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

6 months to
6 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 214 249 219
Rank change year-on-year +35 -30 +90
Permanent jobs citing Disaster Recovery 915 561 1,357
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.99% 1.28% 1.31%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.35% 1.37% 1.58%
Number of salaries quoted 697 446 1,129
10th Percentile £33,000 £37,500 £33,000
25th Percentile £42,250 £46,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,598 £62,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.24% +13.64% -4.35%
75th Percentile £78,000 £77,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £93,750 £90,000 £88,800
UK excluding London median annual salary £48,500 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -11.82% +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 67,549 40,838 86,137
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.19% 92.97% 82.99%
Number of salaries quoted 45,324 21,582 61,408
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,000 £29,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -9.54%
75th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,967 £50,000
% change year-on-year +3.01% +1.93% -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 6 June 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 6 June 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 +34 811 £60,000 -4.00% 335
UK excluding London +31 518 £48,500 -11.82% 245
London +53 336 £75,000 - 128
Work from Home +89 274 £60,000 +9.09% 146
North of England +57 198 £47,500 -13.64% 49
South East -3 112 £55,000 -4.35% 73
Yorkshire +30 101 £47,500 -24.00% 22
Midlands +29 93 £52,500 +14.13% 53
North West +37 76 £50,000 -9.09% 26
West Midlands +22 73 £52,500 -4.55% 34
East of England -15 33 £56,863 +7.29% 22
South West -88 30 £40,000 -27.27% 28
Scotland +22 25 £38,000 -30.91% 8
North East -38 21 £42,500 -15.00% 1
East Midlands -27 19 £55,000 +37.50% 19
Wales -28 14 £43,000 -14.00% 10
Northern Ireland -29 9 - - 6
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
1 110 (12.02%) Microsoft Exchange
2 97 (10.60%) SharePoint
3 11 (1.20%) IIS
4 4 (0.44%) Apache Spark
4 4 (0.44%) Confluence
5 3 (0.33%) Apache
6 2 (0.22%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.11%) BizTalk Server
7 1 (0.11%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.11%) Site Server
7 1 (0.11%) WebLogic
7 1 (0.11%) WordPress
Applications
1 22 (2.40%) Microsoft Office
2 16 (1.75%) MS Visio
3 7 (0.77%) PlantUML
4 3 (0.33%) Microsoft Excel
5 1 (0.11%) Weka
Business Applications
1 8 (0.87%) FLEXCUBE
2 5 (0.55%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (0.44%) NetSuite
3 4 (0.44%) Oracle EBS
4 3 (0.33%) SAP S/4HANA
5 2 (0.22%) Markit EDM
5 2 (0.22%) SAP ERP
6 1 (0.11%) Elite 3E
6 1 (0.11%) Misys Equation
6 1 (0.11%) Misys Midas
6 1 (0.11%) Oracle 11i
6 1 (0.11%) Oracle ERP
