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 6 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 217 168 207
Rank change year-on-year -49 +39 +105
Permanent jobs citing Disaster Recovery 624 1,037 868
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.12% 1.65% 1.73%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.33% 1.91% 1.84%
Number of salaries quoted 482 640 798
10th Percentile £31,250 £37,500 £33,232
25th Percentile £42,813 £46,250 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £59,763
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -3.79% +12.76%
75th Percentile £82,500 £75,813 £70,000
90th Percentile £102,500 £93,750 £83,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £51,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -2.91% -1.90% +5.00%

All Process and 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 46,878 54,401 47,138
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 83.98% 86.62% 93.72%
Number of salaries quoted 28,142 28,251 36,353
10th Percentile £28,250 £35,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £98,750 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -13.64% +4.76% -1.70%

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 6 December 2025.

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 6 December 2025. 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 -48 554 £60,000 +4.35% 291
UK excluding London -59 322 £50,000 -2.91% 287
London +17 257 £72,500 -3.33% 64
Work from Home +12 191 £64,239 +5.09% 126
South East -2 91 £60,000 +14.29% 75
North of England -69 80 £46,250 -2.63% 88
Midlands -38 60 £59,500 +11.63% 53
North West -27 50 £46,250 -2.63% 40
West Midlands +2 36 £62,500 +17.26% 35
South West +7 35 £42,500 -17.48% 25
East Midlands -35 24 £52,500 +5.00% 18
Yorkshire -42 21 £32,500 -38.10% 42
East of England -15 20 £52,500 +3.96% 13
Northern Ireland - 17 - - 3
Scotland -39 11 £48,000 -8.57% 23
Wales +5 9 £42,750 -46.23% 11
North East -6 9 £51,000 +7.37% 11

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 94 (15.06%) Microsoft Exchange
2 88 (14.10%) SharePoint
3 16 (2.56%) IIS
4 8 (1.28%) Tomcat
5 6 (0.96%) WebSphere
5 6 (0.96%) WebSphere Application Server
6 5 (0.80%) Skype for Business
7 2 (0.32%) BizTalk Server
7 2 (0.32%) CICS
7 2 (0.32%) CMS
7 2 (0.32%) Confluence
8 1 (0.16%) Apache Spark
8 1 (0.16%) nginx
8 1 (0.16%) Site Server
8 1 (0.16%) WebLogic
Applications
1 33 (5.29%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (1.12%) Spreadsheet
3 6 (0.96%) Microsoft Excel
3 6 (0.96%) MS Visio
4 4 (0.64%) Chatbot
5 2 (0.32%) Acrobat
6 1 (0.16%) Weka
Business Applications
1 2 (0.32%) Dynamics AX
1 2 (0.32%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (0.32%) Markit EDM
2 1 (0.16%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.16%) Raiser’s Edge
2 1 (0.16%) Sage 200
2 1 (0.16%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 329 (52.72%) Azure
2 216 (34.62%) Microsoft 365
3 127 (20.35%) AWS
4 113 (18.11%) Entra ID
5 56 (8.97%) GCP
6 39 (6.25%) Azure DevOps
6 39 (6.25%) GitHub
7 35 (5.61%) Azure Monitor
8 32 (5.13%) SaaS
9 31 (4.97%) AWS CloudFormation
10 30 (4.81%) OneDrive
11 27 (4.33%) IaaS
11 27 (4.33%) PaaS
12 24 (3.85%) GitHub Actions
12 24 (3.85%) Nutanix
12 24 (3.85%) Power Platform
12 24 (3.85%) Serverless
13 18 (2.88%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 16 (2.56%) Amazon EKS
14 16 (2.56%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 163 (26.12%) Firewall
2 143 (22.92%) DNS
3 129 (20.67%) DHCP
4 112 (17.95%) VPN
5 82 (13.14%) WAN
6 62 (9.94%) TCP/IP
7 61 (9.78%) VLAN
8 55 (8.81%) LAN
9 39 (6.25%) SAN
9 39 (6.25%) SD-WAN
10 38 (6.09%) Wireless
11 35 (5.61%) Wi-Fi
12 33 (5.29%) VoIP
13 30 (4.81%) Network Security
14 21 (3.37%) NAS
15 20 (3.21%) Unified Communications
16 17 (2.72%) Remote Desktop
17 15 (2.40%) SSL
18 11 (1.76%) BGP
