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 22 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 226 203 218
Rank change year-on-year -23 +15 +112
Permanent jobs citing Disaster Recovery 787 668 1,319
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.90% 1.59% 1.40%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.19% 1.72% 1.63%
Number of salaries quoted 591 543 1,177
10th Percentile £32,750 £36,250 £33,300
25th Percentile £45,000 £43,750 £41,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% -
75th Percentile £85,000 £76,125 £68,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £90,000 £85,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £53,300 £50,000
% change year-on-year -1.50% +6.60% -

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 66,065 38,941 81,145
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 75.24% 92.85% 85.83%
Number of salaries quoted 40,765 22,745 59,274
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £39,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -10.57%
75th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £102,500 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -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 22 April 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 22 April 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 -33 680 £60,000 - 254
UK excluding London -47 434 £52,500 -1.50% 223
London +17 294 £85,000 +13.33% 73
Work from Home +33 245 £65,000 +8.33% 111
North of England -20 147 £51,000 +1.24% 63
South East -22 103 £60,000 -7.69% 60
Yorkshire -7 84 £47,500 -13.64% 22
Midlands -43 66 £52,500 +5.00% 37
West Midlands -5 58 £52,500 +5.00% 28
North West -47 44 £55,000 +22.22% 32
East of England -35 29 £63,750 +27.50% 13
South West -98 29 £42,500 -22.73% 28
Scotland -12 25 £38,000 -24.67% 10
Northern Ireland -20 19 - - 9
North East -38 19 £51,000 +50.00% 12
Wales - 12 £35,000 - 7
East Midlands -62 7 £60,000 +50.00% 9
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
1 103 (13.09%) Microsoft Exchange
2 85 (10.80%) SharePoint
3 8 (1.02%) IIS
4 4 (0.51%) Apache Spark
4 4 (0.51%) Confluence
5 3 (0.38%) Apache
6 2 (0.25%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.25%) BizTalk Server
6 2 (0.25%) CICS
7 1 (0.13%) Tomcat
Applications
1 24 (3.05%) Microsoft Office
2 11 (1.40%) MS Visio
3 4 (0.51%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (0.25%) Weka
5 1 (0.13%) Acrobat
5 1 (0.13%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 5 (0.64%) Dynamics CRM
1 5 (0.64%) Oracle EBS
2 4 (0.51%) Markit EDM
3 3 (0.38%) FLEXCUBE
3 3 (0.38%) NetSuite
4 2 (0.25%) SAP ERP
4 2 (0.25%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.13%) Elite 3E
5 1 (0.13%) Misys Equation
5 1 (0.13%) Misys Midas
5 1 (0.13%) Oracle 11i
5 1 (0.13%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.13%) Sage 200
5 1 (0.13%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 426 (54.13%) Azure
2 243 (30.88%) Microsoft 365
3 153 (19.44%) Entra ID
4 130 (16.52%) AWS
5 66 (8.39%) Nutanix
6 47 (5.97%) SaaS
7 46 (5.84%) Datadog
8 45 (5.72%) Azure DevOps
8 45 (5.72%) Azure Monitor
9 40 (5.08%) IaaS
10 37 (4.70%) GitHub
11 35 (4.45%) OneDrive
12 34 (4.32%) Microsoft Purview
12 34 (4.32%) PaaS
13 31 (3.94%) GCP
14 24 (3.05%) Azure AKS
14 24 (3.05%) GitHub Actions
15 23 (2.92%) Power Platform
16 21 (2.67%) Serverless
17 18 (2.29%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 238 (30.24%) Firewall
2 172 (21.86%) DNS
3 165 (20.97%) VPN
4 140 (17.79%) DHCP
5 116 (14.74%) WAN
6 82 (10.42%) VLAN
7 72 (9.15%) LAN
8 61 (7.75%) TCP/IP
8 61 (7.75%) Wi-Fi
9 58 (7.37%) SAN
10 53 (6.73%) Network Security
11 39 (4.96%) Wireless
12 31 (3.94%) Remote Desktop
13 26 (3.30%) SD-WAN
14 20 (2.54%) NAS
15 17 (2.16%) Cisco ISE
16 14 (1.78%) BGP
16 14 (1.78%) VoIP
17 11 (1.40%) SSL
18 10 (1.27%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 71 (9.02%) SQL Server
