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 15 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 169 261 206
Rank change year-on-year +92 -55 +18
Permanent jobs citing Disaster Recovery 1,312 558 1,045
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.15% 1.14% 1.35%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.58% 1.28% 1.67%
Number of salaries quoted 928 435 655
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,250 £36,100
25th Percentile £42,250 £43,000 £45,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% - +2.56%
75th Percentile £77,500 £78,875 £77,500
90th Percentile £94,750 £99,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £50,000

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 82,954 43,576 62,762
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 72.83% 88.69% 80.93%
Number of salaries quoted 57,665 24,452 36,140
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,500 £32,000
25th Percentile £42,000 £36,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £76,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £96,250 £95,000
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 15 September 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 15 September 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 +68 1,146 £57,500 -4.17% 955
UK excluding London +103 868 £50,000 - 583
London +50 393 £75,000 - 463
Work from Home +99 391 £60,000 - 365
North of England +80 245 £47,500 -9.52% 142
South East +70 225 £50,000 - 170
Midlands +35 152 £57,500 +2.22% 101
North West +58 134 £47,500 - 78
West Midlands +37 116 £59,522 -2.82% 62
Yorkshire +34 97 £47,500 -20.83% 55
South West -61 71 £48,375 +1.84% 54
East of England +1 57 £45,000 +38.46% 38
Scotland +45 51 £44,150 -21.51% 47
Northern Ireland -40 48 - - 17
East Midlands -17 36 £45,000 - 39
Wales -54 21 £45,000 -21.74% 18
North East -63 14 £52,500 - 12

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
1 164 (12.50%) SharePoint
2 146 (11.13%) Microsoft Exchange
3 27 (2.06%) IIS
4 22 (1.68%) Apache
5 16 (1.22%) nginx
6 11 (0.84%) Apache Spark
7 5 (0.38%) Confluence
8 4 (0.30%) OpenStack
9 3 (0.23%) WordPress
10 2 (0.15%) WebLogic
11 1 (0.076%) CICS
11 1 (0.076%) FactoryTalk
11 1 (0.076%) Site Server
Applications
1 19 (1.45%) PlantUML
2 18 (1.37%) Microsoft Office
3 12 (0.91%) MS Visio
4 11 (0.84%) Microsoft Excel
5 3 (0.23%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.076%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 11 (0.84%) FLEXCUBE
2 6 (0.46%) Raiser’s Edge
3 5 (0.38%) JDE EnterpriseOne
3 5 (0.38%) Sage 200
4 4 (0.30%) NetSuite
5 3 (0.23%) Dynamics CRM
5 3 (0.23%) Q-Pulse
6 2 (0.15%) Adobe Campaign
6 2 (0.15%) Integrated Workplace Management System
6 2 (0.15%) SAP S/4HANA
7 1 (0.076%) Bloomberg TOMS
7 1 (0.076%) Eikon
7 1 (0.076%) Misys Equation
7 1 (0.076%) Misys Midas
7 1 (0.076%) Oracle Applications
7 1 (0.076%) Oracle EBS
7 1 (0.076%) Sage 50
