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

6 months to
27 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 175 245 208
Rank change year-on-year +70 -37 +57
Permanent jobs citing Disaster Recovery 1,171 632 1,163
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.16% 1.28% 1.32%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.57% 1.42% 1.62%
Number of salaries quoted 838 501 903
10th Percentile £33,975 £33,750 £34,300
25th Percentile £41,250 £43,750 £42,625
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 £76,250 £71,125
90th Percentile £91,625 £92,500 £91,991
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.52% +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 74,612 44,363 71,938
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.65% 89.74% 81.45%
Number of salaries quoted 51,478 25,172 48,522
10th Percentile £30,500 £28,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £78,750 £76,250 £73,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £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 27 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 27 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 +53 1,003 £57,500 -4.17% 329
UK excluding London +72 743 £47,500 -9.52% 251
London +50 365 £75,000 - 120
Work from Home +84 354 £60,000 +9.09% 126
North of England +65 220 £47,500 -11.63% 64
South East +49 198 £50,000 - 84
Midlands +27 116 £55,000 - 40
North West +46 113 £47,500 -11.63% 31
Yorkshire +32 90 £45,000 -28.00% 28
West Midlands +30 86 £55,000 -4.35% 29
East of England +10 53 £44,250 -15.71% 19
Northern Ireland -22 51 - - 5
South West -86 46 £49,375 -1.25% 23
Scotland +37 38 £48,500 -9.77% 10
East Midlands -20 30 £55,000 +18.92% 11
Wales -39 19 £43,000 -25.22% 14
North East -54 17 £42,500 -12.82% 5
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
1 120 (10.25%) Microsoft Exchange
2 116 (9.91%) SharePoint
3 23 (1.96%) IIS
4 15 (1.28%) Apache
5 10 (0.85%) Apache Spark
6 8 (0.68%) nginx
7 4 (0.34%) Confluence
8 3 (0.26%) WordPress
9 2 (0.17%) Apache Airflow
9 2 (0.17%) OpenStack
9 2 (0.17%) WebLogic
10 1 (0.085%) Site Server
Applications
1 19 (1.62%) Microsoft Office
2 15 (1.28%) MS Visio
3 14 (1.20%) PlantUML
4 6 (0.51%) Microsoft Excel
5 1 (0.085%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 13 (1.11%) FLEXCUBE
2 6 (0.51%) Raiser’s Edge
3 5 (0.43%) JDE EnterpriseOne
3 5 (0.43%) Sage 200
4 4 (0.34%) 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 (0.085%) Bloomberg TOMS
7 1 (0.085%) Misys Equation
7 1 (0.085%) Misys Midas
7 1 (0.085%) SAP EHS
7 1 (0.085%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 607 (51.84%) Azure
2 349 (29.80%) Microsoft 365
3 231 (19.73%) AWS
4 186 (15.88%) Entra ID
5 124 (10.59%) SaaS
6 77 (6.58%) IaaS
7 63 (5.38%) PaaS
8 48 (4.10%) Power Platform
9 44 (3.76%) Nutanix
10 38 (3.25%) Datadog
11 37 (3.16%) GCP
12 33 (2.82%) Cloud Computing
13 31 (2.65%) Azure DevOps
14 23 (1.96%) GitHub
15 22 (1.88%) GitHub Actions
16 21 (1.79%) Azure Monitor
17 20 (1.71%) Mimecast
18 19 (1.62%) Amazon EC2
18 19 (1.62%) AWS CloudFormation
18 19 (1.62%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 342 (29.21%) Firewall
2 259 (22.12%) DNS
3 214 (18.27%) VPN
4 189 (16.14%) DHCP
5 156 (13.32%) WAN
6 128 (10.93%) VLAN
7 125 (10.67%) LAN
8 103 (8.80%) Wi-Fi
9 98 (8.37%) Network Security
10 90 (7.69%) TCP/IP
11 60 (5.12%) SAN
12 59 (5.04%) Wireless
13 41 (3.50%) Internet
14 34 (2.90%) SD-WAN
15 32 (2.73%) SSL
16 31 (2.65%) Cisco ISE
17 30 (2.56%) VoIP
18 20 (1.71%) Cisco Nexus
18 20 (1.71%) NAS
19 16 (1.37%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 90 (7.69%) SQL Server
2 36 (3.07%) Amazon RDS
3 29 (2.48%) Power BI
4 28 (2.39%) Azure SQL Database
5 16 (1.37%) PostgreSQL
6 14 (1.20%) Oracle Database
