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

6 months to
12 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 170 254 185
Rank change year-on-year +84 -69 +26
Permanent jobs citing Disaster Recovery 1,393 578 1,049
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.18% 1.18% 1.46%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.61% 1.32% 1.77%
Number of salaries quoted 943 457 591
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,250 £37,375
25th Percentile £42,500 £43,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,076 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.54% - +0.80%
75th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £101,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £51,500 £51,500
% change year-on-year -2.91% - -1.90%

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 86,468 43,703 59,228
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.32% 88.90% 82.25%
Number of salaries quoted 59,116 24,458 31,674
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,250 £32,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -
75th Percentile £78,750 £75,000 £78,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £46,750 £52,500
% change year-on-year +17.65% -10.95% -2.78%

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 October 2026.

Salary histogram for Disaster Recovery in the UK

Disaster Recovery
Top 17 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 October 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 +74 1,221 £55,000 -8.33% 871
UK excluding London +104 913 £50,000 -2.91% 508
Work from Home +102 429 £60,343 -3.45% 384
London +29 420 £75,000 +3.45% 399
North of England +68 245 £47,500 -8.43% 136
South East +70 241 £52,000 +4.00% 126
Midlands +49 170 £55,000 -7.56% 81
North West +52 138 £47,500 +11.76% 64
West Midlands +32 119 £58,375 -10.19% 42
Yorkshire +30 93 £47,500 -9.52% 63
South West -31 79 £50,000 +5.26% 59
East of England +3 64 £45,000 -14.29% 29
East Midlands -4 51 £44,736 -14.79% 39
Northern Ireland -40 47 - - 22
Scotland +40 44 £57,226 +9.00% 44
Wales -47 25 £45,000 -21.74% 14
North East -68 14 £52,500 - 11

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
1 179 (12.85%) Microsoft Exchange
2 169 (12.13%) SharePoint
3 26 (1.87%) IIS
4 23 (1.65%) Apache
5 19 (1.36%) nginx
6 10 (0.72%) Apache Spark
7 5 (0.36%) OpenStack
8 3 (0.22%) Confluence
8 3 (0.22%) WordPress
9 2 (0.14%) WebLogic
10 1 (0.072%) CICS
10 1 (0.072%) FactoryTalk
10 1 (0.072%) Site Server
Applications
1 19 (1.36%) PlantUML
2 18 (1.29%) Microsoft Office
3 11 (0.79%) Microsoft Excel
4 9 (0.65%) MS Visio
5 3 (0.22%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.072%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 11 (0.79%) FLEXCUBE
2 7 (0.50%) Dynamics CRM
3 6 (0.43%) Raiser’s Edge
4 5 (0.36%) JDE EnterpriseOne
4 5 (0.36%) Sage 200
5 3 (0.22%) NetSuite
5 3 (0.22%) Q-Pulse
6 2 (0.14%) Adobe Campaign
6 2 (0.14%) Integrated Workplace Management System
7 1 (0.072%) Academy Revenues and Benefits
7 1 (0.072%) Bloomberg TOMS
