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

6 months to
3 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 177 254 220
Rank change year-on-year +77 -34 +41
Permanent jobs citing Disaster Recovery 1,209 622 1,037
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.17% 1.25% 1.25%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.58% 1.40% 1.54%
Number of salaries quoted 861 489 780
10th Percentile £34,519 £33,750 £34,500
25th Percentile £41,500 £42,750 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -7.60%
75th Percentile £77,500 £76,250 £74,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £92,500 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,750 £52,500 £49,000
% change year-on-year -9.05% +7.14% -2.00%

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 76,352 44,509 67,465
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.64% 89.49% 81.05%
Number of salaries quoted 52,648 25,381 44,449
10th Percentile £30,580 £28,500 £31,210
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,500 £41,000
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 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £95,000
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 3 August 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 August 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 +56 1,041 £57,500 -4.17% 400
UK excluding London +62 780 £47,750 -9.05% 306
London +43 370 £75,000 - 152
Work from Home +93 362 £60,000 +9.09% 161
North of England +66 224 £47,500 -11.63% 70
South East +60 211 £50,000 - 98
Midlands +34 122 £55,000 - 46
North West +60 120 £47,500 -11.63% 38
West Midlands +29 90 £55,000 -4.35% 34
Yorkshire +28 87 £44,000 -29.60% 27
East of England +5 57 £45,000 -14.29% 18
South West -90 52 £50,000 +5.26% 38
Northern Ireland -32 51 - - 13
Scotland +36 41 £48,500 -9.77% 17
East Midlands -11 32 £50,000 +8.11% 12
Wales -41 20 £44,000 -23.48% 14
North East -58 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
1 125 (10.34%) Microsoft Exchange
2 118 (9.76%) SharePoint
3 23 (1.90%) IIS
4 16 (1.32%) Apache
5 10 (0.83%) Apache Spark
5 10 (0.83%) nginx
6 5 (0.41%) Confluence
7 3 (0.25%) WordPress
8 2 (0.17%) Apache Airflow
8 2 (0.17%) OpenStack
8 2 (0.17%) WebLogic
9 1 (0.083%) Site Server
Applications
1 19 (1.57%) Microsoft Office
2 14 (1.16%) PlantUML
3 13 (1.08%) MS Visio
4 7 (0.58%) Microsoft Excel
5 2 (0.17%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.083%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 12 (0.99%) FLEXCUBE
2 6 (0.50%) Raiser’s Edge
3 5 (0.41%) JDE EnterpriseOne
3 5 (0.41%) Sage 200
4 4 (0.33%) NetSuite
5 3 (0.25%) Dynamics CRM
5 3 (0.25%) Q-Pulse
5 3 (0.25%) SAP S/4HANA
6 2 (0.17%) Adobe Campaign
7 1 (0.083%) Bloomberg TOMS
7 1 (0.083%) Misys Equation
7 1 (0.083%) Misys Midas
7 1 (0.083%) Sage 50
7 1 (0.083%) SAP EHS
7 1 (0.083%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 626 (51.78%) Azure
