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

6 months to
10 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 171 256 219
Rank change year-on-year +85 -37 +41
Permanent jobs citing Disaster Recovery 1,233 621 1,037
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.16% 1.24% 1.25%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.58% 1.39% 1.54%
Number of salaries quoted 879 488 773
10th Percentile £34,935 £33,750 £34,500
25th Percentile £41,750 £42,688 £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 £77,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £93,750 £94,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £48,000 £52,500 £49,000
% change year-on-year -8.57% +7.14% -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 77,887 44,584 67,368
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.57% 89.31% 81.13%
Number of salaries quoted 53,644 25,395 43,808
10th Percentile £30,750 £28,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,170 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.71%
75th Percentile £78,750 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £48,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +14.58% -4.00% -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 10 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 10 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 +60 1,065 £57,500 -4.17% 468
UK excluding London +73 805 £48,000 -8.57% 327
Work from Home +92 378 £60,000 +9.09% 181
London +36 377 £75,000 - 199
North of England +64 224 £47,500 -11.63% 76
South East +58 215 £50,000 - 105
Midlands +35 125 £55,000 - 52
North West +57 124 £47,500 -11.63% 36
West Midlands +35 92 £55,000 -4.35% 37
Yorkshire +23 85 £44,500 -28.80% 34
South West -74 61 £50,000 +5.26% 37
East of England +1 60 £53,725 +2.33% 23
Northern Ireland -26 50 - - 8
Scotland +41 46 £47,500 -11.63% 18
East Midlands -12 33 £45,000 -2.70% 15
Wales -33 22 £45,000 -21.74% 16
North East -63 15 £43,500 -10.77% 6
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
1 129 (10.46%) Microsoft Exchange
2 122 (9.89%) SharePoint
3 24 (1.95%) IIS
4 16 (1.30%) Apache
5 11 (0.89%) nginx
6 10 (0.81%) Apache Spark
7 6 (0.49%) Confluence
8 3 (0.24%) WordPress
9 2 (0.16%) Apache Airflow
9 2 (0.16%) OpenStack
9 2 (0.16%) WebLogic
10 1 (0.081%) Site Server
Applications
1 19 (1.54%) Microsoft Office
2 16 (1.30%) PlantUML
3 12 (0.97%) MS Visio
4 7 (0.57%) Microsoft Excel
5 3 (0.24%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.081%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 12 (0.97%) FLEXCUBE
2 6 (0.49%) Raiser’s Edge
3 5 (0.41%) JDE EnterpriseOne
3 5 (0.41%) Sage 200
4 4 (0.32%) NetSuite
5 3 (0.24%) Dynamics CRM
5 3 (0.24%) Q-Pulse
5 3 (0.24%) SAP S/4HANA
6 2 (0.16%) Adobe Campaign
7 1 (0.081%) Bloomberg TOMS
7 1 (0.081%) Misys Equation
7 1 (0.081%) Misys Midas
7 1 (0.081%) Sage 50
7 1 (0.081%) SAP EHS
