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

6 months to
4 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 211 260 216
Rank change year-on-year +49 -44 +94
Permanent jobs citing Disaster Recovery 907 559 1,354
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.98% 1.28% 1.32%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.33% 1.37% 1.59%
Number of salaries quoted 691 445 1,134
10th Percentile £33,000 £37,500 £33,000
25th Percentile £42,250 £46,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,565 £62,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.30% +13.64% -4.35%
75th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £93,750 £90,000 £88,713
UK excluding London median annual salary £48,500 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -11.82% +10.00% -

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 68,107 40,669 85,373
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.51% 93.11% 83.11%
Number of salaries quoted 45,062 21,401 61,158
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,500 £29,250
25th Percentile £41,114 £40,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -9.69%
75th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,967 £50,000
% change year-on-year +3.01% +1.93% -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 4 June 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 4 June 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 +37 802 £60,000 -5.88% 341
UK excluding London +34 515 £48,500 -11.82% 246
London +47 331 £75,000 +1.69% 131
Work from Home +90 274 £60,000 +4.35% 203
North of England +50 196 £47,500 -13.64% 53
South East -2 111 £55,000 -4.35% 74
Yorkshire +26 101 £47,500 -24.00% 25
Midlands +10 92 £52,500 +14.13% 50
North West +37 74 £50,000 -9.09% 27
West Midlands +20 73 £52,500 -4.55% 33
East of England -23 33 £56,863 +7.29% 20
South West -84 30 £40,000 -27.27% 29
Scotland +26 26 £38,000 -30.91% 6
North East -33 21 £42,500 -15.00% 1
East Midlands -25 18 £55,000 +37.50% 17
Wales -24 14 £43,000 -14.00% 8
Northern Ireland -30 9 - - 12
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
1 109 (12.02%) Microsoft Exchange
2 97 (10.69%) SharePoint
3 10 (1.10%) IIS
4 4 (0.44%) Apache Spark
4 4 (0.44%) Confluence
5 3 (0.33%) Apache
6 2 (0.22%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.11%) BizTalk Server
7 1 (0.11%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.11%) Site Server
7 1 (0.11%) WebLogic
7 1 (0.11%) WordPress
Applications
1 22 (2.43%) Microsoft Office
2 16 (1.76%) MS Visio
3 7 (0.77%) PlantUML
4 3 (0.33%) Microsoft Excel
5 1 (0.11%) Weka
Business Applications
1 8 (0.88%) FLEXCUBE
2 5 (0.55%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (0.44%) NetSuite
3 4 (0.44%) Oracle EBS
4 3 (0.33%) Markit EDM
4 3 (0.33%) SAP S/4HANA
5 2 (0.22%) SAP ERP
6 1 (0.11%) Elite 3E
6 1 (0.11%) Misys Equation
6 1 (0.11%) Misys Midas
6 1 (0.11%) Oracle 11i
