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

6 months to
12 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 220 226 215
Rank change year-on-year +6 -11 +106
Permanent jobs citing Disaster Recovery 807 629 1,319
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.89% 1.44% 1.36%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.21% 1.54% 1.60%
Number of salaries quoted 610 508 1,158
10th Percentile £32,750 £36,250 £33,000
25th Percentile £44,166 £44,000 £41,933
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% -0.27%
75th Percentile £85,000 £76,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £90,000 £89,125
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +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 66,794 40,810 82,365
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.89% 93.32% 85.22%
Number of salaries quoted 42,940 22,598 59,746
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,000 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% -9.84%
75th Percentile £78,750 £79,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £101,250 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year - +5.00% -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 12 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 12 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 +3 703 £60,000 -3.23% 258
UK excluding London -8 443 £50,000 -9.09% 213
London +28 303 £80,000 +6.67% 78
Work from Home +63 252 £65,000 +8.33% 100
North of England +15 154 £50,000 -9.09% 56
South East +5 98 £57,500 -11.54% 71
Yorkshire -1 85 £52,370 -4.78% 19
Midlands -5 77 £52,500 +12.30% 43
West Midlands +12 64 £50,000 - 29
North West -11 53 £50,000 +11.11% 34
East of England -21 30 £62,500 +25.00% 17
South West -88 29 £40,000 -30.43% 20
Scotland +11 27 £38,000 -24.00% 8
North East -35 16 £58,446 +71.90% 3
Wales -15 12 £43,000 -14.00% 3
Northern Ireland -24 12 - -
East Midlands -42 12 £60,000 +50.00% 13
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 (12.14%) Microsoft Exchange
2 87 (10.78%) SharePoint
3 9 (1.12%) IIS
4 4 (0.50%) Apache Spark
4 4 (0.50%) Confluence
5 3 (0.37%) Apache
6 2 (0.25%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.25%) BizTalk Server
7 1 (0.12%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.12%) Tomcat
Applications
1 26 (3.22%) Microsoft Office
2 15 (1.86%) MS Visio
3 4 (0.50%) Microsoft Excel
4 3 (0.37%) PlantUML
5 2 (0.25%) Weka
6 1 (0.12%) Acrobat
Business Applications
1 6 (0.74%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (0.50%) FLEXCUBE
2 4 (0.50%) Markit EDM
2 4 (0.50%) NetSuite
2 4 (0.50%) Oracle EBS
3 3 (0.37%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.25%) 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
1 438 (54.28%) Azure
2 248 (30.73%) Microsoft 365
3 147 (18.22%) Entra ID
4 127 (15.74%) AWS
5 65 (8.05%) Nutanix
6 53 (6.57%) SaaS
7 51 (6.32%) Datadog
8 45 (5.58%) IaaS
9 42 (5.20%) Azure Monitor
10 41 (5.08%) Azure DevOps
11 40 (4.96%) PaaS
12 37 (4.58%) GitHub
13 33 (4.09%) OneDrive
14 31 (3.84%) Microsoft Purview
15 29 (3.59%) GCP
16 27 (3.35%) Power Platform
17 26 (3.22%) GitHub Actions
18 23 (2.85%) Azure AKS
19 17 (2.11%) Amazon EC2
19 17 (2.11%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 249 (30.86%) Firewall
2 172 (21.31%) DNS
3 169 (20.94%) VPN
4 130 (16.11%) DHCP
5 120 (14.87%) WAN
6 83 (10.29%) VLAN
7 73 (9.05%) LAN
8 64 (7.93%) Wi-Fi
9 62 (7.68%) SAN
10 60 (7.43%) Network Security
11 59 (7.31%) TCP/IP
12 40 (4.96%) Wireless
13 30 (3.72%) SD-WAN
14 27 (3.35%) Remote Desktop
15 22 (2.73%) Cisco ISE
16 19 (2.35%) NAS
17 16 (1.98%) SSL
17 16 (1.98%) VoIP
18 13 (1.61%) VSAN
19 12 (1.49%) Cisco Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 76 (9.42%) SQL Server
2 30 (3.72%) Amazon RDS
3 24 (2.97%) Azure SQL Database
4 12 (1.49%) Data Lake
