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

6 months to
27 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 218 254 212
Rank change year-on-year +36 -42 +100
Permanent jobs citing Disaster Recovery 879 552 1,323
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.95% 1.30% 1.33%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.28% 1.39% 1.59%
Number of salaries quoted 667 434 1,138
10th Percentile £33,000 £37,500 £33,000
25th Percentile £42,375 £46,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £63,750 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% +15.91% -4.35%
75th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £69,688
90th Percentile £93,750 £90,875 £88,825
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 68,715 39,643 83,325
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.91% 93.27% 84.01%
Number of salaries quoted 44,731 20,766 60,219
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,750 £29,250
25th Percentile £40,839 £41,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £58,375 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.78% +6.14% -9.84%
75th Percentile £78,750 £78,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,410 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £51,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +1.94% +3.00% -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 27 May 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 27 May 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 +26 771 £60,000 -7.69% 296
UK excluding London +40 492 £50,000 -9.09% 224
London +41 324 £77,500 +3.33% 105
Work from Home +98 274 £62,500 +4.17% 118
North of England +61 184 £47,500 -17.39% 55
South East +5 101 £55,000 -8.33% 71
Yorkshire +28 97 £47,500 -24.00% 26
Midlands +19 88 £52,500 +14.13% 43
West Midlands +18 71 £52,500 +5.00% 30
North West +19 69 £50,000 -9.09% 25
East of England -23 34 £62,500 +17.92% 16
South West -93 29 £37,500 -31.82% 27
Scotland +14 27 £38,000 -30.91% 6
North East -35 18 £43,500 -15.12% 4
East Midlands -36 16 £55,000 +37.50% 13
Wales -24 15 £43,000 -14.00% 8
Northern Ireland -28 10 - - 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
1 108 (12.29%) Microsoft Exchange
2 95 (10.81%) SharePoint
3 11 (1.25%) IIS
4 4 (0.46%) Apache Spark
4 4 (0.46%) Confluence
5 3 (0.34%) Apache
6 2 (0.23%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.23%) BizTalk Server
7 1 (0.11%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.11%) Tomcat
Applications
1 25 (2.84%) Microsoft Office
2 15 (1.71%) MS Visio
3 6 (0.68%) PlantUML
4 4 (0.46%) Microsoft Excel
5 1 (0.11%) Weka
Business Applications
1 6 (0.68%) Dynamics CRM
1 6 (0.68%) FLEXCUBE
2 4 (0.46%) Markit EDM
2 4 (0.46%) NetSuite
2 4 (0.46%) Oracle EBS
3 3 (0.34%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.23%) SAP ERP
5 1 (0.11%) Elite 3E
5 1 (0.11%) Misys Equation
5 1 (0.11%) Misys Midas
5 1 (0.11%) Oracle 11i
