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

6 months to
1 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 170 261 187
Rank change year-on-year +91 -74 +26
Permanent jobs citing Disaster Recovery 1,374 569 1,085
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.17% 1.15% 1.45%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.59% 1.29% 1.77%
Number of salaries quoted 942 446 616
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £45,000 £45,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% - +0.80%
75th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £95,625
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% -3.85%

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 86,281 44,107 61,151
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.16% 89.14% 81.78%
Number of salaries quoted 59,444 24,402 33,284
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,750 £36,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £58,274
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -5.62% -2.88%
75th Percentile £79,091 £75,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £96,250 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +15.79% -9.52% -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 1 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 1 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 +83 1,208 £57,500 -4.17% 851
UK excluding London +102 891 £50,000 -3.85% 506
London +52 430 £75,000 +3.45% 367
Work from Home +99 410 £62,500 +4.17% 352
North of England +54 246 £47,500 -9.52% 149
South East +62 236 £50,000 - 121
Midlands +38 161 £57,500 -3.36% 70
North West +49 139 £47,500 +2.70% 81
West Midlands +26 118 £59,386 -8.64% 40
Yorkshire +41 94 £47,500 -11.63% 57
South West -43 74 £50,000 +5.26% 68
East of England +6 59 £45,000 +38.46% 33
Scotland +53 47 £45,400 -13.52% 33
Northern Ireland -47 47 - - 16
East Midlands -16 43 £45,000 -14.29% 30
Wales -53 23 £45,000 -21.74% 19
North East -68 13 £53,750 +2.38% 12

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
1 172 (12.52%) Microsoft Exchange
1 172 (12.52%) SharePoint
2 27 (1.97%) IIS
3 22 (1.60%) Apache
4 18 (1.31%) nginx
5 11 (0.80%) Apache Spark
6 5 (0.36%) Confluence
6 5 (0.36%) OpenStack
7 3 (0.22%) WordPress
8 2 (0.15%) WebLogic
9 1 (0.073%) CICS
9 1 (0.073%) FactoryTalk
9 1 (0.073%) Site Server
Applications
1 19 (1.38%) PlantUML
2 18 (1.31%) Microsoft Office
3 12 (0.87%) MS Visio
4 11 (0.80%) Microsoft Excel
5 3 (0.22%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.073%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 11 (0.80%) FLEXCUBE
2 6 (0.44%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (0.44%) Raiser’s Edge
3 5 (0.36%) JDE EnterpriseOne
3 5 (0.36%) Sage 200
4 4 (0.29%) NetSuite
5 3 (0.22%) Q-Pulse
6 2 (0.15%) Adobe Campaign
6 2 (0.15%) Integrated Workplace Management System
6 2 (0.15%) SAP S/4HANA
7 1 (0.073%) Bloomberg TOMS
7 1 (0.073%) Eikon
7 1 (0.073%) Misys Equation
7 1 (0.073%) Misys Midas