4 12 (1.49%) Delta Lake
4 12 (1.49%) Power BI
5 10 (1.24%) MySQL
6 9 (1.12%) Data Warehouse
7 7 (0.87%) Amazon Aurora
7 7 (0.87%) PostgreSQL
8 6 (0.74%) MongoDB
8 6 (0.74%) Oracle Database
9 5 (0.62%) Geospatial Data
9 5 (0.62%) GIS
9 5 (0.62%) NoSQL
9 5 (0.62%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 4 (0.50%) Elasticsearch
10 4 (0.50%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 3 (0.37%) SAP HANA
11 3 (0.37%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 24 (2.97%) Git
2 20 (2.48%) Chocolatey
3 11 (1.36%) JIRA
4 9 (1.12%) Jenkins
5 6 (0.74%) Visual Studio Code
6 5 (0.62%) Sonatype Nexus
7 4 (0.50%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 4 (0.50%) LabVIEW
7 4 (0.50%) MLflow
8 3 (0.37%) Bitbucket
8 3 (0.37%) GitLab
8 3 (0.37%) Maven
8 3 (0.37%) TeamCity
9 2 (0.25%) Artifactory
9 2 (0.25%) Octopus Deploy
9 2 (0.25%) Selenium
9 2 (0.25%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
10 1 (0.12%) LoadRunner
10 1 (0.12%) Team Foundation Server
10 1 (0.12%) Yeoman
General
1 301 (37.30%) Social Skills
2 161 (19.95%) Finance
3 136 (16.85%) Analytical Skills
4 56 (6.94%) Banking
5 38 (4.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 35 (4.34%) Public Sector
7 28 (3.47%) Law
8 25 (3.10%) Organisational Skills
9 23 (2.85%) Legal
10 22 (2.73%) Retail
11 19 (2.35%) Manufacturing
12 17 (2.11%) Telecoms
13 14 (1.73%) Documentation Skills
14 13 (1.61%) Influencing Skills
15 11 (1.36%) Back Office
16 10 (1.24%) Advertising
17 9 (1.12%) Financial Institution
17 9 (1.12%) Marketing
18 8 (0.99%) Presentation Skills
19 7 (0.87%) French Language
Job Titles
1 159 (19.70%) Senior
2 124 (15.37%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 87 (10.78%) IT Support
4 85 (10.53%) IT Engineer
5 82 (10.16%) Cloud Engineer
6 73 (9.05%) Support Engineer
7 64 (7.93%) IT Manager
8 57 (7.06%) Lead
9 55 (6.82%) Azure Engineer
10 52 (6.44%) IT Support Engineer
11 51 (6.32%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
12 45 (5.58%) Architect
13 36 (4.46%) Analyst
13 36 (4.46%) Platform Engineer
14 27 (3.35%) Security Engineer
15 26 (3.22%) Administrator
15 26 (3.22%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
16 24 (2.97%) Security Manager
16 24 (2.97%) Senior Cloud Engineer
17 23 (2.85%) Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (1.98%) SAML
2 13 (1.61%) OAuth
3 12 (1.49%) PySpark
3 12 (1.49%) YAML
4 11 (1.36%) ADO
5 10 (1.24%) REST
6 9 (1.12%) Middleware
7 7 (0.87%) ARM Templates
7 7 (0.87%) Loki
8 6 (0.74%) Kafka
9 5 (0.62%) Microsoft Graph
9 5 (0.62%) RESTful
10 4 (0.50%) .NET
10 4 (0.50%) web3js
11 3 (0.37%) ActiveMQ
11 3 (0.37%) ODBC
11 3 (0.37%) RAML
11 3 (0.37%) SOAP
12 2 (0.25%) LDAP
12 2 (0.25%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 67 (8.30%) Hybrid Cloud
2 65 (8.05%) Data Centre
3 58 (7.19%) Management Information System
4 41 (5.08%) Replication
5 38 (4.71%) Cloud Native
5 38 (4.71%) Onboarding
6 35 (4.34%) Cyber Threat
6 35 (4.34%) Public Cloud
7 34 (4.21%) Driving Licence
8 33 (4.09%) Security Posture
9 29 (3.59%) Data Protection Act
10 22 (2.73%) Self-Motivation
11 21 (2.60%) PKI
12 20 (2.48%) Enterprise Storage
13 19 (2.35%) CMDB
14 18 (2.23%) NHS
15 15 (1.86%) Legacy Systems
16 11 (1.36%) CCTV
16 11 (1.36%) Clustering
16 11 (1.36%) iSeries
Operating Systems
1 264 (32.71%) Windows
2 169 (20.94%) Windows Server
3 71 (8.80%) Linux
4 23 (2.85%) Windows 10
5 19 (2.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 17 (2.11%) Apple iOS
7 13 (1.61%) Ubuntu
8 12 (1.49%) Mac OS
8 12 (1.49%) VMS
9 10 (1.24%) Windows Server 2016
10 9 (1.12%) CentOS
10 9 (1.12%) Windows Server 2019
11 8 (0.99%) Unix
12 5 (0.62%) AIX
12 5 (0.62%) Android
12 5 (0.62%) Oracle Linux
13 4 (0.50%) Solaris
14 2 (0.25%) Amazon Linux
14 2 (0.25%) Debian
