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

6 months to
17 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 197 249 216
Rank change year-on-year +52 -33 +84
Permanent jobs citing Disaster Recovery 965 572 1,410
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.03% 1.28% 1.30%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.42% 1.39% 1.59%
Number of salaries quoted 732 457 1,132
10th Percentile £32,775 £37,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,500 £46,250 £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 £93,450 £91,250 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £48,625 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -11.59% +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 68,162 41,264 88,785
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 72.90% 92.57% 81.89%
Number of salaries quoted 46,887 22,044 62,842
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,822 £29,607
25th Percentile £41,250 £39,000 £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 £91,991
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 17 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 17 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 +41 862 £58,446 -7.23% 350
UK excluding London +44 561 £48,625 -11.59% 320
London +37 345 £75,000 +3.45% 109
Work from Home +81 284 £60,000 +6.67% 216
North of England +69 208 £47,500 -13.64% 57
South East +19 132 £50,000 -9.09% 94
Yorkshire +36 106 £47,500 -24.00% 23
Midlands +36 97 £54,000 +17.39% 55
North West +40 84 £50,000 -9.09% 28
West Midlands +37 74 £52,500 -8.70% 29
East of England -2 42 £45,000 -15.09% 26
South West -83 33 £42,500 -22.73% 37
Scotland +23 26 £39,400 -28.36% 27
East Midlands -25 22 £55,000 +37.50% 26
North East -47 18 £42,500 -15.00% 6
Wales -29 14 £43,000 -14.00% 17
Northern Ireland -24 7 - - 14
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
1 111 (11.50%) Microsoft Exchange
2 104 (10.78%) SharePoint
3 15 (1.55%) IIS
4 4 (0.41%) Apache Spark
5 3 (0.31%) Apache
5 3 (0.31%) Confluence
6 2 (0.21%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.21%) WordPress
7 1 (0.10%) BizTalk Server
7 1 (0.10%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.10%) Site Server
7 1 (0.10%) WebLogic
Applications
1 21 (2.18%) Microsoft Office
2 15 (1.55%) MS Visio
3 10 (1.04%) PlantUML
4 4 (0.41%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 10 (1.04%) FLEXCUBE
2 4 (0.41%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (0.41%) NetSuite
3 3 (0.31%) Oracle EBS
3 3 (0.31%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.21%) Sage 200
4 2 (0.21%) SAP ERP
5 1 (0.10%) Elite 3E
5 1 (0.10%) Markit EDM
5 1 (0.10%) Misys Equation
5 1 (0.10%) Misys Midas
5 1 (0.10%) Q-Pulse
5 1 (0.10%) SAP EHS
Cloud Services
1 494 (51.19%) Azure
2 300 (31.09%) Microsoft 365
3 179 (18.55%) Entra ID
4 145 (15.03%) AWS
5 63 (6.53%) SaaS
6 56 (5.80%) IaaS
7 55 (5.70%) Nutanix
8 48 (4.97%) Datadog
8 48 (4.97%) PaaS
9 41 (4.25%) Azure DevOps
10 34 (3.52%) Azure Monitor
10 34 (3.52%) GitHub
10 34 (3.52%) Power Platform
11 31 (3.21%) GCP
12 30 (3.11%) Microsoft Purview
13 28 (2.90%) Cloud Computing
14 25 (2.59%) GitHub Actions
15 23 (2.38%) OneDrive
16 21 (2.18%) Azure AKS
17 20 (2.07%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 304 (31.50%) Firewall
2 212 (21.97%) DNS
3 192 (19.90%) VPN
4 163 (16.89%) DHCP
5 138 (14.30%) WAN
6 104 (10.78%) VLAN
7 100 (10.36%) LAN
8 83 (8.60%) Network Security
9 79 (8.19%) Wi-Fi
10 77 (7.98%) TCP/IP
11 63 (6.53%) SAN
12 43 (4.46%) Wireless
13 29 (3.01%) SD-WAN
14 26 (2.69%) Cisco ISE
14 26 (2.69%) SSL
15 24 (2.49%) Internet
15 24 (2.49%) VoIP
16 22 (2.28%) Remote Desktop
17 17 (1.76%) BGP
17 17 (1.76%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 83 (8.60%) SQL Server
2 31 (3.21%) Amazon RDS
3 23 (2.38%) Azure SQL Database