5 1 (0.11%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.11%) Sage 200
5 1 (0.11%) SAP EHS
5 1 (0.11%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 478 (54.38%) Azure
2 264 (30.03%) Microsoft 365
3 160 (18.20%) Entra ID
4 137 (15.59%) AWS
5 64 (7.28%) Nutanix
6 62 (7.05%) SaaS
7 53 (6.03%) IaaS
8 51 (5.80%) Datadog
9 45 (5.12%) Azure DevOps
9 45 (5.12%) PaaS
10 39 (4.44%) Azure Monitor
11 37 (4.21%) GitHub
12 31 (3.53%) Microsoft Purview
13 30 (3.41%) OneDrive
13 30 (3.41%) Power Platform
14 29 (3.30%) GCP
15 26 (2.96%) GitHub Actions
16 22 (2.50%) Amazon EC2
16 22 (2.50%) Azure AKS
17 18 (2.05%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 265 (30.15%) Firewall
2 190 (21.62%) DNS
3 176 (20.02%) VPN
4 142 (16.15%) DHCP
5 124 (14.11%) WAN
6 88 (10.01%) VLAN
7 77 (8.76%) LAN
8 68 (7.74%) Network Security
8 68 (7.74%) SAN
9 66 (7.51%) Wi-Fi
10 64 (7.28%) TCP/IP
11 40 (4.55%) Wireless
12 30 (3.41%) SD-WAN
13 27 (3.07%) Remote Desktop
14 24 (2.73%) Cisco ISE
15 21 (2.39%) SSL
16 20 (2.28%) VoIP
17 19 (2.16%) NAS
18 15 (1.71%) BGP
19 14 (1.59%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 81 (9.22%) SQL Server
2 34 (3.87%) Amazon RDS
3 21 (2.39%) Azure SQL Database
4 13 (1.48%) Power BI
5 12 (1.37%) Data Lake
5 12 (1.37%) Delta Lake
6 9 (1.02%) Data Warehouse
6 9 (1.02%) MySQL
6 9 (1.02%) PostgreSQL
7 8 (0.91%) Oracle Database
8 7 (0.80%) Amazon Aurora
9 6 (0.68%) MongoDB
9 6 (0.68%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 5 (0.57%) Geospatial Data
10 5 (0.57%) GIS
10 5 (0.57%) NoSQL
10 5 (0.57%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 4 (0.46%) Elasticsearch
12 3 (0.34%) SAP HANA
12 3 (0.34%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 23 (2.62%) Git
2 21 (2.39%) Chocolatey
3 13 (1.48%) JIRA
4 8 (0.91%) Jenkins
5 6 (0.68%) Visual Studio Code
6 4 (0.46%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 4 (0.46%) LabVIEW
6 4 (0.46%) MLflow
6 4 (0.46%) Sonatype Nexus
7 3 (0.34%) Bitbucket
7 3 (0.34%) GitLab
7 3 (0.34%) TeamCity
8 2 (0.23%) Artifactory
8 2 (0.23%) Maven
8 2 (0.23%) Octopus Deploy
8 2 (0.23%) Selenium
8 2 (0.23%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 2 (0.23%) Terragrunt
9 1 (0.11%) JMeter
9 1 (0.11%) LoadRunner
General
1 322 (36.63%) Social Skills
2 168 (19.11%) Finance
3 146 (16.61%) Analytical Skills
4 63 (7.17%) Banking
5 44 (5.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 37 (4.21%) Legal
7 36 (4.10%) Law
7 36 (4.10%) Public Sector
8 28 (3.19%) Organisational Skills
9 26 (2.96%) Retail
10 21 (2.39%) Manufacturing
11 18 (2.05%) Telecoms
12 15 (1.71%) Documentation Skills
13 14 (1.59%) Influencing Skills
14 13 (1.48%) Back Office
15 12 (1.37%) Advertising
16 10 (1.14%) Financial Institution
17 8 (0.91%) Marketing
17 8 (0.91%) Presentation Skills
18 7 (0.80%) Mandarin Language
Job Titles
1 174 (19.80%) Senior
2 141 (16.04%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 100 (11.38%) IT Support
