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

6 months to
24 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 191 253 208
Rank change year-on-year +62 -45 +90
Permanent jobs citing Disaster Recovery 1,019 578 1,412
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.07% 1.28% 1.31%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.46% 1.39% 1.60%
Number of salaries quoted 771 465 1,131
10th Percentile £32,750 £37,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,500 £46,875 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £62,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +13.64% -4.35%
75th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £92,500 £90,750 £88,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £48,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -12.73% +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 69,604 41,717 88,260
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.20% 92.25% 81.84%
Number of salaries quoted 48,009 22,461 62,520
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,800 £29,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -9.54%
75th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +5.00% - -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 24 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 24 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 +59 913 £57,500 -8.00% 248
UK excluding London +63 606 £48,000 -12.73% 220
London +52 352 £75,000 +2.39% 82
Work from Home +97 294 £60,000 +9.09% 121
North of England +70 223 £47,500 -13.64% 42
South East +19 148 £50,000 -9.09% 73
Yorkshire +40 113 £47,500 -24.00% 21
Midlands +41 104 £55,000 +2.33% 50
North West +43 93 £50,000 -9.09% 18
West Midlands +41 79 £54,500 -5.22% 26
East of England -6 45 £44,250 -17.29% 12
South West -92 36 £43,000 -21.82% 24
Scotland +24 26 £39,400 -28.36% 8
East Midlands -21 24 £55,000 +37.50% 24
North East -44 17 £42,500 -12.82% 4
Wales -32 15 £43,000 -14.00% 6
Northern Ireland -28 7 - - 10
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
1 116 (11.38%) Microsoft Exchange
2 109 (10.70%) SharePoint
3 16 (1.57%) IIS
4 5 (0.49%) Apache Spark
5 4 (0.39%) Apache
6 3 (0.29%) Confluence
6 3 (0.29%) WordPress
7 2 (0.20%) Apache Airflow
7 2 (0.20%) OpenStack
8 1 (0.098%) BizTalk Server
8 1 (0.098%) Site Server
8 1 (0.098%) WebLogic
Applications
1 21 (2.06%) Microsoft Office
2 15 (1.47%) MS Visio
3 12 (1.18%) PlantUML
4 5 (0.49%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 11 (1.08%) FLEXCUBE
2 4 (0.39%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (0.39%) NetSuite
3 3 (0.29%) Oracle EBS
3 3 (0.29%) Sage 200
3 3 (0.29%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.20%) Q-Pulse
4 2 (0.20%) Raiser’s Edge
4 2 (0.20%) SAP ERP
5 1 (0.098%) Adobe Campaign
5 1 (0.098%) Elite 3E
5 1 (0.098%) JDE EnterpriseOne
5 1 (0.098%) Misys Equation
5 1 (0.098%) Misys Midas
5 1 (0.098%) SAP EHS
Cloud Services
1 511 (50.15%) Azure
2 320 (31.40%) Microsoft 365
3 186 (18.25%) Entra ID
4 157 (15.41%) AWS
5 66 (6.48%) SaaS
6 57 (5.59%) IaaS
7 54 (5.30%) Nutanix
8 49 (4.81%) PaaS
9 45 (4.42%) Datadog
10 40 (3.93%) Azure DevOps
11 38 (3.73%) Power Platform
12 34 (3.34%) GitHub
13 32 (3.14%) Azure Monitor
14 31 (3.04%) GCP
15 30 (2.94%) Microsoft Purview
16 28 (2.75%) Cloud Computing
17 26 (2.55%) GitHub Actions
18 23 (2.26%) OneDrive
19 21 (2.06%) Amazon EC2
19 21 (2.06%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 319 (31.31%) Firewall
2 226 (22.18%) DNS
3 200 (19.63%) VPN
4 176 (17.27%) DHCP
5 143 (14.03%) WAN
6 117 (11.48%) VLAN
7 107 (10.50%) LAN
8 90 (8.83%) Network Security
9 84 (8.24%) TCP/IP
9 84 (8.24%) Wi-Fi
10 62 (6.08%) SAN
11 46 (4.51%) Wireless
12 29 (2.85%) Internet
13 28 (2.75%) SD-WAN
14 27 (2.65%) Cisco ISE
14 27 (2.65%) SSL
15 26 (2.55%) VoIP
16 22 (2.16%) Remote Desktop
17 17 (1.67%) BGP
