Disaster Recovery
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Disaster Recovery skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Disaster Recovery over the 6 months to 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 227 305 313
Rank change year-on-year +78 +8 +6
Permanent jobs citing Disaster Recovery 1,320 1,145 2,003
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.33% 1.13% 1.28%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.56% 1.18% 1.33%
Number of salaries quoted 1,159 848 1,177
10th Percentile £33,000 £33,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £41,933 £41,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,075 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -0.14% -4.22% +15.00%
75th Percentile £70,000 £70,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £87,750 £90,000 £88,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £47,915
% change year-on-year - +4.35% +6.48%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Disaster Recovery is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 84,809 96,894 150,102
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.57% 95.61% 95.67%
Number of salaries quoted 59,843 56,945 82,179
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,180 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.10% +1.97% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,550
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%

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 9 May 2024.

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 May 2024. 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 +95 1,197 £56,373 +2.22% 261
UK excluding London +55 885 £50,000 - 178
Work from Home +45 501 £60,000 +0.80% 97
London +117 392 £74,500 +14.62% 92
North of England +85 316 £47,500 +5.56% 53
North West +106 195 £47,500 +5.56% 27
South East +53 160 £57,500 - 48
Midlands +5 158 £46,500 -7.00% 32
West Midlands +38 103 £52,500 +5.00% 18
East of England +32 87 £50,000 -9.09% 17
Yorkshire +40 76 £50,000 +25.00% 18
South West -63 68 £51,716 +8.88% 14
Scotland -27 63 £50,000 -16.00% 9
East Midlands -23 55 £43,250 -16.14% 14
North East +21 47 £44,500 +11.25% 8
Wales +5 27 £32,500 -7.14% 1
Northern Ireland +17 5 £41,750 -30.42% 6
Channel Islands - 4 £85,000 -

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
1 155 (11.74%) Microsoft Exchange
2 113 (8.56%) SharePoint
3 21 (1.59%) IIS
4 18 (1.36%) WebSphere
5 13 (0.98%) Apache
6 12 (0.91%) WebLogic
7 11 (0.83%) Tomcat
8 10 (0.76%) JBoss
9 8 (0.61%) Confluence
10 7 (0.53%) WildFly
11 5 (0.38%) GlassFish
12 4 (0.30%) Apache Airflow
12 4 (0.30%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
12 4 (0.30%) Jupyter
12 4 (0.30%) SAS
12 4 (0.30%) WordPress
13 3 (0.23%) MQSeries
13 3 (0.23%) Oracle HTTP Server
14 2 (0.15%) Oracle Application Server
14 2 (0.15%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 54 (4.09%) Microsoft Office
2 21 (1.59%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.23%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.15%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.076%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 23 (1.74%) Dynamics CRM
2 14 (1.06%) Teamcenter
3 9 (0.68%) NEC Housing
4 5 (0.38%) SAP ERP
