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

6 months to
28 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 210 179 197
Rank change year-on-year -31 +18 +117
Permanent jobs citing Disaster Recovery 651 877 1,087
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.03% 1.67% 1.59%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.29% 1.83% 1.80%
Number of salaries quoted 507 530 987
10th Percentile £32,500 £37,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £46,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% +4.35% +9.21%
75th Percentile £87,500 £77,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £107,500 £93,750 £81,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £53,000 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +0.95% - +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 50,653 47,952 60,543
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 80.28% 91.49% 88.83%
Number of salaries quoted 29,910 23,033 46,850
10th Percentile £28,738 £35,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £45,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% -8.00%
75th Percentile £75,900 £80,000 £76,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -9.09%

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 28 January 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 28 January 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 -37 578 £62,500 +4.17% 227
UK excluding London -71 324 £53,000 +0.95% 229
London +29 279 £80,000 +6.67% 52
Work from Home +30 205 £68,736 +5.75% 94
North of England -42 113 £48,000 +6.67% 51
South East -7 72 £67,500 +3.85% 70
Yorkshire -17 66 £47,750 -9.05% 32
Midlands -39 55 £57,500 +7.88% 48
West Midlands +6 36 £57,500 +7.88% 28
North West -49 34 £41,250 -8.33% 15
South West -14 28 £45,000 -22.41% 20
Northern Ireland - 21 - - 2
East of England -16 19 £52,500 -2.33% 15
East Midlands -39 18 £48,750 -18.75% 19
North East -11 13 £58,446 +29.88% 7
Scotland -50 10 £48,000 -20.00% 22
Wales +3 7 £28,000 -50.66% 6

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 99 (15.21%) Microsoft Exchange
2 93 (14.29%) SharePoint
3 12 (1.84%) IIS
4 7 (1.08%) Tomcat
5 6 (0.92%) WebSphere
5 6 (0.92%) WebSphere Application Server
6 3 (0.46%) Confluence
7 2 (0.31%) BizTalk Server
7 2 (0.31%) CICS
7 2 (0.31%) CMS
8 1 (0.15%) Apache Spark
8 1 (0.15%) Site Server
8 1 (0.15%) Skype for Business
8 1 (0.15%) WebLogic
Applications
1 33 (5.07%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (0.92%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (0.92%) MS Visio
2 6 (0.92%) Spreadsheet
3 2 (0.31%) Acrobat
3 2 (0.31%) Weka
Business Applications
1 5 (0.77%) Oracle EBS
2 4 (0.61%) Markit EDM
3 3 (0.46%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.31%) Dynamics AX
5 1 (0.15%) Elite 3E
5 1 (0.15%) FLEXCUBE
5 1 (0.15%) Oracle 11i
5 1 (0.15%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.15%) Raiser’s Edge
5 1 (0.15%) Sage 200
5 1 (0.15%) SAP ERP
5 1 (0.15%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 361 (55.45%) Azure
2 218 (33.49%) Microsoft 365
3 158 (24.27%) Entra ID
4 122 (18.74%) AWS
5 48 (7.37%) Azure Monitor
6 45 (6.91%) SaaS
7 44 (6.76%) Azure DevOps
8 43 (6.61%) GitHub
9 40 (6.14%) GCP
9 40 (6.14%) Nutanix
10 36 (5.53%) IaaS
11 35 (5.38%) OneDrive
11 35 (5.38%) PaaS
12 34 (5.22%) Microsoft Purview
13 31 (4.76%) Datadog
14 27 (4.15%) GitHub Actions
15 24 (3.69%) AWS CloudFormation
16 23 (3.53%) Serverless
17 22 (3.38%) Amazon EKS
18 20 (3.07%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 184 (28.26%) Firewall
2 160 (24.58%) DNS
3 140 (21.51%) DHCP
4 126 (19.35%) VPN
5 95 (14.59%) WAN
6 71 (10.91%) TCP/IP
7 67 (10.29%) VLAN
8 53 (8.14%) LAN
9 49 (7.53%) SAN
10 47 (7.22%) Wi-Fi
11 36 (5.53%) SD-WAN
12 34 (5.22%) Wireless
13 27 (4.15%) VoIP
14 24 (3.69%) Network Security
15 21 (3.23%) NAS
16 20 (3.07%) Remote Desktop
