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

6 months to
16 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 197 258 209
Rank change year-on-year +61 -49 +98
Permanent jobs citing Disaster Recovery 959 573 1,410
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.03% 1.29% 1.30%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.41% 1.39% 1.59%
Number of salaries quoted 730 455 1,132
10th Percentile £32,750 £37,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,500 £46,563 £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 £93,500 £90,000 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £48,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -12.73% +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 67,964 41,274 88,698
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 72.85% 92.59% 81.93%
Number of salaries quoted 46,731 22,044 62,765
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,822 £29,525
25th Percentile £41,250 £39,000 £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 £91,991
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +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 16 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 16 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 +43 856 £58,446 -6.86% 301
UK excluding London +53 557 £48,000 -12.73% 228
London +50 343 £75,000 +3.45% 114
Work from Home +74 281 £60,000 +9.09% 121
North of England +62 205 £47,500 -13.64% 42
South East +15 132 £50,000 -9.09% 77
Yorkshire +32 104 £47,500 -24.00% 18
Midlands +46 98 £53,250 +8.12% 46
North West +45 83 £50,000 -9.09% 21
West Midlands +34 76 £52,500 -8.70% 26
East of England -7 41 £45,000 -15.09% 18
South West -87 32 £43,000 -21.82% 28
Scotland +18 26 £39,400 -28.36% 12
East Midlands -18 21 £55,000 +37.50% 20
North East -44 18 £42,500 -15.00% 3
Wales -31 14 £43,000 -14.00% 6
Northern Ireland -26 7 - - 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
1 112 (11.68%) Microsoft Exchange
2 104 (10.84%) SharePoint
3 14 (1.46%) IIS
4 4 (0.42%) Apache Spark
5 3 (0.31%) Apache
5 3 (0.31%) Confluence
6 2 (0.21%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.21%) WordPress
7 1 (0.10%) BizTalk Server
7 1 (0.10%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.10%) Site Server
7 1 (0.10%) WebLogic
Applications
1 21 (2.19%) Microsoft Office
2 15 (1.56%) MS Visio
3 10 (1.04%) PlantUML
4 3 (0.31%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 9 (0.94%) FLEXCUBE
2 4 (0.42%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (0.42%) NetSuite
3 3 (0.31%) Oracle EBS
3 3 (0.31%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.21%) Sage 200
4 2 (0.21%) SAP ERP
5 1 (0.10%) Elite 3E
5 1 (0.10%) Markit EDM
5 1 (0.10%) Misys Equation
5 1 (0.10%) Misys Midas
5 1 (0.10%) Q-Pulse
5 1 (0.10%) SAP EHS
Cloud Services
1 493 (51.41%) Azure
2 301 (31.39%) Microsoft 365
3 178 (18.56%) Entra ID
4 145 (15.12%) AWS
5 63 (6.57%) SaaS
6 57 (5.94%) IaaS
7 56 (5.84%) Nutanix
8 49 (5.11%) Datadog
8 49 (5.11%) PaaS
9 40 (4.17%) Azure DevOps
10 34 (3.55%) Azure Monitor
11 33 (3.44%) GitHub
11 33 (3.44%) Power Platform
12 31 (3.23%) GCP
13 30 (3.13%) Microsoft Purview
14 28 (2.92%) Cloud Computing
15 24 (2.50%) GitHub Actions
16 23 (2.40%) OneDrive
17 21 (2.19%) Azure AKS
18 20 (2.09%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 304 (31.70%) Firewall
2 212 (22.11%) DNS
3 192 (20.02%) VPN
4 163 (17.00%) DHCP
5 138 (14.39%) WAN
6 105 (10.95%) VLAN
7 99 (10.32%) LAN
8 83 (8.65%) Network Security
9 80 (8.34%) Wi-Fi
10 76 (7.92%) TCP/IP
11 65 (6.78%) SAN
12 43 (4.48%) Wireless
13 30 (3.13%) SD-WAN
14 26 (2.71%) Cisco ISE
14 26 (2.71%) SSL
15 24 (2.50%) Internet
15 24 (2.50%) VoIP
16 22 (2.29%) Remote Desktop
17 17 (1.77%) BGP
17 17 (1.77%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 84 (8.76%) SQL Server
