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 2 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 178 252 219
Rank change year-on-year +74 -33 +41
Permanent jobs citing Disaster Recovery 1,208 621 1,040
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.17% 1.25% 1.24%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.58% 1.40% 1.53%
Number of salaries quoted 859 488 782
10th Percentile £34,515 £33,750 £34,500
25th Percentile £41,500 £42,750 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -7.60%
75th Percentile £77,500 £76,250 £73,750
90th Percentile £92,500 £92,500 £92,450
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £52,500 £49,000
% change year-on-year -9.52% +7.14% -2.00%

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 76,271 44,428 67,881
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.70% 89.49% 81.01%
Number of salaries quoted 52,568 25,332 44,788
10th Percentile £30,750 £28,500 £31,199
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,500 £41,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £78,750 £76,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £95,000
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 2 August 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 2 August 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 +53 1,041 £57,500 -4.17% 397
UK excluding London +75 778 £47,500 -9.52% 310
London +50 371 £75,000 - 148
Work from Home +98 363 £60,000 +9.09% 154
North of England +68 225 £47,500 -11.63% 71
South East +51 210 £50,000 - 99
Midlands +34 123 £55,000 - 46
North West +55 119 £47,500 -11.63% 39
West Midlands +22 91 £55,000 -4.35% 34
Yorkshire +32 89 £44,000 -29.60% 27
East of England +4 55 £45,000 -14.29% 18
South West -84 52 £50,000 +5.26% 38
Northern Ireland -30 51 - - 13
Scotland +33 40 £48,000 -10.70% 16
East Midlands -20 32 £50,000 +8.11% 12
Wales -46 20 £44,000 -23.48% 17
North East -57 17 £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
1 125 (10.35%) Microsoft Exchange
2 120 (9.93%) SharePoint
3 24 (1.99%) IIS
4 16 (1.32%) Apache
5 10 (0.83%) Apache Spark
5 10 (0.83%) nginx
6 5 (0.41%) Confluence
7 3 (0.25%) WordPress
8 2 (0.17%) Apache Airflow
8 2 (0.17%) OpenStack
8 2 (0.17%) WebLogic
9 1 (0.083%) Site Server
Applications
1 19 (1.57%) Microsoft Office
2 14 (1.16%) PlantUML
3 13 (1.08%) MS Visio
4 7 (0.58%) Microsoft Excel
5 2 (0.17%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.083%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 13 (1.08%) FLEXCUBE
2 6 (0.50%) Raiser’s Edge
3 5 (0.41%) JDE EnterpriseOne
3 5 (0.41%) Sage 200
4 4 (0.33%) NetSuite
5 3 (0.25%) Dynamics CRM
5 3 (0.25%) Q-Pulse
5 3 (0.25%) SAP S/4HANA
6 2 (0.17%) Adobe Campaign
7 1 (0.083%) Bloomberg TOMS
7 1 (0.083%) Misys Equation
7 1 (0.083%) Misys Midas
7 1 (0.083%) Sage 50
7 1 (0.083%) SAP EHS
7 1 (0.083%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 626 (51.82%) Azure
