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 5 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 168 262 185
Rank change year-on-year +94 -77 +28
Permanent jobs citing Disaster Recovery 1,380 574 1,074
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.17% 1.16% 1.45%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.60% 1.30% 1.77%
Number of salaries quoted 945 451 611
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £45,000 £46,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% - +0.80%
75th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £51,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -2.91% +3.00% -4.76%

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 86,353 44,239 60,788
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.12% 89.09% 81.92%
Number of salaries quoted 59,227 24,477 32,914
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £59,430
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -7.45% -0.95%
75th Percentile £78,750 £75,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +15.79% -9.52% -2.78%

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 5 October 2026.

Salary histogram for Disaster Recovery in the UK

Disaster Recovery
Top 17 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 5 October 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 +87 1,214 £57,500 -4.17% 1,034
UK excluding London +109 900 £50,000 -2.91% 665
London +38 426 £75,000 +3.45% 444
Work from Home +102 413 £62,500 - 467
North of England +73 246 £47,500 -9.52% 173
South East +63 241 £52,250 +4.50% 179
Midlands +41 167 £55,000 -7.56% 95
North West +48 139 £47,500 +5.56% 81
West Midlands +39 120 £59,250 -8.85% 52
Yorkshire +32 93 £46,250 -11.90% 80
South West -42 72 £50,000 +5.26% 82
East of England +2 60 £44,161 +3.91% 49
East Midlands -18 47 £44,736 -14.79% 43
Northern Ireland -43 47 - - 21
Scotland +40 46 £40,800 -22.29% 46
Wales -46 23 £45,000 -21.74% 23
North East -63 14 £52,500 - 14

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
1 178 (12.90%) Microsoft Exchange
2 172 (12.46%) SharePoint
3 26 (1.88%) IIS
4 22 (1.59%) Apache
5 18 (1.30%) nginx
6 11 (0.80%) Apache Spark
7 5 (0.36%) OpenStack
8 4 (0.29%) Confluence
9 3 (0.22%) WordPress
10 2 (0.14%) WebLogic
11 1 (0.072%) CICS
11 1 (0.072%) FactoryTalk
11 1 (0.072%) Site Server
Applications
1 19 (1.38%) PlantUML
2 18 (1.30%) Microsoft Office
3 11 (0.80%) Microsoft Excel
4 10 (0.72%) MS Visio
5 3 (0.22%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.072%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 11 (0.80%) FLEXCUBE
2 6 (0.43%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (0.43%) Raiser’s Edge
3 5 (0.36%) JDE EnterpriseOne
3 5 (0.36%) Sage 200
4 4 (0.29%) NetSuite
5 3 (0.22%) Q-Pulse
6 2 (0.14%) Adobe Campaign
6 2 (0.14%) Integrated Workplace Management System
7 1 (0.072%) Bloomberg TOMS
7 1 (0.072%) Eikon
7 1 (0.072%) Misys Equation
7 1 (0.072%) Misys Midas
7 1 (0.072%) Oracle Applications
