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

6 months to
16 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 165 248 185
Rank change year-on-year +83 -63 +33
Permanent jobs citing Disaster Recovery 1,408 577 1,031
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.18% 1.18% 1.46%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.61% 1.33% 1.78%
Number of salaries quoted 951 459 574
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £44,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,319 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.80% - +0.80%
75th Percentile £77,500 £77,875 £77,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,500 £94,625
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £51,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -2.91% -1.90% -

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 87,497 43,445 57,940
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.45% 88.84% 82.20%
Number of salaries quoted 59,802 24,607 31,056
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,250 £33,099
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,250 £44,541
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -
75th Percentile £78,000 £75,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,000 £53,000
% change year-on-year +17.02% -11.32% -1.85%

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 16 October 2026.

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 16 October 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 +70 1,237 £55,000 -8.33% 759
UK excluding London +98 922 £50,000 -2.91% 470
Work from Home +106 432 £60,343 -3.45% 353
London +30 426 £75,000 +3.45% 314
North of England +65 247 £47,500 -5.00% 132
South East +62 246 £52,500 +5.00% 104
Midlands +49 173 £57,500 -3.36% 74
North West +47 140 £47,500 +18.75% 68
West Midlands +30 121 £59,522 -8.43% 41
Yorkshire +36 93 £47,500 -5.47% 57
South West -24 80 £50,000 +5.26% 65
East of England -5 63 £45,000 -14.29% 27
East Midlands -10 52 £45,000 -14.29% 33
Northern Ireland -45 47 - - 18
Scotland +39 43 £63,451 +20.86% 36
Wales -55 25 £45,000 -21.74% 17
North East -72 14 £52,500 - 9

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
1 182 (12.93%) Microsoft Exchange
2 171 (12.14%) SharePoint
3 25 (1.78%) IIS
4 23 (1.63%) Apache
5 19 (1.35%) nginx
6 10 (0.71%) Apache Spark
7 5 (0.36%) OpenStack
8 3 (0.21%) Confluence
8 3 (0.21%) WordPress
9 2 (0.14%) WebLogic
10 1 (0.071%) CICS
10 1 (0.071%) FactoryTalk
10 1 (0.071%) OpenEdge
10 1 (0.071%) Site Server
Applications
1 19 (1.35%) PlantUML
2 17 (1.21%) Microsoft Office
3 11 (0.78%) Microsoft Excel
4 8 (0.57%) MS Visio
5 3 (0.21%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.071%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 11 (0.78%) FLEXCUBE
2 7 (0.50%) Dynamics CRM
3 6 (0.43%) Raiser’s Edge
4 5 (0.36%) JDE EnterpriseOne
4 5 (0.36%) Sage 200
5 3 (0.21%) Q-Pulse
6 2 (0.14%) Adobe Campaign
6 2 (0.14%) Integrated Workplace Management System
6 2 (0.14%) NetSuite
