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

6 months to
20 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 176 245 201
Rank change year-on-year +69 -44 +84
Permanent jobs citing Disaster Recovery 1,150 633 1,300
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.15% 1.28% 1.35%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.56% 1.43% 1.65%
Number of salaries quoted 835 504 1,039
10th Percentile £34,500 £35,000 £33,750
25th Percentile £42,250 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -5.98%
75th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £92,500 £92,500 £91,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,750 £50,000
% change year-on-year -6.98% +7.50% -

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 73,502 44,419 78,905
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.60% 90.05% 82.05%
Number of salaries quoted 50,918 25,002 54,550
10th Percentile £30,250 £28,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £56,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.19% +2.73% -8.79%
75th Percentile £78,750 £76,250 £73,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £98,474 £93,750
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 20 July 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 20 July 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 +49 990 £57,500 -7.63% 289
UK excluding London +43 711 £50,000 -6.98% 218
London +57 372 £75,000 - 104
Work from Home +89 357 £60,000 +9.09% 117
North of England +73 227 £47,500 -11.63% 57
South East +44 187 £50,000 -1.48% 74
Midlands +24 110 £55,000 - 32
North West +45 109 £48,750 -9.30% 27
Yorkshire +50 103 £47,500 -24.00% 25
West Midlands +32 83 £55,000 -4.35% 21
East of England +2 49 £45,000 -14.69% 16
Northern Ireland -18 48 - - 4
South West -94 38 £44,000 -12.87% 24
Scotland +34 34 £47,500 -11.63% 9
East Midlands -17 26 £55,000 +18.92% 11
Wales -41 16 £43,000 -25.22% 11
North East -51 15 £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
1 118 (10.26%) Microsoft Exchange
2 113 (9.83%) SharePoint
3 20 (1.74%) IIS
4 12 (1.04%) Apache
5 10 (0.87%) Apache Spark
6 5 (0.43%) nginx
7 3 (0.26%) Confluence
7 3 (0.26%) WordPress
8 2 (0.17%) Apache Airflow
8 2 (0.17%) OpenStack
9 1 (0.087%) Site Server
9 1 (0.087%) WebLogic
Applications
1 19 (1.65%) Microsoft Office
2 15 (1.30%) MS Visio
3 14 (1.22%) PlantUML
4 6 (0.52%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 13 (1.13%) FLEXCUBE
2 6 (0.52%) Raiser’s Edge
3 5 (0.43%) JDE EnterpriseOne
3 5 (0.43%) Sage 200
4 4 (0.35%) NetSuite
5 3 (0.26%) Dynamics CRM
5 3 (0.26%) Q-Pulse
5 3 (0.26%) SAP S/4HANA
6 2 (0.17%) Adobe Campaign
7 1 (0.087%) Bloomberg TOMS
7 1 (0.087%) Elite 3E
7 1 (0.087%) Misys Equation
7 1 (0.087%) Misys Midas
7 1 (0.087%) Oracle EBS
7 1 (0.087%) SAP EHS
7 1 (0.087%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 593 (51.57%) Azure
