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

6 months to
20 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 227 201 219
Rank change year-on-year -26 +18 +110
Permanent jobs citing Disaster Recovery 787 664 1,324
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.90% 1.59% 1.40%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.20% 1.71% 1.63%
Number of salaries quoted 589 544 1,182
10th Percentile £32,700 £36,250 £33,525
25th Percentile £45,000 £43,938 £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 £68,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £90,000 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £53,300 £50,000
% change year-on-year -1.50% +6.60% -

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 65,702 38,866 81,241
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 75.29% 92.92% 85.87%
Number of salaries quoted 40,633 22,660 59,433
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 £52,600 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.94% +5.20% -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 20 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 20 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 -27 678 £60,000 - 247
UK excluding London -55 432 £52,500 -1.50% 219
London +22 295 £85,000 +13.33% 64
Work from Home +36 245 £65,000 +8.33% 118
North of England -24 144 £53,000 +2.66% 66
South East -17 104 £60,000 -7.69% 59
Yorkshire -10 81 £52,370 -4.78% 23
Midlands -31 66 £52,500 +5.00% 36
West Midlands -11 58 £52,500 +5.00% 26
North West -44 44 £55,000 +22.22% 35
East of England -42 29 £63,750 +27.50% 13
South West -92 28 £40,000 -27.27% 29
Scotland -15 26 £38,000 -24.67% 13
Northern Ireland -22 19 - - 1
North East -34 19 £51,000 +50.00% 11
Wales - 12 £35,000 - 6
East Midlands -67 7 £60,000 +50.00% 10
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
1 101 (12.83%) Microsoft Exchange
2 83 (10.55%) SharePoint
3 9 (1.14%) IIS
4 5 (0.64%) Confluence
5 4 (0.51%) Apache Spark
6 3 (0.38%) Apache
7 2 (0.25%) Apache Airflow
7 2 (0.25%) BizTalk Server
7 2 (0.25%) CICS
8 1 (0.13%) Tomcat
Applications
1 24 (3.05%) Microsoft Office
2 10 (1.27%) MS Visio
3 4 (0.51%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (0.25%) Weka
5 1 (0.13%) Acrobat
5 1 (0.13%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 5 (0.64%) Dynamics CRM
1 5 (0.64%) 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
1 429 (54.51%) Azure
2 242 (30.75%) Microsoft 365
3 151 (19.19%) Entra ID
4 133 (16.90%) AWS
5 66 (8.39%) Nutanix
6 48 (6.10%) SaaS
7 46 (5.84%) Azure DevOps
8 45 (5.72%) Azure Monitor
8 45 (5.72%) Datadog
9 40 (5.08%) IaaS
10 37 (4.70%) GitHub
11 35 (4.45%) OneDrive
12 34 (4.32%) Microsoft Purview
12 34 (4.32%) PaaS
13 32 (4.07%) GCP
14 24 (3.05%) Azure AKS
14 24 (3.05%) GitHub Actions
15 21 (2.67%) Power Platform
15 21 (2.67%) Serverless
16 18 (2.29%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 235 (29.86%) Firewall
2 170 (21.60%) DNS
3 166 (21.09%) VPN
4 140 (17.79%) DHCP
5 115 (14.61%) WAN
6 82 (10.42%) VLAN
7 71 (9.02%) LAN
8 62 (7.88%) TCP/IP
9 61 (7.75%) Wi-Fi
10 57 (7.24%) SAN
11 52 (6.61%) Network Security
12 36 (4.57%) Wireless
13 31 (3.94%) Remote Desktop
14 26 (3.30%) SD-WAN
15 19 (2.41%) NAS
16 16 (2.03%) Cisco ISE
17 15 (1.91%) BGP
18 14 (1.78%) VoIP
19 11 (1.40%) SSL
20 9 (1.14%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 71 (9.02%) SQL Server
2 28 (3.56%) Amazon RDS
3 21 (2.67%) Azure SQL Database
4 16 (2.03%) MySQL
5 12 (1.52%) Data Lake
5 12 (1.52%) Delta Lake
5 12 (1.52%) PostgreSQL
6 11 (1.40%) Oracle Database
6 11 (1.40%) Power BI