2 359 (29.72%) Microsoft 365
3 243 (20.12%) AWS
4 198 (16.39%) Entra ID
5 126 (10.43%) SaaS
6 81 (6.71%) IaaS
7 65 (5.38%) PaaS
8 51 (4.22%) Power Platform
9 43 (3.56%) Nutanix
10 39 (3.23%) GCP
11 36 (2.98%) Cloud Computing
12 35 (2.90%) Datadog
13 32 (2.65%) Azure DevOps
14 24 (1.99%) GitHub
15 23 (1.90%) GitHub Actions
16 22 (1.82%) AWS CloudFormation
16 22 (1.82%) Google Workspace
17 21 (1.74%) Amazon EC2
17 21 (1.74%) Azure Monitor
18 20 (1.66%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 348 (28.81%) Firewall
2 267 (22.10%) DNS
3 213 (17.63%) VPN
4 196 (16.23%) DHCP
5 154 (12.75%) WAN
6 129 (10.68%) VLAN
7 125 (10.35%) LAN
8 109 (9.02%) Wi-Fi
9 101 (8.36%) Network Security
10 87 (7.20%) TCP/IP
11 63 (5.22%) SAN
12 60 (4.97%) Wireless
13 42 (3.48%) Internet
14 35 (2.90%) SSL
14 35 (2.90%) VoIP
15 32 (2.65%) SD-WAN
16 30 (2.48%) Cisco ISE
17 23 (1.90%) NAS
18 21 (1.74%) Cisco Nexus
19 16 (1.32%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 94 (7.78%) SQL Server
2 36 (2.98%) Amazon RDS
3 31 (2.57%) Power BI
4 29 (2.40%) Azure SQL Database
5 17 (1.41%) PostgreSQL
6 14 (1.16%) Oracle Database
7 13 (1.08%) Data Warehouse
8 12 (0.99%) MySQL
9 9 (0.75%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 8 (0.66%) Data Lake
10 8 (0.66%) Metadata
11 6 (0.50%) MongoDB
11 6 (0.50%) NoSQL
11 6 (0.50%) SQL Server Analysis Services
12 5 (0.41%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 4 (0.33%) DynamoDB
13 4 (0.33%) Elasticsearch
14 3 (0.25%) Big Data
14 3 (0.25%) NonStop SQL
14 3 (0.25%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 21 (1.74%) JIRA
2 19 (1.57%) Git
3 16 (1.32%) Chocolatey
4 14 (1.16%) GitLab
5 8 (0.66%) JUnit
5 8 (0.66%) Spock
6 7 (0.58%) Jenkins
7 6 (0.50%) Visual Studio Code
8 5 (0.41%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 4 (0.33%) Bitbucket
9 4 (0.33%) MLflow
10 2 (0.17%) IntelliJ
10 2 (0.17%) Maven
10 2 (0.17%) Selenium
10 2 (0.17%) TeamCity
10 2 (0.17%) Terragrunt
10 2 (0.17%) Yeoman
11 1 (0.083%) Claude Code
11 1 (0.083%) git-flow
General
1 412 (34.11%) Social Skills
2 218 (18.05%) Finance
3 155 (12.83%) Analytical Skills
4 77 (6.37%) Law
4 77 (6.37%) Legal
5 68 (5.63%) Banking
6 62 (5.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 50 (4.14%) Manufacturing
8 37 (3.06%) Organisational Skills
9 35 (2.90%) Retail
10 33 (2.73%) Documentation Skills
11 32 (2.65%) Influencing Skills
12 31 (2.57%) Public Sector
13 24 (1.99%) Telecoms
14 18 (1.49%) Back Office
15 13 (1.08%) Financial Institution
16 12 (0.99%) Mandarin Language
17 11 (0.91%) Presentation Skills
18 10 (0.83%) Aerospace
19 8 (0.66%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 231 (19.12%) Senior
2 180 (14.90%) IT Support
3 152 (12.58%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 144 (11.92%) IT Engineer
5 141 (11.67%) IT Manager
6 117 (9.69%) Support Engineer
7 96 (7.95%) IT Support Engineer
