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 10 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 226 192 213
Rank change year-on-year -34 +21 +126
Permanent jobs citing Disaster Recovery 772 679 1,312
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.93% 1.66% 1.42%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.22% 1.79% 1.65%
Number of salaries quoted 580 560 1,173
10th Percentile £32,500 £36,250 £33,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £44,000 £41,933
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% -
75th Percentile £85,313 £76,250 £68,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £90,000 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £53,300 £50,000
% change year-on-year -1.50% +6.60% +1.46%

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 63,393 38,022 79,332
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 76.08% 92.93% 86.08%
Number of salaries quoted 39,190 22,514 58,792
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £29,008
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -10.57%
75th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £102,500 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,688 £50,000
% change year-on-year -6.87% +7.38% -7.94%

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 10 April 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 10 April 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 -34 668 £60,000 - 274
UK excluding London -67 420 £52,500 -1.50% 239
London +14 293 £85,000 +9.68% 82
Work from Home +28 241 £67,059 +11.77% 108
North of England -36 144 £47,500 -6.40% 61
South East -7 105 £60,000 -7.69% 76
Yorkshire -6 83 £47,500 -13.64% 20
Midlands -52 59 £53,250 +6.50% 41
West Midlands -3 51 £52,500 +5.00% 29
North West -49 42 £50,000 +11.11% 36
South West -92 28 £40,000 -26.19% 16
East of England -51 27 £67,500 +25.00% 23
Scotland -14 23 £38,000 -25.33% 20
Northern Ireland -18 20 - -
North East -24 19 £51,000 +59.38% 6
Wales - 10 £31,500 - 7
East Midlands -69 7 £60,000 +50.00% 12
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
1 103 (13.34%) Microsoft Exchange
2 81 (10.49%) SharePoint
3 7 (0.91%) IIS
4 5 (0.65%) Confluence
5 4 (0.52%) Apache Spark
6 3 (0.39%) Apache
7 2 (0.26%) Apache Airflow
7 2 (0.26%) BizTalk Server
7 2 (0.26%) CICS
7 2 (0.26%) Tomcat
8 1 (0.13%) CMS
8 1 (0.13%) WebSphere
8 1 (0.13%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 26 (3.37%) Microsoft Office
2 9 (1.17%) MS Visio
3 4 (0.52%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (0.26%) Weka
5 1 (0.13%) Acrobat
5 1 (0.13%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 5 (0.65%) Oracle EBS
2 4 (0.52%) Markit EDM
3 3 (0.39%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (0.39%) FLEXCUBE
4 2 (0.26%) SAP ERP
4 2 (0.26%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.13%) Elite 3E
5 1 (0.13%) NetSuite
5 1 (0.13%) Oracle 11i
5 1 (0.13%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.13%) Sage 200
5 1 (0.13%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 420 (54.40%) Azure
2 243 (31.48%) Microsoft 365
3 153 (19.82%) Entra ID
4 131 (16.97%) AWS
5 65 (8.42%) Nutanix
6 47 (6.09%) SaaS
7 45 (5.83%) Azure DevOps
7 45 (5.83%) Azure Monitor
8 44 (5.70%) Datadog
9 40 (5.18%) IaaS
10 36 (4.66%) GitHub
11 34 (4.40%) Microsoft Purview
11 34 (4.40%) OneDrive
11 34 (4.40%) PaaS
12 32 (4.15%) GCP
13 23 (2.98%) Azure AKS
13 23 (2.98%) GitHub Actions
14 22 (2.85%) Serverless
15 19 (2.46%) Power Platform
16 18 (2.33%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 231 (29.92%) Firewall
2 166 (21.50%) DNS
3 163 (21.11%) VPN
4 137 (17.75%) DHCP
5 110 (14.25%) WAN
6 82 (10.62%) VLAN
7 69 (8.94%) LAN
8 59 (7.64%) Wi-Fi
9 56 (7.25%) TCP/IP
10 52 (6.74%) SAN
11 48 (6.22%) Network Security
12 35 (4.53%) Wireless
13 31 (4.02%) Remote Desktop
14 24 (3.11%) SD-WAN
15 16 (2.07%) NAS
16 15 (1.94%) BGP
16 15 (1.94%) Cisco ISE
16 15 (1.94%) VoIP
