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 20 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 219 176 207
Rank change year-on-year -43 +31 +101
Permanent jobs citing Disaster Recovery 611 892 949
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.00% 1.69% 1.57%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.24% 1.85% 1.75%
Number of salaries quoted 472 543 851
10th Percentile £31,375 £37,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £43,000 £45,931 £42,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% - +14.29%
75th Percentile £87,500 £77,500 £70,625
90th Percentile £107,375 £93,750 £81,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.76% - +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 49,307 48,088 54,172
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 80.63% 90.91% 89.35%
Number of salaries quoted 29,027 23,255 41,501
10th Percentile £28,500 £35,000 £31,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £45,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% -8.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £96,539
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 20 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Disaster Recovery in the UK

Disaster Recovery
Top 17 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 20 January 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 -41 542 £62,500 +4.17% 215
UK excluding London -78 299 £50,000 -4.76% 213
London +32 268 £75,500 +0.67% 47
Work from Home +23 188 £70,000 +7.69% 96
North of England -62 94 £45,000 -5.26% 57
South East 0 71 £65,000 +18.18% 66
Midlands -24 51 £57,500 +7.88% 38
Yorkshire -26 46 £42,500 -19.05% 29
North West -45 36 £41,250 -8.33% 26
West Midlands +6 33 £57,500 +7.88% 21
South West -8 29 £45,000 -12.62% 17
Northern Ireland - 20 - - 3
East of England -12 18 £42,500 -19.05% 14
East Midlands -40 18 £48,750 -18.75% 17
North East -3 12 £78,750 +75.00% 8
Scotland -45 10 £48,000 -20.00% 19
Wales +2 7 £28,000 -56.25% 4

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 91 (14.89%) Microsoft Exchange
2 86 (14.08%) SharePoint
3 12 (1.96%) IIS
4 7 (1.15%) Tomcat
5 6 (0.98%) WebSphere
5 6 (0.98%) WebSphere Application Server
6 3 (0.49%) Confluence
7 2 (0.33%) BizTalk Server
7 2 (0.33%) CICS
7 2 (0.33%) CMS
8 1 (0.16%) Apache Spark
8 1 (0.16%) Site Server
8 1 (0.16%) Skype for Business
8 1 (0.16%) WebLogic
Applications
1 33 (5.40%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (1.15%) Microsoft Excel
3 6 (0.98%) MS Visio
3 6 (0.98%) Spreadsheet
4 2 (0.33%) Acrobat
4 2 (0.33%) Weka
Business Applications
1 4 (0.65%) Markit EDM
1 4 (0.65%) Oracle EBS
2 3 (0.49%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.33%) Dynamics AX
4 1 (0.16%) Oracle 11i
4 1 (0.16%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.16%) Raiser’s Edge
4 1 (0.16%) Sage 200
4 1 (0.16%) SAP ERP
4 1 (0.16%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 343 (56.14%) Azure
2 207 (33.88%) Microsoft 365
3 136 (22.26%) Entra ID
4 122 (19.97%) AWS
5 45 (7.36%) Azure Monitor
6 43 (7.04%) Azure DevOps
6 43 (7.04%) GitHub
7 42 (6.87%) SaaS
8 40 (6.55%) GCP
9 38 (6.22%) Nutanix
10 34 (5.56%) IaaS
11 33 (5.40%) OneDrive
11 33 (5.40%) PaaS
12 27 (4.42%) Datadog
12 27 (4.42%) GitHub Actions
13 26 (4.26%) AWS CloudFormation
14 23 (3.76%) Serverless
15 19 (3.11%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 19 (3.11%) Amazon EKS
15 19 (3.11%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 158 (25.86%) Firewall
2 152 (24.88%) DNS
3 133 (21.77%) DHCP
4 114 (18.66%) VPN
5 88 (14.40%) WAN
6 63 (10.31%) TCP/IP
7 58 (9.49%) VLAN
8 51 (8.35%) LAN
9 44 (7.20%) SAN
9 44 (7.20%) Wi-Fi
10 35 (5.73%) SD-WAN
11 31 (5.07%) Wireless
12 29 (4.75%) VoIP
13 21 (3.44%) Network Security
13 21 (3.44%) Remote Desktop
14 20 (3.27%) NAS
15 15 (2.45%) SSL
16 10 (1.64%) Unified Communications
