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 15 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 170 253 224
Rank change year-on-year +83 -29 +30
Permanent jobs citing Disaster Recovery 1,272 612 1,029
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.19% 1.23% 1.24%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.62% 1.38% 1.53%
Number of salaries quoted 911 479 761
10th Percentile £35,000 £33,750 £34,500
25th Percentile £42,242 £42,750 £44,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -7.60%
75th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £94,500 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £49,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +7.14% -2.00%

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 78,311 44,508 67,246
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.48% 89.25% 80.98%
Number of salaries quoted 53,938 25,218 43,343
10th Percentile £30,775 £28,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.71%
75th Percentile £78,750 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,250 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +15.79% -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 15 August 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 15 August 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 1,100 £57,500 -4.17% 688
UK excluding London +80 826 £50,000 -4.76% 441
London +47 393 £75,000 - 346
Work from Home +95 389 £60,000 +9.09% 256
North of England +73 234 £47,500 -11.63% 107
South East +65 218 £50,000 - 120
Midlands +34 128 £55,000 - 72
North West +58 127 £47,500 -11.63% 43
West Midlands +34 93 £55,000 -4.35% 52
Yorkshire +38 91 £47,500 -24.00% 53
South West -80 63 £50,000 +5.26% 48
East of England +11 60 £53,725 +2.33% 28
Scotland +40 50 £47,500 -11.63% 39
Northern Ireland -30 50 - - 13
East Midlands -12 35 £45,000 -14.29% 20
Wales -35 23 £45,000 -21.74% 20
North East -64 16 £48,000 -1.54% 14
Channel Islands - 3 £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
1 135 (10.61%) SharePoint
2 134 (10.53%) Microsoft Exchange
3 24 (1.89%) IIS
4 18 (1.42%) Apache
5 12 (0.94%) nginx
6 11 (0.86%) Apache Spark
7 6 (0.47%) Confluence
8 3 (0.24%) OpenStack
8 3 (0.24%) WordPress
9 2 (0.16%) Apache Airflow
9 2 (0.16%) WebLogic
10 1 (0.079%) CICS
10 1 (0.079%) Site Server
Applications
1 20 (1.57%) Microsoft Office
2 17 (1.34%) PlantUML
3 12 (0.94%) MS Visio
4 9 (0.71%) Microsoft Excel
5 3 (0.24%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.079%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 12 (0.94%) FLEXCUBE
2 6 (0.47%) Raiser’s Edge
3 5 (0.39%) JDE EnterpriseOne
3 5 (0.39%) Sage 200
4 4 (0.31%) NetSuite
5 3 (0.24%) Dynamics CRM
5 3 (0.24%) Q-Pulse
5 3 (0.24%) SAP S/4HANA
6 2 (0.16%) Adobe Campaign
7 1 (0.079%) Bloomberg TOMS
7 1 (0.079%) Eikon
7 1 (0.079%) Misys Equation
7 1 (0.079%) Misys Midas
7 1 (0.079%) Sage 50
7 1 (0.079%) SAP EHS
