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

6 months to
22 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 175 245 208
Rank change year-on-year +70 -37 +67
Permanent jobs citing Disaster Recovery 1,158 633 1,234
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.16% 1.29% 1.32%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.57% 1.43% 1.61%
Number of salaries quoted 837 504 973
10th Percentile £34,500 £35,000 £33,850
25th Percentile £42,000 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -6.80%
75th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £70,250
90th Percentile £92,500 £92,125 £91,991
UK excluding London median annual salary £48,250 £52,750 £50,000
% change year-on-year -8.53% +5.50% -

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 73,727 44,243 76,601
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.60% 89.97% 81.83%
Number of salaries quoted 51,045 24,911 52,533
10th Percentile £30,500 £28,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £56,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% +1.82% -8.73%
75th Percentile £78,750 £76,250 £73,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £98,474 £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 22 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 22 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 +56 996 £57,500 -4.17% 316
UK excluding London +50 722 £48,250 -8.53% 232
London +50 371 £75,000 - 118
Work from Home +97 362 £60,000 +9.09% 123
North of England +64 227 £47,500 -11.63% 65
South East +35 187 £50,000 - 78
Midlands +33 113 £55,000 - 30
North West +46 111 £47,500 -11.63% 35
Yorkshire +32 100 £47,500 -24.00% 26
West Midlands +37 84 £55,000 -4.35% 20
Northern Ireland -23 52 - - 4
East of England +14 50 £44,250 -15.71% 17
South West -97 41 £44,000 -12.00% 25
Scotland +36 34 £47,500 -11.63% 9
East Midlands -20 28 £55,000 +18.92% 10
Wales -44 16 £43,000 -25.22% 13
North East -56 16 £42,500 -12.82% 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
1 118 (10.19%) Microsoft Exchange
2 114 (9.84%) SharePoint
3 20 (1.73%) IIS
4 13 (1.12%) Apache
5 10 (0.86%) Apache Spark
6 6 (0.52%) nginx
7 3 (0.26%) Confluence
7 3 (0.26%) WordPress
8 2 (0.17%) Apache Airflow
8 2 (0.17%) OpenStack
9 1 (0.086%) Site Server
9 1 (0.086%) WebLogic
Applications
1 19 (1.64%) Microsoft Office
2 15 (1.30%) MS Visio
3 14 (1.21%) PlantUML
4 6 (0.52%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 14 (1.21%) FLEXCUBE
2 6 (0.52%) Raiser’s Edge
3 5 (0.43%) JDE EnterpriseOne
3 5 (0.43%) Sage 200
4 4 (0.35%) NetSuite
5 3 (0.26%) Dynamics CRM
5 3 (0.26%) Q-Pulse
5 3 (0.26%) SAP S/4HANA
6 2 (0.17%) Adobe Campaign
7 1 (0.086%) Bloomberg TOMS
7 1 (0.086%) Elite 3E
7 1 (0.086%) Misys Equation
7 1 (0.086%) Misys Midas
7 1 (0.086%) Oracle EBS
7 1 (0.086%) SAP EHS
7 1 (0.086%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 596 (51.47%) Azure
