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 15 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 198 255 211
Rank change year-on-year +57 -44 +91
Permanent jobs citing Disaster Recovery 950 574 1,407
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.02% 1.29% 1.30%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.40% 1.39% 1.59%
Number of salaries quoted 728 455 1,133
10th Percentile £32,750 £37,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,500 £46,563 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £62,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +13.64% -4.35%
75th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £93,500 £90,000 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -13.64% +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 67,867 41,257 88,577
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 72.84% 92.63% 82.08%
Number of salaries quoted 46,626 22,001 62,691
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,822 £29,629
25th Percentile £41,250 £39,353 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -9.54%
75th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +5.00% - -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 15 June 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 15 June 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 +46 847 £58,446 -6.86% 306
UK excluding London +48 549 £47,500 -13.64% 234
London +43 342 £75,000 +3.45% 117
Work from Home +79 281 £60,000 +9.09% 124
North of England +53 203 £47,500 -13.64% 43
South East +13 128 £51,250 -6.82% 80
Yorkshire +36 104 £47,500 -24.00% 18
Midlands +35 97 £52,500 +6.60% 47
North West +35 81 £50,000 -9.09% 22
West Midlands +37 74 £52,500 -8.70% 28
East of England -10 41 £45,000 -15.09% 18
South West -92 31 £42,500 -22.73% 28
Scotland +27 26 £39,400 -28.36% 11
East Midlands -13 22 £55,000 +37.50% 19
North East -47 18 £42,500 -15.00% 3
Wales -34 14 £43,000 -14.00% 7
Northern Ireland -26 7 - - 6
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
1 112 (11.79%) Microsoft Exchange
2 103 (10.84%) SharePoint
3 13 (1.37%) IIS
4 4 (0.42%) Apache Spark
5 3 (0.32%) Apache
5 3 (0.32%) Confluence
6 2 (0.21%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.21%) WordPress
7 1 (0.11%) BizTalk Server
7 1 (0.11%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.11%) Site Server
7 1 (0.11%) WebLogic
Applications
1 21 (2.21%) Microsoft Office
2 15 (1.58%) MS Visio
3 9 (0.95%) PlantUML
4 3 (0.32%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 9 (0.95%) FLEXCUBE
2 4 (0.42%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (0.42%) NetSuite
3 3 (0.32%) Oracle EBS
3 3 (0.32%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.21%) Sage 200
4 2 (0.21%) SAP ERP
5 1 (0.11%) Elite 3E
5 1 (0.11%) Markit EDM
5 1 (0.11%) Misys Equation
5 1 (0.11%) Misys Midas
5 1 (0.11%) Q-Pulse
5 1 (0.11%) SAP EHS
Cloud Services
1 491 (51.68%) Azure
2 298 (31.37%) Microsoft 365
3 177 (18.63%) Entra ID
4 142 (14.95%) AWS
5 63 (6.63%) SaaS
6 57 (6.00%) Nutanix
7 56 (5.89%) IaaS
8 49 (5.16%) Datadog
9 48 (5.05%) PaaS
10 40 (4.21%) Azure DevOps
11 34 (3.58%) Azure Monitor
12 33 (3.47%) GitHub
12 33 (3.47%) Power Platform
13 31 (3.26%) GCP
13 31 (3.26%) Microsoft Purview
14 25 (2.63%) Cloud Computing
15 24 (2.53%) GitHub Actions
16 23 (2.42%) OneDrive
17 21 (2.21%) Azure AKS
18 20 (2.11%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 300 (31.58%) Firewall
2 211 (22.21%) DNS
3 190 (20.00%) VPN
4 161 (16.95%) DHCP
5 137 (14.42%) WAN
6 105 (11.05%) VLAN
7 97 (10.21%) LAN
8 83 (8.74%) Network Security
9 78 (8.21%) Wi-Fi
10 75 (7.89%) TCP/IP
11 66 (6.95%) SAN
12 44 (4.63%) Wireless
13 30 (3.16%) SD-WAN
14 27 (2.84%) SSL
15 26 (2.74%) Cisco ISE
16 24 (2.53%) VoIP
17 22 (2.32%) Remote Desktop
18 21 (2.21%) Internet
19 17 (1.79%) BGP