7 1 (0.073%) Oracle Applications
7 1 (0.073%) Oracle EBS
7 1 (0.073%) Sage 50
7 1 (0.073%) SAP EHS
7 1 (0.073%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 708 (51.53%) Azure
2 415 (30.20%) Microsoft 365
3 291 (21.18%) Entra ID
4 260 (18.92%) AWS
5 151 (10.99%) SaaS
6 104 (7.57%) IaaS
7 77 (5.60%) PaaS
8 54 (3.93%) GCP
9 52 (3.78%) Azure DevOps
9 52 (3.78%) Power Platform
10 51 (3.71%) Cloud Computing
11 49 (3.57%) OneDrive
12 47 (3.42%) Azure Monitor
13 35 (2.55%) GitHub
14 31 (2.26%) Microsoft Copilot
15 29 (2.11%) Google Workspace
16 28 (2.04%) Amazon EC2
17 27 (1.97%) Datadog
18 25 (1.82%) OCI
19 24 (1.75%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 363 (26.42%) Firewall
2 333 (24.24%) DNS
3 238 (17.32%) DHCP
4 234 (17.03%) VPN
5 161 (11.72%) WAN
6 147 (10.70%) VLAN
7 131 (9.53%) LAN
8 123 (8.95%) TCP/IP
9 119 (8.66%) Wi-Fi
10 98 (7.13%) Network Security
11 92 (6.70%) Wireless
12 58 (4.22%) SAN
13 52 (3.78%) Internet
14 43 (3.13%) SD-WAN
15 41 (2.98%) SSL
16 38 (2.77%) VoIP
17 27 (1.97%) Cisco ISE
18 24 (1.75%) Cisco Nexus
19 22 (1.60%) NAS
20 18 (1.31%) BGP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 97 (7.06%) SQL Server
2 44 (3.20%) Amazon RDS
3 38 (2.77%) Azure SQL Database
4 33 (2.40%) PostgreSQL
4 33 (2.40%) Power BI
5 16 (1.16%) Data Warehouse
6 14 (1.02%) Metadata
6 14 (1.02%) Oracle Database
7 12 (0.87%) Data Lake
7 12 (0.87%) MySQL
8 8 (0.58%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 6 (0.44%) MongoDB
10 5 (0.36%) NoSQL
10 5 (0.36%) Relational Database
10 5 (0.36%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 5 (0.36%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 4 (0.29%) DynamoDB
12 3 (0.22%) Elasticsearch
12 3 (0.22%) NonStop SQL
12 3 (0.22%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 19 (1.38%) JIRA
2 16 (1.16%) Git
2 16 (1.16%) GitLab
3 11 (0.80%) Chocolatey
4 10 (0.73%) JUnit
4 10 (0.73%) Spock
5 9 (0.66%) Jenkins
6 5 (0.36%) Bitbucket
7 4 (0.29%) IntelliJ
7 4 (0.29%) Maven
7 4 (0.29%) TeamCity
8 3 (0.22%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 3 (0.22%) Claude Code
9 2 (0.15%) git-flow
9 2 (0.15%) Selenium
9 2 (0.15%) Terragrunt
9 2 (0.15%) Visual Studio Code
10 1 (0.073%) MLflow
10 1 (0.073%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
10 1 (0.073%) Yeoman
General
1 466 (33.92%) Social Skills
2 264 (19.21%) Finance
3 186 (13.54%) Analytical Skills
4 87 (6.33%) Law
5 84 (6.11%) Legal
6 71 (5.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 67 (4.88%) Banking
8 62 (4.51%) Manufacturing
9 46 (3.35%) Retail
10 45 (3.28%) Documentation Skills
10 45 (3.28%) Public Sector
11 35 (2.55%) Influencing Skills
11 35 (2.55%) Organisational Skills
12 24 (1.75%) Back Office
13 22 (1.60%) Telecoms
14 15 (1.09%) Aerospace
14 15 (1.09%) Financial Institution
15 12 (0.87%) Police
16 10 (0.73%) Presentation Skills
17 9 (0.66%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 269 (19.58%) Senior
2 194 (14.12%) IT Support