5 4 (0.30%) Sage 200
5 4 (0.30%) SAP WM
6 3 (0.23%) Dynamics NAV
6 3 (0.23%) Maximo
7 2 (0.15%) Adaptiv
7 2 (0.15%) Oracle Financial Analyzer
7 2 (0.15%) Oracle Receivables
7 2 (0.15%) SAP Business One
8 1 (0.076%) Magento
8 1 (0.076%) Oracle Applications
8 1 (0.076%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 626 (47.42%) Azure
2 309 (23.41%) Microsoft 365
3 223 (16.89%) AWS
4 132 (10.00%) Power Platform
5 103 (7.80%) Entra ID
6 86 (6.52%) GCP
7 70 (5.30%) IaaS
8 60 (4.55%) SaaS
9 49 (3.71%) PaaS
10 44 (3.33%) OneDrive
11 33 (2.50%) OCI
12 30 (2.27%) Amazon S3
12 30 (2.27%) Azure DevOps
13 29 (2.20%) Nutanix
14 24 (1.82%) PowerApps
15 21 (1.59%) Azure Monitor
16 20 (1.52%) Cloud Computing
17 19 (1.44%) Power Automate
17 19 (1.44%) Serverless
18 18 (1.36%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 330 (25.00%) Firewall
2 209 (15.83%) DNS
3 163 (12.35%) WAN
4 155 (11.74%) DHCP
5 127 (9.62%) LAN
6 114 (8.64%) VPN
7 102 (7.73%) SAN
8 84 (6.36%) Broadband
9 79 (5.98%) Network Security
9 79 (5.98%) TCP/IP
10 63 (4.77%) Wi-Fi
11 54 (4.09%) SD-WAN
12 52 (3.94%) Internet
13 51 (3.86%) Wireless
14 50 (3.79%) VLAN
15 39 (2.95%) VoIP
16 29 (2.20%) Intrusion Detection
17 27 (2.05%) NAS
18 24 (1.82%) SSL
19 20 (1.52%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 239 (18.11%) SQL Server
2 112 (8.48%) Power BI
3 94 (7.12%) Azure SQL Database
4 44 (3.33%) MySQL
5 33 (2.50%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 32 (2.42%) Amazon RDS
6 32 (2.42%) MongoDB
7 26 (1.97%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 19 (1.44%) Relational Database
9 18 (1.36%) BigQuery
9 18 (1.36%) Oracle Database
10 16 (1.21%) Data Warehouse
10 16 (1.21%) DB2
11 15 (1.14%) Elasticsearch
12 13 (0.98%) Data Hub
13 12 (0.91%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
13 12 (0.91%) NoSQL
13 12 (0.91%) PostgreSQL
14 11 (0.83%) SQL Server Analysis Services
15 6 (0.45%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 35 (2.65%) Git
2 33 (2.50%) Jenkins
3 22 (1.67%) JIRA
4 13 (0.98%) GitLab
5 12 (0.91%) TeamCity
6 7 (0.53%) Katalon Studio
6 7 (0.53%) Visual Studio
7 6 (0.45%) JMeter
8 5 (0.38%) Gatling
8 5 (0.38%) JUnit
8 5 (0.38%) LoadRunner
8 5 (0.38%) Subversion
9 4 (0.30%) Selenium
9 4 (0.30%) Visual Studio Code
10 3 (0.23%) Bitbucket
10 3 (0.23%) CircleCI
10 3 (0.23%) Maven
10 3 (0.23%) TestNG
10 3 (0.23%) Travis CI
11 2 (0.15%) Ant
General
1 468 (35.45%) Social Skills
2 285 (21.59%) Finance
3 156 (11.82%) Analytical Skills
4 78 (5.91%) Legal
5 75 (5.68%) Banking
6 67 (5.08%) Telecoms
7 47 (3.56%) Law
8 42 (3.18%) Retail
9 39 (2.95%) Organisational Skills
10 34 (2.58%) Manufacturing
11 33 (2.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 28 (2.12%) Documentation Skills
13 27 (2.05%) Financial Institution
14 20 (1.52%) Presentation Skills
14 20 (1.52%) Public Sector
15 13 (0.98%) Local Government
16 10 (0.76%) Back Office
16 10 (0.76%) Influencing Skills
17 7 (0.53%) Marketing
18 6 (0.45%) Billing
Job Titles
1 183 (13.86%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 172 (13.03%) Senior
3 136 (10.30%) DBA
4 120 (9.09%) Analyst
5 113 (8.56%) IT Manager
6 100 (7.58%) IT Engineer
7 99 (7.50%) SQL DBA
8 94 (7.12%) Lead
9 70 (5.30%) Network Engineer
10 58 (4.39%) Administrator