17 17 (1.67%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 87 (8.54%) SQL Server
2 35 (3.43%) Amazon RDS
3 25 (2.45%) Azure SQL Database
4 21 (2.06%) Power BI
5 14 (1.37%) PostgreSQL
6 12 (1.18%) MySQL
7 10 (0.98%) Oracle Database
8 9 (0.88%) Data Lake
8 9 (0.88%) Data Warehouse
9 8 (0.79%) Delta Lake
9 8 (0.79%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 5 (0.49%) Geospatial Data
10 5 (0.49%) GIS
10 5 (0.49%) MongoDB
10 5 (0.49%) NoSQL
10 5 (0.49%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 5 (0.49%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 4 (0.39%) Amazon Aurora
11 4 (0.39%) Elasticsearch
12 3 (0.29%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 18 (1.77%) Git
2 17 (1.67%) Chocolatey
3 15 (1.47%) JIRA
4 6 (0.59%) GitLab
4 6 (0.59%) Visual Studio Code
5 5 (0.49%) Jenkins
6 4 (0.39%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 4 (0.39%) MLflow
7 3 (0.29%) Selenium
8 2 (0.20%) Bitbucket
8 2 (0.20%) JUnit
8 2 (0.20%) LabVIEW
8 2 (0.20%) Spock
8 2 (0.20%) TeamCity
8 2 (0.20%) Terragrunt
9 1 (0.098%) Artifactory
9 1 (0.098%) Claude Code
9 1 (0.098%) Octopus Deploy
9 1 (0.098%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
9 1 (0.098%) Yeoman
General
1 369 (36.21%) Social Skills
2 180 (17.66%) Finance
3 141 (13.84%) Analytical Skills
4 69 (6.77%) Banking
5 60 (5.89%) Legal
6 47 (4.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 43 (4.22%) Law
8 37 (3.63%) Organisational Skills
9 36 (3.53%) Public Sector
10 33 (3.24%) Manufacturing
11 28 (2.75%) Retail
12 25 (2.45%) Documentation Skills
13 19 (1.86%) Back Office
13 19 (1.86%) Influencing Skills
13 19 (1.86%) Telecoms
14 10 (0.98%) Financial Institution
15 9 (0.88%) Advertising
15 9 (0.88%) Mandarin Language
16 7 (0.69%) French Language
16 7 (0.69%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 206 (20.22%) Senior
2 162 (15.90%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 151 (14.82%) IT Support
4 120 (11.78%) IT Engineer
5 96 (9.42%) Support Engineer
6 81 (7.95%) Cloud Engineer
7 78 (7.65%) IT Manager
7 78 (7.65%) IT Support Engineer
8 72 (7.07%) Lead
9 62 (6.08%) Analyst
9 62 (6.08%) Architect
9 62 (6.08%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
10 54 (5.30%) Azure Engineer
11 38 (3.73%) Platform Engineer
12 35 (3.43%) Network Engineer
13 34 (3.34%) Administrator
14 32 (3.14%) Security Engineer
15 31 (3.04%) IT Analyst
15 31 (3.04%) IT Technician
16 30 (2.94%) Security Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (1.37%) Middleware
2 13 (1.28%) SAML
3 10 (0.98%) ARM Templates
4 8 (0.79%) Microsoft Graph
4 8 (0.79%) OAuth
4 8 (0.79%) PySpark
5 7 (0.69%) REST
5 7 (0.69%) YAML
6 6 (0.59%) ADO
6 6 (0.59%) Kafka
7 5 (0.49%) RESTful
8 4 (0.39%) .NET
8 4 (0.39%) FIX Protocol
8 4 (0.39%) Loki
8 4 (0.39%) web3js
9 3 (0.29%) Apache NiFi
9 3 (0.29%) JSON
9 3 (0.29%) Nuxt
9 3 (0.29%) ODBC
9 3 (0.29%) Ruby on Rails
Miscellaneous
1 97 (9.52%) Data Centre
2 74 (7.26%) Management Information System
3 63 (6.18%) Hybrid Cloud
4 61 (5.99%) Driving Licence
5 59 (5.79%) Cloud Native
6 54 (5.30%) Replication
7 49 (4.81%) Security Posture
8 44 (4.32%) Self-Motivation
9 41 (4.02%) Cyber Threat
10 38 (3.73%) Onboarding
11 35 (3.43%) PKI
12 34 (3.34%) Data Protection Act
13 31 (3.04%) Public Cloud
14 30 (2.94%) Enterprise Storage
15 27 (2.65%) NHS
16 23 (2.26%) CMDB
17 18 (1.77%) CCTV
17 18 (1.77%) Virtual Team
18 17 (1.67%) Clustering
19 16 (1.57%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 356 (34.94%) Windows
2 238 (23.36%) Windows Server
3 95 (9.32%) Linux
4 24 (2.36%) Windows Server 2019
5 23 (2.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 22 (2.16%) Mac OS
7 19 (1.86%) Windows 10
7 19 (1.86%) Windows Server 2016
8 16 (1.57%) Unix
9 13 (1.28%) Ubuntu
10 11 (1.08%) AIX
10 11 (1.08%) Oracle Linux
11 10 (0.98%) VMS
12 9 (0.88%) Apple iOS
12 9 (0.88%) CentOS