7 1 (0.076%) SAP EHS
7 1 (0.076%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 684 (52.13%) Azure
2 404 (30.79%) Microsoft 365
3 260 (19.82%) Entra ID
4 253 (19.28%) AWS
5 144 (10.98%) SaaS
6 103 (7.85%) IaaS
7 76 (5.79%) PaaS
8 51 (3.89%) Power Platform
9 50 (3.81%) Cloud Computing
10 41 (3.13%) GCP
10 41 (3.13%) OneDrive
11 38 (2.90%) Azure DevOps
12 37 (2.82%) Azure Monitor
13 33 (2.52%) Datadog
13 33 (2.52%) Microsoft Copilot
14 27 (2.06%) GitHub
15 25 (1.91%) Nutanix
15 25 (1.91%) OCI
16 24 (1.83%) Amazon EC2
16 24 (1.83%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 362 (27.59%) Firewall
2 307 (23.40%) DNS
3 223 (17.00%) VPN
4 219 (16.69%) DHCP
5 160 (12.20%) WAN
6 141 (10.75%) VLAN
7 129 (9.83%) LAN
8 117 (8.92%) Wi-Fi
9 103 (7.85%) Network Security
10 102 (7.77%) TCP/IP
11 77 (5.87%) Wireless
12 61 (4.65%) SAN
13 51 (3.89%) Internet
14 42 (3.20%) SD-WAN
15 40 (3.05%) VoIP
16 39 (2.97%) SSL
17 28 (2.13%) Cisco ISE
18 25 (1.91%) Cisco Nexus
19 22 (1.68%) NAS
20 15 (1.14%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 91 (6.94%) SQL Server
2 38 (2.90%) Amazon RDS
3 32 (2.44%) Power BI
4 31 (2.36%) Azure SQL Database
5 21 (1.60%) PostgreSQL
6 16 (1.22%) Data Warehouse
7 13 (0.99%) Oracle Database
8 12 (0.91%) Metadata
9 11 (0.84%) Data Lake
9 11 (0.84%) MySQL
10 8 (0.61%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 6 (0.46%) SQL Server Analysis Services
12 5 (0.38%) MongoDB
12 5 (0.38%) NoSQL
12 5 (0.38%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 4 (0.30%) DynamoDB
14 3 (0.23%) Elasticsearch
14 3 (0.23%) NonStop SQL
14 3 (0.23%) Relational Database
14 3 (0.23%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 19 (1.45%) JIRA
2 17 (1.30%) Git
3 15 (1.14%) Chocolatey
4 14 (1.07%) GitLab
5 10 (0.76%) JUnit
5 10 (0.76%) Spock
6 7 (0.53%) Jenkins
7 5 (0.38%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 5 (0.38%) Bitbucket
8 4 (0.30%) IntelliJ
8 4 (0.30%) Maven
8 4 (0.30%) Visual Studio Code
9 2 (0.15%) git-flow
9 2 (0.15%) Selenium
9 2 (0.15%) Terragrunt
10 1 (0.076%) Claude Code
10 1 (0.076%) MLflow
10 1 (0.076%) TeamCity
10 1 (0.076%) Yeoman
General
1 440 (33.54%) Social Skills
2 236 (17.99%) Finance
3 182 (13.87%) Analytical Skills
4 83 (6.33%) Legal
5 80 (6.10%) Law
6 67 (5.11%) Banking
7 65 (4.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 58 (4.42%) Manufacturing
9 42 (3.20%) Documentation Skills
10 40 (3.05%) Retail
11 37 (2.82%) Public Sector
12 36 (2.74%) Influencing Skills
13 33 (2.52%) Organisational Skills
14 22 (1.68%) Telecoms
15 18 (1.37%) Back Office
16 14 (1.07%) Aerospace
17 13 (0.99%) Financial Institution
18 11 (0.84%) Mandarin Language
18 11 (0.84%) Presentation Skills
19 7 (0.53%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 251 (19.13%) Senior
2 194 (14.79%) IT Support
3 173 (13.19%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 146 (11.13%) IT Engineer
5 140 (10.67%) IT Manager
