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

6 months to
20 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 196 259 211
Rank change year-on-year +63 -48 +93
Permanent jobs citing Disaster Recovery 985 570 1,421
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.05% 1.27% 1.30%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.43% 1.37% 1.59%
Number of salaries quoted 750 460 1,139
10th Percentile £32,750 £37,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,500 £46,250 £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 £91,375 £88,650
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 68,746 41,496 89,251
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.03% 92.46% 81.73%
Number of salaries quoted 47,319 22,262 63,244
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,822 £29,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £39,000 £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 £92,000
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 20 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 20 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 +43 881 £58,445 -6.49% 226
UK excluding London +55 579 £48,500 -11.82% 213
London +49 346 £75,000 +2.39% 69
Work from Home +84 286 £60,000 +4.35% 109
North of England +74 211 £47,500 -13.64% 37
South East +19 139 £50,000 -9.09% 75
Yorkshire +37 108 £47,500 -24.00% 15
Midlands +33 101 £55,000 +4.76% 43
North West +44 86 £50,000 -9.09% 19
West Midlands +37 77 £54,500 -5.22% 24
East of England +1 44 £45,000 -15.09% 11
South West -89 35 £42,500 -22.73% 25
Scotland +25 25 £39,400 -28.36% 8
East Midlands -28 23 £56,250 +40.63% 19
North East -51 17 £42,500 -12.82% 3
Wales -31 15 £43,000 -14.00% 6
Northern Ireland -25 7 - - 13
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
1 110 (11.17%) Microsoft Exchange
2 104 (10.56%) SharePoint
3 15 (1.52%) IIS
4 5 (0.51%) Apache Spark
5 4 (0.41%) Apache
6 3 (0.30%) Confluence
6 3 (0.30%) WordPress
7 2 (0.20%) Apache Airflow
7 2 (0.20%) OpenStack
8 1 (0.10%) BizTalk Server
8 1 (0.10%) Site Server
8 1 (0.10%) WebLogic
Applications
1 21 (2.13%) Microsoft Office
2 15 (1.52%) MS Visio
3 10 (1.02%) PlantUML
4 4 (0.41%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 10 (1.02%) FLEXCUBE
2 4 (0.41%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (0.41%) NetSuite
3 3 (0.30%) Oracle EBS
3 3 (0.30%) Sage 200
3 3 (0.30%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.20%) Q-Pulse
4 2 (0.20%) SAP ERP
5 1 (0.10%) Elite 3E
5 1 (0.10%) JDE EnterpriseOne
5 1 (0.10%) Misys Equation
5 1 (0.10%) Misys Midas
5 1 (0.10%) SAP EHS
Cloud Services
1 500 (50.76%) Azure
2 309 (31.37%) Microsoft 365
3 180 (18.27%) Entra ID
4 148 (15.03%) AWS
5 63 (6.40%) SaaS
6 57 (5.79%) IaaS
7 55 (5.58%) Nutanix
8 49 (4.97%) PaaS
9 47 (4.77%) Datadog
10 40 (4.06%) Azure DevOps
11 37 (3.76%) Power Platform
12 33 (3.35%) GitHub
13 32 (3.25%) Azure Monitor
14 31 (3.15%) GCP
15 30 (3.05%) Microsoft Purview
16 28 (2.84%) Cloud Computing
17 25 (2.54%) GitHub Actions
18 23 (2.34%) OneDrive
19 20 (2.03%) Azure AKS
19 20 (2.03%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 307 (31.17%) Firewall
2 215 (21.83%) DNS
3 193 (19.59%) VPN
4 166 (16.85%) DHCP
5 138 (14.01%) WAN
6 107 (10.86%) VLAN
7 101 (10.25%) LAN
8 85 (8.63%) Network Security
9 80 (8.12%) TCP/IP
10 78 (7.92%) Wi-Fi
11 63 (6.40%) SAN
12 44 (4.47%) Wireless
13 28 (2.84%) SD-WAN
14 27 (2.74%) SSL
15 26 (2.64%) Cisco ISE
16 24 (2.44%) Internet
16 24 (2.44%) VoIP
17 22 (2.23%) Remote Desktop
18 17 (1.73%) BGP
18 17 (1.73%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 85 (8.63%) SQL Server
2 32 (3.25%) Amazon RDS
3 25 (2.54%) Azure SQL Database
4 20 (2.03%) Power BI
5 14 (1.42%) PostgreSQL
6 11 (1.12%) MySQL
