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

6 months to
11 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 182 252 205
Rank change year-on-year +70 -47 +81
Permanent jobs citing Disaster Recovery 1,120 627 1,373
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.14% 1.28% 1.35%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.54% 1.42% 1.65%
Number of salaries quoted 822 500 1,104
10th Percentile £34,500 £35,725 £33,000
25th Percentile £42,250 £46,188 £42,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £62,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +13.64% -5.17%
75th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £92,500 £91,375 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +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 72,639 44,292 83,457
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.85% 90.34% 82.30%
Number of salaries quoted 50,181 24,710 58,516
10th Percentile £30,250 £28,822 £29,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -8.72%
75th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £98,777 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% - -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 11 July 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 11 July 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 +56 977 £57,500 -8.00% 276
UK excluding London +52 682 £50,000 -9.09% 225
London +62 370 £75,000 - 102
Work from Home +74 344 £60,000 +4.35% 135
North of England +69 227 £47,500 -13.64% 53
South East +29 177 £50,000 -3.85% 77
Yorkshire +50 109 £50,000 -20.00% 19
Midlands +20 108 £55,000 -2.22% 37
North West +36 102 £50,000 -6.98% 29
West Midlands +33 82 £55,000 -4.35% 20
East of England +4 49 £45,000 -15.09% 14
South West -90 39 £43,750 -20.45% 20
Northern Ireland -29 34 - - 11
Scotland +25 31 £44,150 -19.73% 10
East Midlands -27 25 £55,000 +18.92% 17
North East -54 16 £42,500 -12.82% 6
Wales -34 15 £43,000 -25.22% 11
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
1 118 (10.54%) Microsoft Exchange
2 113 (10.09%) SharePoint
3 19 (1.70%) IIS
4 10 (0.89%) Apache
5 9 (0.80%) Apache Spark
6 3 (0.27%) Confluence
6 3 (0.27%) nginx
6 3 (0.27%) WordPress
7 2 (0.18%) Apache Airflow
7 2 (0.18%) OpenStack
8 1 (0.089%) Site Server
8 1 (0.089%) WebLogic
Applications
1 19 (1.70%) Microsoft Office
2 15 (1.34%) MS Visio
3 14 (1.25%) PlantUML
4 7 (0.63%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 12 (1.07%) FLEXCUBE
2 6 (0.54%) Raiser’s Edge
3 4 (0.36%) NetSuite
3 4 (0.36%) Sage 200
4 3 (0.27%) Dynamics CRM
4 3 (0.27%) JDE EnterpriseOne
4 3 (0.27%) Q-Pulse
4 3 (0.27%) SAP S/4HANA
5 2 (0.18%) Adobe Campaign
5 2 (0.18%) Oracle EBS
5 2 (0.18%) SAP ERP
6 1 (0.089%) Elite 3E
6 1 (0.089%) Misys Equation
6 1 (0.089%) Misys Midas
6 1 (0.089%) SAP EHS
Cloud Services
1 571 (50.98%) Azure
2 334 (29.82%) Microsoft 365
3 197 (17.59%) AWS
