Disaster Recovery Job Trends

Disaster Recovery
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Disaster Recovery skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 256 197 220
Rank change year-on-year -59 +23 +85
Permanent jobs citing Disaster Recovery 571 1,076 954
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.15% 1.38% 1.58%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.30% 1.70% 1.68%
Number of salaries quoted 446 658 855
10th Percentile £31,250 £36,000 £33,232
25th Percentile £43,000 £45,250 £44,769
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £58,500
Median % change year-on-year - +2.56% +6.36%
75th Percentile £79,750 £77,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £96,250 £93,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £50,000

All Process and 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 43,869 63,416 56,859
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 88.70% 81.19% 94.35%
Number of salaries quoted 24,728 36,039 42,828
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,000 £32,750
25th Percentile £36,250 £42,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £96,250 £95,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £52,500 £54,000
% change year-on-year -9.52% -2.78% +2.86%

Disaster Recovery
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Disaster Recovery as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Disaster Recovery 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 18 September 2025.

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 18 September 2025. 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 -67 535 £60,000 - 320
UK excluding London -65 324 £50,000 - 302
London -5 218 £75,000 - 95
Work from Home -54 170 £60,000 -11.11% 120
South East +15 85 £50,000 -14.53% 96
North of England -81 81 £52,500 +8.25% 69
Midlands -58 60 £53,750 +15.59% 43
South West +83 54 £47,500 -18.80% 35
North West -54 49 £40,000 -15.79% 42
West Midlands -4 33 £61,250 +13.43% 25
East of England -50 28 £32,500 -35.00% 21
East Midlands -41 27 £45,000 +5.88% 16
North East +17 17 £52,500 +5.00% 11
Yorkshire -28 15 £55,000 +4.76% 17
Scotland +2 10 £56,250 +12.50% 30
Northern Ireland - 5 £57,500 - 6
Wales +10 3 £57,500 -10.16% 10