13 7 (0.69%) Solaris
14 3 (0.29%) Windows Server 2012
15 2 (0.20%) Amazon Linux
15 2 (0.20%) Debian
15 2 (0.20%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 371 (36.41%) Business Continuity
2 330 (32.38%) Cybersecurity
3 264 (25.91%) Problem-Solving
4 256 (25.12%) Continuous Improvement
5 214 (21.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 203 (19.92%) ITIL
7 165 (16.19%) Incident Response
8 164 (16.09%) High Availability
9 131 (12.86%) DevOps
10 125 (12.27%) Infrastructure as Code
11 121 (11.87%) Service Delivery
12 115 (11.29%) Cloud Security
13 113 (11.09%) Stakeholder Management
14 105 (10.30%) Data Protection
15 98 (9.62%) Change Management
16 96 (9.42%) CI/CD
17 95 (9.32%) Incident Management
17 95 (9.32%) Risk Management
18 94 (9.22%) Migration
19 93 (9.13%) BCP
Programming Languages
1 160 (15.70%) PowerShell
2 108 (10.60%) SQL
3 104 (10.21%) Python
4 48 (4.71%) Bash
5 16 (1.57%) Shell Script
6 14 (1.37%) Bicep
7 11 (1.08%) Java
7 11 (1.08%) Korn
8 10 (0.98%) PL/SQL
9 9 (0.88%) JavaScript
10 8 (0.79%) Kusto Query Language
11 7 (0.69%) T-SQL
11 7 (0.69%) TypeScript
12 5 (0.49%) C#
12 5 (0.49%) Scala
13 3 (0.29%) Go
13 3 (0.29%) Ruby
14 2 (0.20%) RPG
14 2 (0.20%) Search Processing Language
14 2 (0.20%) XAML
Qualifications
1 118 (11.58%) Degree
2 81 (7.95%) Cisco Certification
3 72 (7.07%) Microsoft Certification
4 62 (6.08%) CCNP
5 61 (5.99%) Azure Certification
6 52 (5.10%) Security Cleared
7 44 (4.32%) CCNA
8 38 (3.73%) Computer Science Degree
8 38 (3.73%) SC Cleared
9 35 (3.43%) CISSP
10 28 (2.75%) Postgraduate
11 27 (2.65%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 22 (2.16%) CISM
13 15 (1.47%) AWS Certification
13 15 (1.47%) CEH
14 13 (1.28%) CISA
14 13 (1.28%) MCSE
15 11 (1.08%) CRISC
15 11 (1.08%) Master's Degree
16 10 (0.98%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 151 (14.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 114 (11.19%) Cyber Essentials
3 112 (10.99%) GDPR
4 96 (9.42%) NIST
5 61 (5.99%) SLA
6 51 (5.00%) PCI DSS
7 47 (4.61%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 29 (2.85%) PMO
9 27 (2.65%) SOC 2
10 24 (2.36%) GRC
11 22 (2.16%) Data Quality
12 18 (1.77%) ISO 22301
13 15 (1.47%) COBIT
14 10 (0.98%) Actionable Recommendations
14 10 (0.98%) NCSC
15 8 (0.79%) SOC 1
16 6 (0.59%) QA
17 5 (0.49%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
18 4 (0.39%) HIPAA
18 4 (0.39%) HL7
System Software
1 297 (29.15%) Active Directory
2 244 (23.95%) VMware Infrastructure
3 154 (15.11%) Hyper-V
4 42 (4.12%) vSphere
5 34 (3.34%) Docker
6 32 (3.14%) Virtual Machines
7 21 (2.06%) Firmware
7 21 (2.06%) VMware ESXi
8 20 (1.96%) Virtual Desktop
9 12 (1.18%) Oracle RAC
10 10 (0.98%) VMware NSX
11 9 (0.88%) vCloud
12 6 (0.59%) KVM
13 5 (0.49%) Virtual Servers
14 4 (0.39%) EMC RecoverPoint
15 3 (0.29%) DFS Replication
15 3 (0.29%) Microsoft Virtual Server
15 3 (0.29%) VMware Server
16 2 (0.20%) VMware Workstation
17 1 (0.098%) Xen
Systems Management
1 137 (13.44%) Microsoft Intune
2 132 (12.95%) Terraform
3 72 (7.07%) Ansible
4 69 (6.77%) Kubernetes
5 27 (2.65%) SCCM
5 27 (2.65%) Single Sign-On
6 24 (2.36%) FortiGate
7 22 (2.16%) VxRail
8 12 (1.18%) Prometheus
9 11 (1.08%) Data Guard
9 11 (1.08%) Grafana
9 11 (1.08%) Nagios
9 11 (1.08%) vCenter Server
10 10 (0.98%) Oracle RMAN
11 9 (0.88%) Dell DRAC
11 9 (0.88%) Jamf Pro
11 9 (0.88%) Packer
12 7 (0.69%) EMC NetWorker
13 6 (0.59%) EMC VPLEX
13 6 (0.59%) WSUS
Vendors
1 511 (50.15%) Microsoft
2 309 (30.32%) VMware
3 149 (14.62%) Cisco
4 70 (6.87%) Veeam
5 55 (5.40%) Dell
5 55 (5.40%) Palo Alto
6 43 (4.22%) HP
7 35 (3.43%) Splunk
8 34 (3.34%) Meraki
9 33 (3.24%) Nimble Storage
9 33 (3.24%) Oracle
10 32 (3.14%) Commvault
11 29 (2.85%) Fortinet
11 29 (2.85%) Sophos
12 28 (2.75%) Tenable
13 25 (2.45%) EMC
13 25 (2.45%) Google
13 25 (2.45%) SolarWinds
14 23 (2.26%) IBM
15 22 (2.16%) Zscaler