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

6 months to
7 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 176 248 222
Rank change year-on-year +72 -26 +41
Permanent jobs citing Disaster Recovery 1,228 614 1,046
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.17% 1.24% 1.25%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.59% 1.38% 1.55%
Number of salaries quoted 873 483 780
10th Percentile £34,504 £33,750 £34,500
25th Percentile £41,500 £42,500 £43,911
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -7.60%
75th Percentile £77,500 £76,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £93,500 £95,125
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 77,301 44,356 67,625
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.63% 89.43% 81.01%
Number of salaries quoted 53,282 25,229 44,135
10th Percentile £30,750 £28,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,500 £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 £48,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +13.40% -3.00% -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 7 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 7 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 +56 1,058 £57,500 -4.17% 456
UK excluding London +77 799 £48,000 -8.57% 327
London +55 376 £75,000 - 192
Work from Home +91 371 £60,000 +9.09% 188
North of England +56 222 £47,500 -11.63% 79
South East +55 214 £50,000 - 102
Midlands +33 124 £55,000 - 50
North West +53 119 £47,500 -11.63% 36
West Midlands +27 91 £55,000 -4.35% 38
Yorkshire +39 86 £44,000 -29.60% 37
East of England +5 60 £53,725 +2.33% 22
South West -73 59 £50,000 +5.26% 37
Northern Ireland -29 51 - - 8
Scotland +47 45 £47,500 -11.63% 20
East Midlands -17 33 £45,000 -2.70% 12
Wales -41 22 £45,000 -21.74% 17
North East -56 17 £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
1 128 (10.42%) Microsoft Exchange
2 122 (9.93%) SharePoint
3 23 (1.87%) IIS
4 16 (1.30%) Apache
5 11 (0.90%) 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 20 (1.63%) Microsoft Office
2 16 (1.30%) PlantUML
3 12 (0.98%) MS Visio
4 7 (0.57%) Microsoft Excel
5 3 (0.24%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.081%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 12 (0.98%) FLEXCUBE
2 6 (0.49%) Raiser’s Edge
3 5 (0.41%) JDE EnterpriseOne
3 5 (0.41%) Sage 200
4 4 (0.33%) 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
1 638 (51.95%) Azure
2 366 (29.80%) Microsoft 365
3 247 (20.11%) AWS
4 207 (16.86%) Entra ID
5 129 (10.50%) SaaS
6 87 (7.08%) IaaS
7 68 (5.54%) PaaS
8 51 (4.15%) Power Platform
9 42 (3.42%) Nutanix
10 39 (3.18%) GCP
11 38 (3.09%) Cloud Computing
12 35 (2.85%) Datadog
13 34 (2.77%) Azure DevOps
14 24 (1.95%) GitHub
15 23 (1.87%) GitHub Actions
16 22 (1.79%) Amazon EC2
16 22 (1.79%) AWS CloudFormation
16 22 (1.79%) Azure Monitor
16 22 (1.79%) Google Workspace
17 20 (1.63%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 351 (28.58%) Firewall
2 278 (22.64%) DNS
3 213 (17.35%) VPN
4 203 (16.53%) DHCP
5 155 (12.62%) WAN
6 130 (10.59%) VLAN
7 126 (10.26%) LAN
8 109 (8.88%) Wi-Fi
9 100 (8.14%) Network Security
10 93 (7.57%) TCP/IP
11 65 (5.29%) SAN
12 59 (4.80%) Wireless
13 42 (3.42%) Internet
14 35 (2.85%) SSL
15 34 (2.77%) SD-WAN
15 34 (2.77%) VoIP
16 29 (2.36%) Cisco ISE
17 24 (1.95%) NAS
18 22 (1.79%) Cisco Nexus
19 16 (1.30%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 94 (7.65%) SQL Server
2 37 (3.01%) Amazon RDS
3 31 (2.52%) Power BI