6 1 (0.11%) Sage 200
6 1 (0.11%) SAP EHS
6 1 (0.11%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 484 (52.90%) Azure
2 282 (30.82%) Microsoft 365
3 165 (18.03%) Entra ID
4 140 (15.30%) AWS
5 63 (6.89%) Nutanix
5 63 (6.89%) SaaS
6 55 (6.01%) IaaS
7 51 (5.57%) Datadog
8 45 (4.92%) PaaS
9 42 (4.59%) Azure DevOps
10 36 (3.93%) Azure Monitor
11 35 (3.83%) GitHub
12 31 (3.39%) GCP
12 31 (3.39%) Microsoft Purview
13 30 (3.28%) Power Platform
14 25 (2.73%) GitHub Actions
14 25 (2.73%) OneDrive
15 23 (2.51%) Cloud Computing
16 22 (2.40%) Azure AKS
17 19 (2.08%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 282 (30.82%) Firewall
2 200 (21.86%) DNS
3 183 (20.00%) VPN
4 152 (16.61%) DHCP
5 130 (14.21%) WAN
6 93 (10.16%) VLAN
7 84 (9.18%) LAN
8 73 (7.98%) Network Security
9 72 (7.87%) Wi-Fi
10 68 (7.43%) TCP/IP
11 67 (7.32%) SAN
12 39 (4.26%) Wireless
13 31 (3.39%) SD-WAN
14 26 (2.84%) Cisco ISE
14 26 (2.84%) Remote Desktop
15 25 (2.73%) SSL
16 20 (2.19%) VoIP
17 18 (1.97%) NAS
18 17 (1.86%) Internet
19 15 (1.64%) BGP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 81 (8.85%) SQL Server
2 31 (3.39%) Amazon RDS
3 19 (2.08%) Azure SQL Database
4 13 (1.42%) Power BI
5 12 (1.31%) PostgreSQL
6 10 (1.09%) Data Lake
6 10 (1.09%) Delta Lake
6 10 (1.09%) MySQL
7 9 (0.98%) Oracle Database
8 8 (0.87%) Data Warehouse
9 6 (0.66%) MongoDB
9 6 (0.66%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 6 (0.66%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 5 (0.55%) Geospatial Data
10 5 (0.55%) GIS
10 5 (0.55%) NoSQL
11 4 (0.44%) Amazon Aurora
11 4 (0.44%) Elasticsearch
12 3 (0.33%) DynamoDB
12 3 (0.33%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 20 (2.19%) Chocolatey
1 20 (2.19%) Git
2 13 (1.42%) JIRA
3 7 (0.77%) Jenkins
4 6 (0.66%) Visual Studio Code
5 4 (0.44%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 4 (0.44%) LabVIEW
5 4 (0.44%) MLflow
6 3 (0.33%) Bitbucket
6 3 (0.33%) GitLab
6 3 (0.33%) Selenium
7 2 (0.22%) Sonatype Nexus
7 2 (0.22%) TeamCity
7 2 (0.22%) Terragrunt
8 1 (0.11%) Artifactory
8 1 (0.11%) Maven
8 1 (0.11%) Octopus Deploy
8 1 (0.11%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 1 (0.11%) Team Foundation Server
8 1 (0.11%) Yeoman
General
1 334 (36.50%) Social Skills
2 167 (18.25%) Finance
3 143 (15.63%) Analytical Skills
4 65 (7.10%) Banking
5 45 (4.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 41 (4.48%) Legal
7 40 (4.37%) Law
8 36 (3.93%) Public Sector
9 31 (3.39%) Organisational Skills
10 26 (2.84%) Retail
11 23 (2.51%) Manufacturing
12 18 (1.97%) Telecoms
13 17 (1.86%) Influencing Skills
14 15 (1.64%) Documentation Skills
15 14 (1.53%) Back Office
16 11 (1.20%) Advertising
17 10 (1.09%) Financial Institution
18 8 (0.87%) Mandarin Language
18 8 (0.87%) Marketing
19 7 (0.77%) French Language
Job Titles
1 182 (19.89%) Senior
2 149 (16.28%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 117 (12.79%) IT Support
