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

6 months to
31 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 177 248 208
Rank change year-on-year +71 -40 +58
Permanent jobs citing Disaster Recovery 1,195 616 1,138
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.16% 1.25% 1.31%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.58% 1.39% 1.61%
Number of salaries quoted 853 485 877
10th Percentile £34,500 £34,050 £34,500
25th Percentile £41,500 £42,750 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -6.80%
75th Percentile £77,500 £76,250 £71,250
90th Percentile £92,500 £92,500 £91,991
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.52% +5.00% -

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 75,768 44,292 70,756
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.64% 89.63% 81.31%
Number of salaries quoted 52,326 25,118 47,262
10th Percentile £30,500 £28,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £78,750 £76,250 £73,886
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £95,000
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 31 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 31 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 +53 1,029 £57,500 -4.17% 342
UK excluding London +62 766 £47,500 -9.52% 267
London +52 370 £75,000 - 128
Work from Home +90 358 £60,000 +9.09% 136
North of England +66 222 £47,500 -11.63% 66
South East +43 204 £50,000 - 90
Midlands +23 121 £55,000 - 41
North West +61 118 £47,500 -11.63% 33
West Midlands +36 89 £55,000 -4.35% 31
Yorkshire +33 87 £44,500 -28.80% 29
East of England +7 55 £45,000 -14.29% 17
South West -80 52 £50,000 +5.26% 26
Northern Ireland -22 51 - - 8
Scotland +34 39 £48,000 -10.70% 13
East Midlands -14 32 £50,000 +8.11% 10
Wales -41 20 £44,000 -23.48% 15
North East -53 17 £42,500 -12.82% 4
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
1 123 (10.29%) Microsoft Exchange
2 119 (9.96%) SharePoint
3 23 (1.92%) IIS
4 16 (1.34%) Apache
5 10 (0.84%) Apache Spark
5 10 (0.84%) nginx
6 5 (0.42%) Confluence
7 3 (0.25%) WordPress
8 2 (0.17%) Apache Airflow
8 2 (0.17%) OpenStack
8 2 (0.17%) WebLogic
9 1 (0.084%) Site Server
Applications
1 20 (1.67%) Microsoft Office
2 14 (1.17%) PlantUML
3 13 (1.09%) MS Visio
4 7 (0.59%) Microsoft Excel
5 2 (0.17%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.084%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 13 (1.09%) FLEXCUBE
2 6 (0.50%) Raiser’s Edge
3 5 (0.42%) JDE EnterpriseOne
3 5 (0.42%) Sage 200
4 4 (0.33%) NetSuite
5 3 (0.25%) Dynamics CRM
5 3 (0.25%) Q-Pulse
5 3 (0.25%) SAP S/4HANA
6 2 (0.17%) Adobe Campaign
7 1 (0.084%) Bloomberg TOMS
7 1 (0.084%) Misys Equation
7 1 (0.084%) Misys Midas
7 1 (0.084%) Sage 50
7 1 (0.084%) SAP EHS
7 1 (0.084%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 618 (51.72%) Azure
2 355 (29.71%) Microsoft 365
3 237 (19.83%) AWS
