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 22 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 168 258 218
Rank change year-on-year +90 -40 +25
Permanent jobs citing Disaster Recovery 1,288 601 1,039
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.19% 1.21% 1.25%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.63% 1.35% 1.55%
Number of salaries quoted 928 470 752
10th Percentile £35,000 £33,350 £34,550
25th Percentile £42,250 £42,500 £43,911
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -5.98%
75th Percentile £77,500 £77,188 £76,250
90th Percentile £92,500 £94,125 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £51,500 £49,000
% change year-on-year -2.91% +5.10% -2.00%

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 79,126 44,376 67,104
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.31% 89.04% 80.77%
Number of salaries quoted 54,636 25,137 42,574
10th Percentile £31,000 £28,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.71%
75th Percentile £78,750 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £96,250 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +15.79% -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 22 August 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 22 August 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 +64 1,120 £57,500 -4.17% 533
UK excluding London +76 840 £50,000 -2.91% 356
London +51 400 £75,000 - 254
Work from Home +95 398 £60,000 +9.09% 216
North of England +63 236 £47,500 -11.63% 76
South East +60 221 £50,000 - 109
Midlands +33 135 £57,500 +2.22% 62
North West +57 130 £47,500 -11.63% 29
West Midlands +39 101 £58,375 +1.52% 43
Yorkshire +35 92 £47,500 -24.00% 38
South West -76 63 £50,000 +11.11% 51
East of England +7 62 £49,863 +17.32% 24
Scotland +49 52 £47,500 -13.64% 19
Northern Ireland -42 49 - - 10
East Midlands -13 34 £45,000 -14.29% 19
Wales -37 22 £45,000 -21.74% 12
North East -58 14 £48,000 -1.54% 13
Channel Islands - 2 £75,000 - 1

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
1 142 (11.02%) SharePoint
2 133 (10.33%) Microsoft Exchange
3 26 (2.02%) IIS
4 20 (1.55%) Apache
5 14 (1.09%) nginx
6 12 (0.93%) Apache Spark
7 6 (0.47%) Confluence
8 3 (0.23%) OpenStack
8 3 (0.23%) WordPress
9 2 (0.16%) Apache Airflow
9 2 (0.16%) WebLogic
10 1 (0.078%) CICS
10 1 (0.078%) Site Server
Applications
1 18 (1.40%) Microsoft Office
1 18 (1.40%) PlantUML
2 12 (0.93%) MS Visio
3 10 (0.78%) Microsoft Excel
4 3 (0.23%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.078%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 11 (0.85%) FLEXCUBE
2 6 (0.47%) Raiser’s Edge
3 5 (0.39%) JDE EnterpriseOne
3 5 (0.39%) Sage 200
4 4 (0.31%) NetSuite
5 3 (0.23%) Dynamics CRM
5 3 (0.23%) Q-Pulse
6 2 (0.16%) Adobe Campaign
6 2 (0.16%) Integrated Workplace Management System
6 2 (0.16%) SAP S/4HANA
7 1 (0.078%) Bloomberg TOMS
7 1 (0.078%) Eikon
7 1 (0.078%) Misys Equation
7 1 (0.078%) Misys Midas