7 1 (0.071%) Academy Revenues and Benefits
7 1 (0.071%) Bloomberg TOMS
7 1 (0.071%) Eikon
7 1 (0.071%) Misys Equation
7 1 (0.071%) Misys Midas
7 1 (0.071%) Oracle Applications
7 1 (0.071%) Oracle EBS
7 1 (0.071%) Sage 50
7 1 (0.071%) SAP EHS
7 1 (0.071%) SAP S/4HANA
7 1 (0.071%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 720 (51.14%) Azure
2 426 (30.26%) Microsoft 365
3 305 (21.66%) Entra ID
4 266 (18.89%) AWS
5 158 (11.22%) SaaS
6 106 (7.53%) IaaS
7 76 (5.40%) PaaS
8 60 (4.26%) GCP
9 57 (4.05%) Cloud Computing
10 54 (3.84%) Power Platform
11 53 (3.76%) Azure DevOps
11 53 (3.76%) OneDrive
12 50 (3.55%) Azure Monitor
13 39 (2.77%) GitHub
14 37 (2.63%) Google Workspace
15 33 (2.34%) Microsoft Copilot
16 27 (1.92%) Amazon EC2
17 25 (1.78%) GitHub Actions
18 24 (1.70%) Virtual Private Cloud
19 23 (1.63%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 361 (25.64%) Firewall
2 343 (24.36%) DNS
3 250 (17.76%) DHCP
4 241 (17.12%) VPN
5 151 (10.72%) VLAN
5 151 (10.72%) WAN
6 134 (9.52%) TCP/IP
7 125 (8.88%) LAN
8 113 (8.03%) Wi-Fi
9 95 (6.75%) Network Security
10 89 (6.32%) Wireless
11 59 (4.19%) SAN
12 52 (3.69%) Internet
13 43 (3.05%) SD-WAN
14 40 (2.84%) VoIP
15 37 (2.63%) SSL
16 26 (1.85%) NAS
17 24 (1.70%) Cisco Nexus
18 23 (1.63%) BGP
18 23 (1.63%) Cisco ISE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 99 (7.03%) SQL Server
2 49 (3.48%) Amazon RDS
3 43 (3.05%) PostgreSQL
4 40 (2.84%) Azure SQL Database
5 33 (2.34%) Power BI
6 16 (1.14%) Oracle Database
7 15 (1.07%) Data Warehouse
8 14 (0.99%) MySQL
9 13 (0.92%) Metadata
10 11 (0.78%) Data Lake
11 8 (0.57%) MongoDB
11 8 (0.57%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 7 (0.50%) Relational Database
13 5 (0.36%) SQL Server Analysis Services
13 5 (0.36%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 4 (0.28%) DynamoDB
14 4 (0.28%) NoSQL
15 3 (0.21%) NonStop SQL
15 3 (0.21%) RDBMS
15 3 (0.21%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 20 (1.42%) JIRA
2 19 (1.35%) GitLab
3 17 (1.21%) Git
4 11 (0.78%) Chocolatey
4 11 (0.78%) Jenkins
5 10 (0.71%) JUnit
5 10 (0.71%) Spock
5 10 (0.71%) TeamCity
6 5 (0.36%) Bitbucket
6 5 (0.36%) Claude Code
7 4 (0.28%) IntelliJ
7 4 (0.28%) Maven
8 2 (0.14%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 2 (0.14%) git-flow
8 2 (0.14%) Selenium
8 2 (0.14%) Terragrunt
8 2 (0.14%) Visual Studio Code
9 1 (0.071%) Bitbucket Server
9 1 (0.071%) JMeter
9 1 (0.071%) Oracle APEX
General
1 470 (33.38%) Social Skills
2 269 (19.11%) Finance
3 183 (13.00%) Analytical Skills
4 93 (6.61%) Law
5 86 (6.11%) Legal
6 82 (5.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 68 (4.83%) Banking
8 61 (4.33%) Manufacturing
9 53 (3.76%) Retail
10 52 (3.69%) Public Sector
11 48 (3.41%) Documentation Skills
12 40 (2.84%) Organisational Skills
13 29 (2.06%) Influencing Skills
14 28 (1.99%) Back Office
15 21 (1.49%) Financial Institution
16 19 (1.35%) Telecoms
17 17 (1.21%) Aerospace
18 14 (0.99%) Police
19 9 (0.64%) Local Government
20 8 (0.57%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 261 (18.54%) Senior