17 9 (1.17%) Intrusion Detection
17 9 (1.17%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 69 (8.94%) SQL Server
2 27 (3.50%) Amazon RDS
3 21 (2.72%) Azure SQL Database
4 15 (1.94%) MySQL
5 13 (1.68%) PostgreSQL
6 12 (1.55%) Data Lake
6 12 (1.55%) Delta Lake
6 12 (1.55%) Oracle Database
7 10 (1.30%) Power BI
8 9 (1.17%) Data Warehouse
9 8 (1.04%) Amazon Aurora
10 7 (0.91%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 6 (0.78%) MongoDB
12 5 (0.65%) Geospatial Data
12 5 (0.65%) GIS
13 4 (0.52%) Elasticsearch
13 4 (0.52%) Oracle Database 12c
13 4 (0.52%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 3 (0.39%) Oracle Database 11g
14 3 (0.39%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 29 (3.76%) Git
2 18 (2.33%) Chocolatey
3 14 (1.81%) JIRA
4 13 (1.68%) Jenkins
5 5 (0.65%) GitLab
5 5 (0.65%) Sonatype Nexus
6 4 (0.52%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 4 (0.52%) LabVIEW
6 4 (0.52%) MLflow
6 4 (0.52%) Selenium
6 4 (0.52%) Visual Studio Code
7 3 (0.39%) Bitbucket
7 3 (0.39%) Maven
7 3 (0.39%) TeamCity
8 2 (0.26%) Artifactory
8 2 (0.26%) Octopus Deploy
8 2 (0.26%) Robot Framework
8 2 (0.26%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 2 (0.26%) TestRail
9 1 (0.13%) Yeoman
General
1 295 (38.21%) Social Skills
2 176 (22.80%) Finance
3 123 (15.93%) Analytical Skills
4 53 (6.87%) Banking
5 37 (4.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 34 (4.40%) Law
7 32 (4.15%) Public Sector
8 27 (3.50%) Retail
9 25 (3.24%) Organisational Skills
10 21 (2.72%) Manufacturing
11 20 (2.59%) Legal
12 16 (2.07%) Documentation Skills
13 14 (1.81%) Financial Institution
14 13 (1.68%) Influencing Skills
15 12 (1.55%) Back Office
16 11 (1.42%) Marketing
16 11 (1.42%) Presentation Skills
16 11 (1.42%) Telecoms
17 8 (1.04%) Advertising
18 6 (0.78%) French Language
Job Titles
1 124 (16.06%) Senior
2 120 (15.54%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 80 (10.36%) Cloud Engineer
4 75 (9.72%) IT Engineer
5 74 (9.59%) IT Support
6 71 (9.20%) Support Engineer
7 67 (8.68%) Lead
8 64 (8.29%) IT Manager
9 54 (6.99%) Azure Engineer
10 45 (5.83%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
11 43 (5.57%) IT Support Engineer
12 41 (5.31%) Architect
13 40 (5.18%) Analyst
14 28 (3.63%) Platform Engineer
15 27 (3.50%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
16 26 (3.37%) DevOps Engineer
17 24 (3.11%) Security Engineer
17 24 (3.11%) Support Technician
18 23 (2.98%) Infrastructure Support
19 22 (2.85%) Senior Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (2.33%) SAML
2 15 (1.94%) OAuth
3 13 (1.68%) YAML
4 12 (1.55%) ADO
4 12 (1.55%) PySpark
5 10 (1.30%) ARM Templates
6 9 (1.17%) REST
7 7 (0.91%) Loki
7 7 (0.91%) RESTful
8 5 (0.65%) Elastic Stack
9 4 (0.52%) EDI
9 4 (0.52%) Kafka
9 4 (0.52%) Middleware
9 4 (0.52%) web3js
10 3 (0.39%) .NET
10 3 (0.39%) ActiveMQ
10 3 (0.39%) LAMP
10 3 (0.39%) LDAP
10 3 (0.39%) RAML
10 3 (0.39%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 78 (10.10%) Hybrid Cloud
2 58 (7.51%) Management Information System
3 48 (6.22%) Data Centre
4 41 (5.31%) Replication
5 37 (4.79%) Cloud Native
6 35 (4.53%) Public Cloud
7 34 (4.40%) Driving Licence
8 30 (3.89%) Cyber Threat
8 30 (3.89%) Data Protection Act
9 29 (3.76%) Onboarding
10 25 (3.24%) Security Posture
11 21 (2.72%) Self-Motivation
12 18 (2.33%) CMDB
13 16 (2.07%) Enterprise Software
14 15 (1.94%) PKI
15 14 (1.81%) Legacy Systems
16 13 (1.68%) NHS
17 11 (1.42%) Enterprise Storage
18 10 (1.30%) Clustering
19 9 (1.17%) Cyber Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 249 (32.25%) Windows
2 169 (21.89%) Windows Server
3 73 (9.46%) Linux
4 26 (3.37%) Windows 10
5 18 (2.33%) Apple iOS
6 17 (2.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 16 (2.07%) VMS
8 12 (1.55%) Unix
9 11 (1.42%) Ubuntu
10 9 (1.17%) CentOS
10 9 (1.17%) Mac OS
11 8 (1.04%) Windows Server 2016
12 7 (0.91%) Windows Server 2019
13 5 (0.65%) Android