7 9 (0.91%) Data Lake
7 9 (0.91%) Data Warehouse
7 9 (0.91%) Oracle Database
8 8 (0.81%) Delta Lake
8 8 (0.81%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 5 (0.51%) Geospatial Data
9 5 (0.51%) GIS
9 5 (0.51%) MongoDB
9 5 (0.51%) NoSQL
9 5 (0.51%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 5 (0.51%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 4 (0.41%) Amazon Aurora
10 4 (0.41%) Elasticsearch
11 3 (0.30%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 18 (1.83%) Chocolatey
1 18 (1.83%) Git
2 14 (1.42%) JIRA
3 6 (0.61%) GitLab
3 6 (0.61%) Jenkins
3 6 (0.61%) Visual Studio Code
4 4 (0.41%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 4 (0.41%) MLflow
5 3 (0.30%) Selenium
6 2 (0.20%) Bitbucket
6 2 (0.20%) JUnit
6 2 (0.20%) LabVIEW
6 2 (0.20%) Spock
6 2 (0.20%) TeamCity
6 2 (0.20%) Terragrunt
7 1 (0.10%) Artifactory
7 1 (0.10%) Claude Code
7 1 (0.10%) JMeter
7 1 (0.10%) LoadRunner
7 1 (0.10%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 358 (36.35%) Social Skills
2 174 (17.66%) Finance
3 140 (14.21%) Analytical Skills
4 67 (6.80%) Banking
5 56 (5.69%) Legal
6 44 (4.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 44 (4.47%) Law
7 36 (3.65%) Public Sector
8 34 (3.45%) Organisational Skills
9 31 (3.15%) Manufacturing
10 26 (2.64%) Retail
11 21 (2.13%) Documentation Skills
12 19 (1.93%) Influencing Skills
13 18 (1.83%) Telecoms
14 17 (1.73%) Back Office
15 10 (1.02%) Advertising
15 10 (1.02%) Financial Institution
16 9 (0.91%) Mandarin Language
17 7 (0.71%) French Language
17 7 (0.71%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 195 (19.80%) Senior
2 158 (16.04%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 141 (14.31%) IT Support
4 114 (11.57%) IT Engineer
5 91 (9.24%) Support Engineer
6 78 (7.92%) Cloud Engineer
7 76 (7.72%) IT Manager
8 74 (7.51%) IT Support Engineer
9 67 (6.80%) Lead
10 60 (6.09%) Analyst
10 60 (6.09%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
11 57 (5.79%) Architect
12 55 (5.58%) Azure Engineer
13 38 (3.86%) Platform Engineer
14 34 (3.45%) Administrator
15 33 (3.35%) Network Engineer
16 31 (3.15%) Security Manager
17 30 (3.05%) IT Analyst
17 30 (3.05%) Security Engineer
18 28 (2.84%) Senior Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (1.32%) Middleware
1 13 (1.32%) SAML
2 10 (1.02%) ARM Templates
3 8 (0.81%) Microsoft Graph
3 8 (0.81%) OAuth
3 8 (0.81%) PySpark
4 7 (0.71%) Kafka
4 7 (0.71%) REST
4 7 (0.71%) YAML
5 6 (0.61%) ADO
6 5 (0.51%) RESTful
7 4 (0.41%) .NET
7 4 (0.41%) FIX Protocol
7 4 (0.41%) Loki
7 4 (0.41%) web3js
8 3 (0.30%) JSON
8 3 (0.30%) Node.js
8 3 (0.30%) Nuxt
8 3 (0.30%) ODBC
8 3 (0.30%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 95 (9.64%) Data Centre
2 72 (7.31%) Management Information System
3 63 (6.40%) Hybrid Cloud
4 56 (5.69%) Driving Licence
5 54 (5.48%) Cloud Native
6 53 (5.38%) Replication
7 47 (4.77%) Security Posture
8 41 (4.16%) Cyber Threat
9 38 (3.86%) Onboarding
9 38 (3.86%) Self-Motivation
10 33 (3.35%) PKI
11 32 (3.25%) Data Protection Act
12 31 (3.15%) Public Cloud
13 30 (3.05%) Enterprise Storage
14 27 (2.74%) NHS
15 23 (2.34%) CMDB
16 17 (1.73%) Clustering
16 17 (1.73%) Legacy Systems
16 17 (1.73%) Virtual Team
17 14 (1.42%) CCTV
Operating Systems
1 342 (34.72%) Windows
2 226 (22.94%) Windows Server
3 90 (9.14%) Linux
4 23 (2.34%) Windows Server 2019
5 22 (2.23%) Mac OS
5 22 (2.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 18 (1.83%) Windows 10
6 18 (1.83%) Windows Server 2016
7 15 (1.52%) Unix
8 13 (1.32%) Ubuntu
9 10 (1.02%) AIX
9 10 (1.02%) Apple iOS
9 10 (1.02%) Oracle Linux
9 10 (1.02%) VMS
10 9 (0.91%) CentOS
11 6 (0.61%) Solaris
12 3 (0.30%) Android
13 2 (0.20%) Amazon Linux
13 2 (0.20%) Debian
