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 31 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 222 188 215
Rank change year-on-year -34 +27 +126
Permanent jobs citing Disaster Recovery 744 674 1,293
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.94% 1.65% 1.44%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.23% 1.77% 1.67%
Number of salaries quoted 562 559 1,166
10th Percentile £32,500 £37,450 £33,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £45,000 £41,933
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% +0.92%
75th Percentile £87,500 £75,000 £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 60,590 38,104 77,432
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 76.71% 93.07% 86.51%
Number of salaries quoted 37,239 22,363 57,730
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £29,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £43,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -10.57%
75th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £102,500 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -7.83%

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 31 March 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 31 March 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 -33 643 £60,000 - 274
UK excluding London -56 397 £52,500 -1.50% 239
London +9 288 £85,000 +13.33% 82
Work from Home +29 233 £70,000 +16.67% 108
North of England -30 140 £47,500 -2.56% 61
South East -23 92 £60,000 -7.69% 76
Yorkshire +3 82 £47,500 -13.64% 20
Midlands -34 56 £52,500 +5.00% 41
West Midlands -4 46 £52,500 +3.96% 29
North West -41 38 £41,250 -8.33% 36
South West -80 29 £42,500 -22.73% 16
East of England -40 26 £70,000 +28.44% 23
Northern Ireland - 22 - -
North East -11 20 £51,000 +59.38% 6
Scotland -38 18 £42,500 -16.49% 20
Wales -15 10 £31,500 -36.36% 7
East Midlands -58 9 £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
1 102 (13.71%) Microsoft Exchange
2 78 (10.48%) SharePoint
3 6 (0.81%) IIS
4 4 (0.54%) Apache Spark
5 3 (0.40%) Apache
5 3 (0.40%) Confluence
5 3 (0.40%) Tomcat
6 2 (0.27%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.27%) BizTalk Server
6 2 (0.27%) CICS
6 2 (0.27%) WebSphere
6 2 (0.27%) WebSphere Application Server
7 1 (0.13%) CMS
7 1 (0.13%) WebLogic
Applications
1 25 (3.36%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (0.81%) MS Visio
3 4 (0.54%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (0.27%) Weka
5 1 (0.13%) Acrobat
5 1 (0.13%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 5 (0.67%) Oracle EBS
2 4 (0.54%) Markit EDM
3 3 (0.40%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (0.40%) FLEXCUBE
4 2 (0.27%) SAP ERP
5 1 (0.13%) Elite 3E
5 1 (0.13%) Oracle 11i
5 1 (0.13%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.13%) Sage 200
5 1 (0.13%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.13%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 409 (54.97%) Azure
2 237 (31.85%) Microsoft 365
3 156 (20.97%) Entra ID
4 128 (17.20%) AWS
5 69 (9.27%) Nutanix
6 47 (6.32%) SaaS
7 45 (6.05%) Azure Monitor
8 44 (5.91%) Azure DevOps
9 41 (5.51%) Datadog
10 40 (5.38%) IaaS
11 37 (4.97%) GCP
11 37 (4.97%) GitHub
12 35 (4.70%) PaaS
13 34 (4.57%) Microsoft Purview
13 34 (4.57%) OneDrive
14 24 (3.23%) GitHub Actions
14 24 (3.23%) Serverless
15 23 (3.09%) Azure AKS
16 20 (2.69%) Amazon EKS
16 20 (2.69%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 220 (29.57%) Firewall
2 160 (21.51%) DNS
3 152 (20.43%) VPN
4 140 (18.82%) DHCP
5 100 (13.44%) WAN
6 77 (10.35%) VLAN
7 62 (8.33%) LAN
8 56 (7.53%) TCP/IP
8 56 (7.53%) Wi-Fi
9 49 (6.59%) SAN
10 44 (5.91%) Network Security
11 31 (4.17%) Remote Desktop
11 31 (4.17%) Wireless
12 22 (2.96%) SD-WAN
13 17 (2.28%) VoIP
14 15 (2.02%) NAS
15 14 (1.88%) BGP
16 12 (1.61%) Cisco ISE
17 8 (1.08%) SSL
