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

6 months to
10 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 169 257 205
Rank change year-on-year +88 -52 +17
Permanent jobs citing Disaster Recovery 1,334 582 1,035
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.18% 1.17% 1.32%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.62% 1.32% 1.63%
Number of salaries quoted 954 458 661
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,313 £42,750 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £58,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +2.56% -
75th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £93,500 £103,250 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £50,000

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 82,520 44,009 63,385
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.04% 88.59% 80.80%
Number of salaries quoted 57,449 24,888 36,814
10th Percentile £31,000 £28,500 £31,875
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £76,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £96,288 £95,000
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 10 September 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 10 September 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 +76 1,168 £57,500 -4.17% 633
UK excluding London +93 880 £50,000 - 374
London +47 405 £75,000 - 323
Work from Home +90 402 £60,000 - 249
North of England +76 247 £47,500 -9.52% 85
South East +81 228 £50,000 - 118
Midlands +41 152 £57,500 +4.55% 67
North West +63 134 £47,500 -11.63% 42
West Midlands +46 117 £59,250 +3.04% 42
Yorkshire +32 99 £47,500 -20.83% 32
South West -67 71 £48,000 +1.05% 44
East of England +2 63 £53,725 +65.31% 24
Scotland +46 52 £47,500 -9.52% 24
Northern Ireland -41 48 - - 10
East Midlands -13 35 £45,000 - 25
Wales -57 21 £45,000 -21.74% 8
North East -62 14 £52,500 - 15

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
1 165 (12.37%) SharePoint
2 149 (11.17%) Microsoft Exchange
3 28 (2.10%) IIS
4 23 (1.72%) Apache
5 16 (1.20%) nginx
6 11 (0.82%) Apache Spark
7 5 (0.37%) Confluence
8 4 (0.30%) OpenStack
9 3 (0.22%) WordPress
10 2 (0.15%) WebLogic
11 1 (0.075%) Apache Airflow
11 1 (0.075%) CICS
11 1 (0.075%) Site Server
Applications
1 19 (1.42%) PlantUML
2 18 (1.35%) Microsoft Office
3 12 (0.90%) MS Visio
4 11 (0.82%) Microsoft Excel
5 3 (0.22%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.075%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 11 (0.82%) FLEXCUBE
2 6 (0.45%) Raiser’s Edge
3 5 (0.37%) JDE EnterpriseOne
3 5 (0.37%) Sage 200
4 4 (0.30%) NetSuite
5 3 (0.22%) Dynamics CRM
5 3 (0.22%) 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 (0.075%) Bloomberg TOMS
7 1 (0.075%) Eikon
7 1 (0.075%) Misys Equation
7 1 (0.075%) Misys Midas
7 1 (0.075%) Oracle Applications
7 1 (0.075%) Oracle EBS
7 1 (0.075%) Sage 50
7 1 (0.075%) SAP EHS
7 1 (0.075%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 701 (52.55%) Azure
2 413 (30.96%) Microsoft 365
3 261 (19.57%) Entra ID
4 254 (19.04%) AWS
5 145 (10.87%) SaaS
6 103 (7.72%) IaaS
7 76 (5.70%) PaaS
8 53 (3.97%) Power Platform
9 48 (3.60%) Cloud Computing
10 43 (3.22%) Azure DevOps
11 42 (3.15%) OneDrive
12 40 (3.00%) GCP
13 37 (2.77%) Azure Monitor
14 34 (2.55%) Datadog
14 34 (2.55%) Microsoft Copilot
15 29 (2.17%) GitHub
16 27 (2.02%) Nutanix
17 26 (1.95%) GitHub Actions
18 25 (1.87%) OCI
19 24 (1.80%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 370 (27.74%) Firewall
2 309 (23.16%) DNS
3 227 (17.02%) VPN
4 220 (16.49%) DHCP
5 163 (12.22%) WAN
6 142 (10.64%) VLAN
7 132 (9.90%) LAN
8 116 (8.70%) Wi-Fi
9 104 (7.80%) Network Security
10 101 (7.57%) TCP/IP
11 77 (5.77%) Wireless
12 64 (4.80%) SAN
13 51 (3.82%) Internet
14 42 (3.15%) SD-WAN
15 40 (3.00%) VoIP
16 39 (2.92%) SSL
17 28 (2.10%) Cisco ISE
18 25 (1.87%) Cisco Nexus
19 23 (1.72%) NAS
