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 26 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 205 177 199
Rank change year-on-year -28 +22 +143
Permanent jobs citing Disaster Recovery 715 830 1,180
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.03% 1.74% 1.57%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.30% 1.88% 1.78%
Number of salaries quoted 546 527 1,074
10th Percentile £32,500 £38,250 £33,575
25th Percentile £45,000 £46,250 £42,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.35% +8.49%
75th Percentile £87,188 £77,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £105,000 £91,250 £80,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £53,300 £52,500
% change year-on-year -1.50% +1.52% +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 55,019 44,239 66,292
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 78.97% 92.93% 88.38%
Number of salaries quoted 33,006 22,069 51,040
10th Percentile £29,000 £33,750 £29,440
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,001 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -12.00%
75th Percentile £76,250 £81,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £102,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -9.07%

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 26 February 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 26 February 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 -39 621 £62,500 +4.17% 155
UK excluding London -64 366 £52,500 -1.50% 129
London +32 286 £80,000 +10.34% 39
Work from Home +27 216 £67,500 +8.00% 67
North of England -32 137 £47,500 +5.56% 40
Yorkshire -11 81 £47,500 -9.52% 15
South East -35 81 £63,000 -3.08% 33
Midlands -27 58 £52,500 -1.50% 26
West Midlands +5 41 £55,000 +3.19% 19
North West -59 37 £41,250 -8.33% 25
South West -35 29 £42,500 -31.45% 8
Northern Ireland - 21 - -
North East +1 19 £55,473 +40.44% 1
East of England -33 18 £62,500 +10.62% 14
East Midlands -44 16 £45,000 -25.00% 7
Scotland -50 11 £48,000 -13.43% 10
Wales +1 9 £29,750 -47.58% 3
Channel Islands - 4 £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
1 117 (16.36%) Microsoft Exchange
2 100 (13.99%) SharePoint
3 9 (1.26%) IIS
4 5 (0.70%) Tomcat
5 4 (0.56%) WebSphere
5 4 (0.56%) WebSphere Application Server
6 3 (0.42%) Confluence
7 2 (0.28%) Apache
7 2 (0.28%) Apache Spark
7 2 (0.28%) BizTalk Server
7 2 (0.28%) CICS
7 2 (0.28%) CMS
8 1 (0.14%) Apache Airflow
8 1 (0.14%) Site Server
8 1 (0.14%) Skype for Business
8 1 (0.14%) WebLogic
Applications
1 30 (4.20%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (0.84%) MS Visio
3 5 (0.70%) Spreadsheet
4 4 (0.56%) Microsoft Excel
5 2 (0.28%) Acrobat
5 2 (0.28%) Weka
Business Applications
1 5 (0.70%) Oracle EBS
2 4 (0.56%) Markit EDM
3 3 (0.42%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (0.42%) FLEXCUBE
4 2 (0.28%) Dynamics AX
5 1 (0.14%) Elite 3E
5 1 (0.14%) Oracle 11i
5 1 (0.14%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.14%) Sage 200
