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

6 months to
25 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 190 255 209
Rank change year-on-year +65 -46 +87
Permanent jobs citing Disaster Recovery 1,021 588 1,415
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.08% 1.30% 1.32%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.47% 1.41% 1.61%
Number of salaries quoted 772 473 1,135
10th Percentile £32,750 £37,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,500 £46,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £62,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +13.64% -4.35%
75th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £92,500 £91,250 £88,700
UK excluding London median annual salary £48,625 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -11.59% +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 69,638 41,796 87,970
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.33% 92.22% 82.12%
Number of salaries quoted 48,019 22,539 62,354
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,750 £29,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -9.54%
75th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,679 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +5.36% - -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 25 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 25 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 +51 915 £57,500 -8.00% 230
UK excluding London +48 603 £48,625 -11.59% 192
London +43 357 £75,000 +1.35% 83
Work from Home +82 296 £60,000 +2.13% 101
North of England +67 220 £47,500 -13.64% 39
South East +13 148 £50,000 -9.09% 67
Yorkshire +46 111 £47,500 -24.00% 17
Midlands +37 103 £55,000 +2.33% 40
North West +40 92 £50,000 -9.09% 19
West Midlands +37 78 £55,000 -4.35% 22
East of England 0 46 £45,000 -16.67% 13
South West -85 36 £43,000 -21.82% 21
Scotland +21 26 £39,400 -28.36% 9
East Midlands -26 24 £55,000 +37.50% 18
North East -48 17 £42,500 -12.82% 4
Wales -32 15 £43,000 -14.00% 6
Northern Ireland -29 7 - - 3
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
1 116 (11.36%) Microsoft Exchange
2 108 (10.58%) SharePoint
3 17 (1.67%) IIS
4 5 (0.49%) Apache Spark
5 4 (0.39%) Apache
6 3 (0.29%) Confluence
6 3 (0.29%) WordPress
7 2 (0.20%) Apache Airflow
7 2 (0.20%) OpenStack
8 1 (0.098%) BizTalk Server
8 1 (0.098%) Site Server
8 1 (0.098%) WebLogic
Applications
1 21 (2.06%) Microsoft Office
2 15 (1.47%) MS Visio
3 12 (1.18%) PlantUML
4 5 (0.49%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 11 (1.08%) FLEXCUBE
2 4 (0.39%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (0.39%) NetSuite
3 3 (0.29%) Oracle EBS
3 3 (0.29%) Sage 200
3 3 (0.29%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.20%) Q-Pulse
4 2 (0.20%) Raiser’s Edge
4 2 (0.20%) SAP ERP
5 1 (0.098%) Adobe Campaign
5 1 (0.098%) Elite 3E
5 1 (0.098%) JDE EnterpriseOne
5 1 (0.098%) Misys Equation
5 1 (0.098%) Misys Midas
5 1 (0.098%) SAP EHS
Cloud Services
1 513 (50.24%) Azure
2 321 (31.44%) Microsoft 365
3 187 (18.32%) Entra ID
4 159 (15.57%) AWS
5 66 (6.46%) SaaS
6 57 (5.58%) IaaS
7 54 (5.29%) Nutanix
8 49 (4.80%) PaaS
9 45 (4.41%) Datadog
10 40 (3.92%) Azure DevOps
11 39 (3.82%) Power Platform
12 33 (3.23%) GitHub
13 31 (3.04%) Azure Monitor
13 31 (3.04%) GCP
14 30 (2.94%) Microsoft Purview
15 28 (2.74%) Cloud Computing
16 26 (2.55%) GitHub Actions
17 21 (2.06%) Amazon EC2
17 21 (2.06%) Mimecast
17 21 (2.06%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 322 (31.54%) Firewall
2 227 (22.23%) DNS
3 203 (19.88%) VPN
4 177 (17.34%) DHCP
5 144 (14.10%) WAN
6 119 (11.66%) VLAN
7 108 (10.58%) LAN
8 90 (8.81%) Network Security
9 86 (8.42%) TCP/IP
10 85 (8.33%) Wi-Fi
11 62 (6.07%) SAN
12 47 (4.60%) Wireless
13 29 (2.84%) Internet
14 28 (2.74%) SD-WAN
15 27 (2.64%) Cisco ISE
15 27 (2.64%) SSL
16 26 (2.55%) VoIP
17 22 (2.15%) Remote Desktop
18 17 (1.67%) BGP
