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

6 months to
7 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 209 172 192
Rank change year-on-year -37 +20 +127
Permanent jobs citing Disaster Recovery 670 870 1,204
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.03% 1.72% 1.62%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.29% 1.87% 1.83%
Number of salaries quoted 519 533 1,096
10th Percentile £32,500 £37,500 £33,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £46,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +1.67% +4.35% +9.21%
75th Percentile £87,500 £77,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £107,500 £92,500 £80,000
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 51,976 46,628 65,707
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 79.87% 91.97% 88.39%
Number of salaries quoted 30,795 22,565 51,052
10th Percentile £28,750 £35,000 £29,500
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 £80,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £96,250 £101,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -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 7 February 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 7 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 -36 588 £62,500 +4.17% 218
UK excluding London -70 335 £53,000 +0.95% 205
London +32 278 £80,000 +6.67% 59
Work from Home +25 211 £69,368 +10.99% 110
North of England -42 121 £48,000 +6.67% 48
South East -23 74 £67,500 +3.85% 71
Yorkshire -13 71 £47,750 -9.05% 25
Midlands -33 57 £57,500 +7.88% 37
West Midlands +7 38 £57,500 +7.88% 22
North West -39 35 £42,500 -5.56% 22
South West -24 26 £45,000 -25.00% 13
Northern Ireland - 21 - -
East of England -16 20 £39,500 -28.18% 18
East Midlands -39 18 £48,750 -18.75% 15
North East -8 15 £55,473 +40.44% 3
Scotland -53 10 £48,000 -30.18% 16
Wales +7 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
1 108 (16.12%) Microsoft Exchange
2 100 (14.93%) SharePoint
3 12 (1.79%) IIS
4 5 (0.75%) Tomcat
5 4 (0.60%) WebSphere
5 4 (0.60%) WebSphere Application Server
6 3 (0.45%) Confluence
7 2 (0.30%) BizTalk Server
7 2 (0.30%) CICS
7 2 (0.30%) 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 32 (4.78%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (0.90%) MS Visio
2 6 (0.90%) Spreadsheet
3 4 (0.60%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (0.30%) Acrobat
4 2 (0.30%) Weka
Business Applications
1 5 (0.75%) Oracle EBS
2 4 (0.60%) Markit EDM
3 3 (0.45%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.30%) Dynamics AX
4 2 (0.30%) FLEXCUBE
5 1 (0.15%) Elite 3E
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
1 372 (55.52%) Azure
2 227 (33.88%) Microsoft 365
3 164 (24.48%) Entra ID
4 119 (17.76%) AWS
5 50 (7.46%) Azure Monitor
6 47 (7.01%) SaaS
7 46 (6.87%) Azure DevOps
8 42 (6.27%) GitHub
8 42 (6.27%) Nutanix
9 39 (5.82%) GCP
10 36 (5.37%) IaaS
10 36 (5.37%) OneDrive
11 35 (5.22%) PaaS
12 34 (5.07%) Microsoft Purview
13 33 (4.93%) Datadog
14 27 (4.03%) GitHub Actions
15 23 (3.43%) AWS CloudFormation
15 23 (3.43%) Serverless
16 21 (3.13%) Amazon EKS
17 19 (2.84%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 193 (28.81%) Firewall
2 164 (24.48%) DNS
3 142 (21.19%) DHCP
4 138 (20.60%) VPN
5 102 (15.22%) WAN
6 72 (10.75%) TCP/IP
7 71 (10.60%) VLAN
8 56 (8.36%) LAN
9 48 (7.16%) Wi-Fi
10 46 (6.87%) SAN
11 38 (5.67%) SD-WAN
12 37 (5.52%) Wireless
13 30 (4.48%) Network Security
14 26 (3.88%) VoIP
15 19 (2.84%) NAS
15 19 (2.84%) Remote Desktop
16 16 (2.39%) BGP
16 16 (2.39%) SSL
17 8 (1.19%) Unified Communications
18 7 (1.04%) Cisco ISE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 54 (8.06%) SQL Server
2 23 (3.43%) Amazon RDS
3 19 (2.84%) Oracle Database
3 19 (2.84%) PostgreSQL
