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

6 months to
3 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 222 196 211
Rank change year-on-year -26 +15 +129
Permanent jobs citing Disaster Recovery 744 673 1,297
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.93% 1.65% 1.44%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.21% 1.77% 1.66%
Number of salaries quoted 561 555 1,164
10th Percentile £32,500 £37,500 £33,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £45,000 £41,933
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% -
75th Percentile £87,500 £76,250 £68,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £90,000 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £53,300 £50,000
% change year-on-year -1.50% +6.60% +1.46%

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 61,258 38,052 77,913
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 76.49% 93.03% 86.40%
Number of salaries quoted 37,754 22,305 57,991
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £29,079
25th Percentile £40,000 £43,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -10.57%
75th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £73,410
90th Percentile £97,500 £102,500 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -8.26%

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 April 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 April 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 -42 643 £60,000 - 274
UK excluding London -55 400 £52,500 -1.50% 239
London +15 286 £85,000 +9.68% 82
Work from Home +25 234 £69,559 +15.93% 108
North of England -39 141 £47,500 -7.32% 61
South East -24 95 £60,000 -7.69% 76
Yorkshire -7 82 £47,500 -13.64% 20
Midlands -43 55 £52,500 +5.00% 41
West Midlands -12 46 £52,500 +3.96% 29
North West -48 40 £42,500 -5.56% 36
South West -81 28 £40,000 -27.27% 16
East of England -37 26 £70,000 +27.27% 23
Northern Ireland -16 21 - -
Scotland -32 20 £42,750 -16.00% 20
North East -15 19 £51,000 +59.38% 6
Wales - 10 £31,500 - 7
East Midlands -57 8 £60,000 +50.00% 12
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 99 (13.31%) Microsoft Exchange
2 76 (10.22%) SharePoint
3 6 (0.81%) IIS
4 3 (0.40%) Apache
4 3 (0.40%) Apache Spark
4 3 (0.40%) Confluence
4 3 (0.40%) Tomcat
5 2 (0.27%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.27%) BizTalk Server
5 2 (0.27%) CICS
5 2 (0.27%) WebSphere
5 2 (0.27%) WebSphere Application Server
6 1 (0.13%) CMS
6 1 (0.13%) WebLogic
Applications
1 25 (3.36%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (0.81%) MS Visio
3 4 (0.54%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (0.27%) Weka
5 1 (0.13%) Acrobat
5 1 (0.13%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 5 (0.67%) Oracle EBS
2 4 (0.54%) Markit EDM
3 3 (0.40%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (0.40%) FLEXCUBE
4 2 (0.27%) SAP ERP
4 2 (0.27%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.13%) Elite 3E
5 1 (0.13%) Oracle 11i
5 1 (0.13%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.13%) Sage 200
5 1 (0.13%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 408 (54.84%) Azure
2 238 (31.99%) Microsoft 365
3 152 (20.43%) Entra ID
4 129 (17.34%) AWS
5 69 (9.27%) Nutanix
6 45 (6.05%) Azure Monitor
6 45 (6.05%) SaaS
7 44 (5.91%) Azure DevOps
8 41 (5.51%) Datadog
9 38 (5.11%) IaaS
10 37 (4.97%) GitHub
11 36 (4.84%) GCP
12 33 (4.44%) Microsoft Purview
12 33 (4.44%) OneDrive
12 33 (4.44%) PaaS
13 24 (3.23%) GitHub Actions
13 24 (3.23%) Serverless
14 23 (3.09%) Azure AKS
15 20 (2.69%) Amazon EKS
16 18 (2.42%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 216 (29.03%) Firewall
2 158 (21.24%) DNS
3 155 (20.83%) VPN
4 137 (18.41%) DHCP
5 102 (13.71%) WAN
6 78 (10.48%) VLAN
7 65 (8.74%) LAN
8 55 (7.39%) TCP/IP
8 55 (7.39%) Wi-Fi
9 49 (6.59%) SAN
10 42 (5.65%) Network Security
11 31 (4.17%) Remote Desktop
12 30 (4.03%) Wireless