6 115 (8.77%) Support Engineer
7 100 (7.62%) Architect
8 98 (7.47%) Analyst
9 96 (7.32%) IT Support Engineer
10 66 (5.03%) Service Manager
11 65 (4.95%) Lead
12 64 (4.88%) Resilience Manager
13 58 (4.42%) Cloud Engineer
13 58 (4.42%) Network Engineer
13 58 (4.42%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
14 57 (4.34%) IT Services Manager
15 50 (3.81%) Azure Engineer
16 46 (3.51%) IT Analyst
17 40 (3.05%) Administrator
18 38 (2.90%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 161 (12.27%) Terraform
2 73 (5.56%) Middleware
3 13 (0.99%) ARM Templates
4 10 (0.76%) AngularJS
4 10 (0.76%) Spring
5 8 (0.61%) Microsoft Graph
5 8 (0.61%) Web Services
6 7 (0.53%) FIX Protocol
6 7 (0.53%) Kafka
7 6 (0.46%) SAML
8 5 (0.38%) .NET
8 5 (0.38%) ModSecurity
9 4 (0.30%) AWS CDK
9 4 (0.30%) OpenTelemetry
9 4 (0.30%) REST
10 3 (0.23%) 802.1X
10 3 (0.23%) EDI
10 3 (0.23%) JSON
10 3 (0.23%) Ruby on Rails
10 3 (0.23%) web3js
Miscellaneous
1 112 (8.54%) Data Centre
2 89 (6.78%) Cyber Threat
3 79 (6.02%) Cloud Native
4 78 (5.95%) Management Information System
5 74 (5.64%) Onboarding
6 69 (5.26%) Driving Licence
7 61 (4.65%) Replication
7 61 (4.65%) Security Posture
8 56 (4.27%) Hybrid Cloud
9 47 (3.58%) Self-Motivation
10 32 (2.44%) Enterprise Storage
11 31 (2.36%) PKI
12 30 (2.29%) NHS
13 26 (1.98%) Enterprise Software
14 25 (1.91%) CCTV
15 22 (1.68%) Clustering
15 22 (1.68%) Private Cloud
16 20 (1.52%) Enterprise Cloud
16 20 (1.52%) Public Cloud
16 20 (1.52%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 445 (33.92%) Windows
2 321 (24.47%) Windows Server
3 145 (11.05%) Linux
4 35 (2.67%) Windows Server 2019
5 29 (2.21%) Windows 10
6 27 (2.06%) Ubuntu
7 24 (1.83%) Mac OS
8 21 (1.60%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 21 (1.60%) Unix
8 21 (1.60%) Windows Server 2016
9 14 (1.07%) VMS
10 12 (0.91%) AIX
11 10 (0.76%) Oracle Linux
12 9 (0.69%) Solaris
13 8 (0.61%) CentOS
14 5 (0.38%) Debian
15 4 (0.30%) Windows Server 2012
16 2 (0.15%) Amazon Linux
16 2 (0.15%) Embedded Linux
16 2 (0.15%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 531 (40.47%) Business Continuity
2 400 (30.49%) Cybersecurity
3 368 (28.05%) Continuous Improvement
4 346 (26.37%) Problem-Solving
5 264 (20.12%) ITIL
6 249 (18.98%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 212 (16.16%) DevOps
8 203 (15.47%) High Availability
9 186 (14.18%) Stakeholder Management
10 175 (13.34%) Incident Response
11 171 (13.03%) Infrastructure as Code
12 170 (12.96%) Information Security
13 163 (12.42%) Service Delivery
14 160 (12.20%) Project Delivery
15 143 (10.90%) Agile
16 141 (10.75%) Mentoring
17 138 (10.52%) Cloud Security
18 135 (10.29%) CI/CD
19 131 (9.98%) AI
19 131 (9.98%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 191 (14.56%) PowerShell
2 127 (9.68%) Python
3 120 (9.15%) SQL
4 56 (4.27%) Bash
5 29 (2.21%) Bicep
6 23 (1.75%) Shell Script
7 22 (1.68%) Java
8 15 (1.14%) JavaScript