4 18 (2.69%) Azure SQL Database
5 15 (2.24%) MySQL
6 12 (1.79%) Power BI
7 9 (1.34%) Data Lake
7 9 (1.34%) Delta Lake
7 9 (1.34%) MongoDB
8 8 (1.19%) Amazon Aurora
8 8 (1.19%) BigQuery
9 7 (1.04%) DB2
9 7 (1.04%) Oracle Exadata
10 6 (0.90%) Data Warehouse
10 6 (0.90%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 5 (0.75%) Geospatial Data
11 5 (0.75%) GIS
11 5 (0.75%) Oracle Database 12c
12 4 (0.60%) Oracle Database 10g
Development Applications
1 28 (4.18%) Git
2 21 (3.13%) Jenkins
3 10 (1.49%) JIRA
4 9 (1.34%) Chocolatey
5 6 (0.90%) Selenium
6 5 (0.75%) GitLab
6 5 (0.75%) Sonatype Nexus
7 4 (0.60%) Bitbucket
7 4 (0.60%) LabVIEW
8 3 (0.45%) LoadRunner
8 3 (0.45%) Maven
9 2 (0.30%) Artifactory
9 2 (0.30%) Octopus Deploy
9 2 (0.30%) Robot Framework
9 2 (0.30%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
9 2 (0.30%) TeamCity
9 2 (0.30%) TestRail
10 1 (0.15%) JMeter
10 1 (0.15%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 249 (37.16%) Social Skills
2 196 (29.25%) Finance
3 100 (14.93%) Analytical Skills
4 45 (6.72%) Law
5 44 (6.57%) Banking
6 25 (3.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 25 (3.73%) Public Sector
6 25 (3.73%) Retail
7 22 (3.28%) Documentation Skills
7 22 (3.28%) Manufacturing
8 21 (3.13%) Financial Institution
9 18 (2.69%) Organisational Skills
10 17 (2.54%) Legal
11 14 (2.09%) Back Office
12 10 (1.49%) Marketing
12 10 (1.49%) Presentation Skills
12 10 (1.49%) Telecoms
13 7 (1.04%) Advertising
13 7 (1.04%) Influencing Skills
14 5 (0.75%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 118 (17.61%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 92 (13.73%) Senior
3 75 (11.19%) Cloud Engineer
4 68 (10.15%) Support Engineer
5 58 (8.66%) IT Engineer
6 56 (8.36%) IT Support
6 56 (8.36%) Lead
7 45 (6.72%) IT Manager
8 43 (6.42%) Analyst
9 38 (5.67%) Azure Engineer
10 34 (5.07%) DevOps Engineer
11 32 (4.78%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
12 30 (4.48%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
13 26 (3.88%) Architect
13 26 (3.88%) Infrastructure Manager
13 26 (3.88%) IT Support Engineer
14 25 (3.73%) Support Technician
15 24 (3.58%) Infrastructure Support
15 24 (3.58%) Support Analyst
16 23 (3.43%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (2.84%) SAML
2 15 (2.24%) OAuth
3 12 (1.79%) ADO
3 12 (1.79%) REST
3 12 (1.79%) YAML
4 9 (1.34%) EDI
4 9 (1.34%) PySpark
4 9 (1.34%) RESTful
5 8 (1.19%) ARM Templates
6 7 (1.04%) .NET
6 7 (1.04%) Loki
7 6 (0.90%) Elastic Stack
7 6 (0.90%) LDAP
7 6 (0.90%) Middleware
8 4 (0.60%) AWS SAM
8 4 (0.60%) Kafka
8 4 (0.60%) LAPP Stack
8 4 (0.60%) SOAP
8 4 (0.60%) WebSphere MQ
9 3 (0.45%) RAML
Miscellaneous
1 50 (7.46%) Hybrid Cloud
2 46 (6.87%) Management Information System
3 33 (4.93%) Data Centre
4 32 (4.78%) Onboarding
5 31 (4.63%) Enterprise Software
6 30 (4.48%) Cloud Native
7 28 (4.18%) Replication
8 26 (3.88%) Data Protection Act
9 25 (3.73%) Public Cloud
10 20 (2.99%) Cyber Threat
11 19 (2.84%) PKI
12 17 (2.54%) Clustering
12 17 (2.54%) Security Posture
13 16 (2.39%) Driving Licence
14 15 (2.24%) CMDB
14 15 (2.24%) Self-Motivation
15 14 (2.09%) Legacy Systems
16 9 (1.34%) Product Ownership
17 8 (1.19%) Distributed Systems
18 7 (1.04%) Cyber Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 228 (34.03%) Windows
2 164 (24.48%) Windows Server
3 85 (12.69%) Linux
4 31 (4.63%) Windows 10
5 20 (2.99%) VMS
6 19 (2.84%) Unix
7 17 (2.54%) Apple iOS
8 15 (2.24%) Mac OS
9 12 (1.79%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 7 (1.04%) Android
11 4 (0.60%) Rocky
11 4 (0.60%) Windows Server 2019
12 3 (0.45%) AIX
12 3 (0.45%) CentOS
12 3 (0.45%) Oracle Linux
12 3 (0.45%) Ubuntu
12 3 (0.45%) Windows Server 2016
13 2 (0.30%) Windows Server 2012