7 1 (0.072%) Eikon
7 1 (0.072%) Misys Equation
7 1 (0.072%) Misys Midas
7 1 (0.072%) Oracle Applications
7 1 (0.072%) Oracle EBS
7 1 (0.072%) Sage 50
7 1 (0.072%) SAP EHS
7 1 (0.072%) SAP S/4HANA
7 1 (0.072%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 716 (51.40%) Azure
2 419 (30.08%) Microsoft 365
3 301 (21.61%) Entra ID
4 261 (18.74%) AWS
5 158 (11.34%) SaaS
6 108 (7.75%) IaaS
7 78 (5.60%) PaaS
8 58 (4.16%) GCP
9 55 (3.95%) Cloud Computing
9 55 (3.95%) Power Platform
10 54 (3.88%) Azure DevOps
11 51 (3.66%) OneDrive
12 49 (3.52%) Azure Monitor
13 39 (2.80%) GitHub
14 36 (2.58%) Google Workspace
15 33 (2.37%) Microsoft Copilot
16 28 (2.01%) Amazon EC2
17 25 (1.79%) GitHub Actions
18 24 (1.72%) OCI
18 24 (1.72%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 360 (25.84%) Firewall
2 340 (24.41%) DNS
3 248 (17.80%) DHCP
4 237 (17.01%) VPN
5 152 (10.91%) WAN
6 149 (10.70%) VLAN
7 131 (9.40%) TCP/IP
8 124 (8.90%) LAN
9 114 (8.18%) Wi-Fi
10 94 (6.75%) Network Security
11 90 (6.46%) Wireless
12 59 (4.24%) SAN
13 52 (3.73%) Internet
14 43 (3.09%) SD-WAN
15 40 (2.87%) VoIP
16 38 (2.73%) SSL
17 24 (1.72%) Cisco ISE
17 24 (1.72%) Cisco Nexus
17 24 (1.72%) NAS
18 21 (1.51%) BGP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 102 (7.32%) SQL Server
2 49 (3.52%) Amazon RDS
3 43 (3.09%) PostgreSQL
4 40 (2.87%) Azure SQL Database
5 33 (2.37%) Power BI
6 16 (1.15%) Oracle Database
7 15 (1.08%) Data Warehouse
7 15 (1.08%) MySQL
8 13 (0.93%) Metadata
9 11 (0.79%) Data Lake
10 8 (0.57%) MongoDB
10 8 (0.57%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 7 (0.50%) Relational Database
12 5 (0.36%) SQL Server Analysis Services
12 5 (0.36%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 4 (0.29%) DynamoDB
13 4 (0.29%) NoSQL
14 3 (0.22%) NonStop SQL
14 3 (0.22%) RDBMS
14 3 (0.22%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 20 (1.44%) JIRA
2 19 (1.36%) GitLab
3 17 (1.22%) Git
4 11 (0.79%) Chocolatey
4 11 (0.79%) Jenkins
5 10 (0.72%) JUnit
5 10 (0.72%) Spock
6 9 (0.65%) TeamCity
7 5 (0.36%) Bitbucket
7 5 (0.36%) Claude Code
8 4 (0.29%) IntelliJ
8 4 (0.29%) Maven
9 2 (0.14%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 2 (0.14%) git-flow
9 2 (0.14%) Selenium
9 2 (0.14%) Terragrunt
9 2 (0.14%) Visual Studio Code
10 1 (0.072%) Bitbucket Server
10 1 (0.072%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
10 1 (0.072%) Yeoman
General
1 468 (33.60%) Social Skills
2 268 (19.24%) Finance
3 183 (13.14%) Analytical Skills
4 92 (6.60%) Law
5 85 (6.10%) Legal
6 79 (5.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 68 (4.88%) Banking
8 62 (4.45%) Manufacturing
9 53 (3.80%) Retail
10 50 (3.59%) Public Sector
11 47 (3.37%) Documentation Skills
12 41 (2.94%) Organisational Skills
13 30 (2.15%) Influencing Skills
14 27 (1.94%) Back Office
15 20 (1.44%) Financial Institution
15 20 (1.44%) Telecoms
16 17 (1.22%) Aerospace
17 14 (1.01%) Police
18 9 (0.65%) Local Government
19 8 (0.57%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 262 (18.81%) Senior
