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

6 months to
17 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 172 250 226
Rank change year-on-year +78 -24 +17
Permanent jobs citing Disaster Recovery 1,274 615 1,023
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.19% 1.23% 1.24%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.62% 1.37% 1.53%
Number of salaries quoted 916 481 755
10th Percentile £34,597 £33,750 £34,500
25th Percentile £42,000 £42,750 £43,911
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -5.98%
75th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £75,250
90th Percentile £92,500 £97,500 £97,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £48,750 £51,500 £49,000
% change year-on-year -5.34% +5.10% -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 78,635 44,750 66,977
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.41% 89.19% 80.88%
Number of salaries quoted 54,192 25,377 43,044
10th Percentile £30,780 £28,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.71%
75th Percentile £78,750 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £96,750 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +15.79% -5.00% -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 17 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 17 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 +69 1,104 £57,500 -4.17% 534
UK excluding London +77 827 £48,750 -5.34% 372
London +45 395 £75,000 - 248
Work from Home +83 388 £60,000 +9.09% 205
North of England +61 235 £47,500 -11.63% 91
South East +53 217 £50,000 - 107
North West +53 129 £47,500 -11.63% 34
Midlands +41 129 £55,000 - 64
West Midlands +45 94 £55,000 -4.35% 45
Yorkshire +41 92 £47,500 -24.00% 45
South West -79 64 £50,000 +5.26% 40
East of England +10 60 £49,863 +4.97% 27
Scotland +38 50 £47,500 -11.63% 25
Northern Ireland -33 49 - - 8
East Midlands -9 35 £45,000 -14.29% 19
Wales -43 23 £45,000 -21.74% 16
North East -69 14 £48,000 -1.54% 15
Channel Islands - 3 £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
1 136 (10.68%) SharePoint
2 133 (10.44%) Microsoft Exchange
3 24 (1.88%) IIS
4 18 (1.41%) Apache
5 12 (0.94%) nginx
6 11 (0.86%) Apache Spark
7 6 (0.47%) Confluence
8 3 (0.24%) OpenStack
8 3 (0.24%) WordPress
9 2 (0.16%) Apache Airflow
9 2 (0.16%) WebLogic
10 1 (0.078%) CICS
10 1 (0.078%) Site Server
Applications
1 20 (1.57%) Microsoft Office
2 17 (1.33%) PlantUML
3 12 (0.94%) MS Visio
4 9 (0.71%) Microsoft Excel
5 3 (0.24%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.078%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 12 (0.94%) FLEXCUBE
2 6 (0.47%) Raiser’s Edge
3 5 (0.39%) JDE EnterpriseOne
3 5 (0.39%) Sage 200
4 4 (0.31%) NetSuite
5 3 (0.24%) Dynamics CRM
5 3 (0.24%) Q-Pulse
5 3 (0.24%) SAP S/4HANA
6 2 (0.16%) Adobe Campaign
7 1 (0.078%) Bloomberg TOMS
7 1 (0.078%) Eikon
7 1 (0.078%) Misys Equation
7 1 (0.078%) Misys Midas
7 1 (0.078%) Sage 50