4 194 (16.23%) Entra ID
5 124 (10.38%) SaaS
6 79 (6.61%) IaaS
7 64 (5.36%) PaaS
8 51 (4.27%) Power Platform
9 43 (3.60%) Nutanix
10 37 (3.10%) GCP
11 36 (3.01%) Cloud Computing
12 35 (2.93%) Datadog
13 32 (2.68%) Azure DevOps
14 24 (2.01%) GitHub
15 23 (1.92%) GitHub Actions
16 21 (1.76%) Amazon EC2
16 21 (1.76%) AWS CloudFormation
16 21 (1.76%) Azure Monitor
16 21 (1.76%) Google Workspace
17 20 (1.67%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 345 (28.87%) Firewall
2 262 (21.92%) DNS
3 211 (17.66%) VPN
4 192 (16.07%) DHCP
5 154 (12.89%) WAN
6 128 (10.71%) VLAN
7 126 (10.54%) LAN
8 106 (8.87%) Wi-Fi
9 101 (8.45%) Network Security
10 88 (7.36%) TCP/IP
11 62 (5.19%) SAN
12 59 (4.94%) Wireless
13 42 (3.51%) Internet
14 34 (2.85%) SSL
15 32 (2.68%) SD-WAN
15 32 (2.68%) VoIP
16 30 (2.51%) Cisco ISE
17 22 (1.84%) NAS
18 21 (1.76%) Cisco Nexus
19 16 (1.34%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 94 (7.87%) SQL Server
2 36 (3.01%) Amazon RDS
3 31 (2.59%) Power BI
4 29 (2.43%) Azure SQL Database
5 17 (1.42%) PostgreSQL
6 14 (1.17%) Oracle Database
7 13 (1.09%) Data Warehouse
8 12 (1.00%) MySQL
9 9 (0.75%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 8 (0.67%) Metadata
11 7 (0.59%) Data Lake
12 6 (0.50%) MongoDB
12 6 (0.50%) NoSQL
12 6 (0.50%) SQL Server Analysis Services
13 5 (0.42%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 4 (0.33%) DynamoDB
14 4 (0.33%) Elasticsearch
15 3 (0.25%) Big Data
15 3 (0.25%) NonStop SQL
15 3 (0.25%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 22 (1.84%) JIRA
2 19 (1.59%) Git
3 16 (1.34%) Chocolatey
4 14 (1.17%) GitLab
5 8 (0.67%) JUnit
5 8 (0.67%) Spock
6 7 (0.59%) Jenkins
7 6 (0.50%) Visual Studio Code
8 5 (0.42%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 4 (0.33%) Bitbucket
9 4 (0.33%) MLflow
10 2 (0.17%) IntelliJ
10 2 (0.17%) Maven
10 2 (0.17%) Selenium
10 2 (0.17%) TeamCity
10 2 (0.17%) Terragrunt
10 2 (0.17%) Yeoman
11 1 (0.084%) Claude Code
11 1 (0.084%) git-flow
General
1 408 (34.14%) Social Skills
2 215 (17.99%) Finance
3 151 (12.64%) Analytical Skills
4 76 (6.36%) Law
5 75 (6.28%) Legal
6 68 (5.69%) Banking
7 59 (4.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 49 (4.10%) Manufacturing
9 37 (3.10%) Organisational Skills
10 35 (2.93%) Retail
11 33 (2.76%) Documentation Skills
12 32 (2.68%) Influencing Skills
13 30 (2.51%) Public Sector
14 24 (2.01%) Telecoms
15 18 (1.51%) Back Office
16 13 (1.09%) Financial Institution
17 12 (1.00%) Mandarin Language
18 11 (0.92%) Presentation Skills
19 10 (0.84%) Aerospace
20 8 (0.67%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 228 (19.08%) Senior
2 179 (14.98%) IT Support
3 151 (12.64%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 141 (11.80%) IT Engineer
5 139 (11.63%) IT Manager
6 116 (9.71%) Support Engineer
7 94 (7.87%) IT Support Engineer
8 82 (6.86%) Architect
9 73 (6.11%) Analyst