17 7 (1.15%) BGP
17 7 (1.15%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 54 (8.84%) SQL Server
2 23 (3.76%) Amazon RDS
3 21 (3.44%) PostgreSQL
4 19 (3.11%) Azure SQL Database
4 19 (3.11%) Oracle Database
5 16 (2.62%) MySQL
6 12 (1.96%) Power BI
7 10 (1.64%) MongoDB
8 9 (1.47%) BigQuery
8 9 (1.47%) DB2
9 8 (1.31%) Data Lake
9 8 (1.31%) Delta Lake
9 8 (1.31%) Oracle Exadata
10 7 (1.15%) Amazon Aurora
10 7 (1.15%) Data Warehouse
11 6 (0.98%) Oracle Database 12c
12 5 (0.82%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 4 (0.65%) Oracle Database 10g
13 4 (0.65%) Oracle Database 11g
14 3 (0.49%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 32 (5.24%) Git
2 23 (3.76%) Jenkins
3 7 (1.15%) Chocolatey
4 6 (0.98%) JIRA
4 6 (0.98%) Selenium
5 5 (0.82%) Sonatype Nexus
6 4 (0.65%) Bitbucket
6 4 (0.65%) GitLab
6 4 (0.65%) LabVIEW
7 3 (0.49%) LoadRunner
7 3 (0.49%) Maven
8 2 (0.33%) Artifactory
8 2 (0.33%) Octopus Deploy
8 2 (0.33%) Robot Framework
8 2 (0.33%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 2 (0.33%) TeamCity
8 2 (0.33%) TestRail
9 1 (0.16%) JMeter
9 1 (0.16%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 219 (35.84%) Social Skills
2 184 (30.11%) Finance
3 78 (12.77%) Analytical Skills
4 37 (6.06%) Banking
4 37 (6.06%) Law
5 25 (4.09%) Manufacturing
6 21 (3.44%) Retail
7 20 (3.27%) Documentation Skills
8 19 (3.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 18 (2.95%) Legal
9 18 (2.95%) Public Sector
10 17 (2.78%) Financial Institution
11 15 (2.45%) Telecoms
12 13 (2.13%) Organisational Skills
13 12 (1.96%) Marketing
14 11 (1.80%) Back Office
15 10 (1.64%) Presentation Skills
16 8 (1.31%) Influencing Skills
17 7 (1.15%) Advertising
17 7 (1.15%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 94 (15.38%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 69 (11.29%) Support Engineer
3 67 (10.97%) Cloud Engineer
4 66 (10.80%) Senior
5 57 (9.33%) IT Support
6 53 (8.67%) IT Engineer
7 47 (7.69%) Analyst
8 42 (6.87%) Lead
9 38 (6.22%) IT Manager
10 33 (5.40%) DevOps Engineer
11 30 (4.91%) Azure Engineer
12 28 (4.58%) IT Support Engineer
13 26 (4.26%) Infrastructure Manager
13 26 (4.26%) Support Analyst
14 25 (4.09%) Architect
15 23 (3.76%) Head of IT
15 23 (3.76%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
15 23 (3.76%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
15 23 (3.76%) Support Technician
16 22 (3.60%) DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (2.29%) SAML
2 13 (2.13%) OAuth
3 10 (1.64%) ADO
3 10 (1.64%) REST
3 10 (1.64%) YAML
4 9 (1.47%) EDI
5 8 (1.31%) LDAP
5 8 (1.31%) PySpark
6 7 (1.15%) .NET
6 7 (1.15%) Elastic Stack
7 6 (0.98%) ARM Templates
7 6 (0.98%) LAPP Stack
7 6 (0.98%) Loki
7 6 (0.98%) Middleware
7 6 (0.98%) RESTful
7 6 (0.98%) WebSphere MQ
8 4 (0.65%) AWS SAM
8 4 (0.65%) Kafka
8 4 (0.65%) SOAP
9 3 (0.49%) RAML
Miscellaneous
1 47 (7.69%) Hybrid Cloud
2 46 (7.53%) Management Information System
3 36 (5.89%) Enterprise Software
4 34 (5.56%) Onboarding
5 28 (4.58%) Data Centre
6 25 (4.09%) Public Cloud
7 24 (3.93%) Replication
8 23 (3.76%) Cloud Native
9 19 (3.11%) Clustering
10 14 (2.29%) CMDB
10 14 (2.29%) Cyber Threat
10 14 (2.29%) Data Protection Act
10 14 (2.29%) PKI
11 13 (2.13%) Self-Motivation
12 12 (1.96%) Driving Licence
13 10 (1.64%) Security Posture
14 9 (1.47%) Product Ownership
15 8 (1.31%) Operational Technology
16 7 (1.15%) Cyber Security Posture
16 7 (1.15%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 214 (35.02%) Windows
2 154 (25.20%) Windows Server
3 90 (14.73%) Linux
4 29 (4.75%) Windows 10
5 21 (3.44%) Unix
6 20 (3.27%) VMS
7 17 (2.78%) Mac OS
8 15 (2.45%) Apple iOS
9 14 (2.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 7 (1.15%) Android
11 6 (0.98%) Windows Server 2019
12 4 (0.65%) Rocky
13 3 (0.49%) CentOS
13 3 (0.49%) Ubuntu
14 2 (0.33%) Windows Server 2012