20 16 (1.20%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 91 (6.82%) SQL Server
2 38 (2.85%) Amazon RDS
3 32 (2.40%) Power BI
4 31 (2.32%) Azure SQL Database
5 20 (1.50%) PostgreSQL
6 16 (1.20%) Data Warehouse
7 13 (0.97%) Oracle Database
8 11 (0.82%) Data Lake
8 11 (0.82%) Metadata
8 11 (0.82%) MySQL
9 8 (0.60%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 6 (0.45%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 6 (0.45%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 5 (0.37%) MongoDB
11 5 (0.37%) NoSQL
12 4 (0.30%) DynamoDB
12 4 (0.30%) Elasticsearch
13 3 (0.22%) NonStop SQL
13 3 (0.22%) Relational Database
13 3 (0.22%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 20 (1.50%) Git
2 19 (1.42%) JIRA
3 15 (1.12%) Chocolatey
4 14 (1.05%) GitLab
5 10 (0.75%) JUnit
5 10 (0.75%) Spock
6 7 (0.52%) Jenkins
7 6 (0.45%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 6 (0.45%) Visual Studio Code
8 5 (0.37%) Bitbucket
9 4 (0.30%) IntelliJ
9 4 (0.30%) Maven
10 2 (0.15%) git-flow
10 2 (0.15%) MLflow
10 2 (0.15%) Selenium
10 2 (0.15%) Terragrunt
10 2 (0.15%) Yeoman
11 1 (0.075%) Claude Code
11 1 (0.075%) TeamCity
General
1 445 (33.36%) Social Skills
2 236 (17.69%) Finance
3 186 (13.94%) Analytical Skills
4 84 (6.30%) Legal
5 79 (5.92%) Law
6 68 (5.10%) Banking
7 65 (4.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 59 (4.42%) Manufacturing
9 42 (3.15%) Documentation Skills
10 39 (2.92%) Public Sector
10 39 (2.92%) Retail
11 36 (2.70%) Influencing Skills
12 34 (2.55%) Organisational Skills
13 23 (1.72%) Telecoms
14 18 (1.35%) Back Office
15 13 (0.97%) Aerospace
15 13 (0.97%) Financial Institution
16 12 (0.90%) Mandarin Language
16 12 (0.90%) Presentation Skills
17 9 (0.67%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 254 (19.04%) Senior
2 191 (14.32%) IT Support
3 171 (12.82%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 146 (10.94%) IT Manager
5 145 (10.87%) IT Engineer
6 114 (8.55%) Support Engineer
7 103 (7.72%) Architect
8 99 (7.42%) Analyst
9 95 (7.12%) IT Support Engineer
10 69 (5.17%) Lead
11 66 (4.95%) Service Manager
12 64 (4.80%) Resilience Manager
13 59 (4.42%) Cloud Engineer
14 58 (4.35%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
15 57 (4.27%) IT Services Manager
15 57 (4.27%) Network Engineer
16 56 (4.20%) Azure Engineer
17 46 (3.45%) IT Analyst
18 41 (3.07%) Administrator
19 39 (2.92%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 168 (12.59%) Terraform
2 73 (5.47%) Middleware
3 14 (1.05%) ARM Templates
4 10 (0.75%) AngularJS
4 10 (0.75%) Spring
5 8 (0.60%) Microsoft Graph
5 8 (0.60%) Web Services
6 7 (0.52%) FIX Protocol
6 7 (0.52%) Kafka
7 6 (0.45%) SAML
8 5 (0.37%) .NET
8 5 (0.37%) AWS CDK
8 5 (0.37%) ModSecurity
9 4 (0.30%) REST
9 4 (0.30%) web3js
10 3 (0.22%) EDI
10 3 (0.22%) JSON
10 3 (0.22%) Nuxt
10 3 (0.22%) OpenTelemetry
10 3 (0.22%) Ruby on Rails
Miscellaneous
1 112 (8.40%) Data Centre
2 90 (6.75%) Cyber Threat
3 81 (6.07%) Management Information System
4 79 (5.92%) Cloud Native
5 75 (5.62%) Onboarding
6 70 (5.25%) Driving Licence
7 62 (4.65%) Replication
8 60 (4.50%) Security Posture
9 58 (4.35%) Hybrid Cloud
10 47 (3.52%) Self-Motivation
11 32 (2.40%) Enterprise Storage
11 32 (2.40%) PKI
12 31 (2.32%) NHS
13 26 (1.95%) Enterprise Software
14 25 (1.87%) CCTV
15 24 (1.80%) Private Cloud
16 22 (1.65%) Clustering
16 22 (1.65%) Public Cloud
17 21 (1.57%) CMDB
18 20 (1.50%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 452 (33.88%) Windows
2 325 (24.36%) Windows Server
3 148 (11.09%) Linux
4 36 (2.70%) Windows Server 2019
5 28 (2.10%) Ubuntu
5 28 (2.10%) Windows 10
6 24 (1.80%) Mac OS
7 23 (1.72%) Windows Server 2016
8 22 (1.65%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 21 (1.57%) Unix
10 14 (1.05%) VMS
11 12 (0.90%) AIX
12 10 (0.75%) Oracle Linux
13 9 (0.67%) CentOS
