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

6 months to
3 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 229 205 213
Rank change year-on-year -24 +8 +115
Permanent jobs citing Disaster Recovery 792 648 1,323
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.88% 1.52% 1.38%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.17% 1.64% 1.61%
Number of salaries quoted 593 525 1,176
10th Percentile £32,750 £36,250 £33,000
25th Percentile £45,749 £44,000 £41,887
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% -
75th Percentile £85,000 £75,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £90,000 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £53,150 £50,000
% change year-on-year -1.22% +6.30% -

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 67,443 39,485 82,053
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 74.64% 92.88% 85.58%
Number of salaries quoted 41,986 22,655 59,675
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,668 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,599 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.34% +9.09% -10.57%
75th Percentile £78,750 £80,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,001 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +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 3 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 3 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 -15 686 £62,500 +4.17% 261
UK excluding London -37 430 £52,500 -1.22% 218
London +27 300 £85,000 +13.33% 82
Work from Home +40 244 £67,059 +11.77% 108
North of England -31 144 £55,500 +5.71% 51
South East -10 97 £59,500 -8.46% 66
Yorkshire -11 83 £57,239 +4.07% 20
Midlands -20 72 £52,500 +7.69% 44
West Midlands +6 60 £48,750 -2.50% 29
North West -37 45 £55,000 +22.22% 27
East of England -24 30 £62,500 +35.14% 14
South West -97 30 £42,500 -24.44% 29
Scotland -12 25 £38,000 -24.00% 11
North East -33 16 £58,446 +71.90% 4
Northern Ireland -18 15 - - 1
Wales - 13 £38,500 - 7
East Midlands -49 11 £60,000 +50.00% 15
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
1 100 (12.63%) Microsoft Exchange
2 87 (10.98%) SharePoint
3 9 (1.14%) IIS
4 4 (0.51%) Apache Spark
4 4 (0.51%) Confluence
5 3 (0.38%) Apache
6 2 (0.25%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.25%) BizTalk Server
7 1 (0.13%) CICS
7 1 (0.13%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.13%) Tomcat
Applications
1 23 (2.90%) Microsoft Office
2 12 (1.52%) MS Visio
3 4 (0.51%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (0.25%) PlantUML
4 2 (0.25%) Weka
5 1 (0.13%) Acrobat
Business Applications
1 6 (0.76%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (0.63%) Oracle EBS
3 4 (0.51%) Markit EDM
3 4 (0.51%) NetSuite
4 3 (0.38%) FLEXCUBE
4 3 (0.38%) SAP S/4HANA
5 2 (0.25%) SAP ERP
6 1 (0.13%) Elite 3E
6 1 (0.13%) Misys Equation
6 1 (0.13%) Misys Midas
6 1 (0.13%) Oracle 11i
6 1 (0.13%) Oracle ERP
