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

6 months to
19 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 194 255 207
Rank change year-on-year +61 -48 +97
Permanent jobs citing Disaster Recovery 983 572 1,420
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.05% 1.28% 1.30%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.44% 1.38% 1.59%
Number of salaries quoted 746 461 1,140
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 £88,638
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 68,493 41,477 89,117
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 72.95% 92.48% 81.80%
Number of salaries quoted 47,109 22,216 63,180
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,822 £29,750
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 £92,000
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 19 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 19 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 +43 879 £58,445 -6.49% 236
UK excluding London +53 577 £48,625 -11.59% 210
London +43 347 £75,000 +3.45% 73
Work from Home +79 289 £60,000 +6.67% 102
North of England +75 213 £47,500 -13.64% 36
South East +17 136 £50,000 -9.09% 76
Yorkshire +37 109 £47,500 -24.00% 15
Midlands +40 102 £55,000 +4.76% 43
North West +47 87 £50,000 -9.09% 18
West Midlands +44 78 £55,000 -4.35% 25
East of England -6 43 £45,000 -15.09% 10
South West -85 33 £42,500 -22.73% 31
Scotland +26 26 £39,400 -28.36% 9
East Midlands -22 23 £56,250 +40.63% 18
North East -43 17 £42,500 -15.00% 3
Wales -32 15 £43,000 -14.00% 6
Northern Ireland -24 7 - - 4
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
1 111 (11.29%) Microsoft Exchange
2 105 (10.68%) SharePoint
3 15 (1.53%) IIS
4 5 (0.51%) Apache Spark
5 4 (0.41%) Apache
6 3 (0.31%) Confluence
6 3 (0.31%) WordPress
7 2 (0.20%) Apache Airflow
8 1 (0.10%) BizTalk Server
8 1 (0.10%) OpenStack
8 1 (0.10%) Site Server
8 1 (0.10%) WebLogic
Applications
1 21 (2.14%) Microsoft Office
2 15 (1.53%) MS Visio
3 10 (1.02%) PlantUML
4 4 (0.41%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 10 (1.02%) FLEXCUBE
2 4 (0.41%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (0.41%) NetSuite
3 3 (0.31%) Oracle EBS
3 3 (0.31%) Sage 200
3 3 (0.31%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.20%) Q-Pulse
4 2 (0.20%) SAP ERP
5 1 (0.10%) Elite 3E
5 1 (0.10%) JDE EnterpriseOne
5 1 (0.10%) Markit EDM
5 1 (0.10%) Misys Equation
5 1 (0.10%) Misys Midas
5 1 (0.10%) SAP EHS
Cloud Services
1 502 (51.07%) Azure
2 307 (31.23%) Microsoft 365
3 180 (18.31%) Entra ID
4 147 (14.95%) AWS
5 63 (6.41%) SaaS
6 57 (5.80%) IaaS
7 55 (5.60%) Nutanix
8 49 (4.98%) PaaS
9 48 (4.88%) Datadog
10 41 (4.17%) Azure DevOps
11 37 (3.76%) Power Platform
12 33 (3.36%) Azure Monitor
12 33 (3.36%) GitHub
13 31 (3.15%) GCP
14 30 (3.05%) Microsoft Purview
15 28 (2.85%) Cloud Computing
16 25 (2.54%) GitHub Actions
17 23 (2.34%) OneDrive
18 21 (2.14%) Azure AKS
19 20 (2.03%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 306 (31.13%) Firewall
2 214 (21.77%) DNS
3 194 (19.74%) VPN
4 165 (16.79%) DHCP
5 139 (14.14%) WAN
6 105 (10.68%) VLAN
7 101 (10.27%) LAN
8 84 (8.55%) Network Security
9 79 (8.04%) TCP/IP
9 79 (8.04%) Wi-Fi
10 62 (6.31%) SAN
11 43 (4.37%) Wireless
12 29 (2.95%) SD-WAN
13 27 (2.75%) SSL
14 26 (2.64%) Cisco ISE
15 24 (2.44%) Internet
15 24 (2.44%) VoIP
16 22 (2.24%) Remote Desktop
17 17 (1.73%) BGP
17 17 (1.73%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 85 (8.65%) SQL Server
2 32 (3.26%) Amazon RDS
3 24 (2.44%) Azure SQL Database
4 20 (2.03%) Power BI
5 14 (1.42%) PostgreSQL
6 11 (1.12%) MySQL
7 10 (1.02%) Data Warehouse
8 9 (0.92%) Data Lake
8 9 (0.92%) Oracle Database
9 8 (0.81%) Delta Lake
