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 30 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 216 255 211
Rank change year-on-year +39 -44 +105
Permanent jobs citing Disaster Recovery 904 560 1,337
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.97% 1.29% 1.33%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.31% 1.38% 1.59%
Number of salaries quoted 683 441 1,140
10th Percentile £33,000 £37,500 £33,000
25th Percentile £42,250 £46,250 £41,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +13.64% -4.35%
75th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £93,750 £90,000 £88,775
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 68,833 40,438 84,237
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.92% 93.25% 83.74%
Number of salaries quoted 44,981 21,310 60,621
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,750 £29,200
25th Percentile £41,000 £40,871 £39,885
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,610 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.15% +4.75% -9.69%
75th Percentile £78,750 £78,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £51,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +2.94% +2.00% -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 30 May 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 30 May 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 +24 796 £60,000 -4.00% 282
UK excluding London +24 508 £50,000 -9.09% 209
London +41 333 £77,500 +6.90% 108
Work from Home +104 281 £60,000 +4.35% 112
North of England +39 190 £47,500 -13.64% 47
South East -6 104 £55,000 -4.35% 67
Yorkshire +23 99 £47,500 -24.00% 20
Midlands +21 93 £52,500 +14.13% 40
West Midlands +24 74 £52,500 +9.38% 27
North West +31 71 £50,000 -9.09% 26
East of England -10 36 £61,250 +15.57% 19
South West -85 30 £37,500 -31.82% 28
Scotland +23 26 £38,000 -30.91% 3
North East -40 20 £43,000 -16.10% 1
East Midlands -21 18 £55,000 +37.50% 13
Wales -19 15 £43,000 -14.00% 7
Northern Ireland -30 10 - - 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
1 112 (12.39%) Microsoft Exchange
2 99 (10.95%) SharePoint
3 10 (1.11%) IIS
4 4 (0.44%) Apache Spark
4 4 (0.44%) Confluence
5 3 (0.33%) Apache
6 2 (0.22%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.11%) BizTalk Server
7 1 (0.11%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.11%) WebLogic
7 1 (0.11%) WordPress
Applications
1 24 (2.65%) Microsoft Office
2 16 (1.77%) MS Visio
3 6 (0.66%) PlantUML
4 4 (0.44%) Microsoft Excel
5 1 (0.11%) Weka
Business Applications
1 7 (0.77%) FLEXCUBE
2 5 (0.55%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (0.44%) NetSuite
3 4 (0.44%) Oracle EBS
4 3 (0.33%) Markit EDM
4 3 (0.33%) SAP S/4HANA
5 2 (0.22%) SAP ERP
6 1 (0.11%) Elite 3E
6 1 (0.11%) Misys Equation
6 1 (0.11%) Misys Midas
6 1 (0.11%) Oracle 11i
6 1 (0.11%) Oracle ERP
6 1 (0.11%) Sage 200
6 1 (0.11%) SAP EHS
