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

6 months to
28 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 207 176 201
Rank change year-on-year -31 +25 +139
Permanent jobs citing Disaster Recovery 711 825 1,192
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.02% 1.75% 1.57%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.29% 1.88% 1.78%
Number of salaries quoted 542 527 1,084
10th Percentile £32,500 £37,500 £33,150
25th Percentile £45,000 £46,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.35% +8.49%
75th Percentile £87,188 £77,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £104,750 £91,250 £80,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £53,300 £52,500
% change year-on-year -1.50% +1.52% +5.00%

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 55,198 43,957 67,041
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 78.83% 93.01% 88.40%
Number of salaries quoted 33,132 22,050 51,588
10th Percentile £29,000 £33,125 £29,490
25th Percentile £38,750 £45,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -12.00%
75th Percentile £76,250 £81,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £102,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +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 28 February 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 28 February 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 -42 617 £62,500 +4.17% 214
UK excluding London -60 364 £52,500 -1.50% 185
London +25 284 £80,000 +6.67% 64
Work from Home +21 218 £70,000 +12.00% 90
North of England -22 137 £47,500 +5.56% 50
Yorkshire +4 81 £47,500 -9.52% 19
South East -40 80 £65,000 - 66
Midlands -37 57 £52,500 -1.50% 36
West Midlands 0 41 £55,000 +3.19% 21
North West -52 38 £42,500 -5.56% 30
South West -35 29 £42,500 -29.17% 12
Northern Ireland - 21 - -
North East -6 18 £58,446 +71.90% 2
East of England -29 18 £62,500 +10.62% 17
East Midlands -51 15 £48,750 -18.75% 15
Scotland -51 11 £48,000 -13.43% 9
Wales +3 9 £29,750 -47.58% 3
Channel Islands - 4 £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
1 116 (16.32%) Microsoft Exchange
2 98 (13.78%) SharePoint
3 9 (1.27%) IIS
4 5 (0.70%) Tomcat
5 4 (0.56%) WebSphere
5 4 (0.56%) WebSphere Application Server
6 3 (0.42%) Confluence
7 2 (0.28%) Apache
7 2 (0.28%) Apache Spark
7 2 (0.28%) BizTalk Server
7 2 (0.28%) CICS
7 2 (0.28%) CMS
8 1 (0.14%) Apache Airflow
8 1 (0.14%) Site Server
8 1 (0.14%) WebLogic
Applications
1 30 (4.22%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (0.84%) MS Visio
3 5 (0.70%) Spreadsheet
4 4 (0.56%) Microsoft Excel
5 2 (0.28%) Acrobat
5 2 (0.28%) Weka
Business Applications
1 5 (0.70%) Oracle EBS
2 4 (0.56%) Markit EDM
3 3 (0.42%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (0.42%) FLEXCUBE
4 2 (0.28%) Dynamics AX
5 1 (0.14%) Elite 3E
5 1 (0.14%) Oracle 11i
5 1 (0.14%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.14%) Sage 200