4 17 (1.76%) Power BI
5 13 (1.35%) PostgreSQL
6 10 (1.04%) MySQL
7 9 (0.93%) Data Lake
7 9 (0.93%) Delta Lake
7 9 (0.93%) Oracle Database
8 8 (0.83%) Data Warehouse
9 7 (0.73%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 5 (0.52%) Geospatial Data
10 5 (0.52%) GIS
10 5 (0.52%) MongoDB
10 5 (0.52%) NoSQL
10 5 (0.52%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 4 (0.41%) Amazon Aurora
11 4 (0.41%) Elasticsearch
11 4 (0.41%) SQL Server Analysis Services
12 3 (0.31%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 19 (1.97%) Git
2 18 (1.87%) Chocolatey
3 13 (1.35%) JIRA
4 6 (0.62%) GitLab
4 6 (0.62%) Jenkins
4 6 (0.62%) Visual Studio Code
5 4 (0.41%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 4 (0.41%) MLflow
6 3 (0.31%) Selenium
7 2 (0.21%) Bitbucket
7 2 (0.21%) JUnit
7 2 (0.21%) LabVIEW
7 2 (0.21%) Spock
7 2 (0.21%) TeamCity
7 2 (0.21%) Terragrunt
8 1 (0.10%) Artifactory
8 1 (0.10%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (0.10%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 1 (0.10%) Team Foundation Server
8 1 (0.10%) Yeoman
General
1 354 (36.68%) Social Skills
2 174 (18.03%) Finance
3 139 (14.40%) Analytical Skills
4 67 (6.94%) Banking
5 53 (5.49%) Legal
6 45 (4.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 43 (4.46%) Law
8 36 (3.73%) Public Sector
9 34 (3.52%) Organisational Skills
10 26 (2.69%) Manufacturing
10 26 (2.69%) Retail
11 20 (2.07%) Documentation Skills
12 18 (1.87%) Influencing Skills
12 18 (1.87%) Telecoms
13 17 (1.76%) Back Office
14 10 (1.04%) Advertising
14 10 (1.04%) Financial Institution
15 9 (0.93%) Mandarin Language
16 7 (0.73%) French Language
16 7 (0.73%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 192 (19.90%) Senior
2 153 (15.85%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 137 (14.20%) IT Support
4 112 (11.61%) IT Engineer
5 91 (9.43%) Support Engineer
6 78 (8.08%) Cloud Engineer
7 73 (7.56%) IT Support Engineer
8 72 (7.46%) IT Manager
9 65 (6.74%) Lead
10 59 (6.11%) Analyst
10 59 (6.11%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
11 57 (5.91%) Architect
12 56 (5.80%) Azure Engineer
13 38 (3.94%) Platform Engineer
14 33 (3.42%) Administrator
15 31 (3.21%) Network Engineer
16 30 (3.11%) Security Manager
17 29 (3.01%) Security Engineer
18 28 (2.90%) IT Analyst
19 27 (2.80%) Senior Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (1.45%) SAML
2 13 (1.35%) Middleware
3 9 (0.93%) ARM Templates
3 9 (0.93%) OAuth
3 9 (0.93%) PySpark
4 8 (0.83%) Microsoft Graph
4 8 (0.83%) YAML
5 7 (0.73%) ADO
5 7 (0.73%) Kafka
5 7 (0.73%) REST
6 5 (0.52%) RESTful
7 4 (0.41%) .NET
7 4 (0.41%) FIX Protocol
7 4 (0.41%) Loki
7 4 (0.41%) web3js
8 3 (0.31%) JSON
8 3 (0.31%) Node.js
8 3 (0.31%) ODBC
8 3 (0.31%) Playwright
9 2 (0.21%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 94 (9.74%) Data Centre
2 72 (7.46%) Management Information System
3 63 (6.53%) Hybrid Cloud
4 55 (5.70%) Driving Licence
5 52 (5.39%) Cloud Native
5 52 (5.39%) Replication
6 46 (4.77%) Security Posture
7 40 (4.15%) Cyber Threat
8 39 (4.04%) Onboarding
9 36 (3.73%) Self-Motivation
10 32 (3.32%) Data Protection Act
10 32 (3.32%) PKI
11 31 (3.21%) Public Cloud
12 30 (3.11%) Enterprise Storage
13 27 (2.80%) NHS
14 23 (2.38%) CMDB
15 17 (1.76%) Clustering
15 17 (1.76%) Virtual Team
16 16 (1.66%) Legacy Systems
17 14 (1.45%) CCTV
Operating Systems
1 334 (34.61%) Windows
2 219 (22.69%) Windows Server
3 88 (9.12%) Linux
4 23 (2.38%) Windows Server 2019
5 22 (2.28%) Mac OS
5 22 (2.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 19 (1.97%) Windows 10
7 18 (1.87%) Windows Server 2016
8 15 (1.55%) Unix
9 13 (1.35%) Ubuntu
10 11 (1.14%) Apple iOS
11 10 (1.04%) AIX
11 10 (1.04%) Oracle Linux
11 10 (1.04%) VMS
12 9 (0.93%) CentOS
13 6 (0.62%) Solaris
14 3 (0.31%) Android
15 2 (0.21%) Amazon Linux