2 199 (14.13%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 193 (13.71%) IT Support
4 139 (9.87%) IT Engineer
5 128 (9.09%) IT Manager
6 114 (8.10%) Support Engineer
7 110 (7.81%) Architect
8 105 (7.46%) Analyst
9 94 (6.68%) IT Support Engineer
10 83 (5.89%) Resilience Manager
11 80 (5.68%) Lead
12 75 (5.33%) Service Manager
13 60 (4.26%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
14 58 (4.12%) IT Services Manager
14 58 (4.12%) Network Engineer
15 55 (3.91%) Cloud Engineer
16 50 (3.55%) Administrator
17 46 (3.27%) Azure Engineer
18 44 (3.13%) IT Assistant
18 44 (3.13%) IT Support Assistant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 200 (14.20%) Terraform
2 75 (5.33%) Middleware
3 15 (1.07%) OpenTelemetry
3 15 (1.07%) SAML
4 14 (0.99%) ARM Templates
5 12 (0.85%) REST
6 10 (0.71%) AngularJS
6 10 (0.71%) Spring
7 9 (0.64%) .NET
7 9 (0.64%) RESTful
7 9 (0.64%) Web Services
8 8 (0.57%) Kafka
8 8 (0.57%) Microsoft Graph
9 6 (0.43%) FIX Protocol
10 5 (0.36%) ModSecurity
11 4 (0.28%) 802.1X
11 4 (0.28%) AWS CDK
11 4 (0.28%) JSON
11 4 (0.28%) LDAP
11 4 (0.28%) React
Miscellaneous
1 99 (7.03%) Data Centre
2 95 (6.75%) Cloud Native
3 88 (6.25%) Driving Licence
4 84 (5.97%) Cyber Threat
5 81 (5.75%) Onboarding
6 76 (5.40%) Management Information System
7 70 (4.97%) Replication
8 69 (4.90%) Hybrid Cloud
9 62 (4.40%) Security Posture
10 41 (2.91%) Self-Motivation
11 37 (2.63%) Enterprise Storage
12 34 (2.41%) Enterprise Software
13 33 (2.34%) PKI
14 30 (2.13%) Distributed Systems
15 29 (2.06%) NHS
16 23 (1.63%) Blog
16 23 (1.63%) CCTV
17 22 (1.56%) Clustering
17 22 (1.56%) Enterprise Cloud
18 21 (1.49%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 497 (35.30%) Windows
2 371 (26.35%) Windows Server
3 154 (10.94%) Linux
4 44 (3.13%) Windows 10
4 44 (3.13%) Windows Server 2019
5 27 (1.92%) macOS
6 26 (1.85%) Windows Server 2016
7 23 (1.63%) Unix
8 20 (1.42%) Ubuntu
9 18 (1.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 14 (0.99%) VMS
11 11 (0.78%) AIX
12 10 (0.71%) Oracle Linux
13 8 (0.57%) Solaris
14 6 (0.43%) Debian
15 5 (0.36%) CentOS
16 4 (0.28%) Apple iOS
16 4 (0.28%) Windows Server 2012
17 2 (0.14%) Amazon Linux
17 2 (0.14%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 578 (41.05%) Business Continuity
2 429 (30.47%) Continuous Improvement
3 426 (30.26%) Cybersecurity
4 370 (26.28%) Problem-Solving
5 288 (20.45%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 262 (18.61%) ITIL
7 235 (16.69%) DevOps
8 219 (15.55%) Stakeholder Management
9 217 (15.41%) High Availability
10 206 (14.63%) Infrastructure as Code
11 178 (12.64%) Incident Response
12 174 (12.36%) Information Security
12 174 (12.36%) Service Delivery
13 172 (12.22%) CI/CD
14 171 (12.14%) Project Delivery
15 160 (11.36%) Migration
16 157 (11.15%) Cloud Security
17 143 (10.16%) AI
18 142 (10.09%) Agile
19 141 (10.01%) Incident Management
Programming Languages
1 233 (16.55%) PowerShell
2 148 (10.51%) Python
3 136 (9.66%) SQL
4 74 (5.26%) Bash
5 44 (3.13%) Bicep
6 35 (2.49%) Java