2 197 (14.14%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 192 (13.78%) IT Support
4 142 (10.19%) IT Engineer
5 127 (9.12%) IT Manager
6 115 (8.26%) Support Engineer
7 111 (7.97%) Architect
8 105 (7.54%) Analyst
9 95 (6.82%) IT Support Engineer
10 78 (5.60%) Lead
10 78 (5.60%) Resilience Manager
11 72 (5.17%) Service Manager
12 59 (4.24%) Network Engineer
12 59 (4.24%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
13 58 (4.16%) IT Services Manager
14 57 (4.09%) Cloud Engineer
15 50 (3.59%) Administrator
16 46 (3.30%) Azure Engineer
17 42 (3.02%) IT Assistant
17 42 (3.02%) IT Support Assistant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 195 (14.00%) Terraform
2 76 (5.46%) Middleware
3 14 (1.01%) ARM Templates
3 14 (1.01%) OpenTelemetry
3 14 (1.01%) SAML
4 13 (0.93%) REST
5 10 (0.72%) .NET
5 10 (0.72%) AngularJS
5 10 (0.72%) Spring
6 9 (0.65%) Microsoft Graph
6 9 (0.65%) RESTful
6 9 (0.65%) Web Services
7 8 (0.57%) Kafka
8 6 (0.43%) FIX Protocol
9 5 (0.36%) ModSecurity
9 5 (0.36%) React
10 4 (0.29%) 802.1X
10 4 (0.29%) AWS CDK
10 4 (0.29%) JSON
10 4 (0.29%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 101 (7.25%) Data Centre
2 91 (6.53%) Cloud Native
3 86 (6.17%) Driving Licence
4 84 (6.03%) Cyber Threat
5 83 (5.96%) Onboarding
6 75 (5.38%) Management Information System
7 69 (4.95%) Replication
8 66 (4.74%) Hybrid Cloud
9 62 (4.45%) Security Posture
10 43 (3.09%) Self-Motivation
11 37 (2.66%) Enterprise Storage
12 34 (2.44%) Enterprise Software
12 34 (2.44%) PKI
13 29 (2.08%) Distributed Systems
14 28 (2.01%) NHS
15 23 (1.65%) CCTV
15 23 (1.65%) Clustering
16 22 (1.58%) Blog
16 22 (1.58%) Enterprise Cloud
17 21 (1.51%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 489 (35.10%) Windows
2 364 (26.13%) Windows Server
3 149 (10.70%) Linux
4 44 (3.16%) Windows 10
5 43 (3.09%) Windows Server 2019
6 27 (1.94%) macOS
7 26 (1.87%) Windows Server 2016
8 23 (1.65%) Unix
9 20 (1.44%) Ubuntu
10 19 (1.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 14 (1.01%) VMS
12 12 (0.86%) AIX
13 10 (0.72%) Oracle Linux
14 9 (0.65%) Solaris
15 6 (0.43%) Debian
16 5 (0.36%) CentOS
17 4 (0.29%) Apple iOS
17 4 (0.29%) Windows Server 2012
18 2 (0.14%) Amazon Linux
18 2 (0.14%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 566 (40.63%) Business Continuity
2 419 (30.08%) Continuous Improvement
3 418 (30.01%) Cybersecurity
4 367 (26.35%) Problem-Solving
5 280 (20.10%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 256 (18.38%) ITIL
7 233 (16.73%) DevOps
8 215 (15.43%) High Availability
8 215 (15.43%) Stakeholder Management
9 202 (14.50%) Infrastructure as Code
10 177 (12.71%) Incident Response
11 173 (12.42%) Information Security
12 169 (12.13%) Project Delivery
12 169 (12.13%) Service Delivery
13 168 (12.06%) CI/CD
14 158 (11.34%) Migration
15 155 (11.13%) Cloud Security
16 140 (10.05%) Agile
16 140 (10.05%) AI
17 136 (9.76%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 229 (16.44%) PowerShell
2 147 (10.55%) Python
3 137 (9.83%) SQL
4 73 (5.24%) Bash
5 42 (3.02%) Bicep