7 1 (0.078%) SAP EHS
7 1 (0.078%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 657 (51.57%) Azure
2 386 (30.30%) Microsoft 365
3 247 (19.39%) AWS
4 226 (17.74%) Entra ID
5 135 (10.60%) SaaS
6 93 (7.30%) IaaS
7 69 (5.42%) PaaS
8 53 (4.16%) Power Platform
9 41 (3.22%) Cloud Computing
9 41 (3.22%) GCP
10 37 (2.90%) Azure DevOps
10 37 (2.90%) Nutanix
11 33 (2.59%) Datadog
12 28 (2.20%) Azure Monitor
13 27 (2.12%) GitHub
13 27 (2.12%) OneDrive
14 26 (2.04%) GitHub Actions
15 25 (1.96%) Microsoft Copilot
16 23 (1.81%) Amazon EC2
16 23 (1.81%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 360 (28.26%) Firewall
2 283 (22.21%) DNS
3 216 (16.95%) VPN
4 206 (16.17%) DHCP
5 160 (12.56%) WAN
6 132 (10.36%) VLAN
7 131 (10.28%) LAN
8 111 (8.71%) Wi-Fi
9 106 (8.32%) Network Security
10 98 (7.69%) TCP/IP
11 65 (5.10%) SAN
11 65 (5.10%) Wireless
12 44 (3.45%) Internet
13 37 (2.90%) SSL
14 35 (2.75%) VoIP
15 34 (2.67%) SD-WAN
16 31 (2.43%) Cisco ISE
17 24 (1.88%) NAS
18 23 (1.81%) Cisco Nexus
19 14 (1.10%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 91 (7.14%) SQL Server
2 36 (2.83%) Amazon RDS
3 32 (2.51%) Power BI
4 31 (2.43%) Azure SQL Database
5 17 (1.33%) PostgreSQL
6 14 (1.10%) Data Warehouse
7 13 (1.02%) Oracle Database
8 12 (0.94%) MySQL
9 10 (0.78%) Data Lake
10 8 (0.63%) Metadata
10 8 (0.63%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 6 (0.47%) MongoDB
11 6 (0.47%) SQL Server Analysis Services
12 5 (0.39%) NoSQL
12 5 (0.39%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 4 (0.31%) DynamoDB
13 4 (0.31%) Elasticsearch
14 3 (0.24%) Big Data
14 3 (0.24%) NonStop SQL
14 3 (0.24%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 21 (1.65%) Git
2 20 (1.57%) JIRA
3 15 (1.18%) Chocolatey
4 13 (1.02%) GitLab
5 8 (0.63%) Jenkins
5 8 (0.63%) JUnit
5 8 (0.63%) Spock
6 6 (0.47%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 6 (0.47%) Visual Studio Code
7 5 (0.39%) Bitbucket
8 4 (0.31%) MLflow
9 2 (0.16%) git-flow
9 2 (0.16%) IntelliJ
9 2 (0.16%) Maven
9 2 (0.16%) Selenium
9 2 (0.16%) TeamCity
9 2 (0.16%) Terragrunt
9 2 (0.16%) Yeoman
10 1 (0.078%) Claude Code
General
1 426 (33.44%) Social Skills
2 224 (17.58%) Finance
3 169 (13.27%) Analytical Skills
4 83 (6.51%) Legal
5 75 (5.89%) Law
6 70 (5.49%) Banking
7 59 (4.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 57 (4.47%) Manufacturing
9 39 (3.06%) Documentation Skills
10 37 (2.90%) Organisational Skills
10 37 (2.90%) Retail
11 33 (2.59%) Influencing Skills
11 33 (2.59%) Public Sector
12 23 (1.81%) Telecoms
13 18 (1.41%) Back Office
14 13 (1.02%) Aerospace
14 13 (1.02%) Financial Institution
15 12 (0.94%) Mandarin Language
16 11 (0.86%) Presentation Skills
17 9 (0.71%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 243 (19.07%) Senior
2 191 (14.99%) IT Support
3 162 (12.72%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 149 (11.70%) IT Engineer
5 143 (11.22%) IT Manager