4 94 (10.69%) IT Engineer
5 90 (10.24%) Cloud Engineer
6 77 (8.76%) Support Engineer
7 64 (7.28%) IT Manager
8 61 (6.94%) Lead
9 60 (6.83%) Azure Engineer
10 58 (6.60%) IT Support Engineer
10 58 (6.60%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
11 50 (5.69%) Architect
12 45 (5.12%) Analyst
13 38 (4.32%) Platform Engineer
14 29 (3.30%) Administrator
15 28 (3.19%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
15 28 (3.19%) Security Engineer
16 27 (3.07%) Senior Cloud Engineer
17 26 (2.96%) Network Engineer
18 25 (2.84%) Security Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (1.82%) SAML
2 12 (1.37%) PySpark
3 11 (1.25%) OAuth
4 10 (1.14%) YAML
5 9 (1.02%) ADO
5 9 (1.02%) ARM Templates
5 9 (1.02%) Middleware
5 9 (1.02%) REST
6 8 (0.91%) Microsoft Graph
7 7 (0.80%) Kafka
7 7 (0.80%) Loki
8 5 (0.57%) .NET
8 5 (0.57%) RESTful
9 4 (0.46%) web3js
10 3 (0.34%) JSON
10 3 (0.34%) ODBC
11 2 (0.23%) ActiveMQ
11 2 (0.23%) FIX Protocol
11 2 (0.23%) LDAP
11 2 (0.23%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 85 (9.67%) Data Centre
2 67 (7.62%) Management Information System
3 63 (7.17%) Hybrid Cloud
4 48 (5.46%) Replication
5 45 (5.12%) Cloud Native
6 42 (4.78%) Driving Licence
7 40 (4.55%) Onboarding
8 38 (4.32%) Cyber Threat
9 37 (4.21%) Security Posture
10 36 (4.10%) Public Cloud
11 32 (3.64%) Data Protection Act
12 26 (2.96%) Enterprise Storage
12 26 (2.96%) PKI
13 25 (2.84%) CMDB
13 25 (2.84%) Self-Motivation
14 20 (2.28%) NHS
15 17 (1.93%) Legacy Systems
16 13 (1.48%) Clustering
17 12 (1.37%) iSeries
18 11 (1.25%) CCTV
Operating Systems
1 300 (34.13%) Windows
2 189 (21.50%) Windows Server
3 77 (8.76%) Linux
4 21 (2.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 20 (2.28%) Windows 10
6 17 (1.93%) Mac OS
6 17 (1.93%) Windows Server 2019
7 16 (1.82%) Apple iOS
7 16 (1.82%) Windows Server 2016
8 13 (1.48%) Ubuntu
9 12 (1.37%) VMS
10 9 (1.02%) CentOS
10 9 (1.02%) Unix
11 7 (0.80%) AIX
11 7 (0.80%) Oracle Linux
12 6 (0.68%) Android
13 5 (0.57%) Solaris
14 2 (0.23%) Amazon Linux
14 2 (0.23%) Debian
15 1 (0.11%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 315 (35.84%) Business Continuity
2 267 (30.38%) Cybersecurity
3 220 (25.03%) Problem-Solving
4 201 (22.87%) ITIL
5 199 (22.64%) Continuous Improvement
6 184 (20.93%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 142 (16.15%) High Availability
8 127 (14.45%) Incident Response
9 126 (14.33%) DevOps
10 115 (13.08%) Service Delivery
11 105 (11.95%) Infrastructure as Code
12 101 (11.49%) Cloud Security
13 93 (10.58%) Data Protection
14 90 (10.24%) Migration
15 89 (10.13%) Change Management
15 89 (10.13%) CI/CD
16 88 (10.01%) Stakeholder Management
17 85 (9.67%) Service Management
18 83 (9.44%) Mentoring
19 77 (8.76%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 144 (16.38%) PowerShell
2 100 (11.38%) Python
3 97 (11.04%) SQL
4 41 (4.66%) Bash
5 10 (1.14%) Bicep
5 10 (1.14%) Java
