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

6 months to
15 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 175 244 207
Rank change year-on-year +69 -37 +77
Permanent jobs citing Disaster Recovery 1,131 629 1,364
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.14% 1.28% 1.35%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.55% 1.42% 1.64%
Number of salaries quoted 824 501 1,098
10th Percentile £33,450 £35,750 £33,000
25th Percentile £42,250 £46,000 £42,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £62,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +13.64% -5.98%
75th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £92,500 £92,500 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +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 72,817 44,332 83,106
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.70% 90.20% 82.17%
Number of salaries quoted 50,259 24,803 58,175
10th Percentile £30,250 £28,750 £29,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -8.84%
75th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £98,750 £92,500
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 15 July 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 15 July 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 +58 974 £57,500 -8.00% 329
UK excluding London +57 699 £50,000 -9.09% 301
London +43 364 £75,000 - 101
Work from Home +81 357 £60,000 +4.35% 193
North of England +66 228 £47,500 -13.64% 66
South East +42 179 £50,000 -3.85% 86
Midlands +21 109 £55,000 - 56
Yorkshire +44 107 £50,000 -20.00% 24
North West +40 106 £48,750 -9.30% 34
West Midlands +22 82 £55,000 -4.35% 32
East of England -1 49 £45,000 -14.69% 23
Northern Ireland -15 48 - - 15
South West -94 38 £44,000 -20.00% 25
Scotland +35 31 £44,150 -19.73% 20
East Midlands -21 26 £55,000 +18.92% 24
Wales -41 15 £43,000 -25.22% 19
North East -63 15 £42,500 -12.82% 8
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
1 119 (10.52%) Microsoft Exchange
2 113 (9.99%) SharePoint
3 19 (1.68%) IIS
4 10 (0.88%) Apache
5 9 (0.80%) Apache Spark
6 3 (0.27%) Confluence
6 3 (0.27%) nginx
6 3 (0.27%) WordPress
7 2 (0.18%) Apache Airflow
7 2 (0.18%) OpenStack
8 1 (0.088%) Site Server
8 1 (0.088%) WebLogic
Applications
1 19 (1.68%) Microsoft Office
2 15 (1.33%) MS Visio
3 14 (1.24%) PlantUML
4 6 (0.53%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 13 (1.15%) FLEXCUBE
2 6 (0.53%) Raiser’s Edge
3 5 (0.44%) JDE EnterpriseOne
4 4 (0.35%) NetSuite
4 4 (0.35%) Sage 200
5 3 (0.27%) Dynamics CRM
5 3 (0.27%) Q-Pulse
5 3 (0.27%) SAP S/4HANA
6 2 (0.18%) Adobe Campaign
6 2 (0.18%) Oracle EBS
7 1 (0.088%) Elite 3E
7 1 (0.088%) Misys Equation
7 1 (0.088%) Misys Midas
7 1 (0.088%) SAP EHS
7 1 (0.088%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 582 (51.46%) Azure
2 335 (29.62%) Microsoft 365
3 209 (18.48%) AWS
4 194 (17.15%) Entra ID
5 114 (10.08%) SaaS
6 65 (5.75%) IaaS
7 57 (5.04%) PaaS
8 46 (4.07%) Nutanix
9 45 (3.98%) Power Platform
10 40 (3.54%) Datadog
11 36 (3.18%) Azure DevOps
12 32 (2.83%) GCP
13 29 (2.56%) Cloud Computing
14 28 (2.48%) Microsoft Purview
15 26 (2.30%) GitHub
16 24 (2.12%) Azure Monitor
17 23 (2.03%) GitHub Actions
17 23 (2.03%) Mimecast
18 19 (1.68%) Amazon EC2
18 19 (1.68%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 347 (30.68%) Firewall
2 238 (21.04%) DNS
3 213 (18.83%) VPN
4 180 (15.92%) DHCP
5 154 (13.62%) WAN
6 130 (11.49%) VLAN
7 122 (10.79%) LAN
8 98 (8.66%) Wi-Fi
9 93 (8.22%) Network Security
10 91 (8.05%) TCP/IP
11 58 (5.13%) SAN
12 55 (4.86%) Wireless
13 39 (3.45%) Internet
14 29 (2.56%) SD-WAN
15 28 (2.48%) Cisco ISE
16 27 (2.39%) SSL
17 26 (2.30%) VoIP
18 19 (1.68%) Cisco Nexus
19 18 (1.59%) BGP
20 16 (1.41%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 89 (7.87%) SQL Server
2 34 (3.01%) Amazon RDS
