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

6 months to
18 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 222 247 215
Rank change year-on-year +25 -32 +98
Permanent jobs citing Disaster Recovery 821 610 1,319
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.89% 1.38% 1.36%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.22% 1.48% 1.60%
Number of salaries quoted 618 490 1,148
10th Percentile £33,000 £36,250 £33,000
25th Percentile £45,749 £45,000 £41,887
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +13.64% -3.93%
75th Percentile £82,500 £76,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £90,000 £87,875
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,750 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.91% +10.00% -

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 67,556 41,227 82,428
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.64% 93.27% 84.88%
Number of salaries quoted 43,655 22,384 59,687
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,000 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,500 £41,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £59,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.69% +7.27% -9.84%
75th Percentile £78,750 £78,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £52,475 £50,000
% change year-on-year +0.05% +4.95% -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 18 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 18 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 +10 717 £60,000 -4.00% 267
UK excluding London 0 447 £51,750 -5.91% 223
London +33 312 £77,500 +3.33% 77
Work from Home +92 262 £65,000 +8.33% 219
North of England +18 159 £55,000 - 53
South East -1 97 £57,500 -11.54% 68
Yorkshire +15 86 £57,239 -4.60% 22
Midlands +1 78 £52,500 +14.13% 43
West Midlands +22 66 £52,500 +5.00% 32
North West +13 57 £52,000 -5.45% 28
East of England -24 30 £62,500 +21.36% 18
South West -98 29 £40,000 -30.43% 29
Scotland +8 27 £38,000 -24.67% 9
North East -34 16 £58,446 +77.11% 3
Wales -17 12 £43,000 -14.00% 7
Northern Ireland -27 11 - -
East Midlands -43 11 £60,000 +50.00% 11
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 98 (11.94%) Microsoft Exchange
2 87 (10.60%) SharePoint
3 10 (1.22%) IIS
4 4 (0.49%) Apache Spark
4 4 (0.49%) Confluence
5 3 (0.37%) Apache
6 2 (0.24%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.24%) BizTalk Server
7 1 (0.12%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.12%) Tomcat
Applications
1 24 (2.92%) Microsoft Office
2 15 (1.83%) MS Visio
3 4 (0.49%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (0.49%) PlantUML
4 2 (0.24%) Weka
Business Applications
1 6 (0.73%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (0.49%) FLEXCUBE
2 4 (0.49%) Markit EDM
2 4 (0.49%) NetSuite
2 4 (0.49%) Oracle EBS
3 3 (0.37%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.24%) SAP ERP
5 1 (0.12%) Elite 3E
5 1 (0.12%) Misys Equation
5 1 (0.12%) Misys Midas
5 1 (0.12%) Oracle 11i
5 1 (0.12%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.12%) Sage 200
5 1 (0.12%) SAP EHS
5 1 (0.12%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 449 (54.69%) Azure
2 247 (30.09%) Microsoft 365
3 151 (18.39%) Entra ID
4 130 (15.83%) AWS
5 66 (8.04%) Nutanix
6 57 (6.94%) SaaS
7 52 (6.33%) Datadog
8 47 (5.72%) IaaS
9 43 (5.24%) Azure DevOps
9 43 (5.24%) Azure Monitor
10 42 (5.12%) PaaS
11 39 (4.75%) GitHub
12 32 (3.90%) OneDrive
13 31 (3.78%) Microsoft Purview
14 30 (3.65%) GCP
15 28 (3.41%) GitHub Actions
16 27 (3.29%) Power Platform
17 23 (2.80%) Azure AKS
18 18 (2.19%) Amazon EC2
19 17 (2.07%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 251 (30.57%) Firewall
2 175 (21.32%) DNS
3 172 (20.95%) VPN
4 131 (15.96%) DHCP
5 121 (14.74%) WAN
6 86 (10.48%) VLAN
7 74 (9.01%) LAN
8 65 (7.92%) SAN
9 63 (7.67%) Network Security
9 63 (7.67%) Wi-Fi
10 62 (7.55%) TCP/IP
11 40 (4.87%) Wireless
12 30 (3.65%) SD-WAN