7 1 (0.081%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 641 (51.99%) Azure
2 367 (29.76%) Microsoft 365
3 246 (19.95%) AWS
4 211 (17.11%) Entra ID
5 129 (10.46%) SaaS
6 88 (7.14%) IaaS
7 68 (5.52%) PaaS
8 50 (4.06%) Power Platform
9 40 (3.24%) Nutanix
10 39 (3.16%) GCP
11 38 (3.08%) Cloud Computing
12 35 (2.84%) Azure DevOps
13 34 (2.76%) Datadog
14 25 (2.03%) GitHub
15 24 (1.95%) GitHub Actions
16 22 (1.78%) Amazon EC2
16 22 (1.78%) AWS CloudFormation
16 22 (1.78%) Azure Monitor
16 22 (1.78%) Google Workspace
17 20 (1.62%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 351 (28.47%) Firewall
2 281 (22.79%) DNS
3 213 (17.27%) VPN
4 205 (16.63%) DHCP
5 154 (12.49%) WAN
6 128 (10.38%) VLAN
7 125 (10.14%) LAN
8 110 (8.92%) Wi-Fi
9 100 (8.11%) Network Security
10 92 (7.46%) TCP/IP
11 65 (5.27%) SAN
12 59 (4.79%) Wireless
13 42 (3.41%) Internet
14 35 (2.84%) SSL
15 34 (2.76%) SD-WAN
15 34 (2.76%) VoIP
16 29 (2.35%) Cisco ISE
17 25 (2.03%) NAS
18 22 (1.78%) Cisco Nexus
19 13 (1.05%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 92 (7.46%) SQL Server
2 37 (3.00%) Amazon RDS
3 31 (2.51%) Power BI
4 29 (2.35%) Azure SQL Database
5 17 (1.38%) PostgreSQL
6 13 (1.05%) Data Warehouse
6 13 (1.05%) Oracle Database
7 12 (0.97%) MySQL
8 9 (0.73%) Data Lake
9 8 (0.65%) Metadata
9 8 (0.65%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 6 (0.49%) MongoDB
10 6 (0.49%) NoSQL
10 6 (0.49%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 5 (0.41%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 4 (0.32%) DynamoDB
12 4 (0.32%) Elasticsearch
13 3 (0.24%) Big Data
13 3 (0.24%) NonStop SQL
13 3 (0.24%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 21 (1.70%) JIRA
2 20 (1.62%) Git
3 16 (1.30%) Chocolatey
4 14 (1.14%) GitLab
5 8 (0.65%) Jenkins
5 8 (0.65%) JUnit
5 8 (0.65%) Spock
6 6 (0.49%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 6 (0.49%) Visual Studio Code
7 5 (0.41%) Bitbucket
8 4 (0.32%) MLflow
9 2 (0.16%) git-flow
9 2 (0.16%) IntelliJ
9 2 (0.16%) Maven
9 2 (0.16%) Selenium
9 2 (0.16%) TeamCity
9 2 (0.16%) Terragrunt
9 2 (0.16%) Yeoman
10 1 (0.081%) Claude Code
General
1 414 (33.58%) Social Skills
2 222 (18.00%) Finance
3 163 (13.22%) Analytical Skills
4 79 (6.41%) Legal
5 76 (6.16%) Law
6 68 (5.52%) Banking
7 62 (5.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 52 (4.22%) Manufacturing
9 37 (3.00%) Documentation Skills
9 37 (3.00%) Organisational Skills
9 37 (3.00%) Retail
10 32 (2.60%) Influencing Skills
11 29 (2.35%) Public Sector
12 24 (1.95%) Telecoms
13 18 (1.46%) Back Office
14 13 (1.05%) Aerospace
14 13 (1.05%) Financial Institution
15 12 (0.97%) Mandarin Language
16 11 (0.89%) Presentation Skills
17 9 (0.73%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 234 (18.98%) Senior
2 183 (14.84%) IT Support
3 158 (12.81%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 144 (11.68%) IT Engineer
5 141 (11.44%) IT Manager