7 13 (1.11%) Data Warehouse
8 11 (0.94%) MySQL
9 8 (0.68%) Metadata
10 7 (0.60%) Data Lake
10 7 (0.60%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 6 (0.51%) NoSQL
12 4 (0.34%) DynamoDB
12 4 (0.34%) Elasticsearch
12 4 (0.34%) MongoDB
12 4 (0.34%) SQL Server Analysis Services
13 3 (0.26%) Big Data
13 3 (0.26%) NonStop SQL
13 3 (0.26%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 3 (0.26%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 20 (1.71%) JIRA
2 16 (1.37%) Chocolatey
3 15 (1.28%) Git
4 11 (0.94%) GitLab
5 6 (0.51%) JUnit
5 6 (0.51%) Spock
5 6 (0.51%) Visual Studio Code
6 5 (0.43%) Jenkins
7 4 (0.34%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 4 (0.34%) MLflow
8 3 (0.26%) Bitbucket
9 2 (0.17%) Selenium
9 2 (0.17%) TeamCity
9 2 (0.17%) Terragrunt
9 2 (0.17%) Yeoman
10 1 (0.085%) Claude Code
10 1 (0.085%) IntelliJ
10 1 (0.085%) Maven
General
1 399 (34.07%) Social Skills
2 209 (17.85%) Finance
3 144 (12.30%) Analytical Skills
4 74 (6.32%) Law
5 72 (6.15%) Legal
6 69 (5.89%) Banking
7 55 (4.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 47 (4.01%) Manufacturing
9 37 (3.16%) Organisational Skills
10 35 (2.99%) Retail
11 33 (2.82%) Documentation Skills
12 32 (2.73%) Influencing Skills
12 32 (2.73%) Public Sector
13 24 (2.05%) Telecoms
14 19 (1.62%) Back Office
15 13 (1.11%) Financial Institution
16 12 (1.02%) Mandarin Language
17 9 (0.77%) Presentation Skills
18 8 (0.68%) Advertising
18 8 (0.68%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 224 (19.13%) Senior
2 177 (15.12%) IT Support
3 153 (13.07%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 141 (12.04%) IT Engineer
5 140 (11.96%) IT Manager
6 114 (9.74%) Support Engineer
7 93 (7.94%) IT Support Engineer
8 78 (6.66%) Architect
9 70 (5.98%) Analyst
10 65 (5.55%) Cloud Engineer
11 60 (5.12%) Service Manager
12 59 (5.04%) Lead
13 57 (4.87%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
14 56 (4.78%) Resilience Manager
15 55 (4.70%) IT Services Manager
16 49 (4.18%) Azure Engineer
17 47 (4.01%) Network Engineer
18 39 (3.33%) Administrator
19 37 (3.16%) IT Analyst
20 35 (2.99%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 63 (5.38%) Middleware
2 14 (1.20%) ARM Templates
3 9 (0.77%) Kafka
4 8 (0.68%) Microsoft Graph
4 8 (0.68%) Web Services
5 7 (0.60%) FIX Protocol
5 7 (0.60%) SAML
6 6 (0.51%) AngularJS
6 6 (0.51%) Spring
7 4 (0.34%) .NET
7 4 (0.34%) REST
7 4 (0.34%) web3js
8 3 (0.26%) JSON
8 3 (0.26%) Nuxt
8 3 (0.26%) OAuth
8 3 (0.26%) ODBC
8 3 (0.26%) PySpark
8 3 (0.26%) RESTful
8 3 (0.26%) Ruby on Rails
9 2 (0.17%) AWS CDK
Miscellaneous
1 108 (9.22%) Data Centre
2 95 (8.11%) Cyber Threat
3 82 (7.00%) Management Information System
4 70 (5.98%) Cloud Native
4 70 (5.98%) Driving Licence
5 66 (5.64%) Hybrid Cloud
6 60 (5.12%) Security Posture
7 55 (4.70%) Replication
8 52 (4.44%) Self-Motivation
9 48 (4.10%) Onboarding
10 36 (3.07%) PKI
11 30 (2.56%) Enterprise Storage
12 29 (2.48%) NHS
13 26 (2.22%) Public Cloud
14 23 (1.96%) CCTV
15 21 (1.79%) CMDB
15 21 (1.79%) Enterprise Software
15 21 (1.79%) Virtual Team
16 18 (1.54%) Clustering
16 18 (1.54%) iSeries
Operating Systems
1 396 (33.82%) Windows
2 271 (23.14%) Windows Server
3 118 (10.08%) Linux
4 30 (2.56%) Windows Server 2019
5 24 (2.05%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 24 (2.05%) Windows 10
6 23 (1.96%) Mac OS
6 23 (1.96%) Windows Server 2016
7 21 (1.79%) Unix
8 17 (1.45%) Ubuntu
9 13 (1.11%) AIX
10 12 (1.02%) Oracle Linux
11 10 (0.85%) CentOS
12 9 (0.77%) VMS
13 8 (0.68%) Solaris
14 4 (0.34%) Windows Server 2012
15 3 (0.26%) Apple iOS
16 2 (0.17%) Amazon Linux
16 2 (0.17%) Debian
17 1 (0.085%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 475 (40.56%) Business Continuity
2 350 (29.89%) Cybersecurity
