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

6 months to
25 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 166 253 216
Rank change year-on-year +87 -37 +16
Permanent jobs citing Disaster Recovery 1,297 606 1,046
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.19% 1.21% 1.25%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.63% 1.37% 1.55%
Number of salaries quoted 935 472 749
10th Percentile £35,000 £32,150 £34,900
25th Percentile £42,250 £42,500 £43,911
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -5.98%
75th Percentile £77,500 £76,563 £76,250
90th Percentile £92,500 £93,750 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £51,500 £49,000
% change year-on-year -2.91% +5.10% -2.00%

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 79,636 44,374 67,391
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.20% 88.88% 80.70%
Number of salaries quoted 55,106 25,202 42,338
10th Percentile £31,000 £28,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,650 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £78,750 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £96,250 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +15.79% -5.00% -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 25 August 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 25 August 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 +73 1,131 £57,500 -4.17% 460
UK excluding London +79 850 £50,000 -2.91% 291
Work from Home +93 402 £60,000 +6.67% 196
London +54 400 £75,000 - 222
North of England +62 240 £47,500 -11.63% 64
South East +55 220 £50,000 - 69
Midlands +47 140 £57,500 +2.22% 54
North West +52 130 £47,500 -11.63% 29
West Midlands +34 106 £59,250 +3.04% 37
Yorkshire +29 96 £47,500 -24.00% 30
South West -68 66 £49,375 +6.76% 49
East of England +8 62 £49,863 +27.04% 22
Scotland +42 51 £48,000 -12.73% 20
Northern Ireland -38 49 - - 10
East Midlands -14 34 £45,000 -14.29% 17
Wales -47 22 £45,000 -21.74% 10
North East -61 14 £48,000 -1.54% 7
Channel Islands - 2 £75,000 - 1

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
1 147 (11.33%) SharePoint
2 135 (10.41%) Microsoft Exchange
3 26 (2.00%) IIS
4 20 (1.54%) Apache
5 14 (1.08%) nginx
6 11 (0.85%) Apache Spark
7 6 (0.46%) Confluence
8 4 (0.31%) OpenStack
9 3 (0.23%) WordPress
10 2 (0.15%) Apache Airflow
10 2 (0.15%) WebLogic
11 1 (0.077%) CICS
11 1 (0.077%) Site Server
Applications
1 19 (1.46%) PlantUML
2 18 (1.39%) Microsoft Office
3 12 (0.93%) MS Visio
4 11 (0.85%) Microsoft Excel
5 3 (0.23%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.077%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 11 (0.85%) FLEXCUBE
2 6 (0.46%) Raiser’s Edge
3 5 (0.39%) JDE EnterpriseOne
3 5 (0.39%) Sage 200
4 4 (0.31%) 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 (0.077%) Bloomberg TOMS
7 1 (0.077%) Eikon
7 1 (0.077%) Misys Equation
7 1 (0.077%) Misys Midas
7 1 (0.077%) Oracle Applications