2 27 (3.43%) Amazon RDS
3 21 (2.67%) Azure SQL Database
4 16 (2.03%) MySQL
5 12 (1.52%) Data Lake
5 12 (1.52%) Delta Lake
5 12 (1.52%) PostgreSQL
6 11 (1.40%) Oracle Database
6 11 (1.40%) Power BI
7 9 (1.14%) Data Warehouse
8 8 (1.02%) Amazon Aurora
9 7 (0.89%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 6 (0.76%) MongoDB
11 5 (0.64%) Geospatial Data
11 5 (0.64%) GIS
12 4 (0.51%) Elasticsearch
12 4 (0.51%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 3 (0.38%) BigQuery
13 3 (0.38%) Oracle Database 12c
13 3 (0.38%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 27 (3.43%) Git
2 18 (2.29%) Chocolatey
3 12 (1.52%) JIRA
4 9 (1.14%) Jenkins
5 5 (0.64%) Sonatype Nexus
6 4 (0.51%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 4 (0.51%) GitLab
6 4 (0.51%) LabVIEW
6 4 (0.51%) MLflow
6 4 (0.51%) Visual Studio Code
7 3 (0.38%) Bitbucket
7 3 (0.38%) Maven
7 3 (0.38%) Selenium
7 3 (0.38%) TeamCity
8 2 (0.25%) Artifactory
8 2 (0.25%) Octopus Deploy
8 2 (0.25%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
9 1 (0.13%) Robot Framework
9 1 (0.13%) TestRail
9 1 (0.13%) Yeoman
General
1 303 (38.50%) Social Skills
2 167 (21.22%) Finance
3 130 (16.52%) Analytical Skills
4 54 (6.86%) Banking
5 39 (4.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 33 (4.19%) Law
7 30 (3.81%) Public Sector
8 29 (3.68%) Retail
9 26 (3.30%) Organisational Skills
10 23 (2.92%) Legal
11 22 (2.80%) Manufacturing
12 14 (1.78%) Documentation Skills
12 14 (1.78%) Influencing Skills
12 14 (1.78%) Telecoms
13 12 (1.52%) Back Office
13 12 (1.52%) Financial Institution
14 11 (1.40%) Marketing
14 11 (1.40%) Presentation Skills
15 8 (1.02%) Advertising
16 6 (0.76%) French Language
Job Titles
1 136 (17.28%) Senior
2 121 (15.37%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 81 (10.29%) IT Engineer
4 80 (10.17%) Cloud Engineer
5 79 (10.04%) IT Support
6 76 (9.66%) Support Engineer
7 65 (8.26%) IT Manager
8 63 (8.01%) Lead
9 54 (6.86%) Azure Engineer
10 48 (6.10%) IT Support Engineer
11 47 (5.97%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
12 45 (5.72%) Architect
13 37 (4.70%) Analyst
14 29 (3.68%) Platform Engineer
15 26 (3.30%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
16 25 (3.18%) DevOps Engineer
16 25 (3.18%) Security Engineer
17 24 (3.05%) Security Manager
18 22 (2.80%) Administrator
18 22 (2.80%) Support Technician
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (2.16%) SAML
2 14 (1.78%) OAuth
3 13 (1.65%) YAML
4 12 (1.52%) ADO
4 12 (1.52%) PySpark
5 10 (1.27%) ARM Templates
5 10 (1.27%) REST
6 7 (0.89%) Loki
6 7 (0.89%) RESTful
7 6 (0.76%) Middleware
8 4 (0.51%) .NET
8 4 (0.51%) Kafka
8 4 (0.51%) web3js
9 3 (0.38%) ActiveMQ
9 3 (0.38%) EDI
9 3 (0.38%) Elastic Stack
9 3 (0.38%) LAMP
9 3 (0.38%) ODBC
9 3 (0.38%) RAML
9 3 (0.38%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 75 (9.53%) Hybrid Cloud
2 57 (7.24%) Data Centre
2 57 (7.24%) Management Information System
3 41 (5.21%) Replication
4 37 (4.70%) Cloud Native
5 36 (4.57%) Onboarding
6 34 (4.32%) Driving Licence
6 34 (4.32%) Public Cloud
7 32 (4.07%) Cyber Threat
8 31 (3.94%) Data Protection Act
9 27 (3.43%) Security Posture
10 23 (2.92%) Self-Motivation
11 17 (2.16%) CMDB
11 17 (2.16%) PKI
12 15 (1.91%) Enterprise Software
12 15 (1.91%) NHS
13 14 (1.78%) Enterprise Storage
13 14 (1.78%) Legacy Systems
14 11 (1.40%) Clustering
15 9 (1.14%) iSeries
Operating Systems
1 249 (31.64%) Windows
2 169 (21.47%) Windows Server
3 69 (8.77%) Linux
4 26 (3.30%) Windows 10
5 18 (2.29%) Apple iOS
6 17 (2.16%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 16 (2.03%) VMS
8 14 (1.78%) Ubuntu
9 10 (1.27%) CentOS
9 10 (1.27%) Mac OS
10 8 (1.02%) Unix
10 8 (1.02%) Windows Server 2016
11 7 (0.89%) Windows Server 2019
12 5 (0.64%) Android
13 4 (0.51%) AIX
13 4 (0.51%) Oracle Linux
13 4 (0.51%) Rocky