7 1 (0.072%) Oracle EBS
7 1 (0.072%) Sage 50
7 1 (0.072%) SAP EHS
7 1 (0.072%) SAP S/4HANA
7 1 (0.072%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 710 (51.45%) Azure
2 416 (30.14%) Microsoft 365
3 295 (21.38%) Entra ID
4 256 (18.55%) AWS
5 153 (11.09%) SaaS
6 107 (7.75%) IaaS
7 79 (5.72%) PaaS
8 54 (3.91%) GCP
9 53 (3.84%) Cloud Computing
9 53 (3.84%) Power Platform
10 52 (3.77%) Azure DevOps
11 50 (3.62%) OneDrive
12 48 (3.48%) Azure Monitor
13 37 (2.68%) GitHub
14 32 (2.32%) Microsoft Copilot
15 31 (2.25%) Google Workspace
16 27 (1.96%) Amazon EC2
17 25 (1.81%) Datadog
18 24 (1.74%) GitHub Actions
18 24 (1.74%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 361 (26.16%) Firewall
2 335 (24.28%) DNS
3 242 (17.54%) DHCP
4 234 (16.96%) VPN
5 156 (11.30%) WAN
6 146 (10.58%) VLAN
7 127 (9.20%) LAN
8 125 (9.06%) TCP/IP
9 117 (8.48%) Wi-Fi
10 97 (7.03%) Network Security
11 91 (6.59%) Wireless
12 57 (4.13%) SAN
13 52 (3.77%) Internet
14 43 (3.12%) SD-WAN
15 39 (2.83%) SSL
16 38 (2.75%) VoIP
17 25 (1.81%) Cisco ISE
18 24 (1.74%) Cisco Nexus
19 21 (1.52%) NAS
20 16 (1.16%) BGP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 103 (7.46%) SQL Server
2 42 (3.04%) Amazon RDS
3 39 (2.83%) Azure SQL Database
4 35 (2.54%) PostgreSQL
5 34 (2.46%) Power BI
6 16 (1.16%) Data Warehouse
7 14 (1.01%) Metadata
7 14 (1.01%) MySQL
7 14 (1.01%) Oracle Database
8 12 (0.87%) Data Lake
9 8 (0.58%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 7 (0.51%) MongoDB
11 6 (0.43%) Relational Database
12 5 (0.36%) NoSQL
12 5 (0.36%) SQL Server Analysis Services
12 5 (0.36%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 4 (0.29%) DynamoDB
14 3 (0.22%) Elasticsearch
14 3 (0.22%) NonStop SQL
14 3 (0.22%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 19 (1.38%) JIRA
2 16 (1.16%) Git
2 16 (1.16%) GitLab
3 11 (0.80%) Chocolatey
4 10 (0.72%) JUnit
4 10 (0.72%) Spock
5 9 (0.65%) Jenkins
6 5 (0.36%) Bitbucket
6 5 (0.36%) Claude Code
7 4 (0.29%) IntelliJ
7 4 (0.29%) Maven
7 4 (0.29%) TeamCity
8 3 (0.22%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 2 (0.14%) git-flow
9 2 (0.14%) Selenium
9 2 (0.14%) Terragrunt
9 2 (0.14%) Visual Studio Code
10 1 (0.072%) Flyway
10 1 (0.072%) MLflow
10 1 (0.072%) Yeoman
General
1 472 (34.20%) Social Skills
2 268 (19.42%) Finance
3 183 (13.26%) Analytical Skills
4 86 (6.23%) Law
5 84 (6.09%) Legal
6 72 (5.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 66 (4.78%) Banking
8 62 (4.49%) Manufacturing
9 47 (3.41%) Retail
10 46 (3.33%) Documentation Skills
11 44 (3.19%) Public Sector
12 38 (2.75%) Organisational Skills
13 33 (2.39%) Influencing Skills
14 24 (1.74%) Back Office
15 22 (1.59%) Telecoms
16 16 (1.16%) Aerospace
17 15 (1.09%) Financial Institution
18 12 (0.87%) Police
19 10 (0.72%) Presentation Skills
20 9 (0.65%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 263 (19.06%) Senior
2 193 (13.99%) IT Support
3 189 (13.70%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 146 (10.58%) IT Engineer
