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

6 months to
28 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 177 244 205
Rank change year-on-year +67 -39 +61
Permanent jobs citing Disaster Recovery 1,179 625 1,162
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.16% 1.27% 1.32%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.58% 1.41% 1.62%
Number of salaries quoted 844 494 902
10th Percentile £34,500 £33,750 £34,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £43,000 £42,750
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 £76,250 £71,188
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 74,833 44,225 71,828
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.64% 89.70% 81.44%
Number of salaries quoted 51,638 25,059 48,434
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% - -8.66%
75th Percentile £78,750 £76,250 £73,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £93,750
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 28 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 28 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 +58 1,011 £57,500 -4.17% 331
UK excluding London +61 747 £47,500 -9.52% 258
London +49 369 £75,000 - 118
Work from Home +85 356 £60,000 +9.09% 125
North of England +61 220 £47,500 -11.63% 68
South East +61 199 £50,000 - 88
Midlands +26 119 £55,000 - 38
North West +58 115 £47,500 -11.63% 29
Yorkshire +27 88 £45,000 -28.00% 34
West Midlands +41 87 £55,000 -4.35% 28
East of England +9 53 £44,250 -15.71% 19
Northern Ireland -25 51 - - 6
South West -81 46 £49,375 +3.95% 25
Scotland +39 38 £48,500 -9.77% 11
East Midlands -14 32 £50,000 +8.11% 10
Wales -44 19 £43,000 -25.22% 14
North East -50 17 £42,500 -12.82% 5
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
1 121 (10.26%) Microsoft Exchange
2 117 (9.92%) SharePoint
3 22 (1.87%) IIS
4 15 (1.27%) Apache
5 10 (0.85%) Apache Spark
6 8 (0.68%) nginx
7 4 (0.34%) Confluence
8 3 (0.25%) WordPress
9 2 (0.17%) Apache Airflow
9 2 (0.17%) OpenStack
9 2 (0.17%) WebLogic
10 1 (0.085%) Site Server
Applications
1 19 (1.61%) Microsoft Office
2 14 (1.19%) MS Visio
2 14 (1.19%) PlantUML
3 6 (0.51%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.085%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 13 (1.10%) FLEXCUBE
2 6 (0.51%) Raiser’s Edge
3 5 (0.42%) JDE EnterpriseOne
3 5 (0.42%) Sage 200
4 4 (0.34%) 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 (0.085%) Bloomberg TOMS
7 1 (0.085%) Misys Equation
7 1 (0.085%) Misys Midas
7 1 (0.085%) Sage 50
7 1 (0.085%) SAP EHS
7 1 (0.085%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 614 (52.08%) Azure
2 351 (29.77%) Microsoft 365
3 232 (19.68%) AWS
4 190 (16.12%) Entra ID
5 124 (10.52%) SaaS
6 79 (6.70%) IaaS
7 64 (5.43%) PaaS
8 49 (4.16%) Power Platform
9 44 (3.73%) Nutanix
10 37 (3.14%) Datadog
10 37 (3.14%) GCP
11 34 (2.88%) Cloud Computing
12 32 (2.71%) Azure DevOps
13 23 (1.95%) GitHub
14 22 (1.87%) GitHub Actions
15 21 (1.78%) Azure Monitor
16 20 (1.70%) Google Workspace
16 20 (1.70%) Mimecast
17 19 (1.61%) AWS CloudFormation
17 19 (1.61%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 342 (29.01%) Firewall
2 261 (22.14%) DNS
3 215 (18.24%) VPN
4 191 (16.20%) DHCP
5 154 (13.06%) WAN
6 129 (10.94%) VLAN
7 124 (10.52%) LAN
8 103 (8.74%) Wi-Fi
9 99 (8.40%) Network Security
10 90 (7.63%) TCP/IP
11 59 (5.00%) SAN
11 59 (5.00%) Wireless
12 41 (3.48%) Internet
13 33 (2.80%) SD-WAN
13 33 (2.80%) SSL
14 31 (2.63%) VoIP
15 30 (2.54%) Cisco ISE
16 20 (1.70%) Cisco Nexus
17 19 (1.61%) NAS
18 16 (1.36%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 91 (7.72%) SQL Server
2 35 (2.97%) Amazon RDS
3 30 (2.54%) Power BI
4 29 (2.46%) Azure SQL Database
5 16 (1.36%) PostgreSQL
6 14 (1.19%) Oracle Database