10 63 (5.27%) Cloud Engineer
11 59 (4.94%) Service Manager
12 58 (4.85%) Lead
12 58 (4.85%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
13 57 (4.77%) Resilience Manager
14 54 (4.52%) IT Services Manager
15 49 (4.10%) Azure Engineer
16 46 (3.85%) Network Engineer
17 38 (3.18%) Administrator
18 37 (3.10%) IT Analyst
19 36 (3.01%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 63 (5.27%) Middleware
2 14 (1.17%) ARM Templates
3 9 (0.75%) Kafka
4 8 (0.67%) AngularJS
4 8 (0.67%) Microsoft Graph
4 8 (0.67%) Spring
4 8 (0.67%) Web Services
5 7 (0.59%) FIX Protocol
6 5 (0.42%) .NET
6 5 (0.42%) SAML
7 4 (0.33%) AWS CDK
7 4 (0.33%) ModSecurity
7 4 (0.33%) REST
7 4 (0.33%) web3js
8 3 (0.25%) JSON
8 3 (0.25%) Nuxt
8 3 (0.25%) ODBC
8 3 (0.25%) PySpark
8 3 (0.25%) Ruby on Rails
9 2 (0.17%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 107 (8.95%) Data Centre
2 94 (7.87%) Cyber Threat
3 86 (7.20%) Management Information System
4 73 (6.11%) Cloud Native
5 71 (5.94%) Driving Licence
6 68 (5.69%) Hybrid Cloud
7 58 (4.85%) Replication
7 58 (4.85%) Security Posture
8 53 (4.44%) Self-Motivation
9 52 (4.35%) Onboarding
10 34 (2.85%) PKI
11 31 (2.59%) Enterprise Storage
12 30 (2.51%) NHS
13 26 (2.18%) Public Cloud
14 23 (1.92%) CCTV
15 22 (1.84%) Enterprise Software
16 21 (1.76%) CMDB
16 21 (1.76%) Virtual Team
17 20 (1.67%) Clustering
18 18 (1.51%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 403 (33.72%) Windows
2 276 (23.10%) Windows Server
3 123 (10.29%) Linux
4 30 (2.51%) Windows Server 2019
5 25 (2.09%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 24 (2.01%) Mac OS
7 23 (1.92%) Windows 10
7 23 (1.92%) Windows Server 2016
8 22 (1.84%) Unix
9 18 (1.51%) Ubuntu
10 13 (1.09%) AIX
11 12 (1.00%) Oracle Linux
12 10 (0.84%) CentOS
13 9 (0.75%) Solaris
13 9 (0.75%) VMS
14 4 (0.33%) Windows Server 2012
15 2 (0.17%) Amazon Linux
15 2 (0.17%) Apple iOS
15 2 (0.17%) Debian
16 1 (0.084%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 490 (41.00%) Business Continuity
2 355 (29.71%) Cybersecurity
3 323 (27.03%) Problem-Solving
4 304 (25.44%) Continuous Improvement
5 256 (21.42%) ITIL
6 210 (17.57%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 202 (16.90%) DevOps
8 190 (15.90%) High Availability
9 163 (13.64%) Incident Response
10 155 (12.97%) Information Security
11 149 (12.47%) Stakeholder Management
12 143 (11.97%) Service Delivery
13 139 (11.63%) Infrastructure as Code
14 130 (10.88%) Agile
15 122 (10.21%) Project Delivery
16 120 (10.04%) CI/CD
17 118 (9.87%) Change Management
18 116 (9.71%) Cloud Security
19 114 (9.54%) Mentoring
20 113 (9.46%) Incident Management
Programming Languages
1 176 (14.73%) PowerShell
2 115 (9.62%) Python
3 111 (9.29%) SQL
4 49 (4.10%) Bash
5 24 (2.01%) Shell Script
6 22 (1.84%) Bicep
7 14 (1.17%) Java
8 12 (1.00%) JavaScript
8 12 (1.00%) Korn
8 12 (1.00%) PL/SQL