4 29 (2.36%) Azure SQL Database
5 17 (1.38%) PostgreSQL
6 13 (1.06%) Data Warehouse
6 13 (1.06%) Oracle Database
7 12 (0.98%) MySQL
8 8 (0.65%) Data Lake
8 8 (0.65%) Metadata
8 8 (0.65%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 6 (0.49%) MongoDB
9 6 (0.49%) NoSQL
9 6 (0.49%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 5 (0.41%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 4 (0.33%) DynamoDB
11 4 (0.33%) Elasticsearch
12 3 (0.24%) Big Data
12 3 (0.24%) NonStop SQL
12 3 (0.24%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 21 (1.71%) JIRA
2 20 (1.63%) Git
3 17 (1.38%) 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 (0.33%) 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
1 417 (33.96%) Social Skills
2 226 (18.40%) Finance
3 161 (13.11%) Analytical Skills
4 79 (6.43%) Legal
5 75 (6.11%) Law
6 69 (5.62%) Banking
7 63 (5.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 52 (4.23%) Manufacturing
9 37 (3.01%) Organisational Skills
9 37 (3.01%) Retail
10 35 (2.85%) Documentation Skills
11 33 (2.69%) Influencing Skills
12 31 (2.52%) Public Sector
13 25 (2.04%) Telecoms
14 18 (1.47%) Back Office
15 13 (1.06%) Financial Institution
16 12 (0.98%) Aerospace
16 12 (0.98%) Mandarin Language
17 11 (0.90%) Presentation Skills
18 8 (0.65%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 232 (18.89%) Senior
2 184 (14.98%) IT Support
3 155 (12.62%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 144 (11.73%) IT Engineer
5 142 (11.56%) IT Manager
6 118 (9.61%) Support Engineer
7 97 (7.90%) IT Support Engineer
8 88 (7.17%) Architect
9 76 (6.19%) Analyst
10 65 (5.29%) Cloud Engineer
11 63 (5.13%) Lead
12 60 (4.89%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
12 60 (4.89%) Service Manager
13 58 (4.72%) Resilience Manager
14 54 (4.40%) IT Services Manager
15 52 (4.23%) Azure Engineer
16 49 (3.99%) Network Engineer
17 38 (3.09%) IT Analyst
18 37 (3.01%) Administrator
18 37 (3.01%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 63 (5.13%) Middleware
2 13 (1.06%) 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 (0.33%) 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
1 107 (8.71%) Data Centre
2 96 (7.82%) Cyber Threat
3 85 (6.92%) Management Information System
4 75 (6.11%) Cloud Native
5 71 (5.78%) Driving Licence
5 71 (5.78%) Hybrid Cloud
6 60 (4.89%) Replication
7 59 (4.80%) Onboarding
7 59 (4.80%) Security Posture
8 53 (4.32%) Self-Motivation
9 32 (2.61%) PKI
10 31 (2.52%) Enterprise Storage
11 29 (2.36%) NHS
12 27 (2.20%) Public Cloud
13 25 (2.04%) CCTV
13 25 (2.04%) Enterprise Software
14 21 (1.71%) Clustering
14 21 (1.71%) Virtual Team
15 20 (1.63%) CMDB
16 19 (1.55%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 415 (33.79%) Windows
2 286 (23.29%) Windows Server
3 127 (10.34%) Linux
4 30 (2.44%) Windows Server 2019
5 26 (2.12%) Windows 10
6 25 (2.04%) Mac OS
6 25 (2.04%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 22 (1.79%) Unix
7 22 (1.79%) Windows Server 2016
8 20 (1.63%) Ubuntu
9 12 (0.98%) AIX
10 11 (0.90%) Oracle Linux
11 10 (0.81%) CentOS
12 9 (0.73%) Solaris
12 9 (0.73%) VMS
13 4 (0.33%) Windows Server 2012
14 3 (0.24%) Debian
15 2 (0.16%) Amazon Linux
15 2 (0.16%) Apple iOS
16 1 (0.081%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 508 (41.37%) Business Continuity
2 362 (29.48%) Cybersecurity
3 334 (27.20%) Problem-Solving
4 320 (26.06%) Continuous Improvement
5 262 (21.34%) ITIL
6 219 (17.83%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 210 (17.10%) DevOps