17 16 (2.46%) SSL
18 11 (1.69%) BGP
19 9 (1.38%) Unified Communications
20 7 (1.08%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 56 (8.60%) SQL Server
2 25 (3.84%) Amazon RDS
3 21 (3.23%) PostgreSQL
4 19 (2.92%) Azure SQL Database
5 18 (2.76%) Oracle Database
6 15 (2.30%) MySQL
7 12 (1.84%) Power BI
8 9 (1.38%) BigQuery
8 9 (1.38%) Data Lake
8 9 (1.38%) DB2
8 9 (1.38%) Delta Lake
8 9 (1.38%) MongoDB
9 8 (1.23%) Amazon Aurora
10 7 (1.08%) Oracle Exadata
11 6 (0.92%) Data Warehouse
11 6 (0.92%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 5 (0.77%) Oracle Database 12c
13 4 (0.61%) Oracle Database 10g
13 4 (0.61%) Oracle Database 11g
14 3 (0.46%) GIS
Development Applications
1 30 (4.61%) Git
2 22 (3.38%) Jenkins
3 9 (1.38%) Chocolatey
4 8 (1.23%) JIRA
5 6 (0.92%) Selenium
6 5 (0.77%) GitLab
6 5 (0.77%) Sonatype Nexus
7 4 (0.61%) Bitbucket
7 4 (0.61%) LabVIEW
8 3 (0.46%) LoadRunner
8 3 (0.46%) Maven
9 2 (0.31%) Artifactory
9 2 (0.31%) Octopus Deploy
9 2 (0.31%) Robot Framework
9 2 (0.31%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
9 2 (0.31%) TeamCity
9 2 (0.31%) TestRail
10 1 (0.15%) JMeter
10 1 (0.15%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 242 (37.17%) Social Skills
2 195 (29.95%) Finance
3 97 (14.90%) Analytical Skills
4 42 (6.45%) Banking
5 41 (6.30%) Law
6 25 (3.84%) Manufacturing
7 24 (3.69%) Public Sector
7 24 (3.69%) Retail
8 21 (3.23%) Documentation Skills
8 21 (3.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 20 (3.07%) Financial Institution
10 18 (2.76%) Legal
11 15 (2.30%) Organisational Skills
12 14 (2.15%) Back Office
13 13 (2.00%) Telecoms
14 11 (1.69%) Marketing
15 10 (1.54%) Presentation Skills
16 8 (1.23%) Influencing Skills
17 7 (1.08%) Advertising
18 5 (0.77%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 111 (17.05%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 85 (13.06%) Senior
3 74 (11.37%) Cloud Engineer
4 70 (10.75%) Support Engineer
5 57 (8.76%) Lead
6 56 (8.60%) IT Support
7 55 (8.45%) IT Engineer
8 44 (6.76%) Analyst
9 42 (6.45%) IT Manager
10 36 (5.53%) Azure Engineer
11 34 (5.22%) DevOps Engineer
12 31 (4.76%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
13 27 (4.15%) IT Support Engineer
14 26 (3.99%) Infrastructure Manager
14 26 (3.99%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
15 25 (3.84%) Support Analyst
16 24 (3.69%) Architect
16 24 (3.69%) Support Technician
17 23 (3.53%) Infrastructure Support
18 22 (3.38%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (2.46%) SAML
2 14 (2.15%) OAuth
3 11 (1.69%) ADO
3 11 (1.69%) YAML
4 10 (1.54%) REST
5 9 (1.38%) EDI
5 9 (1.38%) PySpark
6 8 (1.23%) LDAP
6 8 (1.23%) RESTful
7 7 (1.08%) .NET
7 7 (1.08%) ARM Templates
7 7 (1.08%) Loki
8 6 (0.92%) Elastic Stack
8 6 (0.92%) LAPP Stack
8 6 (0.92%) Middleware
8 6 (0.92%) WebSphere MQ
9 4 (0.61%) AWS SAM
9 4 (0.61%) Kafka
9 4 (0.61%) SOAP
10 3 (0.46%) Microsoft Graph
Miscellaneous
1 49 (7.53%) Hybrid Cloud
2 46 (7.07%) Management Information System
3 34 (5.22%) Enterprise Software
4 33 (5.07%) Data Centre
5 32 (4.92%) Onboarding
6 27 (4.15%) Cloud Native
7 26 (3.99%) Data Protection Act
8 25 (3.84%) Public Cloud
9 24 (3.69%) Replication
10 18 (2.76%) Clustering
10 18 (2.76%) Cyber Threat
11 16 (2.46%) PKI
12 15 (2.30%) CMDB
13 14 (2.15%) Driving Licence
13 14 (2.15%) Self-Motivation
14 13 (2.00%) Legacy Systems
15 12 (1.84%) Security Posture
16 9 (1.38%) Product Ownership
17 7 (1.08%) Cyber Security Posture
17 7 (1.08%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 222 (34.10%) Windows
2 158 (24.27%) Windows Server
3 88 (13.52%) Linux
4 30 (4.61%) Windows 10
5 21 (3.23%) VMS
6 20 (3.07%) Unix
7 16 (2.46%) Apple iOS
7 16 (2.46%) Mac OS
8 14 (2.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 7 (1.08%) Android
10 4 (0.61%) Rocky
10 4 (0.61%) Windows Server 2019
11 3 (0.46%) CentOS
11 3 (0.46%) Ubuntu
