISSP
4 79 (6.84%) Azure Certification
4 79 (6.84%) CISM
4 79 (6.84%) Microsoft Certification
5 72 (6.23%) CCNP
6 57 (4.94%) Security Cleared
7 51 (4.42%) CCNA
8 50 (4.33%) ITIL Certification
9 42 (3.64%) SC Cleared
10 38 (3.29%) Computer Science Degree
11 32 (2.77%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 29 (2.51%) Postgraduate
13 20 (1.73%) AWS Certification
14 16 (1.39%) Master's Degree
15 15 (1.30%) CEH
15 15 (1.30%) CISA
16 14 (1.21%) CRISC
17 13 (1.13%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 146 (12.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 143 (12.38%) NIST
3 111 (9.61%) GDPR
4 108 (9.35%) Cyber Essentials
5 74 (6.41%) ISO 22301
6 63 (5.45%) SLA
7 51 (4.42%) PCI DSS
8 49 (4.24%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 30 (2.60%) PMO
10 27 (2.34%) GRC
11 26 (2.25%) SOC 2
12 23 (1.99%) Data Quality
13 16 (1.39%) COBIT
14 12 (1.04%) NCSC
15 9 (0.78%) Actionable Recommendations
16 8 (0.69%) SOC 1
17 7 (0.61%) QA
18 5 (0.43%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
19 4 (0.35%) HL7
19 4 (0.35%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 312 (27.01%) Active Directory
2 268 (23.20%) VMware Infrastructure
3 175 (15.15%) Hyper-V
4 44 (3.81%) vSphere
5 43 (3.72%) Docker
6 32 (2.77%) Virtual Machines
7 27 (2.34%) VMware ESXi
8 21 (1.82%) Firmware
8 21 (1.82%) Virtual Desktop
9 15 (1.30%) Oracle RAC
10 10 (0.87%) VMware NSX
11 9 (0.78%) vCloud
12 7 (0.61%) KVM
13 5 (0.43%) Squid
14 4 (0.35%) EMC RecoverPoint
15 3 (0.26%) DFS Replication
15 3 (0.26%) Virtual Servers
15 3 (0.26%) VMware Server
16 2 (0.17%) VMware Workstation
17 1 (0.087%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 146 (12.64%) Microsoft Intune
2 136 (11.77%) Terraform
3 74 (6.41%) Ansible
3 74 (6.41%) Kubernetes
4 33 (2.86%) Single Sign-On
5 28 (2.42%) FortiGate
6 26 (2.25%) SCCM
7 19 (1.65%) VxRail
8 14 (1.21%) Data Guard
8 14 (1.21%) Nagios
9 13 (1.13%) Oracle RMAN
10 12 (1.04%) vCenter Server
11 11 (0.95%) Jamf Pro
11 11 (0.95%) Prometheus
12 10 (0.87%) Grafana
13 9 (0.78%) Dell DRAC
14 7 (0.61%) Avamar
14 7 (0.61%) EMC NetWorker
14 7 (0.61%) Packer
15 6 (0.52%) WSUS
Vendors
1 558 (48.31%) Microsoft
2 323 (27.97%) VMware
3 175 (15.15%) Cisco
4 78 (6.75%) Veeam
5 59 (5.11%) Palo Alto
6 47 (4.07%) Dell
7 45 (3.90%) Splunk
8 40 (3.46%) Oracle
9 39 (3.38%) HP
10 37 (3.20%) Meraki
11 35 (3.03%) Fortinet
12 31 (2.68%) Sophos
13 29 (2.51%) Aruba
14 28 (2.42%) Commvault
14 28 (2.42%) Google
14 28 (2.42%) SolarWinds
15 27 (2.34%) Nimble Storage
15 27 (2.34%) Tenable
16 26 (2.25%) IBM
17 24 (2.08%) SonicWALL