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 12 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 197 247 217
Rank change year-on-year +50 -30 +88
Permanent jobs citing Disaster Recovery 944 572 1,382
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.02% 1.29% 1.29%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.40% 1.39% 1.57%
Number of salaries quoted 723 453 1,132
10th Percentile £33,000 £37,500 £33,000
25th Percentile £42,125 £46,875 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,445 £62,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.49% +13.64% -4.35%
75th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £93,607 £90,000 £88,513
UK excluding London median annual salary £48,500 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -11.82% +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 67,454 41,012 87,985
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 72.86% 92.64% 82.31%
Number of salaries quoted 46,240 21,844 62,402
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,000 £29,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -9.69%
75th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +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 12 June 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 12 June 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 +42 841 £59,000 -5.60% 218
UK excluding London +43 541 £48,500 -11.82% 198
London +47 343 £76,250 +5.17% 59
Work from Home +82 280 £60,000 +9.09% 107
North of England +64 199 £47,500 -13.64% 34
South East +6 125 £52,500 -4.55% 64
Yorkshire +34 104 £47,500 -24.00% 16
Midlands +38 97 £52,500 +14.13% 46
North West +52 77 £50,000 -9.09% 18
West Midlands +32 74 £52,500 -6.67% 28
East of England -10 39 £49,363 -6.42% 17
South West -92 32 £42,500 -22.73% 25
Scotland +25 25 £38,000 -30.91% 5
East Midlands -27 22 £55,000 +37.50% 18
North East -39 18 £42,500 -15.00%
Wales -27 14 £43,000 -14.00% 9
Northern Ireland -26 8 - - 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 (11.86%) Microsoft Exchange
2 104 (11.02%) SharePoint
3 13 (1.38%) IIS
4 4 (0.42%) Apache Spark
4 4 (0.42%) Confluence
5 3 (0.32%) Apache
6 2 (0.21%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.21%) WordPress
7 1 (0.11%) BizTalk Server
7 1 (0.11%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.11%) Site Server
7 1 (0.11%) WebLogic
Applications
1 21 (2.22%) Microsoft Office
2 15 (1.59%) MS Visio
3 8 (0.85%) PlantUML
4 3 (0.32%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 9 (0.95%) FLEXCUBE
2 4 (0.42%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (0.42%) NetSuite
2 4 (0.42%) Oracle EBS
3 3 (0.32%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.21%) Markit EDM
4 2 (0.21%) Sage 200
4 2 (0.21%) SAP ERP
5 1 (0.11%) Elite 3E
5 1 (0.11%) Misys Equation
5 1 (0.11%) Misys Midas
5 1 (0.11%) Oracle 11i
5 1 (0.11%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.11%) Q-Pulse
5 1 (0.11%) SAP EHS
5 1 (0.11%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 489 (51.80%) Azure
2 292 (30.93%) Microsoft 365
3 173 (18.33%) Entra ID
4 142 (15.04%) AWS
5 63 (6.67%) SaaS
6 59 (6.25%) Nutanix
7 56 (5.93%) IaaS
8 50 (5.30%) Datadog
9 47 (4.98%) PaaS
10 41 (4.34%) Azure DevOps
11 35 (3.71%) Azure Monitor
12 34 (3.60%) GitHub
12 34 (3.60%) Power Platform
13 32 (3.39%) Microsoft Purview
14 31 (3.28%) GCP
15 25 (2.65%) Cloud Computing
15 25 (2.65%) GitHub Actions
16 24 (2.54%) OneDrive
17 22 (2.33%) Azure AKS
18 19 (2.01%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 294 (31.14%) Firewall
2 206 (21.82%) DNS
3 186 (19.70%) VPN
4 156 (16.53%) DHCP
5 136 (14.41%) WAN
6 97 (10.28%) VLAN
7 93 (9.85%) LAN
8 80 (8.47%) Network Security
9 76 (8.05%) Wi-Fi
10 71 (7.52%) TCP/IP
11 66 (6.99%) SAN
12 43 (4.56%) Wireless
13 30 (3.18%) SD-WAN
14 26 (2.75%) Cisco ISE
14 26 (2.75%) SSL
15 24 (2.54%) Remote Desktop
16 23 (2.44%) VoIP
17 20 (2.12%) Internet
18 17 (1.80%) NAS