18 7 (0.94%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 68 (9.14%) SQL Server
2 26 (3.49%) Amazon RDS
3 21 (2.82%) Azure SQL Database
4 16 (2.15%) PostgreSQL
5 15 (2.02%) MySQL
6 14 (1.88%) Oracle Database
7 11 (1.48%) Data Lake
7 11 (1.48%) Delta Lake
7 11 (1.48%) Power BI
8 8 (1.08%) Amazon Aurora
8 8 (1.08%) Data Warehouse
9 7 (0.94%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 6 (0.81%) MongoDB
11 5 (0.67%) Geospatial Data
11 5 (0.67%) GIS
11 5 (0.67%) Oracle Database 12c
12 4 (0.54%) BigQuery
12 4 (0.54%) DB2
12 4 (0.54%) Oracle Database 11g
12 4 (0.54%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 31 (4.17%) Git
2 18 (2.42%) Chocolatey
3 14 (1.88%) Jenkins
3 14 (1.88%) JIRA
4 5 (0.67%) GitLab
4 5 (0.67%) Selenium
4 5 (0.67%) Sonatype Nexus
5 4 (0.54%) LabVIEW
5 4 (0.54%) Visual Studio Code
6 3 (0.40%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 3 (0.40%) Bitbucket
6 3 (0.40%) Maven
6 3 (0.40%) MLflow
6 3 (0.40%) TeamCity
7 2 (0.27%) Artifactory
7 2 (0.27%) LoadRunner
7 2 (0.27%) Octopus Deploy
7 2 (0.27%) Robot Framework
7 2 (0.27%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 2 (0.27%) TestRail
General
1 285 (38.31%) Social Skills
2 181 (24.33%) Finance
3 112 (15.05%) Analytical Skills
4 51 (6.85%) Banking
5 36 (4.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 36 (4.84%) Law
6 30 (4.03%) Public Sector
7 28 (3.76%) Retail
8 26 (3.49%) Organisational Skills
9 20 (2.69%) Manufacturing
10 18 (2.42%) Documentation Skills
11 17 (2.28%) Legal
12 15 (2.02%) Financial Institution
13 11 (1.48%) Back Office
13 11 (1.48%) Marketing
14 9 (1.21%) Influencing Skills
14 9 (1.21%) Presentation Skills
14 9 (1.21%) Telecoms
15 8 (1.08%) Advertising
16 7 (0.94%) French Language
Job Titles
1 111 (14.92%) Senior
2 110 (14.78%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 79 (10.62%) Cloud Engineer
4 67 (9.01%) Lead
4 67 (9.01%) Support Engineer
5 65 (8.74%) IT Support
6 64 (8.60%) IT Engineer
7 59 (7.93%) IT Manager
8 49 (6.59%) Azure Engineer
9 43 (5.78%) Analyst
10 39 (5.24%) Architect
11 38 (5.11%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
12 34 (4.57%) IT Support Engineer
13 28 (3.76%) Platform Engineer
14 27 (3.63%) DevOps Engineer
15 25 (3.36%) Security Engineer
15 25 (3.36%) Support Technician
16 24 (3.23%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
16 24 (3.23%) Support Analyst
17 23 (3.09%) DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (2.42%) SAML
2 16 (2.15%) OAuth
3 13 (1.75%) YAML
4 12 (1.61%) ADO
5 11 (1.48%) PySpark
6 9 (1.21%) REST
7 8 (1.08%) ARM Templates
7 8 (1.08%) RESTful
8 7 (0.94%) Loki
9 6 (0.81%) EDI
10 5 (0.67%) Elastic Stack
10 5 (0.67%) LDAP
10 5 (0.67%) Middleware
11 4 (0.54%) Kafka
12 3 (0.40%) ActiveMQ
12 3 (0.40%) AWS SAM
12 3 (0.40%) LAMP
12 3 (0.40%) OAuth2
12 3 (0.40%) RAML
12 3 (0.40%) web3js
Miscellaneous
1 78 (10.48%) Hybrid Cloud
2 52 (6.99%) Management Information System
3 37 (4.97%) Data Centre
4 36 (4.84%) Public Cloud
5 35 (4.70%) Replication
6 34 (4.57%) Cloud Native
7 33 (4.44%) Driving Licence
8 31 (4.17%) Cyber Threat
9 29 (3.90%) Onboarding
10 28 (3.76%) Data Protection Act
11 24 (3.23%) Security Posture
12 21 (2.82%) Enterprise Software
12 21 (2.82%) Self-Motivation
13 17 (2.28%) CMDB
14 14 (1.88%) Legacy Systems
14 14 (1.88%) PKI
15 11 (1.48%) Clustering
15 11 (1.48%) NHS
16 10 (1.34%) Cyber Security Posture
17 9 (1.21%) CCTV
Operating Systems
1 248 (33.33%) Windows
2 167 (22.45%) Windows Server
3 77 (10.35%) Linux
4 27 (3.63%) Windows 10
5 18 (2.42%) Apple iOS
6 17 (2.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 16 (2.15%) Unix
8 15 (2.02%) VMS
9 12 (1.61%) Mac OS
10 8 (1.08%) Ubuntu
10 8 (1.08%) Windows Server 2016
11 7 (0.94%) CentOS
12 6 (0.81%) Android
12 6 (0.81%) Windows Server 2019
13 4 (0.54%) Oracle Linux
13 4 (0.54%) Rocky
14 3 (0.40%) AIX
15 2 (0.27%) zOS