9 11 (0.92%) TypeScript
10 6 (0.50%) T-SQL
11 4 (0.33%) C#
11 4 (0.33%) COBOL
11 4 (0.33%) Kusto Query Language
11 4 (0.33%) Search Processing Language
12 3 (0.25%) Ruby
13 2 (0.17%) Groovy
13 2 (0.17%) Scala
13 2 (0.17%) XAML
Qualifications
1 132 (11.05%) Degree
2 98 (8.20%) Cisco Certification
3 94 (7.87%) CISSP
4 85 (7.11%) Microsoft Certification
5 84 (7.03%) Azure Certification
6 79 (6.61%) CISM
7 75 (6.28%) CCNP
8 71 (5.94%) Security Cleared
9 55 (4.60%) SC Cleared
10 52 (4.35%) CCNA
10 52 (4.35%) ITIL Certification
11 38 (3.18%) Computer Science Degree
12 33 (2.76%) Postgraduate
12 33 (2.76%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13 25 (2.09%) AWS Certification
14 16 (1.34%) Master's Degree
15 15 (1.26%) CISA
16 14 (1.17%) CEH
16 14 (1.17%) CRISC
16 14 (1.17%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 137 (11.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 132 (11.05%) NIST
3 104 (8.70%) Cyber Essentials
3 104 (8.70%) GDPR
4 76 (6.36%) ISO 22301
5 71 (5.94%) SLA
6 49 (4.10%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 47 (3.93%) PCI DSS
8 29 (2.43%) GRC
8 29 (2.43%) PMO
9 23 (1.92%) Data Quality
10 22 (1.84%) SOC 2
11 16 (1.34%) COBIT
12 14 (1.17%) NCSC
13 11 (0.92%) QA
14 8 (0.67%) SOC 1
15 7 (0.59%) Actionable Recommendations
16 5 (0.42%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
17 4 (0.33%) HL7
17 4 (0.33%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 321 (26.86%) Active Directory
2 277 (23.18%) VMware Infrastructure
3 182 (15.23%) Hyper-V
4 51 (4.27%) Docker
5 46 (3.85%) vSphere
6 30 (2.51%) Virtual Machines
7 28 (2.34%) VMware ESXi
8 24 (2.01%) Firmware
9 21 (1.76%) Virtual Desktop
10 14 (1.17%) Oracle RAC
11 11 (0.92%) VMware NSX
12 9 (0.75%) KVM
12 9 (0.75%) vCloud
13 6 (0.50%) Squid
14 5 (0.42%) Virtual Servers
15 4 (0.33%) EMC RecoverPoint
16 3 (0.25%) DFS Replication
16 3 (0.25%) VMware Server
17 2 (0.17%) Microsoft Virtual Server
18 1 (0.084%) Xen
Systems Management
1 155 (12.97%) Microsoft Intune
2 141 (11.80%) Terraform
3 77 (6.44%) Kubernetes
4 74 (6.19%) Ansible
5 34 (2.85%) Single Sign-On
6 28 (2.34%) FortiGate
7 26 (2.18%) SCCM
8 19 (1.59%) VxRail
9 14 (1.17%) Data Guard
10 13 (1.09%) Nagios
11 12 (1.00%) Jamf Pro
11 12 (1.00%) Oracle RMAN
12 11 (0.92%) Prometheus
12 11 (0.92%) vCenter Server
13 9 (0.75%) Grafana
14 8 (0.67%) Dell DRAC
15 7 (0.59%) Avamar
15 7 (0.59%) Packer
16 6 (0.50%) EMC NetWorker
16 6 (0.50%) EMC VPLEX
Vendors
1 571 (47.78%) Microsoft
2 328 (27.45%) VMware
3 180 (15.06%) Cisco
4 83 (6.95%) Veeam
5 59 (4.94%) Palo Alto
6 46 (3.85%) Dell
7 45 (3.77%) Splunk
8 42 (3.51%) Oracle
9 39 (3.26%) HP
10 38 (3.18%) Meraki
11 37 (3.10%) Fortinet
12 32 (2.68%) Sophos
13 31 (2.59%) Aruba
14 30 (2.51%) Google
15 28 (2.34%) SonicWALL
16 27 (2.26%) Nimble Storage
16 27 (2.26%) SolarWinds
17 25 (2.09%) Apple
17 25 (2.09%) IBM
17 25 (2.09%) Tenable