19 16 (1.69%) BGP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 83 (8.79%) SQL Server
2 31 (3.28%) Amazon RDS
3 22 (2.33%) Azure SQL Database
4 17 (1.80%) Power BI
5 12 (1.27%) PostgreSQL
6 10 (1.06%) MySQL
7 9 (0.95%) Data Lake
7 9 (0.95%) Data Warehouse
7 9 (0.95%) Delta Lake
7 9 (0.95%) Oracle Database
8 7 (0.74%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 6 (0.64%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 5 (0.53%) Geospatial Data
10 5 (0.53%) GIS
10 5 (0.53%) MongoDB
10 5 (0.53%) NoSQL
11 4 (0.42%) Amazon Aurora
11 4 (0.42%) Elasticsearch
11 4 (0.42%) SQL Server Analysis Services
12 3 (0.32%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 19 (2.01%) Chocolatey
2 18 (1.91%) Git
3 14 (1.48%) JIRA
4 6 (0.64%) Jenkins
4 6 (0.64%) Visual Studio Code
5 4 (0.42%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 4 (0.42%) MLflow
6 3 (0.32%) Bitbucket
6 3 (0.32%) GitLab
6 3 (0.32%) LabVIEW
6 3 (0.32%) Selenium
7 2 (0.21%) TeamCity
7 2 (0.21%) Terragrunt
8 1 (0.11%) Artifactory
8 1 (0.11%) LoadRunner
8 1 (0.11%) Octopus Deploy
8 1 (0.11%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (0.11%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 1 (0.11%) Team Foundation Server
8 1 (0.11%) Yeoman
General
1 346 (36.65%) Social Skills
2 171 (18.11%) Finance
3 141 (14.94%) Analytical Skills
4 66 (6.99%) Banking
5 48 (5.08%) Legal
6 44 (4.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 44 (4.66%) Law
7 36 (3.81%) Public Sector
8 33 (3.50%) Organisational Skills
9 26 (2.75%) Retail
10 25 (2.65%) Manufacturing
11 18 (1.91%) Influencing Skills
12 17 (1.80%) Documentation Skills
12 17 (1.80%) Telecoms
13 16 (1.69%) Back Office
14 11 (1.17%) Advertising
15 10 (1.06%) Financial Institution
16 9 (0.95%) Mandarin Language
17 7 (0.74%) French Language
17 7 (0.74%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 188 (19.92%) Senior
2 150 (15.89%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 127 (13.45%) IT Support
4 111 (11.76%) IT Engineer
5 89 (9.43%) Support Engineer
6 80 (8.47%) Cloud Engineer
7 72 (7.63%) IT Support Engineer
8 69 (7.31%) IT Manager
9 63 (6.67%) Lead
10 59 (6.25%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
11 58 (6.14%) Azure Engineer
12 57 (6.04%) Analyst
13 55 (5.83%) Architect
14 38 (4.03%) Platform Engineer
15 34 (3.60%) Administrator
16 30 (3.18%) Network Engineer
17 29 (3.07%) Security Engineer
17 29 (3.07%) Security Manager
18 27 (2.86%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
19 26 (2.75%) IT Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (1.59%) SAML
2 11 (1.17%) Middleware
3 10 (1.06%) OAuth
4 9 (0.95%) ARM Templates
4 9 (0.95%) PySpark
4 9 (0.95%) YAML
5 8 (0.85%) ADO
5 8 (0.85%) Microsoft Graph
6 7 (0.74%) Kafka
6 7 (0.74%) REST
7 5 (0.53%) RESTful
8 4 (0.42%) .NET
8 4 (0.42%) FIX Protocol
8 4 (0.42%) Loki
8 4 (0.42%) web3js
9 3 (0.32%) JSON
9 3 (0.32%) Node.js
9 3 (0.32%) ODBC
9 3 (0.32%) Playwright
10 2 (0.21%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 90 (9.53%) Data Centre
2 71 (7.52%) Management Information System
3 64 (6.78%) Hybrid Cloud
4 53 (5.61%) Replication
5 51 (5.40%) Driving Licence
6 49 (5.19%) Cloud Native
7 44 (4.66%) Security Posture
8 40 (4.24%) Cyber Threat
9 38 (4.03%) Onboarding
10 33 (3.50%) Public Cloud
11 32 (3.39%) Self-Motivation
12 31 (3.28%) Data Protection Act
13 30 (3.18%) PKI
14 29 (3.07%) Enterprise Storage
15 24 (2.54%) NHS
16 23 (2.44%) CMDB
17 16 (1.69%) Clustering
17 16 (1.69%) Legacy Systems
18 15 (1.59%) Virtual Team
19 14 (1.48%) iSeries
Operating Systems
1 325 (34.43%) Windows
2 210 (22.25%) Windows Server
3 86 (9.11%) Linux
4 22 (2.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 22 (2.33%) Windows Server 2019
5 21 (2.22%) Mac OS
6 20 (2.12%) Windows 10
7 18 (1.91%) Windows Server 2016
8 14 (1.48%) Unix
9 13 (1.38%) Apple iOS
9 13 (1.38%) Ubuntu
10 11 (1.17%) VMS
11 9 (0.95%) AIX
11 9 (0.95%) CentOS