7 1 (0.079%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 658 (51.73%) Azure
2 383 (30.11%) Microsoft 365
3 251 (19.73%) AWS
4 224 (17.61%) Entra ID
5 135 (10.61%) SaaS
6 94 (7.39%) IaaS
7 70 (5.50%) PaaS
8 52 (4.09%) Power Platform
9 42 (3.30%) GCP
10 40 (3.14%) Nutanix
11 39 (3.07%) Cloud Computing
12 36 (2.83%) Azure DevOps
13 34 (2.67%) Datadog
14 28 (2.20%) Azure Monitor
15 27 (2.12%) OneDrive
16 26 (2.04%) GitHub
17 25 (1.97%) GitHub Actions
17 25 (1.97%) Microsoft Copilot
18 23 (1.81%) Amazon EC2
18 23 (1.81%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 359 (28.22%) Firewall
2 288 (22.64%) DNS
3 218 (17.14%) VPN
4 211 (16.59%) DHCP
5 159 (12.50%) WAN
6 131 (10.30%) VLAN
7 130 (10.22%) LAN
8 113 (8.88%) Wi-Fi
9 104 (8.18%) Network Security
10 97 (7.63%) TCP/IP
11 65 (5.11%) SAN
12 61 (4.80%) Wireless
13 43 (3.38%) Internet
14 37 (2.91%) SSL
15 35 (2.75%) VoIP
16 34 (2.67%) SD-WAN
17 30 (2.36%) Cisco ISE
18 24 (1.89%) NAS
19 23 (1.81%) Cisco Nexus
20 13 (1.02%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 92 (7.23%) SQL Server
2 36 (2.83%) Amazon RDS
3 32 (2.52%) Power BI
4 30 (2.36%) Azure SQL Database
5 17 (1.34%) PostgreSQL
6 14 (1.10%) Data Warehouse
7 13 (1.02%) Oracle Database
8 12 (0.94%) MySQL
9 10 (0.79%) Data Lake
10 8 (0.63%) Metadata
10 8 (0.63%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 6 (0.47%) MongoDB
11 6 (0.47%) SQL Server Analysis Services
12 5 (0.39%) NoSQL
12 5 (0.39%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 4 (0.31%) DynamoDB
13 4 (0.31%) Elasticsearch
14 3 (0.24%) Big Data
14 3 (0.24%) NonStop SQL
14 3 (0.24%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 21 (1.65%) Git
2 20 (1.57%) JIRA
3 16 (1.26%) Chocolatey
4 13 (1.02%) GitLab
5 8 (0.63%) Jenkins
5 8 (0.63%) JUnit
5 8 (0.63%) Spock
6 6 (0.47%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 6 (0.47%) Visual Studio Code
7 5 (0.39%) Bitbucket
8 4 (0.31%) MLflow
9 2 (0.16%) git-flow
9 2 (0.16%) IntelliJ
9 2 (0.16%) Maven
9 2 (0.16%) Selenium
9 2 (0.16%) TeamCity
9 2 (0.16%) Terragrunt
9 2 (0.16%) Yeoman
10 1 (0.079%) Claude Code
General
1 429 (33.73%) Social Skills
2 229 (18.00%) Finance
3 168 (13.21%) Analytical Skills
4 83 (6.53%) Legal
5 76 (5.97%) Law
6 70 (5.50%) Banking
7 62 (4.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 54 (4.25%) Manufacturing
9 38 (2.99%) Documentation Skills
10 37 (2.91%) Organisational Skills
11 36 (2.83%) Retail
12 35 (2.75%) Public Sector
13 33 (2.59%) Influencing Skills
14 23 (1.81%) Telecoms
15 18 (1.42%) Back Office
16 13 (1.02%) Aerospace
16 13 (1.02%) Financial Institution
17 12 (0.94%) Mandarin Language
18 11 (0.86%) Presentation Skills
19 9 (0.71%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 241 (18.95%) Senior
2 187 (14.70%) IT Support
3 163 (12.81%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 150 (11.79%) IT Engineer
5 143 (11.24%) IT Manager
6 121 (9.51%) Support Engineer