2 340 (29.36%) Microsoft 365
3 223 (19.26%) AWS
4 189 (16.32%) Entra ID
5 121 (10.45%) SaaS
6 70 (6.04%) IaaS
7 59 (5.09%) PaaS
8 47 (4.06%) Power Platform
9 44 (3.80%) Nutanix
10 39 (3.37%) Datadog
11 35 (3.02%) GCP
12 32 (2.76%) Azure DevOps
13 30 (2.59%) Cloud Computing
14 24 (2.07%) GitHub
15 23 (1.99%) GitHub Actions
16 22 (1.90%) Azure Monitor
17 21 (1.81%) Amazon EC2
17 21 (1.81%) Mimecast
18 19 (1.64%) OneDrive
19 18 (1.55%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 348 (30.05%) Firewall
2 248 (21.42%) DNS
3 216 (18.65%) VPN
4 184 (15.89%) DHCP
5 155 (13.39%) WAN
6 130 (11.23%) VLAN
7 124 (10.71%) LAN
8 100 (8.64%) Wi-Fi
9 97 (8.38%) Network Security
10 92 (7.94%) TCP/IP
11 60 (5.18%) SAN
12 57 (4.92%) Wireless
13 40 (3.45%) Internet
14 31 (2.68%) Cisco ISE
14 31 (2.68%) SD-WAN
15 29 (2.50%) SSL
16 28 (2.42%) VoIP
17 19 (1.64%) Cisco Nexus
18 18 (1.55%) BGP
18 18 (1.55%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 87 (7.51%) SQL Server
2 37 (3.20%) Amazon RDS
3 29 (2.50%) Power BI
4 28 (2.42%) Azure SQL Database
5 14 (1.21%) PostgreSQL
6 13 (1.12%) Data Warehouse
6 13 (1.12%) Oracle Database
7 11 (0.95%) MySQL
8 8 (0.69%) Metadata
9 7 (0.60%) Data Lake
9 7 (0.60%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 5 (0.43%) NoSQL
11 4 (0.35%) Elasticsearch
11 4 (0.35%) MongoDB
11 4 (0.35%) SQL Server Analysis Services
12 3 (0.26%) Big Data
12 3 (0.26%) DynamoDB
12 3 (0.26%) GIS
12 3 (0.26%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 3 (0.26%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 21 (1.81%) JIRA
2 16 (1.38%) Chocolatey
3 14 (1.21%) Git
4 11 (0.95%) GitLab
5 6 (0.52%) Visual Studio Code
6 5 (0.43%) Jenkins
6 5 (0.43%) JUnit
6 5 (0.43%) Spock
7 4 (0.35%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 4 (0.35%) MLflow
8 2 (0.17%) Bitbucket
8 2 (0.17%) Selenium
8 2 (0.17%) Terragrunt
8 2 (0.17%) Yeoman
9 1 (0.086%) Claude Code
9 1 (0.086%) IntelliJ
9 1 (0.086%) Maven
9 1 (0.086%) TeamCity
General
1 401 (34.63%) Social Skills
2 206 (17.79%) Finance
3 143 (12.35%) Analytical Skills
4 74 (6.39%) Law
5 73 (6.30%) Banking
6 69 (5.96%) Legal
7 50 (4.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 44 (3.80%) Manufacturing
9 39 (3.37%) Organisational Skills
10 38 (3.28%) Public Sector
11 35 (3.02%) Retail
12 32 (2.76%) Documentation Skills
13 30 (2.59%) Influencing Skills
14 22 (1.90%) Back Office
14 22 (1.90%) Telecoms
15 13 (1.12%) Financial Institution
16 12 (1.04%) Mandarin Language
17 8 (0.69%) Advertising
17 8 (0.69%) Presentation Skills
18 7 (0.60%) French Language
Job Titles
1 228 (19.69%) Senior
2 171 (14.77%) IT Support
3 154 (13.30%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 142 (12.26%) IT Manager
5 138 (11.92%) IT Engineer
6 110 (9.50%) Support Engineer
7 89 (7.69%) IT Support Engineer
8 74 (6.39%) Architect
9 67 (5.79%) Analyst
