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

6 months to
6 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 176 252 221
Rank change year-on-year +76 -31 +44
Permanent jobs citing Disaster Recovery 1,224 614 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% 1.54%
Number of salaries quoted 872 484 781
10th Percentile £34,502 £33,750 £34,500
25th Percentile £41,500 £42,500 £43,750
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 £73,750
90th Percentile £92,375 £93,375 £92,500
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 76,965 44,351 67,835
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.55% 89.45% 81.04%
Number of salaries quoted 53,101 25,205 44,372
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 £48,750 £50,000
% change year-on-year +12.82% -2.50% -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 6 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 6 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 1,054 £57,500 -4.17% 451
UK excluding London +69 794 £48,000 -8.57% 326
London +48 376 £75,000 - 182
Work from Home +90 368 £60,000 +9.09% 182
North of England +68 222 £47,500 -11.63% 78
South East +47 213 £50,000 - 106
Midlands +28 123 £55,000 - 53
North West +58 119 £47,500 -11.63% 37
West Midlands +31 90 £55,000 -4.35% 39
Yorkshire +38 86 £44,000 -29.60% 34
East of England +6 59 £53,725 +2.33% 22
South West -72 58 £50,000 +5.26% 35
Northern Ireland -29 51 - - 8
Scotland +56 45 £47,500 -11.63% 16
East Midlands -6 33 £45,000 -2.70% 14
Wales -35 21 £45,000 -21.74% 15
North East -56 17 £43,500 -10.77% 7
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
1 129 (10.54%) Microsoft Exchange
2 123 (10.05%) SharePoint
3 23 (1.88%) IIS
4 16 (1.31%) Apache
5 10 (0.82%) Apache Spark
5 10 (0.82%) nginx
6 5 (0.41%) Confluence
7 3 (0.25%) WordPress
8 2 (0.16%) Apache Airflow
8 2 (0.16%) OpenStack
8 2 (0.16%) WebLogic
9 1 (0.082%) Site Server
Applications
1 20 (1.63%) Microsoft Office
2 15 (1.23%) PlantUML
3 13 (1.06%) MS Visio
4 7 (0.57%) Microsoft Excel
5 2 (0.16%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.082%) 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 (0.25%) Dynamics CRM
5 3 (0.25%) Q-Pulse
5 3 (0.25%) SAP S/4HANA
6 2 (0.16%) Adobe Campaign
7 1 (0.082%) Bloomberg TOMS
7 1 (0.082%) Misys Equation
7 1 (0.082%) Misys Midas
7 1 (0.082%) Sage 50
7 1 (0.082%) SAP EHS
7 1 (0.082%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 637 (52.04%) Azure
2 368 (30.07%) Microsoft 365
3 246 (20.10%) AWS
4 207 (16.91%) Entra ID
5 130 (10.62%) SaaS
6 86 (7.03%) IaaS
7 67 (5.47%) PaaS
8 51 (4.17%) Power Platform
9 42 (3.43%) Nutanix
10 39 (3.19%) GCP
11 37 (3.02%) Cloud Computing
12 36 (2.94%) Datadog
13 32 (2.61%) Azure DevOps
14 24 (1.96%) GitHub
15 23 (1.88%) GitHub Actions
16 22 (1.80%) Azure Monitor
16 22 (1.80%) Google Workspace
17 21 (1.72%) Amazon EC2
17 21 (1.72%) AWS CloudFormation
18 20 (1.63%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 350 (28.59%) Firewall
2 279 (22.79%) DNS
3 216 (17.65%) VPN
4 204 (16.67%) DHCP
5 154 (12.58%) WAN
6 132 (10.78%) VLAN
7 124 (10.13%) LAN
8 108 (8.82%) Wi-Fi
9 100 (8.17%) Network Security
10 93 (7.60%) TCP/IP
11 65 (5.31%) SAN
12 61 (4.98%) Wireless
13 41 (3.35%) Internet
14 36 (2.94%) SSL
15 35 (2.86%) SD-WAN
16 34 (2.78%) VoIP
17 29 (2.37%) Cisco ISE
18 24 (1.96%) NAS
19 21 (1.72%) Cisco Nexus
20 16 (1.31%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 93 (7.60%) SQL Server
