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

6 months to
31 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 211 256 215
Rank change year-on-year +45 -41 +98
Permanent jobs citing Disaster Recovery 911 564 1,345
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.98% 1.29% 1.33%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.32% 1.38% 1.59%
Number of salaries quoted 688 447 1,139
10th Percentile £32,925 £37,500 £33,000
25th Percentile £42,250 £46,250 £41,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +13.64% -4.35%
75th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £93,750 £90,000 £88,650
UK excluding London median annual salary £48,750 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -11.36% +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 68,860 40,768 84,483
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.96% 93.19% 83.65%
Number of salaries quoted 45,013 21,524 60,756
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,750 £29,228
25th Percentile £41,000 £40,750 £39,885
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -9.69%
75th Percentile £78,750 £78,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £51,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +2.94% +2.00% -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 31 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 31 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 +32 803 £60,000 -4.00% 212
UK excluding London +34 515 £48,750 -11.36% 185
London +46 333 £77,500 +6.90% 64
Work from Home +96 281 £60,000 +4.35% 84
North of England +51 192 £47,500 -13.64% 41
South East +4 107 £55,000 -4.35% 66
Yorkshire +28 99 £47,500 -24.00% 19
Midlands +21 95 £52,500 +14.13% 37
West Midlands +26 76 £52,500 - 24
North West +29 72 £50,000 -9.09% 21
East of England -13 36 £61,250 +15.57% 17
South West -86 30 £37,500 -31.82% 22
Scotland +21 26 £38,000 -30.91% 1
North East -43 21 £42,500 -15.00% 1
East Midlands -27 18 £55,000 +37.50% 13
Wales -24 15 £43,000 -14.00% 7
Northern Ireland -29 10 - -
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
1 113 (12.40%) Microsoft Exchange
2 101 (11.09%) SharePoint
3 10 (1.10%) IIS
4 4 (0.44%) Apache Spark
4 4 (0.44%) Confluence
5 3 (0.33%) Apache
6 2 (0.22%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.11%) BizTalk Server
7 1 (0.11%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.11%) WebLogic
7 1 (0.11%) WordPress
Applications
1 24 (2.63%) Microsoft Office
2 16 (1.76%) MS Visio
3 6 (0.66%) PlantUML
4 4 (0.44%) Microsoft Excel
5 1 (0.11%) Weka
Business Applications
1 7 (0.77%) FLEXCUBE
2 5 (0.55%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (0.44%) NetSuite
3 4 (0.44%) Oracle EBS
4 3 (0.33%) Markit EDM
4 3 (0.33%) SAP S/4HANA
5 2 (0.22%) SAP ERP
6 1 (0.11%) Elite 3E
6 1 (0.11%) Misys Equation
6 1 (0.11%) Misys Midas
6 1 (0.11%) Oracle 11i
6 1 (0.11%) Oracle ERP
6 1 (0.11%) Sage 200
6 1 (0.11%) SAP EHS