9 67 (5.79%) Lead
10 66 (5.70%) Cloud Engineer
11 64 (5.53%) Service Manager
12 60 (5.18%) IT Services Manager
13 58 (5.01%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
14 56 (4.84%) Resilience Manager
15 50 (4.32%) Azure Engineer
16 45 (3.89%) Network Engineer
17 37 (3.20%) IT Analyst
18 36 (3.11%) Administrator
19 35 (3.02%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 63 (5.44%) Middleware
2 14 (1.21%) ARM Templates
3 9 (0.78%) Kafka
4 8 (0.69%) Microsoft Graph
4 8 (0.69%) SAML
5 7 (0.60%) FIX Protocol
5 7 (0.60%) Web Services
6 5 (0.43%) AngularJS
6 5 (0.43%) REST
6 5 (0.43%) RESTful
6 5 (0.43%) Spring
7 4 (0.35%) .NET
7 4 (0.35%) OAuth
7 4 (0.35%) web3js
8 3 (0.26%) Apache NiFi
8 3 (0.26%) JSON
8 3 (0.26%) ODBC
8 3 (0.26%) PySpark
8 3 (0.26%) Ruby on Rails
8 3 (0.26%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 108 (9.33%) Data Centre
2 96 (8.29%) Cyber Threat
3 79 (6.82%) Management Information System
4 71 (6.13%) Cloud Native
5 68 (5.87%) Driving Licence
6 63 (5.44%) Hybrid Cloud
7 60 (5.18%) Security Posture
8 53 (4.58%) Self-Motivation
9 52 (4.49%) Replication
10 43 (3.71%) Onboarding
11 36 (3.11%) PKI
12 30 (2.59%) Enterprise Storage
13 28 (2.42%) NHS
14 26 (2.25%) Data Protection Act
15 25 (2.16%) Public Cloud
16 23 (1.99%) CCTV
17 22 (1.90%) CMDB
18 21 (1.81%) Enterprise Software
18 21 (1.81%) Legacy Systems
18 21 (1.81%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 386 (33.33%) Windows
2 261 (22.54%) Windows Server
3 114 (9.84%) Linux
4 29 (2.50%) Windows Server 2019
5 25 (2.16%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 22 (1.90%) Mac OS
7 21 (1.81%) Windows 10
7 21 (1.81%) Windows Server 2016
8 20 (1.73%) Unix
9 15 (1.30%) Ubuntu
10 14 (1.21%) AIX
10 14 (1.21%) Oracle Linux
11 10 (0.86%) CentOS
12 8 (0.69%) Solaris
12 8 (0.69%) VMS
13 4 (0.35%) Apple iOS
13 4 (0.35%) Windows Server 2012
14 2 (0.17%) Amazon Linux
14 2 (0.17%) Debian
15 1 (0.086%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 467 (40.33%) Business Continuity
2 355 (30.66%) Cybersecurity
3 305 (26.34%) Problem-Solving
4 298 (25.73%) Continuous Improvement
5 258 (22.28%) ITIL
6 213 (18.39%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 190 (16.41%) DevOps
8 175 (15.11%) High Availability
9 169 (14.59%) Incident Response
10 148 (12.78%) Information Security
11 144 (12.44%) Stakeholder Management
12 136 (11.74%) Service Delivery
13 133 (11.49%) Infrastructure as Code
14 124 (10.71%) Agile
15 114 (9.84%) Project Delivery
16 113 (9.76%) Cloud Security
17 112 (9.67%) Change Management
18 109 (9.41%) CI/CD
19 106 (9.15%) Data Protection
20 104 (8.98%) Incident Management
Programming Languages
1 168 (14.51%) PowerShell
2 112 (9.67%) Python
3 111 (9.59%) SQL
4 46 (3.97%) Bash
5 23 (1.99%) Shell Script
6 21 (1.81%) Bicep
7 13 (1.12%) Java
7 13 (1.12%) Korn
7 13 (1.12%) PL/SQL
8 10 (0.86%) JavaScript