4 191 (17.05%) Entra ID
5 100 (8.93%) SaaS
6 66 (5.89%) IaaS
7 59 (5.27%) PaaS
8 49 (4.38%) Nutanix
9 46 (4.11%) Power Platform
10 42 (3.75%) Datadog
11 38 (3.39%) Azure DevOps
12 33 (2.95%) GCP
13 29 (2.59%) Cloud Computing
13 29 (2.59%) GitHub
13 29 (2.59%) Microsoft Purview
14 25 (2.23%) Azure Monitor
15 24 (2.14%) GitHub Actions
16 22 (1.96%) Mimecast
17 20 (1.79%) Amazon EC2
18 19 (1.70%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 349 (31.16%) Firewall
2 243 (21.70%) DNS
3 215 (19.20%) VPN
4 185 (16.52%) DHCP
5 152 (13.57%) WAN
6 131 (11.70%) VLAN
7 121 (10.80%) LAN
8 97 (8.66%) Wi-Fi
9 91 (8.13%) Network Security
10 90 (8.04%) TCP/IP
11 61 (5.45%) SAN
12 55 (4.91%) Wireless
13 36 (3.21%) Internet
14 28 (2.50%) Cisco ISE
15 27 (2.41%) SD-WAN
15 27 (2.41%) SSL
16 26 (2.32%) VoIP
17 19 (1.70%) Remote Desktop
18 18 (1.61%) NAS
19 17 (1.52%) Cisco Nexus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 92 (8.21%) SQL Server
2 36 (3.21%) Amazon RDS
3 28 (2.50%) Azure SQL Database
3 28 (2.50%) Power BI
4 13 (1.16%) Data Warehouse
5 12 (1.07%) PostgreSQL
6 11 (0.98%) MySQL
6 11 (0.98%) Oracle Database
7 9 (0.80%) Data Lake
7 9 (0.80%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 7 (0.63%) Metadata
9 6 (0.54%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 5 (0.45%) Delta Lake
10 5 (0.45%) Geospatial Data
10 5 (0.45%) GIS
10 5 (0.45%) NoSQL
10 5 (0.45%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 4 (0.36%) Elasticsearch
11 4 (0.36%) MongoDB
12 3 (0.27%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 20 (1.79%) JIRA
2 17 (1.52%) Chocolatey
3 15 (1.34%) Git
4 8 (0.71%) GitLab
5 6 (0.54%) Visual Studio Code
6 5 (0.45%) Jenkins
7 4 (0.36%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 4 (0.36%) JUnit
7 4 (0.36%) MLflow
7 4 (0.36%) Spock
8 3 (0.27%) Selenium
9 2 (0.18%) Bitbucket
9 2 (0.18%) Terragrunt
9 2 (0.18%) Yeoman
10 1 (0.089%) Claude Code
10 1 (0.089%) IntelliJ
10 1 (0.089%) Maven
10 1 (0.089%) Team Foundation Server
10 1 (0.089%) TeamCity
General
1 395 (35.27%) Social Skills
2 195 (17.41%) Finance
3 148 (13.21%) Analytical Skills
4 74 (6.61%) Law
5 70 (6.25%) Banking
6 66 (5.89%) Legal
7 47 (4.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 39 (3.48%) Organisational Skills
9 38 (3.39%) Manufacturing
10 37 (3.30%) Public Sector
11 32 (2.86%) Documentation Skills
12 29 (2.59%) Retail
13 28 (2.50%) Influencing Skills
14 22 (1.96%) Telecoms
15 21 (1.88%) Back Office
16 12 (1.07%) Financial Institution
17 11 (0.98%) Mandarin Language
18 8 (0.71%) Advertising
18 8 (0.71%) Marketing
19 7 (0.63%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 220 (19.64%) Senior
2 163 (14.55%) IT Support
3 161 (14.38%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 135 (12.05%) IT Engineer
5 116 (10.36%) IT Manager
6 105 (9.38%) Support Engineer
7 85 (7.59%) IT Support Engineer
8 78 (6.96%) Lead
