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

6 months to
9 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 204 255 214
Rank change year-on-year +51 -41 +91
Permanent jobs citing Disaster Recovery 924 567 1,370
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.01% 1.28% 1.30%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.38% 1.38% 1.57%
Number of salaries quoted 703 449 1,125
10th Percentile £33,000 £37,500 £32,700
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 £77,750 £77,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £93,750 £90,250 £88,175
UK excluding London median annual salary £48,625 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -11.59% +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 66,949 41,023 87,141
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 72.83% 92.72% 82.59%
Number of salaries quoted 45,661 21,815 61,905
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,000 £29,500
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 £50,055 £50,000
% change year-on-year +4.89% +0.11% -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 9 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 9 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 +43 821 £60,000 -4.00% 246
UK excluding London +28 524 £48,625 -11.59% 213
London +41 339 £75,000 - 72
Work from Home +80 275 £60,000 +9.09% 116
North of England +59 197 £47,500 -13.64% 36
South East +4 115 £52,500 -4.55% 67
Yorkshire +26 101 £47,500 -24.00% 17
Midlands +32 95 £52,500 +14.13% 48
North West +42 76 £50,000 -9.09% 18
West Midlands +34 74 £52,500 -4.55% 30
East of England -2 36 £53,725 +1.37% 20
South West -78 30 £40,000 -27.27% 26
Scotland +24 25 £38,000 -30.91% 7
East Midlands -22 20 £55,000 +37.50% 18
North East -41 20 £42,500 -15.00% 1
Wales -26 14 £43,000 -14.00% 10
Northern Ireland -30 8 - - 4
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
1 111 (12.01%) Microsoft Exchange
2 99 (10.71%) SharePoint
3 12 (1.30%) IIS
4 4 (0.43%) Apache Spark
4 4 (0.43%) Confluence
5 3 (0.32%) 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 21 (2.27%) Microsoft Office
2 16 (1.73%) MS Visio
3 8 (0.87%) PlantUML
4 3 (0.32%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 8 (0.87%) FLEXCUBE
2 5 (0.54%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (0.43%) NetSuite
3 4 (0.43%) Oracle EBS
4 3 (0.32%) 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 (52.38%) Azure
2 288 (31.17%) Microsoft 365
3 169 (18.29%) Entra ID
4 139 (15.04%) AWS
5 63 (6.82%) SaaS
6 59 (6.39%) Nutanix
7 56 (6.06%) IaaS
8 51 (5.52%) Datadog
9 46 (4.98%) PaaS
10 42 (4.55%) Azure DevOps
11 36 (3.90%) Azure Monitor
12 35 (3.79%) GitHub
13 31 (3.35%) GCP
13 31 (3.35%) Microsoft Purview
13 31 (3.35%) Power Platform
14 25 (2.71%) Cloud Computing
14 25 (2.71%) GitHub Actions
14 25 (2.71%) OneDrive
15 22 (2.38%) Azure AKS
16 19 (2.06%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 287 (31.06%) Firewall
2 203 (21.97%) DNS
3 185 (20.02%) VPN
4 154 (16.67%) DHCP
5 129 (13.96%) WAN
6 94 (10.17%) VLAN
7 87 (9.42%) LAN
8 75 (8.12%) Wi-Fi
9 73 (7.90%) Network Security
10 68 (7.36%) TCP/IP
11 65 (7.03%) SAN
12 40 (4.33%) Wireless
13 30 (3.25%) SD-WAN
14 26 (2.81%) Cisco ISE
14 26 (2.81%) SSL
15 23 (2.49%) Remote Desktop
16 21 (2.27%) VoIP
17 20 (2.16%) Internet
18 17 (1.84%) NAS
19 15 (1.62%) BGP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 81 (8.77%) SQL Server
2 31 (3.35%) Amazon RDS
3 20 (2.16%) Azure SQL Database
4 14 (1.52%) Power BI
5 12 (1.30%) PostgreSQL
6 10 (1.08%) Data Lake
6 10 (1.08%) Delta Lake
6 10 (1.08%) MySQL
7 9 (0.97%) Oracle Database
8 8 (0.87%) Data Warehouse
