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

6 months to
13 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 185 244 201
Rank change year-on-year +59 -43 +83
Permanent jobs citing Disaster Recovery 1,116 629 1,362
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.13% 1.28% 1.35%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.53% 1.42% 1.64%
Number of salaries quoted 823 502 1,096
10th Percentile £33,300 £35,750 £33,000
25th Percentile £42,250 £46,063 £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 £91,250 £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 72,820 44,444 83,107
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.76% 90.26% 82.20%
Number of salaries quoted 50,274 24,878 58,156
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% -8.71%
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 13 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 13 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 +59 974 £57,500 -8.00% 329
UK excluding London +54 681 £50,000 -9.09% 263
London +57 367 £75,000 - 129
Work from Home +85 343 £60,000 +4.35% 158
North of England +64 227 £47,500 -13.64% 63
South East +35 176 £50,000 -3.85% 81
Yorkshire +43 109 £50,000 -20.00% 19
Midlands +23 109 £55,000 - 38
North West +30 103 £50,000 -6.98% 38
West Midlands +29 82 £55,000 -4.35% 23
East of England +1 49 £45,000 -15.09% 15
South West -90 39 £43,750 -20.45% 37
Northern Ireland -28 33 - - 13
Scotland +26 31 £44,150 -19.73% 12
East Midlands -27 26 £55,000 +18.92% 15
Wales -36 15 £43,000 -25.22% 12
North East -57 15 £42,500 -12.82% 7
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
1 118 (10.57%) Microsoft Exchange
2 113 (10.13%) SharePoint
3 19 (1.70%) IIS
4 10 (0.90%) Apache
5 9 (0.81%) 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 (0.090%) Site Server
8 1 (0.090%) WebLogic
Applications
1 19 (1.70%) Microsoft Office
2 15 (1.34%) MS Visio
3 14 (1.25%) PlantUML
4 7 (0.63%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 12 (1.08%) FLEXCUBE
2 6 (0.54%) Raiser’s Edge
3 4 (0.36%) JDE EnterpriseOne
3 4 (0.36%) NetSuite
3 4 (0.36%) Sage 200
4 3 (0.27%) Dynamics CRM
4 3 (0.27%) Q-Pulse
4 3 (0.27%) SAP S/4HANA
5 2 (0.18%) Adobe Campaign
5 2 (0.18%) Oracle EBS
5 2 (0.18%) SAP ERP
6 1 (0.090%) Elite 3E
6 1 (0.090%) Misys Equation
6 1 (0.090%) Misys Midas
6 1 (0.090%) SAP EHS
Cloud Services
1 565 (50.63%) Azure
2 333 (29.84%) Microsoft 365
3 194 (17.38%) AWS
4 191 (17.11%) Entra ID
5 98 (8.78%) SaaS
6 65 (5.82%) IaaS
7 58 (5.20%) PaaS
8 46 (4.12%) Nutanix
8 46 (4.12%) Power Platform
9 41 (3.67%) Datadog
10 37 (3.32%) Azure DevOps
11 33 (2.96%) GCP
12 29 (2.60%) Cloud Computing
12 29 (2.60%) GitHub
12 29 (2.60%) Microsoft Purview
13 25 (2.24%) Azure Monitor
14 24 (2.15%) GitHub Actions
15 22 (1.97%) Mimecast
16 20 (1.79%) Amazon EC2
17 19 (1.70%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 347 (31.09%) Firewall
2 238 (21.33%) DNS
3 214 (19.18%) VPN
4 181 (16.22%) DHCP
5 152 (13.62%) WAN
6 130 (11.65%) VLAN
7 121 (10.84%) LAN
8 96 (8.60%) Wi-Fi
9 91 (8.15%) Network Security
10 90 (8.06%) TCP/IP
11 60 (5.38%) SAN
12 55 (4.93%) Wireless
13 36 (3.23%) Internet
14 28 (2.51%) Cisco ISE
15 27 (2.42%) SD-WAN
15 27 (2.42%) SSL
16 26 (2.33%) VoIP
17 18 (1.61%) NAS
18 17 (1.52%) BGP
18 17 (1.52%) Cisco Nexus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 91 (8.15%) SQL Server
2 35 (3.14%) Amazon RDS
3 28 (2.51%) Azure SQL Database
3 28 (2.51%) Power BI
4 12 (1.08%) Data Warehouse
4 12 (1.08%) PostgreSQL
5 11 (0.99%) MySQL
5 11 (0.99%) Oracle Database
6 9 (0.81%) Data Lake
6 9 (0.81%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 7 (0.63%) Metadata
