Disaster Recovery Jobs

Disaster Recovery
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring Disaster Recovery skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Disaster Recovery over the 6 months leading up to 30 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 298 224 307
Rank change year-on-year -74 +83 +20
Permanent jobs citing Disaster Recovery 561 1,342 1,127
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.01% 1.30% 1.16%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.08% 1.54% 1.21%
Number of salaries quoted 442 1,140 819
10th Percentile £37,500 £33,000 £32,950
25th Percentile £46,250 £41,625 £42,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +13.64% -4.35% +2.22%
75th Percentile £77,500 £70,000 £71,375
90th Percentile £90,000 £88,775 £92,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% - +5.26%

All Process and 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 51,902 86,889 92,846
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 93.67% 84.13% 95.56%
Number of salaries quoted 25,611 60,763 54,796
10th Percentile £28,822 £29,250 £34,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,443 £55,000 £60,899
Median % change year-on-year +4.44% -9.69% +1.50%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £81,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £92,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,574 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +3.15% -9.09% +4.76%

Disaster Recovery
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Disaster Recovery as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Disaster Recovery in the UK

Disaster Recovery
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Disaster Recovery.

Salary trend for Disaster Recovery in the UK

Disaster Recovery
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Disaster Recovery over the 6 months to 30 May 2025.

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 30 May 2025. 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 -83 539 £62,500 +13.64% 1,625
UK excluding London -74 314 £55,000 +10.00% 1,620
London +8 231 £72,500 -3.33% 230
Work from Home -97 171 £57,500 -4.17% 808
South East +15 89 £57,500 - 467
North of England -112 82 £55,000 +19.39% 336
South West +102 64 £55,000 +6.75% 178
North West -124 40 £55,000 +17.02% 167
Midlands -51 35 £46,000 -1.08% 307
East of England -7 32 £53,500 +7.00% 255
Yorkshire +15 25 £62,500 +25.00% 126
East Midlands -12 18 £40,000 -5.88% 126
North East +17 17 £51,250 +13.89% 44
West Midlands -34 16 £48,000 -8.57% 159
Scotland +64 10 £55,000 +10.00% 71
Northern Ireland +39 1 £57,500 +37.72% 28
Wales +20 1 £50,000 +53.85% 51
Isle of Man - 1 £34,500 -