19 9 (1.44%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 50 (8.01%) SQL Server
2 20 (3.21%) Amazon RDS
3 19 (3.04%) Power BI
4 17 (2.72%) Oracle Database
4 17 (2.72%) PostgreSQL
5 14 (2.24%) Azure SQL Database
6 12 (1.92%) MongoDB
6 12 (1.92%) MySQL
7 11 (1.76%) NoSQL
8 10 (1.60%) DB2
9 9 (1.44%) BigQuery
10 8 (1.28%) Oracle Exadata
11 6 (0.96%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 5 (0.80%) Data Warehouse
12 5 (0.80%) Oracle Database 12c
13 4 (0.64%) Amazon Aurora
13 4 (0.64%) Oracle Database 10g
13 4 (0.64%) Oracle Database 11g
14 3 (0.48%) InfluxDB
15 2 (0.32%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 30 (4.81%) Git
2 21 (3.37%) Jenkins
3 7 (1.12%) GitLab
4 5 (0.80%) Maven
4 5 (0.80%) Selenium
5 4 (0.64%) Bitbucket
5 4 (0.64%) JIRA
6 3 (0.48%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 3 (0.48%) LoadRunner
6 3 (0.48%) Octopus Deploy
6 3 (0.48%) Sonatype Nexus
6 3 (0.48%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 3 (0.48%) Subversion
7 2 (0.32%) Chocolatey
7 2 (0.32%) Robot Framework
7 2 (0.32%) TeamCity
7 2 (0.32%) TestRail
8 1 (0.16%) Artifactory
General
1 222 (35.58%) Social Skills
2 188 (30.13%) Finance
3 62 (9.94%) Analytical Skills
4 39 (6.25%) Law
5 34 (5.45%) Banking
6 25 (4.01%) Legal
7 24 (3.85%) Manufacturing
8 23 (3.69%) Telecoms
9 21 (3.37%) Public Sector
10 19 (3.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 19 (3.04%) Retail
11 17 (2.72%) Financial Institution
12 16 (2.56%) Presentation Skills
13 15 (2.40%) Documentation Skills
14 14 (2.24%) Organisational Skills
15 13 (2.08%) Back Office
16 12 (1.92%) Marketing
17 10 (1.60%) Influencing Skills
17 10 (1.60%) Pharmaceutical
18 7 (1.12%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 96 (15.38%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 74 (11.86%) Support Engineer
3 64 (10.26%) Senior
4 63 (10.10%) IT Support
5 55 (8.81%) IT Engineer
6 48 (7.69%) Cloud Engineer
7 45 (7.21%) Lead
8 43 (6.89%) Analyst
9 42 (6.73%) IT Manager
10 32 (5.13%) IT Support Engineer
11 29 (4.65%) Architect
12 28 (4.49%) Administrator
13 27 (4.33%) DBA
14 26 (4.17%) Infrastructure Manager
14 26 (4.17%) Infrastructure Support
14 26 (4.17%) Support Analyst
15 25 (4.01%) DevOps Engineer
16 24 (3.85%) Security Engineer
17 21 (3.37%) Azure Engineer
17 21 (3.37%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (1.92%) EDI
1 12 (1.92%) REST
2 11 (1.76%) OAuth
3 10 (1.60%) .NET
3 10 (1.60%) SAML
4 8 (1.28%) LDAP
5 7 (1.12%) Elastic Stack
6 6 (0.96%) LAPP Stack
6 6 (0.96%) RESTful
6 6 (0.96%) WebSphere MQ
7 5 (0.80%) ARM Templates
7 5 (0.80%) ASP.NET
7 5 (0.80%) JSON
7 5 (0.80%) React
7 5 (0.80%) XML
8 4 (0.64%) ADO
8 4 (0.64%) AWS SAM
8 4 (0.64%) YAML
9 3 (0.48%) SOAP
9 3 (0.48%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 49 (7.85%) Management Information System
2 46 (7.37%) Enterprise Software
3 42 (6.73%) Hybrid Cloud
4 38 (6.09%) Data Centre
5 36 (5.77%) Onboarding
6 31 (4.97%) Cloud Native
7 23 (3.69%) Self-Motivation
8 21 (3.37%) Clustering
9 20 (3.21%) Replication
10 16 (2.56%) Public Cloud
11 14 (2.24%) Security Posture
12 13 (2.08%) CMDB
13 12 (1.92%) PKI
14 10 (1.60%) Driving Licence
15 9 (1.44%) Data Protection Act
15 9 (1.44%) Legacy Systems
16 8 (1.28%) Cyber Threat
16 8 (1.28%) Operational Technology
17 7 (1.12%) CCTV
17 7 (1.12%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 227 (36.38%) Windows
2 158 (25.32%) Windows Server
3 101 (16.19%) Linux
4 21 (3.37%) Windows 10
5 20 (3.21%) Unix
5 20 (3.21%) Windows Server 2019
6 19 (3.04%) Mac OS
7 17 (2.72%) VMS
8 15 (2.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 8 (1.28%) Apple iOS
9 8 (1.28%) Windows Server 2016
10 4 (0.64%) Android
11 3 (0.48%) AIX
11 3 (0.48%) CentOS
11 3 (0.48%) Rocky
11 3 (0.48%) Ubuntu
12 2 (0.32%) Oracle Linux
12 2 (0.32%) Solaris
12 2 (0.32%) Windows Server 2012