13 9 (0.67%) Solaris
14 5 (0.37%) Debian
15 4 (0.30%) Windows Server 2012
16 2 (0.15%) Amazon Linux
16 2 (0.15%) Embedded Linux
17 1 (0.075%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 543 (40.70%) Business Continuity
2 413 (30.96%) Cybersecurity
3 369 (27.66%) Continuous Improvement
4 350 (26.24%) Problem-Solving
5 267 (20.01%) ITIL
6 249 (18.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 220 (16.49%) DevOps
8 204 (15.29%) High Availability
9 189 (14.17%) Stakeholder Management
10 183 (13.72%) Incident Response
11 177 (13.27%) Infrastructure as Code
12 175 (13.12%) Information Security
13 173 (12.97%) Service Delivery
14 160 (11.99%) Project Delivery
15 144 (10.79%) Agile
15 144 (10.79%) Mentoring
16 143 (10.72%) CI/CD
17 138 (10.34%) Cloud Security
18 133 (9.97%) Risk Management
19 131 (9.82%) AI
Programming Languages
1 198 (14.84%) PowerShell
2 131 (9.82%) Python
3 122 (9.15%) SQL
4 56 (4.20%) Bash
5 29 (2.17%) Bicep
6 23 (1.72%) Shell Script
7 21 (1.57%) Java
8 15 (1.12%) JavaScript
9 14 (1.05%) TypeScript
10 11 (0.82%) Korn
11 10 (0.75%) PL/SQL
12 7 (0.52%) Kusto Query Language
13 6 (0.45%) Search Processing Language
14 5 (0.37%) COBOL
14 5 (0.37%) T-SQL
15 4 (0.30%) Go
15 4 (0.30%) Groovy
15 4 (0.30%) XAML
16 3 (0.22%) C#
16 3 (0.22%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 143 (10.72%) Degree
2 102 (7.65%) Azure Certification
3 100 (7.50%) CISSP
4 97 (7.27%) Cisco Certification
5 87 (6.52%) Microsoft Certification
6 85 (6.37%) Security Cleared
7 84 (6.30%) CISM
8 70 (5.25%) CCNP
9 62 (4.65%) SC Cleared
10 58 (4.35%) ITIL Certification
11 50 (3.75%) CCNA
12 45 (3.37%) Postgraduate
13 39 (2.92%) Computer Science Degree
14 29 (2.17%) AWS Certification
15 28 (2.10%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
16 21 (1.57%) CompTIA Security+
17 19 (1.42%) DV Cleared
17 19 (1.42%) Master's Degree
18 16 (1.20%) Network+ Certification
19 15 (1.12%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 152 (11.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 140 (10.49%) NIST
3 120 (9.00%) Cyber Essentials
4 115 (8.62%) GDPR
5 84 (6.30%) SLA
6 83 (6.22%) ISO 22301
7 54 (4.05%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 42 (3.15%) PCI DSS
9 39 (2.92%) GRC
10 27 (2.02%) Data Quality
11 24 (1.80%) PMO
12 22 (1.65%) SOC 2
13 21 (1.57%) NCSC
14 16 (1.20%) COBIT
15 14 (1.05%) QA
16 8 (0.60%) ISO 9001
16 8 (0.60%) SOC 1
17 5 (0.37%) ISO/IEC 20000
17 5 (0.37%) Sarbanes-Oxley
18 3 (0.22%) ISO 8583
System Software
1 360 (26.99%) Active Directory
2 294 (22.04%) VMware Infrastructure
3 204 (15.29%) Hyper-V
4 50 (3.75%) Docker
5 49 (3.67%) vSphere
6 40 (3.00%) Virtual Machines
7 30 (2.25%) Firmware
8 27 (2.02%) Virtual Desktop
9 26 (1.95%) VMware ESXi
10 17 (1.27%) VMware NSX
11 12 (0.90%) Oracle RAC
12 9 (0.67%) vCloud
13 6 (0.45%) Squid
14 5 (0.37%) Virtual Servers
15 4 (0.30%) KVM
16 3 (0.22%) DFS Replication
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
1 189 (14.17%) Microsoft Intune
2 83 (6.22%) Ansible
3 80 (6.00%) Kubernetes
4 42 (3.15%) Single Sign-On
5 34 (2.55%) FortiGate
6 26 (1.95%) SCCM
7 18 (1.35%) VxRail
8 16 (1.20%) Jamf Pro
9 14 (1.05%) Prometheus
10 13 (0.97%) Data Guard
11 12 (0.90%) Grafana
12 11 (0.82%) Nagios
12 11 (0.82%) Oracle RMAN
12 11 (0.82%) vCenter Server
13 8 (0.60%) Dell DRAC
13 8 (0.60%) Proxmox
14 7 (0.52%) Avamar
14 7 (0.52%) Packer
15 6 (0.45%) EMC VPLEX
15 6 (0.45%) Puppet
Vendors
1 659 (49.40%) Microsoft
2 346 (25.94%) VMware
3 201 (15.07%) Cisco
4 96 (7.20%) Veeam
5 73 (5.47%) Palo Alto
6 49 (3.67%) Fortinet
6 49 (3.67%) Oracle
7 48 (3.60%) SonicWALL
8 45 (3.37%) Splunk
9 41 (3.07%) Meraki
10 38 (2.85%) Dell
11 36 (2.70%) Aruba
12 35 (2.62%) Google
13 34 (2.55%) SolarWinds
14 30 (2.25%) HP
14 30 (2.25%) Qualys
15 29 (2.17%) Sophos
16 28 (2.10%) Apple
16 28 (2.10%) ServiceNow
17 25 (1.87%) AppDynamics