5 1 (0.14%) SAP ERP
5 1 (0.14%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.14%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 392 (55.13%) Azure
2 236 (33.19%) Microsoft 365
3 169 (23.77%) Entra ID
4 129 (18.14%) AWS
5 58 (8.16%) Nutanix
6 51 (7.17%) Azure Monitor
7 50 (7.03%) SaaS
8 46 (6.47%) GCP
9 43 (6.05%) Azure DevOps
9 43 (6.05%) IaaS
10 38 (5.34%) GitHub
10 38 (5.34%) PaaS
11 36 (5.06%) OneDrive
12 35 (4.92%) Microsoft Purview
13 34 (4.78%) Datadog
14 24 (3.38%) GitHub Actions
14 24 (3.38%) Serverless
15 22 (3.09%) Amazon EKS
16 20 (2.81%) AWS CloudFormation
16 20 (2.81%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 210 (29.54%) Firewall
2 171 (24.05%) DNS
3 149 (20.96%) DHCP
4 147 (20.68%) VPN
5 110 (15.47%) WAN
6 76 (10.69%) VLAN
7 65 (9.14%) LAN
7 65 (9.14%) TCP/IP
8 52 (7.31%) Wi-Fi
9 48 (6.75%) SAN
10 35 (4.92%) SD-WAN
11 34 (4.78%) Network Security
11 34 (4.78%) Wireless
12 25 (3.52%) Remote Desktop
13 22 (3.09%) VoIP
14 19 (2.67%) NAS
15 16 (2.25%) BGP
16 15 (2.11%) SSL
17 9 (1.27%) Cisco ISE
18 7 (0.98%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 57 (8.02%) SQL Server
2 24 (3.38%) Amazon RDS
3 19 (2.67%) Azure SQL Database
3 19 (2.67%) PostgreSQL
4 18 (2.53%) Oracle Database
5 14 (1.97%) MySQL
6 12 (1.69%) Power BI
7 9 (1.27%) Data Lake
7 9 (1.27%) Delta Lake
8 8 (1.13%) Amazon Aurora
9 7 (0.98%) MongoDB
10 6 (0.84%) BigQuery
10 6 (0.84%) Data Warehouse
10 6 (0.84%) DB2
10 6 (0.84%) Oracle Exadata
11 5 (0.70%) Geospatial Data
11 5 (0.70%) GIS
11 5 (0.70%) Oracle Database 12c
11 5 (0.70%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 4 (0.56%) Oracle Database 10g
Development Applications
1 29 (4.08%) Git
2 19 (2.67%) Jenkins
3 13 (1.83%) JIRA
4 12 (1.69%) Chocolatey
5 6 (0.84%) GitLab
5 6 (0.84%) Selenium
6 5 (0.70%) Sonatype Nexus
7 4 (0.56%) LabVIEW
8 3 (0.42%) Bitbucket
8 3 (0.42%) LoadRunner
8 3 (0.42%) Maven
8 3 (0.42%) TeamCity
9 2 (0.28%) Artifactory
9 2 (0.28%) Octopus Deploy
9 2 (0.28%) Robot Framework
9 2 (0.28%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
9 2 (0.28%) TestRail
10 1 (0.14%) JMeter
10 1 (0.14%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 270 (37.97%) Social Skills
2 199 (27.99%) Finance
3 101 (14.21%) Analytical Skills
4 49 (6.89%) Banking
5 47 (6.61%) Law
6 34 (4.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 29 (4.08%) Public Sector
8 28 (3.94%) Retail
9 21 (2.95%) Documentation Skills
10 20 (2.81%) Financial Institution
11 18 (2.53%) Organisational Skills
12 16 (2.25%) Manufacturing
13 15 (2.11%) Legal
14 13 (1.83%) Back Office
15 9 (1.27%) Presentation Skills
15 9 (1.27%) Telecoms
16 8 (1.13%) Influencing Skills
17 7 (0.98%) French Language
18 6 (0.84%) Marketing
19 5 (0.70%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 125 (17.58%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 104 (14.63%) Senior
3 82 (11.53%) Cloud Engineer
4 71 (9.99%) Support Engineer
5 58 (8.16%) IT Engineer
