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

6 months to
9 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 165 255 186
Rank change year-on-year +90 -69 +27
Permanent jobs citing Disaster Recovery 1,374 572 1,057
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.17% 1.15% 1.46%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.59% 1.29% 1.77%
Number of salaries quoted 937 452 597
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,250 £37,199
25th Percentile £42,500 £45,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,319 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.80% - +0.80%
75th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £102,250 £95,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £51,750 £50,500
% change year-on-year -3.38% +2.48% -3.81%

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 86,265 44,296 59,619
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.17% 89.00% 82.18%
Number of salaries quoted 59,107 24,598 32,082
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,250 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -
75th Percentile £78,750 £75,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £97,500
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 9 October 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 9 October 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 +78 1,207 £55,000 -8.33% 974
UK excluding London +106 896 £50,000 -3.38% 523
London +38 420 £75,000 +3.45% 472
Work from Home +112 417 £62,500 - 394
North of England +62 245 £47,500 -9.52% 144
South East +72 241 £51,000 +2.00% 133
Midlands +47 163 £55,000 -7.56% 83
North West +57 139 £47,500 +11.76% 68
West Midlands +32 114 £58,375 -10.19% 45
Yorkshire +36 92 £46,250 -13.95% 67
South West -37 77 £50,000 +5.26% 60
East of England -4 59 £45,000 -14.29% 31
East Midlands -11 49 £44,736 -14.79% 38
Northern Ireland -42 47 - - 19
Scotland +46 43 £57,226 +9.00% 38
Wales -56 23 £45,000 -21.74% 18
North East -66 14 £52,500 - 11

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
1 179 (13.03%) Microsoft Exchange
2 170 (12.37%) SharePoint
3 26 (1.89%) IIS
4 23 (1.67%) Apache
5 18 (1.31%) nginx
6 10 (0.73%) Apache Spark
7 5 (0.36%) OpenStack
8 4 (0.29%) Confluence
9 3 (0.22%) WordPress
10 2 (0.15%) WebLogic
11 1 (0.073%) CICS
11 1 (0.073%) FactoryTalk
11 1 (0.073%) Site Server
Applications
1 19 (1.38%) PlantUML
2 17 (1.24%) Microsoft Office
3 11 (0.80%) Microsoft Excel
4 9 (0.66%) MS Visio
5 3 (0.22%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.073%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 11 (0.80%) FLEXCUBE
2 7 (0.51%) Dynamics CRM
3 6 (0.44%) Raiser’s Edge
4 5 (0.36%) JDE EnterpriseOne
4 5 (0.36%) Sage 200
5 3 (0.22%) NetSuite
5 3 (0.22%) Q-Pulse
6 2 (0.15%) Adobe Campaign
6 2 (0.15%) Integrated Workplace Management System
7 1 (0.073%) Bloomberg TOMS
7 1 (0.073%) Eikon
7 1 (0.073%) Misys Equation
7 1 (0.073%) Misys Midas
7 1 (0.073%) Oracle Applications