14 2 (0.33%) zOS
15 1 (0.16%) AIX
15 1 (0.16%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 193 (31.59%) Business Continuity
2 150 (24.55%) Problem-Solving
3 149 (24.39%) Cybersecurity
4 141 (23.08%) ITIL
5 134 (21.93%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 128 (20.95%) High Availability
7 126 (20.62%) DevOps
8 106 (17.35%) Infrastructure as Code
9 102 (16.69%) Continuous Improvement
10 95 (15.55%) CI/CD
11 81 (13.26%) Incident Response
12 76 (12.44%) Migration
13 69 (11.29%) ITSM
14 68 (11.13%) Computer Science
15 65 (10.64%) Service Delivery
16 58 (9.49%) Change Management
16 58 (9.49%) Stakeholder Management
17 57 (9.33%) Service Management
18 56 (9.17%) Data Protection
19 55 (9.00%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 148 (24.22%) PowerShell
2 105 (17.18%) Python
3 76 (12.44%) SQL
4 37 (6.06%) Bash
5 18 (2.95%) Java
6 12 (1.96%) Go
7 10 (1.64%) Bicep
7 10 (1.64%) JavaScript
7 10 (1.64%) Kusto Query Language
8 8 (1.31%) Scala
8 8 (1.31%) T-SQL
9 6 (0.98%) Shell Script
9 6 (0.98%) VBScript
10 5 (0.82%) C#
11 4 (0.65%) TypeScript
12 2 (0.33%) COBOL
12 2 (0.33%) JCL
13 1 (0.16%) Korn
13 1 (0.16%) Perl
13 1 (0.16%) VBA
Qualifications
1 117 (19.15%) Degree
2 51 (8.35%) Azure Certification
3 47 (7.69%) Computer Science Degree
3 47 (7.69%) Microsoft Certification
4 39 (6.38%) Security Cleared
5 35 (5.73%) AWS Certification
6 22 (3.60%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 22 (3.60%) CISSP
6 22 (3.60%) SC Cleared
7 20 (3.27%) Cisco Certification
8 16 (2.62%) CCNP
9 14 (2.29%) ITIL Certification
10 13 (2.13%) CEH
10 13 (2.13%) CISM
10 13 (2.13%) HNC
10 13 (2.13%) Master's Degree
11 12 (1.96%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 12 (1.96%) MCP
12 11 (1.80%) MCSA
12 11 (1.80%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 92 (15.06%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 70 (11.46%) GDPR
3 49 (8.02%) Cyber Essentials
4 44 (7.20%) SLA
5 43 (7.04%) NIST
6 29 (4.75%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 17 (2.78%) SOC 2
8 13 (2.13%) PCI DSS
9 11 (1.80%) ISO 22301
10 8 (1.31%) Data Quality
10 8 (1.31%) ISAE 3402
11 6 (0.98%) QA
12 5 (0.82%) GRC
12 5 (0.82%) NCSC
13 3 (0.49%) Actionable Recommendations
13 3 (0.49%) Basel III
13 3 (0.49%) COBIT
13 3 (0.49%) GxP
13 3 (0.49%) ISO/IEC 20000
13 3 (0.49%) MiFID
System Software
1 201 (32.90%) Active Directory
2 111 (18.17%) VMware Infrastructure
3 84 (13.75%) Hyper-V
4 55 (9.00%) Docker
5 33 (5.40%) Virtual Machines
6 24 (3.93%) vSphere
7 14 (2.29%) Virtual Servers
8 11 (1.80%) VMware ESXi
9 9 (1.47%) Oracle RAC
10 8 (1.31%) vCloud
11 7 (1.15%) Virtual Desktop
12 6 (0.98%) Firmware
13 4 (0.65%) BitLocker
14 2 (0.33%) Microsoft Virtual Server
14 2 (0.33%) NFS
14 2 (0.33%) RACF
14 2 (0.33%) Squid
14 2 (0.33%) XenDesktop
15 1 (0.16%) EMC RecoverPoint
15 1 (0.16%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 108 (17.68%) Terraform
2 103 (16.86%) Microsoft Intune
3 73 (11.95%) Kubernetes
4 65 (10.64%) Ansible
5 22 (3.60%) Prometheus
6 21 (3.44%) Grafana
7 12 (1.96%) Nagios
7 12 (1.96%) SCCM
8 11 (1.80%) Data Guard
9 9 (1.47%) Oracle RMAN
10 8 (1.31%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
10 8 (1.31%) Puppet
10 8 (1.31%) vCenter Server
11 7 (1.15%) Avamar
11 7 (1.15%) FortiGate
12 6 (0.98%) Failover Clustering
12 6 (0.98%) Single Sign-On
13 5 (0.82%) Nessus
13 5 (0.82%) SCOM
14 4 (0.65%) VxRail
Vendors
1 300 (49.10%) Microsoft
2 149 (24.39%) VMware
3 51 (8.35%) Cisco
4 40 (6.55%) Dell
5 30 (4.91%) Veeam
6 29 (4.75%) Oracle
7 27 (4.42%) Palo Alto
8 23 (3.76%) Commvault
9 21 (3.44%) Fortinet
10 19 (3.11%) Google
11 18 (2.95%) Dynatrace
12 17 (2.78%) HP
13 16 (2.62%) Dell Compellent
13 16 (2.62%) Nimble Storage
14 13 (2.13%) Adobe
14 13 (2.13%) IBM
15 12 (1.96%) Red Hat
15 12 (1.96%) Zscaler
16 11 (1.80%) Meraki
16 11 (1.80%) ServiceNow