7 1 (0.077%) Oracle EBS
7 1 (0.077%) Sage 50
7 1 (0.077%) SAP EHS
7 1 (0.077%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 674 (51.97%) Azure
2 401 (30.92%) Microsoft 365
3 253 (19.51%) AWS
4 236 (18.20%) Entra ID
5 141 (10.87%) SaaS
6 100 (7.71%) IaaS
7 74 (5.71%) PaaS
8 55 (4.24%) Power Platform
9 44 (3.39%) Cloud Computing
10 40 (3.08%) GCP
11 39 (3.01%) Azure DevOps
12 33 (2.54%) Datadog
12 33 (2.54%) Nutanix
12 33 (2.54%) OneDrive
13 32 (2.47%) Azure Monitor
14 31 (2.39%) Microsoft Copilot
15 28 (2.16%) GitHub
16 27 (2.08%) GitHub Actions
17 24 (1.85%) OCI
18 23 (1.77%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 362 (27.91%) Firewall
2 293 (22.59%) DNS
3 214 (16.50%) VPN
4 212 (16.35%) DHCP
5 161 (12.41%) WAN
6 133 (10.25%) VLAN
7 132 (10.18%) LAN
8 114 (8.79%) Wi-Fi
9 107 (8.25%) Network Security
10 100 (7.71%) TCP/IP
11 68 (5.24%) Wireless
12 63 (4.86%) SAN
13 47 (3.62%) Internet
14 38 (2.93%) SD-WAN
14 38 (2.93%) SSL
15 37 (2.85%) VoIP
16 30 (2.31%) Cisco ISE
17 24 (1.85%) Cisco Nexus
17 24 (1.85%) NAS
18 14 (1.08%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 90 (6.94%) SQL Server
2 38 (2.93%) Amazon RDS
3 34 (2.62%) Power BI
4 31 (2.39%) Azure SQL Database
5 18 (1.39%) PostgreSQL
6 15 (1.16%) Data Warehouse
7 13 (1.00%) Oracle Database
8 11 (0.85%) Data Lake
8 11 (0.85%) MySQL
9 9 (0.69%) Metadata
10 8 (0.62%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 6 (0.46%) SQL Server Analysis Services
12 5 (0.39%) MongoDB
12 5 (0.39%) NoSQL
12 5 (0.39%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 4 (0.31%) DynamoDB
13 4 (0.31%) Elasticsearch
14 3 (0.23%) Delta Lake
14 3 (0.23%) NonStop SQL
14 3 (0.23%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 21 (1.62%) JIRA
2 19 (1.46%) Git
3 15 (1.16%) Chocolatey
4 13 (1.00%) GitLab
5 8 (0.62%) JUnit
5 8 (0.62%) Spock
6 7 (0.54%) Jenkins
7 6 (0.46%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 6 (0.46%) Visual Studio Code
8 5 (0.39%) Bitbucket
9 4 (0.31%) MLflow
10 2 (0.15%) git-flow
10 2 (0.15%) IntelliJ
10 2 (0.15%) Maven
10 2 (0.15%) Selenium
10 2 (0.15%) Terragrunt
10 2 (0.15%) Yeoman
11 1 (0.077%) Claude Code
11 1 (0.077%) TeamCity
General
1 434 (33.46%) Social Skills
2 229 (17.66%) Finance
3 172 (13.26%) Analytical Skills
4 86 (6.63%) Legal
5 76 (5.86%) Law
6 70 (5.40%) Banking
7 61 (4.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 59 (4.55%) Manufacturing
9 40 (3.08%) Documentation Skills
10 39 (3.01%) Retail
11 37 (2.85%) Organisational Skills
12 36 (2.78%) Influencing Skills
12 36 (2.78%) Public Sector
13 22 (1.70%) Telecoms
14 18 (1.39%) Back Office
15 14 (1.08%) Financial Institution
16 13 (1.00%) Aerospace
17 12 (0.93%) Mandarin Language
17 12 (0.93%) Presentation Skills
18 9 (0.69%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 247 (19.04%) Senior
2 192 (14.80%) IT Support
3 166 (12.80%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 149 (11.49%) IT Engineer
