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 3 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 166 253 214
Rank change year-on-year +87 -39 +18
Permanent jobs citing Disaster Recovery 1,321 596 1,040
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.20% 1.20% 1.28%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.64% 1.35% 1.59%
Number of salaries quoted 948 467 709
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,700 £35,000
25th Percentile £42,250 £42,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -5.98%
75th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £76,250
90th Percentile £93,500 £97,500 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £50,375 £50,000
% change year-on-year -0.74% +0.75% -

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 80,423 44,076 65,401
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.05% 88.58% 80.81%
Number of salaries quoted 55,931 25,099 39,866
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £56,341
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -2.38% -6.10%
75th Percentile £79,938 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £96,250 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £51,350
% change year-on-year +15.79% -7.50% -5.93%

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 3 September 2026.

Salary histogram for Disaster Recovery in the UK

Disaster Recovery
Top 17 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 3 September 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 +78 1,155 £57,500 -4.17% 682
UK excluding London +80 871 £50,000 -0.74% 419
London +53 401 £75,000 - 349
Work from Home +88 397 £60,000 +4.35% 279
North of England +77 246 £47,500 -11.63% 102
South East +62 223 £50,000 - 115
Midlands +41 148 £57,500 +4.55% 68
North West +62 134 £47,500 -11.63% 47
West Midlands +45 114 £59,250 +3.04% 44
Yorkshire +23 97 £47,500 -24.00% 40
South West -65 71 £48,000 +3.78% 54
East of England -3 63 £53,725 +49.24% 28
Scotland +51 52 £47,500 -9.52% 32
Northern Ireland -46 49 - - 19
East Midlands -11 34 £45,000 -14.29% 24
Wales -43 21 £45,000 -21.74% 8
North East -62 15 £52,500 +5.00% 19

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
1 162 (12.26%) SharePoint
2 147 (11.13%) Microsoft Exchange
3 27 (2.04%) IIS
4 21 (1.59%) Apache
5 15 (1.14%) nginx
6 11 (0.83%) Apache Spark
7 5 (0.38%) Confluence
8 4 (0.30%) OpenStack
9 3 (0.23%) WordPress
10 2 (0.15%) WebLogic
11 1 (0.076%) Apache Airflow
11 1 (0.076%) CICS
11 1 (0.076%) Site Server
Applications
1 19 (1.44%) PlantUML
2 18 (1.36%) Microsoft Office
3 12 (0.91%) MS Visio
4 11 (0.83%) Microsoft Excel
5 3 (0.23%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.076%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 11 (0.83%) FLEXCUBE
2 6 (0.45%) Raiser’s Edge
3 5 (0.38%) JDE EnterpriseOne
3 5 (0.38%) Sage 200
4 4 (0.30%) NetSuite
5 3 (0.23%) Dynamics CRM
5 3 (0.23%) Q-Pulse
6 2 (0.15%) Adobe Campaign
6 2 (0.15%) Integrated Workplace Management System