2 358 (29.61%) Microsoft 365
3 244 (20.18%) AWS
4 198 (16.38%) Entra ID
5 128 (10.59%) SaaS
6 82 (6.78%) IaaS
7 65 (5.38%) PaaS
8 51 (4.22%) Power Platform
9 42 (3.47%) Nutanix
10 39 (3.23%) GCP
11 36 (2.98%) Cloud Computing
12 35 (2.89%) Datadog
13 32 (2.65%) Azure DevOps
14 24 (1.99%) GitHub
15 23 (1.90%) GitHub Actions
16 22 (1.82%) AWS CloudFormation
16 22 (1.82%) Google Workspace
17 21 (1.74%) Amazon EC2
17 21 (1.74%) Mimecast
18 20 (1.65%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 349 (28.87%) Firewall
2 269 (22.25%) DNS
3 213 (17.62%) VPN
4 196 (16.21%) DHCP
5 154 (12.74%) WAN
6 129 (10.67%) VLAN
7 124 (10.26%) LAN
8 108 (8.93%) Wi-Fi
9 102 (8.44%) Network Security
10 89 (7.36%) TCP/IP
11 64 (5.29%) SAN
12 60 (4.96%) Wireless
13 42 (3.47%) Internet
14 35 (2.89%) SSL
14 35 (2.89%) VoIP
15 33 (2.73%) SD-WAN
16 30 (2.48%) Cisco ISE
17 24 (1.99%) NAS
18 21 (1.74%) Cisco Nexus
19 16 (1.32%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 93 (7.69%) SQL Server
2 36 (2.98%) Amazon RDS
3 31 (2.56%) Power BI
4 29 (2.40%) Azure SQL Database
5 17 (1.41%) PostgreSQL
6 13 (1.08%) Data Warehouse
6 13 (1.08%) Oracle Database
7 12 (0.99%) MySQL
8 8 (0.66%) Data Lake
8 8 (0.66%) Metadata
8 8 (0.66%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 6 (0.50%) MongoDB
9 6 (0.50%) NoSQL
9 6 (0.50%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 5 (0.41%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 4 (0.33%) DynamoDB
11 4 (0.33%) Elasticsearch
12 3 (0.25%) Big Data
12 3 (0.25%) NonStop SQL
12 3 (0.25%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 21 (1.74%) JIRA
2 19 (1.57%) Git
3 16 (1.32%) Chocolatey
4 14 (1.16%) GitLab
5 8 (0.66%) JUnit
5 8 (0.66%) Spock
6 7 (0.58%) Jenkins
7 6 (0.50%) Visual Studio Code
8 5 (0.41%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 4 (0.33%) Bitbucket
9 4 (0.33%) MLflow
10 2 (0.17%) IntelliJ
10 2 (0.17%) Maven
10 2 (0.17%) Selenium
10 2 (0.17%) TeamCity
10 2 (0.17%) Terragrunt
10 2 (0.17%) Yeoman
11 1 (0.083%) Claude Code
11 1 (0.083%) git-flow
General
1 413 (34.16%) Social Skills
2 217 (17.95%) Finance
3 157 (12.99%) Analytical Skills
4 79 (6.53%) Legal
5 77 (6.37%) Law
6 67 (5.54%) Banking
7 61 (5.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 50 (4.14%) Manufacturing
9 37 (3.06%) Organisational Skills
10 35 (2.89%) Retail
11 34 (2.81%) Documentation Skills
12 32 (2.65%) Influencing Skills
13 31 (2.56%) Public Sector
14 24 (1.99%) Telecoms
15 18 (1.49%) Back Office
16 13 (1.08%) Financial Institution
17 12 (0.99%) Aerospace
17 12 (0.99%) Mandarin Language
17 12 (0.99%) Presentation Skills
18 8 (0.66%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 230 (19.02%) Senior
2 180 (14.89%) IT Support
3 150 (12.41%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 143 (11.83%) IT Engineer
5 141 (11.66%) IT Manager
6 117 (9.68%) Support Engineer
7 96 (7.94%) IT Support Engineer