2 341 (29.65%) Microsoft 365
3 216 (18.78%) AWS
4 190 (16.52%) Entra ID
5 117 (10.17%) SaaS
6 71 (6.17%) IaaS
7 60 (5.22%) PaaS
8 46 (4.00%) Power Platform
9 45 (3.91%) Nutanix
10 40 (3.48%) Datadog
11 35 (3.04%) GCP
12 33 (2.87%) Azure DevOps
13 30 (2.61%) Cloud Computing
14 24 (2.09%) GitHub
15 23 (2.00%) Azure Monitor
16 22 (1.91%) GitHub Actions
16 22 (1.91%) Microsoft Purview
16 22 (1.91%) Mimecast
17 20 (1.74%) Amazon EC2
18 18 (1.57%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 351 (30.52%) Firewall
2 245 (21.30%) DNS
3 218 (18.96%) VPN
4 182 (15.83%) DHCP
5 155 (13.48%) WAN
6 131 (11.39%) VLAN
7 124 (10.78%) LAN
8 100 (8.70%) Wi-Fi
9 95 (8.26%) Network Security
10 92 (8.00%) TCP/IP
11 61 (5.30%) SAN
12 56 (4.87%) Wireless
13 40 (3.48%) Internet
14 30 (2.61%) Cisco ISE
14 30 (2.61%) SD-WAN
15 28 (2.43%) SSL
16 27 (2.35%) VoIP
17 19 (1.65%) Cisco Nexus
18 18 (1.57%) NAS
19 17 (1.48%) BGP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 90 (7.83%) SQL Server
2 36 (3.13%) Amazon RDS
3 29 (2.52%) Azure SQL Database
4 28 (2.43%) Power BI
5 14 (1.22%) PostgreSQL
6 13 (1.13%) Data Warehouse
7 12 (1.04%) Oracle Database
8 11 (0.96%) MySQL
9 8 (0.70%) Data Lake
9 8 (0.70%) Metadata
9 8 (0.70%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 5 (0.43%) NoSQL
10 5 (0.43%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 4 (0.35%) Delta Lake
11 4 (0.35%) Elasticsearch
11 4 (0.35%) MongoDB
11 4 (0.35%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 3 (0.26%) Big Data
12 3 (0.26%) DynamoDB
12 3 (0.26%) Geospatial Data
Development Applications
1 21 (1.83%) JIRA
2 17 (1.48%) Chocolatey
3 14 (1.22%) Git
4 10 (0.87%) GitLab
5 6 (0.52%) Visual Studio Code
6 5 (0.43%) JUnit
6 5 (0.43%) Spock
7 4 (0.35%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 4 (0.35%) Jenkins
7 4 (0.35%) MLflow
8 2 (0.17%) Bitbucket
8 2 (0.17%) Selenium
8 2 (0.17%) Terragrunt
8 2 (0.17%) Yeoman
9 1 (0.087%) Claude Code
9 1 (0.087%) IntelliJ
9 1 (0.087%) Maven
9 1 (0.087%) TeamCity
General
1 394 (34.26%) Social Skills
2 203 (17.65%) Finance
3 145 (12.61%) Analytical Skills
4 74 (6.43%) Law
5 73 (6.35%) Banking
6 69 (6.00%) Legal
7 49 (4.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 43 (3.74%) Manufacturing
9 38 (3.30%) Organisational Skills
9 38 (3.30%) Public Sector
10 33 (2.87%) Retail
11 32 (2.78%) Documentation Skills
12 30 (2.61%) Influencing Skills
13 22 (1.91%) Back Office
13 22 (1.91%) Telecoms
14 13 (1.13%) Financial Institution
15 12 (1.04%) Mandarin Language
16 8 (0.70%) Advertising
17 7 (0.61%) French Language
17 7 (0.61%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 228 (19.83%) Senior
2 170 (14.78%) IT Support
3 157 (13.65%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 138 (12.00%) IT Engineer
4 138 (12.00%) IT Manager
5 109 (9.48%) Support Engineer
6 88 (7.65%) IT Support Engineer
7 73 (6.35%) Architect