5 1 (0.14%) SAP ERP
5 1 (0.14%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.14%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 393 (54.97%) Azure
2 238 (33.29%) Microsoft 365
3 171 (23.92%) Entra ID
4 130 (18.18%) AWS
5 58 (8.11%) Nutanix
6 51 (7.13%) Azure Monitor
6 51 (7.13%) SaaS
7 45 (6.29%) GCP
8 44 (6.15%) Azure DevOps
9 43 (6.01%) IaaS
10 40 (5.59%) GitHub
11 38 (5.31%) PaaS
12 36 (5.03%) OneDrive
13 35 (4.90%) Microsoft Purview
14 34 (4.76%) Datadog
15 25 (3.50%) GitHub Actions
16 24 (3.36%) Serverless
17 22 (3.08%) Amazon EKS
18 21 (2.94%) AWS CloudFormation
19 20 (2.80%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 210 (29.37%) Firewall
2 171 (23.92%) DNS
3 149 (20.84%) DHCP
4 146 (20.42%) VPN
5 109 (15.24%) WAN
6 77 (10.77%) VLAN
7 66 (9.23%) TCP/IP
8 64 (8.95%) LAN
9 52 (7.27%) Wi-Fi
10 49 (6.85%) SAN
11 35 (4.90%) SD-WAN
11 35 (4.90%) Wireless
12 34 (4.76%) Network Security
13 25 (3.50%) Remote Desktop
14 23 (3.22%) VoIP
15 19 (2.66%) NAS
16 16 (2.24%) BGP
17 15 (2.10%) SSL
18 9 (1.26%) Cisco ISE
19 7 (0.98%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 59 (8.25%) SQL Server
2 24 (3.36%) Amazon RDS
3 20 (2.80%) PostgreSQL
4 19 (2.66%) Azure SQL Database
5 18 (2.52%) Oracle Database
6 16 (2.24%) MySQL
7 13 (1.82%) Power BI
8 9 (1.26%) Data Lake
8 9 (1.26%) Delta Lake
9 8 (1.12%) Amazon Aurora
9 8 (1.12%) MongoDB
10 6 (0.84%) BigQuery
10 6 (0.84%) Data Warehouse
10 6 (0.84%) DB2
10 6 (0.84%) Oracle Exadata
10 6 (0.84%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 5 (0.70%) Geospatial Data
11 5 (0.70%) GIS
11 5 (0.70%) Oracle Database 12c
12 4 (0.56%) Oracle Database 11g
Development Applications
1 29 (4.06%) Git
2 20 (2.80%) Jenkins
3 13 (1.82%) JIRA
4 12 (1.68%) Chocolatey
5 7 (0.98%) GitLab
6 6 (0.84%) Selenium
7 5 (0.70%) Sonatype Nexus
8 4 (0.56%) Bitbucket
8 4 (0.56%) LabVIEW
9 3 (0.42%) LoadRunner
9 3 (0.42%) Maven
9 3 (0.42%) TeamCity
10 2 (0.28%) Artifactory
10 2 (0.28%) Octopus Deploy
10 2 (0.28%) Robot Framework
10 2 (0.28%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
10 2 (0.28%) TestRail
11 1 (0.14%) JMeter
11 1 (0.14%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 273 (38.18%) Social Skills
2 201 (28.11%) Finance
3 103 (14.41%) Analytical Skills
4 48 (6.71%) Banking
4 48 (6.71%) Law
5 35 (4.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 30 (4.20%) Public Sector
7 28 (3.92%) Retail
8 22 (3.08%) Documentation Skills
9 20 (2.80%) Financial Institution
10 19 (2.66%) Organisational Skills
11 18 (2.52%) Manufacturing
12 14 (1.96%) Legal
13 13 (1.82%) Back Office
14 10 (1.40%) Telecoms
15 9 (1.26%) Presentation Skills
16 7 (0.98%) Advertising
16 7 (0.98%) French Language
16 7 (0.98%) Influencing Skills
16 7 (0.98%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 126 (17.62%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 105 (14.69%) Senior
3 82 (11.47%) Cloud Engineer
4 72 (10.07%) Support Engineer