7 1 (0.078%) Oracle Applications
7 1 (0.078%) Oracle EBS
7 1 (0.078%) Sage 50
7 1 (0.078%) SAP EHS
7 1 (0.078%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 669 (51.94%) Azure
2 394 (30.59%) Microsoft 365
3 251 (19.49%) AWS
4 233 (18.09%) Entra ID
5 138 (10.71%) SaaS
6 98 (7.61%) IaaS
7 74 (5.75%) PaaS
8 54 (4.19%) Power Platform
9 41 (3.18%) Cloud Computing
10 39 (3.03%) Azure DevOps
10 39 (3.03%) GCP
11 35 (2.72%) Nutanix
12 34 (2.64%) Datadog
13 30 (2.33%) Azure Monitor
13 30 (2.33%) OneDrive
14 28 (2.17%) GitHub
14 28 (2.17%) Microsoft Copilot
15 27 (2.10%) GitHub Actions
16 23 (1.79%) Amazon EC2
16 23 (1.79%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 361 (28.03%) Firewall
2 294 (22.83%) DNS
3 214 (16.61%) DHCP
3 214 (16.61%) VPN
4 161 (12.50%) WAN
5 132 (10.25%) LAN
5 132 (10.25%) VLAN
6 115 (8.93%) Wi-Fi
7 107 (8.31%) Network Security
8 100 (7.76%) TCP/IP
9 67 (5.20%) Wireless
10 64 (4.97%) SAN
11 47 (3.65%) Internet
12 38 (2.95%) SD-WAN
12 38 (2.95%) SSL
13 37 (2.87%) VoIP
14 30 (2.33%) Cisco ISE
15 24 (1.86%) Cisco Nexus
15 24 (1.86%) NAS
16 14 (1.09%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 93 (7.22%) SQL Server
2 37 (2.87%) Amazon RDS
3 33 (2.56%) Power BI
4 31 (2.41%) Azure SQL Database
5 18 (1.40%) PostgreSQL
6 15 (1.16%) Data Warehouse
7 13 (1.01%) Oracle Database
8 12 (0.93%) MySQL
9 11 (0.85%) Data Lake
10 9 (0.70%) Metadata
11 8 (0.62%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 6 (0.47%) MongoDB
12 6 (0.47%) SQL Server Analysis Services
13 5 (0.39%) NoSQL
13 5 (0.39%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 4 (0.31%) DynamoDB
14 4 (0.31%) Elasticsearch
15 3 (0.23%) Big Data
15 3 (0.23%) Delta Lake
15 3 (0.23%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 21 (1.63%) Git
1 21 (1.63%) JIRA
2 16 (1.24%) Chocolatey
3 13 (1.01%) GitLab
4 8 (0.62%) Jenkins
4 8 (0.62%) JUnit
4 8 (0.62%) Spock
5 6 (0.47%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 6 (0.47%) Visual Studio Code
6 5 (0.39%) Bitbucket
7 4 (0.31%) MLflow
8 2 (0.16%) git-flow
8 2 (0.16%) IntelliJ
8 2 (0.16%) Maven
8 2 (0.16%) Selenium
8 2 (0.16%) TeamCity
8 2 (0.16%) Terragrunt
8 2 (0.16%) Yeoman
9 1 (0.078%) Claude Code
General
1 434 (33.70%) Social Skills
2 227 (17.62%) Finance
3 173 (13.43%) Analytical Skills
4 85 (6.60%) Legal
5 76 (5.90%) Law
6 71 (5.51%) Banking
7 61 (4.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 58 (4.50%) Manufacturing
9 40 (3.11%) Documentation Skills
10 37 (2.87%) Organisational Skills
10 37 (2.87%) Retail
11 36 (2.80%) Influencing Skills
11 36 (2.80%) Public Sector
12 22 (1.71%) Telecoms
13 18 (1.40%) Back Office
14 13 (1.01%) Aerospace
14 13 (1.01%) Financial Institution
15 12 (0.93%) Mandarin Language
16 11 (0.85%) Presentation Skills
17 9 (0.70%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 245 (19.02%) Senior
2 187 (14.52%) IT Support
3 166 (12.89%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 148 (11.49%) IT Engineer