19 17 (1.79%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 83 (8.74%) SQL Server
2 31 (3.26%) Amazon RDS
3 22 (2.32%) Azure SQL Database
4 16 (1.68%) Power BI
5 12 (1.26%) PostgreSQL
6 10 (1.05%) MySQL
7 9 (0.95%) Data Lake
7 9 (0.95%) Delta Lake
8 8 (0.84%) Data Warehouse
8 8 (0.84%) Oracle Database
9 7 (0.74%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 5 (0.53%) Geospatial Data
10 5 (0.53%) GIS
10 5 (0.53%) MongoDB
10 5 (0.53%) NoSQL
10 5 (0.53%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 4 (0.42%) Amazon Aurora
11 4 (0.42%) Elasticsearch
11 4 (0.42%) SQL Server Analysis Services
12 3 (0.32%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 19 (2.00%) Chocolatey
2 18 (1.89%) Git
3 13 (1.37%) JIRA
4 6 (0.63%) Jenkins
4 6 (0.63%) Visual Studio Code
5 5 (0.53%) GitLab
6 4 (0.42%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 4 (0.42%) MLflow
7 3 (0.32%) LabVIEW
7 3 (0.32%) Selenium
8 2 (0.21%) Bitbucket
8 2 (0.21%) JUnit
8 2 (0.21%) Spock
8 2 (0.21%) TeamCity
8 2 (0.21%) Terragrunt
9 1 (0.11%) Artifactory
9 1 (0.11%) Sonatype Nexus
9 1 (0.11%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
9 1 (0.11%) Team Foundation Server
9 1 (0.11%) Yeoman
General
1 349 (36.74%) Social Skills
2 171 (18.00%) Finance
3 141 (14.84%) Analytical Skills
4 66 (6.95%) Banking
5 50 (5.26%) Legal
6 44 (4.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 43 (4.53%) Law
8 37 (3.89%) Public Sector
9 34 (3.58%) Organisational Skills
10 26 (2.74%) Manufacturing
11 25 (2.63%) Retail
12 18 (1.89%) Documentation Skills
12 18 (1.89%) Influencing Skills
12 18 (1.89%) Telecoms
13 15 (1.58%) Back Office
14 10 (1.05%) Advertising
14 10 (1.05%) Financial Institution
15 9 (0.95%) Mandarin Language
16 7 (0.74%) French Language
16 7 (0.74%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 191 (20.11%) Senior
2 153 (16.11%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 131 (13.79%) IT Support
4 111 (11.68%) IT Engineer
5 88 (9.26%) Support Engineer
6 80 (8.42%) Cloud Engineer
7 72 (7.58%) IT Support Engineer
8 70 (7.37%) IT Manager
9 65 (6.84%) Lead
10 60 (6.32%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
11 59 (6.21%) Analyst
12 57 (6.00%) Azure Engineer
13 56 (5.89%) Architect
14 38 (4.00%) Platform Engineer
15 33 (3.47%) Administrator
16 31 (3.26%) Network Engineer
17 29 (3.05%) Security Engineer
17 29 (3.05%) Security Manager
18 28 (2.95%) Senior Cloud Engineer
19 27 (2.84%) IT Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (1.47%) SAML
2 10 (1.05%) Middleware
3 9 (0.95%) ARM Templates
3 9 (0.95%) OAuth
3 9 (0.95%) PySpark
4 8 (0.84%) Microsoft Graph
4 8 (0.84%) YAML
5 7 (0.74%) ADO
5 7 (0.74%) Kafka
5 7 (0.74%) REST
6 5 (0.53%) RESTful
7 4 (0.42%) .NET
7 4 (0.42%) FIX Protocol
7 4 (0.42%) Loki
7 4 (0.42%) web3js
8 3 (0.32%) JSON
8 3 (0.32%) Node.js
8 3 (0.32%) ODBC
8 3 (0.32%) Playwright
9 2 (0.21%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 93 (9.79%) Data Centre
2 71 (7.47%) Management Information System
3 64 (6.74%) Hybrid Cloud
4 55 (5.79%) Driving Licence
5 52 (5.47%) Replication
6 49 (5.16%) Cloud Native
7 45 (4.74%) Security Posture
8 40 (4.21%) Cyber Threat
9 38 (4.00%) Onboarding
10 34 (3.58%) Self-Motivation
11 32 (3.37%) PKI
12 31 (3.26%) Data Protection Act
12 31 (3.26%) Public Cloud
13 29 (3.05%) Enterprise Storage
14 24 (2.53%) NHS
15 23 (2.42%) CMDB
16 16 (1.68%) Clustering
16 16 (1.68%) Legacy Systems
16 16 (1.68%) Virtual Team
17 14 (1.47%) iSeries
Operating Systems
1 329 (34.63%) Windows
2 214 (22.53%) Windows Server
3 85 (8.95%) Linux
4 22 (2.32%) Windows Server 2019
5 21 (2.21%) Mac OS
5 21 (2.21%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 19 (2.00%) Windows 10
7 18 (1.89%) Windows Server 2016
8 14 (1.47%) Unix
9 13 (1.37%) Ubuntu
10 11 (1.16%) Apple iOS
11 10 (1.05%) VMS
12 9 (0.95%) AIX
12 9 (0.95%) CentOS
12 9 (0.95%) Oracle Linux
13 6 (0.63%) Solaris