8 195 (15.88%) High Availability
9 166 (13.52%) Incident Response
10 157 (12.79%) Information Security
11 156 (12.70%) Stakeholder Management
12 150 (12.21%) Infrastructure as Code
13 145 (11.81%) Service Delivery
14 135 (10.99%) Agile
15 128 (10.42%) Mentoring
16 126 (10.26%) CI/CD
16 126 (10.26%) Project Delivery
17 118 (9.61%) Change Management
18 117 (9.53%) Cloud Security
19 114 (9.28%) Incident Management
Programming Languages
1 181 (14.74%) PowerShell
2 119 (9.69%) Python
3 113 (9.20%) SQL
4 50 (4.07%) Bash
5 24 (1.95%) Bicep
5 24 (1.95%) Shell Script
6 16 (1.30%) Java
7 12 (0.98%) JavaScript
8 11 (0.90%) Korn
8 11 (0.90%) PL/SQL
8 11 (0.90%) TypeScript
9 6 (0.49%) T-SQL
10 5 (0.41%) Kusto Query Language
10 5 (0.41%) Search Processing Language
11 4 (0.33%) C#
11 4 (0.33%) COBOL
12 3 (0.24%) Go
12 3 (0.24%) Ruby
13 2 (0.16%) Groovy
13 2 (0.16%) Scala
Qualifications
1 136 (11.07%) Degree
2 98 (7.98%) Cisco Certification
3 95 (7.74%) CISSP
4 91 (7.41%) Azure Certification
5 88 (7.17%) Microsoft Certification
6 81 (6.60%) CISM
7 77 (6.27%) Security Cleared
8 73 (5.94%) CCNP
9 59 (4.80%) SC Cleared
10 54 (4.40%) ITIL Certification
11 51 (4.15%) CCNA
12 38 (3.09%) Computer Science Degree
13 36 (2.93%) Postgraduate
14 33 (2.69%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
15 27 (2.20%) AWS Certification
16 18 (1.47%) 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
1 138 (11.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 133 (10.83%) NIST
3 108 (8.79%) GDPR
4 105 (8.55%) Cyber Essentials
5 77 (6.27%) ISO 22301
5 77 (6.27%) SLA
6 47 (3.83%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 44 (3.58%) PCI DSS
8 31 (2.52%) GRC
9 28 (2.28%) PMO
10 24 (1.95%) Data Quality
11 23 (1.87%) SOC 2
12 16 (1.30%) COBIT
12 16 (1.30%) NCSC
13 13 (1.06%) QA
14 8 (0.65%) SOC 1
15 6 (0.49%) Actionable Recommendations
16 5 (0.41%) ISO/IEC 20000
16 5 (0.41%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
17 4 (0.33%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 333 (27.12%) Active Directory
2 284 (23.13%) VMware Infrastructure
3 192 (15.64%) Hyper-V
4 52 (4.23%) Docker
5 45 (3.66%) vSphere
6 32 (2.61%) Virtual Machines
7 25 (2.04%) Firmware
7 25 (2.04%) VMware ESXi
8 24 (1.95%) Virtual Desktop
9 13 (1.06%) Oracle RAC
10 11 (0.90%) VMware NSX
11 9 (0.73%) KVM
11 9 (0.73%) vCloud
12 6 (0.49%) Squid
13 5 (0.41%) Virtual Servers
14 3 (0.24%) DFS Replication
14 3 (0.24%) EMC RecoverPoint
14 3 (0.24%) VMware Server
15 2 (0.16%) Microsoft Virtual Server
16 1 (0.081%) Xen
Systems Management
1 161 (13.11%) Microsoft Intune
2 149 (12.13%) Terraform
3 80 (6.51%) Kubernetes
4 78 (6.35%) Ansible
5 34 (2.77%) Single Sign-On
6 30 (2.44%) FortiGate
7 27 (2.20%) SCCM
8 18 (1.47%) VxRail
9 13 (1.06%) Data Guard
9 13 (1.06%) Jamf Pro
10 12 (0.98%) Nagios
11 11 (0.90%) Oracle RMAN
11 11 (0.90%) Prometheus
12 9 (0.73%) Grafana
12 9 (0.73%) vCenter Server
13 8 (0.65%) Dell DRAC
14 7 (0.57%) Avamar
14 7 (0.57%) Packer
15 6 (0.49%) EMC VPLEX
15 6 (0.49%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 585 (47.64%) Microsoft
2 334 (27.20%) VMware
3 185 (15.07%) Cisco
4 85 (6.92%) Veeam
5 63 (5.13%) Palo Alto
6 46 (3.75%) Dell
7 45 (3.66%) Splunk
8 43 (3.50%) Oracle
9 40 (3.26%) Fortinet
10 39 (3.18%) HP
11 37 (3.01%) Meraki
12 32 (2.61%) Aruba
12 32 (2.61%) SonicWALL
13 31 (2.52%) Google
13 31 (2.52%) Sophos
14 28 (2.28%) SolarWinds
15 27 (2.20%) Nimble Storage
16 26 (2.12%) Apple
17 25 (2.04%) AppDynamics
17 25 (2.04%) Qualys