13 2 (0.30%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 217 (32.39%) Business Continuity
2 177 (26.42%) Cybersecurity
3 165 (24.63%) Problem-Solving
4 162 (24.18%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 156 (23.28%) ITIL
6 139 (20.75%) High Availability
7 138 (20.60%) Continuous Improvement
8 128 (19.10%) DevOps
9 112 (16.72%) Infrastructure as Code
10 102 (15.22%) CI/CD
11 101 (15.07%) Incident Response
12 91 (13.58%) Migration
13 75 (11.19%) Service Delivery
14 73 (10.90%) Stakeholder Management
15 71 (10.60%) Computer Science
16 70 (10.45%) Data Protection
16 70 (10.45%) Risk Management
17 67 (10.00%) ITSM
18 62 (9.25%) Service Management
19 60 (8.96%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 165 (24.63%) PowerShell
2 114 (17.01%) Python
3 79 (11.79%) SQL
4 39 (5.82%) Bash
5 21 (3.13%) Java
6 15 (2.24%) Go
7 14 (2.09%) Bicep
8 13 (1.94%) JavaScript
9 12 (1.79%) Kusto Query Language
10 9 (1.34%) Scala
11 8 (1.19%) Shell Script
12 7 (1.04%) T-SQL
13 6 (0.90%) C#
13 6 (0.90%) VBScript
14 4 (0.60%) TypeScript
15 3 (0.45%) Korn
16 2 (0.30%) COBOL
16 2 (0.30%) JCL
16 2 (0.30%) PL/SQL
17 1 (0.15%) VBA
Qualifications
1 117 (17.46%) Degree
2 54 (8.06%) Azure Certification
3 50 (7.46%) Computer Science Degree
3 50 (7.46%) Microsoft Certification
4 43 (6.42%) Security Cleared
5 31 (4.63%) AWS Certification
6 26 (3.88%) SC Cleared
7 24 (3.58%) Cisco Certification
8 21 (3.13%) CISSP
9 20 (2.99%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 19 (2.84%) CCNP
11 15 (2.24%) CEH
12 13 (1.94%) CISM
12 13 (1.94%) HNC
13 12 (1.79%) BPSS Clearance
13 12 (1.79%) ITIL Certification
13 12 (1.79%) Microsoft Certified Professional
14 10 (1.49%) DV Cleared
14 10 (1.49%) Master's Degree
14 10 (1.49%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 115 (17.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 85 (12.69%) GDPR
3 69 (10.30%) Cyber Essentials
4 64 (9.55%) NIST
5 43 (6.42%) SLA
6 35 (5.22%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 22 (3.28%) PCI DSS
8 21 (3.13%) SOC 2
9 13 (1.94%) ISO 22301
10 9 (1.34%) Data Quality
11 8 (1.19%) ISAE 3402
12 7 (1.04%) Actionable Recommendations
13 6 (0.90%) GRC
13 6 (0.90%) NCSC
13 6 (0.90%) QA
14 3 (0.45%) Basel III
14 3 (0.45%) COBIT
14 3 (0.45%) GxP
14 3 (0.45%) MiFID
15 2 (0.30%) ISO/IEC 27005
System Software
1 221 (32.99%) Active Directory
2 119 (17.76%) VMware Infrastructure
3 91 (13.58%) Hyper-V
4 53 (7.91%) Docker
5 34 (5.07%) Virtual Machines
6 24 (3.58%) vSphere
7 15 (2.24%) VMware ESXi
8 14 (2.09%) Virtual Servers
9 9 (1.34%) Firmware
9 9 (1.34%) Oracle RAC
10 8 (1.19%) vCloud
10 8 (1.19%) Virtual Desktop
11 4 (0.60%) BitLocker
12 3 (0.45%) Microsoft Virtual Server
13 2 (0.30%) RACF
13 2 (0.30%) VMware Workstation
13 2 (0.30%) XenDesktop
14 1 (0.15%) EMC RecoverPoint
14 1 (0.15%) Postfix
14 1 (0.15%) Squid
Systems Management
1 116 (17.31%) Terraform
2 112 (16.72%) Microsoft Intune
3 73 (10.90%) Kubernetes
4 67 (10.00%) Ansible
5 22 (3.28%) Grafana
6 21 (3.13%) Prometheus
7 16 (2.39%) SCCM
8 13 (1.94%) Nagios
9 11 (1.64%) Data Guard
10 10 (1.49%) vCenter Server
11 9 (1.34%) Oracle RMAN
11 9 (1.34%) Single Sign-On
12 8 (1.19%) Puppet
13 7 (1.04%) FortiGate
13 7 (1.04%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
14 6 (0.90%) Avamar
14 6 (0.90%) Failover Clustering
14 6 (0.90%) VxRail
15 5 (0.75%) Nessus
15 5 (0.75%) SCOM
Vendors
1 330 (49.25%) Microsoft
2 163 (24.33%) VMware
3 54 (8.06%) Cisco
4 40 (5.97%) Dell
5 34 (5.07%) Veeam
6 29 (4.33%) Oracle
6 29 (4.33%) Palo Alto
7 26 (3.88%) Commvault
8 20 (2.99%) Dynatrace
8 20 (2.99%) Zscaler
9 19 (2.84%) Fortinet
9 19 (2.84%) Meraki
10 18 (2.69%) HP
11 16 (2.39%) Dell Compellent
11 16 (2.39%) Google
11 16 (2.39%) Nimble Storage
12 15 (2.24%) Adobe
13 13 (1.94%) IBM
13 13 (1.94%) Splunk
13 13 (1.94%) Tenable