13 2 (0.20%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 358 (36.35%) Business Continuity
2 319 (32.39%) Cybersecurity
3 252 (25.58%) Problem-Solving
4 245 (24.87%) Continuous Improvement
5 208 (21.12%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 198 (20.10%) ITIL
7 157 (15.94%) High Availability
7 157 (15.94%) Incident Response
8 127 (12.89%) DevOps
9 117 (11.88%) Service Delivery
10 116 (11.78%) Infrastructure as Code
11 112 (11.37%) Cloud Security
12 107 (10.86%) Stakeholder Management
13 100 (10.15%) Data Protection
14 93 (9.44%) Change Management
14 93 (9.44%) CI/CD
15 92 (9.34%) Migration
15 92 (9.34%) Risk Management
16 88 (8.93%) Mentoring
16 88 (8.93%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 155 (15.74%) PowerShell
2 103 (10.46%) SQL
3 100 (10.15%) Python
4 45 (4.57%) Bash
5 15 (1.52%) Shell Script
6 13 (1.32%) Bicep
7 11 (1.12%) Java
8 10 (1.02%) Korn
9 9 (0.91%) JavaScript
9 9 (0.91%) PL/SQL
10 8 (0.81%) Kusto Query Language
11 7 (0.71%) T-SQL
11 7 (0.71%) TypeScript
12 5 (0.51%) C#
12 5 (0.51%) Scala
13 3 (0.30%) Go
13 3 (0.30%) Ruby
14 2 (0.20%) RPG
14 2 (0.20%) Search Processing Language
15 1 (0.10%) Perl
Qualifications
1 114 (11.57%) Degree
2 78 (7.92%) Cisco Certification
3 67 (6.80%) Microsoft Certification
4 61 (6.19%) CCNP
5 60 (6.09%) Azure Certification
6 50 (5.08%) Security Cleared
7 40 (4.06%) CCNA
8 39 (3.96%) Computer Science Degree
9 37 (3.76%) SC Cleared
10 33 (3.35%) CISSP
11 28 (2.84%) Postgraduate
12 27 (2.74%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13 20 (2.03%) CISM
14 16 (1.62%) CEH
15 13 (1.32%) MCSE
16 11 (1.12%) AWS Certification
16 11 (1.12%) CISA
17 10 (1.02%) CompTIA Security+
17 10 (1.02%) VCAP
18 9 (0.91%) CRISC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 149 (15.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 110 (11.17%) Cyber Essentials
3 107 (10.86%) GDPR
4 94 (9.54%) NIST
5 60 (6.09%) SLA
6 49 (4.97%) PCI DSS
7 47 (4.77%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 29 (2.94%) PMO
9 23 (2.34%) GRC
9 23 (2.34%) SOC 2
10 22 (2.23%) Data Quality
11 19 (1.93%) ISO 22301
12 13 (1.32%) COBIT
13 11 (1.12%) Actionable Recommendations
14 10 (1.02%) NCSC
15 6 (0.61%) QA
15 6 (0.61%) SOC 1
16 5 (0.51%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
17 4 (0.41%) DICOM
17 4 (0.41%) HL7
System Software
1 284 (28.83%) Active Directory
2 231 (23.45%) VMware Infrastructure
3 143 (14.52%) Hyper-V
4 39 (3.96%) vSphere
5 34 (3.45%) Docker
6 30 (3.05%) Virtual Machines
7 21 (2.13%) Firmware
8 19 (1.93%) Virtual Desktop
8 19 (1.93%) VMware ESXi
9 11 (1.12%) Oracle RAC
10 10 (1.02%) VMware NSX
11 9 (0.91%) vCloud
12 6 (0.61%) KVM
12 6 (0.61%) Virtual Servers
13 3 (0.30%) DFS Replication
13 3 (0.30%) EMC RecoverPoint
13 3 (0.30%) Microsoft Virtual Server
13 3 (0.30%) VMware Server
14 2 (0.20%) VMware Workstation
15 1 (0.10%) Xen
Systems Management
1 136 (13.81%) Microsoft Intune
2 124 (12.59%) Terraform
3 69 (7.01%) Ansible
4 66 (6.70%) Kubernetes
5 27 (2.74%) SCCM
6 25 (2.54%) Single Sign-On
7 22 (2.23%) FortiGate
8 21 (2.13%) VxRail
9 11 (1.12%) Grafana
9 11 (1.12%) Prometheus
10 10 (1.02%) Data Guard
10 10 (1.02%) Nagios
10 10 (1.02%) vCenter Server
11 9 (0.91%) Dell DRAC
11 9 (0.91%) Oracle RMAN
11 9 (0.91%) Packer
12 8 (0.81%) Jamf Pro
13 7 (0.71%) EMC NetWorker
14 6 (0.61%) Avamar
14 6 (0.61%) EMC VPLEX
Vendors
1 492 (49.95%) Microsoft
2 297 (30.15%) VMware
3 137 (13.91%) Cisco
4 69 (7.01%) Veeam
5 55 (5.58%) Dell
6 51 (5.18%) Palo Alto
7 43 (4.37%) HP
8 35 (3.55%) Splunk
9 33 (3.35%) Commvault
9 33 (3.35%) Meraki
9 33 (3.35%) Nimble Storage
10 29 (2.94%) Tenable
11 27 (2.74%) Fortinet
11 27 (2.74%) Oracle
12 25 (2.54%) EMC
12 25 (2.54%) SolarWinds
12 25 (2.54%) Sophos
13 24 (2.44%) Google
14 22 (2.23%) Dynatrace
14 22 (2.23%) IBM