6 1 (0.11%) Oracle ERP
6 1 (0.11%) Sage 200
6 1 (0.11%) SAP EHS
6 1 (0.11%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 481 (53.03%) Azure
2 279 (30.76%) Microsoft 365
3 164 (18.08%) Entra ID
4 138 (15.21%) AWS
5 63 (6.95%) Nutanix
6 61 (6.73%) SaaS
7 54 (5.95%) IaaS
8 50 (5.51%) Datadog
9 44 (4.85%) PaaS
10 41 (4.52%) Azure DevOps
11 36 (3.97%) Azure Monitor
12 34 (3.75%) GitHub
13 31 (3.42%) GCP
13 31 (3.42%) Microsoft Purview
14 30 (3.31%) Power Platform
15 25 (2.76%) OneDrive
16 24 (2.65%) GitHub Actions
17 22 (2.43%) Azure AKS
17 22 (2.43%) Cloud Computing
18 19 (2.09%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 277 (30.54%) Firewall
2 197 (21.72%) DNS
3 180 (19.85%) VPN
4 149 (16.43%) DHCP
5 129 (14.22%) WAN
6 90 (9.92%) VLAN
7 83 (9.15%) LAN
8 72 (7.94%) Network Security
9 69 (7.61%) Wi-Fi
10 66 (7.28%) SAN
10 66 (7.28%) TCP/IP
11 39 (4.30%) Wireless
12 31 (3.42%) SD-WAN
13 26 (2.87%) Cisco ISE
13 26 (2.87%) Remote Desktop
14 25 (2.76%) SSL
15 19 (2.09%) VoIP
16 18 (1.98%) NAS
17 16 (1.76%) Internet
18 15 (1.65%) BGP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 79 (8.71%) SQL Server
2 31 (3.42%) Amazon RDS
3 19 (2.09%) Azure SQL Database
4 13 (1.43%) Power BI
5 11 (1.21%) PostgreSQL
6 10 (1.10%) Data Lake
6 10 (1.10%) Delta Lake
6 10 (1.10%) MySQL
7 9 (0.99%) Data Warehouse
7 9 (0.99%) Oracle Database
8 6 (0.66%) MongoDB
8 6 (0.66%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 6 (0.66%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 5 (0.55%) Geospatial Data
9 5 (0.55%) GIS
9 5 (0.55%) NoSQL
10 4 (0.44%) Amazon Aurora
10 4 (0.44%) Elasticsearch
11 3 (0.33%) DynamoDB
11 3 (0.33%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 19 (2.09%) Chocolatey
1 19 (2.09%) Git
2 13 (1.43%) JIRA
3 7 (0.77%) Jenkins
4 6 (0.66%) Visual Studio Code
5 4 (0.44%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 4 (0.44%) LabVIEW
5 4 (0.44%) MLflow
6 3 (0.33%) Bitbucket
6 3 (0.33%) GitLab
6 3 (0.33%) Selenium
7 2 (0.22%) Sonatype Nexus
7 2 (0.22%) TeamCity
7 2 (0.22%) Terragrunt
8 1 (0.11%) Artifactory
8 1 (0.11%) JMeter
8 1 (0.11%) LoadRunner
8 1 (0.11%) Maven
8 1 (0.11%) Team Foundation Server
8 1 (0.11%) Yeoman
General
1 330 (36.38%) Social Skills
2 166 (18.30%) Finance
3 143 (15.77%) Analytical Skills
4 63 (6.95%) Banking
5 45 (4.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 40 (4.41%) Law
6 40 (4.41%) Legal
7 36 (3.97%) Public Sector
8 30 (3.31%) Organisational Skills
9 26 (2.87%) Retail
10 22 (2.43%) Manufacturing
11 18 (1.98%) Telecoms
12 16 (1.76%) Influencing Skills
13 14 (1.54%) Back Office
13 14 (1.54%) Documentation Skills
14 11 (1.21%) Advertising
15 10 (1.10%) Financial Institution
16 8 (0.88%) Mandarin Language
16 8 (0.88%) Marketing
17 7 (0.77%) French Language
Job Titles
1 180 (19.85%) Senior
2 147 (16.21%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 115 (12.68%) IT Support
4 103 (11.36%) IT Engineer