9 14 (1.07%) TypeScript
10 11 (0.84%) Korn
11 10 (0.76%) PL/SQL
12 7 (0.53%) Kusto Query Language
13 6 (0.46%) Search Processing Language
14 5 (0.38%) COBOL
15 4 (0.30%) Go
15 4 (0.30%) Groovy
15 4 (0.30%) T-SQL
15 4 (0.30%) XAML
16 3 (0.23%) C#
16 3 (0.23%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 137 (10.44%) Degree
2 99 (7.55%) Azure Certification
2 99 (7.55%) CISSP
3 98 (7.47%) Cisco Certification
4 87 (6.63%) Security Cleared
5 86 (6.55%) Microsoft Certification
6 83 (6.33%) CISM
7 70 (5.34%) CCNP
8 63 (4.80%) SC Cleared
9 58 (4.42%) ITIL Certification
10 51 (3.89%) CCNA
11 46 (3.51%) Postgraduate
12 38 (2.90%) Computer Science Degree
13 29 (2.21%) AWS Certification
14 27 (2.06%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
15 21 (1.60%) CompTIA Security+
16 19 (1.45%) DV Cleared
16 19 (1.45%) Master's Degree
17 16 (1.22%) Network+ Certification
18 15 (1.14%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 147 (11.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 139 (10.59%) NIST
3 120 (9.15%) Cyber Essentials
4 113 (8.61%) GDPR
5 84 (6.40%) SLA
6 82 (6.25%) ISO 22301
7 54 (4.12%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 41 (3.13%) PCI DSS
9 35 (2.67%) GRC
10 27 (2.06%) Data Quality
11 23 (1.75%) PMO
12 22 (1.68%) NCSC
12 22 (1.68%) SOC 2
13 16 (1.22%) COBIT
14 15 (1.14%) QA
15 8 (0.61%) ISO 9001
15 8 (0.61%) SOC 1
16 5 (0.38%) ISO/IEC 20000
16 5 (0.38%) Sarbanes-Oxley
17 3 (0.23%) ISO 8583
System Software
1 357 (27.21%) Active Directory
2 288 (21.95%) VMware Infrastructure
3 203 (15.47%) Hyper-V
4 48 (3.66%) Docker
4 48 (3.66%) vSphere
5 41 (3.13%) Virtual Machines
6 30 (2.29%) Firmware
7 27 (2.06%) Virtual Desktop
8 26 (1.98%) VMware ESXi
9 17 (1.30%) VMware NSX
10 12 (0.91%) Oracle RAC
11 9 (0.69%) vCloud
12 6 (0.46%) Squid
13 5 (0.38%) Virtual Servers
14 4 (0.30%) KVM
15 3 (0.23%) DFS Replication
15 3 (0.23%) VMware Server
16 2 (0.15%) EMC RecoverPoint
16 2 (0.15%) iptables
16 2 (0.15%) Microsoft Virtual Server
Systems Management
1 188 (14.33%) Microsoft Intune
2 81 (6.17%) Ansible
3 78 (5.95%) Kubernetes
4 42 (3.20%) Single Sign-On
5 32 (2.44%) FortiGate
6 26 (1.98%) SCCM
7 17 (1.30%) VxRail
8 16 (1.22%) Jamf Pro
9 15 (1.14%) Prometheus
10 13 (0.99%) Data Guard
11 12 (0.91%) Grafana
12 11 (0.84%) Nagios
12 11 (0.84%) Oracle RMAN
12 11 (0.84%) vCenter Server
13 8 (0.61%) Dell DRAC
13 8 (0.61%) Proxmox
14 7 (0.53%) Avamar
15 6 (0.46%) EMC NetWorker
15 6 (0.46%) EMC VPLEX
15 6 (0.46%) WSUS
Vendors
1 643 (49.01%) Microsoft
2 337 (25.69%) VMware
3 195 (14.86%) Cisco
4 97 (7.39%) Veeam
5 71 (5.41%) Palo Alto
6 50 (3.81%) Oracle
7 49 (3.73%) Fortinet
8 47 (3.58%) SonicWALL
9 45 (3.43%) Splunk
10 40 (3.05%) Meraki
11 38 (2.90%) Dell
12 36 (2.74%) Aruba
12 36 (2.74%) Google
13 34 (2.59%) SolarWinds
14 30 (2.29%) HP
14 30 (2.29%) Qualys
15 29 (2.21%) Sophos
16 26 (1.98%) Apple
16 26 (1.98%) ServiceNow
17 25 (1.91%) AppDynamics