14 2 (0.25%) Debian
14 2 (0.25%) zOS
15 1 (0.13%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 299 (37.99%) Business Continuity
2 242 (30.75%) Cybersecurity
3 201 (25.54%) Problem-Solving
4 197 (25.03%) ITIL
5 178 (22.62%) Continuous Improvement
6 166 (21.09%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 139 (17.66%) High Availability
8 123 (15.63%) DevOps
9 112 (14.23%) Incident Response
10 105 (13.34%) Service Delivery
11 95 (12.07%) Infrastructure as Code
12 89 (11.31%) Change Management
13 86 (10.93%) Data Protection
14 84 (10.67%) Cloud Security
14 84 (10.67%) Mentoring
15 83 (10.55%) Migration
16 82 (10.42%) CI/CD
17 81 (10.29%) Stakeholder Management
18 75 (9.53%) Risk Management
19 73 (9.28%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 143 (18.17%) PowerShell
2 101 (12.83%) Python
3 81 (10.29%) SQL
4 36 (4.57%) Bash
5 12 (1.52%) Java
5 12 (1.52%) Kusto Query Language
6 11 (1.40%) Bicep
7 10 (1.27%) Shell Script
8 9 (1.14%) Scala
8 9 (1.14%) T-SQL
9 8 (1.02%) JavaScript
10 7 (0.89%) Go
11 5 (0.64%) C#
12 4 (0.51%) Korn
13 3 (0.38%) COBOL
13 3 (0.38%) PL/SQL
13 3 (0.38%) TypeScript
14 2 (0.25%) JCL
14 2 (0.25%) RPG
15 1 (0.13%) Perl
Qualifications
1 95 (12.07%) Degree
2 51 (6.48%) Microsoft Certification
3 45 (5.72%) Azure Certification
4 44 (5.59%) Computer Science Degree
5 43 (5.46%) Cisco Certification
6 40 (5.08%) Security Cleared
7 34 (4.32%) CCNP
8 29 (3.68%) SC Cleared
9 25 (3.18%) CISSP
10 22 (2.80%) CEH
11 16 (2.03%) CCNA
11 16 (2.03%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 12 (1.52%) AWS Certification
13 11 (1.40%) BPSS Clearance
13 11 (1.40%) MCSE
13 11 (1.40%) Postgraduate
14 10 (1.27%) CISM
15 9 (1.14%) Microsoft Certified Professional
16 8 (1.02%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
17 7 (0.89%) HNC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 123 (15.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 81 (10.29%) GDPR
3 80 (10.17%) Cyber Essentials
4 68 (8.64%) NIST
5 60 (7.62%) SLA
6 39 (4.96%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 35 (4.45%) PCI DSS
8 25 (3.18%) SOC 2
9 23 (2.92%) GRC
10 19 (2.41%) Data Quality
11 17 (2.16%) PMO
12 15 (1.91%) ISO 22301
13 11 (1.40%) Actionable Recommendations
14 7 (0.89%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
15 6 (0.76%) NCSC
15 6 (0.76%) QA
16 4 (0.51%) DICOM
16 4 (0.51%) HIPAA
16 4 (0.51%) HL7
17 3 (0.38%) SOC 1
System Software
1 248 (31.51%) Active Directory
2 172 (21.86%) VMware Infrastructure
3 108 (13.72%) Hyper-V
4 37 (4.70%) Docker
5 32 (4.07%) Virtual Machines
6 29 (3.68%) vSphere
7 17 (2.16%) Firmware
8 16 (2.03%) VMware ESXi
9 15 (1.91%) Virtual Desktop
10 7 (0.89%) vCloud
11 6 (0.76%) KVM
11 6 (0.76%) Oracle RAC
11 6 (0.76%) Virtual Servers
11 6 (0.76%) VMware NSX
12 3 (0.38%) Microsoft Virtual Server
13 2 (0.25%) EMC RecoverPoint
13 2 (0.25%) RACF
13 2 (0.25%) VMware Workstation
14 1 (0.13%) Postfix
14 1 (0.13%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 108 (13.72%) Microsoft Intune
2 104 (13.21%) Terraform
3 64 (8.13%) Ansible
4 63 (8.01%) Kubernetes
5 25 (3.18%) SCCM
6 14 (1.78%) VxRail
7 13 (1.65%) Grafana
8 11 (1.40%) FortiGate
9 10 (1.27%) Prometheus
10 9 (1.14%) Nagios
10 9 (1.14%) Single Sign-On
11 8 (1.02%) Data Guard
11 8 (1.02%) vCenter Server
12 6 (0.76%) Packer
13 5 (0.64%) Oracle RMAN
14 4 (0.51%) Argo
14 4 (0.51%) Backup Exec
14 4 (0.51%) Dell DRAC
14 4 (0.51%) WSUS
15 3 (0.38%) Avamar
Vendors
1 391 (49.68%) Microsoft
2 239 (30.37%) VMware
3 70 (8.89%) Cisco
4 57 (7.24%) Dell
5 42 (5.34%) HP
6 40 (5.08%) Veeam
7 38 (4.83%) Commvault
8 36 (4.57%) Palo Alto
9 34 (4.32%) Nimble Storage
10 28 (3.56%) Dell Compellent
10 28 (3.56%) Tenable
11 27 (3.43%) Zscaler
12 26 (3.30%) Meraki
13 25 (3.18%) Dynatrace
14 24 (3.05%) Oracle
15 19 (2.41%) AppDynamics
15 19 (2.41%) Fortinet
16 18 (2.29%) Splunk
17 17 (2.16%) Databricks
17 17 (2.16%) EMC