4 103 (11.26%) IT Engineer
5 84 (9.18%) Cloud Engineer
6 83 (9.07%) Support Engineer
7 67 (7.32%) IT Manager
8 66 (7.21%) IT Support Engineer
9 61 (6.67%) Lead
10 60 (6.56%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
11 59 (6.45%) Azure Engineer
12 53 (5.79%) Analyst
13 52 (5.68%) Architect
14 34 (3.72%) Platform Engineer
15 33 (3.61%) Administrator
16 29 (3.17%) Network Engineer
17 28 (3.06%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
18 27 (2.95%) Security Engineer
18 27 (2.95%) Security Manager
19 26 (2.84%) Senior Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (1.64%) SAML
2 10 (1.09%) Middleware
2 10 (1.09%) OAuth
2 10 (1.09%) PySpark
3 9 (0.98%) ARM Templates
3 9 (0.98%) YAML
4 8 (0.87%) ADO
4 8 (0.87%) Microsoft Graph
4 8 (0.87%) REST
5 7 (0.77%) Kafka
6 5 (0.55%) RESTful
7 4 (0.44%) .NET
7 4 (0.44%) Loki
7 4 (0.44%) web3js
8 3 (0.33%) FIX Protocol
8 3 (0.33%) JSON
8 3 (0.33%) Node.js
8 3 (0.33%) ODBC
8 3 (0.33%) Playwright
9 2 (0.22%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 88 (9.62%) Data Centre
2 67 (7.32%) Hybrid Cloud
2 67 (7.32%) Management Information System
3 51 (5.57%) Replication
4 47 (5.14%) Driving Licence
5 45 (4.92%) Cloud Native
6 39 (4.26%) Onboarding
6 39 (4.26%) Security Posture
7 38 (4.15%) Cyber Threat
8 35 (3.83%) Public Cloud
9 31 (3.39%) Data Protection Act
10 30 (3.28%) PKI
11 29 (3.17%) Enterprise Storage
12 28 (3.06%) Self-Motivation
13 24 (2.62%) CMDB
14 23 (2.51%) NHS
15 16 (1.75%) Legacy Systems
16 15 (1.64%) Clustering
17 13 (1.42%) CCTV
17 13 (1.42%) iSeries
Operating Systems
1 317 (34.64%) Windows
2 207 (22.62%) Windows Server
3 83 (9.07%) Linux
4 22 (2.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 20 (2.19%) Windows 10
6 19 (2.08%) Windows Server 2019
7 18 (1.97%) Mac OS
8 17 (1.86%) Windows Server 2016
9 13 (1.42%) Apple iOS
9 13 (1.42%) Ubuntu
9 13 (1.42%) Unix
10 11 (1.20%) VMS
11 9 (0.98%) CentOS
12 8 (0.87%) AIX
12 8 (0.87%) Oracle Linux
13 5 (0.55%) Solaris
14 4 (0.44%) Android
15 2 (0.22%) Amazon Linux
15 2 (0.22%) Debian
16 1 (0.11%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 328 (35.85%) Business Continuity
2 280 (30.60%) Cybersecurity
3 226 (24.70%) Problem-Solving
4 208 (22.73%) Continuous Improvement
5 207 (22.62%) ITIL
6 194 (21.20%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 144 (15.74%) High Availability
8 135 (14.75%) Incident Response
9 120 (13.11%) DevOps
10 111 (12.13%) Service Delivery
11 104 (11.37%) Infrastructure as Code
12 103 (11.26%) Cloud Security
13 95 (10.38%) Stakeholder Management
14 93 (10.16%) Data Protection
15 91 (9.95%) Change Management
15 91 (9.95%) Migration
16 89 (9.73%) Service Management
17 84 (9.18%) CI/CD
17 84 (9.18%) Mentoring
18 82 (8.96%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 148 (16.17%) PowerShell
2 99 (10.82%) Python
3 96 (10.49%) SQL
4 41 (4.48%) Bash
5 13 (1.42%) Shell Script
6 11 (1.20%) Bicep