5 58 (8.16%) Lead
6 57 (8.02%) IT Support
7 51 (7.17%) IT Manager
8 43 (6.05%) Analyst
9 40 (5.63%) Azure Engineer
10 38 (5.34%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
11 30 (4.22%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
12 29 (4.08%) DevOps Engineer
13 27 (3.80%) Architect
13 27 (3.80%) IT Support Engineer
14 25 (3.52%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
14 25 (3.52%) Support Technician
15 24 (3.38%) Infrastructure Support
16 23 (3.23%) Infrastructure Manager
16 23 (3.23%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (2.53%) SAML
2 15 (2.11%) OAuth
3 13 (1.83%) YAML
4 12 (1.69%) ADO
5 11 (1.55%) REST
6 9 (1.27%) PySpark
7 8 (1.13%) LDAP
7 8 (1.13%) RESTful
8 7 (0.98%) .NET
8 7 (0.98%) ARM Templates
8 7 (0.98%) EDI
8 7 (0.98%) Loki
9 6 (0.84%) Elastic Stack
10 5 (0.70%) Middleware
11 4 (0.56%) AWS SAM
11 4 (0.56%) Kafka
11 4 (0.56%) LAPP Stack
11 4 (0.56%) SOAP
11 4 (0.56%) WebSphere MQ
12 3 (0.42%) RAML
Miscellaneous
1 69 (9.70%) Hybrid Cloud
2 48 (6.75%) Management Information System
3 33 (4.64%) Data Centre
3 33 (4.64%) Replication
4 32 (4.50%) Onboarding
5 31 (4.36%) Public Cloud
6 30 (4.22%) Cloud Native
7 27 (3.80%) Enterprise Software
8 26 (3.66%) Data Protection Act
9 25 (3.52%) Cyber Threat
9 25 (3.52%) Driving Licence
10 20 (2.81%) PKI
11 19 (2.67%) Self-Motivation
12 17 (2.39%) CMDB
12 17 (2.39%) Security Posture
13 14 (1.97%) Clustering
13 14 (1.97%) Legacy Systems
14 9 (1.27%) Product Ownership
15 8 (1.13%) Distributed Systems
15 8 (1.13%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 248 (34.88%) Windows
2 173 (24.33%) Windows Server
3 85 (11.95%) Linux
4 29 (4.08%) Windows 10
5 20 (2.81%) Unix
6 17 (2.39%) Apple iOS
7 16 (2.25%) Mac OS
8 15 (2.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 15 (2.11%) VMS
9 7 (0.98%) Android
10 6 (0.84%) Windows Server 2019
11 5 (0.70%) Windows Server 2016
12 4 (0.56%) CentOS
12 4 (0.56%) Oracle Linux
12 4 (0.56%) Rocky
12 4 (0.56%) Ubuntu
13 3 (0.42%) AIX
14 2 (0.28%) Windows Server 2012
14 2 (0.28%) zOS
15 1 (0.14%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 239 (33.61%) Business Continuity
2 187 (26.30%) Cybersecurity
3 179 (25.18%) Problem-Solving
4 171 (24.05%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 169 (23.77%) ITIL
6 149 (20.96%) Continuous Improvement
7 140 (19.69%) High Availability
8 131 (18.42%) DevOps
9 109 (15.33%) Infrastructure as Code
10 101 (14.21%) Incident Response
11 99 (13.92%) CI/CD
12 95 (13.36%) Migration
13 81 (11.39%) Service Delivery
14 73 (10.27%) Stakeholder Management
15 72 (10.13%) Risk Management
16 71 (9.99%) ITSM
17 70 (9.85%) Data Protection
18 68 (9.56%) Change Management
19 67 (9.42%) Cloud Security
20 66 (9.28%) Customer Service
Programming Languages
1 169 (23.77%) PowerShell
2 116 (16.32%) Python
3 78 (10.97%) SQL
4 40 (5.63%) Bash
5 20 (2.81%) Java
6 15 (2.11%) Bicep
7 12 (1.69%) JavaScript