8 83 (6.87%) Architect
9 74 (6.13%) Analyst
10 65 (5.38%) Cloud Engineer
11 60 (4.97%) Lead
12 59 (4.88%) Service Manager
13 58 (4.80%) Resilience Manager
13 58 (4.80%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
14 54 (4.47%) IT Services Manager
15 49 (4.06%) Azure Engineer
16 47 (3.89%) Network Engineer
17 38 (3.15%) Administrator
18 37 (3.06%) IT Analyst
19 36 (2.98%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 63 (5.22%) Middleware
2 14 (1.16%) ARM Templates
3 9 (0.75%) Kafka
4 8 (0.66%) AngularJS
4 8 (0.66%) Microsoft Graph
4 8 (0.66%) Spring
4 8 (0.66%) Web Services
5 7 (0.58%) FIX Protocol
6 5 (0.41%) .NET
6 5 (0.41%) SAML
7 4 (0.33%) AWS CDK
7 4 (0.33%) ModSecurity
7 4 (0.33%) REST
7 4 (0.33%) web3js
8 3 (0.25%) JSON
8 3 (0.25%) Nuxt
8 3 (0.25%) ODBC
8 3 (0.25%) PySpark
8 3 (0.25%) Ruby on Rails
9 2 (0.17%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 107 (8.86%) Data Centre
2 95 (7.86%) Cyber Threat
3 85 (7.04%) Management Information System
4 74 (6.13%) Cloud Native
5 72 (5.96%) Driving Licence
6 68 (5.63%) Hybrid Cloud
7 59 (4.88%) Replication
7 59 (4.88%) Security Posture
8 53 (4.39%) Onboarding
9 52 (4.30%) Self-Motivation
10 34 (2.81%) PKI
11 31 (2.57%) Enterprise Storage
12 29 (2.40%) NHS
13 27 (2.24%) Public Cloud
14 25 (2.07%) CCTV
15 23 (1.90%) Enterprise Software
16 21 (1.74%) Virtual Team
17 20 (1.66%) Clustering
17 20 (1.66%) CMDB
18 18 (1.49%) iSeries
Operating Systems
1 407 (33.69%) Windows
2 280 (23.18%) Windows Server
3 126 (10.43%) Linux
4 31 (2.57%) Windows Server 2019
5 25 (2.07%) Mac OS
5 25 (2.07%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 24 (1.99%) Windows 10
7 23 (1.90%) Windows Server 2016
8 22 (1.82%) Unix
9 18 (1.49%) Ubuntu
10 13 (1.08%) AIX
11 12 (0.99%) Oracle Linux
12 10 (0.83%) CentOS
13 9 (0.75%) Solaris
13 9 (0.75%) VMS
14 4 (0.33%) Windows Server 2012
15 2 (0.17%) Amazon Linux
15 2 (0.17%) Apple iOS
15 2 (0.17%) Debian
16 1 (0.083%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 494 (40.89%) Business Continuity
2 359 (29.72%) Cybersecurity
3 327 (27.07%) Problem-Solving
4 309 (25.58%) Continuous Improvement
5 257 (21.27%) ITIL
6 212 (17.55%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 206 (17.05%) DevOps
8 191 (15.81%) High Availability
9 164 (13.58%) Incident Response
10 155 (12.83%) Information Security
11 153 (12.67%) Stakeholder Management
12 143 (11.84%) Infrastructure as Code
12 143 (11.84%) Service Delivery
13 134 (11.09%) Agile
14 126 (10.43%) Project Delivery
15 124 (10.26%) CI/CD
16 119 (9.85%) Change Management
17 118 (9.77%) Mentoring
18 116 (9.60%) Cloud Security
19 112 (9.27%) Incident Management
Programming Languages
1 178 (14.74%) PowerShell
2 119 (9.85%) Python
3 112 (9.27%) SQL
4 51 (4.22%) Bash
5 24 (1.99%) Shell Script
6 23 (1.90%) Bicep
7 15 (1.24%) Java
8 13 (1.08%) JavaScript
9 12 (0.99%) Korn
9 12 (0.99%) PL/SQL
10 11 (0.91%) TypeScript