5 84 (9.26%) Cloud Engineer
6 83 (9.15%) Support Engineer
7 67 (7.39%) IT Manager
8 66 (7.28%) IT Support Engineer
9 61 (6.73%) Lead
10 60 (6.62%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
11 58 (6.39%) Azure Engineer
12 52 (5.73%) Analyst
13 51 (5.62%) Architect
14 34 (3.75%) Platform Engineer
15 33 (3.64%) Administrator
16 29 (3.20%) Network Engineer
17 28 (3.09%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
18 27 (2.98%) Security Engineer
18 27 (2.98%) Security Manager
19 26 (2.87%) Senior Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (1.65%) SAML
2 10 (1.10%) OAuth
2 10 (1.10%) PySpark
3 9 (0.99%) ARM Templates
3 9 (0.99%) YAML
4 8 (0.88%) ADO
4 8 (0.88%) Microsoft Graph
4 8 (0.88%) Middleware
4 8 (0.88%) REST
5 7 (0.77%) Kafka
6 5 (0.55%) RESTful
7 4 (0.44%) .NET
7 4 (0.44%) Loki
7 4 (0.44%) web3js
8 3 (0.33%) FIX Protocol
8 3 (0.33%) JSON
8 3 (0.33%) Node.js
8 3 (0.33%) ODBC
8 3 (0.33%) Playwright
9 2 (0.22%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 88 (9.70%) Data Centre
2 67 (7.39%) Hybrid Cloud
2 67 (7.39%) Management Information System
3 51 (5.62%) Replication
4 46 (5.07%) Cloud Native
4 46 (5.07%) Driving Licence
5 39 (4.30%) Onboarding
5 39 (4.30%) Security Posture
6 37 (4.08%) Cyber Threat
7 35 (3.86%) Public Cloud
8 31 (3.42%) Data Protection Act
9 30 (3.31%) PKI
10 28 (3.09%) Enterprise Storage
11 27 (2.98%) Self-Motivation
12 24 (2.65%) CMDB
13 22 (2.43%) NHS
14 16 (1.76%) Legacy Systems
15 15 (1.65%) Clustering
16 13 (1.43%) iSeries
16 13 (1.43%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 314 (34.62%) Windows
2 204 (22.49%) Windows Server
3 82 (9.04%) Linux
4 22 (2.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 19 (2.09%) Windows 10
5 19 (2.09%) Windows Server 2019
6 18 (1.98%) Mac OS
7 17 (1.87%) Windows Server 2016
8 13 (1.43%) Apple iOS
8 13 (1.43%) Ubuntu
8 13 (1.43%) Unix
9 11 (1.21%) VMS
10 9 (0.99%) CentOS
11 8 (0.88%) AIX
11 8 (0.88%) Oracle Linux
12 5 (0.55%) Solaris
13 4 (0.44%) Android
14 2 (0.22%) Amazon Linux
14 2 (0.22%) Debian
15 1 (0.11%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 325 (35.83%) Business Continuity
2 276 (30.43%) Cybersecurity
3 223 (24.59%) Problem-Solving
4 208 (22.93%) Continuous Improvement
5 204 (22.49%) ITIL
6 192 (21.17%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 142 (15.66%) High Availability
8 132 (14.55%) Incident Response
9 120 (13.23%) DevOps
10 111 (12.24%) Service Delivery
11 103 (11.36%) Infrastructure as Code
12 102 (11.25%) Cloud Security
13 94 (10.36%) Stakeholder Management
14 92 (10.14%) Data Protection
15 90 (9.92%) Change Management
15 90 (9.92%) Migration
16 89 (9.81%) Service Management
17 84 (9.26%) CI/CD
17 84 (9.26%) Mentoring
18 81 (8.93%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 147 (16.21%) PowerShell
2 98 (10.80%) Python
3 96 (10.58%) SQL
4 40 (4.41%) Bash
5 13 (1.43%) Shell Script
6 11 (1.21%) Bicep
7 10 (1.10%) Java