7 13 (1.10%) Data Warehouse
8 11 (0.93%) MySQL
9 8 (0.68%) Metadata
9 8 (0.68%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 7 (0.59%) Data Lake
11 6 (0.51%) NoSQL
12 5 (0.42%) MongoDB
12 5 (0.42%) SQL Server Analysis Services
13 4 (0.34%) DynamoDB
13 4 (0.34%) Elasticsearch
13 4 (0.34%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 3 (0.25%) Big Data
14 3 (0.25%) Delta Lake
14 3 (0.25%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 21 (1.78%) JIRA
2 16 (1.36%) Chocolatey
3 15 (1.27%) Git
4 11 (0.93%) GitLab
5 6 (0.51%) JUnit
5 6 (0.51%) Spock
5 6 (0.51%) Visual Studio Code
6 5 (0.42%) Jenkins
7 4 (0.34%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 4 (0.34%) MLflow
8 3 (0.25%) Bitbucket
9 2 (0.17%) Selenium
9 2 (0.17%) TeamCity
9 2 (0.17%) Terragrunt
9 2 (0.17%) Yeoman
10 1 (0.085%) Claude Code
10 1 (0.085%) IntelliJ
10 1 (0.085%) Maven
General
1 403 (34.18%) Social Skills
2 211 (17.90%) Finance
3 146 (12.38%) Analytical Skills
4 76 (6.45%) Law
5 74 (6.28%) Legal
6 70 (5.94%) Banking
7 57 (4.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 48 (4.07%) Manufacturing
9 37 (3.14%) Organisational Skills
10 35 (2.97%) Retail
11 33 (2.80%) Documentation Skills
12 32 (2.71%) Influencing Skills
12 32 (2.71%) Public Sector
13 24 (2.04%) Telecoms
14 19 (1.61%) Back Office
15 14 (1.19%) Financial Institution
16 12 (1.02%) Mandarin Language
17 10 (0.85%) Presentation Skills
18 8 (0.68%) Advertising
18 8 (0.68%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 223 (18.91%) Senior
2 179 (15.18%) IT Support
3 152 (12.89%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 141 (11.96%) IT Engineer
4 141 (11.96%) IT Manager
5 115 (9.75%) Support Engineer
6 94 (7.97%) IT Support Engineer
7 79 (6.70%) Architect
8 71 (6.02%) Analyst
9 64 (5.43%) Cloud Engineer
10 60 (5.09%) Service Manager
11 58 (4.92%) Lead
12 56 (4.75%) Resilience Manager
12 56 (4.75%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
13 55 (4.66%) IT Services Manager
14 50 (4.24%) Azure Engineer
15 46 (3.90%) Network Engineer
16 39 (3.31%) Administrator
17 37 (3.14%) IT Analyst
18 35 (2.97%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 63 (5.34%) Middleware
2 14 (1.19%) ARM Templates
3 9 (0.76%) Kafka
4 8 (0.68%) Microsoft Graph
4 8 (0.68%) Web Services
5 7 (0.59%) FIX Protocol
5 7 (0.59%) SAML
6 6 (0.51%) AngularJS
6 6 (0.51%) Spring
7 5 (0.42%) .NET
7 5 (0.42%) REST
8 4 (0.34%) web3js
9 3 (0.25%) JSON
9 3 (0.25%) Nuxt
9 3 (0.25%) OAuth
9 3 (0.25%) ODBC
9 3 (0.25%) PySpark
9 3 (0.25%) RESTful
9 3 (0.25%) Ruby on Rails
10 2 (0.17%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 106 (8.99%) Data Centre
2 95 (8.06%) Cyber Threat
3 83 (7.04%) Management Information System
4 72 (6.11%) Cloud Native
5 70 (5.94%) Driving Licence
6 67 (5.68%) Hybrid Cloud
7 59 (5.00%) Security Posture
8 56 (4.75%) Replication
9 53 (4.50%) Self-Motivation
10 49 (4.16%) Onboarding
11 35 (2.97%) PKI
12 30 (2.54%) Enterprise Storage
12 30 (2.54%) NHS
13 26 (2.21%) Public Cloud
14 23 (1.95%) CCTV
15 22 (1.87%) Enterprise Software
16 21 (1.78%) CMDB
16 21 (1.78%) Virtual Team
17 18 (1.53%) Clustering
17 18 (1.53%) iSeries
Operating Systems
1 398 (33.76%) Windows
2 272 (23.07%) Windows Server
3 120 (10.18%) Linux
4 31 (2.63%) Windows Server 2019
5 24 (2.04%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 24 (2.04%) Windows 10
5 24 (2.04%) Windows Server 2016
6 23 (1.95%) Mac OS
7 22 (1.87%) Unix
8 17 (1.44%) Ubuntu
9 13 (1.10%) AIX
10 12 (1.02%) Oracle Linux
11 10 (0.85%) CentOS
12 9 (0.76%) Solaris
12 9 (0.76%) VMS
13 4 (0.34%) Windows Server 2012
14 3 (0.25%) Apple iOS
15 2 (0.17%) Amazon Linux
15 2 (0.17%) Debian
16 1 (0.085%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 479 (40.63%) Business Continuity
