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 7 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 183 247 202
Rank change year-on-year +64 -45 +91
Permanent jobs citing Disaster Recovery 1,100 614 1,385
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.13% 1.28% 1.33%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.53% 1.41% 1.62%
Number of salaries quoted 810 493 1,111
10th Percentile £32,975 £36,450 £33,000
25th Percentile £42,250 £46,250 £42,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £62,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +13.64% -5.98%
75th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £92,500 £92,500 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +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 71,870 43,651 85,354
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.67% 90.86% 82.18%
Number of salaries quoted 49,673 24,244 60,243
10th Percentile £30,250 £28,822 £29,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -8.71%
75th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £54,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +8.00% - -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 7 July 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 7 July 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 +63 963 £57,500 -8.00% 327
UK excluding London +52 664 £50,000 -9.09% 255
London +60 369 £75,000 - 124
Work from Home +82 334 £60,000 - 171
North of England +62 227 £47,500 -13.64% 55
South East +29 168 £50,000 -9.09% 87
Yorkshire +51 108 £50,000 -20.00% 20
Midlands +30 108 £55,000 -2.22% 39
North West +39 102 £50,000 -6.98% 30
West Midlands +29 82 £55,000 -4.35% 25
East of England -3 47 £43,500 -18.69% 12
South West -93 37 £43,500 -20.91% 31
Scotland +23 30 £40,800 -25.82% 8
Northern Ireland -22 30 - - 16
East Midlands -18 25 £55,000 +37.50% 14
North East -50 17 £42,500 -12.82% 5
Wales -36 15 £43,000 -20.00% 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
1 118 (10.73%) Microsoft Exchange
2 112 (10.18%) SharePoint
3 19 (1.73%) IIS
4 9 (0.82%) Apache
5 7 (0.64%) Apache Spark
6 3 (0.27%) Confluence
6 3 (0.27%) nginx
6 3 (0.27%) WordPress
7 2 (0.18%) Apache Airflow
7 2 (0.18%) OpenStack
8 1 (0.091%) BizTalk Server
8 1 (0.091%) Site Server
8 1 (0.091%) WebLogic
Applications
1 20 (1.82%) Microsoft Office
2 15 (1.36%) MS Visio
3 14 (1.27%) PlantUML
4 6 (0.55%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 12 (1.09%) FLEXCUBE
2 5 (0.45%) Raiser’s Edge
2 5 (0.45%) Sage 200
3 4 (0.36%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (0.36%) NetSuite
4 3 (0.27%) JDE EnterpriseOne
4 3 (0.27%) Oracle EBS
4 3 (0.27%) Q-Pulse
4 3 (0.27%) SAP S/4HANA
5 2 (0.18%) Adobe Campaign
5 2 (0.18%) SAP ERP
6 1 (0.091%) Elite 3E
6 1 (0.091%) Misys Equation
6 1 (0.091%) Misys Midas
6 1 (0.091%) SAP EHS
Cloud Services
1 562 (51.09%) Azure
2 331 (30.09%) Microsoft 365
3 196 (17.82%) AWS
4 190 (17.27%) Entra ID
5 91 (8.27%) SaaS
6 63 (5.73%) IaaS
7 56 (5.09%) PaaS
8 53 (4.82%) Nutanix
9 43 (3.91%) Datadog
10 42 (3.82%) Power Platform
11 40 (3.64%) Azure DevOps
12 33 (3.00%) GCP
13 32 (2.91%) GitHub
14 30 (2.73%) Microsoft Purview
15 29 (2.64%) Cloud Computing
16 28 (2.55%) Azure Monitor
17 26 (2.36%) GitHub Actions
18 23 (2.09%) Mimecast
19 20 (1.82%) Amazon EC2
20 19 (1.73%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 343 (31.18%) Firewall
2 242 (22.00%) DNS
3 213 (19.36%) VPN
4 187 (17.00%) DHCP
5 148 (13.45%) WAN
6 130 (11.82%) VLAN
7 116 (10.55%) LAN
8 93 (8.45%) Network Security
9 92 (8.36%) Wi-Fi
10 91 (8.27%) TCP/IP
11 61 (5.55%) SAN
12 54 (4.91%) Wireless
13 33 (3.00%) Internet
14 27 (2.45%) Cisco ISE
14 27 (2.45%) SD-WAN
14 27 (2.45%) SSL
15 26 (2.36%) VoIP
16 22 (2.00%) Remote Desktop
17 17 (1.55%) BGP
17 17 (1.55%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 93 (8.45%) SQL Server
2 35 (3.18%) Amazon RDS