18 17 (1.67%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 88 (8.62%) SQL Server
2 35 (3.43%) Amazon RDS
3 25 (2.45%) Azure SQL Database
4 22 (2.15%) Power BI
5 14 (1.37%) PostgreSQL
6 12 (1.18%) MySQL
7 10 (0.98%) Oracle Database
8 9 (0.88%) Data Warehouse
9 8 (0.78%) Data Lake
9 8 (0.78%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 7 (0.69%) Delta Lake
11 5 (0.49%) Geospatial Data
11 5 (0.49%) GIS
11 5 (0.49%) MongoDB
11 5 (0.49%) NoSQL
11 5 (0.49%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 5 (0.49%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 4 (0.39%) Amazon Aurora
12 4 (0.39%) Elasticsearch
13 3 (0.29%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 17 (1.67%) Chocolatey
1 17 (1.67%) Git
2 15 (1.47%) JIRA
3 6 (0.59%) GitLab
3 6 (0.59%) Visual Studio Code
4 5 (0.49%) Jenkins
5 4 (0.39%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 4 (0.39%) MLflow
6 3 (0.29%) Selenium
7 2 (0.20%) Bitbucket
7 2 (0.20%) JUnit
7 2 (0.20%) Spock
7 2 (0.20%) TeamCity
7 2 (0.20%) Terragrunt
8 1 (0.098%) Artifactory
8 1 (0.098%) Claude Code
8 1 (0.098%) Octopus Deploy
8 1 (0.098%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 1 (0.098%) Team Foundation Server
8 1 (0.098%) Yeoman
General
1 370 (36.24%) Social Skills
2 181 (17.73%) Finance
3 140 (13.71%) Analytical Skills
4 69 (6.76%) Banking
5 61 (5.97%) Legal
6 47 (4.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 43 (4.21%) Law
8 36 (3.53%) Organisational Skills
8 36 (3.53%) Public Sector
9 32 (3.13%) Manufacturing
10 28 (2.74%) Retail
11 25 (2.45%) Documentation Skills
12 19 (1.86%) Back Office
12 19 (1.86%) Influencing Skills
12 19 (1.86%) Telecoms
13 10 (0.98%) Financial Institution
14 9 (0.88%) Advertising
14 9 (0.88%) Mandarin Language
15 8 (0.78%) Aerospace
16 7 (0.69%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 207 (20.27%) Senior
2 161 (15.77%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 151 (14.79%) IT Support
4 121 (11.85%) IT Engineer
5 97 (9.50%) Support Engineer
6 80 (7.84%) Cloud Engineer
7 78 (7.64%) IT Manager
7 78 (7.64%) IT Support Engineer
8 72 (7.05%) Lead
9 63 (6.17%) Architect
10 62 (6.07%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
11 61 (5.97%) Analyst
12 54 (5.29%) Azure Engineer
13 38 (3.72%) Platform Engineer
14 35 (3.43%) Network Engineer
15 34 (3.33%) Administrator
16 32 (3.13%) IT Analyst
17 31 (3.04%) IT Technician
17 31 (3.04%) Security Engineer
18 29 (2.84%) Security Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (1.37%) Middleware
2 13 (1.27%) SAML
3 11 (1.08%) ARM Templates
4 8 (0.78%) Microsoft Graph
4 8 (0.78%) OAuth
5 7 (0.69%) PySpark
5 7 (0.69%) REST
5 7 (0.69%) YAML
6 6 (0.59%) ADO
6 6 (0.59%) Kafka
7 5 (0.49%) RESTful
8 4 (0.39%) .NET
8 4 (0.39%) FIX Protocol
8 4 (0.39%) Loki
8 4 (0.39%) web3js
9 3 (0.29%) Apache NiFi
9 3 (0.29%) JSON
9 3 (0.29%) Node.js
9 3 (0.29%) Nuxt
9 3 (0.29%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 98 (9.60%) Data Centre
2 73 (7.15%) Management Information System
3 64 (6.27%) Hybrid Cloud
4 61 (5.97%) Driving Licence
5 59 (5.78%) Cloud Native
6 53 (5.19%) Replication
7 50 (4.90%) Security Posture
8 44 (4.31%) Self-Motivation
9 41 (4.02%) Cyber Threat
10 38 (3.72%) Onboarding
11 35 (3.43%) PKI
12 34 (3.33%) Data Protection Act
13 31 (3.04%) Public Cloud
14 30 (2.94%) Enterprise Storage
15 27 (2.64%) NHS
16 23 (2.25%) CMDB
17 18 (1.76%) CCTV
17 18 (1.76%) Clustering
17 18 (1.76%) Virtual Team
18 16 (1.57%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 358 (35.06%) Windows
2 240 (23.51%) Windows Server
3 96 (9.40%) Linux
4 24 (2.35%) Windows Server 2019
5 23 (2.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 22 (2.15%) Mac OS
7 19 (1.86%) Windows 10
7 19 (1.86%) Windows Server 2016
8 16 (1.57%) Unix
9 13 (1.27%) Ubuntu
10 11 (1.08%) AIX
10 11 (1.08%) Oracle Linux
11 10 (0.98%) VMS
12 9 (0.88%) Apple iOS
12 9 (0.88%) CentOS
13 7 (0.69%) Solaris
