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

6 months to
23 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 224 206 216
Rank change year-on-year -18 +10 +118
Permanent jobs citing Disaster Recovery 791 663 1,327
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.90% 1.58% 1.40%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.19% 1.70% 1.63%
Number of salaries quoted 595 538 1,185
10th Percentile £32,750 £36,250 £33,600
25th Percentile £45,000 £43,813 £41,933
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% -
75th Percentile £85,000 £76,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £90,375 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £53,150 £50,000
% change year-on-year -1.22% +6.30% -

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 66,205 38,927 81,426
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 75.18% 92.83% 85.82%
Number of salaries quoted 40,871 22,769 59,504
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £39,750
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 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -8.90%

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 23 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 23 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 -23 683 £60,000 - 234
UK excluding London -39 434 £52,500 -1.22% 215
London +17 297 £85,000 +13.33% 66
Work from Home +39 245 £65,000 +8.33% 106
North of England -26 146 £51,000 +1.24% 64
South East -12 104 £60,000 -7.69% 58
Yorkshire 0 83 £47,500 -13.64% 18
Midlands -30 66 £52,500 +5.00% 30
West Midlands -4 58 £52,500 +5.00% 22
North West -47 44 £55,000 +22.22% 36
East of England -43 29 £63,750 +27.50% 13
South West -93 29 £42,500 -22.73% 26
Scotland -17 25 £38,000 -24.67% 13
Northern Ireland -20 19 - - 9
North East -40 19 £51,000 +50.00% 12
Wales - 12 £35,000 - 7
East Midlands -63 7 £60,000 +50.00% 8
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 (12.90%) Microsoft Exchange
2 85 (10.75%) SharePoint
3 8 (1.01%) IIS
4 4 (0.51%) Apache Spark
4 4 (0.51%) Confluence
5 3 (0.38%) Apache
6 2 (0.25%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.25%) BizTalk Server
6 2 (0.25%) CICS
7 1 (0.13%) Tomcat
Applications
1 24 (3.03%) Microsoft Office
2 11 (1.39%) MS Visio
3 4 (0.51%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (0.25%) Weka
5 1 (0.13%) Acrobat
5 1 (0.13%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 5 (0.63%) Dynamics CRM
1 5 (0.63%) Oracle EBS
2 4 (0.51%) Markit EDM
3 3 (0.38%) FLEXCUBE
3 3 (0.38%) NetSuite
4 2 (0.25%) SAP ERP
4 2 (0.25%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.13%) Elite 3E
5 1 (0.13%) Misys Equation
5 1 (0.13%) Misys Midas
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
1 430 (54.36%) Azure
2 244 (30.85%) Microsoft 365
3 152 (19.22%) Entra ID
4 134 (16.94%) AWS
5 67 (8.47%) Nutanix
6 47 (5.94%) Datadog
6 47 (5.94%) SaaS
7 45 (5.69%) Azure Monitor
8 44 (5.56%) Azure DevOps
9 41 (5.18%) IaaS
10 37 (4.68%) GitHub
11 35 (4.42%) OneDrive
11 35 (4.42%) PaaS
12 33 (4.17%) Microsoft Purview
13 32 (4.05%) GCP
14 24 (3.03%) Azure AKS
14 24 (3.03%) GitHub Actions
15 23 (2.91%) Power Platform
16 21 (2.65%) Serverless
17 18 (2.28%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 239 (30.21%) Firewall
2 173 (21.87%) DNS
3 165 (20.86%) VPN
4 141 (17.83%) DHCP
5 116 (14.66%) WAN
6 82 (10.37%) VLAN
7 72 (9.10%) LAN
8 62 (7.84%) Wi-Fi
9 60 (7.59%) TCP/IP
10 59 (7.46%) SAN
11 53 (6.70%) Network Security
12 39 (4.93%) Wireless
13 31 (3.92%) Remote Desktop
14 26 (3.29%) SD-WAN
15 20 (2.53%) NAS
16 17 (2.15%) Cisco ISE
17 14 (1.77%) VoIP
18 13 (1.64%) BGP
19 11 (1.39%) SSL
20 10 (1.26%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 72 (9.10%) SQL Server
2 28 (3.54%) Amazon RDS
3 21 (2.65%) Azure SQL Database
4 16 (2.02%) MySQL
5 12 (1.52%) Data Lake