5 144 (11.10%) IT Manager
6 119 (9.18%) Support Engineer
7 103 (7.94%) Architect
8 100 (7.71%) IT Support Engineer
9 87 (6.71%) Analyst
10 71 (5.47%) Lead
11 65 (5.01%) Service Manager
12 61 (4.70%) Cloud Engineer
13 59 (4.55%) Resilience Manager
14 58 (4.47%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
15 56 (4.32%) IT Services Manager
16 54 (4.16%) Azure Engineer
17 52 (4.01%) Network Engineer
18 42 (3.24%) IT Analyst
19 40 (3.08%) Administrator
20 39 (3.01%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 164 (12.64%) Terraform
2 72 (5.55%) Middleware
3 14 (1.08%) ARM Templates
4 9 (0.69%) Kafka
5 8 (0.62%) AngularJS
5 8 (0.62%) Microsoft Graph
5 8 (0.62%) Spring
5 8 (0.62%) Web Services
6 7 (0.54%) FIX Protocol
7 5 (0.39%) .NET
7 5 (0.39%) AWS CDK
7 5 (0.39%) ModSecurity
7 5 (0.39%) SAML
8 4 (0.31%) web3js
9 3 (0.23%) 802.1X
9 3 (0.23%) EDI
9 3 (0.23%) JSON
9 3 (0.23%) Nuxt
9 3 (0.23%) PySpark
9 3 (0.23%) Ruby on Rails
Miscellaneous
1 109 (8.40%) Data Centre
2 92 (7.09%) Cyber Threat
3 82 (6.32%) Cloud Native
3 82 (6.32%) Management Information System
4 68 (5.24%) Driving Licence
4 68 (5.24%) Onboarding
5 64 (4.93%) Hybrid Cloud
6 61 (4.70%) Replication
7 60 (4.63%) Security Posture
8 49 (3.78%) Self-Motivation
9 33 (2.54%) Enterprise Storage
10 32 (2.47%) PKI
11 29 (2.24%) NHS
12 27 (2.08%) CCTV
13 26 (2.00%) Enterprise Software
14 24 (1.85%) Clustering
15 22 (1.70%) Public Cloud
16 21 (1.62%) Virtual Team
17 20 (1.54%) Private Cloud
18 19 (1.46%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 436 (33.62%) Windows
2 308 (23.75%) Windows Server
3 137 (10.56%) Linux
4 33 (2.54%) Windows Server 2019
5 30 (2.31%) Windows 10
6 25 (1.93%) Mac OS
6 25 (1.93%) Ubuntu
7 23 (1.77%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 21 (1.62%) Unix
8 21 (1.62%) Windows Server 2016
9 12 (0.93%) AIX
10 10 (0.77%) Oracle Linux
11 9 (0.69%) CentOS
11 9 (0.69%) Solaris
11 9 (0.69%) VMS
12 4 (0.31%) Debian
12 4 (0.31%) Windows Server 2012
13 2 (0.15%) Amazon Linux
13 2 (0.15%) Apple iOS
13 2 (0.15%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 530 (40.86%) Business Continuity
2 396 (30.53%) Cybersecurity
3 346 (26.68%) Continuous Improvement
4 340 (26.21%) Problem-Solving
5 262 (20.20%) ITIL
6 239 (18.43%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 217 (16.73%) DevOps
8 203 (15.65%) High Availability
9 182 (14.03%) Incident Response
10 178 (13.72%) Stakeholder Management
11 173 (13.34%) Information Security
12 169 (13.03%) Infrastructure as Code
13 164 (12.64%) Service Delivery
14 149 (11.49%) Agile
14 149 (11.49%) Project Delivery
15 142 (10.95%) Mentoring
16 137 (10.56%) CI/CD
17 130 (10.02%) Cloud Security
18 128 (9.87%) Risk Management
19 125 (9.64%) AI
Programming Languages
1 190 (14.65%) PowerShell
2 127 (9.79%) Python
3 121 (9.33%) SQL
4 54 (4.16%) Bash
5 28 (2.16%) Bicep
6 23 (1.77%) Shell Script
7 18 (1.39%) Java
8 13 (1.00%) JavaScript