2 31 (3.23%) Amazon RDS
3 23 (2.40%) Azure SQL Database
4 16 (1.67%) Power BI
5 12 (1.25%) PostgreSQL
6 10 (1.04%) MySQL
7 9 (0.94%) Data Lake
7 9 (0.94%) Delta Lake
8 8 (0.83%) Data Warehouse
8 8 (0.83%) Oracle Database
9 7 (0.73%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 5 (0.52%) Geospatial Data
10 5 (0.52%) GIS
10 5 (0.52%) MongoDB
10 5 (0.52%) NoSQL
10 5 (0.52%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 4 (0.42%) Amazon Aurora
11 4 (0.42%) Elasticsearch
11 4 (0.42%) SQL Server Analysis Services
12 3 (0.31%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 19 (1.98%) Chocolatey
2 18 (1.88%) Git
3 13 (1.36%) JIRA
4 6 (0.63%) GitLab
4 6 (0.63%) Jenkins
4 6 (0.63%) Visual Studio Code
5 4 (0.42%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 4 (0.42%) MLflow
6 3 (0.31%) LabVIEW
6 3 (0.31%) Selenium
7 2 (0.21%) Bitbucket
7 2 (0.21%) JUnit
7 2 (0.21%) Spock
7 2 (0.21%) TeamCity
7 2 (0.21%) Terragrunt
8 1 (0.10%) Artifactory
8 1 (0.10%) Claude Code
8 1 (0.10%) JMeter
8 1 (0.10%) LoadRunner
8 1 (0.10%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 351 (36.60%) Social Skills
2 172 (17.94%) Finance
3 141 (14.70%) Analytical Skills
4 66 (6.88%) Banking
5 50 (5.21%) Legal
6 44 (4.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 42 (4.38%) Law
8 36 (3.75%) Public Sector
9 34 (3.55%) Organisational Skills
10 26 (2.71%) Manufacturing
11 25 (2.61%) Retail
12 19 (1.98%) Documentation Skills
13 18 (1.88%) Influencing Skills
13 18 (1.88%) Telecoms
14 16 (1.67%) Back Office
15 10 (1.04%) Advertising
15 10 (1.04%) Financial Institution
16 9 (0.94%) Mandarin Language
17 7 (0.73%) French Language
17 7 (0.73%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 193 (20.13%) Senior
2 153 (15.95%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 137 (14.29%) IT Support
4 112 (11.68%) IT Engineer
5 90 (9.38%) Support Engineer
6 79 (8.24%) Cloud Engineer
7 73 (7.61%) IT Support Engineer
8 71 (7.40%) IT Manager
9 65 (6.78%) Lead
10 61 (6.36%) Analyst
11 60 (6.26%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
12 57 (5.94%) Architect
12 57 (5.94%) Azure Engineer
13 38 (3.96%) Platform Engineer
14 33 (3.44%) Administrator
15 31 (3.23%) Network Engineer
16 29 (3.02%) Security Manager
17 28 (2.92%) IT Analyst
17 28 (2.92%) Security Engineer
17 28 (2.92%) Senior Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (1.46%) SAML
2 11 (1.15%) Middleware
3 9 (0.94%) ARM Templates
3 9 (0.94%) OAuth
3 9 (0.94%) PySpark
4 8 (0.83%) Microsoft Graph
4 8 (0.83%) YAML
5 7 (0.73%) ADO
5 7 (0.73%) Kafka
5 7 (0.73%) REST
6 5 (0.52%) RESTful
7 4 (0.42%) .NET
7 4 (0.42%) FIX Protocol
7 4 (0.42%) Loki
7 4 (0.42%) web3js
8 3 (0.31%) JSON
8 3 (0.31%) Node.js
8 3 (0.31%) ODBC
8 3 (0.31%) Playwright
9 2 (0.21%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 94 (9.80%) Data Centre
2 71 (7.40%) Management Information System
3 63 (6.57%) Hybrid Cloud
4 55 (5.74%) Driving Licence
5 52 (5.42%) Replication
6 50 (5.21%) Cloud Native
7 45 (4.69%) Security Posture
8 40 (4.17%) Cyber Threat
9 38 (3.96%) Onboarding
10 35 (3.65%) Self-Motivation
11 32 (3.34%) PKI
12 31 (3.23%) Data Protection Act
12 31 (3.23%) Public Cloud
13 29 (3.02%) Enterprise Storage
14 27 (2.82%) NHS
15 23 (2.40%) CMDB
16 17 (1.77%) Virtual Team
17 16 (1.67%) Clustering
17 16 (1.67%) Legacy Systems
18 14 (1.46%) CCTV
Operating Systems
1 332 (34.62%) Windows
2 217 (22.63%) Windows Server
3 85 (8.86%) Linux
4 22 (2.29%) Mac OS
4 22 (2.29%) Windows Server 2019
5 21 (2.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 19 (1.98%) Windows 10
7 18 (1.88%) Windows Server 2016
8 14 (1.46%) Unix
9 13 (1.36%) Ubuntu
10 11 (1.15%) Apple iOS
11 10 (1.04%) VMS
12 9 (0.94%) AIX
12 9 (0.94%) CentOS
12 9 (0.94%) Oracle Linux
13 6 (0.63%) Solaris
14 3 (0.31%) Android
15 2 (0.21%) Amazon Linux
