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 20 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 207 172 202
Rank change year-on-year -35 +30 +129
Permanent jobs citing Disaster Recovery 705 855 1,187
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.03% 1.75% 1.59%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.30% 1.89% 1.79%
Number of salaries quoted 537 531 1,080
10th Percentile £32,500 £37,500 £33,450
25th Percentile £45,000 £46,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.35% +9.21%
75th Percentile £86,250 £77,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £105,000 £92,500 £80,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £53,300 £52,500
% change year-on-year -1.50% +1.52% +5.00%

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 54,345 45,260 66,146
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 79.25% 92.54% 88.33%
Number of salaries quoted 32,629 22,226 51,183
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £29,490
25th Percentile £38,000 £46,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -12.00%
75th Percentile £76,000 £81,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £96,250 £102,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -8.33%

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 20 February 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 20 February 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 -34 611 £62,500 +4.17% 384
UK excluding London -66 363 £52,500 -1.50% 339
London +27 277 £80,000 +6.67% 111
Work from Home +30 218 £67,500 +8.00% 150
North of England -31 133 £47,500 +5.56% 85
South East -40 82 £66,250 +1.92% 101
Yorkshire -6 78 £47,500 -9.52% 28
Midlands -38 57 £52,500 -1.50% 60
West Midlands -2 40 £55,000 +3.19% 35
North West -56 36 £42,500 -5.56% 55
South West -40 28 £45,000 -27.42% 29
Northern Ireland - 23 - - 3
East of England -26 21 £42,500 -22.73% 30
North East -8 19 £55,473 +40.44% 5
East Midlands -42 16 £45,000 -25.00% 24
Scotland -52 10 £48,000 -20.00% 27
Wales 0 8 £28,000 -50.66% 10
Channel Islands - 3 £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
1 115 (16.31%) Microsoft Exchange
2 101 (14.33%) SharePoint
3 10 (1.42%) IIS
4 5 (0.71%) Tomcat
5 4 (0.57%) WebSphere
5 4 (0.57%) WebSphere Application Server
6 2 (0.28%) BizTalk Server
6 2 (0.28%) CICS
6 2 (0.28%) CMS
6 2 (0.28%) Confluence
7 1 (0.14%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.14%) Site Server
7 1 (0.14%) Skype for Business
7 1 (0.14%) WebLogic
Applications
1 31 (4.40%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (0.85%) MS Visio
2 6 (0.85%) Spreadsheet
3 4 (0.57%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (0.28%) Acrobat
4 2 (0.28%) Weka
Business Applications
1 5 (0.71%) Oracle EBS
2 4 (0.57%) Markit EDM
3 3 (0.43%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.28%) Dynamics AX
4 2 (0.28%) FLEXCUBE
5 1 (0.14%) Elite 3E
5 1 (0.14%) Oracle 11i