14 4 (0.52%) Oracle Linux
14 4 (0.52%) Rocky
15 3 (0.39%) AIX
16 2 (0.26%) zOS
17 1 (0.13%) Debian
17 1 (0.13%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 290 (37.56%) Business Continuity
2 236 (30.57%) Cybersecurity
3 200 (25.91%) ITIL
4 197 (25.52%) Problem-Solving
5 168 (21.76%) Continuous Improvement
5 168 (21.76%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 139 (18.01%) High Availability
7 127 (16.45%) DevOps
8 106 (13.73%) Service Delivery
9 105 (13.60%) Incident Response
10 99 (12.82%) Infrastructure as Code
11 88 (11.40%) CI/CD
12 87 (11.27%) Change Management
13 85 (11.01%) Migration
14 84 (10.88%) Mentoring
15 82 (10.62%) Data Protection
16 81 (10.49%) Cloud Security
17 79 (10.23%) Stakeholder Management
18 72 (9.33%) Risk Management
18 72 (9.33%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 148 (19.17%) PowerShell
2 109 (14.12%) Python
3 82 (10.62%) SQL
4 35 (4.53%) Bash
5 13 (1.68%) Java
6 12 (1.55%) Bicep
6 12 (1.55%) Kusto Query Language
7 9 (1.17%) Go
7 9 (1.17%) JavaScript
7 9 (1.17%) Scala
7 9 (1.17%) Shell Script
7 9 (1.17%) T-SQL
8 4 (0.52%) C#
8 4 (0.52%) Korn
9 3 (0.39%) PL/SQL
9 3 (0.39%) TypeScript
10 2 (0.26%) COBOL
10 2 (0.26%) JCL
11 1 (0.13%) Perl
11 1 (0.13%) RPG
Qualifications
1 96 (12.44%) Degree
2 53 (6.87%) Microsoft Certification
3 49 (6.35%) Azure Certification
4 44 (5.70%) Security Cleared
5 43 (5.57%) Computer Science Degree
6 37 (4.79%) Cisco Certification
7 32 (4.15%) SC Cleared
8 28 (3.63%) CCNP
9 25 (3.24%) CISSP
10 24 (3.11%) CEH
11 15 (1.94%) CCNA
12 13 (1.68%) AWS Certification
12 13 (1.68%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13 12 (1.55%) MCSE
14 11 (1.42%) BPSS Clearance
15 10 (1.30%) CISM
16 9 (1.17%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 9 (1.17%) Microsoft Certified Professional
17 8 (1.04%) DV Cleared
17 8 (1.04%) HNC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 123 (15.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 77 (9.97%) Cyber Essentials
3 76 (9.84%) GDPR
4 67 (8.68%) NIST
5 59 (7.64%) SLA
6 38 (4.92%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 30 (3.89%) PCI DSS
8 23 (2.98%) SOC 2
9 20 (2.59%) GRC
10 17 (2.20%) Data Quality
10 17 (2.20%) ISO 22301
11 12 (1.55%) PMO
12 11 (1.42%) Actionable Recommendations
13 7 (0.91%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
14 6 (0.78%) QA
15 5 (0.65%) NCSC
16 4 (0.52%) DICOM
16 4 (0.52%) HIPAA
16 4 (0.52%) HL7
17 3 (0.39%) GxP
System Software
1 246 (31.87%) Active Directory
2 166 (21.50%) VMware Infrastructure
3 108 (13.99%) Hyper-V
4 41 (5.31%) Docker
5 33 (4.27%) Virtual Machines
6 23 (2.98%) vSphere
7 16 (2.07%) Firmware
8 15 (1.94%) VMware ESXi
9 14 (1.81%) Virtual Desktop
10 6 (0.78%) KVM
10 6 (0.78%) vCloud
10 6 (0.78%) Virtual Servers
11 5 (0.65%) Oracle RAC
12 3 (0.39%) Microsoft Virtual Server
13 2 (0.26%) EMC RecoverPoint
13 2 (0.26%) RACF
13 2 (0.26%) VMware NSX
13 2 (0.26%) VMware Workstation
14 1 (0.13%) Postfix
14 1 (0.13%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 108 (13.99%) Microsoft Intune
2 107 (13.86%) Terraform
3 66 (8.55%) Kubernetes
4 65 (8.42%) Ansible
5 25 (3.24%) SCCM
6 15 (1.94%) Grafana
7 12 (1.55%) VxRail
8 11 (1.42%) Prometheus
9 10 (1.30%) FortiGate
10 9 (1.17%) Nagios
10 9 (1.17%) vCenter Server
11 8 (1.04%) Single Sign-On
12 7 (0.91%) Data Guard
13 6 (0.78%) Packer
14 5 (0.65%) Oracle RMAN
15 4 (0.52%) Argo
15 4 (0.52%) Backup Exec
15 4 (0.52%) Puppet
16 3 (0.39%) Dell DRAC
16 3 (0.39%) WSUS
Vendors
1 379 (49.09%) Microsoft
2 232 (30.05%) VMware
3 66 (8.55%) Cisco
4 52 (6.74%) Dell
5 40 (5.18%) HP
6 38 (4.92%) Commvault
7 34 (4.40%) Palo Alto
7 34 (4.40%) Veeam
8 30 (3.89%) Nimble Storage
9 28 (3.63%) Dell Compellent
10 27 (3.50%) Tenable
10 27 (3.50%) Zscaler
11 25 (3.24%) Dynatrace
12 24 (3.11%) Meraki
13 23 (2.98%) Oracle
14 19 (2.46%) AppDynamics
14 19 (2.46%) Fortinet
15 17 (2.20%) Databricks
15 17 (2.20%) Splunk
16 16 (2.07%) EMC