Disaster Recovery
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 73 (12.78%) Microsoft Exchange
2 68 (11.91%) SharePoint
3 20 (3.50%) IIS
4 6 (1.05%) Skype for Business
4 6 (1.05%) Tomcat
5 4 (0.70%) WebSphere
5 4 (0.70%) WebSphere Application Server
6 3 (0.53%) nginx
7 2 (0.35%) BizTalk Server
8 1 (0.18%) Apache
8 1 (0.18%) Cloud Foundry
8 1 (0.18%) Confluence
8 1 (0.18%) Exchange Server 2013
8 1 (0.18%) Office Communications Server
8 1 (0.18%) SharePoint 2010
8 1 (0.18%) SharePoint Server
8 1 (0.18%) Site Server
Applications
1 24 (4.20%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (1.05%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (1.05%) Spreadsheet
3 4 (0.70%) Chatbot
3 4 (0.70%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.18%) Acrobat
4 1 (0.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 5 (0.88%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (0.70%) Fidessa
3 2 (0.35%) Dynamics AX
3 2 (0.35%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.35%) Sage 200
4 1 (0.18%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.18%) Raiser’s Edge
4 1 (0.18%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 303 (53.06%) Azure
2 175 (30.65%) Microsoft 365
3 134 (23.47%) AWS
4 74 (12.96%) Entra ID
5 55 (9.63%) GCP
6 47 (8.23%) GitHub
7 35 (6.13%) Azure DevOps
8 28 (4.90%) AWS CloudFormation
9 25 (4.38%) Power Platform
10 24 (4.20%) OneDrive
10 24 (4.20%) PaaS
11 23 (4.03%) IaaS
12 19 (3.33%) Azure Monitor
12 19 (3.33%) SaaS
13 18 (3.15%) Cloud Computing
13 18 (3.15%) Microsoft Purview
14 17 (2.98%) GitHub Actions
14 17 (2.98%) Serverless
15 16 (2.80%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 15 (2.63%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 155 (27.15%) Firewall
2 115 (20.14%) DNS
3 109 (19.09%) VPN
4 97 (16.99%) DHCP
5 62 (10.86%) VLAN
6 61 (10.68%) TCP/IP
6 61 (10.68%) WAN
7 49 (8.58%) Network Security
8 46 (8.06%) LAN
9 41 (7.18%) SAN
10 32 (5.60%) Wireless
11 30 (5.25%) SD-WAN
12 28 (4.90%) VoIP
13 27 (4.73%) NAS
14 26 (4.55%) Unified Communications
15 19 (3.33%) Intrusion Detection
16 18 (3.15%) SSL
17 13 (2.28%) Wi-Fi
18 10 (1.75%) Remote Desktop
19 9 (1.58%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 74 (12.96%) SQL Server
2 24 (4.20%) Amazon RDS
3 21 (3.68%) Power BI
4 18 (3.15%) NoSQL
5 15 (2.63%) Azure SQL Database
6 14 (2.45%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 12 (2.10%) MongoDB
8 11 (1.93%) PostgreSQL
9 9 (1.58%) MySQL
10 8 (1.40%) Oracle Database
11 6 (1.05%) DB2
12 5 (0.88%) BigQuery
12 5 (0.88%) Data Warehouse
12 5 (0.88%) RDBMS
12 5 (0.88%) Relational Database
12 5 (0.88%) Tableau
13 4 (0.70%) Oracle Exadata
13 4 (0.70%) Oracle Reports
13 4 (0.70%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 3 (0.53%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 23 (4.03%) Git
2 20 (3.50%) Jenkins
3 8 (1.40%) GitLab
4 6 (1.05%) Bitbucket
5 4 (0.70%) Maven
5 4 (0.70%) Octopus Deploy
6 3 (0.53%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 3 (0.53%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 3 (0.53%) Subversion
7 2 (0.35%) JIRA
8 1 (0.18%) Artifactory
8 1 (0.18%) LoadRunner
8 1 (0.18%) MSBuild
8 1 (0.18%) Oracle APEX
8 1 (0.18%) Selenium
8 1 (0.18%) TeamCity
General
1 198 (34.68%) Social Skills
2 140 (24.52%) Finance
3 47 (8.23%) Analytical Skills
4 32 (5.60%) Law
5 31 (5.43%) Banking
6 29 (5.08%) Manufacturing
6 29 (5.08%) Telecoms
7 23 (4.03%) Legal
8 17 (2.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 17 (2.98%) Public Sector
9 15 (2.63%) Pharmaceutical
10 13 (2.28%) Organisational Skills
11 11 (1.93%) Marketing
11 11 (1.93%) Presentation Skills
12 10 (1.75%) Military
13 8 (1.40%) Electronics
14 7 (1.23%) Documentation Skills
15 6 (1.05%) Advertising
15 6 (1.05%) Back Office
15 6 (1.05%) Retail
Job Titles
1 101 (17.69%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 69 (12.08%) Senior
3 66 (11.56%) IT Support
4 58 (10.16%) IT Engineer
5 57 (9.98%) Support Engineer
6 53 (9.28%) Analyst
7 42 (7.36%) Lead
8 38 (6.65%) IT Support Engineer
9 36 (6.30%) Architect
10 33 (5.78%) Cloud Engineer
11 29 (5.08%) IT Analyst
11 29 (5.08%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
12 27 (4.73%) Administrator
12 27 (4.73%) DevOps Engineer
13 26 (4.55%) DBA
13 26 (4.55%) IT Manager
13 26 (4.55%) Security Engineer
14 25 (4.38%) Infrastructure Support
14 25 (4.38%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
15 23 (4.03%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (3.15%) .NET
2 12 (2.10%) REST
3 11 (1.93%) OAuth
3 11 (1.93%) SAML
4 9 (1.58%) Elastic Stack
4 9 (1.58%) LDAP
4 9 (1.58%) React
5 7 (1.23%) JSON
5 7 (1.23%) OpenID
5 7 (1.23%) RESTful
6 6 (1.05%) EDI
7 5 (0.88%) ARM Templates
7 5 (0.88%) ASP.NET
7 5 (0.88%) XML
8 4 (0.70%) LAPP Stack
8 4 (0.70%) OAuth2
8 4 (0.70%) Oracle Fusion
8 4 (0.70%) WebSphere MQ
9 3 (0.53%) Ionic Framework
9 3 (0.53%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 42 (7.36%) Management Information System