6 1 (0.11%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 488 (53.98%) Azure
2 275 (30.42%) Microsoft 365
3 164 (18.14%) Entra ID
4 140 (15.49%) AWS
5 64 (7.08%) Nutanix
6 61 (6.75%) SaaS
7 54 (5.97%) IaaS
8 51 (5.64%) Datadog
9 45 (4.98%) Azure DevOps
10 44 (4.87%) PaaS
11 39 (4.31%) Azure Monitor
12 36 (3.98%) GitHub
13 31 (3.43%) GCP
14 30 (3.32%) Microsoft Purview
14 30 (3.32%) OneDrive
14 30 (3.32%) Power Platform
15 25 (2.77%) GitHub Actions
16 23 (2.54%) Azure AKS
17 22 (2.43%) Amazon EC2
18 20 (2.21%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 275 (30.42%) Firewall
2 196 (21.68%) DNS
3 181 (20.02%) VPN
4 147 (16.26%) DHCP
5 130 (14.38%) WAN
6 89 (9.85%) VLAN
7 81 (8.96%) LAN
8 72 (7.96%) Network Security
9 70 (7.74%) Wi-Fi
10 66 (7.30%) SAN
10 66 (7.30%) TCP/IP
11 40 (4.42%) Wireless
12 31 (3.43%) SD-WAN
13 27 (2.99%) Remote Desktop
14 25 (2.77%) Cisco ISE
15 23 (2.54%) SSL
16 21 (2.32%) VoIP
17 17 (1.88%) NAS
18 15 (1.66%) BGP
19 14 (1.55%) Cisco Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 82 (9.07%) SQL Server
2 34 (3.76%) Amazon RDS
3 22 (2.43%) Azure SQL Database
4 14 (1.55%) Power BI
5 12 (1.33%) Data Lake
5 12 (1.33%) Delta Lake
6 11 (1.22%) PostgreSQL
7 10 (1.11%) MySQL
8 9 (1.00%) Data Warehouse
9 8 (0.88%) Oracle Database
10 7 (0.77%) Amazon Aurora
11 6 (0.66%) MongoDB
11 6 (0.66%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 6 (0.66%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 5 (0.55%) Geospatial Data
12 5 (0.55%) GIS
12 5 (0.55%) NoSQL
13 4 (0.44%) Elasticsearch
14 3 (0.33%) DynamoDB
14 3 (0.33%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 22 (2.43%) Git
2 20 (2.21%) Chocolatey
3 13 (1.44%) JIRA
4 8 (0.88%) Jenkins
5 6 (0.66%) Visual Studio Code
6 4 (0.44%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 4 (0.44%) LabVIEW
6 4 (0.44%) MLflow
6 4 (0.44%) Sonatype Nexus
7 3 (0.33%) Bitbucket
7 3 (0.33%) GitLab
8 2 (0.22%) Maven
8 2 (0.22%) Selenium
8 2 (0.22%) TeamCity
8 2 (0.22%) Terragrunt
9 1 (0.11%) Artifactory
9 1 (0.11%) Octopus Deploy
9 1 (0.11%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
9 1 (0.11%) Team Foundation Server
9 1 (0.11%) Yeoman
General
1 332 (36.73%) Social Skills
2 171 (18.92%) Finance
3 145 (16.04%) Analytical Skills
4 63 (6.97%) Banking
5 46 (5.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 39 (4.31%) Legal
7 38 (4.20%) Law
8 37 (4.09%) Public Sector
9 29 (3.21%) Organisational Skills
10 26 (2.88%) Retail
11 23 (2.54%) Manufacturing
12 18 (1.99%) Telecoms
13 15 (1.66%) Influencing Skills
14 14 (1.55%) Back Office
14 14 (1.55%) Documentation Skills
15 12 (1.33%) Advertising
16 10 (1.11%) Financial Institution
17 8 (0.88%) Mandarin Language
17 8 (0.88%) Marketing
18 7 (0.77%) French Language
Job Titles
1 180 (19.91%) Senior
2 147 (16.26%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 105 (11.62%) IT Support
4 96 (10.62%) IT Engineer
5 89 (9.85%) Cloud Engineer