Disaster Recovery
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 67 (11.94%) Microsoft Exchange
2 42 (7.49%) SharePoint
3 15 (2.67%) IIS
4 10 (1.78%) Confluence
5 6 (1.07%) CMS
6 3 (0.53%) Apache
6 3 (0.53%) nginx
6 3 (0.53%) Skype for Business
7 2 (0.36%) Apache Spark
8 1 (0.18%) BizTalk Server
8 1 (0.18%) Cloud Foundry
8 1 (0.18%) Exchange Server 2013
8 1 (0.18%) Office Communications Server
8 1 (0.18%) OpenStack
8 1 (0.18%) SharePoint 2010
8 1 (0.18%) SharePoint Server
8 1 (0.18%) Tomcat
8 1 (0.18%) WordPress
Applications
1 32 (5.70%) Microsoft Office
2 12 (2.14%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.36%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.18%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.18%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 8 (1.43%) Remedy ITSM
2 5 (0.89%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (0.71%) Fidessa
4 2 (0.36%) SAP GRC
5 1 (0.18%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.18%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.18%) Payment Gateway
5 1 (0.18%) Sage 200
Cloud Services
1 281 (50.09%) Azure
2 158 (28.16%) Microsoft 365
3 146 (26.02%) AWS
4 65 (11.59%) Entra ID
5 44 (7.84%) GCP
6 32 (5.70%) GitHub
7 29 (5.17%) Azure DevOps
8 24 (4.28%) PaaS
9 23 (4.10%) SaaS
10 22 (3.92%) Cloud Computing
10 22 (3.92%) IaaS
11 18 (3.21%) Azure Monitor
12 16 (2.85%) OneDrive
12 16 (2.85%) Rubrik
13 13 (2.32%) Azure Sentinel
13 13 (2.32%) Power Platform
14 11 (1.96%) Azure Key Vault
14 11 (1.96%) Google Workspace
14 11 (1.96%) Microsoft Purview
14 11 (1.96%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 146 (26.02%) Firewall
2 91 (16.22%) VPN
3 88 (15.69%) DNS
4 71 (12.66%) DHCP
5 65 (11.59%) Network Security
6 62 (11.05%) VLAN
7 51 (9.09%) TCP/IP
7 51 (9.09%) WAN
8 43 (7.66%) SAN
9 42 (7.49%) LAN
10 35 (6.24%) NAS
11 34 (6.06%) Intrusion Detection
12 26 (4.63%) Wireless
13 20 (3.57%) VoIP
14 18 (3.21%) SD-WAN
15 15 (2.67%) SSL
16 14 (2.50%) BGP
17 13 (2.32%) OSPF
17 13 (2.32%) Unified Communications
18 11 (1.96%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 78 (13.90%) SQL Server
2 25 (4.46%) Amazon RDS
3 16 (2.85%) MySQL
3 16 (2.85%) PostgreSQL
4 15 (2.67%) Relational Database
5 13 (2.32%) Azure SQL Database
5 13 (2.32%) Oracle Reports
6 12 (2.14%) NoSQL
7 10 (1.78%) MongoDB
7 10 (1.78%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 10 (1.78%) Tableau
8 9 (1.60%) Data Warehouse
9 8 (1.43%) Power BI
10 5 (0.89%) ClickHouse
11 4 (0.71%) Data Lake
12 3 (0.53%) Amazon Aurora
12 3 (0.53%) DynamoDB
12 3 (0.53%) Oracle Database
12 3 (0.53%) Redis
12 3 (0.53%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 13 (2.32%) Git
2 12 (2.14%) Jenkins
2 12 (2.14%) JIRA
3 5 (0.89%) Octopus Deploy
3 5 (0.89%) Oracle Forms
4 4 (0.71%) Bitbucket
4 4 (0.71%) GitLab
5 1 (0.18%) Artifactory
5 1 (0.18%) FitNesse
5 1 (0.18%) Jaeger
5 1 (0.18%) Oracle APEX
5 1 (0.18%) Selenium
5 1 (0.18%) SonarQube
5 1 (0.18%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 1 (0.18%) Subversion
5 1 (0.18%) TeamCity
General
1 205 (36.54%) Social Skills
2 146 (26.02%) Finance
3 60 (10.70%) Analytical Skills
4 43 (7.66%) Banking
5 22 (3.92%) Manufacturing
6 19 (3.39%) Law
7 16 (2.85%) Telecoms