3 189 (13.76%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 150 (10.92%) IT Engineer
5 135 (9.83%) IT Manager
6 118 (8.59%) Support Engineer
7 109 (7.93%) Architect
8 102 (7.42%) Analyst
9 99 (7.21%) IT Support Engineer
10 75 (5.46%) Lead
11 72 (5.24%) Service Manager
12 69 (5.02%) Resilience Manager
13 61 (4.44%) Network Engineer
13 61 (4.44%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
14 60 (4.37%) IT Services Manager
15 57 (4.15%) Cloud Engineer
16 46 (3.35%) Administrator
17 45 (3.28%) Azure Engineer
18 44 (3.20%) IT Analyst
19 40 (2.91%) IT Support Assistant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 187 (13.61%) Terraform
2 75 (5.46%) Middleware
3 14 (1.02%) ARM Templates
4 11 (0.80%) REST
5 10 (0.73%) AngularJS
5 10 (0.73%) Spring
6 9 (0.66%) Microsoft Graph
6 9 (0.66%) OpenTelemetry
7 8 (0.58%) .NET
7 8 (0.58%) SAML
7 8 (0.58%) Web Services
8 7 (0.51%) FIX Protocol
8 7 (0.51%) Kafka
9 5 (0.36%) ModSecurity
10 4 (0.29%) 802.1X
10 4 (0.29%) AWS CDK
10 4 (0.29%) JSON
10 4 (0.29%) LDAP
10 4 (0.29%) React
10 4 (0.29%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 109 (7.93%) Data Centre
2 86 (6.26%) Cloud Native
3 85 (6.19%) Cyber Threat
4 84 (6.11%) Onboarding
5 81 (5.90%) Management Information System
6 78 (5.68%) Driving Licence
7 66 (4.80%) Replication
8 64 (4.66%) Security Posture
9 63 (4.59%) Hybrid Cloud
10 44 (3.20%) Self-Motivation
11 36 (2.62%) Enterprise Storage
12 35 (2.55%) PKI
13 32 (2.33%) Enterprise Software
14 29 (2.11%) NHS
15 24 (1.75%) Distributed Systems
16 23 (1.67%) Clustering
17 22 (1.60%) CCTV
17 22 (1.60%) Virtual Team
18 21 (1.53%) Enterprise Cloud
18 21 (1.53%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 481 (35.01%) Windows
2 354 (25.76%) Windows Server
3 150 (10.92%) Linux
4 40 (2.91%) Windows 10
5 37 (2.69%) Windows Server 2019
6 24 (1.75%) Mac OS
6 24 (1.75%) Ubuntu
7 22 (1.60%) Unix
8 21 (1.53%) Windows Server 2016
9 19 (1.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 15 (1.09%) VMS
11 12 (0.87%) AIX
12 10 (0.73%) Oracle Linux
13 9 (0.66%) Solaris
14 7 (0.51%) CentOS
15 6 (0.44%) Debian
16 4 (0.29%) Windows Server 2012
17 2 (0.15%) Amazon Linux
17 2 (0.15%) Embedded Linux
17 2 (0.15%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 551 (40.10%) Business Continuity
2 412 (29.99%) Cybersecurity
3 407 (29.62%) Continuous Improvement
4 360 (26.20%) Problem-Solving
5 273 (19.87%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 261 (19.00%) ITIL
7 231 (16.81%) DevOps
8 211 (15.36%) High Availability
9 210 (15.28%) Stakeholder Management
10 197 (14.34%) Infrastructure as Code
11 183 (13.32%) Incident Response
12 175 (12.74%) Information Security
13 171 (12.45%) Project Delivery
14 167 (12.15%) Service Delivery
15 155 (11.28%) CI/CD
16 150 (10.92%) Cloud Security
17 145 (10.55%) Migration
18 144 (10.48%) Agile
19 140 (10.19%) AI
19 140 (10.19%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 210 (15.28%) PowerShell
2 137 (9.97%) Python
3 132 (9.61%) SQL
4 64 (4.66%) Bash