5 60 (8.39%) IT Engineer
6 59 (8.25%) IT Support
7 58 (8.11%) Lead
8 51 (7.13%) IT Manager
9 44 (6.15%) Analyst
10 39 (5.45%) Azure Engineer
11 38 (5.31%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
12 31 (4.34%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
13 30 (4.20%) DevOps Engineer
14 28 (3.92%) IT Support Engineer
15 27 (3.78%) Architect
16 25 (3.50%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
16 25 (3.50%) Support Technician
17 24 (3.36%) Infrastructure Support
18 23 (3.22%) Platform Engineer
18 23 (3.22%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (2.66%) SAML
2 16 (2.24%) OAuth
3 13 (1.82%) YAML
4 12 (1.68%) ADO
5 11 (1.54%) REST
6 9 (1.26%) PySpark
7 8 (1.12%) LDAP
7 8 (1.12%) RESTful
8 7 (0.98%) .NET
8 7 (0.98%) ARM Templates
8 7 (0.98%) EDI
8 7 (0.98%) Loki
9 6 (0.84%) Elastic Stack
10 5 (0.70%) Middleware
11 4 (0.56%) AWS SAM
11 4 (0.56%) Kafka
11 4 (0.56%) LAPP Stack
11 4 (0.56%) SOAP
11 4 (0.56%) WebSphere MQ
12 3 (0.42%) Microsoft Graph
Miscellaneous
1 68 (9.51%) Hybrid Cloud
2 48 (6.71%) Management Information System
3 33 (4.62%) Data Centre
3 33 (4.62%) Onboarding
3 33 (4.62%) Replication
4 31 (4.34%) Public Cloud
5 30 (4.20%) Cloud Native
6 28 (3.92%) Enterprise Software
7 26 (3.64%) Data Protection Act
8 25 (3.50%) Cyber Threat
8 25 (3.50%) Driving Licence
9 20 (2.80%) PKI
10 19 (2.66%) Self-Motivation
11 17 (2.38%) CMDB
11 17 (2.38%) Security Posture
12 16 (2.24%) Clustering
13 14 (1.96%) Legacy Systems
14 9 (1.26%) Product Ownership
15 8 (1.12%) Distributed Systems
15 8 (1.12%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 247 (34.55%) Windows
2 173 (24.20%) Windows Server
3 85 (11.89%) Linux
4 29 (4.06%) Windows 10
5 20 (2.80%) Unix
6 17 (2.38%) Apple iOS
7 16 (2.24%) Mac OS
7 16 (2.24%) VMS
8 15 (2.10%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 7 (0.98%) Android
10 6 (0.84%) Windows Server 2019
11 5 (0.70%) Windows Server 2016
12 4 (0.56%) CentOS
12 4 (0.56%) Oracle Linux
12 4 (0.56%) Rocky
12 4 (0.56%) Ubuntu
13 3 (0.42%) AIX
14 2 (0.28%) Windows Server 2012
14 2 (0.28%) zOS
15 1 (0.14%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 237 (33.15%) Business Continuity
2 187 (26.15%) Cybersecurity
3 180 (25.17%) Problem-Solving
4 171 (23.92%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 167 (23.36%) ITIL
6 149 (20.84%) Continuous Improvement
7 142 (19.86%) High Availability
8 129 (18.04%) DevOps
9 110 (15.38%) Infrastructure as Code
10 102 (14.27%) Incident Response
11 100 (13.99%) CI/CD
12 96 (13.43%) Migration
13 80 (11.19%) Service Delivery
14 74 (10.35%) Risk Management
15 73 (10.21%) Stakeholder Management
16 72 (10.07%) ITSM
17 70 (9.79%) Data Protection
18 68 (9.51%) Customer Service
19 67 (9.37%) Change Management
20 66 (9.23%) Cloud Security
Programming Languages
1 170 (23.78%) PowerShell
2 117 (16.36%) Python
3 79 (11.05%) SQL
4 40 (5.59%) Bash
5 21 (2.94%) Java
6 14 (1.96%) Bicep
7 13 (1.82%) JavaScript