9 6 (0.65%) MongoDB
9 6 (0.65%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 6 (0.65%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 5 (0.54%) Geospatial Data
10 5 (0.54%) GIS
10 5 (0.54%) NoSQL
11 4 (0.43%) Amazon Aurora
11 4 (0.43%) Elasticsearch
12 3 (0.32%) DynamoDB
12 3 (0.32%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 20 (2.16%) Chocolatey
1 20 (2.16%) Git
2 13 (1.41%) JIRA
3 7 (0.76%) Jenkins
4 6 (0.65%) Visual Studio Code
5 4 (0.43%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 4 (0.43%) MLflow
6 3 (0.32%) Bitbucket
6 3 (0.32%) GitLab
6 3 (0.32%) LabVIEW
6 3 (0.32%) 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 (36.15%) Social Skills
2 167 (18.07%) Finance
3 143 (15.48%) Analytical Skills
4 65 (7.03%) Banking
5 45 (4.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 43 (4.65%) Legal
7 40 (4.33%) Law
8 37 (4.00%) Public Sector
9 32 (3.46%) Organisational Skills
10 26 (2.81%) Retail
11 23 (2.49%) Manufacturing
12 18 (1.95%) Influencing Skills
12 18 (1.95%) Telecoms
13 17 (1.84%) Documentation Skills
14 14 (1.52%) Back Office
15 11 (1.19%) Advertising
16 10 (1.08%) Financial Institution
17 8 (0.87%) Mandarin Language
18 7 (0.76%) French Language
18 7 (0.76%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 184 (19.91%) Senior
2 148 (16.02%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 123 (13.31%) IT Support
4 107 (11.58%) IT Engineer
5 86 (9.31%) Support Engineer
6 81 (8.77%) Cloud Engineer
7 68 (7.36%) IT Manager
7 68 (7.36%) IT Support Engineer
8 62 (6.71%) Lead
9 59 (6.39%) Azure Engineer
9 59 (6.39%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
10 55 (5.95%) Analyst
11 54 (5.84%) Architect
12 35 (3.79%) Platform Engineer
13 34 (3.68%) Administrator
14 29 (3.14%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
15 28 (3.03%) Security Engineer
15 28 (3.03%) Security Manager
16 27 (2.92%) Network Engineer
17 26 (2.81%) Senior Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (1.62%) SAML
2 11 (1.19%) Middleware
3 10 (1.08%) OAuth
3 10 (1.08%) PySpark
4 9 (0.97%) ARM Templates
4 9 (0.97%) YAML
5 8 (0.87%) ADO
5 8 (0.87%) Microsoft Graph
5 8 (0.87%) REST
6 7 (0.76%) Kafka
7 5 (0.54%) RESTful
8 4 (0.43%) .NET
8 4 (0.43%) Loki
8 4 (0.43%) web3js
9 3 (0.32%) FIX Protocol
9 3 (0.32%) JSON
9 3 (0.32%) Node.js
9 3 (0.32%) ODBC
9 3 (0.32%) Playwright
10 2 (0.22%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 88 (9.52%) Data Centre
2 67 (7.25%) Management Information System
3 63 (6.82%) Hybrid Cloud
4 52 (5.63%) Replication
5 51 (5.52%) Driving Licence
6 46 (4.98%) Cloud Native
7 41 (4.44%) Security Posture
8 40 (4.33%) Onboarding
9 38 (4.11%) Cyber Threat
10 33 (3.57%) Public Cloud
11 31 (3.35%) Data Protection Act
12 30 (3.25%) PKI
13 29 (3.14%) Enterprise Storage
14 28 (3.03%) Self-Motivation
15 25 (2.71%) NHS
16 24 (2.60%) CMDB
17 16 (1.73%) Clustering
17 16 (1.73%) Legacy Systems
18 14 (1.52%) Virtual Team
19 13 (1.41%) iSeries
Operating Systems
1 319 (34.52%) Windows
2 208 (22.51%) Windows Server
3 83 (8.98%) Linux
4 22 (2.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 21 (2.27%) Windows 10
6 20 (2.16%) Mac OS
6 20 (2.16%) Windows Server 2019
7 17 (1.84%) Windows Server 2016
8 13 (1.41%) Apple iOS
8 13 (1.41%) Ubuntu
8 13 (1.41%) Unix
9 11 (1.19%) VMS
10 9 (0.97%) CentOS
11 8 (0.87%) AIX
11 8 (0.87%) Oracle Linux
12 6 (0.65%) Solaris
13 4 (0.43%) Android
14 2 (0.22%) Amazon Linux
14 2 (0.22%) Debian
15 1 (0.11%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 330 (35.71%) Business Continuity
2 285 (30.84%) Cybersecurity
3 229 (24.78%) Problem-Solving
4 213 (23.05%) Continuous Improvement