5 10 (1.14%) Shell Script
6 9 (1.02%) Kusto Query Language
6 9 (1.02%) Scala
6 9 (1.02%) T-SQL
7 7 (0.80%) JavaScript
7 7 (0.80%) Korn
8 6 (0.68%) PL/SQL
9 5 (0.57%) C#
10 4 (0.46%) TypeScript
11 3 (0.34%) Go
12 2 (0.23%) RPG
13 1 (0.11%) C
13 1 (0.11%) COBOL
13 1 (0.11%) Perl
Qualifications
1 108 (12.29%) Degree
2 66 (7.51%) Cisco Certification
3 65 (7.39%) Microsoft Certification
4 59 (6.71%) Azure Certification
5 52 (5.92%) CCNP
6 46 (5.23%) Computer Science Degree
6 46 (5.23%) Security Cleared
7 37 (4.21%) SC Cleared
8 32 (3.64%) CCNA
9 27 (3.07%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 23 (2.62%) CISSP
11 19 (2.16%) Postgraduate
12 18 (2.05%) CEH
13 14 (1.59%) MCSE
14 12 (1.37%) AWS Certification
15 10 (1.14%) CISM
15 10 (1.14%) VCAP
16 9 (1.02%) BPSS Clearance
16 9 (1.02%) Microsoft Certified Professional
16 9 (1.02%) VCDX
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 126 (14.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 92 (10.47%) Cyber Essentials
3 87 (9.90%) GDPR
4 83 (9.44%) NIST
5 62 (7.05%) SLA
6 44 (5.01%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 41 (4.66%) PCI DSS
8 28 (3.19%) PMO
9 23 (2.62%) GRC
10 22 (2.50%) SOC 2
11 21 (2.39%) Data Quality
12 17 (1.93%) ISO 22301
13 11 (1.25%) Actionable Recommendations
14 9 (1.02%) COBIT
15 7 (0.80%) QA
16 6 (0.68%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
17 4 (0.46%) HIPAA
17 4 (0.46%) HL7
17 4 (0.46%) NCSC
17 4 (0.46%) SOC 1
System Software
1 268 (30.49%) Active Directory
2 200 (22.75%) VMware Infrastructure
3 114 (12.97%) Hyper-V
4 39 (4.44%) vSphere
5 30 (3.41%) Docker
6 26 (2.96%) Virtual Machines
7 22 (2.50%) Firmware
8 17 (1.93%) Virtual Desktop
8 17 (1.93%) VMware ESXi
9 10 (1.14%) VMware NSX
10 9 (1.02%) vCloud
11 7 (0.80%) Oracle RAC
12 6 (0.68%) KVM
12 6 (0.68%) Virtual Servers
13 3 (0.34%) DFS Replication
13 3 (0.34%) EMC RecoverPoint
13 3 (0.34%) Microsoft Virtual Server
13 3 (0.34%) VMware Server
14 2 (0.23%) VMware Workstation
15 1 (0.11%) Xen
Systems Management
1 131 (14.90%) Microsoft Intune
2 112 (12.74%) Terraform
3 63 (7.17%) Kubernetes
4 59 (6.71%) Ansible
5 28 (3.19%) SCCM
6 23 (2.62%) Single Sign-On
7 22 (2.50%) VxRail
8 16 (1.82%) FortiGate
9 11 (1.25%) Grafana
9 11 (1.25%) Prometheus
10 9 (1.02%) Dell DRAC
11 8 (0.91%) Data Guard
11 8 (0.91%) Nagios
11 8 (0.91%) Packer
12 7 (0.80%) EMC NetWorker
12 7 (0.80%) vCenter Server
13 6 (0.68%) Avamar
13 6 (0.68%) EMC VPLEX
13 6 (0.68%) Oracle RMAN
13 6 (0.68%) WSUS
Vendors
1 443 (50.40%) Microsoft
2 272 (30.94%) VMware
3 100 (11.38%) Cisco
4 60 (6.83%) Dell
5 58 (6.60%) Veeam
6 46 (5.23%) HP
7 41 (4.66%) Palo Alto
8 39 (4.44%) Nimble Storage
9 33 (3.75%) Commvault
9 33 (3.75%) Tenable
10 32 (3.64%) Meraki
11 28 (3.19%) Splunk
12 25 (2.84%) Dynatrace
12 25 (2.84%) Fortinet
12 25 (2.84%) Zscaler
13 24 (2.73%) Dell Compellent
13 24 (2.73%) EMC
13 24 (2.73%) Oracle
14 22 (2.50%) AppDynamics
14 22 (2.50%) SolarWinds