11 6 (0.50%) T-SQL
12 4 (0.33%) C#
12 4 (0.33%) COBOL
12 4 (0.33%) Kusto Query Language
12 4 (0.33%) Search Processing Language
13 3 (0.25%) Go
13 3 (0.25%) Ruby
14 2 (0.17%) RPG
14 2 (0.17%) XAML
Qualifications
1 135 (11.18%) Degree
2 99 (8.20%) Cisco Certification
3 94 (7.78%) CISSP
4 86 (7.12%) Microsoft Certification
5 85 (7.04%) Azure Certification
6 79 (6.54%) CISM
7 75 (6.21%) CCNP
8 74 (6.13%) Security Cleared
9 58 (4.80%) SC Cleared
10 53 (4.39%) CCNA
11 52 (4.30%) ITIL Certification
12 38 (3.15%) Computer Science Degree
13 33 (2.73%) Postgraduate
13 33 (2.73%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
14 26 (2.15%) AWS Certification
15 16 (1.32%) Master's Degree
16 15 (1.24%) CISA
16 15 (1.24%) CompTIA Security+
17 14 (1.16%) CEH
17 14 (1.16%) CRISC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 140 (11.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 134 (11.09%) NIST
3 106 (8.77%) Cyber Essentials
3 106 (8.77%) GDPR
4 76 (6.29%) ISO 22301
5 73 (6.04%) SLA
6 51 (4.22%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 47 (3.89%) PCI DSS
8 30 (2.48%) GRC
9 28 (2.32%) PMO
10 23 (1.90%) Data Quality
10 23 (1.90%) SOC 2
11 16 (1.32%) COBIT
12 15 (1.24%) NCSC
13 12 (0.99%) QA
14 8 (0.66%) SOC 1
15 7 (0.58%) Actionable Recommendations
16 5 (0.41%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
17 4 (0.33%) ISO 9001
17 4 (0.33%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 325 (26.90%) Active Directory
2 279 (23.10%) VMware Infrastructure
3 185 (15.31%) Hyper-V
4 52 (4.30%) Docker
5 46 (3.81%) vSphere
6 30 (2.48%) Virtual Machines
7 28 (2.32%) VMware ESXi
8 24 (1.99%) Firmware
9 21 (1.74%) Virtual Desktop
10 14 (1.16%) Oracle RAC
11 11 (0.91%) VMware NSX
12 9 (0.75%) KVM
12 9 (0.75%) vCloud
13 6 (0.50%) Squid
14 5 (0.41%) Virtual Servers
15 4 (0.33%) EMC RecoverPoint
16 3 (0.25%) DFS Replication
16 3 (0.25%) VMware Server
17 2 (0.17%) Microsoft Virtual Server
18 1 (0.083%) Xen
Systems Management
1 157 (13.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 143 (11.84%) Terraform
3 79 (6.54%) Kubernetes
4 75 (6.21%) Ansible
5 34 (2.81%) Single Sign-On
6 28 (2.32%) FortiGate
7 26 (2.15%) SCCM
8 19 (1.57%) VxRail
9 14 (1.16%) Data Guard
10 13 (1.08%) Jamf Pro
10 13 (1.08%) Nagios
11 12 (0.99%) Oracle RMAN
12 11 (0.91%) Prometheus
12 11 (0.91%) vCenter Server
13 9 (0.75%) Grafana
14 8 (0.66%) Dell DRAC
15 7 (0.58%) Avamar
15 7 (0.58%) Packer
16 6 (0.50%) EMC VPLEX
16 6 (0.50%) WSUS
Vendors
1 578 (47.85%) Microsoft
2 330 (27.32%) VMware
3 183 (15.15%) Cisco
4 86 (7.12%) Veeam
5 60 (4.97%) Palo Alto
6 46 (3.81%) Dell
6 46 (3.81%) Splunk
7 44 (3.64%) Oracle
8 39 (3.23%) Fortinet
8 39 (3.23%) HP
9 38 (3.15%) Meraki
10 32 (2.65%) Sophos
11 31 (2.57%) Aruba
11 31 (2.57%) Google
11 31 (2.57%) SonicWALL
12 27 (2.24%) Nimble Storage
12 27 (2.24%) SolarWinds
13 26 (2.15%) Apple
14 25 (2.07%) IBM
15 24 (1.99%) Commvault