11 9 (0.95%) Oracle Linux
12 6 (0.64%) Solaris
13 4 (0.42%) Android
14 2 (0.21%) Amazon Linux
14 2 (0.21%) Debian
14 2 (0.21%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 342 (36.23%) Business Continuity
2 298 (31.57%) Cybersecurity
3 236 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
4 225 (23.83%) Continuous Improvement
5 200 (21.19%) ITIL
6 197 (20.87%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 148 (15.68%) High Availability
8 143 (15.15%) Incident Response
9 120 (12.71%) DevOps
10 113 (11.97%) Service Delivery
11 110 (11.65%) Infrastructure as Code
12 106 (11.23%) Cloud Security
13 100 (10.59%) Stakeholder Management
14 96 (10.17%) Data Protection
15 92 (9.75%) Change Management
15 92 (9.75%) Migration
16 89 (9.43%) Service Management
17 88 (9.32%) Risk Management
18 87 (9.22%) CI/CD
19 86 (9.11%) Incident Management
Programming Languages
1 149 (15.78%) PowerShell
2 102 (10.81%) SQL
3 96 (10.17%) Python
4 42 (4.45%) Bash
5 14 (1.48%) Shell Script
6 12 (1.27%) Bicep
7 9 (0.95%) Java
7 9 (0.95%) Korn
7 9 (0.95%) Kusto Query Language
8 8 (0.85%) PL/SQL
8 8 (0.85%) T-SQL
9 7 (0.74%) JavaScript
10 6 (0.64%) Scala
11 5 (0.53%) C#
11 5 (0.53%) TypeScript
12 3 (0.32%) Go
13 2 (0.21%) RPG
13 2 (0.21%) Ruby
14 1 (0.11%) COBOL
14 1 (0.11%) Perl
Qualifications
1 108 (11.44%) Degree
2 73 (7.73%) Cisco Certification
3 68 (7.20%) Microsoft Certification
4 60 (6.36%) Azure Certification
5 57 (6.04%) CCNP
6 50 (5.30%) Security Cleared
7 39 (4.13%) Computer Science Degree
7 39 (4.13%) SC Cleared
8 37 (3.92%) CCNA
9 27 (2.86%) CISSP
9 27 (2.86%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 25 (2.65%) Postgraduate
11 16 (1.69%) CEH
12 15 (1.59%) CISM
13 13 (1.38%) MCSE
14 11 (1.17%) AWS Certification
15 10 (1.06%) Master's Degree
15 10 (1.06%) VCAP
16 9 (0.95%) DBS Check
16 9 (0.95%) VCDX
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 142 (15.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 105 (11.12%) Cyber Essentials
3 101 (10.70%) GDPR
4 90 (9.53%) NIST
5 61 (6.46%) SLA
6 47 (4.98%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 47 (4.98%) PCI DSS
7 29 (3.07%) PMO
8 23 (2.44%) SOC 2
9 22 (2.33%) GRC
10 20 (2.12%) Data Quality
11 18 (1.91%) ISO 22301
12 12 (1.27%) COBIT
13 11 (1.17%) Actionable Recommendations
14 8 (0.85%) NCSC
15 6 (0.64%) QA
16 5 (0.53%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
16 5 (0.53%) SOC 1
17 4 (0.42%) DICOM
17 4 (0.42%) HL7
System Software
1 278 (29.45%) Active Directory
2 219 (23.20%) VMware Infrastructure
3 130 (13.77%) Hyper-V
4 39 (4.13%) vSphere
5 28 (2.97%) Docker
6 27 (2.86%) Virtual Machines
7 20 (2.12%) Firmware
8 18 (1.91%) VMware ESXi
9 17 (1.80%) Virtual Desktop
10 10 (1.06%) Oracle RAC
10 10 (1.06%) VMware NSX
11 9 (0.95%) vCloud
12 6 (0.64%) KVM
12 6 (0.64%) Virtual Servers
13 3 (0.32%) DFS Replication
13 3 (0.32%) EMC RecoverPoint
13 3 (0.32%) Microsoft Virtual Server
13 3 (0.32%) VMware Server
14 2 (0.21%) VMware Workstation
15 1 (0.11%) Xen
Systems Management
1 133 (14.09%) Microsoft Intune
2 118 (12.50%) Terraform
3 65 (6.89%) Ansible
4 61 (6.46%) Kubernetes
5 28 (2.97%) SCCM
6 25 (2.65%) Single Sign-On
7 22 (2.33%) VxRail
8 20 (2.12%) FortiGate
9 9 (0.95%) Data Guard
9 9 (0.95%) Grafana
9 9 (0.95%) Nagios
9 9 (0.95%) Packer
9 9 (0.95%) Prometheus
10 8 (0.85%) Dell DRAC
10 8 (0.85%) Oracle RMAN
10 8 (0.85%) vCenter Server
11 7 (0.74%) EMC NetWorker
12 6 (0.64%) EMC VPLEX
12 6 (0.64%) Jamf Pro
12 6 (0.64%) WSUS
Vendors
1 472 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 288 (30.51%) VMware
3 125 (13.24%) Cisco
4 68 (7.20%) Veeam
5 56 (5.93%) Dell
6 48 (5.08%) Palo Alto
7 44 (4.66%) HP
8 35 (3.71%) Meraki
8 35 (3.71%) Nimble Storage
9 34 (3.60%) Commvault
10 31 (3.28%) Splunk
11 30 (3.18%) Tenable
12 27 (2.86%) EMC
13 26 (2.75%) Oracle
14 25 (2.65%) Fortinet
15 24 (2.54%) SolarWinds
16 23 (2.44%) Dynatrace
16 23 (2.44%) IBM
16 23 (2.44%) Sophos
16 23 (2.44%) Zscaler