8 15 (2.67%) Organisational Skills
9 13 (2.32%) Investment Banking
10 12 (2.14%) Legal
10 12 (2.14%) Marketing
11 11 (1.96%) Public Sector
12 10 (1.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 8 (1.43%) Retail
14 7 (1.25%) Games
14 7 (1.25%) Tech for Good
15 6 (1.07%) Front Office
15 6 (1.07%) Pharmaceutical
16 5 (0.89%) Advertising
16 5 (0.89%) Military
Job Titles
1 100 (17.83%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 73 (13.01%) Analyst
3 72 (12.83%) Senior
4 42 (7.49%) Cloud Engineer
5 40 (7.13%) IT Engineer
5 40 (7.13%) IT Support
6 39 (6.95%) Support Engineer
7 32 (5.70%) IT Analyst
7 32 (5.70%) Lead
8 28 (4.99%) Support Analyst
9 27 (4.81%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
10 26 (4.63%) Infrastructure Support
10 26 (4.63%) IT Manager
11 25 (4.46%) Architect
12 24 (4.28%) Administrator
12 24 (4.28%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
12 24 (4.28%) IT Support Engineer
12 24 (4.28%) Security Engineer
13 21 (3.74%) DBA
13 21 (3.74%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (4.10%) .NET
2 11 (1.96%) Middleware
3 8 (1.43%) HTML
3 8 (1.43%) OAuth
3 8 (1.43%) OpenID
3 8 (1.43%) RESTful
3 8 (1.43%) SAML
4 7 (1.25%) CSS
4 7 (1.25%) Elastic Stack
4 7 (1.25%) LDAP
4 7 (1.25%) React
5 6 (1.07%) ARM Templates
5 6 (1.07%) YAML
6 5 (0.89%) JSON
6 5 (0.89%) REST
6 5 (0.89%) SailPoint
7 3 (0.53%) ASP.NET MVC
7 3 (0.53%) LINQ
7 3 (0.53%) Oracle Fusion
7 3 (0.53%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 52 (9.27%) Management Information System
2 46 (8.20%) Clustering
3 40 (7.13%) Data Centre
4 29 (5.17%) Cloud Native
5 27 (4.81%) Hybrid Cloud
6 24 (4.28%) Cyber Threat
7 21 (3.74%) Replication
8 19 (3.39%) Self-Motivation
9 15 (2.67%) Security Posture
10 13 (2.32%) PKI
11 10 (1.78%) Blackberry
11 10 (1.78%) Product Ownership
12 8 (1.43%) Cyberattack
12 8 (1.43%) Data Protection Act
12 8 (1.43%) Onboarding
13 7 (1.25%) Driving Licence
13 7 (1.25%) Enterprise Cloud
13 7 (1.25%) Operational Technology
13 7 (1.25%) Public Cloud
14 6 (1.07%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 207 (36.90%) Windows
2 143 (25.49%) Windows Server
3 124 (22.10%) Linux
4 34 (6.06%) Unix
5 21 (3.74%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 18 (3.21%) Windows 10
6 18 (3.21%) Windows Server 2019
7 14 (2.50%) Windows Server 2012
7 14 (2.50%) Windows Server 2016
8 12 (2.14%) AIX
8 12 (2.14%) Ubuntu
9 9 (1.60%) CentOS
10 7 (1.25%) Rocky
10 7 (1.25%) Windows Server 2008
11 6 (1.07%) Android
11 6 (1.07%) Apple iOS
11 6 (1.07%) Solaris
12 5 (0.89%) Debian
12 5 (0.89%) Mac OS
13 4 (0.71%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 157 (27.99%) Business Continuity
2 123 (21.93%) Problem-Solving
3 117 (20.86%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 114 (20.32%) High Availability
5 107 (19.07%) Cybersecurity
6 104 (18.54%) ITIL
7 103 (18.36%) DevOps
8 96 (17.11%) CI/CD
9 74 (13.19%) Continuous Improvement
10 60 (10.70%) Data Protection
10 60 (10.70%) Mentoring
11 58 (10.34%) Infrastructure as Code
12 57 (10.16%) Migration
13 54 (9.63%) Infrastructure Management
14 51 (9.09%) Incident Management
15 50 (8.91%) Incident Response
15 50 (8.91%) IT Strategy
16 48 (8.56%) BCP
17 46 (8.20%) Agile