15 2 (0.21%) Debian
15 2 (0.21%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 343 (35.77%) Business Continuity
2 301 (31.39%) Cybersecurity
3 243 (25.34%) Problem-Solving
4 232 (24.19%) Continuous Improvement
5 199 (20.75%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 199 (20.75%) ITIL
6 151 (15.75%) High Availability
7 147 (15.33%) Incident Response
8 123 (12.83%) DevOps
9 115 (11.99%) Service Delivery
10 112 (11.68%) Infrastructure as Code
11 107 (11.16%) Cloud Security
12 105 (10.95%) Stakeholder Management
13 98 (10.22%) Data Protection
14 94 (9.80%) Migration
15 93 (9.70%) Change Management
16 89 (9.28%) Incident Management
17 88 (9.18%) CI/CD
17 88 (9.18%) Risk Management
17 88 (9.18%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 151 (15.75%) PowerShell
2 100 (10.43%) SQL
3 95 (9.91%) Python
4 42 (4.38%) Bash
5 14 (1.46%) Shell Script
6 12 (1.25%) Bicep
7 11 (1.15%) Java
8 9 (0.94%) JavaScript
8 9 (0.94%) Korn
9 8 (0.83%) Kusto Query Language
9 8 (0.83%) PL/SQL
10 7 (0.73%) T-SQL
10 7 (0.73%) TypeScript
11 6 (0.63%) Scala
12 5 (0.52%) C#
13 3 (0.31%) Go
14 2 (0.21%) RPG
14 2 (0.21%) Ruby
15 1 (0.10%) Perl
15 1 (0.10%) XAML
Qualifications
1 110 (11.47%) Degree
2 76 (7.92%) Cisco Certification
3 70 (7.30%) Microsoft Certification
4 62 (6.47%) Azure Certification
5 59 (6.15%) CCNP
6 49 (5.11%) Security Cleared
7 40 (4.17%) Computer Science Degree
8 39 (4.07%) CCNA
9 37 (3.86%) SC Cleared
10 28 (2.92%) Postgraduate
11 27 (2.82%) CISSP
11 27 (2.82%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 15 (1.56%) CEH
12 15 (1.56%) CISM
13 13 (1.36%) MCSE
14 12 (1.25%) AWS Certification
15 10 (1.04%) Master's Degree
15 10 (1.04%) VCAP
16 9 (0.94%) DBS Check
16 9 (0.94%) VCDX
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 144 (15.02%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 107 (11.16%) Cyber Essentials
3 102 (10.64%) GDPR
4 91 (9.49%) NIST
5 60 (6.26%) SLA
6 48 (5.01%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 47 (4.90%) PCI DSS
8 29 (3.02%) PMO
9 23 (2.40%) GRC
9 23 (2.40%) SOC 2
10 20 (2.09%) Data Quality
11 18 (1.88%) ISO 22301
12 12 (1.25%) COBIT
13 11 (1.15%) Actionable Recommendations
14 10 (1.04%) NCSC
15 6 (0.63%) QA
16 5 (0.52%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
16 5 (0.52%) SOC 1
17 4 (0.42%) DICOM
17 4 (0.42%) HL7
System Software
1 281 (29.30%) Active Directory
2 226 (23.57%) VMware Infrastructure
3 136 (14.18%) Hyper-V
4 40 (4.17%) vSphere
5 31 (3.23%) Docker
6 29 (3.02%) Virtual Machines
7 20 (2.09%) Firmware
8 19 (1.98%) Virtual Desktop
8 19 (1.98%) VMware ESXi
9 10 (1.04%) Oracle RAC
9 10 (1.04%) VMware NSX
10 9 (0.94%) vCloud
11 6 (0.63%) KVM
11 6 (0.63%) Virtual Servers
12 3 (0.31%) DFS Replication
12 3 (0.31%) EMC RecoverPoint
12 3 (0.31%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 3 (0.31%) VMware Server
13 2 (0.21%) VMware Workstation
14 1 (0.10%) Xen
Systems Management
1 135 (14.08%) Microsoft Intune
2 120 (12.51%) Terraform
3 66 (6.88%) Ansible
4 61 (6.36%) Kubernetes
5 28 (2.92%) SCCM
6 25 (2.61%) Single Sign-On
7 22 (2.29%) VxRail
8 21 (2.19%) FortiGate
9 10 (1.04%) Grafana
9 10 (1.04%) Prometheus
9 10 (1.04%) vCenter Server
10 9 (0.94%) Data Guard
10 9 (0.94%) Nagios
10 9 (0.94%) Packer
11 8 (0.83%) Dell DRAC
11 8 (0.83%) Jamf Pro
11 8 (0.83%) Oracle RMAN
12 7 (0.73%) EMC NetWorker
13 6 (0.63%) EMC VPLEX
13 6 (0.63%) WSUS
Vendors
1 482 (50.26%) Microsoft
2 295 (30.76%) VMware
3 134 (13.97%) Cisco
4 69 (7.19%) Veeam
5 54 (5.63%) Dell
6 52 (5.42%) Palo Alto
7 42 (4.38%) HP
8 34 (3.55%) Meraki
9 33 (3.44%) Commvault
9 33 (3.44%) Nimble Storage
9 33 (3.44%) Splunk
10 30 (3.13%) Tenable
11 27 (2.82%) EMC
12 26 (2.71%) Fortinet
12 26 (2.71%) Oracle
13 25 (2.61%) Sophos
14 24 (2.50%) Google
14 24 (2.50%) SolarWinds
15 23 (2.40%) Dynatrace
16 22 (2.29%) Zscaler