6 117 (9.49%) Support Engineer
7 96 (7.79%) IT Support Engineer
8 89 (7.22%) Architect
9 79 (6.41%) Analyst
10 65 (5.27%) Lead
11 63 (5.11%) Cloud Engineer
12 61 (4.95%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
13 60 (4.87%) Service Manager
14 58 (4.70%) Resilience Manager
15 54 (4.38%) IT Services Manager
16 51 (4.14%) Azure Engineer
17 50 (4.06%) Network Engineer
18 39 (3.16%) IT Analyst
19 37 (3.00%) Administrator
19 37 (3.00%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 63 (5.11%) Middleware
2 13 (1.05%) ARM Templates
3 9 (0.73%) Kafka
4 8 (0.65%) AngularJS
4 8 (0.65%) Microsoft Graph
4 8 (0.65%) Spring
4 8 (0.65%) Web Services
5 7 (0.57%) FIX Protocol
6 5 (0.41%) .NET
6 5 (0.41%) AWS CDK
6 5 (0.41%) ModSecurity
6 5 (0.41%) SAML
7 4 (0.32%) web3js
8 3 (0.24%) EDI
8 3 (0.24%) JSON
8 3 (0.24%) Nuxt
8 3 (0.24%) ODBC
8 3 (0.24%) PySpark
8 3 (0.24%) REST
8 3 (0.24%) Ruby on Rails
Miscellaneous
1 108 (8.76%) Data Centre
2 95 (7.70%) Cyber Threat
3 85 (6.89%) Management Information System
4 76 (6.16%) Cloud Native
5 72 (5.84%) Driving Licence
6 69 (5.60%) Hybrid Cloud
7 63 (5.11%) Onboarding
8 60 (4.87%) Replication
8 60 (4.87%) Security Posture
9 52 (4.22%) Self-Motivation
10 32 (2.60%) Enterprise Storage
10 32 (2.60%) PKI
11 28 (2.27%) NHS
12 25 (2.03%) Enterprise Software
12 25 (2.03%) Public Cloud
13 24 (1.95%) CCTV
14 23 (1.87%) Clustering
15 21 (1.70%) Virtual Team
16 20 (1.62%) CMDB
17 19 (1.54%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 418 (33.90%) Windows
2 289 (23.44%) Windows Server
3 129 (10.46%) Linux
4 30 (2.43%) Windows Server 2019
5 26 (2.11%) Windows 10
6 25 (2.03%) Mac OS
6 25 (2.03%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 22 (1.78%) Unix
7 22 (1.78%) Windows Server 2016
8 20 (1.62%) Ubuntu
9 12 (0.97%) AIX
10 11 (0.89%) Oracle Linux
11 10 (0.81%) CentOS
12 9 (0.73%) Solaris
12 9 (0.73%) VMS
13 4 (0.32%) Windows Server 2012
14 3 (0.24%) Debian
15 2 (0.16%) Amazon Linux
15 2 (0.16%) Apple iOS
15 2 (0.16%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 506 (41.04%) Business Continuity
2 366 (29.68%) Cybersecurity
3 336 (27.25%) Problem-Solving
4 323 (26.20%) Continuous Improvement
5 258 (20.92%) ITIL
6 222 (18.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 211 (17.11%) DevOps
8 197 (15.98%) High Availability
9 166 (13.46%) Incident Response
10 156 (12.65%) Information Security
10 156 (12.65%) Infrastructure as Code
10 156 (12.65%) Stakeholder Management
11 151 (12.25%) Service Delivery
12 136 (11.03%) Agile
13 132 (10.71%) Project Delivery
14 130 (10.54%) CI/CD
15 127 (10.30%) Mentoring
16 117 (9.49%) Cloud Security
17 115 (9.33%) Change Management
18 114 (9.25%) Incident Management
Programming Languages
1 183 (14.84%) PowerShell
2 122 (9.89%) Python
3 114 (9.25%) SQL
4 51 (4.14%) Bash
5 25 (2.03%) Bicep
6 24 (1.95%) Shell Script
7 17 (1.38%) Java
8 12 (0.97%) JavaScript
9 11 (0.89%) Korn