3 311 (26.56%) Problem-Solving
4 295 (25.19%) Continuous Improvement
5 254 (21.69%) ITIL
6 213 (18.19%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 194 (16.57%) DevOps
8 182 (15.54%) High Availability
9 159 (13.58%) Incident Response
10 152 (12.98%) Information Security
11 144 (12.30%) Stakeholder Management
12 139 (11.87%) Service Delivery
13 136 (11.61%) Infrastructure as Code
14 127 (10.85%) Agile
15 117 (9.99%) Project Delivery
16 115 (9.82%) Change Management
17 113 (9.65%) CI/CD
17 113 (9.65%) Cloud Security
18 108 (9.22%) Incident Management
18 108 (9.22%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 171 (14.60%) PowerShell
2 112 (9.56%) Python
3 109 (9.31%) SQL
4 46 (3.93%) Bash
5 23 (1.96%) Shell Script
6 22 (1.88%) Bicep
7 12 (1.02%) Java
7 12 (1.02%) Korn
7 12 (1.02%) PL/SQL
8 11 (0.94%) JavaScript
9 9 (0.77%) TypeScript
10 5 (0.43%) Kusto Query Language
10 5 (0.43%) T-SQL
11 4 (0.34%) COBOL
11 4 (0.34%) Search Processing Language
12 3 (0.26%) C#
12 3 (0.26%) Go
12 3 (0.26%) Ruby
13 2 (0.17%) RPG
13 2 (0.17%) XAML
Qualifications
1 129 (11.02%) Degree
2 97 (8.28%) Cisco Certification
3 93 (7.94%) CISSP
4 82 (7.00%) Microsoft Certification
5 81 (6.92%) Azure Certification
6 79 (6.75%) CISM
7 75 (6.40%) CCNP
8 66 (5.64%) Security Cleared
9 51 (4.36%) CCNA
9 51 (4.36%) SC Cleared
10 50 (4.27%) ITIL Certification
11 38 (3.25%) Computer Science Degree
12 33 (2.82%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13 31 (2.65%) Postgraduate
14 23 (1.96%) AWS Certification
15 16 (1.37%) Master's Degree
16 15 (1.28%) CEH
16 15 (1.28%) CISA
17 14 (1.20%) CRISC
18 13 (1.11%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 137 (11.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 135 (11.53%) NIST
3 103 (8.80%) Cyber Essentials
4 102 (8.71%) GDPR
5 74 (6.32%) ISO 22301
6 66 (5.64%) SLA
7 50 (4.27%) PCI DSS
8 49 (4.18%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 29 (2.48%) PMO
10 28 (2.39%) GRC
11 24 (2.05%) SOC 2
12 23 (1.96%) Data Quality
13 16 (1.37%) COBIT
14 13 (1.11%) NCSC
15 10 (0.85%) QA
16 8 (0.68%) Actionable Recommendations
16 8 (0.68%) SOC 1
17 5 (0.43%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
18 4 (0.34%) HL7
18 4 (0.34%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 314 (26.81%) Active Directory
2 272 (23.23%) VMware Infrastructure
3 179 (15.29%) Hyper-V
4 45 (3.84%) Docker
4 45 (3.84%) vSphere
5 31 (2.65%) Virtual Machines
6 29 (2.48%) VMware ESXi
7 23 (1.96%) Firmware
8 21 (1.79%) Virtual Desktop
9 14 (1.20%) Oracle RAC
10 11 (0.94%) VMware NSX
11 9 (0.77%) vCloud
12 8 (0.68%) KVM
13 6 (0.51%) Squid
14 4 (0.34%) EMC RecoverPoint
15 3 (0.26%) DFS Replication
15 3 (0.26%) Virtual Servers
15 3 (0.26%) VMware Server
16 2 (0.17%) VMware Workstation
17 1 (0.085%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 150 (12.81%) Microsoft Intune
2 139 (11.87%) Terraform
3 76 (6.49%) Kubernetes
4 75 (6.40%) Ansible
5 33 (2.82%) Single Sign-On
6 28 (2.39%) FortiGate
7 25 (2.13%) SCCM
8 20 (1.71%) VxRail
9 13 (1.11%) Data Guard
10 12 (1.02%) Nagios
10 12 (1.02%) Oracle RMAN
10 12 (1.02%) vCenter Server
11 11 (0.94%) Jamf Pro
12 10 (0.85%) Prometheus
13 8 (0.68%) Dell DRAC
13 8 (0.68%) Grafana
14 7 (0.60%) Avamar
14 7 (0.60%) Packer
15 6 (0.51%) EMC VPLEX
15 6 (0.51%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 561 (47.91%) Microsoft
2 326 (27.84%) VMware
3 179 (15.29%) Cisco
4 83 (7.09%) Veeam
5 59 (5.04%) Palo Alto
6 47 (4.01%) Dell
7 44 (3.76%) Splunk
8 40 (3.42%) Meraki
9 39 (3.33%) HP
9 39 (3.33%) Oracle
10 36 (3.07%) Fortinet
11 31 (2.65%) Sophos
12 30 (2.56%) Aruba
13 29 (2.48%) SolarWinds
14 28 (2.39%) Google
15 27 (2.31%) Nimble Storage
16 26 (2.22%) Commvault
16 26 (2.22%) Tenable
17 25 (2.13%) IBM
17 25 (2.13%) SonicWALL