12 2 (0.32%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 186 (29.81%) Business Continuity
2 155 (24.84%) Problem-Solving
3 135 (21.63%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 132 (21.15%) ITIL
5 130 (20.83%) Cybersecurity
6 125 (20.03%) DevOps
7 113 (18.11%) High Availability
8 100 (16.03%) Infrastructure as Code
9 96 (15.38%) CI/CD
10 80 (12.82%) Continuous Improvement
10 80 (12.82%) Migration
11 77 (12.34%) Incident Response
12 66 (10.58%) Customer Service
12 66 (10.58%) Service Delivery
13 61 (9.78%) AI
13 61 (9.78%) ITSM
14 59 (9.46%) Mentoring
14 59 (9.46%) Performance Tuning
15 58 (9.29%) Computer Science
16 55 (8.81%) Data Protection
Programming Languages
1 138 (22.12%) PowerShell
2 99 (15.87%) Python
3 65 (10.42%) SQL
4 33 (5.29%) Bash
5 22 (3.53%) Java
6 12 (1.92%) C#
6 12 (1.92%) Go
7 11 (1.76%) JavaScript
7 11 (1.76%) T-SQL
8 9 (1.44%) Bicep
9 8 (1.28%) Shell Script
10 6 (0.96%) VBScript
11 4 (0.64%) Kusto Query Language
12 2 (0.32%) COBOL
12 2 (0.32%) JCL
12 2 (0.32%) R
12 2 (0.32%) Scala
12 2 (0.32%) TypeScript
13 1 (0.16%) Perl
13 1 (0.16%) VBA
Qualifications
1 121 (19.39%) Degree
2 60 (9.62%) Azure Certification
3 50 (8.01%) Microsoft Certification
4 41 (6.57%) AWS Certification
5 38 (6.09%) Computer Science Degree
6 37 (5.93%) Cisco Certification
7 29 (4.65%) Security Cleared
8 28 (4.49%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 27 (4.33%) CISSP
10 22 (3.53%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 20 (3.21%) CCNP
12 16 (2.56%) Master's Degree
12 16 (2.56%) SC Cleared
13 13 (2.08%) ITIL Certification
14 12 (1.92%) CISM
14 12 (1.92%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
14 12 (1.92%) MCSA
15 11 (1.76%) CCNA
16 10 (1.60%) CEH
16 10 (1.60%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 78 (12.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 66 (10.58%) GDPR
3 45 (7.21%) NIST
4 37 (5.93%) Cyber Essentials
5 36 (5.77%) SLA
6 23 (3.69%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 13 (2.08%) SOC 2
8 11 (1.76%) PCI DSS
9 9 (1.44%) ISO 22301
10 8 (1.28%) ISAE 3402
11 6 (0.96%) GRC
11 6 (0.96%) QA
12 5 (0.80%) HIPAA
12 5 (0.80%) NCSC
13 3 (0.48%) Accessibility
13 3 (0.48%) Basel III
13 3 (0.48%) COBIT
13 3 (0.48%) MiFID
14 2 (0.32%) ISO 9001
14 2 (0.32%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 175 (28.04%) Active Directory
2 110 (17.63%) VMware Infrastructure
3 80 (12.82%) Hyper-V
4 61 (9.78%) Docker
5 39 (6.25%) Virtual Machines
6 27 (4.33%) vSphere
7 23 (3.69%) VMware ESXi
8 17 (2.72%) Virtual Servers
9 11 (1.76%) Virtual Desktop
10 9 (1.44%) Oracle RAC
11 8 (1.28%) vCloud
12 4 (0.64%) BitLocker
12 4 (0.64%) NFS
13 3 (0.48%) EMC RecoverPoint
13 3 (0.48%) Squid
14 2 (0.32%) Microsoft Virtual Server
14 2 (0.32%) pfSense
14 2 (0.32%) RACF
14 2 (0.32%) XenDesktop
15 1 (0.16%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 112 (17.95%) Terraform
2 100 (16.03%) Microsoft Intune
3 80 (12.82%) Kubernetes
4 72 (11.54%) Ansible
5 24 (3.85%) Grafana
5 24 (3.85%) Prometheus
6 18 (2.88%) vCenter Server
7 13 (2.08%) Nagios
8 10 (1.60%) Data Guard
9 9 (1.44%) Oracle RMAN
10 8 (1.28%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
10 8 (1.28%) Puppet
11 7 (1.12%) Avamar
11 7 (1.12%) SCCM
12 6 (0.96%) Autotask
12 6 (0.96%) Failover Clustering
12 6 (0.96%) FortiGate
13 5 (0.80%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 5 (0.80%) Nessus
13 5 (0.80%) SCOM
Vendors
1 312 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 136 (21.79%) VMware
3 73 (11.70%) Cisco
4 32 (5.13%) Veeam
5 31 (4.97%) Oracle
6 29 (4.65%) Dell
6 29 (4.65%) Google
7 27 (4.33%) Palo Alto
8 21 (3.37%) Commvault
8 21 (3.37%) Fortinet
9 14 (2.24%) HP
10 13 (2.08%) IBM
11 12 (1.92%) Adobe
11 12 (1.92%) Datto
11 12 (1.92%) Dynatrace
11 12 (1.92%) Sophos
12 11 (1.76%) CrowdStrike
12 11 (1.76%) Red Hat
12 11 (1.76%) ServiceNow
12 11 (1.76%) Splunk