7 10 (1.09%) Java
8 8 (0.87%) Korn
8 8 (0.87%) Kusto Query Language
8 8 (0.87%) T-SQL
9 7 (0.77%) JavaScript
9 7 (0.77%) PL/SQL
9 7 (0.77%) Scala
10 5 (0.55%) C#
10 5 (0.55%) TypeScript
11 3 (0.33%) Go
12 2 (0.22%) RPG
13 1 (0.11%) C
13 1 (0.11%) COBOL
13 1 (0.11%) Perl
Qualifications
1 104 (11.37%) Degree
2 70 (7.65%) Cisco Certification
2 70 (7.65%) Microsoft Certification
3 62 (6.78%) Azure Certification
4 55 (6.01%) CCNP
5 49 (5.36%) Security Cleared
6 43 (4.70%) Computer Science Degree
7 39 (4.26%) SC Cleared
8 34 (3.72%) CCNA
9 27 (2.95%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 25 (2.73%) CISSP
11 23 (2.51%) Postgraduate
12 17 (1.86%) CEH
13 13 (1.42%) CISM
13 13 (1.42%) MCSE
14 12 (1.31%) AWS Certification
15 10 (1.09%) Master's Degree
15 10 (1.09%) VCAP
16 9 (0.98%) BPSS Clearance
16 9 (0.98%) VCDX
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 135 (14.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 100 (10.93%) Cyber Essentials
3 93 (10.16%) GDPR
4 89 (9.73%) NIST
5 61 (6.67%) SLA
6 46 (5.03%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 44 (4.81%) PCI DSS
8 29 (3.17%) PMO
9 23 (2.51%) GRC
10 22 (2.40%) SOC 2
11 19 (2.08%) Data Quality
12 18 (1.97%) ISO 22301
13 11 (1.20%) Actionable Recommendations
14 10 (1.09%) COBIT
15 7 (0.77%) NCSC
16 6 (0.66%) QA
17 5 (0.55%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
18 4 (0.44%) DICOM
18 4 (0.44%) HIPAA
18 4 (0.44%) HL7
System Software
1 275 (30.05%) Active Directory
2 211 (23.06%) VMware Infrastructure
3 123 (13.44%) Hyper-V
4 39 (4.26%) vSphere
5 30 (3.28%) Docker
6 24 (2.62%) Virtual Machines
7 23 (2.51%) Firmware
8 18 (1.97%) Virtual Desktop
9 17 (1.86%) VMware ESXi
10 10 (1.09%) VMware NSX
11 9 (0.98%) Oracle RAC
11 9 (0.98%) vCloud
12 6 (0.66%) KVM
12 6 (0.66%) Virtual Servers
13 3 (0.33%) DFS Replication
13 3 (0.33%) EMC RecoverPoint
13 3 (0.33%) Microsoft Virtual Server
13 3 (0.33%) VMware Server
14 2 (0.22%) VMware Workstation
15 1 (0.11%) Xen
Systems Management
1 131 (14.32%) Microsoft Intune
2 113 (12.35%) Terraform
3 62 (6.78%) Ansible
4 60 (6.56%) Kubernetes
5 28 (3.06%) SCCM
6 24 (2.62%) Single Sign-On
7 22 (2.40%) VxRail
8 19 (2.08%) FortiGate
9 9 (0.98%) Data Guard
9 9 (0.98%) Dell DRAC
9 9 (0.98%) Grafana
9 9 (0.98%) Nagios
9 9 (0.98%) Packer
9 9 (0.98%) Prometheus
10 8 (0.87%) vCenter Server
11 7 (0.77%) EMC NetWorker
11 7 (0.77%) Oracle RMAN
12 6 (0.66%) Avamar
12 6 (0.66%) EMC VPLEX
12 6 (0.66%) WSUS
Vendors
1 457 (49.95%) Microsoft
2 282 (30.82%) VMware
3 112 (12.24%) Cisco
4 66 (7.21%) Veeam
5 59 (6.45%) Dell
6 46 (5.03%) HP
7 44 (4.81%) Palo Alto
8 38 (4.15%) Nimble Storage
9 35 (3.83%) Meraki
10 34 (3.72%) Commvault
11 31 (3.39%) Tenable
12 30 (3.28%) Splunk
13 27 (2.95%) Fortinet
13 27 (2.95%) Oracle
14 26 (2.84%) EMC
15 24 (2.62%) Dynatrace
15 24 (2.62%) SolarWinds
16 23 (2.51%) Dell Compellent
16 23 (2.51%) Sophos
16 23 (2.51%) Zscaler