5 145 (11.26%) IT Manager
6 118 (9.16%) Support Engineer
7 99 (7.69%) Architect
7 99 (7.69%) IT Support Engineer
8 85 (6.60%) Analyst
9 71 (5.51%) Lead
10 65 (5.05%) Service Manager
11 61 (4.74%) Cloud Engineer
12 58 (4.50%) Resilience Manager
12 58 (4.50%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
13 56 (4.35%) IT Services Manager
14 55 (4.27%) Azure Engineer
15 52 (4.04%) Network Engineer
16 41 (3.18%) IT Analyst
17 39 (3.03%) Security Engineer
18 38 (2.95%) Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 163 (12.66%) Terraform
2 70 (5.43%) Middleware
3 14 (1.09%) ARM Templates
4 9 (0.70%) Kafka
5 8 (0.62%) AngularJS
5 8 (0.62%) Microsoft Graph
5 8 (0.62%) Spring
5 8 (0.62%) Web Services
6 7 (0.54%) FIX Protocol
7 5 (0.39%) .NET
7 5 (0.39%) AWS CDK
7 5 (0.39%) ModSecurity
7 5 (0.39%) SAML
8 4 (0.31%) web3js
9 3 (0.23%) 802.1X
9 3 (0.23%) EDI
9 3 (0.23%) Nuxt
9 3 (0.23%) ODBC
9 3 (0.23%) PySpark
9 3 (0.23%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 109 (8.46%) Data Centre
2 93 (7.22%) Cyber Threat
3 82 (6.37%) Management Information System
4 79 (6.13%) Cloud Native
5 69 (5.36%) Driving Licence
6 67 (5.20%) Hybrid Cloud
6 67 (5.20%) Onboarding
7 60 (4.66%) Replication
7 60 (4.66%) Security Posture
8 49 (3.80%) Self-Motivation
9 34 (2.64%) Enterprise Storage
10 32 (2.48%) PKI
11 28 (2.17%) NHS
12 26 (2.02%) CCTV
12 26 (2.02%) Enterprise Software
13 25 (1.94%) Clustering
14 22 (1.71%) Public Cloud
15 21 (1.63%) Virtual Team
16 20 (1.55%) Private Cloud
17 19 (1.48%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 433 (33.62%) Windows
2 306 (23.76%) Windows Server
3 139 (10.79%) Linux
4 33 (2.56%) Windows Server 2019
5 29 (2.25%) Windows 10
6 25 (1.94%) Mac OS
6 25 (1.94%) Ubuntu
7 24 (1.86%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 22 (1.71%) Unix
9 21 (1.63%) Windows Server 2016
10 12 (0.93%) AIX
11 10 (0.78%) Oracle Linux
12 9 (0.70%) CentOS
12 9 (0.70%) Solaris
12 9 (0.70%) VMS
13 4 (0.31%) Debian
13 4 (0.31%) Windows Server 2012
14 2 (0.16%) Amazon Linux
14 2 (0.16%) Apple iOS
14 2 (0.16%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 529 (41.07%) Business Continuity
2 392 (30.43%) Cybersecurity
3 344 (26.71%) Continuous Improvement
4 340 (26.40%) Problem-Solving
5 260 (20.19%) ITIL
6 237 (18.40%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 217 (16.85%) DevOps
8 204 (15.84%) High Availability
9 180 (13.98%) Incident Response
10 175 (13.59%) Stakeholder Management
11 171 (13.28%) Information Security
12 168 (13.04%) Infrastructure as Code
13 163 (12.66%) Service Delivery
14 148 (11.49%) Agile
15 145 (11.26%) Project Delivery
16 139 (10.79%) Mentoring
17 138 (10.71%) CI/CD
18 126 (9.78%) Risk Management
19 124 (9.63%) Cloud Security
20 122 (9.47%) AI
Programming Languages
1 192 (14.91%) PowerShell
2 129 (10.02%) Python
3 120 (9.32%) SQL
4 53 (4.11%) Bash
5 28 (2.17%) Bicep
6 23 (1.79%) Shell Script
7 18 (1.40%) Java