6 77 (8.52%) Support Engineer
7 67 (7.41%) IT Manager
8 60 (6.64%) Lead
8 60 (6.64%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
9 59 (6.53%) Azure Engineer
9 59 (6.53%) IT Support Engineer
10 51 (5.64%) Analyst
11 50 (5.53%) Architect
12 39 (4.31%) Platform Engineer
13 33 (3.65%) Administrator
14 29 (3.21%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
15 28 (3.10%) Network Engineer
16 27 (2.99%) Security Engineer
16 27 (2.99%) Security Manager
17 26 (2.88%) Senior Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (1.77%) SAML
2 12 (1.33%) PySpark
3 11 (1.22%) OAuth
4 10 (1.11%) YAML
5 9 (1.00%) ADO
5 9 (1.00%) ARM Templates
5 9 (1.00%) REST
6 8 (0.88%) Microsoft Graph
6 8 (0.88%) Middleware
7 7 (0.77%) Kafka
7 7 (0.77%) Loki
8 5 (0.55%) RESTful
9 4 (0.44%) .NET
9 4 (0.44%) web3js
10 3 (0.33%) FIX Protocol
10 3 (0.33%) JSON
10 3 (0.33%) ODBC
11 2 (0.22%) ActiveMQ
11 2 (0.22%) LDAP
11 2 (0.22%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 86 (9.51%) Data Centre
2 68 (7.52%) Management Information System
3 67 (7.41%) Hybrid Cloud
4 49 (5.42%) Replication
5 44 (4.87%) Cloud Native
5 44 (4.87%) Driving Licence
6 40 (4.42%) Onboarding
6 40 (4.42%) Security Posture
7 37 (4.09%) Cyber Threat
8 36 (3.98%) Public Cloud
9 32 (3.54%) Data Protection Act
10 28 (3.10%) PKI
11 26 (2.88%) Enterprise Storage
11 26 (2.88%) Self-Motivation
12 25 (2.77%) CMDB
13 21 (2.32%) NHS
14 17 (1.88%) Legacy Systems
15 14 (1.55%) Clustering
16 12 (1.33%) CCTV
16 12 (1.33%) iSeries
Operating Systems
1 311 (34.40%) Windows
2 199 (22.01%) Windows Server
3 81 (8.96%) Linux
4 22 (2.43%) Windows 10
5 21 (2.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 17 (1.88%) Mac OS
6 17 (1.88%) Windows Server 2019
7 16 (1.77%) Apple iOS
7 16 (1.77%) Windows Server 2016
8 13 (1.44%) Ubuntu
9 12 (1.33%) VMS
10 11 (1.22%) Unix
11 9 (1.00%) CentOS
12 7 (0.77%) AIX
12 7 (0.77%) Oracle Linux
13 6 (0.66%) Android
14 5 (0.55%) Solaris
15 2 (0.22%) Amazon Linux
15 2 (0.22%) Debian
16 1 (0.11%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 325 (35.95%) Business Continuity
2 276 (30.53%) Cybersecurity
3 224 (24.78%) Problem-Solving
4 209 (23.12%) ITIL
5 207 (22.90%) Continuous Improvement
6 189 (20.91%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 146 (16.15%) High Availability
8 133 (14.71%) Incident Response
9 127 (14.05%) DevOps
10 116 (12.83%) Service Delivery
11 107 (11.84%) Infrastructure as Code
12 105 (11.62%) Cloud Security
13 94 (10.40%) Data Protection
14 93 (10.29%) Change Management
15 92 (10.18%) Migration
16 90 (9.96%) Stakeholder Management
17 89 (9.85%) CI/CD
18 88 (9.73%) Mentoring
19 87 (9.62%) Service Management
20 79 (8.74%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 147 (16.26%) PowerShell
2 101 (11.17%) Python
3 100 (11.06%) SQL
4 41 (4.54%) Bash
5 12 (1.33%) Shell Script
6 11 (1.22%) Bicep
7 10 (1.11%) Java
8 9 (1.00%) Kusto Query Language