7 1 (0.073%) Oracle EBS
7 1 (0.073%) Sage 50
7 1 (0.073%) SAP EHS
7 1 (0.073%) SAP S/4HANA
7 1 (0.073%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 709 (51.60%) Azure
2 418 (30.42%) Microsoft 365
3 300 (21.83%) Entra ID
4 258 (18.78%) AWS
5 155 (11.28%) SaaS
6 107 (7.79%) IaaS
7 78 (5.68%) PaaS
8 56 (4.08%) GCP
9 54 (3.93%) Power Platform
10 53 (3.86%) Azure DevOps
10 53 (3.86%) Cloud Computing
11 50 (3.64%) Azure Monitor
11 50 (3.64%) OneDrive
12 39 (2.84%) GitHub
13 34 (2.47%) Google Workspace
14 32 (2.33%) Microsoft Copilot
15 27 (1.97%) Amazon EC2
16 25 (1.82%) GitHub Actions
17 24 (1.75%) OCI
18 23 (1.67%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 356 (25.91%) Firewall
2 338 (24.60%) DNS
3 246 (17.90%) DHCP
4 233 (16.96%) VPN
5 154 (11.21%) WAN
6 147 (10.70%) VLAN
7 129 (9.39%) TCP/IP
8 126 (9.17%) LAN
9 115 (8.37%) Wi-Fi
10 94 (6.84%) Network Security
11 90 (6.55%) Wireless
12 59 (4.29%) SAN
13 52 (3.78%) Internet
14 43 (3.13%) SD-WAN
15 38 (2.77%) SSL
15 38 (2.77%) VoIP
16 24 (1.75%) Cisco ISE
16 24 (1.75%) Cisco Nexus
16 24 (1.75%) NAS
17 19 (1.38%) BGP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 100 (7.28%) SQL Server
2 45 (3.28%) Amazon RDS
3 40 (2.91%) Azure SQL Database
4 38 (2.77%) PostgreSQL
5 33 (2.40%) Power BI
6 15 (1.09%) Data Warehouse
7 14 (1.02%) Metadata
7 14 (1.02%) MySQL
7 14 (1.02%) Oracle Database
8 11 (0.80%) Data Lake
9 8 (0.58%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 7 (0.51%) MongoDB
11 6 (0.44%) Relational Database
12 5 (0.36%) NoSQL
12 5 (0.36%) SQL Server Analysis Services
12 5 (0.36%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 4 (0.29%) DynamoDB
14 3 (0.22%) NonStop SQL
14 3 (0.22%) Tableau
15 2 (0.15%) OLTP
Development Applications
1 19 (1.38%) JIRA
2 17 (1.24%) GitLab
3 16 (1.16%) Git
4 11 (0.80%) Chocolatey
5 10 (0.73%) JUnit
5 10 (0.73%) Spock
6 9 (0.66%) Jenkins
7 7 (0.51%) TeamCity
8 5 (0.36%) Bitbucket
8 5 (0.36%) Claude Code
9 4 (0.29%) IntelliJ
9 4 (0.29%) Maven
10 2 (0.15%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 2 (0.15%) git-flow
10 2 (0.15%) Selenium
10 2 (0.15%) Terragrunt
10 2 (0.15%) Visual Studio Code
11 1 (0.073%) Flyway
11 1 (0.073%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
11 1 (0.073%) Yeoman
General
1 466 (33.92%) Social Skills
2 267 (19.43%) Finance
3 182 (13.25%) Analytical Skills
4 89 (6.48%) Law
5 84 (6.11%) Legal
6 77 (5.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 68 (4.95%) Banking
8 62 (4.51%) Manufacturing
9 51 (3.71%) Retail
10 47 (3.42%) Documentation Skills
11 44 (3.20%) Public Sector
12 38 (2.77%) Organisational Skills
13 30 (2.18%) Influencing Skills
14 26 (1.89%) Back Office
15 20 (1.46%) Telecoms
16 18 (1.31%) Financial Institution
17 16 (1.16%) Aerospace
18 13 (0.95%) Police
19 9 (0.66%) Local Government
19 9 (0.66%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 260 (18.92%) Senior
2 192 (13.97%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 192 (13.97%) IT Support