13 26 (3.17%) Remote Desktop
14 22 (2.68%) Cisco ISE
15 19 (2.31%) NAS
16 17 (2.07%) SSL
16 17 (2.07%) VoIP
17 14 (1.71%) VSAN
18 13 (1.58%) BGP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 77 (9.38%) SQL Server
2 32 (3.90%) Amazon RDS
3 24 (2.92%) Azure SQL Database
4 12 (1.46%) Data Lake
4 12 (1.46%) Delta Lake
4 12 (1.46%) Power BI
5 10 (1.22%) MySQL
6 9 (1.10%) Data Warehouse
7 8 (0.97%) PostgreSQL
8 7 (0.85%) Amazon Aurora
9 6 (0.73%) MongoDB
9 6 (0.73%) Oracle Database
10 5 (0.61%) Geospatial Data
10 5 (0.61%) GIS
10 5 (0.61%) NoSQL
10 5 (0.61%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 4 (0.49%) Elasticsearch
11 4 (0.49%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 3 (0.37%) SAP HANA
12 3 (0.37%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 24 (2.92%) Git
2 21 (2.56%) Chocolatey
3 11 (1.34%) JIRA
4 9 (1.10%) Jenkins
5 6 (0.73%) Visual Studio Code
6 5 (0.61%) Sonatype Nexus
7 4 (0.49%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 4 (0.49%) LabVIEW
7 4 (0.49%) MLflow
8 3 (0.37%) Bitbucket
8 3 (0.37%) GitLab
8 3 (0.37%) Maven
8 3 (0.37%) TeamCity
9 2 (0.24%) Artifactory
9 2 (0.24%) Octopus Deploy
9 2 (0.24%) Selenium
9 2 (0.24%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
10 1 (0.12%) LoadRunner
10 1 (0.12%) Team Foundation Server
10 1 (0.12%) Yeoman
General
1 302 (36.78%) Social Skills
2 166 (20.22%) Finance
3 139 (16.93%) Analytical Skills
4 60 (7.31%) Banking
5 42 (5.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 33 (4.02%) Public Sector
7 30 (3.65%) Law
8 26 (3.17%) Legal
9 25 (3.05%) Organisational Skills
9 25 (3.05%) Retail
10 18 (2.19%) Manufacturing
11 17 (2.07%) Telecoms
12 13 (1.58%) Documentation Skills
12 13 (1.58%) Influencing Skills
13 12 (1.46%) Back Office
14 11 (1.34%) Advertising
15 9 (1.10%) Financial Institution
16 8 (0.97%) Marketing
16 8 (0.97%) Presentation Skills
17 7 (0.85%) French Language
Job Titles
1 165 (20.10%) Senior
2 128 (15.59%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 86 (10.48%) IT Engineer
3 86 (10.48%) IT Support
4 82 (9.99%) Cloud Engineer
5 73 (8.89%) Support Engineer
6 62 (7.55%) IT Manager
7 57 (6.94%) Azure Engineer
8 56 (6.82%) Lead
9 52 (6.33%) IT Support Engineer
9 52 (6.33%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
10 46 (5.60%) Architect
11 39 (4.75%) Platform Engineer
12 38 (4.63%) Analyst
13 27 (3.29%) Administrator
13 27 (3.29%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
14 26 (3.17%) Security Engineer
15 24 (2.92%) Security Manager
15 24 (2.92%) Senior Cloud Engineer
16 23 (2.80%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (1.95%) SAML
2 13 (1.58%) OAuth
3 12 (1.46%) PySpark
3 12 (1.46%) YAML
4 11 (1.34%) ADO
5 10 (1.22%) REST
6 9 (1.10%) Middleware
7 7 (0.85%) ARM Templates
7 7 (0.85%) Kafka
7 7 (0.85%) Loki
8 6 (0.73%) Microsoft Graph
9 5 (0.61%) RESTful
10 4 (0.49%) .NET
10 4 (0.49%) web3js
11 3 (0.37%) ActiveMQ
11 3 (0.37%) ODBC
11 3 (0.37%) RAML
11 3 (0.37%) SOAP
12 2 (0.24%) JSON
12 2 (0.24%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 70 (8.53%) Data Centre
2 65 (7.92%) Hybrid Cloud
3 60 (7.31%) Management Information System
4 41 (4.99%) Replication
5 40 (4.87%) Cloud Native
5 40 (4.87%) Onboarding
6 36 (4.38%) Cyber Threat
6 36 (4.38%) Driving Licence
7 34 (4.14%) Public Cloud
8 33 (4.02%) Security Posture
9 31 (3.78%) Data Protection Act
10 23 (2.80%) Self-Motivation
11 22 (2.68%) Enterprise Storage
12 21 (2.56%) PKI
13 20 (2.44%) CMDB
14 18 (2.19%) NHS
15 15 (1.83%) Legacy Systems
16 12 (1.46%) Clustering
17 11 (1.34%) CCTV
17 11 (1.34%) iSeries
Operating Systems
1 271 (33.01%) Windows
2 170 (20.71%) Windows Server
3 73 (8.89%) Linux
4 23 (2.80%) Windows 10
5 19 (2.31%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 18 (2.19%) Apple iOS
7 14 (1.71%) Mac OS
8 13 (1.58%) Ubuntu
9 12 (1.46%) VMS
10 10 (1.22%) Windows Server 2016
10 10 (1.22%) Windows Server 2019
11 9 (1.10%) CentOS
12 8 (0.97%) Unix
13 6 (0.73%) Android