8 9 (1.00%) Scala
8 9 (1.00%) T-SQL
9 7 (0.77%) JavaScript
9 7 (0.77%) Korn
10 6 (0.66%) PL/SQL
11 5 (0.55%) C#
12 4 (0.44%) TypeScript
13 3 (0.33%) Go
14 2 (0.22%) RPG
15 1 (0.11%) COBOL
15 1 (0.11%) Perl
15 1 (0.11%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 109 (12.06%) Degree
2 68 (7.52%) Cisco Certification
2 68 (7.52%) Microsoft Certification
3 61 (6.75%) Azure Certification
4 54 (5.97%) CCNP
5 45 (4.98%) Computer Science Degree
5 45 (4.98%) Security Cleared
6 36 (3.98%) SC Cleared
7 33 (3.65%) CCNA
8 27 (2.99%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 24 (2.65%) CISSP
10 20 (2.21%) Postgraduate
11 17 (1.88%) CEH
12 14 (1.55%) MCSE
13 12 (1.33%) AWS Certification
13 12 (1.33%) CISM
14 10 (1.11%) VCAP
15 9 (1.00%) BPSS Clearance
15 9 (1.00%) Microsoft Certified Professional
15 9 (1.00%) VCDX
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 131 (14.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 95 (10.51%) Cyber Essentials
3 91 (10.07%) GDPR
4 86 (9.51%) NIST
5 62 (6.86%) SLA
6 44 (4.87%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 43 (4.76%) PCI DSS
8 28 (3.10%) PMO
9 23 (2.54%) GRC
10 22 (2.43%) SOC 2
11 21 (2.32%) Data Quality
12 18 (1.99%) ISO 22301
13 11 (1.22%) Actionable Recommendations
14 9 (1.00%) COBIT
15 6 (0.66%) NCSC
15 6 (0.66%) QA
16 5 (0.55%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
17 4 (0.44%) HIPAA
17 4 (0.44%) HL7
17 4 (0.44%) SOC 1
System Software
1 275 (30.42%) Active Directory
2 205 (22.68%) VMware Infrastructure
3 121 (13.38%) Hyper-V
4 38 (4.20%) vSphere
5 29 (3.21%) Docker
6 26 (2.88%) Virtual Machines
7 22 (2.43%) Firmware
8 17 (1.88%) Virtual Desktop
8 17 (1.88%) VMware ESXi
9 10 (1.11%) VMware NSX
10 9 (1.00%) vCloud
11 8 (0.88%) Oracle RAC
12 6 (0.66%) KVM
12 6 (0.66%) Virtual Servers
13 3 (0.33%) DFS Replication
13 3 (0.33%) EMC RecoverPoint
13 3 (0.33%) Microsoft Virtual Server
13 3 (0.33%) VMware Server
14 2 (0.22%) VMware Workstation
15 1 (0.11%) Xen
Systems Management
1 132 (14.60%) Microsoft Intune
2 115 (12.72%) Terraform
3 63 (6.97%) Kubernetes
4 60 (6.64%) Ansible
5 27 (2.99%) SCCM
6 23 (2.54%) Single Sign-On
7 22 (2.43%) VxRail
8 17 (1.88%) FortiGate
9 11 (1.22%) Grafana
9 11 (1.22%) Prometheus
10 9 (1.00%) Dell DRAC
11 8 (0.88%) Data Guard
11 8 (0.88%) Nagios
11 8 (0.88%) Packer
12 7 (0.77%) EMC NetWorker
12 7 (0.77%) vCenter Server
13 6 (0.66%) Avamar
13 6 (0.66%) EMC VPLEX
13 6 (0.66%) Oracle RMAN
13 6 (0.66%) WSUS
Vendors
1 455 (50.33%) Microsoft
2 277 (30.64%) VMware
3 108 (11.95%) Cisco
4 62 (6.86%) Veeam
5 60 (6.64%) Dell
6 46 (5.09%) HP
7 42 (4.65%) Palo Alto
8 39 (4.31%) Nimble Storage
9 35 (3.87%) Meraki
10 33 (3.65%) Commvault
11 31 (3.43%) Tenable
12 29 (3.21%) Splunk
13 27 (2.99%) Fortinet
14 26 (2.88%) Oracle
15 25 (2.77%) EMC
16 24 (2.65%) Dell Compellent
16 24 (2.65%) Dynatrace
16 24 (2.65%) Zscaler
17 23 (2.54%) SolarWinds
18 22 (2.43%) Sophos