8 6 (0.54%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 5 (0.45%) Delta Lake
9 5 (0.45%) Geospatial Data
9 5 (0.45%) GIS
9 5 (0.45%) NoSQL
9 5 (0.45%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 4 (0.36%) Elasticsearch
10 4 (0.36%) MongoDB
11 3 (0.27%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 20 (1.79%) JIRA
2 16 (1.43%) Chocolatey
3 15 (1.34%) Git
4 8 (0.72%) GitLab
5 6 (0.54%) Visual Studio Code
6 5 (0.45%) Jenkins
7 4 (0.36%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 4 (0.36%) JUnit
7 4 (0.36%) MLflow
7 4 (0.36%) Spock
8 3 (0.27%) Selenium
9 2 (0.18%) Bitbucket
9 2 (0.18%) Terragrunt
9 2 (0.18%) Yeoman
10 1 (0.090%) Claude Code
10 1 (0.090%) IntelliJ
10 1 (0.090%) Maven
10 1 (0.090%) TeamCity
General
1 393 (35.22%) Social Skills
2 194 (17.38%) Finance
3 147 (13.17%) Analytical Skills
4 74 (6.63%) Law
5 69 (6.18%) Banking
6 66 (5.91%) Legal
7 47 (4.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 40 (3.58%) Manufacturing
9 39 (3.49%) Organisational Skills
10 37 (3.32%) Public Sector
11 32 (2.87%) Documentation Skills
12 29 (2.60%) Retail
13 28 (2.51%) Influencing Skills
14 22 (1.97%) Telecoms
15 21 (1.88%) Back Office
16 12 (1.08%) Financial Institution
17 11 (0.99%) Mandarin Language
18 8 (0.72%) Advertising
18 8 (0.72%) Marketing
19 7 (0.63%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 219 (19.62%) Senior
2 165 (14.78%) IT Support
3 160 (14.34%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 134 (12.01%) IT Engineer
5 117 (10.48%) IT Manager
6 105 (9.41%) Support Engineer
7 85 (7.62%) IT Support Engineer
8 78 (6.99%) Lead
9 73 (6.54%) Architect
10 70 (6.27%) Cloud Engineer
11 62 (5.56%) Analyst
12 59 (5.29%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
13 51 (4.57%) Azure Engineer
14 44 (3.94%) Service Manager
15 42 (3.76%) Network Engineer
16 40 (3.58%) IT Services Manager
17 37 (3.32%) IT Analyst
17 37 (3.32%) Resilience Manager
18 36 (3.23%) Platform Engineer
19 35 (3.14%) Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (3.94%) Middleware
2 14 (1.25%) ARM Templates
3 10 (0.90%) SAML
4 8 (0.72%) Microsoft Graph
5 7 (0.63%) Kafka
6 6 (0.54%) FIX Protocol
6 6 (0.54%) REST
7 5 (0.45%) OAuth
7 5 (0.45%) PySpark
7 5 (0.45%) RESTful
8 4 (0.36%) AngularJS
8 4 (0.36%) Spring
8 4 (0.36%) Web Services
8 4 (0.36%) web3js
8 4 (0.36%) YAML
9 3 (0.27%) Apache NiFi
9 3 (0.27%) JSON
9 3 (0.27%) Node.js
9 3 (0.27%) ODBC
9 3 (0.27%) Ruby on Rails
Miscellaneous
1 104 (9.32%) Data Centre
2 76 (6.81%) Management Information System
3 73 (6.54%) Cyber Threat
4 68 (6.09%) Cloud Native
5 66 (5.91%) Driving Licence
6 62 (5.56%) Hybrid Cloud
7 56 (5.02%) Security Posture
8 53 (4.75%) Self-Motivation
9 52 (4.66%) Replication
10 41 (3.67%) Onboarding
11 36 (3.23%) Data Protection Act
11 36 (3.23%) PKI
12 30 (2.69%) Enterprise Storage
13 28 (2.51%) NHS
14 25 (2.24%) Public Cloud
15 23 (2.06%) CMDB
16 22 (1.97%) CCTV
17 20 (1.79%) Enterprise Software
17 20 (1.79%) Legacy Systems
17 20 (1.79%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 373 (33.42%) Windows
2 251 (22.49%) Windows Server
3 105 (9.41%) Linux
4 27 (2.42%) Windows Server 2019
5 23 (2.06%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 21 (1.88%) Mac OS
6 21 (1.88%) Windows Server 2016
7 19 (1.70%) Unix
8 18 (1.61%) Windows 10
9 14 (1.25%) Ubuntu
10 12 (1.08%) AIX
10 12 (1.08%) Oracle Linux
11 10 (0.90%) CentOS
12 8 (0.72%) Solaris
12 8 (0.72%) VMS
13 5 (0.45%) Apple iOS
13 5 (0.45%) Windows Server 2012
14 2 (0.18%) Amazon Linux
14 2 (0.18%) Debian
14 2 (0.18%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 435 (38.98%) Business Continuity