9 8 (0.81%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 5 (0.51%) Geospatial Data
10 5 (0.51%) GIS
10 5 (0.51%) MongoDB
10 5 (0.51%) NoSQL
10 5 (0.51%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 5 (0.51%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 4 (0.41%) Amazon Aurora
11 4 (0.41%) Elasticsearch
12 3 (0.31%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 18 (1.83%) Chocolatey
1 18 (1.83%) Git
2 14 (1.42%) JIRA
3 6 (0.61%) GitLab
3 6 (0.61%) Jenkins
3 6 (0.61%) Visual Studio Code
4 4 (0.41%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 4 (0.41%) MLflow
5 3 (0.31%) Selenium
6 2 (0.20%) Bitbucket
6 2 (0.20%) JUnit
6 2 (0.20%) LabVIEW
6 2 (0.20%) Spock
6 2 (0.20%) TeamCity
6 2 (0.20%) Terragrunt
7 1 (0.10%) Artifactory
7 1 (0.10%) Claude Code
7 1 (0.10%) JMeter
7 1 (0.10%) LoadRunner
7 1 (0.10%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 359 (36.52%) Social Skills
2 176 (17.90%) Finance
3 141 (14.34%) Analytical Skills
4 67 (6.82%) Banking
5 56 (5.70%) Legal
6 45 (4.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 44 (4.48%) Law
8 36 (3.66%) Public Sector
9 34 (3.46%) Organisational Skills
10 31 (3.15%) Manufacturing
11 26 (2.64%) Retail
12 21 (2.14%) Documentation Skills
13 19 (1.93%) Influencing Skills
14 18 (1.83%) Telecoms
15 17 (1.73%) Back Office
16 10 (1.02%) Advertising
16 10 (1.02%) Financial Institution
17 9 (0.92%) Mandarin Language
18 7 (0.71%) French Language
18 7 (0.71%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 196 (19.94%) Senior
2 157 (15.97%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 140 (14.24%) IT Support
4 113 (11.50%) IT Engineer
5 91 (9.26%) Support Engineer
6 79 (8.04%) Cloud Engineer
7 76 (7.73%) IT Manager
8 73 (7.43%) IT Support Engineer
9 66 (6.71%) Lead
10 61 (6.21%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
11 60 (6.10%) Analyst
12 57 (5.80%) Architect
13 56 (5.70%) Azure Engineer
14 38 (3.87%) Platform Engineer
15 34 (3.46%) Administrator
16 32 (3.26%) Network Engineer
17 31 (3.15%) Security Manager
18 30 (3.05%) IT Analyst
18 30 (3.05%) Security Engineer
19 28 (2.85%) Senior Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (1.42%) SAML
2 13 (1.32%) Middleware
3 10 (1.02%) ARM Templates
4 9 (0.92%) OAuth
5 8 (0.81%) Microsoft Graph
5 8 (0.81%) PySpark
5 8 (0.81%) YAML
6 7 (0.71%) ADO
6 7 (0.71%) Kafka
6 7 (0.71%) REST
7 5 (0.51%) RESTful
8 4 (0.41%) .NET
8 4 (0.41%) FIX Protocol
8 4 (0.41%) Loki
8 4 (0.41%) web3js
9 3 (0.31%) JSON
9 3 (0.31%) Node.js
9 3 (0.31%) Nuxt
9 3 (0.31%) ODBC
9 3 (0.31%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 94 (9.56%) Data Centre
2 72 (7.32%) Management Information System
3 63 (6.41%) Hybrid Cloud
4 57 (5.80%) Driving Licence
5 53 (5.39%) Cloud Native
5 53 (5.39%) Replication
6 47 (4.78%) Security Posture
7 41 (4.17%) Cyber Threat
8 38 (3.87%) Onboarding
9 37 (3.76%) Self-Motivation
10 33 (3.36%) PKI
11 32 (3.26%) Data Protection Act
12 31 (3.15%) Public Cloud
13 30 (3.05%) Enterprise Storage
14 27 (2.75%) NHS
15 23 (2.34%) CMDB
16 17 (1.73%) Clustering
16 17 (1.73%) Virtual Team
17 16 (1.63%) Legacy Systems
18 14 (1.42%) CCTV
Operating Systems
1 339 (34.49%) Windows
2 223 (22.69%) Windows Server
3 90 (9.16%) Linux
4 23 (2.34%) Windows Server 2019
5 22 (2.24%) Mac OS
5 22 (2.24%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 19 (1.93%) Windows 10
7 18 (1.83%) Windows Server 2016
8 15 (1.53%) Unix
9 13 (1.32%) Ubuntu
10 11 (1.12%) Apple iOS
11 10 (1.02%) AIX
11 10 (1.02%) Oracle Linux
11 10 (1.02%) VMS
12 9 (0.92%) CentOS
13 6 (0.61%) Solaris
14 3 (0.31%) Android
15 2 (0.20%) Amazon Linux
15 2 (0.20%) Debian
15 2 (0.20%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 358 (36.42%) Business Continuity