9 11 (0.85%) Korn
9 11 (0.85%) TypeScript
10 10 (0.77%) PL/SQL
11 6 (0.46%) Kusto Query Language
11 6 (0.46%) Search Processing Language
12 5 (0.39%) COBOL
12 5 (0.39%) T-SQL
13 4 (0.31%) Go
13 4 (0.31%) XAML
14 3 (0.23%) C#
14 3 (0.23%) Ruby
15 2 (0.15%) RPG
Qualifications
1 147 (11.33%) Degree
2 101 (7.79%) Azure Certification
3 99 (7.63%) CISSP
4 98 (7.56%) Cisco Certification
5 89 (6.86%) Microsoft Certification
6 84 (6.48%) CISM
7 81 (6.25%) Security Cleared
8 71 (5.47%) CCNP
9 60 (4.63%) SC Cleared
10 58 (4.47%) ITIL Certification
11 51 (3.93%) CCNA
12 43 (3.32%) Computer Science Degree
13 41 (3.16%) Postgraduate
14 31 (2.39%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
15 29 (2.24%) AWS Certification
16 20 (1.54%) CompTIA Security+
17 19 (1.46%) DV Cleared
18 18 (1.39%) Master's Degree
19 15 (1.16%) CISA
19 15 (1.16%) CRISC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 141 (10.87%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 136 (10.49%) NIST
3 116 (8.94%) GDPR
4 113 (8.71%) Cyber Essentials
5 80 (6.17%) SLA
6 77 (5.94%) ISO 22301
7 52 (4.01%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 43 (3.32%) PCI DSS
9 40 (3.08%) GRC
10 28 (2.16%) Data Quality
11 25 (1.93%) PMO
12 22 (1.70%) SOC 2
13 19 (1.46%) NCSC
14 16 (1.23%) COBIT
15 14 (1.08%) QA
16 8 (0.62%) SOC 1
17 5 (0.39%) Actionable Recommendations
17 5 (0.39%) ISO/IEC 20000
17 5 (0.39%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
17 5 (0.39%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 348 (26.83%) Active Directory
2 288 (22.21%) VMware Infrastructure
3 196 (15.11%) Hyper-V
4 51 (3.93%) Docker
5 50 (3.86%) vSphere
6 35 (2.70%) Virtual Machines
7 28 (2.16%) Firmware
7 28 (2.16%) VMware ESXi
8 26 (2.00%) Virtual Desktop
9 15 (1.16%) VMware NSX
10 12 (0.93%) Oracle RAC
11 9 (0.69%) vCloud
12 6 (0.46%) KVM
12 6 (0.46%) Squid
13 5 (0.39%) Virtual Servers
14 3 (0.23%) DFS Replication
14 3 (0.23%) EMC RecoverPoint
14 3 (0.23%) VMware Server
15 2 (0.15%) iptables
15 2 (0.15%) Microsoft Virtual Server
Systems Management
1 174 (13.42%) Microsoft Intune
2 82 (6.32%) Ansible
2 82 (6.32%) Kubernetes
3 35 (2.70%) FortiGate
3 35 (2.70%) Single Sign-On
4 25 (1.93%) SCCM
5 18 (1.39%) VxRail
6 15 (1.16%) Jamf Pro
7 13 (1.00%) Data Guard
7 13 (1.00%) Prometheus
7 13 (1.00%) vCenter Server
8 11 (0.85%) Grafana
8 11 (0.85%) Nagios
8 11 (0.85%) Oracle RMAN
9 8 (0.62%) Dell DRAC
9 8 (0.62%) Proxmox
10 7 (0.54%) Avamar
10 7 (0.54%) Packer
11 6 (0.46%) EMC VPLEX
11 6 (0.46%) WSUS
Vendors
1 637 (49.11%) Microsoft
2 338 (26.06%) VMware
3 195 (15.03%) Cisco
4 91 (7.02%) Veeam
5 69 (5.32%) Palo Alto
6 48 (3.70%) Oracle
7 46 (3.55%) Splunk
8 42 (3.24%) SonicWALL
9 41 (3.16%) Fortinet
10 39 (3.01%) Dell
11 37 (2.85%) Meraki
12 36 (2.78%) Google
13 34 (2.62%) Aruba
14 33 (2.54%) HP
15 31 (2.39%) SolarWinds
15 31 (2.39%) Sophos
16 28 (2.16%) Apple
16 28 (2.16%) Qualys
17 24 (1.85%) IBM
18 23 (1.77%) ServiceNow