5 132 (9.57%) IT Manager
6 116 (8.41%) Support Engineer
7 109 (7.90%) Architect
8 104 (7.54%) Analyst
9 96 (6.96%) IT Support Engineer
10 75 (5.43%) Lead
11 74 (5.36%) Resilience Manager
12 71 (5.14%) Service Manager
13 61 (4.42%) Network Engineer
14 59 (4.28%) IT Services Manager
15 58 (4.20%) Cloud Engineer
15 58 (4.20%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
16 49 (3.55%) Administrator
17 45 (3.26%) Azure Engineer
18 43 (3.12%) IT Analyst
19 42 (3.04%) IT Support Assistant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 189 (13.70%) Terraform
2 75 (5.43%) Middleware
3 16 (1.16%) ARM Templates
4 11 (0.80%) REST
5 10 (0.72%) AngularJS
5 10 (0.72%) Spring
6 9 (0.65%) Microsoft Graph
6 9 (0.65%) OpenTelemetry
6 9 (0.65%) SAML
7 8 (0.58%) .NET
7 8 (0.58%) Web Services
8 7 (0.51%) FIX Protocol
8 7 (0.51%) Kafka
9 5 (0.36%) ModSecurity
10 4 (0.29%) 802.1X
10 4 (0.29%) AWS CDK
10 4 (0.29%) JSON
10 4 (0.29%) LDAP
10 4 (0.29%) React
10 4 (0.29%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 105 (7.61%) Data Centre
2 85 (6.16%) Cloud Native
2 85 (6.16%) Cyber Threat
3 84 (6.09%) Onboarding
4 82 (5.94%) Driving Licence
5 80 (5.80%) Management Information System
6 67 (4.86%) Replication
7 65 (4.71%) Hybrid Cloud
8 63 (4.57%) Security Posture
9 44 (3.19%) Self-Motivation
10 37 (2.68%) Enterprise Storage
11 35 (2.54%) PKI
12 33 (2.39%) Enterprise Software
13 30 (2.17%) NHS
14 24 (1.74%) Distributed Systems
15 23 (1.67%) Clustering
16 22 (1.59%) CCTV
16 22 (1.59%) Virtual Team
17 21 (1.52%) Enterprise Cloud
17 21 (1.52%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 485 (35.14%) Windows
2 358 (25.94%) Windows Server
3 150 (10.87%) Linux
4 43 (3.12%) Windows 10
5 40 (2.90%) Windows Server 2019
6 25 (1.81%) Mac OS
7 23 (1.67%) Ubuntu
7 23 (1.67%) Windows Server 2016
8 22 (1.59%) Unix
9 19 (1.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 14 (1.01%) VMS
11 12 (0.87%) AIX
12 10 (0.72%) Oracle Linux
13 9 (0.65%) Solaris
14 7 (0.51%) CentOS
15 6 (0.43%) Debian
16 4 (0.29%) Windows Server 2012
17 2 (0.14%) Amazon Linux
17 2 (0.14%) Apple iOS
17 2 (0.14%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 556 (40.29%) Business Continuity
2 419 (30.36%) Cybersecurity
3 415 (30.07%) Continuous Improvement
4 370 (26.81%) Problem-Solving
5 275 (19.93%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 257 (18.62%) ITIL
7 232 (16.81%) DevOps
8 215 (15.58%) Stakeholder Management
9 212 (15.36%) High Availability
10 202 (14.64%) Infrastructure as Code
11 181 (13.12%) Incident Response
12 176 (12.75%) Project Delivery
13 173 (12.54%) Information Security
14 169 (12.25%) Service Delivery
15 157 (11.38%) CI/CD
16 155 (11.23%) Cloud Security
17 149 (10.80%) Migration
18 142 (10.29%) Agile
18 142 (10.29%) AI
19 139 (10.07%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 219 (15.87%) PowerShell
2 141 (10.22%) Python
3 133 (9.64%) SQL
4 66 (4.78%) Bash
5 40 (2.90%) Bicep
6 27 (1.96%) Java