14 5 (0.61%) AIX
14 5 (0.61%) Oracle Linux
15 4 (0.49%) Solaris
16 2 (0.24%) Amazon Linux
16 2 (0.24%) Debian
17 1 (0.12%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 301 (36.66%) Business Continuity
2 252 (30.69%) Cybersecurity
3 206 (25.09%) Problem-Solving
4 190 (23.14%) ITIL
5 184 (22.41%) Continuous Improvement
6 172 (20.95%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 134 (16.32%) High Availability
8 126 (15.35%) DevOps
9 117 (14.25%) Incident Response
10 108 (13.15%) Service Delivery
11 103 (12.55%) Infrastructure as Code
12 93 (11.33%) Cloud Security
13 89 (10.84%) Change Management
14 88 (10.72%) CI/CD
15 86 (10.48%) Migration
16 85 (10.35%) Data Protection
17 81 (9.87%) Mentoring
18 79 (9.62%) Service Management
19 78 (9.50%) Stakeholder Management
20 75 (9.14%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 138 (16.81%) PowerShell
2 102 (12.42%) Python
3 90 (10.96%) SQL
4 41 (4.99%) Bash
5 11 (1.34%) Java
5 11 (1.34%) Kusto Query Language
6 10 (1.22%) Bicep
7 9 (1.10%) Scala
8 8 (0.97%) Shell Script
9 7 (0.85%) JavaScript
9 7 (0.85%) T-SQL
10 5 (0.61%) C#
10 5 (0.61%) Korn
11 4 (0.49%) Go
11 4 (0.49%) PL/SQL
12 3 (0.37%) TypeScript
13 2 (0.24%) RPG
14 1 (0.12%) COBOL
14 1 (0.12%) Perl
Qualifications
1 99 (12.06%) Degree
2 56 (6.82%) Microsoft Certification
3 55 (6.70%) Cisco Certification
4 51 (6.21%) Azure Certification
5 45 (5.48%) CCNP
5 45 (5.48%) Computer Science Degree
5 45 (5.48%) Security Cleared
6 35 (4.26%) SC Cleared
7 25 (3.05%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 24 (2.92%) CCNA
9 23 (2.80%) CISSP
10 19 (2.31%) CEH
11 16 (1.95%) Postgraduate
12 13 (1.58%) MCSE
13 11 (1.34%) AWS Certification
14 10 (1.22%) CISM
14 10 (1.22%) VCAP
15 9 (1.10%) BPSS Clearance
15 9 (1.10%) Microsoft Certified Professional
15 9 (1.10%) VCDX
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 122 (14.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 87 (10.60%) GDPR
3 83 (10.11%) Cyber Essentials
4 79 (9.62%) NIST
5 61 (7.43%) SLA
6 41 (4.99%) PCI DSS
7 40 (4.87%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 25 (3.05%) PMO
9 24 (2.92%) SOC 2
10 23 (2.80%) GRC
11 21 (2.56%) Data Quality
12 16 (1.95%) ISO 22301
13 11 (1.34%) Actionable Recommendations
14 8 (0.97%) COBIT
15 7 (0.85%) QA
16 6 (0.73%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
17 4 (0.49%) DICOM
17 4 (0.49%) HIPAA
17 4 (0.49%) HL7
17 4 (0.49%) SOC 1
System Software
1 252 (30.69%) Active Directory
2 188 (22.90%) VMware Infrastructure
3 106 (12.91%) Hyper-V
4 35 (4.26%) vSphere
5 33 (4.02%) Docker
6 28 (3.41%) Virtual Machines
7 21 (2.56%) Firmware
8 18 (2.19%) VMware ESXi
9 17 (2.07%) Virtual Desktop
10 10 (1.22%) vCloud
10 10 (1.22%) VMware NSX
11 6 (0.73%) KVM
11 6 (0.73%) Virtual Servers
12 5 (0.61%) Oracle RAC
13 3 (0.37%) Microsoft Virtual Server
14 2 (0.24%) EMC RecoverPoint
14 2 (0.24%) VMware Server
14 2 (0.24%) VMware Workstation
15 1 (0.12%) Terminal Services
15 1 (0.12%) Xen
Systems Management
1 121 (14.74%) Microsoft Intune
2 109 (13.28%) Terraform
3 65 (7.92%) Kubernetes
4 60 (7.31%) Ansible
5 28 (3.41%) SCCM
6 19 (2.31%) VxRail
7 14 (1.71%) Single Sign-On
8 12 (1.46%) FortiGate
8 12 (1.46%) Grafana
8 12 (1.46%) Prometheus
9 8 (0.97%) Packer
9 8 (0.97%) vCenter Server
10 7 (0.85%) Dell DRAC
11 6 (0.73%) Data Guard
11 6 (0.73%) Nagios
11 6 (0.73%) WSUS
12 5 (0.61%) EMC NetWorker
13 4 (0.49%) Backup Exec
13 4 (0.49%) EMC VPLEX
13 4 (0.49%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 409 (49.82%) Microsoft
2 254 (30.94%) VMware
3 84 (10.23%) Cisco
4 59 (7.19%) Dell
5 48 (5.85%) Veeam
6 45 (5.48%) HP
7 41 (4.99%) Palo Alto
8 38 (4.63%) Nimble Storage
9 35 (4.26%) Commvault
10 33 (4.02%) Tenable
11 28 (3.41%) Meraki
12 26 (3.17%) Dynatrace
12 26 (3.17%) Zscaler
13 25 (3.05%) Dell Compellent
13 25 (3.05%) Splunk
14 22 (2.68%) AppDynamics
14 22 (2.68%) Fortinet
15 21 (2.56%) EMC
16 20 (2.44%) Databricks
16 20 (2.44%) Oracle