3 28 (2.48%) Azure SQL Database
4 27 (2.39%) Power BI
5 12 (1.06%) Data Warehouse
5 12 (1.06%) Oracle Database
5 12 (1.06%) PostgreSQL
6 11 (0.97%) MySQL
7 8 (0.71%) Data Lake
7 8 (0.71%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 7 (0.62%) Metadata
9 5 (0.44%) Geospatial Data
9 5 (0.44%) GIS
9 5 (0.44%) NoSQL
9 5 (0.44%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 4 (0.35%) Delta Lake
10 4 (0.35%) Elasticsearch
10 4 (0.35%) MongoDB
10 4 (0.35%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 3 (0.27%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 19 (1.68%) JIRA
2 16 (1.41%) Chocolatey
3 14 (1.24%) Git
4 10 (0.88%) GitLab
5 6 (0.53%) Visual Studio Code
6 5 (0.44%) JUnit
6 5 (0.44%) Spock
7 4 (0.35%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 4 (0.35%) Jenkins
7 4 (0.35%) MLflow
8 2 (0.18%) Bitbucket
8 2 (0.18%) Selenium
8 2 (0.18%) Terragrunt
8 2 (0.18%) Yeoman
9 1 (0.088%) Claude Code
9 1 (0.088%) IntelliJ
9 1 (0.088%) Maven
9 1 (0.088%) TeamCity
General
1 392 (34.66%) Social Skills
2 194 (17.15%) Finance
3 143 (12.64%) Analytical Skills
4 72 (6.37%) Law
5 71 (6.28%) Banking
6 66 (5.84%) Legal
7 47 (4.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 41 (3.63%) Manufacturing
9 39 (3.45%) Organisational Skills
10 37 (3.27%) Public Sector
11 32 (2.83%) Documentation Skills
12 29 (2.56%) Retail
13 28 (2.48%) Influencing Skills
14 22 (1.95%) Telecoms
15 21 (1.86%) Back Office
16 12 (1.06%) Financial Institution
17 11 (0.97%) Mandarin Language
18 8 (0.71%) Advertising
19 7 (0.62%) Aerospace
19 7 (0.62%) French Language
Job Titles
1 223 (19.72%) Senior
2 167 (14.77%) IT Support
3 158 (13.97%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 136 (12.02%) IT Engineer
5 133 (11.76%) IT Manager
6 106 (9.37%) Support Engineer
7 86 (7.60%) IT Support Engineer
8 76 (6.72%) Lead
9 74 (6.54%) Architect
10 68 (6.01%) Cloud Engineer
11 62 (5.48%) Analyst
12 60 (5.31%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
12 60 (5.31%) Service Manager
13 56 (4.95%) IT Services Manager
14 52 (4.60%) Resilience Manager
15 51 (4.51%) Azure Engineer
16 43 (3.80%) Network Engineer
17 36 (3.18%) IT Analyst
18 35 (3.09%) Administrator
18 35 (3.09%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 59 (5.22%) Middleware
2 14 (1.24%) ARM Templates
3 11 (0.97%) SAML
4 8 (0.71%) Microsoft Graph
5 7 (0.62%) Kafka
6 6 (0.53%) FIX Protocol
6 6 (0.53%) REST
7 5 (0.44%) AngularJS
7 5 (0.44%) OAuth
7 5 (0.44%) RESTful
7 5 (0.44%) Spring
8 4 (0.35%) PySpark
8 4 (0.35%) Web Services
8 4 (0.35%) web3js
8 4 (0.35%) YAML
9 3 (0.27%) .NET
9 3 (0.27%) ADO
9 3 (0.27%) JSON
9 3 (0.27%) ODBC
9 3 (0.27%) Ruby on Rails
Miscellaneous
1 104 (9.20%) Data Centre
2 88 (7.78%) Cyber Threat
3 76 (6.72%) Management Information System
4 68 (6.01%) Cloud Native
5 66 (5.84%) Driving Licence
6 63 (5.57%) Hybrid Cloud
7 56 (4.95%) Security Posture
8 53 (4.69%) Self-Motivation
9 50 (4.42%) Replication
10 40 (3.54%) Onboarding
11 36 (3.18%) PKI
12 35 (3.09%) Data Protection Act
13 30 (2.65%) Enterprise Storage
14 28 (2.48%) NHS
15 25 (2.21%) Public Cloud
16 23 (2.03%) CMDB
17 22 (1.95%) CCTV
17 22 (1.95%) Enterprise Software
18 20 (1.77%) Legacy Systems
18 20 (1.77%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 372 (32.89%) Windows
2 251 (22.19%) Windows Server
3 104 (9.20%) Linux
4 28 (2.48%) Windows Server 2019
5 24 (2.12%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 22 (1.95%) Windows Server 2016
7 21 (1.86%) Mac OS
8 19 (1.68%) Unix
9 18 (1.59%) Windows 10
10 14 (1.24%) Ubuntu
11 13 (1.15%) AIX
11 13 (1.15%) Oracle Linux
12 10 (0.88%) CentOS
13 8 (0.71%) Solaris
13 8 (0.71%) VMS
14 5 (0.44%) Apple iOS
15 4 (0.35%) Windows Server 2012
16 2 (0.18%) Amazon Linux
16 2 (0.18%) Debian
16 2 (0.18%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 454 (40.14%) Business Continuity