2 36 (2.94%) Amazon RDS
3 31 (2.53%) Power BI
4 29 (2.37%) Azure SQL Database
5 17 (1.39%) 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 (0.25%) Big Data
12 3 (0.25%) NonStop SQL
12 3 (0.25%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 20 (1.63%) JIRA
2 19 (1.55%) Git
3 17 (1.39%) Chocolatey
4 14 (1.14%) GitLab
5 8 (0.65%) JUnit
5 8 (0.65%) Spock
6 7 (0.57%) Jenkins
7 6 (0.49%) Visual Studio Code
8 5 (0.41%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 4 (0.33%) Bitbucket
9 4 (0.33%) MLflow
10 2 (0.16%) IntelliJ
10 2 (0.16%) Maven
10 2 (0.16%) Selenium
10 2 (0.16%) TeamCity
10 2 (0.16%) Terragrunt
10 2 (0.16%) Yeoman
11 1 (0.082%) Claude Code
11 1 (0.082%) git-flow
General
1 417 (34.07%) Social Skills
2 224 (18.30%) Finance
3 163 (13.32%) Analytical Skills
4 79 (6.45%) Legal
5 75 (6.13%) Law
6 69 (5.64%) Banking
7 62 (5.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 52 (4.25%) Manufacturing
9 38 (3.10%) Organisational Skills
10 37 (3.02%) Retail
11 35 (2.86%) Documentation Skills
12 33 (2.70%) Influencing Skills
13 31 (2.53%) Public Sector
14 25 (2.04%) Telecoms
15 18 (1.47%) Back Office
16 13 (1.06%) Financial Institution
17 12 (0.98%) Aerospace
17 12 (0.98%) Mandarin Language
18 11 (0.90%) Presentation Skills
19 8 (0.65%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 231 (18.87%) Senior
2 184 (15.03%) IT Support
3 153 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 144 (11.76%) IT Engineer
5 142 (11.60%) IT Manager
6 118 (9.64%) Support Engineer
7 97 (7.92%) IT Support Engineer
8 87 (7.11%) Architect
9 76 (6.21%) Analyst
10 65 (5.31%) Cloud Engineer
11 63 (5.15%) Lead
12 59 (4.82%) Service Manager
13 58 (4.74%) Resilience Manager
13 58 (4.74%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
14 54 (4.41%) IT Services Manager
15 52 (4.25%) Azure Engineer
16 49 (4.00%) Network Engineer
17 38 (3.10%) IT Analyst
18 37 (3.02%) Administrator
19 36 (2.94%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 63 (5.15%) Middleware
2 13 (1.06%) ARM Templates
3 9 (0.74%) 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%) ModSecurity
6 5 (0.41%) SAML
7 4 (0.33%) AWS CDK
7 4 (0.33%) web3js
8 3 (0.25%) EDI
8 3 (0.25%) JSON
8 3 (0.25%) Nuxt
8 3 (0.25%) ODBC
8 3 (0.25%) PySpark
8 3 (0.25%) REST
8 3 (0.25%) Ruby on Rails
Miscellaneous
1 108 (8.82%) Data Centre
2 96 (7.84%) Cyber Threat
3 83 (6.78%) Management Information System
4 74 (6.05%) Cloud Native
5 71 (5.80%) Driving Licence
5 71 (5.80%) Hybrid Cloud
6 61 (4.98%) Replication
7 60 (4.90%) Security Posture
8 58 (4.74%) Onboarding
9 53 (4.33%) Self-Motivation
10 33 (2.70%) PKI
11 31 (2.53%) Enterprise Storage
12 29 (2.37%) NHS
13 27 (2.21%) Public Cloud
14 25 (2.04%) CCTV
14 25 (2.04%) Enterprise Software
15 21 (1.72%) Clustering
15 21 (1.72%) Virtual Team
16 20 (1.63%) CMDB
17 19 (1.55%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 415 (33.91%) Windows
2 287 (23.45%) Windows Server
3 127 (10.38%) Linux
4 31 (2.53%) Windows Server 2019
5 26 (2.12%) Windows 10
6 25 (2.04%) Mac OS
6 25 (2.04%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 23 (1.88%) Windows Server 2016
8 22 (1.80%) Unix
9 20 (1.63%) Ubuntu
10 12 (0.98%) AIX
11 11 (0.90%) Oracle Linux
12 10 (0.82%) CentOS
13 9 (0.74%) Solaris
13 9 (0.74%) VMS
14 4 (0.33%) Windows Server 2012
15 3 (0.25%) Debian
16 2 (0.16%) Amazon Linux
16 2 (0.16%) Apple iOS
17 1 (0.082%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 505 (41.26%) Business Continuity