6 122 (9.58%) Support Engineer
7 101 (7.93%) IT Support Engineer
8 96 (7.54%) Architect
9 83 (6.51%) Analyst
10 68 (5.34%) Lead
11 61 (4.79%) Cloud Engineer
12 60 (4.71%) Service Manager
13 58 (4.55%) Resilience Manager
13 58 (4.55%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
14 54 (4.24%) IT Services Manager
15 52 (4.08%) Azure Engineer
16 51 (4.00%) Network Engineer
17 41 (3.22%) IT Analyst
18 39 (3.06%) Administrator
19 38 (2.98%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 68 (5.34%) Middleware
2 14 (1.10%) ARM Templates
3 9 (0.71%) Kafka
4 8 (0.63%) AngularJS
4 8 (0.63%) Microsoft Graph
4 8 (0.63%) Spring
4 8 (0.63%) Web Services
5 7 (0.55%) FIX Protocol
6 5 (0.39%) .NET
6 5 (0.39%) AWS CDK
6 5 (0.39%) ModSecurity
6 5 (0.39%) SAML
7 4 (0.31%) web3js
8 3 (0.24%) EDI
8 3 (0.24%) JSON
8 3 (0.24%) Nuxt
8 3 (0.24%) ODBC
8 3 (0.24%) PySpark
8 3 (0.24%) REST
8 3 (0.24%) Ruby on Rails
Miscellaneous
1 108 (8.48%) Data Centre
2 92 (7.22%) Cyber Threat
3 84 (6.59%) Management Information System
4 78 (6.12%) Cloud Native
5 69 (5.42%) Driving Licence
6 64 (5.02%) Hybrid Cloud
6 64 (5.02%) Onboarding
7 61 (4.79%) Security Posture
8 60 (4.71%) Replication
9 51 (4.00%) Self-Motivation
10 33 (2.59%) Enterprise Storage
11 32 (2.51%) PKI
12 29 (2.28%) NHS
13 26 (2.04%) CCTV
13 26 (2.04%) Enterprise Software
14 24 (1.88%) Clustering
15 22 (1.73%) Public Cloud
16 21 (1.65%) Virtual Team
17 20 (1.57%) Private Cloud
18 19 (1.49%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 428 (33.59%) Windows
2 295 (23.16%) Windows Server
3 137 (10.75%) Linux
4 32 (2.51%) Windows Server 2019
5 28 (2.20%) Windows 10
6 26 (2.04%) Mac OS
6 26 (2.04%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 23 (1.81%) Ubuntu
7 23 (1.81%) Unix
8 22 (1.73%) Windows Server 2016
9 12 (0.94%) AIX
10 11 (0.86%) Oracle Linux
11 10 (0.78%) CentOS
12 9 (0.71%) Solaris
12 9 (0.71%) VMS
13 4 (0.31%) Debian
13 4 (0.31%) Windows Server 2012
14 2 (0.16%) Amazon Linux
14 2 (0.16%) Apple iOS
14 2 (0.16%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 519 (40.74%) Business Continuity
2 393 (30.85%) Cybersecurity
3 339 (26.61%) Continuous Improvement
4 338 (26.53%) Problem-Solving
5 257 (20.17%) ITIL
6 232 (18.21%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 214 (16.80%) DevOps
8 201 (15.78%) High Availability
9 179 (14.05%) Incident Response
10 170 (13.34%) Information Security
11 169 (13.27%) Stakeholder Management
12 166 (13.03%) Infrastructure as Code
13 153 (12.01%) Service Delivery
14 144 (11.30%) Project Delivery
15 143 (11.22%) Agile
16 137 (10.75%) CI/CD
17 131 (10.28%) Mentoring
18 126 (9.89%) Risk Management
19 123 (9.65%) Cloud Security
20 116 (9.11%) AI
Programming Languages
1 188 (14.76%) PowerShell
2 127 (9.97%) Python
3 119 (9.34%) SQL
4 55 (4.32%) Bash
5 26 (2.04%) Bicep
6 25 (1.96%) Shell Script
7 17 (1.33%) Java
8 13 (1.02%) JavaScript
9 12 (0.94%) Korn
10 11 (0.86%) PL/SQL
10 11 (0.86%) TypeScript