9 8 (0.69%) TypeScript
10 6 (0.52%) Kusto Query Language
11 5 (0.43%) T-SQL
12 4 (0.35%) Go
12 4 (0.35%) Search Processing Language
13 3 (0.26%) C#
13 3 (0.26%) COBOL
13 3 (0.26%) Ruby
14 2 (0.17%) Scala
14 2 (0.17%) XAML
Qualifications
1 128 (11.05%) Degree
2 94 (8.12%) Cisco Certification
3 92 (7.94%) CISSP
4 80 (6.91%) Microsoft Certification
5 79 (6.82%) Azure Certification
5 79 (6.82%) CISM
6 72 (6.22%) CCNP
7 59 (5.09%) Security Cleared
8 51 (4.40%) CCNA
9 48 (4.15%) ITIL Certification
10 44 (3.80%) SC Cleared
11 38 (3.28%) Computer Science Degree
12 32 (2.76%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13 29 (2.50%) Postgraduate
14 20 (1.73%) AWS Certification
15 16 (1.38%) Master's Degree
16 15 (1.30%) CEH
16 15 (1.30%) CISA
17 14 (1.21%) CRISC
18 13 (1.12%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 149 (12.87%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 145 (12.52%) NIST
3 112 (9.67%) GDPR
4 111 (9.59%) Cyber Essentials
5 74 (6.39%) ISO 22301
6 62 (5.35%) SLA
7 52 (4.49%) PCI DSS
8 49 (4.23%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 30 (2.59%) PMO
10 27 (2.33%) GRC
10 27 (2.33%) SOC 2
11 23 (1.99%) Data Quality
12 16 (1.38%) COBIT
13 13 (1.12%) NCSC
14 9 (0.78%) Actionable Recommendations
15 8 (0.69%) SOC 1
16 6 (0.52%) QA
17 5 (0.43%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
18 4 (0.35%) HL7
18 4 (0.35%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 311 (26.86%) Active Directory
2 267 (23.06%) VMware Infrastructure
3 174 (15.03%) Hyper-V
4 44 (3.80%) vSphere
5 42 (3.63%) Docker
6 31 (2.68%) Virtual Machines
7 27 (2.33%) VMware ESXi
8 22 (1.90%) Virtual Desktop
9 21 (1.81%) Firmware
10 15 (1.30%) Oracle RAC
11 10 (0.86%) VMware NSX
12 9 (0.78%) vCloud
13 7 (0.60%) KVM
14 5 (0.43%) Squid
15 4 (0.35%) EMC RecoverPoint
16 3 (0.26%) DFS Replication
16 3 (0.26%) Virtual Servers
16 3 (0.26%) VMware Server
17 2 (0.17%) VMware Workstation
18 1 (0.086%) Xen
Systems Management
1 145 (12.52%) Microsoft Intune
2 138 (11.92%) Terraform
3 76 (6.56%) Kubernetes
4 74 (6.39%) Ansible
5 31 (2.68%) Single Sign-On
6 27 (2.33%) FortiGate
7 26 (2.25%) SCCM
8 20 (1.73%) VxRail
9 14 (1.21%) Data Guard
9 14 (1.21%) Nagios
10 13 (1.12%) Oracle RMAN
11 12 (1.04%) vCenter Server
12 11 (0.95%) Prometheus
13 10 (0.86%) Grafana
13 10 (0.86%) Jamf Pro
14 9 (0.78%) Dell DRAC
15 7 (0.60%) Avamar
15 7 (0.60%) EMC NetWorker
15 7 (0.60%) Packer
16 6 (0.52%) WSUS
Vendors
1 560 (48.36%) Microsoft
2 322 (27.81%) VMware
3 176 (15.20%) Cisco
4 77 (6.65%) Veeam
5 59 (5.09%) Palo Alto
6 48 (4.15%) Dell
7 44 (3.80%) Splunk
8 40 (3.45%) Oracle
9 39 (3.37%) Meraki
10 38 (3.28%) HP
11 35 (3.02%) Fortinet
12 31 (2.68%) Sophos
13 29 (2.50%) Aruba
14 28 (2.42%) Commvault
15 27 (2.33%) Google
15 27 (2.33%) Nimble Storage
15 27 (2.33%) SolarWinds
15 27 (2.33%) Tenable
16 26 (2.25%) IBM
17 23 (1.99%) EMC