6 1 (0.11%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 491 (53.90%) Azure
2 279 (30.63%) Microsoft 365
3 167 (18.33%) Entra ID
4 141 (15.48%) AWS
5 64 (7.03%) Nutanix
6 61 (6.70%) SaaS
7 54 (5.93%) IaaS
8 51 (5.60%) Datadog
9 45 (4.94%) Azure DevOps
10 44 (4.83%) PaaS
11 39 (4.28%) Azure Monitor
12 36 (3.95%) GitHub
13 31 (3.40%) GCP
14 30 (3.29%) Microsoft Purview
14 30 (3.29%) OneDrive
14 30 (3.29%) Power Platform
15 25 (2.74%) GitHub Actions
16 23 (2.52%) Azure AKS
17 22 (2.41%) Amazon EC2
17 22 (2.41%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 277 (30.41%) Firewall
2 199 (21.84%) DNS
3 183 (20.09%) VPN
4 150 (16.47%) DHCP
5 130 (14.27%) WAN
6 91 (9.99%) VLAN
7 82 (9.00%) LAN
8 72 (7.90%) Network Security
9 71 (7.79%) Wi-Fi
10 66 (7.24%) SAN
10 66 (7.24%) TCP/IP
11 40 (4.39%) Wireless
12 31 (3.40%) SD-WAN
13 27 (2.96%) Remote Desktop
14 25 (2.74%) Cisco ISE
15 24 (2.63%) SSL
16 22 (2.41%) VoIP
17 17 (1.87%) NAS
18 15 (1.65%) BGP
19 14 (1.54%) Cisco Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 82 (9.00%) SQL Server
2 34 (3.73%) Amazon RDS
3 23 (2.52%) Azure SQL Database
4 14 (1.54%) Power BI
5 12 (1.32%) Data Lake
5 12 (1.32%) Delta Lake
6 11 (1.21%) PostgreSQL
7 10 (1.10%) MySQL
8 9 (0.99%) Data Warehouse
9 8 (0.88%) Oracle Database
10 7 (0.77%) Amazon Aurora
11 6 (0.66%) MongoDB
11 6 (0.66%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 6 (0.66%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 5 (0.55%) Geospatial Data
12 5 (0.55%) GIS
12 5 (0.55%) NoSQL
13 4 (0.44%) Elasticsearch
14 3 (0.33%) SAP HANA
14 3 (0.33%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 22 (2.41%) Git
2 20 (2.20%) Chocolatey
3 13 (1.43%) JIRA
4 8 (0.88%) Jenkins
5 6 (0.66%) Visual Studio Code
6 4 (0.44%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 4 (0.44%) LabVIEW
6 4 (0.44%) MLflow
6 4 (0.44%) Sonatype Nexus
7 3 (0.33%) Bitbucket
7 3 (0.33%) GitLab
8 2 (0.22%) Maven
8 2 (0.22%) Selenium
8 2 (0.22%) TeamCity
8 2 (0.22%) Terragrunt
9 1 (0.11%) LoadRunner
9 1 (0.11%) Octopus Deploy
9 1 (0.11%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
9 1 (0.11%) Team Foundation Server
9 1 (0.11%) Yeoman
General
1 333 (36.55%) Social Skills
2 171 (18.77%) Finance
3 145 (15.92%) Analytical Skills
4 63 (6.92%) Banking
5 46 (5.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 39 (4.28%) Law
6 39 (4.28%) Legal
7 37 (4.06%) Public Sector
8 29 (3.18%) Organisational Skills
9 26 (2.85%) Retail
10 23 (2.52%) Manufacturing
11 18 (1.98%) Telecoms
12 15 (1.65%) Influencing Skills
13 14 (1.54%) Back Office
13 14 (1.54%) Documentation Skills
14 12 (1.32%) Advertising
15 10 (1.10%) Financial Institution
16 8 (0.88%) Mandarin Language
16 8 (0.88%) Marketing
17 7 (0.77%) French Language
Job Titles
1 181 (19.87%) Senior
2 147 (16.14%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 111 (12.18%) IT Support
4 99 (10.87%) IT Engineer