5 1 (0.14%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.14%) Raiser’s Edge
5 1 (0.14%) Sage 200
5 1 (0.14%) SAP ERP
5 1 (0.14%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.14%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 387 (54.89%) Azure
2 236 (33.48%) Microsoft 365
3 168 (23.83%) Entra ID
4 131 (18.58%) AWS
5 53 (7.52%) Nutanix
6 51 (7.23%) Azure Monitor
7 50 (7.09%) SaaS
8 45 (6.38%) Azure DevOps
9 43 (6.10%) GCP
10 41 (5.82%) GitHub
10 41 (5.82%) IaaS
11 37 (5.25%) OneDrive
11 37 (5.25%) PaaS
12 35 (4.96%) Microsoft Purview
13 34 (4.82%) Datadog
14 26 (3.69%) GitHub Actions
15 23 (3.26%) AWS CloudFormation
15 23 (3.26%) Serverless
16 21 (2.98%) Amazon EKS
17 19 (2.70%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 205 (29.08%) Firewall
2 171 (24.26%) DNS
3 149 (21.13%) DHCP
4 147 (20.85%) VPN
5 110 (15.60%) WAN
6 74 (10.50%) VLAN
7 69 (9.79%) TCP/IP
8 64 (9.08%) LAN
9 51 (7.23%) Wi-Fi
10 47 (6.67%) SAN
11 37 (5.25%) SD-WAN
12 35 (4.96%) Wireless
13 32 (4.54%) Network Security
14 25 (3.55%) Remote Desktop
15 23 (3.26%) VoIP
16 18 (2.55%) NAS
17 16 (2.27%) BGP
17 16 (2.27%) SSL
18 9 (1.28%) Cisco ISE
19 7 (0.99%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 56 (7.94%) SQL Server
2 24 (3.40%) Amazon RDS
3 19 (2.70%) Azure SQL Database
3 19 (2.70%) PostgreSQL
4 18 (2.55%) Oracle Database
5 15 (2.13%) MySQL
6 13 (1.84%) Power BI
7 9 (1.28%) Data Lake
7 9 (1.28%) Delta Lake
8 8 (1.13%) Amazon Aurora
8 8 (1.13%) MongoDB
9 7 (0.99%) BigQuery
10 6 (0.85%) Data Warehouse
10 6 (0.85%) DB2
10 6 (0.85%) Oracle Exadata
10 6 (0.85%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 5 (0.71%) Geospatial Data
11 5 (0.71%) GIS
11 5 (0.71%) Oracle Database 12c
12 4 (0.57%) Oracle Database 10g
Development Applications
1 27 (3.83%) Git
2 20 (2.84%) Jenkins
3 11 (1.56%) Chocolatey
3 11 (1.56%) JIRA
4 6 (0.85%) GitLab
4 6 (0.85%) Selenium
5 5 (0.71%) Sonatype Nexus
6 4 (0.57%) Bitbucket
6 4 (0.57%) LabVIEW
7 3 (0.43%) LoadRunner
7 3 (0.43%) Maven
8 2 (0.28%) Artifactory
8 2 (0.28%) Octopus Deploy
8 2 (0.28%) Robot Framework
8 2 (0.28%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 2 (0.28%) TeamCity
8 2 (0.28%) TestRail
9 1 (0.14%) JMeter
9 1 (0.14%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 265 (37.59%) Social Skills
2 201 (28.51%) Finance
3 100 (14.18%) Analytical Skills
4 47 (6.67%) Law
5 46 (6.52%) Banking
6 33 (4.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 28 (3.97%) Public Sector
7 28 (3.97%) Retail
8 22 (3.12%) Documentation Skills
9 20 (2.84%) Financial Institution
10 19 (2.70%) Manufacturing
11 18 (2.55%) Organisational Skills
12 14 (1.99%) Legal
13 13 (1.84%) Back Office
14 10 (1.42%) Telecoms
15 9 (1.28%) Presentation Skills
16 7 (0.99%) Advertising
16 7 (0.99%) French Language
16 7 (0.99%) Influencing Skills
16 7 (0.99%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 123 (17.45%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 100 (14.18%) Senior
3 84 (11.91%) Cloud Engineer