8 13 (1.01%) JavaScript
9 11 (0.85%) Korn
9 11 (0.85%) TypeScript
10 10 (0.78%) PL/SQL
11 6 (0.47%) Kusto Query Language
11 6 (0.47%) Search Processing Language
12 5 (0.39%) COBOL
12 5 (0.39%) T-SQL
13 4 (0.31%) C#
13 4 (0.31%) Go
14 3 (0.23%) Ruby
14 3 (0.23%) XAML
15 2 (0.16%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 149 (11.57%) Degree
2 101 (7.84%) Azure Certification
3 99 (7.69%) CISSP
4 98 (7.61%) Cisco Certification
5 89 (6.91%) Microsoft Certification
6 84 (6.52%) CISM
7 81 (6.29%) Security Cleared
8 71 (5.51%) CCNP
9 60 (4.66%) SC Cleared
10 58 (4.50%) ITIL Certification
11 51 (3.96%) CCNA
12 44 (3.42%) Computer Science Degree
13 38 (2.95%) Postgraduate
14 31 (2.41%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
15 29 (2.25%) AWS Certification
16 20 (1.55%) CompTIA Security+
17 19 (1.48%) DV Cleared
18 18 (1.40%) Master's Degree
19 15 (1.16%) CEH
19 15 (1.16%) CRISC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 140 (10.87%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 135 (10.48%) NIST
3 114 (8.85%) GDPR
4 112 (8.70%) Cyber Essentials
5 81 (6.29%) SLA
6 78 (6.06%) ISO 22301
7 51 (3.96%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 43 (3.34%) PCI DSS
9 40 (3.11%) GRC
10 28 (2.17%) Data Quality
11 25 (1.94%) PMO
12 22 (1.71%) SOC 2
13 19 (1.48%) NCSC
14 16 (1.24%) COBIT
15 14 (1.09%) QA
16 8 (0.62%) SOC 1
17 5 (0.39%) Actionable Recommendations
17 5 (0.39%) ISO 9001
17 5 (0.39%) ISO/IEC 20000
17 5 (0.39%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 347 (26.94%) Active Directory
2 288 (22.36%) VMware Infrastructure
3 192 (14.91%) Hyper-V
4 52 (4.04%) Docker
5 51 (3.96%) vSphere
6 34 (2.64%) Virtual Machines
7 29 (2.25%) VMware ESXi
8 28 (2.17%) Firmware
9 27 (2.10%) Virtual Desktop
10 15 (1.16%) VMware NSX
11 12 (0.93%) Oracle RAC
12 9 (0.70%) vCloud
13 6 (0.47%) KVM
13 6 (0.47%) Squid
14 5 (0.39%) Virtual Servers
15 3 (0.23%) DFS Replication
15 3 (0.23%) EMC RecoverPoint
15 3 (0.23%) VMware Server
16 2 (0.16%) iptables
16 2 (0.16%) Microsoft Virtual Server
Systems Management
1 170 (13.20%) Microsoft Intune
2 83 (6.44%) Ansible
2 83 (6.44%) Kubernetes
3 35 (2.72%) Single Sign-On
4 33 (2.56%) FortiGate
5 24 (1.86%) SCCM
6 18 (1.40%) VxRail
7 15 (1.16%) Jamf Pro
8 13 (1.01%) Data Guard
8 13 (1.01%) vCenter Server
9 12 (0.93%) Prometheus
10 11 (0.85%) Nagios
10 11 (0.85%) Oracle RMAN
11 10 (0.78%) Grafana
12 8 (0.62%) Dell DRAC
12 8 (0.62%) Proxmox
13 7 (0.54%) Avamar
13 7 (0.54%) Packer
14 6 (0.47%) EMC VPLEX
14 6 (0.47%) WSUS
Vendors
1 630 (48.91%) Microsoft
2 341 (26.48%) VMware
3 194 (15.06%) Cisco
4 89 (6.91%) Veeam
5 69 (5.36%) Palo Alto
6 47 (3.65%) Oracle
6 47 (3.65%) Splunk
7 41 (3.18%) Fortinet
7 41 (3.18%) SonicWALL
8 40 (3.11%) Dell
9 37 (2.87%) Meraki
10 34 (2.64%) Aruba
10 34 (2.64%) Google
11 33 (2.56%) HP
12 30 (2.33%) Sophos
13 29 (2.25%) SolarWinds
14 28 (2.17%) Apple
14 28 (2.17%) Qualys
15 24 (1.86%) AppDynamics
15 24 (1.86%) IBM