8 71 (6.17%) Lead
9 69 (6.00%) Cloud Engineer
10 63 (5.48%) Analyst
11 60 (5.22%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
11 60 (5.22%) Service Manager
12 56 (4.87%) IT Services Manager
13 53 (4.61%) Azure Engineer
14 52 (4.52%) Resilience Manager
15 45 (3.91%) Network Engineer
16 36 (3.13%) Administrator
16 36 (3.13%) IT Analyst
16 36 (3.13%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 59 (5.13%) Middleware
2 15 (1.30%) ARM Templates
3 9 (0.78%) Kafka
4 8 (0.70%) Microsoft Graph
4 8 (0.70%) SAML
5 7 (0.61%) FIX Protocol
6 6 (0.52%) Web Services
7 5 (0.43%) AngularJS
7 5 (0.43%) RESTful
7 5 (0.43%) Spring
8 4 (0.35%) .NET
8 4 (0.35%) OAuth
8 4 (0.35%) PySpark
8 4 (0.35%) REST
8 4 (0.35%) web3js
9 3 (0.26%) JSON
9 3 (0.26%) Nuxt
9 3 (0.26%) ODBC
9 3 (0.26%) Ruby on Rails
9 3 (0.26%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 108 (9.39%) Data Centre
2 92 (8.00%) Cyber Threat
3 79 (6.87%) Management Information System
4 69 (6.00%) Cloud Native
5 66 (5.74%) Driving Licence
6 63 (5.48%) Hybrid Cloud
7 59 (5.13%) Security Posture
8 53 (4.61%) Self-Motivation
9 52 (4.52%) Replication
10 41 (3.57%) Onboarding
11 37 (3.22%) PKI
12 30 (2.61%) Enterprise Storage
13 29 (2.52%) Data Protection Act
13 29 (2.52%) NHS
14 25 (2.17%) Public Cloud
15 23 (2.00%) CCTV
16 22 (1.91%) CMDB
16 22 (1.91%) Enterprise Software
17 21 (1.83%) Legacy Systems
17 21 (1.83%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 382 (33.22%) Windows
2 257 (22.35%) Windows Server
3 111 (9.65%) Linux
4 28 (2.43%) Windows Server 2019
5 24 (2.09%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 22 (1.91%) Windows Server 2016
7 21 (1.83%) Mac OS
8 20 (1.74%) Windows 10
9 19 (1.65%) Unix
10 15 (1.30%) Ubuntu
11 13 (1.13%) AIX
11 13 (1.13%) Oracle Linux
12 10 (0.87%) CentOS
13 8 (0.70%) Solaris
13 8 (0.70%) VMS
14 4 (0.35%) Apple iOS
14 4 (0.35%) Windows Server 2012
15 2 (0.17%) Amazon Linux
15 2 (0.17%) Debian
16 1 (0.087%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 459 (39.91%) Business Continuity
2 355 (30.87%) Cybersecurity
3 301 (26.17%) Problem-Solving
4 299 (26.00%) Continuous Improvement
5 255 (22.17%) ITIL
6 216 (18.78%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 185 (16.09%) DevOps
8 176 (15.30%) High Availability
9 171 (14.87%) Incident Response
10 144 (12.52%) Information Security
11 141 (12.26%) Stakeholder Management
12 135 (11.74%) Service Delivery
13 134 (11.65%) Infrastructure as Code
14 122 (10.61%) Agile
15 115 (10.00%) Cloud Security
16 111 (9.65%) Change Management
16 111 (9.65%) Project Delivery
17 109 (9.48%) Data Protection
18 107 (9.30%) CI/CD
19 104 (9.04%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 171 (14.87%) PowerShell
2 113 (9.83%) Python
3 112 (9.74%) SQL
4 46 (4.00%) Bash
5 23 (2.00%) Bicep
6 21 (1.83%) Shell Script
7 13 (1.13%) Java
8 12 (1.04%) Korn
8 12 (1.04%) PL/SQL
9 10 (0.87%) JavaScript