3 27 (2.45%) Azure SQL Database
4 25 (2.27%) Power BI
5 13 (1.18%) PostgreSQL
6 12 (1.09%) Data Warehouse
6 12 (1.09%) MySQL
7 11 (1.00%) Oracle Database
8 9 (0.82%) Data Lake
8 9 (0.82%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 6 (0.55%) Delta Lake
9 6 (0.55%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 5 (0.45%) Geospatial Data
10 5 (0.45%) GIS
10 5 (0.45%) Metadata
10 5 (0.45%) MongoDB
10 5 (0.45%) NoSQL
10 5 (0.45%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 4 (0.36%) Elasticsearch
12 3 (0.27%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 18 (1.64%) JIRA
2 17 (1.55%) Chocolatey
2 17 (1.55%) Git
3 8 (0.73%) GitLab
4 6 (0.55%) Visual Studio Code
5 5 (0.45%) Jenkins
6 4 (0.36%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 4 (0.36%) JUnit
6 4 (0.36%) MLflow
6 4 (0.36%) Spock
7 3 (0.27%) Selenium
8 2 (0.18%) Bitbucket
8 2 (0.18%) TeamCity
8 2 (0.18%) Terragrunt
8 2 (0.18%) Yeoman
9 1 (0.091%) Artifactory
9 1 (0.091%) Claude Code
9 1 (0.091%) Octopus Deploy
9 1 (0.091%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
9 1 (0.091%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 397 (36.09%) Social Skills
2 195 (17.73%) Finance
3 146 (13.27%) Analytical Skills
4 70 (6.36%) Banking
5 68 (6.18%) Law
6 64 (5.82%) Legal
7 48 (4.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 40 (3.64%) Manufacturing
9 39 (3.55%) Organisational Skills
10 36 (3.27%) Public Sector
11 32 (2.91%) Documentation Skills
12 30 (2.73%) Retail
13 26 (2.36%) Influencing Skills
14 21 (1.91%) Back Office
14 21 (1.91%) Telecoms
15 11 (1.00%) Financial Institution
15 11 (1.00%) Mandarin Language
16 8 (0.73%) Advertising
16 8 (0.73%) Aerospace
16 8 (0.73%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 216 (19.64%) Senior
2 161 (14.64%) IT Support
3 159 (14.45%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 130 (11.82%) IT Engineer
5 110 (10.00%) IT Manager
6 103 (9.36%) Support Engineer
7 82 (7.45%) IT Support Engineer
8 77 (7.00%) Lead
9 76 (6.91%) Cloud Engineer
10 69 (6.27%) Architect
11 62 (5.64%) Analyst
12 58 (5.27%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
13 54 (4.91%) Azure Engineer
14 40 (3.64%) Network Engineer
15 39 (3.55%) Service Manager
16 36 (3.27%) IT Analyst
16 36 (3.27%) Platform Engineer
17 35 (3.18%) Administrator
17 35 (3.18%) IT Services Manager
18 34 (3.09%) IT Technician
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (3.55%) Middleware
2 14 (1.27%) ARM Templates
3 11 (1.00%) SAML
4 8 (0.73%) Microsoft Graph
5 7 (0.64%) REST
6 6 (0.55%) FIX Protocol
6 6 (0.55%) Kafka
6 6 (0.55%) OAuth
6 6 (0.55%) PySpark
7 5 (0.45%) RESTful
7 5 (0.45%) YAML
8 4 (0.36%) .NET
8 4 (0.36%) ADO
8 4 (0.36%) AngularJS
8 4 (0.36%) Spring
8 4 (0.36%) Web Services
8 4 (0.36%) web3js
9 3 (0.27%) JSON
9 3 (0.27%) Node.js
9 3 (0.27%) Ruby on Rails
Miscellaneous
1 101 (9.18%) Data Centre
2 75 (6.82%) Management Information System
3 68 (6.18%) Cyber Threat
4 67 (6.09%) Driving Licence
5 66 (6.00%) Cloud Native
5 66 (6.00%) Hybrid Cloud
6 53 (4.82%) Security Posture
7 52 (4.73%) Replication
8 51 (4.64%) Self-Motivation
9 41 (3.73%) Onboarding
10 37 (3.36%) Data Protection Act
11 36 (3.27%) PKI
12 31 (2.82%) Public Cloud
13 30 (2.73%) Enterprise Storage
14 27 (2.45%) NHS
15 24 (2.18%) CMDB
16 21 (1.91%) CCTV
17 20 (1.82%) Virtual Team
18 19 (1.73%) Clustering
19 17 (1.55%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 375 (34.09%) Windows
2 256 (23.27%) Windows Server
3 103 (9.36%) Linux
4 26 (2.36%) Windows Server 2019
5 24 (2.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 21 (1.91%) Mac OS
6 21 (1.91%) Windows Server 2016
7 19 (1.73%) Unix
7 19 (1.73%) Windows 10
8 14 (1.27%) Ubuntu
9 12 (1.09%) AIX
9 12 (1.09%) Oracle Linux
10 10 (0.91%) CentOS
11 9 (0.82%) VMS
12 8 (0.73%) Solaris
13 6 (0.55%) Apple iOS
14 5 (0.45%) Windows Server 2012
