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

6 months to
13 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 169 253 188
Rank change year-on-year +84 -65 +23
Permanent jobs citing Disaster Recovery 1,400 577 1,034
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.18% 1.18% 1.45%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.61% 1.32% 1.76%
Number of salaries quoted 944 456 578
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,250 £37,463
25th Percentile £42,500 £44,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,350 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.42% - +0.80%
75th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £101,250 £95,375
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £51,500 £51,500
% 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 86,825 43,614 58,687
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.38% 88.89% 82.21%
Number of salaries quoted 59,360 24,460 31,261
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,250 £32,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -
75th Percentile £78,750 £75,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +17.02% -10.48% -2.78%

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 13 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 13 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 +73 1,228 £55,000 -8.33% 845
UK excluding London +94 912 £50,000 -2.91% 495
Work from Home +101 432 £60,343 -3.45% 373
London +42 426 £75,000 +3.45% 388
North of England +67 246 £47,500 -8.43% 134
South East +77 241 £52,000 +4.00% 116
Midlands +41 170 £55,000 -7.56% 77
North West +47 139 £47,500 +11.76% 66
West Midlands +37 119 £59,250 -8.85% 38
Yorkshire +38 93 £47,500 -9.52% 59
South West -31 79 £50,000 +5.26% 61
East of England +5 64 £45,000 -14.29% 29
East Midlands -6 51 £44,736 -14.79% 39
Northern Ireland -41 47 - - 23
Scotland +38 42 £63,451 +20.86% 42
Wales -51 25 £45,000 -21.74% 16
North East -70 14 £52,500 - 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
1 180 (12.86%) Microsoft Exchange
2 169 (12.07%) SharePoint
3 26 (1.86%) IIS
4 23 (1.64%) Apache
5 19 (1.36%) 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%) Site Server
Applications
1 19 (1.36%) PlantUML
2 18 (1.29%) Microsoft Office
3 11 (0.79%) Microsoft Excel
4 9 (0.64%) MS Visio
5 3 (0.21%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.071%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 11 (0.79%) 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%) NetSuite
5 3 (0.21%) Q-Pulse
6 2 (0.14%) Adobe Campaign
6 2 (0.14%) Integrated Workplace Management System
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
1 717 (51.21%) Azure
2 421 (30.07%) Microsoft 365
3 303 (21.64%) Entra ID
4 264 (18.86%) AWS
5 160 (11.43%) SaaS
6 107 (7.64%) IaaS
7 77 (5.50%) PaaS
8 60 (4.29%) GCP
9 57 (4.07%) Cloud Computing
10 54 (3.86%) Azure DevOps
10 54 (3.86%) Power Platform
11 51 (3.64%) OneDrive
12 49 (3.50%) Azure Monitor
13 39 (2.79%) GitHub
14 37 (2.64%) Google Workspace
15 33 (2.36%) Microsoft Copilot
16 28 (2.00%) Amazon EC2
17 25 (1.79%) GitHub Actions
17 25 (1.79%) Virtual Private Cloud
18 23 (1.64%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 361 (25.79%) Firewall
2 342 (24.43%) DNS
3 250 (17.86%) DHCP
4 239 (17.07%) VPN
5 152 (10.86%) WAN
6 151 (10.79%) VLAN
7 133 (9.50%) TCP/IP
8 124 (8.86%) LAN
9 114 (8.14%) Wi-Fi
10 95 (6.79%) Network Security
11 90 (6.43%) Wireless
12 60 (4.29%) SAN
13 52 (3.71%) Internet
14 43 (3.07%) SD-WAN
15 40 (2.86%) VoIP
16 38 (2.71%) SSL
17 25 (1.79%) NAS
18 24 (1.71%) Cisco ISE
18 24 (1.71%) Cisco Nexus
19 23 (1.64%) BGP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 100 (7.14%) SQL Server