14 3 (0.29%) Windows Server 2012
15 2 (0.20%) Amazon Linux
15 2 (0.20%) Debian
15 2 (0.20%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 372 (36.43%) Business Continuity
2 330 (32.32%) Cybersecurity
3 265 (25.95%) Problem-Solving
4 256 (25.07%) Continuous Improvement
5 213 (20.86%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 203 (19.88%) ITIL
7 167 (16.36%) High Availability
8 166 (16.26%) Incident Response
9 131 (12.83%) DevOps
10 127 (12.44%) Infrastructure as Code
11 122 (11.95%) Service Delivery
12 114 (11.17%) Cloud Security
12 114 (11.17%) Stakeholder Management
13 107 (10.48%) Data Protection
14 99 (9.70%) Change Management
15 97 (9.50%) CI/CD
16 95 (9.30%) Risk Management
17 94 (9.21%) Incident Management
17 94 (9.21%) Mentoring
18 93 (9.11%) BCP
Programming Languages
1 160 (15.67%) PowerShell
2 108 (10.58%) SQL
3 104 (10.19%) Python
4 47 (4.60%) Bash
5 16 (1.57%) Shell Script
6 15 (1.47%) Bicep
7 11 (1.08%) Java
7 11 (1.08%) Korn
8 10 (0.98%) PL/SQL
9 9 (0.88%) JavaScript
9 9 (0.88%) Kusto Query Language
10 7 (0.69%) T-SQL
10 7 (0.69%) TypeScript
11 5 (0.49%) C#
12 4 (0.39%) Scala
13 3 (0.29%) Go
13 3 (0.29%) Ruby
13 3 (0.29%) Search Processing Language
14 2 (0.20%) RPG
14 2 (0.20%) XAML
Qualifications
1 118 (11.56%) Degree
2 82 (8.03%) Cisco Certification
3 71 (6.95%) Microsoft Certification
4 63 (6.17%) CCNP
5 62 (6.07%) Azure Certification
6 54 (5.29%) Security Cleared
7 45 (4.41%) CCNA
8 38 (3.72%) Computer Science Degree
8 38 (3.72%) SC Cleared
9 35 (3.43%) CISSP
10 28 (2.74%) Postgraduate
11 27 (2.64%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 22 (2.15%) CISM
13 15 (1.47%) AWS Certification
13 15 (1.47%) CEH
14 13 (1.27%) CISA
14 13 (1.27%) MCSE
15 11 (1.08%) CRISC
15 11 (1.08%) Master's Degree
16 10 (0.98%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 152 (14.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 115 (11.26%) GDPR
3 113 (11.07%) Cyber Essentials
4 97 (9.50%) NIST
5 61 (5.97%) SLA
6 51 (5.00%) PCI DSS
7 47 (4.60%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 29 (2.84%) PMO
9 28 (2.74%) SOC 2
10 25 (2.45%) GRC
11 22 (2.15%) Data Quality
12 19 (1.86%) ISO 22301
13 15 (1.47%) COBIT
14 10 (0.98%) Actionable Recommendations
14 10 (0.98%) NCSC
15 8 (0.78%) SOC 1
16 6 (0.59%) QA
17 5 (0.49%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
18 4 (0.39%) HIPAA
18 4 (0.39%) HL7
System Software
1 295 (28.89%) Active Directory
2 245 (24.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 155 (15.18%) Hyper-V
4 42 (4.11%) vSphere
5 35 (3.43%) Docker
6 31 (3.04%) Virtual Machines
7 21 (2.06%) Firmware
7 21 (2.06%) VMware ESXi
8 20 (1.96%) Virtual Desktop
9 12 (1.18%) Oracle RAC
10 10 (0.98%) VMware NSX
11 9 (0.88%) vCloud
12 6 (0.59%) KVM
13 5 (0.49%) Virtual Servers
14 4 (0.39%) EMC RecoverPoint
15 3 (0.29%) DFS Replication
15 3 (0.29%) Microsoft Virtual Server
15 3 (0.29%) VMware Server
16 2 (0.20%) VMware Workstation
17 1 (0.098%) Xen
Systems Management
1 136 (13.32%) Microsoft Intune
2 134 (13.12%) Terraform
3 73 (7.15%) Ansible
4 70 (6.86%) Kubernetes
5 27 (2.64%) SCCM
5 27 (2.64%) Single Sign-On
6 25 (2.45%) FortiGate
7 22 (2.15%) VxRail
8 12 (1.18%) Prometheus
9 11 (1.08%) Data Guard
9 11 (1.08%) Grafana
9 11 (1.08%) Nagios
9 11 (1.08%) vCenter Server
10 10 (0.98%) Oracle RMAN
11 9 (0.88%) Dell DRAC
11 9 (0.88%) Jamf Pro
11 9 (0.88%) Packer
12 7 (0.69%) EMC NetWorker
13 6 (0.59%) EMC VPLEX
13 6 (0.59%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 513 (50.24%) Microsoft
2 307 (30.07%) VMware
3 149 (14.59%) Cisco
4 69 (6.76%) Veeam
5 55 (5.39%) Dell
5 55 (5.39%) Palo Alto
6 43 (4.21%) HP
7 36 (3.53%) Splunk
8 34 (3.33%) Meraki
8 34 (3.33%) Oracle
9 33 (3.23%) Nimble Storage
10 32 (3.13%) Commvault
11 29 (2.84%) Fortinet
11 29 (2.84%) Sophos
12 28 (2.74%) Tenable
13 26 (2.55%) SolarWinds
14 25 (2.45%) EMC
14 25 (2.45%) Google
15 23 (2.25%) IBM
16 22 (2.15%) Zscaler