8 12 (1.68%) Kusto Query Language
9 11 (1.54%) Go
10 10 (1.40%) Shell Script
11 9 (1.26%) Scala
12 8 (1.12%) T-SQL
13 7 (0.98%) C#
14 4 (0.56%) Korn
14 4 (0.56%) TypeScript
15 3 (0.42%) PL/SQL
15 3 (0.42%) VBScript
16 2 (0.28%) COBOL
16 2 (0.28%) JCL
17 1 (0.14%) VBA
Qualifications
1 107 (14.97%) Degree
2 53 (7.41%) Microsoft Certification
3 51 (7.13%) Azure Certification
4 48 (6.71%) Security Cleared
5 46 (6.43%) Computer Science Degree
6 33 (4.62%) SC Cleared
7 29 (4.06%) AWS Certification
7 29 (4.06%) Cisco Certification
8 22 (3.08%) CCNP
9 19 (2.66%) CISSP
10 18 (2.52%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 17 (2.38%) CEH
12 14 (1.96%) BPSS Clearance
13 13 (1.82%) CISM
14 12 (1.68%) ITIL Certification
14 12 (1.68%) Microsoft Certified Professional
15 11 (1.54%) HNC
15 11 (1.54%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
16 10 (1.40%) DV Cleared
17 9 (1.26%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 119 (16.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 80 (11.19%) GDPR
3 70 (9.79%) Cyber Essentials
4 65 (9.09%) NIST
5 52 (7.27%) SLA
6 37 (5.17%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 24 (3.36%) PCI DSS
8 23 (3.22%) SOC 2
9 15 (2.10%) ISO 22301
10 9 (1.26%) Data Quality
11 8 (1.12%) Actionable Recommendations
11 8 (1.12%) ISAE 3402
12 6 (0.84%) GRC
12 6 (0.84%) NCSC
12 6 (0.84%) QA
13 5 (0.70%) PMO
14 4 (0.56%) DICOM
14 4 (0.56%) HL7
15 3 (0.42%) Basel III
15 3 (0.42%) GxP
System Software
1 244 (34.13%) Active Directory
2 141 (19.72%) VMware Infrastructure
3 102 (14.27%) Hyper-V
4 51 (7.13%) Docker
5 34 (4.76%) Virtual Machines
6 22 (3.08%) vSphere
7 16 (2.24%) VMware ESXi
8 13 (1.82%) Virtual Servers
9 10 (1.40%) Firmware
9 10 (1.40%) Virtual Desktop
10 9 (1.26%) Oracle RAC
11 8 (1.12%) vCloud
12 5 (0.70%) KVM
13 3 (0.42%) Microsoft Virtual Server
14 2 (0.28%) BitLocker
14 2 (0.28%) RACF
14 2 (0.28%) VMware Workstation
14 2 (0.28%) XenDesktop
15 1 (0.14%) EMC RecoverPoint
15 1 (0.14%) Squid
Systems Management
1 119 (16.64%) Microsoft Intune
2 115 (16.08%) Terraform
3 74 (10.35%) Kubernetes
4 71 (9.93%) Ansible
5 20 (2.80%) Grafana
5 20 (2.80%) SCCM
6 17 (2.38%) Prometheus
7 11 (1.54%) Data Guard
7 11 (1.54%) Nagios
8 10 (1.40%) vCenter Server
9 9 (1.26%) Oracle RMAN
9 9 (1.26%) Puppet
9 9 (1.26%) VxRail
10 8 (1.12%) Single Sign-On
11 7 (0.98%) FortiGate
12 6 (0.84%) Avamar
12 6 (0.84%) Failover Clustering
12 6 (0.84%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
13 5 (0.70%) Nessus
13 5 (0.70%) SCOM
Vendors
1 334 (46.71%) Microsoft
2 192 (26.85%) VMware
3 57 (7.97%) Cisco
4 48 (6.71%) Dell
5 35 (4.90%) Veeam
6 31 (4.34%) Commvault
7 28 (3.92%) Oracle
8 27 (3.78%) HP
9 24 (3.36%) Palo Alto
9 24 (3.36%) Zscaler
10 23 (3.22%) Dynatrace
11 22 (3.08%) Dell Compellent
11 22 (3.08%) Meraki
11 22 (3.08%) Nimble Storage
12 20 (2.80%) Tenable
13 16 (2.24%) Adobe
13 16 (2.24%) Google
14 15 (2.10%) Fortinet
14 15 (2.10%) Splunk
15 14 (1.96%) AppDynamics