6 2 (0.15%) SAP S/4HANA
7 1 (0.076%) Bloomberg TOMS
7 1 (0.076%) Eikon
7 1 (0.076%) Misys Equation
7 1 (0.076%) Misys Midas
7 1 (0.076%) Oracle Applications
7 1 (0.076%) Oracle EBS
7 1 (0.076%) Sage 50
7 1 (0.076%) SAP EHS
7 1 (0.076%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 698 (52.84%) Azure
2 414 (31.34%) Microsoft 365
3 258 (19.53%) AWS
4 253 (19.15%) Entra ID
5 146 (11.05%) SaaS
6 102 (7.72%) IaaS
7 76 (5.75%) PaaS
8 54 (4.09%) Power Platform
9 46 (3.48%) Cloud Computing
10 43 (3.26%) Azure DevOps
11 41 (3.10%) OneDrive
12 40 (3.03%) GCP
13 35 (2.65%) Azure Monitor
13 35 (2.65%) Datadog
14 33 (2.50%) Microsoft Copilot
15 30 (2.27%) Nutanix
16 28 (2.12%) GitHub
17 26 (1.97%) GitHub Actions
18 24 (1.82%) OCI
19 23 (1.74%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 367 (27.78%) Firewall
2 307 (23.24%) DNS
3 224 (16.96%) VPN
4 220 (16.65%) DHCP
5 161 (12.19%) WAN
6 139 (10.52%) VLAN
7 131 (9.92%) LAN
8 117 (8.86%) Wi-Fi
9 106 (8.02%) Network Security
10 101 (7.65%) TCP/IP
11 77 (5.83%) Wireless
12 64 (4.84%) SAN
13 50 (3.79%) Internet
14 41 (3.10%) SD-WAN
14 41 (3.10%) VoIP
15 39 (2.95%) SSL
16 29 (2.20%) Cisco ISE
17 24 (1.82%) Cisco Nexus
18 23 (1.74%) NAS
19 15 (1.14%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 92 (6.96%) SQL Server
2 37 (2.80%) Amazon RDS
3 33 (2.50%) Power BI
4 31 (2.35%) Azure SQL Database
5 19 (1.44%) PostgreSQL
6 16 (1.21%) Data Warehouse
7 13 (0.98%) Oracle Database
8 11 (0.83%) Data Lake
8 11 (0.83%) MySQL
9 10 (0.76%) Metadata
10 8 (0.61%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 6 (0.45%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 6 (0.45%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 5 (0.38%) MongoDB
12 5 (0.38%) NoSQL
13 4 (0.30%) DynamoDB
13 4 (0.30%) Elasticsearch
14 3 (0.23%) NonStop SQL
14 3 (0.23%) Relational Database
14 3 (0.23%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 20 (1.51%) Git
1 20 (1.51%) JIRA
2 16 (1.21%) Chocolatey
3 14 (1.06%) GitLab
4 10 (0.76%) JUnit
4 10 (0.76%) Spock
5 7 (0.53%) Jenkins
6 6 (0.45%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 6 (0.45%) Visual Studio Code
7 5 (0.38%) Bitbucket
8 4 (0.30%) IntelliJ
8 4 (0.30%) Maven
9 3 (0.23%) MLflow
10 2 (0.15%) git-flow
10 2 (0.15%) Selenium
10 2 (0.15%) Terragrunt
10 2 (0.15%) Yeoman
11 1 (0.076%) Claude Code
11 1 (0.076%) TeamCity
General
1 444 (33.61%) Social Skills
2 236 (17.87%) Finance
3 183 (13.85%) Analytical Skills
4 85 (6.43%) Legal
5 77 (5.83%) Law
6 69 (5.22%) Banking
7 64 (4.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 59 (4.47%) Manufacturing
9 41 (3.10%) Documentation Skills
10 39 (2.95%) Retail
11 38 (2.88%) Public Sector
12 36 (2.73%) Organisational Skills
13 35 (2.65%) Influencing Skills
14 23 (1.74%) Telecoms
15 18 (1.36%) Back Office
16 14 (1.06%) Financial Institution
17 13 (0.98%) Aerospace
18 12 (0.91%) Mandarin Language
18 12 (0.91%) Presentation Skills
19 9 (0.68%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 251 (19.00%) Senior