11 6 (0.47%) Kusto Query Language
11 6 (0.47%) Search Processing Language
12 5 (0.39%) COBOL
12 5 (0.39%) T-SQL
13 4 (0.31%) C#
13 4 (0.31%) Go
14 3 (0.24%) Ruby
14 3 (0.24%) XAML
15 2 (0.16%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 144 (11.30%) Degree
2 102 (8.01%) Cisco Certification
3 97 (7.61%) CISSP
4 96 (7.54%) Azure Certification
5 86 (6.75%) Microsoft Certification
6 82 (6.44%) CISM
7 79 (6.20%) Security Cleared
8 73 (5.73%) CCNP
9 61 (4.79%) SC Cleared
10 56 (4.40%) ITIL Certification
11 55 (4.32%) CCNA
12 41 (3.22%) Computer Science Degree
13 38 (2.98%) Postgraduate
14 32 (2.51%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
15 29 (2.28%) AWS Certification
16 19 (1.49%) CompTIA Security+
17 18 (1.41%) DV Cleared
17 18 (1.41%) Master's Degree
18 15 (1.18%) CISA
19 14 (1.10%) CEH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 136 (10.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 131 (10.28%) NIST
3 110 (8.63%) GDPR
4 108 (8.48%) Cyber Essentials
5 77 (6.04%) ISO 22301
6 74 (5.81%) SLA
7 49 (3.85%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 43 (3.38%) PCI DSS
9 39 (3.06%) GRC
10 27 (2.12%) Data Quality
10 27 (2.12%) PMO
11 21 (1.65%) SOC 2
12 17 (1.33%) NCSC
13 16 (1.26%) COBIT
14 13 (1.02%) QA
15 8 (0.63%) SOC 1
16 5 (0.39%) Actionable Recommendations
16 5 (0.39%) ISO/IEC 20000
16 5 (0.39%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
17 4 (0.31%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 346 (27.16%) Active Directory
2 285 (22.37%) VMware Infrastructure
3 191 (14.99%) Hyper-V
4 53 (4.16%) Docker
5 52 (4.08%) vSphere
6 31 (2.43%) Virtual Machines
7 28 (2.20%) VMware ESXi
8 27 (2.12%) Firmware
9 25 (1.96%) Virtual Desktop
10 14 (1.10%) VMware NSX
11 13 (1.02%) Oracle RAC
12 9 (0.71%) vCloud
13 7 (0.55%) KVM
14 6 (0.47%) Squid
15 5 (0.39%) Virtual Servers
16 3 (0.24%) DFS Replication
16 3 (0.24%) EMC RecoverPoint
16 3 (0.24%) VMware Server
17 2 (0.16%) iptables
17 2 (0.16%) Microsoft Virtual Server
Systems Management
1 167 (13.11%) Microsoft Intune
2 160 (12.56%) Terraform
3 84 (6.59%) Kubernetes
4 83 (6.51%) Ansible
5 35 (2.75%) Single Sign-On
6 32 (2.51%) FortiGate
7 25 (1.96%) SCCM
8 18 (1.41%) VxRail
9 14 (1.10%) Jamf Pro
10 13 (1.02%) Data Guard
11 12 (0.94%) Nagios
11 12 (0.94%) vCenter Server
12 11 (0.86%) Oracle RMAN
12 11 (0.86%) Prometheus
13 9 (0.71%) Grafana
14 8 (0.63%) Dell DRAC
14 8 (0.63%) Proxmox
15 7 (0.55%) Avamar
15 7 (0.55%) Packer
16 6 (0.47%) EMC VPLEX
Vendors
1 616 (48.35%) Microsoft
2 338 (26.53%) VMware
3 194 (15.23%) Cisco
4 88 (6.91%) Veeam
5 67 (5.26%) Palo Alto
6 47 (3.69%) Splunk
7 45 (3.53%) Oracle
8 42 (3.30%) Fortinet
9 40 (3.14%) Dell
10 37 (2.90%) Meraki
10 37 (2.90%) SonicWALL
11 36 (2.83%) Google
12 34 (2.67%) HP
13 33 (2.59%) Aruba
14 31 (2.43%) Sophos
15 28 (2.20%) SolarWinds
16 27 (2.12%) Apple
17 26 (2.04%) Qualys
18 25 (1.96%) IBM
19 23 (1.81%) AppDynamics