9 74 (6.61%) Cloud Engineer
10 73 (6.52%) Architect
11 62 (5.54%) Analyst
12 60 (5.36%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
13 52 (4.64%) Azure Engineer
14 44 (3.93%) Service Manager
15 42 (3.75%) Network Engineer
16 40 (3.57%) IT Services Manager
17 37 (3.30%) IT Analyst
17 37 (3.30%) Resilience Manager
18 36 (3.21%) Platform Engineer
19 35 (3.13%) Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (3.93%) Middleware
2 14 (1.25%) ARM Templates
3 10 (0.89%) SAML
4 8 (0.71%) Microsoft Graph
5 7 (0.63%) Kafka
6 6 (0.54%) FIX Protocol
6 6 (0.54%) REST
7 5 (0.45%) OAuth
7 5 (0.45%) PySpark
7 5 (0.45%) RESTful
8 4 (0.36%) AngularJS
8 4 (0.36%) Spring
8 4 (0.36%) Web Services
8 4 (0.36%) web3js
8 4 (0.36%) YAML
9 3 (0.27%) .NET
9 3 (0.27%) ADO
9 3 (0.27%) JSON
9 3 (0.27%) ODBC
9 3 (0.27%) Ruby on Rails
Miscellaneous
1 104 (9.29%) Data Centre
2 76 (6.79%) Management Information System
3 75 (6.70%) Cyber Threat
4 68 (6.07%) Cloud Native
5 66 (5.89%) Driving Licence
6 65 (5.80%) Hybrid Cloud
7 56 (5.00%) Security Posture
8 53 (4.73%) Self-Motivation
9 52 (4.64%) Replication
10 41 (3.66%) Onboarding
11 36 (3.21%) Data Protection Act
11 36 (3.21%) PKI
12 30 (2.68%) Enterprise Storage
13 28 (2.50%) NHS
13 28 (2.50%) Public Cloud
14 23 (2.05%) CMDB
15 22 (1.96%) CCTV
16 20 (1.79%) Legacy Systems
16 20 (1.79%) Virtual Team
17 19 (1.70%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 377 (33.66%) Windows
2 254 (22.68%) Windows Server
3 105 (9.38%) Linux
4 27 (2.41%) Windows Server 2019
5 23 (2.05%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 21 (1.88%) Mac OS
6 21 (1.88%) Windows Server 2016
7 19 (1.70%) Unix
8 18 (1.61%) Windows 10
9 14 (1.25%) Ubuntu
10 12 (1.07%) AIX
10 12 (1.07%) Oracle Linux
11 10 (0.89%) CentOS
12 8 (0.71%) Solaris
12 8 (0.71%) VMS
13 5 (0.45%) Apple iOS
13 5 (0.45%) Windows Server 2012
14 2 (0.18%) Amazon Linux
14 2 (0.18%) Debian
14 2 (0.18%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 436 (38.93%) Business Continuity
2 353 (31.52%) Cybersecurity
3 291 (25.98%) Problem-Solving
4 289 (25.80%) Continuous Improvement
5 239 (21.34%) ITIL
6 217 (19.38%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 179 (15.98%) High Availability
8 174 (15.54%) Incident Response
9 172 (15.36%) DevOps
10 137 (12.23%) Stakeholder Management
11 135 (12.05%) Infrastructure as Code
12 134 (11.96%) Service Delivery
13 125 (11.16%) Information Security
14 117 (10.45%) Cloud Security
15 116 (10.36%) Data Protection
16 110 (9.82%) Change Management
17 109 (9.73%) CI/CD
17 109 (9.73%) Project Delivery
18 108 (9.64%) Risk Management
19 105 (9.38%) Agile
Programming Languages
1 166 (14.82%) PowerShell
2 116 (10.36%) Python
3 111 (9.91%) SQL
4 46 (4.11%) Bash
5 21 (1.88%) Bicep
6 17 (1.52%) Shell Script
7 13 (1.16%) Java
8 11 (0.98%) JavaScript
8 11 (0.98%) Korn
8 11 (0.98%) PL/SQL
9 9 (0.80%) TypeScript