12 2 (0.31%) AIX
12 2 (0.31%) Oracle Linux
12 2 (0.31%) Windows Server 2012
12 2 (0.31%) zOS
13 1 (0.15%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 212 (32.57%) Business Continuity
2 169 (25.96%) Cybersecurity
3 156 (23.96%) ITIL
3 156 (23.96%) Problem-Solving
4 154 (23.66%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 134 (20.58%) High Availability
6 132 (20.28%) Continuous Improvement
7 128 (19.66%) DevOps
8 110 (16.90%) Infrastructure as Code
9 100 (15.36%) CI/CD
9 100 (15.36%) Incident Response
10 87 (13.36%) Migration
11 71 (10.91%) Computer Science
11 71 (10.91%) Stakeholder Management
12 70 (10.75%) ITSM
13 69 (10.60%) Data Protection
13 69 (10.60%) Service Delivery
14 68 (10.45%) Risk Management
15 63 (9.68%) Service Management
16 59 (9.06%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 159 (24.42%) PowerShell
2 111 (17.05%) Python
3 78 (11.98%) SQL
4 38 (5.84%) Bash
5 20 (3.07%) Java
6 14 (2.15%) Go
7 13 (2.00%) Bicep
8 11 (1.69%) JavaScript
8 11 (1.69%) Kusto Query Language
9 9 (1.38%) Scala
10 8 (1.23%) T-SQL
11 7 (1.08%) Shell Script
12 6 (0.92%) C#
12 6 (0.92%) VBScript
13 4 (0.61%) TypeScript
14 2 (0.31%) COBOL
14 2 (0.31%) JCL
14 2 (0.31%) Korn
15 1 (0.15%) PL/SQL
15 1 (0.15%) VBA
Qualifications
1 119 (18.28%) Degree
2 54 (8.29%) Azure Certification
3 50 (7.68%) Computer Science Degree
4 48 (7.37%) Microsoft Certification
5 41 (6.30%) Security Cleared
6 34 (5.22%) AWS Certification
7 24 (3.69%) SC Cleared
8 22 (3.38%) CISSP
9 21 (3.23%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 20 (3.07%) Cisco Certification
11 15 (2.30%) CCNP
12 14 (2.15%) CEH
12 14 (2.15%) ITIL Certification
13 13 (2.00%) CISM
13 13 (2.00%) HNC
14 12 (1.84%) MCP
15 11 (1.69%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
15 11 (1.69%) Master's Degree
16 10 (1.54%) BPSS Clearance
16 10 (1.54%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 111 (17.05%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 84 (12.90%) GDPR
3 66 (10.14%) Cyber Essentials
4 60 (9.22%) NIST
5 46 (7.07%) SLA
6 32 (4.92%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 20 (3.07%) SOC 2
8 17 (2.61%) PCI DSS
9 12 (1.84%) ISO 22301
10 9 (1.38%) Data Quality
11 8 (1.23%) ISAE 3402
12 6 (0.92%) GRC
12 6 (0.92%) NCSC
12 6 (0.92%) QA
13 5 (0.77%) Actionable Recommendations
14 3 (0.46%) Basel III
14 3 (0.46%) COBIT
14 3 (0.46%) GxP
14 3 (0.46%) ISO/IEC 20000
14 3 (0.46%) MiFID
System Software
1 214 (32.87%) Active Directory
2 114 (17.51%) VMware Infrastructure
3 89 (13.67%) Hyper-V
4 54 (8.29%) Docker
5 34 (5.22%) Virtual Machines
6 25 (3.84%) vSphere
7 14 (2.15%) Virtual Servers
8 12 (1.84%) VMware ESXi
9 8 (1.23%) Oracle RAC
9 8 (1.23%) vCloud
9 8 (1.23%) Virtual Desktop
10 7 (1.08%) Firmware
11 4 (0.61%) BitLocker
12 3 (0.46%) Microsoft Virtual Server
13 2 (0.31%) RACF
13 2 (0.31%) XenDesktop
14 1 (0.15%) NFS
14 1 (0.15%) Postfix
14 1 (0.15%) Squid
Systems Management
1 115 (17.67%) Terraform
2 109 (16.74%) Microsoft Intune
3 75 (11.52%) Kubernetes
4 65 (9.98%) Ansible
5 22 (3.38%) Grafana
5 22 (3.38%) Prometheus
6 15 (2.30%) SCCM
7 12 (1.84%) Nagios
8 10 (1.54%) Data Guard
9 9 (1.38%) vCenter Server
10 8 (1.23%) Oracle RMAN
10 8 (1.23%) Puppet
11 7 (1.08%) Avamar
11 7 (1.08%) FortiGate
11 7 (1.08%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
12 6 (0.92%) Failover Clustering
12 6 (0.92%) Single Sign-On
13 5 (0.77%) Nessus
13 5 (0.77%) SCOM
13 5 (0.77%) VxRail
Vendors
1 325 (49.92%) Microsoft
2 155 (23.81%) VMware
3 51 (7.83%) Cisco
4 42 (6.45%) Dell
5 32 (4.92%) Veeam
6 29 (4.45%) Oracle
6 29 (4.45%) Palo Alto
7 26 (3.99%) Commvault
8 20 (3.07%) Dynatrace
8 20 (3.07%) Fortinet
9 18 (2.76%) Google
9 18 (2.76%) HP
10 16 (2.46%) Dell Compellent
10 16 (2.46%) Nimble Storage
11 15 (2.30%) Meraki
12 14 (2.15%) Adobe
12 14 (2.15%) IBM
12 14 (2.15%) Zscaler
13 12 (1.84%) Tenable
14 11 (1.69%) Red Hat