14 3 (0.32%) Android
15 2 (0.21%) Amazon Linux
15 2 (0.21%) Debian
15 2 (0.21%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 340 (35.79%) Business Continuity
2 300 (31.58%) Cybersecurity
3 240 (25.26%) Problem-Solving
4 231 (24.32%) Continuous Improvement
5 199 (20.95%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 199 (20.95%) ITIL
6 148 (15.58%) High Availability
7 146 (15.37%) Incident Response
8 121 (12.74%) DevOps
9 114 (12.00%) Service Delivery
10 110 (11.58%) Infrastructure as Code
11 105 (11.05%) Cloud Security
12 104 (10.95%) Stakeholder Management
13 97 (10.21%) Data Protection
14 93 (9.79%) Migration
15 92 (9.68%) Change Management
16 88 (9.26%) Risk Management
16 88 (9.26%) Service Management
17 87 (9.16%) CI/CD
18 86 (9.05%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 150 (15.79%) PowerShell
2 98 (10.32%) SQL
3 96 (10.11%) Python
4 42 (4.42%) Bash
5 14 (1.47%) Shell Script
6 12 (1.26%) Bicep
7 11 (1.16%) Java
8 9 (0.95%) JavaScript
8 9 (0.95%) Korn
9 8 (0.84%) Kusto Query Language
9 8 (0.84%) PL/SQL
10 7 (0.74%) T-SQL
10 7 (0.74%) TypeScript
11 6 (0.63%) Scala
12 5 (0.53%) C#
13 3 (0.32%) Go
14 2 (0.21%) RPG
14 2 (0.21%) Ruby
15 1 (0.11%) COBOL
15 1 (0.11%) Perl
Qualifications
1 110 (11.58%) Degree
2 76 (8.00%) Cisco Certification
3 70 (7.37%) Microsoft Certification
4 62 (6.53%) Azure Certification
5 59 (6.21%) CCNP
6 49 (5.16%) Security Cleared
7 40 (4.21%) Computer Science Degree
8 39 (4.11%) CCNA
9 37 (3.89%) SC Cleared
10 27 (2.84%) CISSP
10 27 (2.84%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 25 (2.63%) Postgraduate
12 16 (1.68%) CEH
13 15 (1.58%) CISM
14 13 (1.37%) MCSE
15 12 (1.26%) AWS Certification
16 10 (1.05%) Master's Degree
16 10 (1.05%) VCAP
17 9 (0.95%) CompTIA Security+
17 9 (0.95%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 145 (15.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 107 (11.26%) Cyber Essentials
3 102 (10.74%) GDPR
4 92 (9.68%) NIST
5 60 (6.32%) SLA
6 48 (5.05%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 48 (5.05%) PCI DSS
7 29 (3.05%) PMO
8 23 (2.42%) GRC
8 23 (2.42%) SOC 2
9 20 (2.11%) Data Quality
10 19 (2.00%) ISO 22301
11 12 (1.26%) COBIT
12 11 (1.16%) Actionable Recommendations
13 10 (1.05%) NCSC
14 6 (0.63%) QA
15 5 (0.53%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
15 5 (0.53%) SOC 1
16 4 (0.42%) HIPAA
16 4 (0.42%) HL7
System Software
1 281 (29.58%) Active Directory
2 223 (23.47%) VMware Infrastructure
3 135 (14.21%) Hyper-V
4 40 (4.21%) vSphere
5 30 (3.16%) Docker
6 28 (2.95%) Virtual Machines
7 20 (2.11%) Firmware
8 19 (2.00%) Virtual Desktop
8 19 (2.00%) VMware ESXi
9 10 (1.05%) Oracle RAC
9 10 (1.05%) VMware NSX
10 9 (0.95%) vCloud
11 6 (0.63%) KVM
11 6 (0.63%) Virtual Servers
12 3 (0.32%) DFS Replication
12 3 (0.32%) EMC RecoverPoint
12 3 (0.32%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 3 (0.32%) VMware Server
13 2 (0.21%) VMware Workstation
14 1 (0.11%) Xen
Systems Management
1 134 (14.11%) Microsoft Intune
2 118 (12.42%) Terraform
3 65 (6.84%) Ansible
4 61 (6.42%) Kubernetes
5 28 (2.95%) SCCM
6 25 (2.63%) Single Sign-On
7 22 (2.32%) VxRail
8 21 (2.21%) FortiGate
9 9 (0.95%) Data Guard
9 9 (0.95%) Grafana
9 9 (0.95%) Nagios
9 9 (0.95%) Packer
9 9 (0.95%) Prometheus
9 9 (0.95%) vCenter Server
10 8 (0.84%) Dell DRAC
10 8 (0.84%) Oracle RMAN
11 7 (0.74%) EMC NetWorker
11 7 (0.74%) Jamf Pro
12 6 (0.63%) Avamar
12 6 (0.63%) EMC VPLEX
Vendors
1 478 (50.32%) Microsoft
2 293 (30.84%) VMware
3 130 (13.68%) Cisco
4 68 (7.16%) Veeam
5 54 (5.68%) Dell
6 49 (5.16%) Palo Alto
7 42 (4.42%) HP
8 35 (3.68%) Meraki
9 34 (3.58%) Commvault
10 33 (3.47%) Nimble Storage
10 33 (3.47%) Splunk
11 30 (3.16%) Tenable
12 27 (2.84%) EMC
13 26 (2.74%) Fortinet
13 26 (2.74%) Oracle
14 25 (2.63%) Sophos
15 24 (2.53%) SolarWinds
16 23 (2.42%) Dynatrace
16 23 (2.42%) Google
17 22 (2.32%) Zscaler