15 2 (0.21%) Debian
15 2 (0.21%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 347 (35.96%) Business Continuity
2 307 (31.81%) Cybersecurity
3 246 (25.49%) Problem-Solving
4 235 (24.35%) Continuous Improvement
5 200 (20.73%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 199 (20.62%) ITIL
7 155 (16.06%) High Availability
8 151 (15.65%) Incident Response
9 124 (12.85%) DevOps
10 116 (12.02%) Service Delivery
11 114 (11.81%) Infrastructure as Code
12 109 (11.30%) Cloud Security
13 106 (10.98%) Stakeholder Management
14 99 (10.26%) Data Protection
15 94 (9.74%) Change Management
16 92 (9.53%) Migration
17 91 (9.43%) Risk Management
18 90 (9.33%) CI/CD
19 89 (9.22%) Service Management
20 88 (9.12%) Incident Management
Programming Languages
1 151 (15.65%) PowerShell
2 103 (10.67%) SQL
3 96 (9.95%) Python
4 44 (4.56%) Bash
5 15 (1.55%) Shell Script
6 12 (1.24%) Bicep
7 11 (1.14%) Java
8 10 (1.04%) Korn
9 9 (0.93%) JavaScript
9 9 (0.93%) Kusto Query Language
9 9 (0.93%) PL/SQL
10 7 (0.73%) T-SQL
10 7 (0.73%) TypeScript
11 6 (0.62%) Scala
12 5 (0.52%) C#
13 3 (0.31%) Go
14 2 (0.21%) RPG
14 2 (0.21%) Ruby
14 2 (0.21%) Search Processing Language
15 1 (0.10%) COBOL
Qualifications
1 110 (11.40%) Degree
2 76 (7.88%) Cisco Certification
3 69 (7.15%) Microsoft Certification
4 61 (6.32%) Azure Certification
5 59 (6.11%) CCNP
6 49 (5.08%) Security Cleared
7 39 (4.04%) CCNA
7 39 (4.04%) Computer Science Degree
8 36 (3.73%) SC Cleared
9 31 (3.21%) CISSP
10 28 (2.90%) Postgraduate
11 27 (2.80%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 18 (1.87%) CISM
13 15 (1.55%) CEH
14 13 (1.35%) MCSE
15 12 (1.24%) AWS Certification
16 10 (1.04%) CISA
16 10 (1.04%) CompTIA Security+
16 10 (1.04%) Master's Degree
16 10 (1.04%) VCAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 147 (15.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 110 (11.40%) Cyber Essentials
3 104 (10.78%) GDPR
4 92 (9.53%) NIST
5 59 (6.11%) SLA
6 49 (5.08%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 48 (4.97%) PCI DSS
8 29 (3.01%) PMO
9 24 (2.49%) SOC 2
10 23 (2.38%) GRC
11 21 (2.18%) Data Quality
12 18 (1.87%) ISO 22301
13 13 (1.35%) COBIT
14 11 (1.14%) Actionable Recommendations
15 10 (1.04%) NCSC
16 6 (0.62%) QA
16 6 (0.62%) SOC 1
17 5 (0.52%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
18 4 (0.41%) HIPAA
18 4 (0.41%) HL7
System Software
1 279 (28.91%) Active Directory
2 227 (23.52%) VMware Infrastructure
3 139 (14.40%) Hyper-V
4 39 (4.04%) vSphere
5 32 (3.32%) Docker
6 29 (3.01%) Virtual Machines
7 20 (2.07%) Firmware
8 19 (1.97%) Virtual Desktop
8 19 (1.97%) VMware ESXi
9 11 (1.14%) Oracle RAC
10 10 (1.04%) VMware NSX
11 9 (0.93%) vCloud
12 6 (0.62%) KVM
12 6 (0.62%) Virtual Servers
13 3 (0.31%) DFS Replication
13 3 (0.31%) EMC RecoverPoint
13 3 (0.31%) Microsoft Virtual Server
13 3 (0.31%) VMware Server
14 2 (0.21%) VMware Workstation
15 1 (0.10%) Xen
Systems Management
1 135 (13.99%) Microsoft Intune
2 121 (12.54%) Terraform
3 68 (7.05%) Ansible
4 62 (6.42%) Kubernetes
5 27 (2.80%) SCCM
6 25 (2.59%) Single Sign-On
7 22 (2.28%) FortiGate
8 21 (2.18%) VxRail
9 11 (1.14%) Grafana
9 11 (1.14%) Prometheus
10 10 (1.04%) Data Guard
10 10 (1.04%) Nagios
10 10 (1.04%) vCenter Server
11 9 (0.93%) Oracle RMAN
11 9 (0.93%) Packer
12 8 (0.83%) Dell DRAC
12 8 (0.83%) Jamf Pro
13 7 (0.73%) EMC NetWorker
14 6 (0.62%) Avamar
14 6 (0.62%) EMC VPLEX
Vendors
1 481 (49.84%) Microsoft
2 294 (30.47%) VMware
3 134 (13.89%) Cisco
4 68 (7.05%) Veeam
5 53 (5.49%) Dell
6 52 (5.39%) Palo Alto
7 42 (4.35%) HP
8 34 (3.52%) Meraki
8 34 (3.52%) Splunk
9 33 (3.42%) Nimble Storage
10 32 (3.32%) Commvault
11 29 (3.01%) Tenable
12 27 (2.80%) Oracle
13 26 (2.69%) EMC
13 26 (2.69%) Fortinet
14 25 (2.59%) Sophos
15 24 (2.49%) Google
15 24 (2.49%) SolarWinds
16 23 (2.38%) IBM
17 22 (2.28%) Zscaler