2 50 (3.57%) Amazon RDS
3 43 (3.07%) PostgreSQL
4 40 (2.86%) Azure SQL Database
5 32 (2.29%) Power BI
6 16 (1.14%) Oracle Database
7 15 (1.07%) Data Warehouse
8 14 (1.00%) MySQL
9 13 (0.93%) Metadata
10 11 (0.79%) 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 (0.29%) DynamoDB
14 4 (0.29%) NoSQL
15 3 (0.21%) NonStop SQL
15 3 (0.21%) RDBMS
15 3 (0.21%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 20 (1.43%) JIRA
2 19 (1.36%) GitLab
3 17 (1.21%) Git
4 11 (0.79%) Chocolatey
4 11 (0.79%) 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 (0.29%) IntelliJ
7 4 (0.29%) 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%) Flyway
9 1 (0.071%) Oracle APEX
General
1 468 (33.43%) Social Skills
2 270 (19.29%) Finance
3 184 (13.14%) Analytical Skills
4 93 (6.64%) Law
5 86 (6.14%) Legal
6 80 (5.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 68 (4.86%) Banking
8 61 (4.36%) Manufacturing
9 53 (3.79%) Retail
10 50 (3.57%) Public Sector
11 47 (3.36%) Documentation Skills
12 40 (2.86%) Organisational Skills
13 31 (2.21%) Influencing Skills
14 28 (2.00%) Back Office
15 21 (1.50%) Financial Institution
16 20 (1.43%) Telecoms
17 17 (1.21%) Aerospace
18 14 (1.00%) Police
19 9 (0.64%) Local Government
20 8 (0.57%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 263 (18.79%) Senior
2 199 (14.21%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 193 (13.79%) IT Support
4 141 (10.07%) IT Engineer
5 127 (9.07%) IT Manager
6 114 (8.14%) Support Engineer
7 111 (7.93%) Architect
8 105 (7.50%) Analyst
9 94 (6.71%) IT Support Engineer
10 79 (5.64%) Lead
10 79 (5.64%) Resilience Manager
11 75 (5.36%) Service Manager
12 60 (4.29%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
13 59 (4.21%) Network Engineer
14 58 (4.14%) IT Services Manager
15 57 (4.07%) Cloud Engineer
16 50 (3.57%) Administrator
17 46 (3.29%) Azure Engineer
18 44 (3.14%) IT Assistant
18 44 (3.14%) IT Support Assistant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 197 (14.07%) Terraform
2 76 (5.43%) Middleware
3 15 (1.07%) OpenTelemetry
3 15 (1.07%) SAML
4 14 (1.00%) ARM Templates
5 13 (0.93%) REST
6 10 (0.71%) .NET
6 10 (0.71%) AngularJS
6 10 (0.71%) RESTful
6 10 (0.71%) Spring
7 9 (0.64%) Microsoft Graph
7 9 (0.64%) Web Services
8 8 (0.57%) Kafka
9 6 (0.43%) FIX Protocol
10 5 (0.36%) ModSecurity
10 5 (0.36%) React
11 4 (0.29%) 802.1X
11 4 (0.29%) AWS CDK
11 4 (0.29%) JSON
11 4 (0.29%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 102 (7.29%) Data Centre
2 93 (6.64%) Cloud Native
3 87 (6.21%) Driving Licence
4 84 (6.00%) Cyber Threat
5 83 (5.93%) Onboarding
6 76 (5.43%) Management Information System
7 69 (4.93%) Replication
8 67 (4.79%) Hybrid Cloud
9 62 (4.43%) Security Posture
10 42 (3.00%) Self-Motivation
11 37 (2.64%) Enterprise Storage
12 34 (2.43%) Enterprise Software
12 34 (2.43%) PKI
13 30 (2.14%) Distributed Systems
14 29 (2.07%) NHS
15 23 (1.64%) Blog
15 23 (1.64%) CCTV
15 23 (1.64%) Clustering
16 22 (1.57%) Enterprise Cloud
17 21 (1.50%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 490 (35.00%) Windows
2 366 (26.14%) Windows Server
3 148 (10.57%) Linux
4 44 (3.14%) Windows 10
4 44 (3.14%) Windows Server 2019
5 27 (1.93%) macOS
6 26 (1.86%) Windows Server 2016
7 23 (1.64%) Unix
8 20 (1.43%) Ubuntu
9 18 (1.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 14 (1.00%) VMS
11 11 (0.79%) AIX
12 10 (0.71%) Oracle Linux
13 8 (0.57%) Solaris
14 6 (0.43%) Debian
15 5 (0.36%) CentOS
16 4 (0.29%) Apple iOS
16 4 (0.29%) Windows Server 2012
17 2 (0.14%) Amazon Linux
17 2 (0.14%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 571 (40.79%) Business Continuity
2 423 (30.21%) Continuous Improvement
3 420 (30.00%) Cybersecurity