15 2 (0.18%) Amazon Linux
15 2 (0.18%) Debian
15 2 (0.18%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 426 (38.73%) Business Continuity
2 348 (31.64%) Cybersecurity
3 287 (26.09%) Problem-Solving
4 282 (25.64%) Continuous Improvement
5 234 (21.27%) ITIL
6 216 (19.64%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 180 (16.36%) High Availability
8 174 (15.82%) Incident Response
9 166 (15.09%) DevOps
10 134 (12.18%) Infrastructure as Code
10 134 (12.18%) Stakeholder Management
11 131 (11.91%) Service Delivery
12 118 (10.73%) Cloud Security
12 118 (10.73%) Information Security
13 114 (10.36%) Data Protection
14 109 (9.91%) Change Management
15 106 (9.64%) CI/CD
15 106 (9.64%) Risk Management
16 104 (9.45%) Project Delivery
17 101 (9.18%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 167 (15.18%) PowerShell
2 114 (10.36%) Python
3 111 (10.09%) SQL
4 48 (4.36%) Bash
5 21 (1.91%) Bicep
6 18 (1.64%) Shell Script
7 13 (1.18%) Java
8 12 (1.09%) Korn
9 11 (1.00%) JavaScript
9 11 (1.00%) PL/SQL
10 9 (0.82%) TypeScript
11 8 (0.73%) Kusto Query Language
12 7 (0.64%) T-SQL
13 5 (0.45%) C#
14 4 (0.36%) Go
14 4 (0.36%) Search Processing Language
15 3 (0.27%) Ruby
15 3 (0.27%) Scala
16 2 (0.18%) RPG
16 2 (0.18%) XAML
Qualifications
1 125 (11.36%) Degree
2 88 (8.00%) Cisco Certification
3 76 (6.91%) Microsoft Certification
4 70 (6.36%) Azure Certification
5 66 (6.00%) CCNP
6 64 (5.82%) CISSP
7 60 (5.45%) Security Cleared
8 51 (4.64%) CISM
9 50 (4.55%) CCNA
10 42 (3.82%) SC Cleared
11 40 (3.64%) Computer Science Degree
12 30 (2.73%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13 28 (2.55%) Postgraduate
14 24 (2.18%) ITIL Certification
15 18 (1.64%) AWS Certification
16 16 (1.45%) CEH
17 14 (1.27%) CISA
17 14 (1.27%) Master's Degree
18 13 (1.18%) CRISC
18 13 (1.18%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 159 (14.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 126 (11.45%) NIST
3 125 (11.36%) GDPR
4 119 (10.82%) Cyber Essentials
5 64 (5.82%) SLA
6 54 (4.91%) PCI DSS
7 48 (4.36%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 48 (4.36%) ISO 22301
8 29 (2.64%) PMO
8 29 (2.64%) SOC 2
9 28 (2.55%) GRC
10 25 (2.27%) Data Quality
11 15 (1.36%) COBIT
12 10 (0.91%) Actionable Recommendations
12 10 (0.91%) NCSC
13 8 (0.73%) SOC 1
14 7 (0.64%) QA
15 5 (0.45%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
16 4 (0.36%) DICOM
16 4 (0.36%) HL7
System Software
1 305 (27.73%) Active Directory
2 263 (23.91%) VMware Infrastructure
3 172 (15.64%) Hyper-V
4 44 (4.00%) vSphere
5 42 (3.82%) Docker
6 29 (2.64%) Virtual Machines
7 25 (2.27%) VMware ESXi
8 21 (1.91%) Firmware
8 21 (1.91%) Virtual Desktop
9 13 (1.18%) Oracle RAC
10 10 (0.91%) VMware NSX
11 9 (0.82%) vCloud
12 7 (0.64%) KVM
13 4 (0.36%) EMC RecoverPoint
13 4 (0.36%) Virtual Servers
14 3 (0.27%) DFS Replication
14 3 (0.27%) Microsoft Virtual Server
14 3 (0.27%) Squid
14 3 (0.27%) VMware Server
15 2 (0.18%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 141 (12.82%) Terraform
2 138 (12.55%) Microsoft Intune
3 76 (6.91%) Ansible
4 75 (6.82%) Kubernetes
5 29 (2.64%) Single Sign-On
6 27 (2.45%) SCCM
7 25 (2.27%) FortiGate
8 21 (1.91%) VxRail
9 12 (1.09%) Data Guard
9 12 (1.09%) Nagios
9 12 (1.09%) vCenter Server
10 11 (1.00%) Oracle RMAN
11 10 (0.91%) Prometheus
12 9 (0.82%) Dell DRAC
12 9 (0.82%) Grafana
12 9 (0.82%) Jamf Pro
12 9 (0.82%) Packer
13 7 (0.64%) EMC NetWorker
14 6 (0.55%) EMC VPLEX
14 6 (0.55%) WSUS
Vendors
1 545 (49.55%) Microsoft
2 321 (29.18%) VMware
3 162 (14.73%) Cisco
4 72 (6.55%) Veeam
5 57 (5.18%) Palo Alto
6 54 (4.91%) Dell
7 43 (3.91%) HP
8 40 (3.64%) Splunk
9 37 (3.36%) Meraki
9 37 (3.36%) Oracle
10 34 (3.09%) Fortinet
11 33 (3.00%) Nimble Storage
12 31 (2.82%) Commvault
13 30 (2.73%) Sophos
14 28 (2.55%) Tenable
15 27 (2.45%) SolarWinds
16 25 (2.27%) Google
17 24 (2.18%) EMC
17 24 (2.18%) IBM
18 23 (2.09%) Aruba