13 21 (2.82%) SD-WAN
14 16 (2.15%) VoIP
15 15 (2.02%) NAS
16 13 (1.75%) BGP
17 12 (1.61%) Cisco ISE
18 7 (0.94%) Cisco Nexus
18 7 (0.94%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 69 (9.27%) SQL Server
2 27 (3.63%) Amazon RDS
3 21 (2.82%) Azure SQL Database
4 16 (2.15%) PostgreSQL
5 15 (2.02%) MySQL
6 14 (1.88%) Oracle Database
7 11 (1.48%) Data Lake
7 11 (1.48%) Delta Lake
8 9 (1.21%) Power BI
9 8 (1.08%) Amazon Aurora
9 8 (1.08%) Data Warehouse
10 7 (0.94%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 6 (0.81%) MongoDB
12 5 (0.67%) Geospatial Data
12 5 (0.67%) GIS
12 5 (0.67%) Oracle Database 12c
13 4 (0.54%) BigQuery
13 4 (0.54%) DB2
13 4 (0.54%) Oracle Database 10g
13 4 (0.54%) Oracle Database 11g
Development Applications
1 31 (4.17%) Git
2 18 (2.42%) Chocolatey
3 14 (1.88%) Jenkins
3 14 (1.88%) JIRA
4 5 (0.67%) GitLab
4 5 (0.67%) Sonatype Nexus
5 4 (0.54%) LabVIEW
5 4 (0.54%) Selenium
5 4 (0.54%) Visual Studio Code
6 3 (0.40%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 3 (0.40%) Bitbucket
6 3 (0.40%) Maven
6 3 (0.40%) MLflow
6 3 (0.40%) TeamCity
7 2 (0.27%) Artifactory
7 2 (0.27%) Octopus Deploy
7 2 (0.27%) Robot Framework
7 2 (0.27%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 2 (0.27%) TestRail
8 1 (0.13%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 284 (38.17%) Social Skills
2 178 (23.92%) Finance
3 114 (15.32%) Analytical Skills
4 52 (6.99%) Banking
5 36 (4.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 36 (4.84%) Law
6 30 (4.03%) Public Sector
7 27 (3.63%) Retail
8 26 (3.49%) Organisational Skills
9 20 (2.69%) Manufacturing
10 19 (2.55%) Legal
11 16 (2.15%) Documentation Skills
12 15 (2.02%) Financial Institution
13 11 (1.48%) Marketing
14 10 (1.34%) Back Office
14 10 (1.34%) Influencing Skills
15 9 (1.21%) Presentation Skills
15 9 (1.21%) Telecoms
16 8 (1.08%) Advertising
17 7 (0.94%) French Language
Job Titles
1 113 (15.19%) Senior
2 110 (14.78%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 81 (10.89%) Cloud Engineer
4 68 (9.14%) Lead
4 68 (9.14%) Support Engineer
5 66 (8.87%) IT Engineer
5 66 (8.87%) IT Support
6 61 (8.20%) IT Manager
7 51 (6.85%) Azure Engineer
8 42 (5.65%) Analyst
9 40 (5.38%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
10 39 (5.24%) Architect
11 36 (4.84%) IT Support Engineer
12 28 (3.76%) Platform Engineer
13 27 (3.63%) DevOps Engineer
14 26 (3.49%) Security Engineer
15 24 (3.23%) Support Technician
16 23 (3.09%) DBA
16 23 (3.09%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
16 23 (3.09%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (2.42%) SAML
2 15 (2.02%) OAuth
3 13 (1.75%) YAML
4 12 (1.61%) ADO
5 11 (1.48%) PySpark
6 9 (1.21%) REST
7 8 (1.08%) ARM Templates
7 8 (1.08%) RESTful
8 7 (0.94%) Loki
9 5 (0.67%) EDI
9 5 (0.67%) Elastic Stack
9 5 (0.67%) Middleware
10 4 (0.54%) LDAP
11 3 (0.40%) .NET
11 3 (0.40%) ActiveMQ
11 3 (0.40%) AWS SAM
11 3 (0.40%) Kafka
11 3 (0.40%) LAMP
11 3 (0.40%) SOAP
11 3 (0.40%) web3js
Miscellaneous
1 78 (10.48%) Hybrid Cloud
2 51 (6.85%) Management Information System
3 37 (4.97%) Data Centre
4 35 (4.70%) Cloud Native
4 35 (4.70%) Public Cloud
4 35 (4.70%) Replication
5 33 (4.44%) Driving Licence
6 31 (4.17%) Cyber Threat
7 28 (3.76%) Data Protection Act
7 28 (3.76%) Onboarding
8 23 (3.09%) Security Posture
9 21 (2.82%) Self-Motivation
10 18 (2.42%) Enterprise Software
11 17 (2.28%) CMDB
12 14 (1.88%) Legacy Systems
13 12 (1.61%) PKI
14 11 (1.48%) NHS
15 10 (1.34%) Clustering
15 10 (1.34%) Cyber Security Posture
16 8 (1.08%) CCTV
Operating Systems
1 247 (33.20%) Windows
2 165 (22.18%) Windows Server
3 73 (9.81%) Linux
4 27 (3.63%) Windows 10
5 18 (2.42%) Apple iOS
6 17 (2.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 16 (2.15%) VMS
8 14 (1.88%) Unix
9 10 (1.34%) Mac OS
10 8 (1.08%) Ubuntu
10 8 (1.08%) Windows Server 2016
11 7 (0.94%) CentOS
11 7 (0.94%) Windows Server 2019