10 8 (0.70%) TypeScript
11 6 (0.52%) Kusto Query Language
11 6 (0.52%) T-SQL
12 4 (0.35%) C#
12 4 (0.35%) Go
12 4 (0.35%) Search Processing Language
13 3 (0.26%) COBOL
13 3 (0.26%) Ruby
13 3 (0.26%) Scala
14 2 (0.17%) XAML
Qualifications
1 128 (11.13%) Degree
2 94 (8.17%) Cisco Certification
3 87 (7.57%) CISSP
4 78 (6.78%) Microsoft Certification
5 77 (6.70%) Azure Certification
6 74 (6.43%) CISM
7 71 (6.17%) CCNP
8 58 (5.04%) Security Cleared
9 52 (4.52%) CCNA
10 44 (3.83%) ITIL Certification
11 43 (3.74%) SC Cleared
12 40 (3.48%) Computer Science Degree
13 31 (2.70%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
14 29 (2.52%) Postgraduate
15 20 (1.74%) AWS Certification
16 16 (1.39%) CEH
16 16 (1.39%) Master's Degree
17 15 (1.30%) CISA
18 14 (1.22%) CRISC
19 13 (1.13%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 152 (13.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 145 (12.61%) NIST
3 116 (10.09%) Cyber Essentials
3 116 (10.09%) GDPR
4 70 (6.09%) ISO 22301
5 62 (5.39%) SLA
6 53 (4.61%) PCI DSS
7 49 (4.26%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 30 (2.61%) PMO
9 28 (2.43%) GRC
10 27 (2.35%) SOC 2
11 24 (2.09%) Data Quality
12 16 (1.39%) COBIT
13 13 (1.13%) NCSC
14 10 (0.87%) Actionable Recommendations
15 8 (0.70%) SOC 1
16 6 (0.52%) QA
17 5 (0.43%) HL7
17 5 (0.43%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
18 4 (0.35%) DICOM
System Software
1 309 (26.87%) Active Directory
2 264 (22.96%) VMware Infrastructure
3 174 (15.13%) Hyper-V
4 44 (3.83%) vSphere
5 41 (3.57%) Docker
6 31 (2.70%) Virtual Machines
7 26 (2.26%) VMware ESXi
8 23 (2.00%) Virtual Desktop
9 20 (1.74%) Firmware
10 14 (1.22%) Oracle RAC
11 10 (0.87%) VMware NSX
12 9 (0.78%) vCloud
13 7 (0.61%) KVM
14 4 (0.35%) EMC RecoverPoint
14 4 (0.35%) Squid
15 3 (0.26%) DFS Replication
15 3 (0.26%) Virtual Servers
15 3 (0.26%) VMware Server
16 2 (0.17%) VMware Workstation
17 1 (0.087%) Xen
Systems Management
1 145 (12.61%) Microsoft Intune
2 140 (12.17%) Terraform
3 77 (6.70%) Kubernetes
4 73 (6.35%) Ansible
5 31 (2.70%) Single Sign-On
6 27 (2.35%) SCCM
7 26 (2.26%) FortiGate
8 20 (1.74%) VxRail
9 13 (1.13%) Data Guard
9 13 (1.13%) Nagios
10 12 (1.04%) Oracle RMAN
10 12 (1.04%) vCenter Server
11 10 (0.87%) Prometheus
12 9 (0.78%) Dell DRAC
12 9 (0.78%) Grafana
12 9 (0.78%) Jamf Pro
13 7 (0.61%) Avamar
13 7 (0.61%) EMC NetWorker
13 7 (0.61%) Packer
14 6 (0.52%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 559 (48.61%) Microsoft
2 320 (27.83%) VMware
3 172 (14.96%) Cisco
4 76 (6.61%) Veeam
5 60 (5.22%) Palo Alto
6 48 (4.17%) Dell
7 44 (3.83%) Splunk
8 39 (3.39%) HP
8 39 (3.39%) Meraki
8 39 (3.39%) Oracle
9 35 (3.04%) Fortinet
10 31 (2.70%) Sophos
11 29 (2.52%) Commvault
12 28 (2.43%) Aruba
12 28 (2.43%) SolarWinds
12 28 (2.43%) Tenable
13 27 (2.35%) Nimble Storage
14 26 (2.26%) Google
15 25 (2.17%) IBM
16 23 (2.00%) EMC