7 9 (1.14%) Data Warehouse
8 8 (1.02%) Amazon Aurora
9 7 (0.89%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 6 (0.76%) MongoDB
11 5 (0.64%) Geospatial Data
11 5 (0.64%) 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 28 (3.56%) Git
2 18 (2.29%) Chocolatey
3 14 (1.78%) JIRA
4 12 (1.52%) Jenkins
5 5 (0.64%) GitLab
5 5 (0.64%) Sonatype Nexus
6 4 (0.51%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 4 (0.51%) LabVIEW
6 4 (0.51%) MLflow
6 4 (0.51%) Selenium
6 4 (0.51%) Visual Studio Code
7 3 (0.38%) Bitbucket
7 3 (0.38%) Maven
7 3 (0.38%) TeamCity
8 2 (0.25%) Artifactory
8 2 (0.25%) Octopus Deploy
8 2 (0.25%) Robot Framework
8 2 (0.25%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 2 (0.25%) TestRail
9 1 (0.13%) Yeoman
General
1 304 (38.63%) Social Skills
2 168 (21.35%) Finance
3 129 (16.39%) Analytical Skills
4 54 (6.86%) Banking
5 38 (4.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 35 (4.45%) Law
7 31 (3.94%) Public Sector
8 28 (3.56%) Retail
9 26 (3.30%) Organisational Skills
10 22 (2.80%) Legal
10 22 (2.80%) Manufacturing
11 15 (1.91%) Documentation Skills
11 15 (1.91%) Influencing Skills
12 14 (1.78%) Financial Institution
12 14 (1.78%) Telecoms
13 12 (1.52%) Back Office
13 12 (1.52%) Presentation Skills
14 11 (1.40%) Marketing
15 8 (1.02%) Advertising
16 6 (0.76%) French Language
Job Titles
1 133 (16.90%) Senior
2 123 (15.63%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 82 (10.42%) Cloud Engineer
4 81 (10.29%) IT Engineer
5 79 (10.04%) IT Support
6 74 (9.40%) Support Engineer
7 66 (8.39%) IT Manager
8 64 (8.13%) Lead
9 55 (6.99%) Azure Engineer
10 48 (6.10%) IT Support Engineer
11 47 (5.97%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
12 42 (5.34%) Architect
13 37 (4.70%) Analyst
14 29 (3.68%) Platform Engineer
15 26 (3.30%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
16 25 (3.18%) DevOps Engineer
16 25 (3.18%) Security Engineer
17 24 (3.05%) Security Manager
18 22 (2.80%) Administrator
18 22 (2.80%) Support Technician
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (2.29%) SAML
2 15 (1.91%) OAuth
3 13 (1.65%) YAML
4 12 (1.52%) ADO
4 12 (1.52%) PySpark
5 11 (1.40%) ARM Templates
6 10 (1.27%) REST
7 8 (1.02%) RESTful
8 7 (0.89%) Loki
9 5 (0.64%) Middleware
10 4 (0.51%) .NET
10 4 (0.51%) Elastic Stack
10 4 (0.51%) Kafka
10 4 (0.51%) web3js
11 3 (0.38%) ActiveMQ
11 3 (0.38%) EDI
11 3 (0.38%) LAMP
11 3 (0.38%) ODBC
11 3 (0.38%) RAML
11 3 (0.38%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 77 (9.78%) Hybrid Cloud
2 57 (7.24%) Management Information System
3 55 (6.99%) Data Centre
4 41 (5.21%) Replication
5 37 (4.70%) Cloud Native
6 35 (4.45%) Public Cloud
7 34 (4.32%) Driving Licence
8 32 (4.07%) Cyber Threat
8 32 (4.07%) Onboarding
9 30 (3.81%) Data Protection Act
10 27 (3.43%) Security Posture
11 21 (2.67%) Self-Motivation
12 18 (2.29%) CMDB
13 16 (2.03%) PKI
14 15 (1.91%) Enterprise Software
14 15 (1.91%) NHS
15 14 (1.78%) Legacy Systems
16 13 (1.65%) Enterprise Storage
17 11 (1.40%) Clustering
18 9 (1.14%) CCTV
Operating Systems
1 248 (31.51%) Windows
2 168 (21.35%) Windows Server
3 69 (8.77%) Linux
4 26 (3.30%) Windows 10
5 18 (2.29%) Apple iOS
6 17 (2.16%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 16 (2.03%) VMS
8 14 (1.78%) Ubuntu
9 10 (1.27%) CentOS
9 10 (1.27%) Mac OS
10 8 (1.02%) Unix
10 8 (1.02%) Windows Server 2016
11 7 (0.89%) Windows Server 2019
12 5 (0.64%) 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
1 294 (37.36%) Business Continuity
2 244 (31.00%) Cybersecurity
3 201 (25.54%) Problem-Solving
4 199 (25.29%) ITIL
5 174 (22.11%) Continuous Improvement