5 89 (9.77%) Cloud Engineer
6 80 (8.78%) Support Engineer
7 68 (7.46%) IT Manager
8 62 (6.81%) IT Support Engineer
9 60 (6.59%) Lead
9 60 (6.59%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
10 59 (6.48%) Azure Engineer
11 51 (5.60%) Analyst
12 50 (5.49%) Architect
13 39 (4.28%) Platform Engineer
14 34 (3.73%) Administrator
15 29 (3.18%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
16 28 (3.07%) Network Engineer
17 27 (2.96%) Security Engineer
17 27 (2.96%) Security Manager
18 26 (2.85%) Senior Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (1.76%) SAML
2 12 (1.32%) PySpark
3 11 (1.21%) OAuth
4 10 (1.10%) YAML
5 9 (0.99%) ADO
5 9 (0.99%) ARM Templates
5 9 (0.99%) REST
6 8 (0.88%) Microsoft Graph
6 8 (0.88%) Middleware
7 7 (0.77%) Kafka
7 7 (0.77%) Loki
8 5 (0.55%) RESTful
9 4 (0.44%) .NET
9 4 (0.44%) web3js
10 3 (0.33%) FIX Protocol
10 3 (0.33%) JSON
10 3 (0.33%) ODBC
11 2 (0.22%) ActiveMQ
11 2 (0.22%) LDAP
11 2 (0.22%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 86 (9.44%) Data Centre
2 68 (7.46%) Hybrid Cloud
2 68 (7.46%) Management Information System
3 49 (5.38%) Replication
4 45 (4.94%) Driving Licence
5 44 (4.83%) Cloud Native
6 40 (4.39%) Onboarding
6 40 (4.39%) Security Posture
7 37 (4.06%) Cyber Threat
8 36 (3.95%) Public Cloud
9 32 (3.51%) Data Protection Act
10 29 (3.18%) PKI
11 27 (2.96%) Self-Motivation
12 26 (2.85%) Enterprise Storage
13 25 (2.74%) CMDB
14 23 (2.52%) NHS
15 17 (1.87%) Legacy Systems
16 14 (1.54%) Clustering
17 12 (1.32%) CCTV
17 12 (1.32%) iSeries
Operating Systems
1 315 (34.58%) Windows
2 203 (22.28%) Windows Server
3 81 (8.89%) Linux
4 22 (2.41%) Windows 10
5 21 (2.31%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 19 (2.09%) Mac OS
7 18 (1.98%) Windows Server 2019
8 16 (1.76%) Apple iOS
8 16 (1.76%) Windows Server 2016
9 13 (1.43%) Ubuntu
10 12 (1.32%) VMS
11 11 (1.21%) Unix
12 9 (0.99%) CentOS
13 7 (0.77%) AIX
13 7 (0.77%) Oracle Linux
14 6 (0.66%) Android
15 5 (0.55%) Solaris
16 2 (0.22%) Amazon Linux
16 2 (0.22%) Debian
17 1 (0.11%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 326 (35.78%) Business Continuity
2 277 (30.41%) Cybersecurity
3 225 (24.70%) Problem-Solving
4 210 (23.05%) ITIL
5 207 (22.72%) Continuous Improvement
6 189 (20.75%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 146 (16.03%) High Availability
8 133 (14.60%) Incident Response
9 127 (13.94%) DevOps
10 117 (12.84%) Service Delivery
11 107 (11.75%) Cloud Security
11 107 (11.75%) Infrastructure as Code
12 94 (10.32%) Data Protection
13 93 (10.21%) Change Management
13 93 (10.21%) Migration
14 91 (9.99%) Stakeholder Management
15 89 (9.77%) CI/CD
16 88 (9.66%) Mentoring
17 87 (9.55%) Service Management
18 79 (8.67%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 148 (16.25%) PowerShell
2 101 (11.09%) Python
2 101 (11.09%) SQL
3 41 (4.50%) Bash
4 12 (1.32%) Shell Script
5 11 (1.21%) Bicep
6 10 (1.10%) Java
7 9 (0.99%) Kusto Query Language