7 24 (1.74%) Shell Script
8 17 (1.23%) JavaScript
9 14 (1.01%) TypeScript
10 11 (0.80%) Korn
11 10 (0.72%) PL/SQL
12 7 (0.51%) Go
12 7 (0.51%) Kusto Query Language
13 6 (0.43%) Groovy
13 6 (0.43%) Search Processing Language
14 5 (0.36%) COBOL
14 5 (0.36%) T-SQL
15 4 (0.29%) C#
15 4 (0.29%) XAML
16 3 (0.22%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 134 (9.71%) Degree
2 112 (8.12%) Security Cleared
3 104 (7.54%) Azure Certification
4 95 (6.88%) CISSP
5 91 (6.59%) Cisco Certification
6 88 (6.38%) Microsoft Certification
7 85 (6.16%) SC Cleared
8 83 (6.01%) CISM
9 63 (4.57%) CCNP
10 61 (4.42%) ITIL Certification
11 52 (3.77%) CCNA
12 47 (3.41%) Postgraduate
13 41 (2.97%) Computer Science Degree
14 31 (2.25%) AWS Certification
15 26 (1.88%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
16 22 (1.59%) CompTIA Security+
17 20 (1.45%) DV Cleared
18 19 (1.38%) Master's Degree
19 18 (1.30%) Network+ Certification
20 16 (1.16%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 152 (11.01%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 141 (10.22%) NIST
3 126 (9.13%) Cyber Essentials
4 118 (8.55%) GDPR
5 95 (6.88%) ISO 22301
6 83 (6.01%) SLA
7 60 (4.35%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 43 (3.12%) PCI DSS
9 35 (2.54%) GRC
10 27 (1.96%) Data Quality
11 26 (1.88%) SOC 2
12 23 (1.67%) NCSC
13 20 (1.45%) PMO
14 17 (1.23%) COBIT
15 15 (1.09%) QA
16 11 (0.80%) ISO 9001
17 7 (0.51%) SOC 1
18 5 (0.36%) ISO/IEC 20000
19 4 (0.29%) ISO 14001
19 4 (0.29%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 390 (28.26%) Active Directory
2 297 (21.52%) VMware Infrastructure
3 212 (15.36%) Hyper-V
4 57 (4.13%) vSphere
5 56 (4.06%) Docker
5 56 (4.06%) Virtual Machines
6 38 (2.75%) Firmware
7 28 (2.03%) VMware ESXi
8 26 (1.88%) Virtual Desktop
9 15 (1.09%) VMware NSX
10 12 (0.87%) Oracle RAC
11 7 (0.51%) vCloud
12 6 (0.43%) Squid
13 5 (0.36%) Virtual Servers
14 4 (0.29%) DFS Replication
14 4 (0.29%) KVM
15 3 (0.22%) VMware Server
16 2 (0.14%) EMC RecoverPoint
16 2 (0.14%) iptables
16 2 (0.14%) Microsoft Virtual Server
Systems Management
1 197 (14.28%) Microsoft Intune
2 94 (6.81%) Kubernetes
3 88 (6.38%) Ansible
4 52 (3.77%) Single Sign-On
5 32 (2.32%) FortiGate
6 25 (1.81%) SCCM
7 24 (1.74%) Grafana
8 21 (1.52%) Prometheus
9 16 (1.16%) Jamf Pro
9 16 (1.16%) VxRail
10 13 (0.94%) Data Guard
11 12 (0.87%) Puppet
12 11 (0.80%) Nagios
12 11 (0.80%) Oracle RMAN
12 11 (0.80%) vCenter Server
13 8 (0.58%) Dell DRAC
13 8 (0.58%) Progress Chef
13 8 (0.58%) Proxmox
14 7 (0.51%) Avamar
15 6 (0.43%) Backup Exec
Vendors
1 672 (48.70%) Microsoft
2 346 (25.07%) VMware
3 205 (14.86%) Cisco
4 108 (7.83%) Veeam
5 69 (5.00%) Palo Alto
6 60 (4.35%) Fortinet
7 53 (3.84%) Oracle
8 49 (3.55%) Google
8 49 (3.55%) SonicWALL
9 45 (3.26%) Meraki
10 42 (3.04%) Aruba
10 42 (3.04%) Splunk
11 39 (2.83%) SolarWinds
12 38 (2.75%) Dell
13 30 (2.17%) Qualys
14 27 (1.96%) Apple
15 26 (1.88%) Sophos
16 25 (1.81%) ServiceNow
17 24 (1.74%) HP
18 23 (1.67%) Citrix