2 191 (14.46%) IT Support
3 167 (12.64%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 146 (11.05%) IT Engineer
5 145 (10.98%) IT Manager
6 115 (8.71%) Support Engineer
7 103 (7.80%) Architect
8 96 (7.27%) Analyst
8 96 (7.27%) IT Support Engineer
9 70 (5.30%) Lead
10 65 (4.92%) Service Manager
11 62 (4.69%) Cloud Engineer
12 59 (4.47%) Resilience Manager
13 57 (4.31%) Azure Engineer
14 56 (4.24%) IT Services Manager
14 56 (4.24%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
15 55 (4.16%) Network Engineer
16 46 (3.48%) IT Analyst
17 40 (3.03%) Administrator
18 38 (2.88%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 165 (12.49%) Terraform
2 73 (5.53%) Middleware
3 14 (1.06%) ARM Templates
4 10 (0.76%) AngularJS
4 10 (0.76%) Spring
5 8 (0.61%) Kafka
5 8 (0.61%) Microsoft Graph
5 8 (0.61%) Web Services
6 7 (0.53%) FIX Protocol
7 6 (0.45%) SAML
8 5 (0.38%) .NET
8 5 (0.38%) AWS CDK
8 5 (0.38%) ModSecurity
9 4 (0.30%) REST
9 4 (0.30%) web3js
10 3 (0.23%) 802.1X
10 3 (0.23%) EDI
10 3 (0.23%) JSON
10 3 (0.23%) Nuxt
10 3 (0.23%) Ruby on Rails
Miscellaneous
1 112 (8.48%) Data Centre
2 91 (6.89%) Cyber Threat
3 82 (6.21%) Management Information System
4 79 (5.98%) Cloud Native
5 75 (5.68%) Onboarding
6 70 (5.30%) Driving Licence
7 62 (4.69%) Security Posture
8 61 (4.62%) Hybrid Cloud
9 60 (4.54%) Replication
10 48 (3.63%) Self-Motivation
11 32 (2.42%) PKI
12 31 (2.35%) Enterprise Storage
13 30 (2.27%) NHS
14 26 (1.97%) CCTV
14 26 (1.97%) Enterprise Software
15 25 (1.89%) Public Cloud
16 23 (1.74%) Clustering
16 23 (1.74%) Private Cloud
17 21 (1.59%) CMDB
17 21 (1.59%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 450 (34.07%) Windows
2 319 (24.15%) Windows Server
3 144 (10.90%) Linux
4 34 (2.57%) Windows Server 2019
5 29 (2.20%) Windows 10
6 27 (2.04%) Ubuntu
7 25 (1.89%) Mac OS
8 22 (1.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 21 (1.59%) Unix
9 21 (1.59%) Windows Server 2016
10 13 (0.98%) VMS
11 12 (0.91%) AIX
12 10 (0.76%) Oracle Linux
13 9 (0.68%) CentOS
13 9 (0.68%) Solaris
14 5 (0.38%) Debian
15 4 (0.30%) Windows Server 2012
16 2 (0.15%) Amazon Linux
16 2 (0.15%) Apple iOS
16 2 (0.15%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 536 (40.58%) Business Continuity
2 409 (30.96%) Cybersecurity
3 361 (27.33%) Continuous Improvement
4 348 (26.34%) Problem-Solving
5 270 (20.44%) ITIL
6 242 (18.32%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 221 (16.73%) DevOps
8 206 (15.59%) High Availability
9 186 (14.08%) Stakeholder Management
10 184 (13.93%) Incident Response
11 175 (13.25%) Infrastructure as Code
12 173 (13.10%) Information Security
13 172 (13.02%) Service Delivery
14 160 (12.11%) Project Delivery
15 147 (11.13%) Agile
15 147 (11.13%) Mentoring
16 141 (10.67%) CI/CD
17 133 (10.07%) AI
17 133 (10.07%) Cloud Security
17 133 (10.07%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 197 (14.91%) PowerShell
2 131 (9.92%) Python
3 122 (9.24%) SQL
4 55 (4.16%) Bash
5 27 (2.04%) Bicep