15 1 (0.12%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 300 (37.17%) Business Continuity
2 255 (31.60%) Cybersecurity
3 201 (24.91%) Problem-Solving
4 190 (23.54%) ITIL
5 180 (22.30%) Continuous Improvement
6 167 (20.69%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 135 (16.73%) High Availability
8 123 (15.24%) DevOps
9 117 (14.50%) Incident Response
10 106 (13.14%) Service Delivery
11 99 (12.27%) Infrastructure as Code
12 93 (11.52%) Cloud Security
13 91 (11.28%) Change Management
14 86 (10.66%) CI/CD
15 84 (10.41%) Migration
16 83 (10.29%) Data Protection
16 83 (10.29%) Mentoring
17 80 (9.91%) Stakeholder Management
18 76 (9.42%) Service Management
19 73 (9.05%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 136 (16.85%) PowerShell
2 101 (12.52%) Python
3 87 (10.78%) SQL
4 40 (4.96%) Bash
5 11 (1.36%) Kusto Query Language
6 10 (1.24%) Bicep
6 10 (1.24%) Java
7 9 (1.12%) Scala
8 8 (0.99%) Shell Script
9 7 (0.87%) JavaScript
9 7 (0.87%) T-SQL
10 5 (0.62%) C#
10 5 (0.62%) Korn
11 4 (0.50%) Go
11 4 (0.50%) PL/SQL
12 3 (0.37%) TypeScript
13 2 (0.25%) RPG
14 1 (0.12%) COBOL
14 1 (0.12%) Perl
Qualifications
1 98 (12.14%) Degree
2 54 (6.69%) Cisco Certification
2 54 (6.69%) Microsoft Certification
3 47 (5.82%) Azure Certification
4 44 (5.45%) CCNP
4 44 (5.45%) Computer Science Degree
5 43 (5.33%) Security Cleared
6 33 (4.09%) SC Cleared
7 24 (2.97%) CCNA
8 23 (2.85%) CISSP
8 23 (2.85%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 20 (2.48%) CEH
10 16 (1.98%) Postgraduate
11 13 (1.61%) MCSE
12 11 (1.36%) AWS Certification
13 9 (1.12%) BPSS Clearance
13 9 (1.12%) CISM
13 9 (1.12%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 9 (1.12%) VCAP
14 8 (0.99%) VCDX
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 119 (14.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 85 (10.53%) GDPR
3 81 (10.04%) Cyber Essentials
4 74 (9.17%) NIST
5 61 (7.56%) SLA
6 39 (4.83%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 38 (4.71%) PCI DSS
8 23 (2.85%) GRC
8 23 (2.85%) PMO
8 23 (2.85%) SOC 2
9 21 (2.60%) Data Quality
10 15 (1.86%) ISO 22301
11 11 (1.36%) Actionable Recommendations
12 7 (0.87%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
12 7 (0.87%) QA
13 5 (0.62%) COBIT
14 4 (0.50%) DICOM
14 4 (0.50%) HIPAA
14 4 (0.50%) HL7
14 4 (0.50%) NCSC
System Software
1 250 (30.98%) Active Directory
2 183 (22.68%) VMware Infrastructure
3 104 (12.89%) Hyper-V
4 34 (4.21%) Docker
4 34 (4.21%) vSphere
5 28 (3.47%) Virtual Machines
6 21 (2.60%) Firmware
7 17 (2.11%) Virtual Desktop
7 17 (2.11%) VMware ESXi
8 9 (1.12%) vCloud
8 9 (1.12%) VMware NSX
9 6 (0.74%) KVM
9 6 (0.74%) Virtual Servers
10 5 (0.62%) Oracle RAC
11 3 (0.37%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 2 (0.25%) EMC RecoverPoint
12 2 (0.25%) VMware Server
12 2 (0.25%) VMware Workstation
13 1 (0.12%) Xen
13 1 (0.12%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 117 (14.50%) Microsoft Intune
2 105 (13.01%) Terraform
3 65 (8.05%) Kubernetes
4 59 (7.31%) Ansible
5 27 (3.35%) SCCM
6 17 (2.11%) VxRail
7 12 (1.49%) Grafana
7 12 (1.49%) Single Sign-On
8 11 (1.36%) FortiGate
8 11 (1.36%) Prometheus
9 8 (0.99%) Packer
9 8 (0.99%) vCenter Server
10 6 (0.74%) Data Guard
10 6 (0.74%) Dell DRAC
10 6 (0.74%) Nagios
11 5 (0.62%) WSUS
12 4 (0.50%) Argo
12 4 (0.50%) Backup Exec
12 4 (0.50%) EMC NetWorker
12 4 (0.50%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 403 (49.94%) Microsoft
2 250 (30.98%) VMware
3 80 (9.91%) Cisco
4 58 (7.19%) Dell
5 45 (5.58%) HP
5 45 (5.58%) Veeam
6 42 (5.20%) Palo Alto
7 37 (4.58%) Nimble Storage
8 34 (4.21%) Commvault
9 31 (3.84%) Tenable
10 27 (3.35%) Meraki
11 26 (3.22%) Dell Compellent
11 26 (3.22%) Zscaler
12 24 (2.97%) Dynatrace
12 24 (2.97%) Splunk
13 21 (2.60%) AppDynamics
13 21 (2.60%) EMC
13 21 (2.60%) Fortinet
14 20 (2.48%) Databricks
14 20 (2.48%) Oracle