8 84 (6.95%) Architect
9 76 (6.29%) Analyst
10 65 (5.38%) Cloud Engineer
11 60 (4.96%) Lead
12 59 (4.88%) Service Manager
13 58 (4.80%) Resilience Manager
13 58 (4.80%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
14 54 (4.47%) IT Services Manager
15 49 (4.05%) Azure Engineer
16 47 (3.89%) Network Engineer
17 39 (3.23%) Administrator
18 37 (3.06%) IT Analyst
19 35 (2.89%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 63 (5.21%) Middleware
2 14 (1.16%) ARM Templates
3 9 (0.74%) Kafka
4 8 (0.66%) AngularJS
4 8 (0.66%) Microsoft Graph
4 8 (0.66%) Spring
4 8 (0.66%) Web Services
5 7 (0.58%) FIX Protocol
6 6 (0.50%) SAML
7 5 (0.41%) .NET
7 5 (0.41%) ModSecurity
8 4 (0.33%) AWS CDK
8 4 (0.33%) REST
8 4 (0.33%) web3js
9 3 (0.25%) JSON
9 3 (0.25%) Nuxt
9 3 (0.25%) ODBC
9 3 (0.25%) PySpark
9 3 (0.25%) Ruby on Rails
10 2 (0.17%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 106 (8.77%) Data Centre
2 95 (7.86%) Cyber Threat
3 85 (7.03%) Management Information System
4 74 (6.12%) Cloud Native
5 71 (5.87%) Driving Licence
6 68 (5.62%) Hybrid Cloud
7 60 (4.96%) Security Posture
8 59 (4.88%) Replication
9 54 (4.47%) Onboarding
10 52 (4.30%) Self-Motivation
11 34 (2.81%) PKI
12 31 (2.56%) Enterprise Storage
13 29 (2.40%) NHS
14 27 (2.23%) Public Cloud
15 25 (2.07%) CCTV
16 23 (1.90%) Enterprise Software
17 21 (1.74%) Clustering
17 21 (1.74%) Virtual Team
18 20 (1.65%) CMDB
19 19 (1.57%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 409 (33.83%) Windows
2 282 (23.33%) Windows Server
3 126 (10.42%) Linux
4 31 (2.56%) Windows Server 2019
5 25 (2.07%) Mac OS
5 25 (2.07%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 24 (1.99%) Windows 10
7 23 (1.90%) Windows Server 2016
8 22 (1.82%) Unix
9 19 (1.57%) Ubuntu
10 12 (0.99%) AIX
11 11 (0.91%) Oracle Linux
12 10 (0.83%) CentOS
13 9 (0.74%) Solaris
13 9 (0.74%) VMS
14 4 (0.33%) Windows Server 2012
15 2 (0.17%) Amazon Linux
15 2 (0.17%) Apple iOS
15 2 (0.17%) Debian
16 1 (0.083%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 497 (41.11%) Business Continuity
2 360 (29.78%) Cybersecurity
3 329 (27.21%) Problem-Solving
4 311 (25.72%) Continuous Improvement
5 257 (21.26%) ITIL
6 212 (17.54%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 206 (17.04%) DevOps
8 192 (15.88%) High Availability
9 165 (13.65%) Incident Response
10 155 (12.82%) Information Security
11 153 (12.66%) Stakeholder Management
12 145 (11.99%) Infrastructure as Code
13 142 (11.75%) Service Delivery
14 134 (11.08%) Agile
15 125 (10.34%) CI/CD
15 125 (10.34%) Project Delivery
16 120 (9.93%) Mentoring
17 117 (9.68%) Change Management
18 114 (9.43%) Cloud Security
19 112 (9.26%) Incident Management
Programming Languages
1 176 (14.56%) PowerShell
2 119 (9.84%) Python
3 111 (9.18%) SQL
4 49 (4.05%) Bash
5 24 (1.99%) Shell Script
6 23 (1.90%) Bicep
7 15 (1.24%) Java
8 13 (1.08%) JavaScript
9 11 (0.91%) Korn
9 11 (0.91%) PL/SQL