3 142 (10.33%) IT Engineer
4 129 (9.39%) IT Manager
5 115 (8.37%) Support Engineer
6 111 (8.08%) Architect
7 104 (7.57%) Analyst
8 95 (6.91%) IT Support Engineer
9 78 (5.68%) Lead
9 78 (5.68%) Resilience Manager
10 72 (5.24%) Service Manager
11 59 (4.29%) Network Engineer
12 58 (4.22%) IT Services Manager
12 58 (4.22%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
13 57 (4.15%) Cloud Engineer
14 49 (3.57%) Administrator
15 46 (3.35%) Azure Engineer
16 42 (3.06%) IT Analyst
16 42 (3.06%) IT Support Assistant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 193 (14.05%) Terraform
2 76 (5.53%) Middleware
3 15 (1.09%) ARM Templates
4 12 (0.87%) OpenTelemetry
4 12 (0.87%) REST
4 12 (0.87%) SAML
5 10 (0.73%) AngularJS
5 10 (0.73%) Spring
6 9 (0.66%) .NET
6 9 (0.66%) Microsoft Graph
6 9 (0.66%) Web Services
7 7 (0.51%) Kafka
7 7 (0.51%) RESTful
8 6 (0.44%) FIX Protocol
9 5 (0.36%) ModSecurity
10 4 (0.29%) 802.1X
10 4 (0.29%) AWS CDK
10 4 (0.29%) JSON
10 4 (0.29%) LDAP
10 4 (0.29%) React
Miscellaneous
1 100 (7.28%) Data Centre
2 89 (6.48%) Cloud Native
3 85 (6.19%) Cyber Threat
4 84 (6.11%) Driving Licence
5 83 (6.04%) Onboarding
6 76 (5.53%) Management Information System
7 67 (4.88%) Hybrid Cloud
7 67 (4.88%) Replication
8 62 (4.51%) Security Posture
9 44 (3.20%) Self-Motivation
10 35 (2.55%) Enterprise Storage
11 34 (2.47%) Enterprise Software
11 34 (2.47%) PKI
12 29 (2.11%) NHS
13 27 (1.97%) Distributed Systems
14 23 (1.67%) Clustering
15 22 (1.60%) CCTV
16 21 (1.53%) Enterprise Cloud
16 21 (1.53%) Legacy Systems
16 21 (1.53%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 488 (35.52%) Windows
2 362 (26.35%) Windows Server
3 148 (10.77%) Linux
4 44 (3.20%) Windows 10
5 42 (3.06%) Windows Server 2019
6 25 (1.82%) Mac OS
6 25 (1.82%) Windows Server 2016
7 22 (1.60%) Unix
8 21 (1.53%) Ubuntu
9 18 (1.31%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 14 (1.02%) VMS
11 12 (0.87%) AIX
12 10 (0.73%) Oracle Linux
13 9 (0.66%) Solaris
14 6 (0.44%) Debian
15 5 (0.36%) CentOS
16 4 (0.29%) Windows Server 2012
17 2 (0.15%) Amazon Linux
17 2 (0.15%) Apple iOS
17 2 (0.15%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 558 (40.61%) Business Continuity
2 420 (30.57%) Continuous Improvement
3 417 (30.35%) Cybersecurity
4 367 (26.71%) Problem-Solving
5 276 (20.09%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 253 (18.41%) ITIL
7 232 (16.89%) DevOps
8 214 (15.57%) Stakeholder Management
9 213 (15.50%) High Availability
10 202 (14.70%) Infrastructure as Code
11 176 (12.81%) Incident Response
12 172 (12.52%) Information Security
13 171 (12.45%) Project Delivery
14 169 (12.30%) Service Delivery
15 163 (11.86%) CI/CD
16 154 (11.21%) Cloud Security
17 153 (11.14%) Migration
18 140 (10.19%) Agile
19 138 (10.04%) AI
20 135 (9.83%) Incident Management
Programming Languages
1 225 (16.38%) PowerShell
2 142 (10.33%) Python
3 135 (9.83%) SQL
4 69 (5.02%) Bash
5 42 (3.06%) Bicep
6 30 (2.18%) Java
7 24 (1.75%) Shell Script
8 18 (1.31%) JavaScript