7 9 (0.99%) Scala
7 9 (0.99%) T-SQL
8 7 (0.77%) JavaScript
8 7 (0.77%) Korn
9 6 (0.66%) PL/SQL
10 5 (0.55%) C#
11 4 (0.44%) TypeScript
12 3 (0.33%) Go
13 2 (0.22%) RPG
14 1 (0.11%) COBOL
14 1 (0.11%) Perl
14 1 (0.11%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 110 (12.07%) Degree
2 69 (7.57%) Microsoft Certification
3 68 (7.46%) Cisco Certification
4 62 (6.81%) Azure Certification
5 54 (5.93%) CCNP
6 45 (4.94%) Computer Science Degree
6 45 (4.94%) Security Cleared
7 36 (3.95%) SC Cleared
8 33 (3.62%) CCNA
9 27 (2.96%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 24 (2.63%) CISSP
11 22 (2.41%) Postgraduate
12 17 (1.87%) CEH
13 14 (1.54%) MCSE
14 12 (1.32%) AWS Certification
14 12 (1.32%) CISM
15 10 (1.10%) VCAP
16 9 (0.99%) BPSS Clearance
16 9 (0.99%) Microsoft Certified Professional
16 9 (0.99%) VCDX
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 131 (14.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 96 (10.54%) Cyber Essentials
3 91 (9.99%) GDPR
4 86 (9.44%) NIST
5 62 (6.81%) SLA
6 45 (4.94%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 43 (4.72%) PCI DSS
8 28 (3.07%) PMO
9 23 (2.52%) GRC
10 22 (2.41%) SOC 2
11 21 (2.31%) Data Quality
12 18 (1.98%) ISO 22301
13 11 (1.21%) Actionable Recommendations
14 9 (0.99%) COBIT
15 6 (0.66%) NCSC
15 6 (0.66%) QA
16 5 (0.55%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
17 4 (0.44%) HIPAA
17 4 (0.44%) HL7
17 4 (0.44%) SOC 1
System Software
1 278 (30.52%) Active Directory
2 207 (22.72%) VMware Infrastructure
3 123 (13.50%) Hyper-V
4 38 (4.17%) vSphere
5 29 (3.18%) Docker
6 27 (2.96%) Virtual Machines
7 22 (2.41%) Firmware
8 17 (1.87%) Virtual Desktop
8 17 (1.87%) VMware ESXi
9 10 (1.10%) VMware NSX
10 9 (0.99%) vCloud
11 8 (0.88%) Oracle RAC
12 6 (0.66%) KVM
12 6 (0.66%) Virtual Servers
13 3 (0.33%) DFS Replication
13 3 (0.33%) EMC RecoverPoint
13 3 (0.33%) Microsoft Virtual Server
13 3 (0.33%) VMware Server
14 2 (0.22%) VMware Workstation
15 1 (0.11%) Xen
Systems Management
1 134 (14.71%) Microsoft Intune
2 115 (12.62%) Terraform
3 63 (6.92%) Kubernetes
4 60 (6.59%) Ansible
5 27 (2.96%) SCCM
6 23 (2.52%) Single Sign-On
7 22 (2.41%) VxRail
8 17 (1.87%) FortiGate
9 11 (1.21%) Grafana
9 11 (1.21%) Prometheus
10 9 (0.99%) Dell DRAC
11 8 (0.88%) Data Guard
11 8 (0.88%) Nagios
11 8 (0.88%) Packer
12 7 (0.77%) EMC NetWorker
12 7 (0.77%) vCenter Server
13 6 (0.66%) Avamar
13 6 (0.66%) EMC VPLEX
13 6 (0.66%) Oracle RMAN
13 6 (0.66%) WSUS
Vendors
1 459 (50.38%) Microsoft
2 279 (30.63%) VMware
3 110 (12.07%) Cisco
4 64 (7.03%) Veeam
5 60 (6.59%) Dell
6 46 (5.05%) HP
7 43 (4.72%) Palo Alto
8 39 (4.28%) Nimble Storage
9 35 (3.84%) Meraki
10 33 (3.62%) Commvault
11 31 (3.40%) Tenable
12 29 (3.18%) Splunk
13 27 (2.96%) Fortinet
14 26 (2.85%) Oracle
15 25 (2.74%) EMC
16 24 (2.63%) Dell Compellent
16 24 (2.63%) Dynatrace
16 24 (2.63%) Zscaler
17 23 (2.52%) SolarWinds
18 22 (2.41%) Sophos