17 46 (8.20%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 137 (24.42%) PowerShell
2 84 (14.97%) SQL
3 59 (10.52%) Python
4 23 (4.10%) Bash
4 23 (4.10%) Java
4 23 (4.10%) T-SQL
5 22 (3.92%) C#
6 18 (3.21%) JavaScript
7 8 (1.43%) Bicep
7 8 (1.43%) Perl
8 7 (1.25%) Shell Script
9 6 (1.07%) R
10 5 (0.89%) Go
11 4 (0.71%) PHP
12 3 (0.53%) C++
13 2 (0.36%) PL/SQL
13 2 (0.36%) Ruby
13 2 (0.36%) Rust
13 2 (0.36%) TypeScript
13 2 (0.36%) VBA
Qualifications
1 57 (10.16%) Degree
2 54 (9.63%) Microsoft Certification
3 49 (8.73%) Azure Certification
4 48 (8.56%) Security Cleared
5 38 (6.77%) Cisco Certification
6 32 (5.70%) AWS Certification
7 26 (4.63%) SC Cleared
8 23 (4.10%) DV Cleared
9 22 (3.92%) CCNA
10 17 (3.03%) CCNP
11 15 (2.67%) CISM
11 15 (2.67%) Computer Science Degree
12 13 (2.32%) CISSP
12 13 (2.32%) MCSA
13 12 (2.14%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 12 (2.14%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
14 11 (1.96%) A+ Certification
14 11 (1.96%) CompTIA Security+
14 11 (1.96%) ITIL Certification
14 11 (1.96%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 74 (13.19%) GDPR
2 54 (9.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 38 (6.77%) SLA
4 37 (6.60%) NIST
5 26 (4.63%) Cyber Essentials
6 14 (2.50%) PCI DSS
7 11 (1.96%) HIPAA
7 11 (1.96%) QA
8 9 (1.60%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 8 (1.43%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
10 6 (1.07%) ISO 22301
10 6 (1.07%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 5 (0.89%) GRC
11 5 (0.89%) NCSC
12 4 (0.71%) Accessibility
12 4 (0.71%) Data Quality
13 2 (0.36%) COBIT
14 1 (0.18%) Actionable Recommendations
14 1 (0.18%) ISO 13485
14 1 (0.18%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 150 (26.74%) Active Directory
2 124 (22.10%) VMware Infrastructure
3 67 (11.94%) Hyper-V
4 33 (5.88%) Docker
5 30 (5.35%) Virtual Machines
6 24 (4.28%) VMware ESXi
7 17 (3.03%) vSphere
8 8 (1.43%) Firmware
9 7 (1.25%) Veritas Cluster Server
10 6 (1.07%) Virtual Desktop
10 6 (1.07%) VMware NSX
11 4 (0.71%) EMC RecoverPoint
12 3 (0.53%) NFS
13 2 (0.36%) HDFS
13 2 (0.36%) pfSense
13 2 (0.36%) Postfix
13 2 (0.36%) Squid
13 2 (0.36%) VMware Workstation
14 1 (0.18%) KVM
14 1 (0.18%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 68 (12.12%) Microsoft Intune
2 57 (10.16%) Terraform
3 55 (9.80%) Ansible
3 55 (9.80%) Kubernetes
4 31 (5.53%) SCCM
5 24 (4.28%) Single Sign-On
6 14 (2.50%) Progress Chef
7 11 (1.96%) Grafana
7 11 (1.96%) NetBackup
8 10 (1.78%) FortiGate
9 8 (1.43%) Puppet
10 7 (1.25%) Jamf Pro
10 7 (1.25%) Prometheus
10 7 (1.25%) vCenter Server
11 6 (1.07%) Failover Clustering
11 6 (1.07%) QRadar
11 6 (1.07%) VxRail
12 5 (0.89%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 4 (0.71%) Cisco CUCM
13 4 (0.71%) SCOM
Vendors
1 255 (45.45%) Microsoft
2 161 (28.70%) VMware
3 65 (11.59%) Cisco
4 51 (9.09%) Google
5 36 (6.42%) Oracle
6 28 (4.99%) Veeam
7 20 (3.57%) Citrix
7 20 (3.57%) Red Hat
8 16 (2.85%) Commvault
9 15 (2.67%) Fortinet
10 14 (2.50%) SAP
10 14 (2.50%) ServiceNow
10 14 (2.50%) Splunk
11 13 (2.32%) Meraki
11 13 (2.32%) Palo Alto
12 12 (2.14%) Dell
12 12 (2.14%) EMC
13 11 (1.96%) Zerto
14 10 (1.78%) SolarWinds
15 8 (1.43%) HP