5 199 (21.54%) ITIL
6 193 (20.89%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 145 (15.69%) High Availability
8 137 (14.83%) Incident Response
9 121 (13.10%) DevOps
10 113 (12.23%) Service Delivery
11 108 (11.69%) Infrastructure as Code
12 106 (11.47%) Cloud Security
13 98 (10.61%) Stakeholder Management
14 93 (10.06%) Migration
15 92 (9.96%) Data Protection
16 89 (9.63%) Service Management
17 88 (9.52%) Change Management
18 87 (9.42%) CI/CD
19 83 (8.98%) Risk Management
20 82 (8.87%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 150 (16.23%) PowerShell
2 99 (10.71%) SQL
3 98 (10.61%) Python
4 41 (4.44%) Bash
5 13 (1.41%) Shell Script
6 11 (1.19%) Bicep
7 10 (1.08%) Java
8 9 (0.97%) Kusto Query Language
9 8 (0.87%) Korn
9 8 (0.87%) T-SQL
10 7 (0.76%) JavaScript
10 7 (0.76%) PL/SQL
10 7 (0.76%) Scala
11 5 (0.54%) C#
11 5 (0.54%) TypeScript
12 3 (0.32%) Go
13 2 (0.22%) RPG
14 1 (0.11%) COBOL
14 1 (0.11%) Perl
14 1 (0.11%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 106 (11.47%) Degree
2 72 (7.79%) Cisco Certification
3 70 (7.58%) Microsoft Certification
4 60 (6.49%) Azure Certification
5 57 (6.17%) CCNP
6 50 (5.41%) Security Cleared
7 42 (4.55%) Computer Science Degree
8 39 (4.22%) SC Cleared
9 36 (3.90%) CCNA
10 27 (2.92%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 25 (2.71%) CISSP
11 25 (2.71%) Postgraduate
12 16 (1.73%) CEH
13 13 (1.41%) CISM
13 13 (1.41%) MCSE
14 11 (1.19%) AWS Certification
15 10 (1.08%) Master's Degree
15 10 (1.08%) VCAP
16 9 (0.97%) DBS Check
16 9 (0.97%) VCDX
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 137 (14.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 102 (11.04%) Cyber Essentials
3 94 (10.17%) GDPR
4 89 (9.63%) NIST
5 58 (6.28%) SLA
6 47 (5.09%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 44 (4.76%) PCI DSS
8 29 (3.14%) PMO
9 23 (2.49%) GRC
10 22 (2.38%) SOC 2
11 20 (2.16%) Data Quality
12 18 (1.95%) ISO 22301
13 11 (1.19%) Actionable Recommendations
13 11 (1.19%) COBIT
14 7 (0.76%) NCSC
15 6 (0.65%) QA
16 5 (0.54%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
17 4 (0.43%) DICOM
17 4 (0.43%) HIPAA
17 4 (0.43%) HL7
System Software
1 274 (29.65%) Active Directory
2 214 (23.16%) VMware Infrastructure
3 126 (13.64%) Hyper-V
4 38 (4.11%) vSphere
5 28 (3.03%) Docker
6 24 (2.60%) Virtual Machines
7 21 (2.27%) Firmware
8 17 (1.84%) Virtual Desktop
8 17 (1.84%) VMware ESXi
9 10 (1.08%) VMware NSX
10 9 (0.97%) Oracle RAC
10 9 (0.97%) vCloud
11 6 (0.65%) KVM
11 6 (0.65%) Virtual Servers
12 3 (0.32%) DFS Replication
12 3 (0.32%) EMC RecoverPoint
12 3 (0.32%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 3 (0.32%) VMware Server
13 2 (0.22%) VMware Workstation
14 1 (0.11%) Xen
Systems Management
1 133 (14.39%) Microsoft Intune
2 117 (12.66%) Terraform
3 64 (6.93%) Ansible
4 59 (6.39%) Kubernetes
5 28 (3.03%) SCCM
6 24 (2.60%) Single Sign-On
7 22 (2.38%) VxRail
8 18 (1.95%) FortiGate
9 9 (0.97%) Data Guard
9 9 (0.97%) Grafana
9 9 (0.97%) Nagios
9 9 (0.97%) Packer
9 9 (0.97%) Prometheus
10 8 (0.87%) vCenter Server
11 7 (0.76%) Dell DRAC
11 7 (0.76%) EMC NetWorker
11 7 (0.76%) Oracle RMAN
12 6 (0.65%) Avamar
12 6 (0.65%) EMC VPLEX
12 6 (0.65%) WSUS
Vendors
1 464 (50.22%) Microsoft
2 285 (30.84%) VMware
3 118 (12.77%) Cisco
4 66 (7.14%) Veeam
5 54 (5.84%) Dell
6 47 (5.09%) Palo Alto
7 43 (4.65%) HP
8 36 (3.90%) Meraki
9 35 (3.79%) Nimble Storage
10 33 (3.57%) Commvault
11 31 (3.35%) Splunk
11 31 (3.35%) Tenable
12 27 (2.92%) Oracle
13 26 (2.81%) EMC
14 25 (2.71%) Fortinet
15 24 (2.60%) Dynatrace
15 24 (2.60%) SolarWinds
16 23 (2.49%) Sophos
16 23 (2.49%) Zscaler
17 22 (2.38%) Google