6 1 (0.13%) Sage 200
6 1 (0.13%) SAP EHS
6 1 (0.13%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 433 (54.67%) Azure
2 244 (30.81%) Microsoft 365
3 151 (19.07%) Entra ID
4 128 (16.16%) AWS
5 67 (8.46%) Nutanix
6 50 (6.31%) SaaS
7 49 (6.19%) Datadog
8 45 (5.68%) Azure DevOps
9 44 (5.56%) Azure Monitor
10 43 (5.43%) IaaS
11 38 (4.80%) PaaS
12 37 (4.67%) GitHub
13 35 (4.42%) OneDrive
14 33 (4.17%) Microsoft Purview
15 30 (3.79%) GCP
16 26 (3.28%) GitHub Actions
17 24 (3.03%) Azure AKS
17 24 (3.03%) Power Platform
18 18 (2.27%) Mimecast
18 18 (2.27%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 240 (30.30%) Firewall
2 172 (21.72%) DNS
3 167 (21.09%) VPN
4 137 (17.30%) DHCP
5 119 (15.03%) WAN
6 82 (10.35%) VLAN
7 73 (9.22%) LAN
8 64 (8.08%) Wi-Fi
9 62 (7.83%) TCP/IP
10 61 (7.70%) SAN
11 53 (6.69%) Network Security
12 37 (4.67%) Wireless
13 28 (3.54%) Remote Desktop
13 28 (3.54%) SD-WAN
14 20 (2.53%) NAS
15 19 (2.40%) Cisco ISE
16 15 (1.89%) VoIP
17 13 (1.64%) BGP
17 13 (1.64%) SSL
18 12 (1.52%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 74 (9.34%) SQL Server
2 30 (3.79%) Amazon RDS
3 23 (2.90%) Azure SQL Database
4 12 (1.52%) Data Lake
4 12 (1.52%) Delta Lake
4 12 (1.52%) Power BI
5 11 (1.39%) MySQL
6 9 (1.14%) Data Warehouse
7 8 (1.01%) Amazon Aurora
8 7 (0.88%) PostgreSQL
9 6 (0.76%) Oracle Database
10 5 (0.63%) Geospatial Data
10 5 (0.63%) GIS
10 5 (0.63%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 4 (0.51%) Elasticsearch
11 4 (0.51%) MongoDB
11 4 (0.51%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 3 (0.38%) BigQuery
12 3 (0.38%) NoSQL
12 3 (0.38%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 25 (3.16%) Git
2 20 (2.53%) Chocolatey
3 12 (1.52%) JIRA
4 10 (1.26%) Jenkins
5 5 (0.63%) Sonatype Nexus
5 5 (0.63%) Visual Studio Code
6 4 (0.51%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 4 (0.51%) GitLab
6 4 (0.51%) LabVIEW
6 4 (0.51%) MLflow
7 3 (0.38%) Bitbucket
7 3 (0.38%) Maven
7 3 (0.38%) Selenium
7 3 (0.38%) TeamCity
8 2 (0.25%) Artifactory
8 2 (0.25%) Octopus Deploy
8 2 (0.25%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
9 1 (0.13%) Robot Framework
9 1 (0.13%) Team Foundation Server
9 1 (0.13%) Yeoman
General
1 301 (38.01%) Social Skills
2 162 (20.45%) Finance
3 134 (16.92%) Analytical Skills
4 55 (6.94%) Banking
5 39 (4.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 33 (4.17%) Public Sector
7 31 (3.91%) Law
8 26 (3.28%) Organisational Skills
9 25 (3.16%) Retail
10 21 (2.65%) Legal
11 20 (2.53%) Manufacturing
12 17 (2.15%) Telecoms
13 14 (1.77%) Documentation Skills
14 12 (1.52%) Back Office
14 12 (1.52%) Influencing Skills
15 10 (1.26%) Financial Institution
15 10 (1.26%) Marketing
15 10 (1.26%) Presentation Skills
16 8 (1.01%) Advertising
17 6 (0.76%) Mandarin Language
Job Titles
1 150 (18.94%) Senior
2 122 (15.40%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 83 (10.48%) Cloud Engineer
3 83 (10.48%) IT Engineer