5 12 (1.52%) Delta Lake
5 12 (1.52%) PostgreSQL
6 11 (1.39%) Oracle Database
6 11 (1.39%) Power BI
7 9 (1.14%) Data Warehouse
8 8 (1.01%) Amazon Aurora
9 7 (0.88%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 6 (0.76%) MongoDB
11 5 (0.63%) Geospatial Data
11 5 (0.63%) GIS
12 4 (0.51%) Elasticsearch
12 4 (0.51%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 3 (0.38%) BigQuery
13 3 (0.38%) Oracle Database 12c
13 3 (0.38%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 27 (3.41%) Git
2 19 (2.40%) Chocolatey
3 12 (1.52%) JIRA
4 10 (1.26%) Jenkins
5 5 (0.63%) Sonatype Nexus
6 4 (0.51%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 4 (0.51%) Bitbucket
6 4 (0.51%) GitLab
6 4 (0.51%) LabVIEW
6 4 (0.51%) MLflow
6 4 (0.51%) Visual Studio Code
7 3 (0.38%) Maven
7 3 (0.38%) Selenium
7 3 (0.38%) TeamCity
8 2 (0.25%) Artifactory
8 2 (0.25%) Octopus Deploy
8 2 (0.25%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
9 1 (0.13%) Robot Framework
9 1 (0.13%) TestRail
9 1 (0.13%) Yeoman
General
1 302 (38.18%) Social Skills
2 169 (21.37%) Finance
3 132 (16.69%) Analytical Skills
4 54 (6.83%) Banking
5 38 (4.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 32 (4.05%) Law
7 30 (3.79%) Public Sector
8 28 (3.54%) Retail
9 26 (3.29%) Organisational Skills
10 23 (2.91%) Legal
11 21 (2.65%) Manufacturing
12 14 (1.77%) Documentation Skills
12 14 (1.77%) Influencing Skills
12 14 (1.77%) Telecoms
13 11 (1.39%) Back Office
13 11 (1.39%) Financial Institution
13 11 (1.39%) Marketing
13 11 (1.39%) Presentation Skills
14 8 (1.01%) Advertising
15 6 (0.76%) French Language
Job Titles
1 136 (17.19%) Senior
2 121 (15.30%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 81 (10.24%) Cloud Engineer
3 81 (10.24%) IT Engineer
4 79 (9.99%) IT Support
5 76 (9.61%) Support Engineer
6 64 (8.09%) IT Manager
6 64 (8.09%) Lead
7 55 (6.95%) Azure Engineer
8 48 (6.07%) IT Support Engineer
9 47 (5.94%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
10 46 (5.82%) Architect
11 37 (4.68%) Analyst
12 29 (3.67%) Platform Engineer
13 26 (3.29%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
13 26 (3.29%) Security Engineer
14 25 (3.16%) DevOps Engineer
15 24 (3.03%) Security Manager
16 22 (2.78%) Administrator
16 22 (2.78%) Support Technician
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (2.15%) SAML
2 14 (1.77%) OAuth
3 13 (1.64%) YAML
4 12 (1.52%) ADO
4 12 (1.52%) PySpark
5 10 (1.26%) ARM Templates
5 10 (1.26%) REST
6 7 (0.88%) Loki
6 7 (0.88%) Middleware
7 6 (0.76%) RESTful
8 4 (0.51%) .NET
8 4 (0.51%) Kafka
8 4 (0.51%) web3js
9 3 (0.38%) ActiveMQ
9 3 (0.38%) EDI
9 3 (0.38%) Elastic Stack
9 3 (0.38%) LAMP
9 3 (0.38%) ODBC
9 3 (0.38%) RAML
9 3 (0.38%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 74 (9.36%) Hybrid Cloud
2 57 (7.21%) Data Centre
2 57 (7.21%) Management Information System
3 41 (5.18%) Replication
4 36 (4.55%) Cloud Native
4 36 (4.55%) Onboarding
5 34 (4.30%) Driving Licence
5 34 (4.30%) Public Cloud
6 33 (4.17%) Cyber Threat
7 31 (3.92%) Data Protection Act
8 27 (3.41%) Security Posture
9 23 (2.91%) Self-Motivation
10 17 (2.15%) CMDB
10 17 (2.15%) PKI
11 15 (1.90%) Enterprise Storage
11 15 (1.90%) NHS
12 14 (1.77%) Enterprise Software
12 14 (1.77%) Legacy Systems
13 11 (1.39%) Clustering
14 9 (1.14%) CCTV
Operating Systems
1 249 (31.48%) Windows
2 169 (21.37%) Windows Server
3 70 (8.85%) Linux
4 26 (3.29%) Windows 10
5 18 (2.28%) Apple iOS
5 18 (2.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 16 (2.02%) VMS
7 15 (1.90%) Ubuntu
8 11 (1.39%) CentOS
9 10 (1.26%) Mac OS
10 8 (1.01%) Unix
10 8 (1.01%) Windows Server 2016
11 7 (0.88%) Windows Server 2019
12 5 (0.63%) Android
13 4 (0.51%) AIX
13 4 (0.51%) Oracle Linux
13 4 (0.51%) Rocky
14 2 (0.25%) Debian
14 2 (0.25%) zOS
15 1 (0.13%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 299 (37.80%) Business Continuity