6 23 (1.74%) Shell Script
7 20 (1.51%) Java
8 15 (1.14%) JavaScript
9 14 (1.06%) TypeScript
10 11 (0.83%) Korn
11 10 (0.76%) PL/SQL
12 6 (0.45%) Kusto Query Language
12 6 (0.45%) Search Processing Language
12 6 (0.45%) T-SQL
13 5 (0.38%) COBOL
14 4 (0.30%) Go
14 4 (0.30%) Groovy
14 4 (0.30%) XAML
15 3 (0.23%) C#
15 3 (0.23%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 146 (11.05%) Degree
2 102 (7.72%) Azure Certification
3 100 (7.57%) CISSP
4 97 (7.34%) Cisco Certification
5 89 (6.74%) Microsoft Certification
6 84 (6.36%) CISM
6 84 (6.36%) Security Cleared
7 70 (5.30%) CCNP
8 62 (4.69%) SC Cleared
9 58 (4.39%) ITIL Certification
10 50 (3.79%) CCNA
11 43 (3.26%) Postgraduate
12 41 (3.10%) Computer Science Degree
13 28 (2.12%) AWS Certification
13 28 (2.12%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
14 21 (1.59%) CompTIA Security+
15 19 (1.44%) DV Cleared
16 18 (1.36%) Master's Degree
17 16 (1.21%) Network+ Certification
18 15 (1.14%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 150 (11.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 139 (10.52%) NIST
3 119 (9.01%) Cyber Essentials
4 116 (8.78%) GDPR
5 86 (6.51%) SLA
6 78 (5.90%) ISO 22301
7 53 (4.01%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 43 (3.26%) PCI DSS
9 39 (2.95%) GRC
10 27 (2.04%) Data Quality
11 24 (1.82%) PMO
12 22 (1.67%) SOC 2
13 20 (1.51%) NCSC
14 16 (1.21%) COBIT
15 15 (1.14%) QA
16 8 (0.61%) ISO 9001
16 8 (0.61%) SOC 1
17 5 (0.38%) ISO/IEC 20000
17 5 (0.38%) Sarbanes-Oxley
18 4 (0.30%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 360 (27.25%) Active Directory
2 296 (22.41%) VMware Infrastructure
3 206 (15.59%) Hyper-V
4 51 (3.86%) Docker
5 48 (3.63%) vSphere
6 39 (2.95%) Virtual Machines
7 30 (2.27%) Firmware
8 28 (2.12%) Virtual Desktop
9 26 (1.97%) VMware ESXi
10 16 (1.21%) VMware NSX
11 12 (0.91%) Oracle RAC
12 9 (0.68%) vCloud
13 6 (0.45%) Squid
14 5 (0.38%) Virtual Servers
15 4 (0.30%) KVM
16 3 (0.23%) DFS Replication
16 3 (0.23%) EMC RecoverPoint
16 3 (0.23%) VMware Server
17 2 (0.15%) iptables
17 2 (0.15%) Microsoft Virtual Server
Systems Management
1 188 (14.23%) Microsoft Intune
2 83 (6.28%) Ansible
3 80 (6.06%) Kubernetes
4 40 (3.03%) Single Sign-On
5 35 (2.65%) FortiGate
6 27 (2.04%) SCCM
7 19 (1.44%) VxRail
8 16 (1.21%) Jamf Pro
9 13 (0.98%) Data Guard
9 13 (0.98%) Prometheus
10 11 (0.83%) Grafana
10 11 (0.83%) Nagios
10 11 (0.83%) Oracle RMAN
10 11 (0.83%) vCenter Server
11 8 (0.61%) Dell DRAC
11 8 (0.61%) Proxmox
12 7 (0.53%) Avamar
12 7 (0.53%) Packer
13 6 (0.45%) EMC VPLEX
13 6 (0.45%) WSUS
Vendors
1 654 (49.51%) Microsoft
2 345 (26.12%) VMware
3 199 (15.06%) Cisco
4 93 (7.04%) Veeam
5 71 (5.37%) Palo Alto
6 48 (3.63%) Oracle
7 47 (3.56%) SonicWALL
8 46 (3.48%) Fortinet
8 46 (3.48%) Splunk
9 41 (3.10%) Meraki
10 39 (2.95%) Dell
11 36 (2.73%) Google
12 35 (2.65%) Aruba
13 34 (2.57%) SolarWinds
14 33 (2.50%) HP
15 30 (2.27%) Sophos
16 29 (2.20%) Apple
16 29 (2.20%) Qualys
17 27 (2.04%) ServiceNow
18 26 (1.97%) AppDynamics