3 83 (10.48%) IT Support
4 74 (9.34%) Support Engineer
5 63 (7.95%) Lead
6 61 (7.70%) IT Manager
7 55 (6.94%) Azure Engineer
8 51 (6.44%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
9 50 (6.31%) IT Support Engineer
10 45 (5.68%) Architect
11 35 (4.42%) Analyst
12 34 (4.29%) Platform Engineer
13 26 (3.28%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
13 26 (3.28%) Security Manager
14 24 (3.03%) DevOps Engineer
14 24 (3.03%) Security Engineer
15 22 (2.78%) Administrator
15 22 (2.78%) Support Technician
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (2.15%) SAML
2 14 (1.77%) OAuth
3 13 (1.64%) YAML
4 12 (1.52%) ADO
4 12 (1.52%) PySpark
5 10 (1.26%) REST
6 9 (1.14%) ARM Templates
6 9 (1.14%) Middleware
7 7 (0.88%) Loki
8 6 (0.76%) RESTful
9 4 (0.51%) .NET
9 4 (0.51%) Kafka
9 4 (0.51%) web3js
10 3 (0.38%) ActiveMQ
10 3 (0.38%) ODBC
10 3 (0.38%) RAML
10 3 (0.38%) SOAP
11 2 (0.25%) Elastic Stack
11 2 (0.25%) LDAP
11 2 (0.25%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 71 (8.96%) Hybrid Cloud
2 60 (7.58%) Data Centre
3 58 (7.32%) Management Information System
4 40 (5.05%) Replication
5 38 (4.80%) Cloud Native
5 38 (4.80%) Onboarding
6 35 (4.42%) Cyber Threat
7 34 (4.29%) Public Cloud
8 33 (4.17%) Driving Licence
9 31 (3.91%) Data Protection Act
10 28 (3.54%) Security Posture
11 22 (2.78%) Self-Motivation
12 18 (2.27%) CMDB
12 18 (2.27%) PKI
13 17 (2.15%) Enterprise Storage
13 17 (2.15%) NHS
14 15 (1.89%) Legacy Systems
15 14 (1.77%) Enterprise Software
16 10 (1.26%) Analytical Mindset
16 10 (1.26%) iSeries
Operating Systems
1 252 (31.82%) Windows
2 169 (21.34%) Windows Server
3 67 (8.46%) Linux
4 25 (3.16%) Windows 10
5 18 (2.27%) Apple iOS
5 18 (2.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 14 (1.77%) Ubuntu
6 14 (1.77%) VMS
7 11 (1.39%) Mac OS
8 10 (1.26%) CentOS
9 8 (1.01%) Windows Server 2016
10 7 (0.88%) Unix
10 7 (0.88%) Windows Server 2019
11 5 (0.63%) Android
12 4 (0.51%) AIX
12 4 (0.51%) Oracle Linux
12 4 (0.51%) Solaris
13 2 (0.25%) Amazon Linux
13 2 (0.25%) Debian
13 2 (0.25%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 292 (36.87%) Business Continuity
2 244 (30.81%) Cybersecurity
3 197 (24.87%) Problem-Solving
4 191 (24.12%) ITIL
5 183 (23.11%) Continuous Improvement
6 167 (21.09%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 136 (17.17%) High Availability
8 126 (15.91%) DevOps
9 115 (14.52%) Incident Response
10 106 (13.38%) Service Delivery
11 97 (12.25%) Infrastructure as Code
12 90 (11.36%) Change Management
12 90 (11.36%) Cloud Security
13 86 (10.86%) Migration
14 85 (10.73%) CI/CD
14 85 (10.73%) Data Protection
14 85 (10.73%) Mentoring
15 80 (10.10%) Stakeholder Management
16 74 (9.34%) Risk Management
17 72 (9.09%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 135 (17.05%) PowerShell
2 99 (12.50%) Python
3 82 (10.35%) SQL
4 40 (5.05%) Bash
5 12 (1.52%) Kusto Query Language
6 11 (1.39%) Java
7 10 (1.26%) Bicep