9 14 (1.02%) TypeScript
10 11 (0.80%) Korn
11 10 (0.73%) Go
11 10 (0.73%) PL/SQL
12 7 (0.51%) Kusto Query Language
13 6 (0.44%) Groovy
13 6 (0.44%) Search Processing Language
14 5 (0.36%) COBOL
14 5 (0.36%) T-SQL
15 4 (0.29%) C#
15 4 (0.29%) XAML
16 3 (0.22%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 129 (9.39%) Degree
2 119 (8.66%) Security Cleared
3 106 (7.71%) Azure Certification
4 94 (6.84%) CISSP
5 92 (6.70%) SC Cleared
6 89 (6.48%) Cisco Certification
6 89 (6.48%) Microsoft Certification
7 83 (6.04%) CISM
8 62 (4.51%) ITIL Certification
9 61 (4.44%) CCNP
10 51 (3.71%) CCNA
11 46 (3.35%) Postgraduate
12 37 (2.69%) Computer Science Degree
13 32 (2.33%) AWS Certification
14 25 (1.82%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
15 22 (1.60%) CompTIA Security+
16 20 (1.46%) DV Cleared
17 18 (1.31%) Master's Degree
18 16 (1.16%) DBS Check
18 16 (1.16%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 152 (11.06%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 139 (10.12%) NIST
3 127 (9.24%) Cyber Essentials
4 115 (8.37%) GDPR
5 100 (7.28%) ISO 22301
6 84 (6.11%) SLA
7 59 (4.29%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 42 (3.06%) PCI DSS
9 32 (2.33%) GRC
10 28 (2.04%) SOC 2
11 25 (1.82%) Data Quality
12 23 (1.67%) NCSC
13 20 (1.46%) PMO
14 17 (1.24%) COBIT
15 15 (1.09%) QA
16 11 (0.80%) ISO 9001
17 7 (0.51%) SOC 1
18 5 (0.36%) ISO/IEC 20000
19 4 (0.29%) Accessibility
19 4 (0.29%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 393 (28.60%) Active Directory
2 294 (21.40%) VMware Infrastructure
3 215 (15.65%) Hyper-V
4 58 (4.22%) Virtual Machines
5 56 (4.08%) vSphere
6 55 (4.00%) Docker
7 35 (2.55%) Firmware
8 28 (2.04%) VMware ESXi
9 25 (1.82%) Virtual Desktop
10 15 (1.09%) VMware NSX
11 12 (0.87%) Oracle RAC
12 7 (0.51%) vCloud
13 6 (0.44%) Squid
14 5 (0.36%) DFS Replication
14 5 (0.36%) Virtual Servers
15 4 (0.29%) KVM
16 3 (0.22%) VMware Server
17 2 (0.15%) EMC RecoverPoint
17 2 (0.15%) iptables
17 2 (0.15%) Microsoft Virtual Server
Systems Management
1 199 (14.48%) Microsoft Intune
2 97 (7.06%) Kubernetes
3 86 (6.26%) Ansible
4 57 (4.15%) Single Sign-On
5 34 (2.47%) FortiGate
6 28 (2.04%) Grafana
7 27 (1.97%) SCCM
8 24 (1.75%) Prometheus
9 16 (1.16%) Jamf Pro
9 16 (1.16%) VxRail
10 13 (0.95%) Data Guard
11 12 (0.87%) Puppet
12 11 (0.80%) Nagios
12 11 (0.80%) Oracle RMAN
13 10 (0.73%) vCenter Server
14 8 (0.58%) Dell DRAC
14 8 (0.58%) Progress Chef
14 8 (0.58%) Proxmox
15 7 (0.51%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 7 (0.51%) Avamar
Vendors
1 667 (48.54%) Microsoft
2 341 (24.82%) VMware
3 205 (14.92%) Cisco
4 102 (7.42%) Veeam
5 68 (4.95%) Palo Alto
6 60 (4.37%) Fortinet
7 53 (3.86%) Oracle
8 52 (3.78%) Google
9 49 (3.57%) SonicWALL
10 44 (3.20%) Meraki
11 43 (3.13%) Aruba
12 42 (3.06%) SolarWinds
13 41 (2.98%) Splunk
14 37 (2.69%) Dell
15 30 (2.18%) Qualys
16 28 (2.04%) Apple
17 25 (1.82%) Sophos
18 24 (1.75%) ServiceNow
19 22 (1.60%) Citrix
19 22 (1.60%) Dynatrace