6 169 (21.47%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 141 (17.92%) High Availability
8 126 (16.01%) DevOps
9 109 (13.85%) Incident Response
10 107 (13.60%) Service Delivery
11 98 (12.45%) Infrastructure as Code
12 88 (11.18%) Change Management
13 87 (11.05%) CI/CD
13 87 (11.05%) Data Protection
14 85 (10.80%) Cloud Security
15 84 (10.67%) Mentoring
15 84 (10.67%) Migration
16 80 (10.17%) Stakeholder Management
17 74 (9.40%) Service Management
18 73 (9.28%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 146 (18.55%) PowerShell
2 106 (13.47%) Python
3 82 (10.42%) SQL
4 37 (4.70%) Bash
5 13 (1.65%) Java
6 12 (1.52%) Bicep
6 12 (1.52%) Kusto Query Language
7 10 (1.27%) Shell Script
8 9 (1.14%) JavaScript
8 9 (1.14%) Scala
8 9 (1.14%) T-SQL
9 8 (1.02%) Go
10 5 (0.64%) C#
11 4 (0.51%) Korn
12 3 (0.38%) COBOL
12 3 (0.38%) PL/SQL
12 3 (0.38%) TypeScript
13 2 (0.25%) JCL
13 2 (0.25%) RPG
14 1 (0.13%) Perl
Qualifications
1 95 (12.07%) Degree
2 51 (6.48%) Microsoft Certification
3 46 (5.84%) Azure Certification
4 44 (5.59%) Computer Science Degree
5 42 (5.34%) Security Cleared
6 41 (5.21%) Cisco Certification
7 32 (4.07%) CCNP
8 30 (3.81%) SC Cleared
9 24 (3.05%) CISSP
10 23 (2.92%) CEH
11 16 (2.03%) CCNA
12 14 (1.78%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13 13 (1.65%) AWS Certification
14 11 (1.40%) BPSS Clearance
14 11 (1.40%) MCSE
14 11 (1.40%) Postgraduate
15 9 (1.14%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 9 (1.14%) CISM
15 9 (1.14%) Microsoft Certified Professional
16 8 (1.02%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 123 (15.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 80 (10.17%) GDPR
3 78 (9.91%) Cyber Essentials
4 67 (8.51%) NIST
5 59 (7.50%) SLA
6 39 (4.96%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 33 (4.19%) PCI DSS
8 25 (3.18%) SOC 2
9 23 (2.92%) GRC
10 19 (2.41%) Data Quality
11 16 (2.03%) ISO 22301
11 16 (2.03%) PMO
12 11 (1.40%) Actionable Recommendations
13 7 (0.89%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
13 7 (0.89%) QA
14 6 (0.76%) NCSC
15 4 (0.51%) DICOM
15 4 (0.51%) HIPAA
15 4 (0.51%) HL7
16 3 (0.38%) GxP
System Software
1 246 (31.26%) Active Directory
2 169 (21.47%) VMware Infrastructure
3 109 (13.85%) Hyper-V
4 39 (4.96%) Docker
5 32 (4.07%) Virtual Machines
6 27 (3.43%) vSphere
7 17 (2.16%) Firmware
8 16 (2.03%) VMware ESXi
9 15 (1.91%) Virtual Desktop
10 7 (0.89%) Virtual Servers
11 6 (0.76%) KVM
11 6 (0.76%) Oracle RAC
11 6 (0.76%) vCloud
12 4 (0.51%) VMware NSX
13 3 (0.38%) Microsoft Virtual Server
14 2 (0.25%) EMC RecoverPoint
14 2 (0.25%) RACF
14 2 (0.25%) VMware Workstation
15 1 (0.13%) Postfix
15 1 (0.13%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 109 (13.85%) Terraform
2 107 (13.60%) Microsoft Intune
3 65 (8.26%) Kubernetes
4 64 (8.13%) Ansible
5 25 (3.18%) SCCM
6 14 (1.78%) Grafana
6 14 (1.78%) VxRail
7 11 (1.40%) FortiGate
7 11 (1.40%) Prometheus
8 9 (1.14%) Nagios
8 9 (1.14%) Single Sign-On
9 8 (1.02%) Data Guard
9 8 (1.02%) vCenter Server
10 6 (0.76%) Packer
11 5 (0.64%) Oracle RMAN
12 4 (0.51%) Argo
12 4 (0.51%) Backup Exec
12 4 (0.51%) Dell DRAC
12 4 (0.51%) WSUS
13 3 (0.38%) Avamar
Vendors
1 389 (49.43%) Microsoft
2 237 (30.11%) VMware
3 67 (8.51%) Cisco
4 56 (7.12%) Dell
5 42 (5.34%) HP
6 39 (4.96%) Commvault
7 38 (4.83%) Veeam
8 35 (4.45%) Palo Alto
9 33 (4.19%) Nimble Storage
10 28 (3.56%) Dell Compellent
10 28 (3.56%) Tenable
11 27 (3.43%) Zscaler
12 26 (3.30%) Meraki
13 25 (3.18%) Dynatrace
14 24 (3.05%) Oracle
15 19 (2.41%) AppDynamics
15 19 (2.41%) Fortinet
16 18 (2.29%) Splunk
17 17 (2.16%) Databricks
17 17 (2.16%) EMC