6 34 (2.44%) Java
7 25 (1.79%) Shell Script
8 20 (1.44%) JavaScript
9 14 (1.01%) TypeScript
10 12 (0.86%) Go
10 12 (0.86%) Korn
11 10 (0.72%) PL/SQL
12 7 (0.50%) Kusto Query Language
13 6 (0.43%) C#
13 6 (0.43%) Groovy
13 6 (0.43%) Search Processing Language
14 5 (0.36%) COBOL
14 5 (0.36%) T-SQL
15 4 (0.29%) XAML
16 3 (0.22%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 128 (9.19%) Degree
2 123 (8.83%) Security Cleared
3 109 (7.82%) Azure Certification
4 99 (7.11%) CISSP
5 94 (6.75%) SC Cleared
6 89 (6.39%) Microsoft Certification
7 88 (6.32%) Cisco Certification
8 82 (5.89%) CISM
9 63 (4.52%) ITIL Certification
10 60 (4.31%) CCNP
11 50 (3.59%) CCNA
12 48 (3.45%) Postgraduate
13 36 (2.58%) Computer Science Degree
14 32 (2.30%) AWS Certification
15 25 (1.79%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
16 22 (1.58%) CompTIA Security+
17 20 (1.44%) DV Cleared
18 18 (1.29%) Master's Degree
19 16 (1.15%) DBS Check
19 16 (1.15%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 159 (11.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 138 (9.91%) NIST
3 126 (9.05%) Cyber Essentials
4 113 (8.11%) GDPR
5 100 (7.18%) ISO 22301
6 84 (6.03%) SLA
7 59 (4.24%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 42 (3.02%) PCI DSS
9 32 (2.30%) GRC
10 28 (2.01%) SOC 2
11 25 (1.79%) Data Quality
12 23 (1.65%) NCSC
13 19 (1.36%) PMO
14 16 (1.15%) COBIT
15 15 (1.08%) QA
16 13 (0.93%) ISO 9001
17 6 (0.43%) ISO 14001
17 6 (0.43%) SOC 1
18 5 (0.36%) Accessibility
18 5 (0.36%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 391 (28.07%) Active Directory
2 293 (21.03%) VMware Infrastructure
3 218 (15.65%) Hyper-V
4 59 (4.24%) Virtual Machines
5 56 (4.02%) Docker
5 56 (4.02%) vSphere
6 35 (2.51%) Firmware
7 26 (1.87%) Virtual Desktop
7 26 (1.87%) VMware ESXi
8 15 (1.08%) VMware NSX
9 13 (0.93%) Oracle RAC
10 7 (0.50%) vCloud
11 6 (0.43%) DFS Replication
11 6 (0.43%) Squid
12 5 (0.36%) Virtual Servers
13 4 (0.29%) KVM
14 3 (0.22%) VMware Server
15 2 (0.14%) EMC RecoverPoint
15 2 (0.14%) iptables
15 2 (0.14%) Microsoft Virtual Server
Systems Management
1 201 (14.43%) Microsoft Intune
2 100 (7.18%) Kubernetes
3 88 (6.32%) Ansible
4 60 (4.31%) Single Sign-On
5 33 (2.37%) FortiGate
6 31 (2.23%) Grafana
7 28 (2.01%) SCCM
8 27 (1.94%) Prometheus
9 16 (1.15%) Jamf Pro
9 16 (1.15%) VxRail
10 15 (1.08%) Data Guard
11 12 (0.86%) Oracle RMAN
11 12 (0.86%) Puppet
12 11 (0.79%) Nagios
13 10 (0.72%) vCenter Server
14 8 (0.57%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 8 (0.57%) Dell DRAC
14 8 (0.57%) Progress Chef
14 8 (0.57%) Proxmox
15 7 (0.50%) Avamar
Vendors
1 668 (47.95%) Microsoft
2 338 (24.26%) VMware
3 207 (14.86%) Cisco
4 101 (7.25%) Veeam
5 68 (4.88%) Palo Alto
6 60 (4.31%) Fortinet
7 56 (4.02%) Oracle
8 54 (3.88%) Google
9 49 (3.52%) SonicWALL
10 45 (3.23%) Meraki
11 43 (3.09%) Aruba
11 43 (3.09%) SolarWinds
12 41 (2.94%) Splunk
13 37 (2.66%) Dell
14 30 (2.15%) Qualys
15 29 (2.08%) Apple
16 26 (1.87%) Sophos
17 25 (1.79%) ServiceNow
18 23 (1.65%) Dynatrace
19 22 (1.58%) AppDynamics