2 242 (30.59%) Cybersecurity
3 201 (25.41%) Problem-Solving
4 198 (25.03%) ITIL
5 180 (22.76%) Continuous Improvement
6 166 (20.99%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 140 (17.70%) High Availability
8 124 (15.68%) DevOps
9 113 (14.29%) Incident Response
10 106 (13.40%) Service Delivery
11 97 (12.26%) Infrastructure as Code
12 89 (11.25%) Change Management
13 88 (11.13%) Data Protection
14 86 (10.87%) Cloud Security
15 84 (10.62%) Mentoring
15 84 (10.62%) Migration
16 83 (10.49%) CI/CD
17 80 (10.11%) Stakeholder Management
18 74 (9.36%) Risk Management
18 74 (9.36%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 142 (17.95%) PowerShell
2 101 (12.77%) Python
3 81 (10.24%) SQL
4 37 (4.68%) Bash
5 12 (1.52%) Kusto Query Language
6 11 (1.39%) Bicep
6 11 (1.39%) Java
7 10 (1.26%) Shell Script
8 9 (1.14%) Scala
8 9 (1.14%) T-SQL
9 8 (1.01%) JavaScript
10 6 (0.76%) Go
11 5 (0.63%) C#
12 4 (0.51%) Korn
13 3 (0.38%) COBOL
13 3 (0.38%) PL/SQL
13 3 (0.38%) TypeScript
14 2 (0.25%) JCL
14 2 (0.25%) RPG
15 1 (0.13%) Perl
Qualifications
1 96 (12.14%) Degree
2 50 (6.32%) Microsoft Certification
3 46 (5.82%) Azure Certification
4 44 (5.56%) Cisco Certification
4 44 (5.56%) Computer Science Degree
5 41 (5.18%) Security Cleared
6 35 (4.42%) CCNP
7 29 (3.67%) SC Cleared
8 25 (3.16%) CISSP
9 22 (2.78%) CEH
10 16 (2.02%) CCNA
10 16 (2.02%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 13 (1.64%) AWS Certification
12 11 (1.39%) BPSS Clearance
12 11 (1.39%) MCSE
12 11 (1.39%) Postgraduate
13 10 (1.26%) CISM
14 9 (1.14%) Microsoft Certified Professional
15 8 (1.01%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 8 (1.01%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 122 (15.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 83 (10.49%) GDPR
3 81 (10.24%) Cyber Essentials
4 69 (8.72%) NIST
5 61 (7.71%) SLA
6 39 (4.93%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 34 (4.30%) PCI DSS
8 24 (3.03%) SOC 2
9 23 (2.91%) GRC
10 19 (2.40%) Data Quality
11 18 (2.28%) PMO
12 15 (1.90%) ISO 22301
13 11 (1.39%) Actionable Recommendations
14 7 (0.88%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
15 6 (0.76%) NCSC
15 6 (0.76%) QA
16 4 (0.51%) DICOM
16 4 (0.51%) HIPAA
16 4 (0.51%) HL7
17 3 (0.38%) COBIT
System Software
1 249 (31.48%) Active Directory
2 174 (22.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 109 (13.78%) Hyper-V
4 38 (4.80%) Docker
5 32 (4.05%) Virtual Machines
6 30 (3.79%) vSphere
7 17 (2.15%) Firmware
8 16 (2.02%) Virtual Desktop
8 16 (2.02%) VMware ESXi
9 7 (0.88%) vCloud
10 6 (0.76%) KVM
10 6 (0.76%) Oracle RAC
10 6 (0.76%) Virtual Servers
10 6 (0.76%) VMware NSX
11 3 (0.38%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 2 (0.25%) EMC RecoverPoint
12 2 (0.25%) RACF
12 2 (0.25%) VMware Workstation
13 1 (0.13%) VirtualBox
13 1 (0.13%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 108 (13.65%) Microsoft Intune
2 105 (13.27%) Terraform
3 64 (8.09%) Kubernetes
4 63 (7.96%) Ansible
5 26 (3.29%) SCCM
6 15 (1.90%) VxRail
7 13 (1.64%) Grafana
8 11 (1.39%) FortiGate
9 10 (1.26%) Prometheus
9 10 (1.26%) Single Sign-On
10 9 (1.14%) Nagios
11 8 (1.01%) Data Guard
11 8 (1.01%) vCenter Server
12 6 (0.76%) Packer
13 5 (0.63%) Dell DRAC
13 5 (0.63%) Oracle RMAN
14 4 (0.51%) Argo
14 4 (0.51%) Avamar
14 4 (0.51%) Backup Exec
14 4 (0.51%) WSUS
Vendors
1 393 (49.68%) Microsoft
2 241 (30.47%) VMware
3 70 (8.85%) Cisco
4 57 (7.21%) Dell
5 42 (5.31%) HP
6 41 (5.18%) Veeam
7 37 (4.68%) Commvault
8 36 (4.55%) Palo Alto
9 35 (4.42%) Nimble Storage
10 29 (3.67%) Tenable
11 28 (3.54%) Dell Compellent
12 27 (3.41%) Zscaler
13 26 (3.29%) Dynatrace
13 26 (3.29%) Meraki
14 25 (3.16%) Oracle
15 20 (2.53%) AppDynamics
16 19 (2.40%) Fortinet
17 18 (2.28%) Splunk
18 17 (2.15%) Databricks
18 17 (2.15%) EMC