2 362 (29.58%) Cybersecurity
3 335 (27.37%) Problem-Solving
4 319 (26.06%) Continuous Improvement
5 261 (21.32%) ITIL
6 219 (17.89%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 207 (16.91%) DevOps
8 195 (15.93%) High Availability
9 164 (13.40%) Incident Response
10 157 (12.83%) Stakeholder Management
11 154 (12.58%) Information Security
12 149 (12.17%) Infrastructure as Code
13 146 (11.93%) Service Delivery
14 135 (11.03%) Agile
15 127 (10.38%) Mentoring
16 126 (10.29%) Project Delivery
17 125 (10.21%) CI/CD
18 118 (9.64%) Change Management
19 116 (9.48%) Cloud Security
20 112 (9.15%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 179 (14.62%) PowerShell
2 119 (9.72%) Python
3 113 (9.23%) SQL
4 49 (4.00%) Bash
5 24 (1.96%) Bicep
5 24 (1.96%) Shell Script
6 15 (1.23%) 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 (0.25%) Go
12 3 (0.25%) Ruby
13 2 (0.16%) Groovy
13 2 (0.16%) XAML
Qualifications
1 136 (11.11%) Degree
2 98 (8.01%) Cisco Certification
3 95 (7.76%) CISSP
4 91 (7.43%) Azure Certification
5 88 (7.19%) Microsoft Certification
6 81 (6.62%) CISM
7 75 (6.13%) Security Cleared
8 73 (5.96%) CCNP
9 58 (4.74%) SC Cleared
10 53 (4.33%) ITIL Certification
11 51 (4.17%) CCNA
12 38 (3.10%) Computer Science Degree
13 35 (2.86%) Postgraduate
14 33 (2.70%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
15 26 (2.12%) AWS Certification
16 17 (1.39%) CompTIA Security+
16 17 (1.39%) DV Cleared
17 16 (1.31%) Master's Degree
18 15 (1.23%) CEH
18 15 (1.23%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 137 (11.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 133 (10.87%) NIST
3 107 (8.74%) GDPR
4 105 (8.58%) Cyber Essentials
5 77 (6.29%) ISO 22301
6 76 (6.21%) SLA
7 47 (3.84%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 45 (3.68%) PCI DSS
9 31 (2.53%) GRC
10 28 (2.29%) PMO
11 24 (1.96%) Data Quality
12 23 (1.88%) SOC 2
13 16 (1.31%) COBIT
13 16 (1.31%) NCSC
14 12 (0.98%) QA
15 8 (0.65%) SOC 1
16 6 (0.49%) Actionable Recommendations
17 5 (0.41%) ISO/IEC 20000
17 5 (0.41%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
18 4 (0.33%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 332 (27.12%) Active Directory
2 283 (23.12%) VMware Infrastructure
3 192 (15.69%) Hyper-V
4 51 (4.17%) Docker
5 45 (3.68%) vSphere
6 32 (2.61%) Virtual Machines
7 26 (2.12%) Firmware
7 26 (2.12%) VMware ESXi
8 24 (1.96%) Virtual Desktop
9 13 (1.06%) Oracle RAC
10 11 (0.90%) VMware NSX
11 9 (0.74%) KVM
11 9 (0.74%) vCloud
12 6 (0.49%) Squid
13 5 (0.41%) Virtual Servers
14 3 (0.25%) DFS Replication
14 3 (0.25%) EMC RecoverPoint
14 3 (0.25%) VMware Server
15 2 (0.16%) Microsoft Virtual Server
16 1 (0.082%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 161 (13.15%) Microsoft Intune
2 147 (12.01%) Terraform
3 80 (6.54%) Kubernetes
4 77 (6.29%) Ansible
5 34 (2.78%) Single Sign-On
6 30 (2.45%) FortiGate
7 27 (2.21%) 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 (0.74%) Grafana
12 9 (0.74%) 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%) WSUS
Vendors
1 587 (47.96%) Microsoft
2 333 (27.21%) VMware
3 184 (15.03%) Cisco
4 86 (7.03%) Veeam
5 62 (5.07%) Palo Alto
6 46 (3.76%) Dell
6 46 (3.76%) Splunk
7 43 (3.51%) Oracle
8 40 (3.27%) Fortinet
9 39 (3.19%) HP
10 38 (3.10%) Meraki
11 32 (2.61%) SonicWALL
12 31 (2.53%) Aruba
12 31 (2.53%) Google
12 31 (2.53%) Sophos
13 29 (2.37%) SolarWinds
14 27 (2.21%) Nimble Storage
15 26 (2.12%) Apple
16 25 (2.04%) AppDynamics
16 25 (2.04%) Tenable