4 73 (10.35%) Support Engineer
5 61 (8.65%) IT Engineer
5 61 (8.65%) IT Support
6 57 (8.09%) Lead
7 49 (6.95%) IT Manager
8 46 (6.52%) Analyst
9 38 (5.39%) Azure Engineer
10 37 (5.25%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
11 32 (4.54%) DevOps Engineer
12 31 (4.40%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
13 29 (4.11%) IT Support Engineer
14 26 (3.69%) Support Technician
15 25 (3.55%) Architect
15 25 (3.55%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
15 25 (3.55%) Support Analyst
16 24 (3.40%) Infrastructure Manager
16 24 (3.40%) Infrastructure Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (2.70%) SAML
2 15 (2.13%) OAuth
3 12 (1.70%) ADO
3 12 (1.70%) YAML
4 11 (1.56%) REST
5 9 (1.28%) EDI
5 9 (1.28%) PySpark
5 9 (1.28%) RESTful
6 7 (0.99%) .NET
6 7 (0.99%) ARM Templates
6 7 (0.99%) Loki
7 6 (0.85%) Elastic Stack
7 6 (0.85%) LDAP
8 5 (0.71%) Middleware
9 4 (0.57%) AWS SAM
9 4 (0.57%) Kafka
9 4 (0.57%) LAPP Stack
9 4 (0.57%) SOAP
9 4 (0.57%) WebSphere MQ
10 3 (0.43%) RAML
Miscellaneous
1 63 (8.94%) Hybrid Cloud
2 48 (6.81%) Management Information System
3 34 (4.82%) Data Centre
3 34 (4.82%) Onboarding
4 31 (4.40%) Cloud Native
4 31 (4.40%) Public Cloud
4 31 (4.40%) Replication
5 29 (4.11%) Enterprise Software
6 26 (3.69%) Data Protection Act
7 24 (3.40%) Cyber Threat
8 22 (3.12%) Driving Licence
9 19 (2.70%) PKI
10 17 (2.41%) CMDB
10 17 (2.41%) Security Posture
10 17 (2.41%) Self-Motivation
11 15 (2.13%) Clustering
12 14 (1.99%) Legacy Systems
13 9 (1.28%) Product Ownership
14 8 (1.13%) NHS
15 7 (0.99%) CCTV
Operating Systems
1 245 (34.75%) Windows
2 171 (24.26%) Windows Server
3 83 (11.77%) Linux
4 30 (4.26%) Windows 10
5 18 (2.55%) Unix
6 17 (2.41%) Apple iOS
6 17 (2.41%) VMS
7 15 (2.13%) Mac OS
8 14 (1.99%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 7 (0.99%) Android
10 5 (0.71%) Windows Server 2019
11 4 (0.57%) Rocky
11 4 (0.57%) Windows Server 2016
12 3 (0.43%) CentOS
12 3 (0.43%) Oracle Linux
12 3 (0.43%) Ubuntu
13 2 (0.28%) AIX
13 2 (0.28%) Windows Server 2012
13 2 (0.28%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 235 (33.33%) Business Continuity
2 185 (26.24%) Cybersecurity
3 177 (25.11%) Problem-Solving
4 167 (23.69%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 167 (23.69%) ITIL
5 148 (20.99%) Continuous Improvement
6 141 (20.00%) High Availability
7 131 (18.58%) DevOps
8 113 (16.03%) Infrastructure as Code
9 101 (14.33%) CI/CD
10 100 (14.18%) Incident Response
11 93 (13.19%) Migration
12 77 (10.92%) Service Delivery
13 74 (10.50%) Risk Management
13 74 (10.50%) Stakeholder Management
14 72 (10.21%) ITSM
15 71 (10.07%) Data Protection
16 67 (9.50%) Cloud Security
17 66 (9.36%) Change Management
17 66 (9.36%) Customer Service
Programming Languages
1 169 (23.97%) PowerShell
2 116 (16.45%) Python
3 77 (10.92%) SQL
4 39 (5.53%) Bash
5 21 (2.98%) Java
6 14 (1.99%) Bicep
7 13 (1.84%) Go
7 13 (1.84%) JavaScript
8 12 (1.70%) Kusto Query Language