2 352 (29.86%) Cybersecurity
3 315 (26.72%) Problem-Solving
4 296 (25.11%) Continuous Improvement
5 256 (21.71%) ITIL
6 212 (17.98%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 197 (16.71%) DevOps
8 185 (15.69%) High Availability
9 159 (13.49%) Incident Response
10 153 (12.98%) Information Security
11 147 (12.47%) Stakeholder Management
12 140 (11.87%) Service Delivery
13 136 (11.54%) Infrastructure as Code
14 128 (10.86%) Agile
15 119 (10.09%) Project Delivery
16 117 (9.92%) Change Management
17 115 (9.75%) CI/CD
17 115 (9.75%) Cloud Security
18 110 (9.33%) Mentoring
19 109 (9.25%) Incident Management
Programming Languages
1 173 (14.67%) PowerShell
2 114 (9.67%) Python
3 110 (9.33%) SQL
4 46 (3.90%) Bash
5 23 (1.95%) Shell Script
6 22 (1.87%) Bicep
7 12 (1.02%) Java
7 12 (1.02%) Korn
7 12 (1.02%) PL/SQL
8 11 (0.93%) JavaScript
9 9 (0.76%) TypeScript
10 6 (0.51%) T-SQL
11 5 (0.42%) Kusto Query Language
12 4 (0.34%) C#
12 4 (0.34%) COBOL
12 4 (0.34%) Search Processing Language
13 3 (0.25%) Go
13 3 (0.25%) Ruby
14 2 (0.17%) Scala
14 2 (0.17%) XAML
Qualifications
1 130 (11.03%) Degree
2 97 (8.23%) Cisco Certification
3 93 (7.89%) CISSP
4 84 (7.12%) Microsoft Certification
5 83 (7.04%) Azure Certification
6 79 (6.70%) CISM
7 74 (6.28%) CCNP
8 67 (5.68%) Security Cleared
9 52 (4.41%) CCNA
9 52 (4.41%) SC Cleared
10 50 (4.24%) ITIL Certification
11 38 (3.22%) Computer Science Degree
12 33 (2.80%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13 32 (2.71%) Postgraduate
14 23 (1.95%) AWS Certification
15 16 (1.36%) Master's Degree
16 15 (1.27%) CEH
16 15 (1.27%) CISA
17 14 (1.19%) CRISC
18 13 (1.10%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 138 (11.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 133 (11.28%) NIST
3 104 (8.82%) Cyber Essentials
4 103 (8.74%) GDPR
5 75 (6.36%) ISO 22301
6 67 (5.68%) SLA
7 49 (4.16%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 49 (4.16%) PCI DSS
8 29 (2.46%) PMO
9 28 (2.37%) GRC
10 24 (2.04%) SOC 2
11 23 (1.95%) Data Quality
12 16 (1.36%) COBIT
13 14 (1.19%) NCSC
14 10 (0.85%) QA
15 8 (0.68%) Actionable Recommendations
15 8 (0.68%) SOC 1
16 5 (0.42%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
17 4 (0.34%) HL7
17 4 (0.34%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 318 (26.97%) Active Directory
2 273 (23.16%) VMware Infrastructure
3 179 (15.18%) Hyper-V
4 46 (3.90%) Docker
5 45 (3.82%) vSphere
6 31 (2.63%) Virtual Machines
7 28 (2.37%) VMware ESXi
8 24 (2.04%) Firmware
9 21 (1.78%) Virtual Desktop
10 14 (1.19%) Oracle RAC
11 11 (0.93%) VMware NSX
12 9 (0.76%) vCloud
13 8 (0.68%) KVM
14 6 (0.51%) Squid
15 4 (0.34%) EMC RecoverPoint
16 3 (0.25%) DFS Replication
16 3 (0.25%) Virtual Servers
16 3 (0.25%) VMware Server
17 2 (0.17%) VMware Workstation
18 1 (0.085%) Xen
Systems Management
1 152 (12.89%) Microsoft Intune
2 139 (11.79%) Terraform
3 76 (6.45%) Kubernetes
4 74 (6.28%) Ansible
5 33 (2.80%) Single Sign-On
6 28 (2.37%) FortiGate
7 25 (2.12%) SCCM
8 19 (1.61%) VxRail
9 13 (1.10%) Data Guard
10 12 (1.02%) Nagios
10 12 (1.02%) Oracle RMAN
11 11 (0.93%) Jamf Pro
11 11 (0.93%) vCenter Server
12 10 (0.85%) Prometheus
13 8 (0.68%) Dell DRAC
13 8 (0.68%) Grafana
14 7 (0.59%) Avamar
14 7 (0.59%) Packer
15 6 (0.51%) EMC VPLEX
15 6 (0.51%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 564 (47.84%) Microsoft
2 326 (27.65%) VMware
3 178 (15.10%) Cisco
4 82 (6.96%) Veeam
5 59 (5.00%) Palo Alto
6 46 (3.90%) Dell
7 44 (3.73%) Splunk
8 41 (3.48%) Oracle
9 39 (3.31%) Meraki
10 38 (3.22%) HP
11 37 (3.14%) Fortinet
12 32 (2.71%) Sophos
13 30 (2.54%) Aruba
14 29 (2.46%) Google
15 28 (2.37%) SolarWinds
16 27 (2.29%) Nimble Storage
17 26 (2.21%) SonicWALL
18 25 (2.12%) Commvault
18 25 (2.12%) IBM
18 25 (2.12%) Tenable