9 11 (0.91%) TypeScript
10 6 (0.50%) T-SQL
11 5 (0.41%) Kusto Query Language
11 5 (0.41%) Search Processing Language
12 4 (0.33%) C#
12 4 (0.33%) COBOL
13 3 (0.25%) Go
13 3 (0.25%) Ruby
14 2 (0.17%) RPG
14 2 (0.17%) Scala
Qualifications
1 135 (11.17%) Degree
2 99 (8.19%) Cisco Certification
3 94 (7.78%) CISSP
4 86 (7.11%) Azure Certification
5 85 (7.03%) Microsoft Certification
6 79 (6.53%) CISM
7 76 (6.29%) Security Cleared
8 75 (6.20%) CCNP
9 59 (4.88%) SC Cleared
10 53 (4.38%) CCNA
11 52 (4.30%) ITIL Certification
12 38 (3.14%) Computer Science Degree
13 33 (2.73%) Postgraduate
14 32 (2.65%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
15 26 (2.15%) AWS Certification
16 17 (1.41%) DV Cleared
17 16 (1.32%) Master's Degree
18 15 (1.24%) CISA
18 15 (1.24%) CompTIA Security+
19 14 (1.16%) CRISC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 139 (11.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 134 (11.08%) NIST
3 106 (8.77%) GDPR
4 105 (8.68%) Cyber Essentials
5 76 (6.29%) ISO 22301
6 73 (6.04%) SLA
7 50 (4.14%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 47 (3.89%) PCI DSS
9 30 (2.48%) GRC
10 28 (2.32%) PMO
11 24 (1.99%) Data Quality
12 23 (1.90%) SOC 2
13 16 (1.32%) COBIT
14 15 (1.24%) NCSC
15 12 (0.99%) QA
16 8 (0.66%) SOC 1
17 7 (0.58%) Actionable Recommendations
18 5 (0.41%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
19 4 (0.33%) ISO 9001
19 4 (0.33%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 326 (26.96%) Active Directory
2 280 (23.16%) VMware Infrastructure
3 186 (15.38%) Hyper-V
4 52 (4.30%) Docker
5 45 (3.72%) vSphere
6 30 (2.48%) Virtual Machines
7 27 (2.23%) VMware ESXi
8 24 (1.99%) Firmware
9 21 (1.74%) Virtual Desktop
10 13 (1.08%) Oracle RAC
11 11 (0.91%) VMware NSX
12 9 (0.74%) KVM
12 9 (0.74%) vCloud
13 6 (0.50%) Squid
14 5 (0.41%) Virtual Servers
15 4 (0.33%) EMC RecoverPoint
16 3 (0.25%) DFS Replication
16 3 (0.25%) VMware Server
17 2 (0.17%) Microsoft Virtual Server
18 1 (0.083%) iptables
Systems Management
1 156 (12.90%) Microsoft Intune
2 144 (11.91%) Terraform
3 80 (6.62%) Kubernetes
4 75 (6.20%) Ansible
5 34 (2.81%) Single Sign-On
6 29 (2.40%) FortiGate
7 26 (2.15%) SCCM
8 19 (1.57%) VxRail
9 13 (1.08%) Data Guard
9 13 (1.08%) Jamf Pro
10 12 (0.99%) Nagios
11 11 (0.91%) Oracle RMAN
11 11 (0.91%) Prometheus
12 10 (0.83%) vCenter Server
13 9 (0.74%) Grafana
14 8 (0.66%) Dell DRAC
15 7 (0.58%) Avamar
15 7 (0.58%) Packer
16 6 (0.50%) EMC VPLEX
16 6 (0.50%) WSUS
Vendors
1 577 (47.73%) Microsoft
2 331 (27.38%) VMware
3 182 (15.05%) Cisco
4 86 (7.11%) Veeam
5 60 (4.96%) Palo Alto
6 47 (3.89%) Splunk
7 46 (3.80%) Dell
8 43 (3.56%) Oracle
9 39 (3.23%) Fortinet
9 39 (3.23%) HP
10 37 (3.06%) Meraki
11 32 (2.65%) Sophos
12 31 (2.56%) Aruba
12 31 (2.56%) Google
12 31 (2.56%) SonicWALL
13 28 (2.32%) SolarWinds
14 27 (2.23%) Nimble Storage
15 26 (2.15%) Apple
16 24 (1.99%) Commvault
16 24 (1.99%) IBM