4 370 (26.43%) Problem-Solving
5 283 (20.21%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 258 (18.43%) ITIL
7 234 (16.71%) DevOps
8 220 (15.71%) Stakeholder Management
9 215 (15.36%) High Availability
10 203 (14.50%) Infrastructure as Code
11 178 (12.71%) Incident Response
12 174 (12.43%) Information Security
13 173 (12.36%) Service Delivery
14 170 (12.14%) Project Delivery
15 169 (12.07%) CI/CD
16 158 (11.29%) Migration
17 157 (11.21%) Cloud Security
18 141 (10.07%) Agile
18 141 (10.07%) AI
19 136 (9.71%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 230 (16.43%) PowerShell
2 148 (10.57%) Python
3 136 (9.71%) SQL
4 73 (5.21%) Bash
5 42 (3.00%) Bicep
6 35 (2.50%) Java
7 25 (1.79%) Shell Script
8 20 (1.43%) JavaScript
9 14 (1.00%) TypeScript
10 13 (0.93%) Go
11 12 (0.86%) Korn
12 10 (0.71%) PL/SQL
13 7 (0.50%) Kusto Query Language
14 6 (0.43%) C#
14 6 (0.43%) Groovy
14 6 (0.43%) Search Processing Language
15 5 (0.36%) COBOL
15 5 (0.36%) T-SQL
16 4 (0.29%) XAML
17 3 (0.21%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 128 (9.14%) Degree
2 124 (8.86%) Security Cleared
3 110 (7.86%) Azure Certification
4 99 (7.07%) CISSP
5 94 (6.71%) SC Cleared
6 89 (6.36%) Microsoft Certification
7 88 (6.29%) Cisco Certification
8 82 (5.86%) CISM
9 63 (4.50%) ITIL Certification
10 60 (4.29%) CCNP
11 50 (3.57%) CCNA
11 50 (3.57%) Postgraduate
12 36 (2.57%) Computer Science Degree
13 32 (2.29%) AWS Certification
14 26 (1.86%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
15 22 (1.57%) CompTIA Security+
16 21 (1.50%) DV Cleared
17 18 (1.29%) Master's Degree
18 16 (1.14%) DBS Check
18 16 (1.14%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 161 (11.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 139 (9.93%) NIST
3 127 (9.07%) Cyber Essentials
4 114 (8.14%) GDPR
5 101 (7.21%) ISO 22301
6 84 (6.00%) SLA
7 59 (4.21%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 43 (3.07%) PCI DSS
9 33 (2.36%) GRC
10 29 (2.07%) SOC 2
11 25 (1.79%) Data Quality
12 23 (1.64%) NCSC
13 19 (1.36%) PMO
14 16 (1.14%) COBIT
15 15 (1.07%) QA
16 13 (0.93%) ISO 9001
17 6 (0.43%) ISO 14001
17 6 (0.43%) SOC 1
18 5 (0.36%) Accessibility
18 5 (0.36%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 393 (28.07%) Active Directory
2 295 (21.07%) VMware Infrastructure
3 219 (15.64%) Hyper-V
4 60 (4.29%) Virtual Machines
5 57 (4.07%) vSphere
6 56 (4.00%) Docker
7 35 (2.50%) Firmware
8 27 (1.93%) VMware ESXi
9 26 (1.86%) Virtual Desktop
10 16 (1.14%) VMware NSX
11 12 (0.86%) Oracle RAC
12 7 (0.50%) vCloud
13 6 (0.43%) DFS Replication
13 6 (0.43%) Squid
14 5 (0.36%) Virtual Servers
15 4 (0.29%) KVM
16 3 (0.21%) VMware Server
17 2 (0.14%) EMC RecoverPoint
17 2 (0.14%) iptables
17 2 (0.14%) Microsoft Virtual Server
Systems Management
1 203 (14.50%) Microsoft Intune
2 102 (7.29%) Kubernetes
3 89 (6.36%) Ansible
4 62 (4.43%) Single Sign-On
5 34 (2.43%) FortiGate
6 32 (2.29%) Grafana
7 28 (2.00%) Prometheus
7 28 (2.00%) SCCM
8 16 (1.14%) Jamf Pro
8 16 (1.14%) VxRail
9 14 (1.00%) Data Guard
10 12 (0.86%) Oracle RMAN
10 12 (0.86%) Puppet
11 11 (0.79%) Nagios
12 10 (0.71%) vCenter Server
13 8 (0.57%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 8 (0.57%) Dell DRAC
13 8 (0.57%) Progress Chef
13 8 (0.57%) Proxmox
14 7 (0.50%) Avamar
Vendors
1 668 (47.71%) Microsoft
2 340 (24.29%) VMware
3 208 (14.86%) Cisco
4 101 (7.21%) Veeam
5 69 (4.93%) Palo Alto
6 61 (4.36%) Fortinet
7 56 (4.00%) Google
8 55 (3.93%) Oracle
9 49 (3.50%) SonicWALL
10 45 (3.21%) Meraki
11 44 (3.14%) Aruba
12 43 (3.07%) SolarWinds
13 41 (2.93%) Splunk
14 37 (2.64%) Dell
15 30 (2.14%) Qualys
16 29 (2.07%) Apple
17 26 (1.86%) Sophos
18 24 (1.71%) ServiceNow
19 22 (1.57%) AppDynamics
19 22 (1.57%) Dynatrace