16 1 (0.13%) Debian
16 1 (0.13%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 273 (36.69%) Business Continuity
2 224 (30.11%) Cybersecurity
3 189 (25.40%) Problem-Solving
4 184 (24.73%) ITIL
5 158 (21.24%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 155 (20.83%) Continuous Improvement
7 136 (18.28%) High Availability
8 124 (16.67%) DevOps
9 103 (13.84%) Incident Response
10 100 (13.44%) Service Delivery
11 97 (13.04%) Infrastructure as Code
12 90 (12.10%) CI/CD
13 88 (11.83%) Migration
14 83 (11.16%) Change Management
15 79 (10.62%) Mentoring
16 75 (10.08%) Cloud Security
16 75 (10.08%) Stakeholder Management
17 73 (9.81%) Data Protection
17 73 (9.81%) ITSM
18 71 (9.54%) Vulnerability Remediation
Programming Languages
1 157 (21.10%) PowerShell
2 113 (15.19%) Python
3 80 (10.75%) SQL
4 38 (5.11%) Bash
5 16 (2.15%) Java
6 12 (1.61%) Bicep
6 12 (1.61%) Kusto Query Language
7 9 (1.21%) Go
7 9 (1.21%) JavaScript
7 9 (1.21%) Scala
7 9 (1.21%) Shell Script
7 9 (1.21%) T-SQL
8 4 (0.54%) C#
8 4 (0.54%) Korn
9 3 (0.40%) PL/SQL
9 3 (0.40%) TypeScript
10 2 (0.27%) COBOL
10 2 (0.27%) JCL
11 1 (0.13%) Perl
Qualifications
1 98 (13.17%) Degree
2 49 (6.59%) Microsoft Certification
3 48 (6.45%) Azure Certification
4 45 (6.05%) Computer Science Degree
4 45 (6.05%) Security Cleared
5 33 (4.44%) Cisco Certification
6 32 (4.30%) SC Cleared
7 25 (3.36%) CEH
8 24 (3.23%) CCNP
9 23 (3.09%) CISSP
10 16 (2.15%) AWS Certification
11 13 (1.75%) CCNA
12 12 (1.61%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13 11 (1.48%) BPSS Clearance
13 11 (1.48%) CISM
13 11 (1.48%) MCSE
14 10 (1.34%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 10 (1.34%) HNC
15 9 (1.21%) DV Cleared
15 9 (1.21%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 123 (16.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 75 (10.08%) Cyber Essentials
3 69 (9.27%) GDPR
4 65 (8.74%) NIST
5 59 (7.93%) SLA
6 39 (5.24%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 25 (3.36%) PCI DSS
8 22 (2.96%) SOC 2
9 18 (2.42%) ISO 22301
10 16 (2.15%) GRC
11 14 (1.88%) Data Quality
12 11 (1.48%) Actionable Recommendations
12 11 (1.48%) PMO
13 6 (0.81%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
14 5 (0.67%) ISAE 3402
14 5 (0.67%) NCSC
14 5 (0.67%) QA
15 4 (0.54%) DICOM
15 4 (0.54%) HL7
16 3 (0.40%) HIPAA
System Software
1 246 (33.06%) Active Directory
2 163 (21.91%) VMware Infrastructure
3 102 (13.71%) Hyper-V
4 40 (5.38%) Docker
5 32 (4.30%) Virtual Machines
6 24 (3.23%) vSphere
7 14 (1.88%) VMware ESXi
8 13 (1.75%) Virtual Desktop
9 11 (1.48%) Firmware
10 7 (0.94%) vCloud
11 6 (0.81%) KVM
11 6 (0.81%) Oracle RAC
11 6 (0.81%) Virtual Servers
12 3 (0.40%) Microsoft Virtual Server
13 2 (0.27%) EMC RecoverPoint
13 2 (0.27%) RACF
13 2 (0.27%) VMware NSX
13 2 (0.27%) VMware Workstation
14 1 (0.13%) Postfix
14 1 (0.13%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 107 (14.38%) Microsoft Intune
2 105 (14.11%) Terraform
3 69 (9.27%) Kubernetes
4 65 (8.74%) Ansible
5 24 (3.23%) SCCM
6 16 (2.15%) Grafana
7 12 (1.61%) Prometheus
8 11 (1.48%) VxRail
9 10 (1.34%) vCenter Server
10 9 (1.21%) Nagios
11 8 (1.08%) Data Guard
11 8 (1.08%) Single Sign-On
12 7 (0.94%) FortiGate
13 6 (0.81%) Oracle RMAN
13 6 (0.81%) Packer
14 5 (0.67%) Puppet
15 4 (0.54%) Backup Exec
16 3 (0.40%) Argo
16 3 (0.40%) Avamar
16 3 (0.40%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
Vendors
1 357 (47.98%) Microsoft
2 224 (30.11%) VMware
3 61 (8.20%) Cisco
4 53 (7.12%) Dell
5 34 (4.57%) Commvault
5 34 (4.57%) HP
6 30 (4.03%) Nimble Storage
6 30 (4.03%) Palo Alto
7 28 (3.76%) Dell Compellent
8 27 (3.63%) Dynatrace
8 27 (3.63%) Zscaler
9 26 (3.49%) Tenable
9 26 (3.49%) Veeam
10 24 (3.23%) Oracle
11 23 (3.09%) Meraki
12 19 (2.55%) AppDynamics
13 17 (2.28%) Fortinet
13 17 (2.28%) Splunk
14 16 (2.15%) Google
15 14 (1.88%) Sophos