10 7 (0.63%) Kusto Query Language
10 7 (0.63%) T-SQL
11 5 (0.45%) C#
12 4 (0.36%) Go
12 4 (0.36%) Search Processing Language
13 3 (0.27%) Ruby
13 3 (0.27%) Scala
14 2 (0.18%) COBOL
14 2 (0.18%) RPG
Qualifications
1 122 (10.89%) Degree
2 88 (7.86%) Cisco Certification
3 77 (6.88%) Microsoft Certification
4 72 (6.43%) Azure Certification
5 71 (6.34%) CISSP
6 66 (5.89%) CCNP
7 62 (5.54%) Security Cleared
8 57 (5.09%) CISM
9 50 (4.46%) CCNA
10 43 (3.84%) SC Cleared
11 39 (3.48%) Computer Science Degree
12 30 (2.68%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13 29 (2.59%) ITIL Certification
14 28 (2.50%) Postgraduate
15 18 (1.61%) AWS Certification
16 16 (1.43%) CEH
17 15 (1.34%) CISA
18 14 (1.25%) Master's Degree
19 13 (1.16%) CRISC
19 13 (1.16%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 160 (14.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 134 (11.96%) NIST
3 124 (11.07%) GDPR
4 119 (10.63%) Cyber Essentials
5 64 (5.71%) SLA
6 55 (4.91%) ISO 22301
7 54 (4.82%) PCI DSS
8 49 (4.38%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 29 (2.59%) PMO
10 28 (2.50%) GRC
11 27 (2.41%) SOC 2
12 25 (2.23%) Data Quality
13 16 (1.43%) COBIT
14 11 (0.98%) NCSC
15 10 (0.89%) Actionable Recommendations
16 8 (0.71%) SOC 1
17 6 (0.54%) QA
18 5 (0.45%) HL7
18 5 (0.45%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
19 4 (0.36%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 303 (27.05%) Active Directory
2 261 (23.30%) VMware Infrastructure
3 173 (15.45%) Hyper-V
4 44 (3.93%) vSphere
5 41 (3.66%) Docker
6 29 (2.59%) Virtual Machines
7 25 (2.23%) VMware ESXi
8 22 (1.96%) Virtual Desktop
9 21 (1.88%) Firmware
10 13 (1.16%) Oracle RAC
11 10 (0.89%) VMware NSX
12 9 (0.80%) vCloud
13 7 (0.63%) KVM
14 4 (0.36%) EMC RecoverPoint
14 4 (0.36%) Virtual Servers
15 3 (0.27%) DFS Replication
15 3 (0.27%) Squid
15 3 (0.27%) VMware Server
16 2 (0.18%) Microsoft Virtual Server
16 2 (0.18%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 140 (12.50%) Microsoft Intune
1 140 (12.50%) Terraform
2 77 (6.88%) Kubernetes
3 74 (6.61%) Ansible
4 28 (2.50%) Single Sign-On
5 27 (2.41%) SCCM
6 25 (2.23%) FortiGate
7 20 (1.79%) VxRail
8 12 (1.07%) Data Guard
8 12 (1.07%) Nagios
8 12 (1.07%) vCenter Server
9 11 (0.98%) Oracle RMAN
10 10 (0.89%) Prometheus
11 9 (0.80%) Dell DRAC
11 9 (0.80%) Grafana
11 9 (0.80%) Jamf Pro
11 9 (0.80%) Packer
12 7 (0.63%) EMC NetWorker
13 6 (0.54%) EMC VPLEX
13 6 (0.54%) WSUS
Vendors
1 550 (49.11%) Microsoft
2 319 (28.48%) VMware
3 164 (14.64%) Cisco
4 74 (6.61%) Veeam
5 59 (5.27%) Palo Alto
6 50 (4.46%) Dell
7 41 (3.66%) HP
8 40 (3.57%) Splunk
9 38 (3.39%) Meraki
10 36 (3.21%) Oracle
11 35 (3.13%) Fortinet
12 30 (2.68%) Commvault
12 30 (2.68%) Nimble Storage
12 30 (2.68%) Sophos
13 28 (2.50%) Tenable
14 27 (2.41%) SolarWinds
15 26 (2.32%) Aruba
16 25 (2.23%) Google
17 24 (2.14%) IBM
18 23 (2.05%) EMC