5 38 (2.77%) Bicep
6 27 (1.97%) Java
7 24 (1.75%) Shell Script
8 17 (1.24%) JavaScript
9 14 (1.02%) TypeScript
10 11 (0.80%) Korn
11 10 (0.73%) PL/SQL
12 7 (0.51%) Go
12 7 (0.51%) Kusto Query Language
13 6 (0.44%) Groovy
13 6 (0.44%) Search Processing Language
14 5 (0.36%) COBOL
14 5 (0.36%) T-SQL
15 4 (0.29%) C#
15 4 (0.29%) XAML
16 3 (0.22%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 134 (9.75%) Degree
2 111 (8.08%) Security Cleared
3 102 (7.42%) Azure Certification
4 96 (6.99%) CISSP
5 92 (6.70%) Cisco Certification
6 87 (6.33%) Microsoft Certification
7 84 (6.11%) SC Cleared
8 83 (6.04%) CISM
9 64 (4.66%) CCNP
10 61 (4.44%) ITIL Certification
11 51 (3.71%) CCNA
12 45 (3.28%) Postgraduate
13 39 (2.84%) Computer Science Degree
14 32 (2.33%) AWS Certification
15 26 (1.89%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
16 22 (1.60%) CompTIA Security+
17 20 (1.46%) DV Cleared
17 20 (1.46%) Master's Degree
18 17 (1.24%) Network+ Certification
19 16 (1.16%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 150 (10.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 140 (10.19%) NIST
3 126 (9.17%) Cyber Essentials
4 118 (8.59%) GDPR
5 90 (6.55%) ISO 22301
6 84 (6.11%) SLA
7 59 (4.29%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 43 (3.13%) PCI DSS
9 36 (2.62%) GRC
10 28 (2.04%) Data Quality
11 26 (1.89%) SOC 2
12 23 (1.67%) NCSC
13 20 (1.46%) PMO
14 17 (1.24%) COBIT
15 15 (1.09%) QA
16 10 (0.73%) ISO 9001
17 7 (0.51%) SOC 1
18 5 (0.36%) ISO/IEC 20000
19 4 (0.29%) Sarbanes-Oxley
20 3 (0.22%) ISO 14001
System Software
1 387 (28.17%) Active Directory
2 294 (21.40%) VMware Infrastructure
3 213 (15.50%) Hyper-V
4 54 (3.93%) vSphere
5 53 (3.86%) Docker
5 53 (3.86%) Virtual Machines
6 37 (2.69%) Firmware
7 28 (2.04%) VMware ESXi
8 25 (1.82%) Virtual Desktop
9 15 (1.09%) VMware NSX
10 12 (0.87%) Oracle RAC
11 7 (0.51%) vCloud
12 6 (0.44%) Squid
13 5 (0.36%) Virtual Servers
14 4 (0.29%) KVM
15 3 (0.22%) DFS Replication
15 3 (0.22%) VMware Server
16 2 (0.15%) EMC RecoverPoint
16 2 (0.15%) iptables
16 2 (0.15%) Microsoft Virtual Server
Systems Management
1 194 (14.12%) Microsoft Intune
2 91 (6.62%) Kubernetes
3 87 (6.33%) Ansible
4 51 (3.71%) Single Sign-On
5 32 (2.33%) FortiGate
6 25 (1.82%) SCCM
7 24 (1.75%) Grafana
8 21 (1.53%) Prometheus
9 17 (1.24%) VxRail
10 16 (1.16%) Jamf Pro
11 13 (0.95%) Data Guard
12 11 (0.80%) Nagios
12 11 (0.80%) Oracle RMAN
12 11 (0.80%) vCenter Server
13 10 (0.73%) Puppet
14 9 (0.66%) Proxmox
15 8 (0.58%) Dell DRAC
16 7 (0.51%) Avamar
16 7 (0.51%) WSUS
17 6 (0.44%) EMC NetWorker
Vendors
1 672 (48.91%) Microsoft
2 346 (25.18%) VMware
3 207 (15.07%) Cisco
4 107 (7.79%) Veeam
5 72 (5.24%) Palo Alto
6 58 (4.22%) Fortinet
7 53 (3.86%) Oracle
8 48 (3.49%) SonicWALL
9 46 (3.35%) Google
9 46 (3.35%) Meraki
10 44 (3.20%) Splunk
11 40 (2.91%) Aruba
12 38 (2.77%) SolarWinds
13 37 (2.69%) Dell
14 30 (2.18%) Qualys
15 27 (1.97%) Apple
16 26 (1.89%) HP
16 26 (1.89%) Sophos
17 25 (1.82%) ServiceNow
18 23 (1.67%) IBM