2 319 (32.45%) Cybersecurity
3 252 (25.64%) Problem-Solving
4 243 (24.72%) Continuous Improvement
5 204 (20.75%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 199 (20.24%) ITIL
7 156 (15.87%) Incident Response
8 155 (15.77%) High Availability
9 127 (12.92%) DevOps
10 119 (12.11%) Service Delivery
11 115 (11.70%) Infrastructure as Code
12 113 (11.50%) Cloud Security
13 106 (10.78%) Stakeholder Management
14 100 (10.17%) Data Protection
15 93 (9.46%) Change Management
15 93 (9.46%) CI/CD
16 92 (9.36%) Migration
16 92 (9.36%) Risk Management
17 88 (8.95%) Mentoring
17 88 (8.95%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 155 (15.77%) PowerShell
2 105 (10.68%) SQL
3 98 (9.97%) Python
4 44 (4.48%) Bash
5 15 (1.53%) Shell Script
6 13 (1.32%) Bicep
7 11 (1.12%) Java
8 10 (1.02%) Korn
9 9 (0.92%) JavaScript
9 9 (0.92%) Kusto Query Language
9 9 (0.92%) PL/SQL
10 7 (0.71%) T-SQL
10 7 (0.71%) TypeScript
11 5 (0.51%) C#
11 5 (0.51%) Scala
12 3 (0.31%) Go
12 3 (0.31%) Ruby
13 2 (0.20%) RPG
13 2 (0.20%) Search Processing Language
14 1 (0.10%) Perl
Qualifications
1 114 (11.60%) Degree
2 77 (7.83%) Cisco Certification
3 68 (6.92%) Microsoft Certification
4 60 (6.10%) Azure Certification
4 60 (6.10%) CCNP
5 49 (4.98%) Security Cleared
6 39 (3.97%) CCNA
6 39 (3.97%) Computer Science Degree
7 36 (3.66%) SC Cleared
8 33 (3.36%) CISSP
9 28 (2.85%) Postgraduate
10 27 (2.75%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 20 (2.03%) CISM
12 16 (1.63%) CEH
13 13 (1.32%) MCSE
14 11 (1.12%) AWS Certification
14 11 (1.12%) CISA
15 10 (1.02%) CompTIA Security+
15 10 (1.02%) VCAP
16 9 (0.92%) CRISC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 151 (15.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 111 (11.29%) Cyber Essentials
3 108 (10.99%) GDPR
4 94 (9.56%) NIST
5 60 (6.10%) SLA
6 49 (4.98%) PCI DSS
7 48 (4.88%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 29 (2.95%) PMO
9 24 (2.44%) SOC 2
10 23 (2.34%) GRC
11 22 (2.24%) Data Quality
12 19 (1.93%) ISO 22301
13 13 (1.32%) COBIT
14 11 (1.12%) Actionable Recommendations
15 10 (1.02%) NCSC
16 6 (0.61%) QA
16 6 (0.61%) SOC 1
17 5 (0.51%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
18 4 (0.41%) HIPAA
18 4 (0.41%) HL7
System Software
1 282 (28.69%) Active Directory
2 230 (23.40%) VMware Infrastructure
3 141 (14.34%) Hyper-V
4 39 (3.97%) vSphere
5 33 (3.36%) Docker
6 29 (2.95%) Virtual Machines
7 20 (2.03%) Firmware
8 19 (1.93%) Virtual Desktop
8 19 (1.93%) VMware ESXi
9 11 (1.12%) Oracle RAC
10 10 (1.02%) VMware NSX
11 9 (0.92%) vCloud
12 6 (0.61%) KVM
12 6 (0.61%) Virtual Servers
13 3 (0.31%) DFS Replication
13 3 (0.31%) EMC RecoverPoint
13 3 (0.31%) Microsoft Virtual Server
13 3 (0.31%) VMware Server
14 2 (0.20%) VMware Workstation
15 1 (0.10%) Xen
Systems Management
1 137 (13.94%) Microsoft Intune
2 123 (12.51%) Terraform
3 69 (7.02%) Ansible
4 64 (6.51%) Kubernetes
5 27 (2.75%) SCCM
6 25 (2.54%) Single Sign-On
7 22 (2.24%) FortiGate
8 21 (2.14%) VxRail
9 11 (1.12%) Grafana
9 11 (1.12%) Prometheus
10 10 (1.02%) Data Guard
10 10 (1.02%) Nagios
10 10 (1.02%) vCenter Server
11 9 (0.92%) Oracle RMAN
11 9 (0.92%) Packer
12 8 (0.81%) Dell DRAC
12 8 (0.81%) Jamf Pro
13 7 (0.71%) EMC NetWorker
14 6 (0.61%) EMC VPLEX
14 6 (0.61%) WSUS
Vendors
1 491 (49.95%) Microsoft
2 296 (30.11%) VMware
3 137 (13.94%) Cisco
4 69 (7.02%) Veeam
5 54 (5.49%) Dell
6 52 (5.29%) Palo Alto
7 43 (4.37%) HP
8 35 (3.56%) Splunk
9 34 (3.46%) Meraki
10 33 (3.36%) Commvault
10 33 (3.36%) Nimble Storage
11 29 (2.95%) Tenable
12 27 (2.75%) Oracle
13 26 (2.64%) Fortinet
14 25 (2.54%) EMC
14 25 (2.54%) SolarWinds
14 25 (2.54%) Sophos
15 24 (2.44%) Google
16 23 (2.34%) IBM
17 22 (2.24%) Dynatrace