7 100 (7.86%) IT Support Engineer
8 96 (7.55%) Architect
9 80 (6.29%) Analyst
10 67 (5.27%) Lead
11 65 (5.11%) Cloud Engineer
12 60 (4.72%) Service Manager
13 58 (4.56%) Resilience Manager
13 58 (4.56%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
14 54 (4.25%) IT Services Manager
15 53 (4.17%) Azure Engineer
16 51 (4.01%) Network Engineer
17 40 (3.14%) IT Analyst
18 38 (2.99%) Security Engineer
19 37 (2.91%) Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 68 (5.35%) Middleware
2 14 (1.10%) ARM Templates
3 9 (0.71%) Kafka
4 8 (0.63%) AngularJS
4 8 (0.63%) Microsoft Graph
4 8 (0.63%) Spring
4 8 (0.63%) Web Services
5 7 (0.55%) FIX Protocol
6 5 (0.39%) .NET
6 5 (0.39%) AWS CDK
6 5 (0.39%) ModSecurity
6 5 (0.39%) SAML
7 4 (0.31%) web3js
8 3 (0.24%) EDI
8 3 (0.24%) JSON
8 3 (0.24%) Nuxt
8 3 (0.24%) ODBC
8 3 (0.24%) PySpark
8 3 (0.24%) REST
8 3 (0.24%) Ruby on Rails
Miscellaneous
1 108 (8.49%) Data Centre
2 93 (7.31%) Cyber Threat
3 84 (6.60%) Management Information System
4 79 (6.21%) Cloud Native
5 71 (5.58%) Driving Licence
6 68 (5.35%) Hybrid Cloud
7 62 (4.87%) Onboarding
8 61 (4.80%) Security Posture
9 60 (4.72%) Replication
10 51 (4.01%) Self-Motivation
11 33 (2.59%) Enterprise Storage
12 32 (2.52%) PKI
13 28 (2.20%) NHS
14 26 (2.04%) Enterprise Software
15 25 (1.97%) CCTV
15 25 (1.97%) Public Cloud
16 23 (1.81%) Clustering
17 21 (1.65%) Virtual Team
18 20 (1.57%) Private Cloud
19 19 (1.49%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 428 (33.65%) Windows
2 294 (23.11%) Windows Server
3 137 (10.77%) Linux
4 32 (2.52%) Windows Server 2019
5 28 (2.20%) Windows 10
6 26 (2.04%) Mac OS
6 26 (2.04%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 23 (1.81%) Ubuntu
7 23 (1.81%) Unix
8 22 (1.73%) Windows Server 2016
9 12 (0.94%) AIX
10 11 (0.86%) Oracle Linux
11 10 (0.79%) CentOS
12 9 (0.71%) Solaris
12 9 (0.71%) VMS
13 4 (0.31%) Debian
13 4 (0.31%) Windows Server 2012
14 2 (0.16%) Amazon Linux
14 2 (0.16%) Apple iOS
14 2 (0.16%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 520 (40.88%) Business Continuity
2 387 (30.42%) Cybersecurity
3 340 (26.73%) Problem-Solving
4 336 (26.42%) Continuous Improvement
5 262 (20.60%) ITIL
6 230 (18.08%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 214 (16.82%) DevOps
8 202 (15.88%) High Availability
9 178 (13.99%) Incident Response
10 170 (13.36%) Information Security
11 166 (13.05%) Infrastructure as Code
12 163 (12.81%) Stakeholder Management
13 152 (11.95%) Service Delivery
14 143 (11.24%) Agile
15 141 (11.08%) Project Delivery
16 136 (10.69%) CI/CD
17 133 (10.46%) Mentoring
18 126 (9.91%) Risk Management
19 121 (9.51%) Cloud Security
20 117 (9.20%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 188 (14.78%) PowerShell
2 128 (10.06%) Python
3 117 (9.20%) SQL
4 54 (4.25%) Bash
5 26 (2.04%) Bicep
6 25 (1.97%) Shell Script
7 17 (1.34%) Java
8 13 (1.02%) JavaScript
9 12 (0.94%) Korn
10 11 (0.86%) PL/SQL