2 354 (31.72%) Cybersecurity
3 291 (26.08%) Continuous Improvement
3 291 (26.08%) Problem-Solving
4 235 (21.06%) ITIL
5 216 (19.35%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 176 (15.77%) High Availability
7 174 (15.59%) Incident Response
8 171 (15.32%) DevOps
9 136 (12.19%) Stakeholder Management
10 135 (12.10%) Infrastructure as Code
10 135 (12.10%) Service Delivery
11 125 (11.20%) Information Security
12 117 (10.48%) Cloud Security
13 116 (10.39%) Data Protection
14 109 (9.77%) CI/CD
14 109 (9.77%) Project Delivery
15 108 (9.68%) Risk Management
16 107 (9.59%) Change Management
17 104 (9.32%) Agile
Programming Languages
1 165 (14.78%) PowerShell
2 116 (10.39%) Python
3 111 (9.95%) SQL
4 46 (4.12%) Bash
5 21 (1.88%) Bicep
6 17 (1.52%) Shell Script
7 13 (1.16%) Java
8 11 (0.99%) JavaScript
8 11 (0.99%) Korn
8 11 (0.99%) PL/SQL
9 9 (0.81%) TypeScript
10 7 (0.63%) Kusto Query Language
10 7 (0.63%) T-SQL
11 5 (0.45%) C#
12 4 (0.36%) Go
12 4 (0.36%) Search Processing Language
13 3 (0.27%) Ruby
13 3 (0.27%) Scala
14 2 (0.18%) COBOL
14 2 (0.18%) XAML
Qualifications
1 123 (11.02%) Degree
2 88 (7.89%) Cisco Certification
3 76 (6.81%) Microsoft Certification
4 71 (6.36%) Azure Certification
4 71 (6.36%) CISSP
5 66 (5.91%) CCNP
6 62 (5.56%) Security Cleared
7 57 (5.11%) CISM
8 50 (4.48%) CCNA
9 43 (3.85%) SC Cleared
10 38 (3.41%) Computer Science Degree
11 30 (2.69%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 29 (2.60%) ITIL Certification
13 28 (2.51%) Postgraduate
14 18 (1.61%) AWS Certification
15 16 (1.43%) CEH
16 15 (1.34%) CISA
17 14 (1.25%) Master's Degree
18 13 (1.16%) CRISC
18 13 (1.16%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 160 (14.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 134 (12.01%) NIST
3 124 (11.11%) GDPR
4 119 (10.66%) Cyber Essentials
5 60 (5.38%) SLA
6 55 (4.93%) ISO 22301
7 54 (4.84%) PCI DSS
8 49 (4.39%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 29 (2.60%) PMO
10 28 (2.51%) GRC
11 27 (2.42%) SOC 2
12 25 (2.24%) Data Quality
13 16 (1.43%) COBIT
14 11 (0.99%) NCSC
15 10 (0.90%) Actionable Recommendations
16 8 (0.72%) SOC 1
17 5 (0.45%) HL7
17 5 (0.45%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
17 5 (0.45%) QA
18 4 (0.36%) DICOM
System Software
1 300 (26.88%) Active Directory
2 257 (23.03%) VMware Infrastructure
3 169 (15.14%) Hyper-V
4 44 (3.94%) vSphere
5 41 (3.67%) Docker
6 29 (2.60%) Virtual Machines
7 25 (2.24%) VMware ESXi
8 22 (1.97%) Virtual Desktop
9 20 (1.79%) Firmware
10 13 (1.16%) Oracle RAC
11 10 (0.90%) VMware NSX
12 9 (0.81%) vCloud
13 7 (0.63%) KVM
14 4 (0.36%) EMC RecoverPoint
14 4 (0.36%) 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
1 140 (12.54%) Terraform
2 138 (12.37%) Microsoft Intune
3 77 (6.90%) Kubernetes
4 74 (6.63%) Ansible
5 28 (2.51%) Single Sign-On
6 26 (2.33%) SCCM
7 25 (2.24%) FortiGate
8 20 (1.79%) VxRail
9 12 (1.08%) Data Guard
9 12 (1.08%) Nagios
9 12 (1.08%) vCenter Server
10 11 (0.99%) Oracle RMAN
11 10 (0.90%) Prometheus
12 9 (0.81%) Dell DRAC
12 9 (0.81%) Grafana
12 9 (0.81%) Jamf Pro
12 9 (0.81%) Packer
13 7 (0.63%) EMC NetWorker
14 6 (0.54%) Avamar
14 6 (0.54%) WSUS
Vendors
1 549 (49.19%) Microsoft
2 314 (28.14%) VMware
3 165 (14.78%) Cisco
4 74 (6.63%) Veeam
5 59 (5.29%) Palo Alto
6 47 (4.21%) Dell
7 40 (3.58%) Splunk
8 38 (3.41%) HP
8 38 (3.41%) Meraki
9 36 (3.23%) Oracle
10 34 (3.05%) Fortinet
11 30 (2.69%) Commvault
11 30 (2.69%) Sophos
12 27 (2.42%) Nimble Storage
12 27 (2.42%) SolarWinds
12 27 (2.42%) Tenable
13 26 (2.33%) Aruba
14 25 (2.24%) Google
15 24 (2.15%) IBM
16 23 (2.06%) EMC