7 25 (1.78%) Shell Script
8 19 (1.35%) JavaScript
9 13 (0.92%) Go
9 13 (0.92%) TypeScript
10 12 (0.85%) Korn
11 10 (0.71%) PL/SQL
12 7 (0.50%) Kusto Query Language
13 6 (0.43%) Groovy
13 6 (0.43%) Search Processing Language
14 5 (0.36%) C#
14 5 (0.36%) COBOL
14 5 (0.36%) T-SQL
15 4 (0.28%) XAML
16 3 (0.21%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 128 (9.09%) Degree
1 128 (9.09%) Security Cleared
2 111 (7.88%) Azure Certification
3 103 (7.32%) CISSP
4 98 (6.96%) SC Cleared
5 89 (6.32%) Cisco Certification
6 88 (6.25%) Microsoft Certification
7 82 (5.82%) CISM
8 64 (4.55%) ITIL Certification
9 59 (4.19%) CCNP
10 52 (3.69%) CCNA
11 50 (3.55%) Postgraduate
12 35 (2.49%) Computer Science Degree
13 31 (2.20%) AWS Certification
14 24 (1.70%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
15 22 (1.56%) CompTIA Security+
15 22 (1.56%) DV Cleared
16 17 (1.21%) Master's Degree
17 16 (1.14%) DBS Check
17 16 (1.14%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 166 (11.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 140 (9.94%) NIST
3 128 (9.09%) Cyber Essentials
4 113 (8.03%) GDPR
5 106 (7.53%) ISO 22301
6 84 (5.97%) SLA
7 61 (4.33%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 42 (2.98%) PCI DSS
9 33 (2.34%) GRC
10 29 (2.06%) SOC 2
11 25 (1.78%) NCSC
12 24 (1.70%) Data Quality
13 16 (1.14%) COBIT
13 16 (1.14%) PMO
13 16 (1.14%) QA
14 14 (0.99%) ISO 9001
15 6 (0.43%) ISO 14001
15 6 (0.43%) SOC 1
16 5 (0.36%) Accessibility
16 5 (0.36%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 395 (28.05%) Active Directory
2 294 (20.88%) VMware Infrastructure
3 218 (15.48%) Hyper-V
4 61 (4.33%) Virtual Machines
5 58 (4.12%) Docker
6 55 (3.91%) vSphere
7 35 (2.49%) Firmware
8 27 (1.92%) VMware ESXi
9 26 (1.85%) Virtual Desktop
10 14 (0.99%) VMware NSX
11 12 (0.85%) Oracle RAC
12 6 (0.43%) DFS Replication
12 6 (0.43%) Squid
13 5 (0.36%) vCloud
13 5 (0.36%) Virtual Servers
14 4 (0.28%) KVM
15 3 (0.21%) VMware Server
16 2 (0.14%) EMC RecoverPoint
16 2 (0.14%) iptables
16 2 (0.14%) Microsoft Virtual Server
Systems Management
1 206 (14.63%) Microsoft Intune
2 104 (7.39%) Kubernetes
3 90 (6.39%) Ansible
4 64 (4.55%) Single Sign-On
5 34 (2.41%) FortiGate
6 32 (2.27%) Grafana
7 28 (1.99%) Prometheus
7 28 (1.99%) SCCM
8 16 (1.14%) Jamf Pro
9 15 (1.07%) VxRail
10 14 (0.99%) Data Guard
11 12 (0.85%) Oracle RMAN
11 12 (0.85%) Puppet
12 11 (0.78%) Nagios
12 11 (0.78%) vCenter Server
13 8 (0.57%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 8 (0.57%) Progress Chef
13 8 (0.57%) Proxmox
14 7 (0.50%) Dell DRAC
15 6 (0.43%) Avamar
Vendors
1 669 (47.51%) Microsoft
2 339 (24.08%) VMware
3 208 (14.77%) Cisco
4 99 (7.03%) Veeam
5 69 (4.90%) Palo Alto
6 62 (4.40%) Fortinet
7 57 (4.05%) Google
8 54 (3.84%) Oracle
9 50 (3.55%) SonicWALL
10 45 (3.20%) Meraki
11 44 (3.13%) Aruba
12 42 (2.98%) SolarWinds
13 40 (2.84%) Splunk
14 34 (2.41%) Dell
15 30 (2.13%) Qualys
16 29 (2.06%) Apple
17 26 (1.85%) Sophos
18 24 (1.70%) ServiceNow
19 22 (1.56%) AppDynamics
19 22 (1.56%) Dynatrace