9 11 (0.89%) PL/SQL
9 11 (0.89%) TypeScript
10 6 (0.49%) Kusto Query Language
10 6 (0.49%) Search Processing Language
10 6 (0.49%) T-SQL
11 4 (0.32%) C#
11 4 (0.32%) COBOL
11 4 (0.32%) Go
12 3 (0.24%) Ruby
13 2 (0.16%) Groovy
13 2 (0.16%) Scala
Qualifications
1 138 (11.19%) Degree
2 99 (8.03%) Cisco Certification
3 95 (7.70%) CISSP
4 93 (7.54%) Azure Certification
5 88 (7.14%) Microsoft Certification
6 81 (6.57%) CISM
7 78 (6.33%) Security Cleared
8 74 (6.00%) CCNP
9 59 (4.79%) SC Cleared
10 54 (4.38%) ITIL Certification
11 51 (4.14%) CCNA
12 39 (3.16%) Computer Science Degree
13 36 (2.92%) Postgraduate
14 34 (2.76%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
15 27 (2.19%) AWS Certification
16 19 (1.54%) DV Cleared
17 17 (1.38%) CompTIA Security+
18 16 (1.30%) Master's Degree
19 15 (1.22%) CEH
19 15 (1.22%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 139 (11.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 133 (10.79%) NIST
3 108 (8.76%) GDPR
4 105 (8.52%) Cyber Essentials
5 77 (6.24%) ISO 22301
6 76 (6.16%) SLA
7 47 (3.81%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 45 (3.65%) PCI DSS
9 31 (2.51%) GRC
10 28 (2.27%) PMO
11 25 (2.03%) Data Quality
12 23 (1.87%) SOC 2
13 16 (1.30%) COBIT
13 16 (1.30%) NCSC
14 13 (1.05%) QA
15 8 (0.65%) SOC 1
16 6 (0.49%) Actionable Recommendations
17 5 (0.41%) ISO/IEC 20000
17 5 (0.41%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
18 4 (0.32%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 336 (27.25%) Active Directory
2 284 (23.03%) VMware Infrastructure
3 191 (15.49%) Hyper-V
4 52 (4.22%) Docker
5 47 (3.81%) vSphere
6 32 (2.60%) Virtual Machines
7 26 (2.11%) Firmware
7 26 (2.11%) VMware ESXi
8 23 (1.87%) Virtual Desktop
9 13 (1.05%) Oracle RAC
9 13 (1.05%) VMware NSX
10 9 (0.73%) KVM
10 9 (0.73%) vCloud
11 6 (0.49%) Squid
12 5 (0.41%) Virtual Servers
13 3 (0.24%) DFS Replication
13 3 (0.24%) EMC RecoverPoint
13 3 (0.24%) VMware Server
14 2 (0.16%) iptables
14 2 (0.16%) Microsoft Virtual Server
Systems Management
1 161 (13.06%) Microsoft Intune
2 152 (12.33%) Terraform
3 81 (6.57%) Kubernetes
4 80 (6.49%) Ansible
5 34 (2.76%) Single Sign-On
6 30 (2.43%) FortiGate
7 27 (2.19%) SCCM
8 19 (1.54%) VxRail
9 13 (1.05%) Data Guard
9 13 (1.05%) Jamf Pro
10 12 (0.97%) Nagios
11 11 (0.89%) Oracle RMAN
11 11 (0.89%) Prometheus
12 10 (0.81%) vCenter Server
13 9 (0.73%) Grafana
14 8 (0.65%) Dell DRAC
15 7 (0.57%) Avamar
15 7 (0.57%) Packer
15 7 (0.57%) WSUS
16 6 (0.49%) EMC NetWorker
Vendors
1 590 (47.85%) Microsoft
2 337 (27.33%) VMware
3 187 (15.17%) Cisco
4 87 (7.06%) Veeam
5 64 (5.19%) Palo Alto
6 46 (3.73%) Splunk
7 44 (3.57%) Dell
7 44 (3.57%) Oracle
8 41 (3.33%) Fortinet
9 37 (3.00%) Meraki
10 36 (2.92%) HP
11 33 (2.68%) SonicWALL
12 32 (2.60%) Aruba
13 31 (2.51%) Google
14 30 (2.43%) Sophos
15 28 (2.27%) SolarWinds
16 26 (2.11%) Apple
17 25 (2.03%) Qualys
18 24 (1.95%) Commvault
18 24 (1.95%) IBM