12 5 (0.67%) Android
13 4 (0.54%) Oracle Linux
13 4 (0.54%) Rocky
14 3 (0.40%) AIX
15 2 (0.27%) zOS
16 1 (0.13%) Debian
16 1 (0.13%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 273 (36.69%) Business Continuity
2 224 (30.11%) Cybersecurity
3 187 (25.13%) ITIL
3 187 (25.13%) Problem-Solving
4 159 (21.37%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 156 (20.97%) Continuous Improvement
6 134 (18.01%) High Availability
7 122 (16.40%) DevOps
8 102 (13.71%) Incident Response
9 101 (13.58%) Service Delivery
10 96 (12.90%) Infrastructure as Code
11 88 (11.83%) CI/CD
12 86 (11.56%) Migration
13 84 (11.29%) Change Management
14 79 (10.62%) Mentoring
15 75 (10.08%) Data Protection
16 74 (9.95%) Cloud Security
17 73 (9.81%) Stakeholder Management
18 72 (9.68%) ITSM
18 72 (9.68%) Vulnerability Remediation
Programming Languages
1 153 (20.56%) PowerShell
2 110 (14.78%) Python
3 79 (10.62%) SQL
4 37 (4.97%) Bash
5 14 (1.88%) Java
6 12 (1.61%) Bicep
6 12 (1.61%) Kusto Query Language
7 9 (1.21%) Go
7 9 (1.21%) JavaScript
7 9 (1.21%) Scala
7 9 (1.21%) Shell Script
7 9 (1.21%) T-SQL
8 4 (0.54%) C#
8 4 (0.54%) Korn
9 3 (0.40%) PL/SQL
9 3 (0.40%) TypeScript
10 2 (0.27%) COBOL
10 2 (0.27%) JCL
11 1 (0.13%) Perl
Qualifications
1 95 (12.77%) Degree
2 48 (6.45%) Microsoft Certification
3 45 (6.05%) Azure Certification
4 44 (5.91%) Security Cleared
5 40 (5.38%) Computer Science Degree
6 32 (4.30%) Cisco Certification
6 32 (4.30%) SC Cleared
7 26 (3.49%) CEH
8 23 (3.09%) CCNP
8 23 (3.09%) CISSP
9 15 (2.02%) AWS Certification
10 13 (1.75%) CCNA
11 12 (1.61%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 11 (1.48%) BPSS Clearance
12 11 (1.48%) MCSE
13 10 (1.34%) CISM
14 9 (1.21%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 9 (1.21%) HNC
14 9 (1.21%) Microsoft Certified Professional
15 8 (1.08%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 119 (15.99%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 74 (9.95%) Cyber Essentials
3 68 (9.14%) GDPR
4 63 (8.47%) NIST
5 60 (8.06%) SLA
6 38 (5.11%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 24 (3.23%) PCI DSS
8 22 (2.96%) SOC 2
9 18 (2.42%) ISO 22301
10 17 (2.28%) GRC
11 15 (2.02%) Data Quality
12 11 (1.48%) Actionable Recommendations
12 11 (1.48%) PMO
13 7 (0.94%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
14 5 (0.67%) QA
15 4 (0.54%) DICOM
15 4 (0.54%) HL7
15 4 (0.54%) ISAE 3402
15 4 (0.54%) NCSC
16 3 (0.40%) HIPAA
System Software
1 244 (32.80%) Active Directory
2 161 (21.64%) VMware Infrastructure
3 101 (13.58%) Hyper-V
4 39 (5.24%) Docker
5 32 (4.30%) Virtual Machines
6 23 (3.09%) vSphere
7 13 (1.75%) Virtual Desktop
7 13 (1.75%) VMware ESXi
8 11 (1.48%) Firmware
9 6 (0.81%) KVM
9 6 (0.81%) Oracle RAC
9 6 (0.81%) vCloud
9 6 (0.81%) Virtual Servers
10 3 (0.40%) Microsoft Virtual Server
11 2 (0.27%) EMC RecoverPoint
11 2 (0.27%) RACF
11 2 (0.27%) VMware NSX
11 2 (0.27%) VMware Workstation
12 1 (0.13%) Postfix
12 1 (0.13%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 105 (14.11%) Microsoft Intune
1 105 (14.11%) Terraform
2 66 (8.87%) Kubernetes
3 64 (8.60%) Ansible
4 24 (3.23%) SCCM
5 16 (2.15%) Grafana
6 12 (1.61%) Prometheus
7 11 (1.48%) VxRail
8 9 (1.21%) Nagios
8 9 (1.21%) vCenter Server
9 8 (1.08%) Data Guard
9 8 (1.08%) Single Sign-On
10 7 (0.94%) FortiGate
11 6 (0.81%) Oracle RMAN
11 6 (0.81%) Packer
12 4 (0.54%) Backup Exec
12 4 (0.54%) Puppet
13 3 (0.40%) Argo
13 3 (0.40%) Avamar
13 3 (0.40%) Dell DRAC
Vendors
1 359 (48.25%) Microsoft
2 225 (30.24%) VMware
3 60 (8.06%) Cisco
4 52 (6.99%) Dell
5 34 (4.57%) Commvault
5 34 (4.57%) HP
6 31 (4.17%) Palo Alto
7 30 (4.03%) Nimble Storage
8 28 (3.76%) Dell Compellent
9 27 (3.63%) Dynatrace
9 27 (3.63%) Zscaler
10 26 (3.49%) Tenable
11 25 (3.36%) Oracle
11 25 (3.36%) Veeam
12 22 (2.96%) Meraki
13 19 (2.55%) AppDynamics
14 16 (2.15%) Fortinet
15 15 (2.02%) Splunk
16 14 (1.88%) Citrix
16 14 (1.88%) Google