7 12 (1.69%) Kusto Query Language
8 11 (1.55%) Go
9 10 (1.41%) Shell Script
10 9 (1.27%) Scala
11 7 (0.98%) C#
11 7 (0.98%) T-SQL
12 4 (0.56%) Korn
12 4 (0.56%) TypeScript
13 3 (0.42%) PL/SQL
13 3 (0.42%) VBScript
14 2 (0.28%) COBOL
14 2 (0.28%) JCL
Qualifications
1 108 (15.19%) Degree
2 53 (7.45%) Microsoft Certification
3 52 (7.31%) Azure Certification
4 48 (6.75%) Computer Science Degree
4 48 (6.75%) Security Cleared
5 33 (4.64%) SC Cleared
6 30 (4.22%) Cisco Certification
7 29 (4.08%) AWS Certification
8 22 (3.09%) CCNP
9 18 (2.53%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 18 (2.53%) CISSP
10 17 (2.39%) CEH
11 14 (1.97%) BPSS Clearance
12 12 (1.69%) CISM
12 12 (1.69%) ITIL Certification
12 12 (1.69%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 11 (1.55%) HNC
13 11 (1.55%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
14 10 (1.41%) CCNA
14 10 (1.41%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 119 (16.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 76 (10.69%) GDPR
3 70 (9.85%) Cyber Essentials
4 66 (9.28%) NIST
5 52 (7.31%) SLA
6 37 (5.20%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 24 (3.38%) PCI DSS
8 23 (3.23%) SOC 2
9 15 (2.11%) ISO 22301
10 9 (1.27%) Data Quality
11 8 (1.13%) Actionable Recommendations
11 8 (1.13%) GRC
11 8 (1.13%) ISAE 3402
12 6 (0.84%) NCSC
12 6 (0.84%) PMO
12 6 (0.84%) QA
13 4 (0.56%) DICOM
13 4 (0.56%) HL7
14 3 (0.42%) GxP
14 3 (0.42%) MiFID
System Software
1 245 (34.46%) Active Directory
2 142 (19.97%) VMware Infrastructure
3 102 (14.35%) Hyper-V
4 50 (7.03%) Docker
5 34 (4.78%) Virtual Machines
6 23 (3.23%) vSphere
7 17 (2.39%) VMware ESXi
8 13 (1.83%) Virtual Servers
9 10 (1.41%) Firmware
9 10 (1.41%) Virtual Desktop
10 9 (1.27%) Oracle RAC
11 8 (1.13%) vCloud
12 5 (0.70%) KVM
13 3 (0.42%) Microsoft Virtual Server
14 2 (0.28%) BitLocker
14 2 (0.28%) RACF
14 2 (0.28%) VMware Workstation
14 2 (0.28%) XenDesktop
15 1 (0.14%) EMC RecoverPoint
15 1 (0.14%) Squid
Systems Management
1 118 (16.60%) Microsoft Intune
2 115 (16.17%) Terraform
3 73 (10.27%) Kubernetes
4 69 (9.70%) Ansible
5 20 (2.81%) SCCM
6 19 (2.67%) Grafana
7 16 (2.25%) Prometheus
8 11 (1.55%) Data Guard
8 11 (1.55%) Nagios
8 11 (1.55%) vCenter Server
9 9 (1.27%) Oracle RMAN
9 9 (1.27%) VxRail
10 8 (1.13%) Puppet
11 7 (0.98%) FortiGate
11 7 (0.98%) Single Sign-On
12 6 (0.84%) Avamar
12 6 (0.84%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
13 5 (0.70%) Failover Clustering
13 5 (0.70%) Nessus
13 5 (0.70%) SCOM
Vendors
1 335 (47.12%) Microsoft
2 194 (27.29%) VMware
3 57 (8.02%) Cisco
4 48 (6.75%) Dell
5 34 (4.78%) Veeam
6 31 (4.36%) Commvault
7 28 (3.94%) Oracle
8 27 (3.80%) HP
9 24 (3.38%) Palo Alto
9 24 (3.38%) Zscaler
10 23 (3.23%) Dynatrace
11 22 (3.09%) Dell Compellent
11 22 (3.09%) Meraki
11 22 (3.09%) Nimble Storage
12 20 (2.81%) Tenable
13 17 (2.39%) Google
14 16 (2.25%) Adobe
15 15 (2.11%) Fortinet
15 15 (2.11%) Splunk
16 14 (1.97%) IBM