9 9 (1.28%) Scala
10 8 (1.13%) Shell Script
10 8 (1.13%) T-SQL
11 6 (0.85%) C#
12 5 (0.71%) VBScript
13 4 (0.57%) TypeScript
14 3 (0.43%) Korn
15 2 (0.28%) COBOL
15 2 (0.28%) JCL
15 2 (0.28%) PL/SQL
16 1 (0.14%) VBA
Qualifications
1 111 (15.74%) Degree
2 53 (7.52%) Microsoft Certification
3 52 (7.38%) Azure Certification
4 49 (6.95%) Security Cleared
5 46 (6.52%) Computer Science Degree
6 31 (4.40%) SC Cleared
7 30 (4.26%) AWS Certification
8 29 (4.11%) Cisco Certification
9 22 (3.12%) CCNP
10 19 (2.70%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 19 (2.70%) CISSP
11 16 (2.27%) CEH
12 14 (1.99%) BPSS Clearance
13 13 (1.84%) CISM
13 13 (1.84%) HNC
14 12 (1.70%) ITIL Certification
14 12 (1.70%) Microsoft Certified Professional
15 11 (1.56%) DV Cleared
16 10 (1.42%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
17 9 (1.28%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 118 (16.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 83 (11.77%) GDPR
3 71 (10.07%) Cyber Essentials
4 64 (9.08%) NIST
5 51 (7.23%) SLA
6 38 (5.39%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 24 (3.40%) PCI DSS
8 23 (3.26%) SOC 2
9 14 (1.99%) ISO 22301
10 9 (1.28%) Data Quality
11 8 (1.13%) Actionable Recommendations
11 8 (1.13%) ISAE 3402
12 6 (0.85%) GRC
12 6 (0.85%) NCSC
12 6 (0.85%) QA
13 4 (0.57%) DICOM
13 4 (0.57%) HL7
13 4 (0.57%) PMO
14 3 (0.43%) Basel III
14 3 (0.43%) MiFID
System Software
1 236 (33.48%) Active Directory
2 137 (19.43%) VMware Infrastructure
3 102 (14.47%) Hyper-V
4 51 (7.23%) Docker
5 34 (4.82%) Virtual Machines
6 21 (2.98%) vSphere
7 14 (1.99%) Virtual Servers
7 14 (1.99%) VMware ESXi
8 10 (1.42%) Firmware
8 10 (1.42%) Virtual Desktop
9 8 (1.13%) Oracle RAC
9 8 (1.13%) vCloud
10 4 (0.57%) KVM
11 3 (0.43%) BitLocker
11 3 (0.43%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 2 (0.28%) RACF
12 2 (0.28%) VMware Workstation
12 2 (0.28%) XenDesktop
13 1 (0.14%) EMC RecoverPoint
13 1 (0.14%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 117 (16.60%) Microsoft Intune
2 116 (16.45%) Terraform
3 73 (10.35%) Kubernetes
4 67 (9.50%) Ansible
5 21 (2.98%) Grafana
6 19 (2.70%) Prometheus
6 19 (2.70%) SCCM
7 12 (1.70%) Nagios
8 10 (1.42%) Data Guard
9 9 (1.28%) vCenter Server
10 8 (1.13%) Oracle RMAN
10 8 (1.13%) Puppet
10 8 (1.13%) VxRail
11 7 (0.99%) Single Sign-On
12 6 (0.85%) Avamar
12 6 (0.85%) Failover Clustering
12 6 (0.85%) FortiGate
12 6 (0.85%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
13 5 (0.71%) Nessus
13 5 (0.71%) SCOM
Vendors
1 334 (47.38%) Microsoft
2 183 (25.96%) VMware
3 58 (8.23%) Cisco
4 46 (6.52%) Dell
5 34 (4.82%) Veeam
6 28 (3.97%) Commvault
7 27 (3.83%) HP
7 27 (3.83%) Oracle
8 25 (3.55%) Palo Alto
9 23 (3.26%) Zscaler
10 22 (3.12%) Dell Compellent
10 22 (3.12%) Dynatrace
10 22 (3.12%) Meraki
10 22 (3.12%) Nimble Storage
11 18 (2.55%) Tenable
12 17 (2.41%) Adobe
12 17 (2.41%) Fortinet
12 17 (2.41%) Google
13 14 (1.99%) Splunk
14 13 (1.84%) AppDynamics