2 357 (31.56%) Cybersecurity
3 294 (25.99%) Problem-Solving
4 291 (25.73%) Continuous Improvement
5 251 (22.19%) ITIL
6 215 (19.01%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 183 (16.18%) DevOps
8 173 (15.30%) Incident Response
9 172 (15.21%) High Availability
10 140 (12.38%) Information Security
11 137 (12.11%) Stakeholder Management
12 134 (11.85%) Service Delivery
13 133 (11.76%) Infrastructure as Code
14 119 (10.52%) Agile
15 115 (10.17%) Data Protection
16 114 (10.08%) Cloud Security
17 109 (9.64%) Project Delivery
18 107 (9.46%) CI/CD
18 107 (9.46%) Risk Management
19 106 (9.37%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 164 (14.50%) PowerShell
2 111 (9.81%) Python
2 111 (9.81%) SQL
3 45 (3.98%) Bash
4 22 (1.95%) Bicep
5 18 (1.59%) Shell Script
6 13 (1.15%) Java
7 12 (1.06%) JavaScript
7 12 (1.06%) Korn
7 12 (1.06%) PL/SQL
8 9 (0.80%) TypeScript
9 7 (0.62%) Kusto Query Language
10 6 (0.53%) T-SQL
11 4 (0.35%) C#
11 4 (0.35%) Go
11 4 (0.35%) Search Processing Language
12 3 (0.27%) Ruby
13 2 (0.18%) COBOL
13 2 (0.18%) Scala
13 2 (0.18%) XAML
Qualifications
1 122 (10.79%) Degree
2 89 (7.87%) Cisco Certification
3 86 (7.60%) CISSP
4 76 (6.72%) Microsoft Certification
5 73 (6.45%) Azure Certification
6 72 (6.37%) CISM
7 67 (5.92%) CCNP
8 58 (5.13%) Security Cleared
9 50 (4.42%) CCNA
10 44 (3.89%) ITIL Certification
11 42 (3.71%) SC Cleared
12 38 (3.36%) Computer Science Degree
13 30 (2.65%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
14 28 (2.48%) Postgraduate
15 19 (1.68%) AWS Certification
16 16 (1.41%) CEH
17 15 (1.33%) CISA
18 14 (1.24%) Master's Degree
19 13 (1.15%) CRISC
19 13 (1.15%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 158 (13.97%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 148 (13.09%) NIST
3 122 (10.79%) GDPR
4 117 (10.34%) Cyber Essentials
5 70 (6.19%) ISO 22301
6 59 (5.22%) SLA
7 54 (4.77%) PCI DSS
8 48 (4.24%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 29 (2.56%) PMO
10 28 (2.48%) GRC
11 27 (2.39%) SOC 2
12 24 (2.12%) Data Quality
13 16 (1.41%) COBIT
14 11 (0.97%) NCSC
15 10 (0.88%) Actionable Recommendations
16 8 (0.71%) SOC 1
17 5 (0.44%) HL7
17 5 (0.44%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
17 5 (0.44%) QA
18 4 (0.35%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 302 (26.70%) Active Directory
2 258 (22.81%) VMware Infrastructure
3 170 (15.03%) Hyper-V
4 44 (3.89%) vSphere
5 41 (3.63%) Docker
6 31 (2.74%) Virtual Machines
7 25 (2.21%) VMware ESXi
8 22 (1.95%) Virtual Desktop
9 20 (1.77%) Firmware
10 14 (1.24%) Oracle RAC
11 10 (0.88%) VMware NSX
12 9 (0.80%) vCloud
13 7 (0.62%) KVM
14 4 (0.35%) EMC RecoverPoint
14 4 (0.35%) Virtual Servers
15 3 (0.27%) DFS Replication
15 3 (0.27%) Squid
15 3 (0.27%) VMware Server
16 2 (0.18%) Microsoft Virtual Server
16 2 (0.18%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 141 (12.47%) Microsoft Intune
2 138 (12.20%) Terraform
3 75 (6.63%) Kubernetes
4 73 (6.45%) Ansible
5 29 (2.56%) Single Sign-On
6 26 (2.30%) FortiGate
6 26 (2.30%) SCCM
7 20 (1.77%) VxRail
8 13 (1.15%) Data Guard
8 13 (1.15%) Nagios
9 12 (1.06%) Oracle RMAN
9 12 (1.06%) vCenter Server
10 9 (0.80%) Dell DRAC
10 9 (0.80%) Grafana
10 9 (0.80%) Jamf Pro
10 9 (0.80%) Prometheus
11 8 (0.71%) Packer
12 7 (0.62%) EMC NetWorker
13 6 (0.53%) EMC VPLEX
13 6 (0.53%) WSUS
Vendors
1 551 (48.72%) Microsoft
2 315 (27.85%) VMware
3 167 (14.77%) Cisco
4 74 (6.54%) Veeam
5 61 (5.39%) Palo Alto
6 47 (4.16%) Dell
7 41 (3.63%) Splunk
8 38 (3.36%) HP
8 38 (3.36%) Meraki
9 37 (3.27%) Oracle
10 34 (3.01%) Fortinet
11 30 (2.65%) Commvault
11 30 (2.65%) Sophos
12 28 (2.48%) Aruba
12 28 (2.48%) SolarWinds
13 27 (2.39%) Nimble Storage
13 27 (2.39%) Tenable
14 25 (2.21%) IBM
15 24 (2.12%) Google
16 23 (2.03%) EMC