8 9 (1.14%) Scala
9 8 (1.01%) Shell Script
10 7 (0.88%) JavaScript
10 7 (0.88%) T-SQL
11 5 (0.63%) C#
11 5 (0.63%) Go
12 4 (0.51%) Korn
13 3 (0.38%) PL/SQL
13 3 (0.38%) TypeScript
14 2 (0.25%) COBOL
14 2 (0.25%) RPG
15 1 (0.13%) JCL
15 1 (0.13%) Perl
Qualifications
1 97 (12.25%) Degree
2 52 (6.57%) Microsoft Certification
3 47 (5.93%) Cisco Certification
4 45 (5.68%) Azure Certification
4 45 (5.68%) Computer Science Degree
5 41 (5.18%) Security Cleared
6 39 (4.92%) CCNP
7 30 (3.79%) SC Cleared
8 23 (2.90%) CISSP
9 21 (2.65%) CEH
10 20 (2.53%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 19 (2.40%) CCNA
12 14 (1.77%) Postgraduate
13 13 (1.64%) MCSE
14 12 (1.52%) AWS Certification
15 10 (1.26%) BPSS Clearance
16 9 (1.14%) CISM
16 9 (1.14%) Microsoft Certified Professional
17 8 (1.01%) VCAP
18 7 (0.88%) VCDX
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 120 (15.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 84 (10.61%) GDPR
3 80 (10.10%) Cyber Essentials
4 69 (8.71%) NIST
5 62 (7.83%) SLA
6 39 (4.92%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 36 (4.55%) PCI DSS
8 25 (3.16%) SOC 2
9 24 (3.03%) GRC
10 22 (2.78%) PMO
11 21 (2.65%) Data Quality
12 15 (1.89%) ISO 22301
13 11 (1.39%) Actionable Recommendations
14 7 (0.88%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
14 7 (0.88%) QA
15 6 (0.76%) NCSC
16 5 (0.63%) COBIT
17 4 (0.51%) DICOM
17 4 (0.51%) HIPAA
17 4 (0.51%) HL7
System Software
1 246 (31.06%) Active Directory
2 178 (22.47%) VMware Infrastructure
3 106 (13.38%) Hyper-V
4 37 (4.67%) Docker
5 33 (4.17%) vSphere
6 31 (3.91%) Virtual Machines
7 19 (2.40%) Firmware
8 17 (2.15%) Virtual Desktop
9 16 (2.02%) VMware ESXi
10 8 (1.01%) vCloud
10 8 (1.01%) VMware NSX
11 6 (0.76%) KVM
11 6 (0.76%) Virtual Servers
12 5 (0.63%) Oracle RAC
13 3 (0.38%) Microsoft Virtual Server
14 2 (0.25%) EMC RecoverPoint
14 2 (0.25%) VMware Server
14 2 (0.25%) VMware Workstation
15 1 (0.13%) RACF
15 1 (0.13%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 111 (14.02%) Microsoft Intune
2 106 (13.38%) Terraform
3 66 (8.33%) Kubernetes
4 60 (7.58%) Ansible
5 27 (3.41%) SCCM
6 17 (2.15%) VxRail
7 13 (1.64%) Grafana
8 11 (1.39%) FortiGate
8 11 (1.39%) Prometheus
9 10 (1.26%) Single Sign-On
10 8 (1.01%) vCenter Server
11 7 (0.88%) Packer
12 6 (0.76%) Data Guard
12 6 (0.76%) Dell DRAC
12 6 (0.76%) Nagios
13 5 (0.63%) WSUS
14 4 (0.51%) Argo
14 4 (0.51%) Backup Exec
14 4 (0.51%) EMC NetWorker
14 4 (0.51%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 393 (49.62%) Microsoft
2 247 (31.19%) VMware
3 74 (9.34%) Cisco
4 59 (7.45%) Dell
5 45 (5.68%) HP
6 43 (5.43%) Veeam
7 37 (4.67%) Commvault
7 37 (4.67%) Nimble Storage
7 37 (4.67%) Palo Alto
8 31 (3.91%) Tenable
9 28 (3.54%) Meraki
10 27 (3.41%) Dell Compellent
10 27 (3.41%) Zscaler
11 25 (3.16%) Dynatrace
12 21 (2.65%) AppDynamics
12 21 (2.65%) Oracle
13 19 (2.40%) EMC
13 19 (2.40%) Fortinet
13 19 (2.40%) Splunk
14 18 (2.27%) Databricks