10 11 (0.86%) TypeScript
11 6 (0.47%) Kusto Query Language
11 6 (0.47%) Search Processing Language
12 5 (0.39%) COBOL
12 5 (0.39%) T-SQL
13 4 (0.31%) C#
13 4 (0.31%) Go
14 3 (0.24%) Ruby
14 3 (0.24%) XAML
15 2 (0.16%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 144 (11.32%) Degree
2 100 (7.86%) Cisco Certification
3 97 (7.63%) CISSP
4 96 (7.55%) Azure Certification
5 88 (6.92%) Microsoft Certification
6 82 (6.45%) CISM
7 81 (6.37%) Security Cleared
8 73 (5.74%) CCNP
9 63 (4.95%) SC Cleared
10 55 (4.32%) ITIL Certification
11 53 (4.17%) CCNA
12 41 (3.22%) Computer Science Degree
13 36 (2.83%) Postgraduate
14 32 (2.52%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
15 29 (2.28%) AWS Certification
16 18 (1.42%) CompTIA Security+
16 18 (1.42%) DV Cleared
16 18 (1.42%) Master's Degree
17 15 (1.18%) CEH
17 15 (1.18%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 139 (10.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 132 (10.38%) NIST
3 110 (8.65%) GDPR
4 109 (8.57%) Cyber Essentials
5 78 (6.13%) ISO 22301
5 78 (6.13%) SLA
6 50 (3.93%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 43 (3.38%) PCI DSS
8 39 (3.07%) GRC
9 27 (2.12%) Data Quality
9 27 (2.12%) PMO
10 21 (1.65%) SOC 2
11 17 (1.34%) NCSC
12 16 (1.26%) COBIT
13 13 (1.02%) QA
14 8 (0.63%) SOC 1
15 5 (0.39%) Actionable Recommendations
15 5 (0.39%) ISO/IEC 20000
15 5 (0.39%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
16 4 (0.31%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 346 (27.20%) Active Directory
2 286 (22.48%) VMware Infrastructure
3 192 (15.09%) Hyper-V
4 53 (4.17%) Docker
5 50 (3.93%) vSphere
6 32 (2.52%) Virtual Machines
7 27 (2.12%) VMware ESXi
8 26 (2.04%) Firmware
9 25 (1.97%) Virtual Desktop
10 13 (1.02%) Oracle RAC
10 13 (1.02%) VMware NSX
11 9 (0.71%) vCloud
12 7 (0.55%) KVM
13 6 (0.47%) Squid
14 5 (0.39%) Virtual Servers
15 3 (0.24%) DFS Replication
15 3 (0.24%) EMC RecoverPoint
15 3 (0.24%) VMware Server
16 2 (0.16%) iptables
16 2 (0.16%) Microsoft Virtual Server
Systems Management
1 168 (13.21%) Microsoft Intune
2 160 (12.58%) Terraform
3 85 (6.68%) Kubernetes
4 83 (6.53%) Ansible
5 35 (2.75%) Single Sign-On
6 32 (2.52%) FortiGate
7 26 (2.04%) SCCM
8 17 (1.34%) VxRail
9 14 (1.10%) Jamf Pro
10 13 (1.02%) Data Guard
11 12 (0.94%) Nagios
12 11 (0.86%) Oracle RMAN
12 11 (0.86%) Prometheus
12 11 (0.86%) vCenter Server
13 9 (0.71%) Grafana
14 8 (0.63%) Dell DRAC
14 8 (0.63%) Proxmox
15 7 (0.55%) Avamar
15 7 (0.55%) Packer
16 6 (0.47%) WSUS
Vendors
1 612 (48.11%) Microsoft
2 339 (26.65%) VMware
3 194 (15.25%) Cisco
4 87 (6.84%) Veeam
5 67 (5.27%) Palo Alto
6 47 (3.69%) Splunk
7 45 (3.54%) Oracle
8 42 (3.30%) Dell
8 42 (3.30%) Fortinet
9 38 (2.99%) Meraki
10 36 (2.83%) Google
10 36 (2.83%) SonicWALL
11 35 (2.75%) HP
12 33 (2.59%) Aruba
13 31 (2.44%) Sophos
14 28 (2.20%) SolarWinds
15 27 (2.12%) Apple
16 26 (2.04%) Qualys
17 25 (1.97%) IBM
18 24 (1.89%) AppDynamics