8 8 (0.88%) Korn
8 8 (0.88%) Kusto Query Language
8 8 (0.88%) T-SQL
9 7 (0.77%) JavaScript
9 7 (0.77%) PL/SQL
9 7 (0.77%) Scala
10 5 (0.55%) C#
10 5 (0.55%) TypeScript
11 3 (0.33%) Go
12 2 (0.22%) RPG
13 1 (0.11%) C
13 1 (0.11%) COBOL
13 1 (0.11%) Perl
Qualifications
1 103 (11.36%) Degree
2 69 (7.61%) Cisco Certification
2 69 (7.61%) Microsoft Certification
3 61 (6.73%) Azure Certification
4 54 (5.95%) CCNP
5 48 (5.29%) Security Cleared
6 43 (4.74%) Computer Science Degree
7 39 (4.30%) SC Cleared
8 34 (3.75%) CCNA
9 27 (2.98%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 24 (2.65%) CISSP
11 22 (2.43%) Postgraduate
12 17 (1.87%) CEH
13 13 (1.43%) MCSE
14 12 (1.32%) AWS Certification
14 12 (1.32%) CISM
15 10 (1.10%) VCAP
16 9 (0.99%) BPSS Clearance
16 9 (0.99%) Master's Degree
16 9 (0.99%) VCDX
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 133 (14.66%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 99 (10.92%) Cyber Essentials
3 92 (10.14%) GDPR
4 87 (9.59%) NIST
5 60 (6.62%) SLA
6 46 (5.07%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 44 (4.85%) PCI DSS
8 29 (3.20%) PMO
9 22 (2.43%) GRC
10 21 (2.32%) SOC 2
11 19 (2.09%) Data Quality
12 18 (1.98%) ISO 22301
13 11 (1.21%) Actionable Recommendations
14 9 (0.99%) COBIT
15 7 (0.77%) NCSC
16 6 (0.66%) QA
17 5 (0.55%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
18 4 (0.44%) DICOM
18 4 (0.44%) HIPAA
18 4 (0.44%) HL7
System Software
1 274 (30.21%) Active Directory
2 207 (22.82%) VMware Infrastructure
3 121 (13.34%) Hyper-V
4 39 (4.30%) vSphere
5 29 (3.20%) Docker
6 24 (2.65%) Virtual Machines
7 23 (2.54%) Firmware
8 17 (1.87%) Virtual Desktop
8 17 (1.87%) VMware ESXi
9 10 (1.10%) VMware NSX
10 9 (0.99%) Oracle RAC
10 9 (0.99%) vCloud
11 6 (0.66%) KVM
11 6 (0.66%) Virtual Servers
12 3 (0.33%) DFS Replication
12 3 (0.33%) EMC RecoverPoint
12 3 (0.33%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 3 (0.33%) VMware Server
13 2 (0.22%) VMware Workstation
14 1 (0.11%) Xen
Systems Management
1 130 (14.33%) Microsoft Intune
2 112 (12.35%) Terraform
3 61 (6.73%) Ansible
4 59 (6.50%) Kubernetes
5 27 (2.98%) SCCM
6 24 (2.65%) Single Sign-On
7 22 (2.43%) VxRail
8 18 (1.98%) FortiGate
9 9 (0.99%) Data Guard
9 9 (0.99%) Dell DRAC
9 9 (0.99%) Nagios
9 9 (0.99%) Packer
10 8 (0.88%) Grafana
10 8 (0.88%) Prometheus
10 8 (0.88%) vCenter Server
11 7 (0.77%) EMC NetWorker
11 7 (0.77%) Oracle RMAN
12 6 (0.66%) Avamar
12 6 (0.66%) EMC VPLEX
12 6 (0.66%) WSUS
Vendors
1 454 (50.06%) Microsoft
2 278 (30.65%) VMware
3 111 (12.24%) Cisco
4 66 (7.28%) Veeam
5 59 (6.50%) Dell
6 46 (5.07%) HP
7 43 (4.74%) Palo Alto
8 38 (4.19%) Nimble Storage
9 35 (3.86%) Meraki
10 34 (3.75%) Commvault
11 30 (3.31%) Splunk
11 30 (3.31%) Tenable
12 27 (2.98%) Fortinet
13 26 (2.87%) EMC
13 26 (2.87%) Oracle
14 24 (2.65%) SolarWinds
15 23 (2.54%) Dell Compellent
15 23 (2.54%) Dynatrace
15 23 (2.54%) IBM
15 23 (2.54%) Zscaler