2 34 (5.95%) Clustering
3 31 (5.43%) Cloud Native
4 30 (5.25%) Hybrid Cloud
5 29 (5.08%) Data Centre
6 26 (4.55%) Enterprise Software
7 24 (4.20%) Onboarding
8 20 (3.50%) Self-Motivation
9 18 (3.15%) Replication
10 13 (2.28%) CMDB
11 12 (2.10%) Driving Licence
12 10 (1.75%) Cyber Threat
12 10 (1.75%) PKI
13 9 (1.58%) Analytical Mindset
13 9 (1.58%) Data Protection Act
14 8 (1.40%) Legacy Systems
14 8 (1.40%) Security Posture
15 7 (1.23%) Operational Technology
15 7 (1.23%) Product Ownership
15 7 (1.23%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 212 (37.13%) Windows
2 150 (26.27%) Windows Server
3 99 (17.34%) Linux
4 27 (4.73%) Windows Server 2019
5 18 (3.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 18 (3.15%) Unix
6 16 (2.80%) Windows Server 2016
7 13 (2.28%) Mac OS
8 12 (2.10%) VMS
9 10 (1.75%) Windows 10
10 8 (1.40%) Windows Server 2012
11 7 (1.23%) Apple iOS
12 6 (1.05%) CentOS
12 6 (1.05%) Rocky
12 6 (1.05%) Ubuntu
12 6 (1.05%) Windows Server 2008
13 5 (0.88%) Android
14 4 (0.70%) Solaris
15 3 (0.53%) AIX
16 2 (0.35%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 173 (30.30%) Business Continuity
2 127 (22.24%) DevOps
3 121 (21.19%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 113 (19.79%) Problem-Solving
5 112 (19.61%) CI/CD
6 110 (19.26%) Cybersecurity
7 109 (19.09%) ITIL
8 103 (18.04%) High Availability
9 80 (14.01%) Infrastructure as Code
9 80 (14.01%) Migration
10 69 (12.08%) Continuous Improvement
11 61 (10.68%) Mentoring
12 59 (10.33%) Incident Response
13 58 (10.16%) Agile
14 56 (9.81%) Data Protection
15 53 (9.28%) Artificial Intelligence
16 52 (9.11%) Service Delivery
17 49 (8.58%) Cloud Security
18 48 (8.41%) Performance Tuning
19 45 (7.88%) ITSM
Programming Languages
1 131 (22.94%) PowerShell
2 72 (12.61%) Python
2 72 (12.61%) SQL
3 31 (5.43%) Bash
4 27 (4.73%) Java
5 26 (4.55%) C#
6 21 (3.68%) T-SQL
7 18 (3.15%) JavaScript
8 11 (1.93%) Go
9 8 (1.40%) R
10 6 (1.05%) Bicep
10 6 (1.05%) VBScript
11 5 (0.88%) Perl
11 5 (0.88%) Shell Script
12 3 (0.53%) C++
12 3 (0.53%) TypeScript
12 3 (0.53%) VBA
13 2 (0.35%) PHP
13 2 (0.35%) PL/SQL
13 2 (0.35%) Rust
Qualifications
1 90 (15.76%) Degree
2 54 (9.46%) Security Cleared
3 50 (8.76%) Microsoft Certification
4 49 (8.58%) Azure Certification
5 38 (6.65%) Cisco Certification
6 35 (6.13%) SC Cleared
7 34 (5.95%) AWS Certification
8 24 (4.20%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 21 (3.68%) Computer Science Degree
10 20 (3.50%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 19 (3.33%) CCNP
11 19 (3.33%) CISSP
12 18 (3.15%) CCNA
13 16 (2.80%) Master's Degree
14 15 (2.63%) DV Cleared
14 15 (2.63%) MCSA
15 14 (2.45%) CISM
16 11 (1.93%) CISA
16 11 (1.93%) Network+ Certification
16 11 (1.93%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 83 (14.54%) GDPR
2 67 (11.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 47 (8.23%) NIST
4 32 (5.60%) Cyber Essentials
5 30 (5.25%) SLA
6 13 (2.28%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 13 (2.28%) HIPAA
7 7 (1.23%) PCI DSS
7 7 (1.23%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 6 (1.05%) SOC 2
9 5 (0.88%) GRC
9 5 (0.88%) QA
10 4 (0.70%) COBIT
10 4 (0.70%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 3 (0.53%) ISO 22301
12 2 (0.35%) ISAE 3402
12 2 (0.35%) ISO 9001
12 2 (0.35%) ISO/IEC 20000
13 1 (0.18%) Actionable Recommendations
13 1 (0.18%) ISO 13485
System Software
1 148 (25.92%) Active Directory
2 99 (17.34%) VMware Infrastructure
3 65 (11.38%) Hyper-V
4 54 (9.46%) Docker
5 32 (5.60%) Virtual Machines
6 30 (5.25%) VMware ESXi
7 18 (3.15%) vSphere
8 15 (2.63%) Virtual Desktop
8 15 (2.63%) Virtual Servers
9 7 (1.23%) EMC RecoverPoint
9 7 (1.23%) NFS
10 5 (0.88%) Oracle RAC
11 4 (0.70%) BitLocker
11 4 (0.70%) Firmware
11 4 (0.70%) Squid
12 2 (0.35%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 2 (0.35%) pfSense
12 2 (0.35%) VMware Workstation
13 1 (0.18%) ISA Server
13 1 (0.18%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 101 (17.69%) Microsoft Intune
1 101 (17.69%) Terraform
2 77 (13.49%) Kubernetes
3 71 (12.43%) Ansible
4 24 (4.20%) Grafana
5 20 (3.50%) Single Sign-On
6 18 (3.15%) Prometheus
7 17 (2.98%) vCenter Server
8 16 (2.80%) SCCM
9 9 (1.58%) Failover Clustering
9 9 (1.58%) Nagios
10 8 (1.40%) Progress Chef
10 8 (1.40%) SCOM
11 7 (1.23%) Jamf Pro
11 7 (1.23%) VxRail
12 6 (1.05%) Autotask
12 6 (1.05%) Cisco CUCM
12 6 (1.05%) Data Guard
13 5 (0.88%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 5 (0.88%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 293 (51.31%) Microsoft
2 123 (21.54%) VMware
3 91 (15.94%) Cisco
4 45 (7.88%) Google
5 36 (6.30%) Veeam
6 32 (5.60%) Oracle
7 24 (4.20%) Fortinet
8 22 (3.85%) Palo Alto
9 18 (3.15%) Sophos
10 16 (2.80%) SAP
10 16 (2.80%) Splunk
11 15 (2.63%) Dell
12 14 (2.45%) Datto
13 13 (2.28%) Commvault
14 12 (2.10%) Citrix
14 12 (2.10%) CrowdStrike
14 12 (2.10%) SolarWinds
15 11 (1.93%) HP
15 11 (1.93%) Meraki
15 11 (1.93%) Red Hat