11 56 (4.24%) Cloud Engineer
12 52 (3.94%) Support Engineer
13 51 (3.86%) Architect
13 51 (3.86%) IT Support
14 44 (3.33%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
15 36 (2.73%) Security Analyst
16 35 (2.65%) Consultant
16 35 (2.65%) Infrastructure Manager
16 35 (2.65%) Systems Engineer
17 33 (2.50%) IT Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (1.97%) Middleware
2 22 (1.67%) YAML
3 21 (1.59%) 802.1X
4 19 (1.44%) Elastic Stack
4 19 (1.44%) Kafka
4 19 (1.44%) LDAP
5 14 (1.06%) HTML
6 13 (0.98%) ARM Templates
7 10 (0.76%) .NET
8 9 (0.68%) Web Services
9 8 (0.61%) SAML
10 7 (0.53%) CSS
10 7 (0.53%) Node.js
11 6 (0.45%) React
12 5 (0.38%) AngularJS
12 5 (0.38%) BREW
12 5 (0.38%) SAP Basis
12 5 (0.38%) SAP Fiori
13 4 (0.30%) J2EE
13 4 (0.30%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 153 (11.59%) Data Centre
2 152 (11.52%) Management Information System
3 99 (7.50%) Replication
4 65 (4.92%) Clustering
5 49 (3.71%) Security Posture
6 48 (3.64%) Public Cloud
7 44 (3.33%) Cyber Threat
8 43 (3.26%) Self-Motivation
9 29 (2.20%) Data Protection Act
10 27 (2.05%) Cyberattack
11 25 (1.89%) IoT
12 22 (1.67%) Driving Licence
13 21 (1.59%) Cloud Native
14 20 (1.52%) Data Fabric
14 20 (1.52%) PMI
15 18 (1.36%) Hybrid Cloud
16 15 (1.14%) Onboarding
17 11 (0.83%) Enterprise Cloud
17 11 (0.83%) Enterprise Software
18 10 (0.76%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
Operating Systems
1 477 (36.14%) Windows
2 266 (20.15%) Windows Server
3 265 (20.08%) Linux
4 76 (5.76%) VMS
5 61 (4.62%) Windows Server 2019
6 53 (4.02%) Windows Server 2016
7 42 (3.18%) Windows 10
8 38 (2.88%) Unix
9 36 (2.73%) Windows Server 2012
10 35 (2.65%) Solaris
11 25 (1.89%) zOS
12 20 (1.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13 18 (1.36%) CentOS
14 17 (1.29%) AIX
15 16 (1.21%) Android
16 15 (1.14%) Ubuntu
17 12 (0.91%) Oracle Linux
17 12 (0.91%) Windows XP
18 11 (0.83%) Apple iOS
18 11 (0.83%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 330 (25.00%) Business Continuity
2 304 (23.03%) Cybersecurity
3 268 (20.30%) ITIL
4 250 (18.94%) Problem-Solving
5 231 (17.50%) High Availability
6 219 (16.59%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 193 (14.62%) Performance Tuning
8 179 (13.56%) Information Security
9 146 (11.06%) DevOps
10 137 (10.38%) Project Management
11 135 (10.23%) Continuous Improvement
12 124 (9.39%) Collaborative Working
13 123 (9.32%) Business Intelligence
14 122 (9.24%) Data Protection
15 111 (8.41%) Agile
16 102 (7.73%) Mentoring
17 101 (7.65%) Customer Service
17 101 (7.65%) Incident Response
17 101 (7.65%) Migration
18 96 (7.27%) Capacity Planning
Programming Languages
1 249 (18.86%) SQL
2 168 (12.73%) PowerShell
3 115 (8.71%) T-SQL
4 87 (6.59%) Python
5 67 (5.08%) Bash
6 27 (2.05%) PL/SQL
7 26 (1.97%) Perl
8 25 (1.89%) C#
9 20 (1.52%) Java
10 12 (0.91%) Shell Script
11 10 (0.76%) RPG
12 9 (0.68%) JavaScript
13 8 (0.61%) PHP
14 6 (0.45%) ABAP
15 5 (0.38%) Bicep
15 5 (0.38%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 4 (0.30%) VBA
17 2 (0.15%) ActionScript
17 2 (0.15%) Korn
17 2 (0.15%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 227 (17.20%) Degree
2 142 (10.76%) Microsoft Certification
3 102 (7.73%) Cisco Certification
4 88 (6.67%) CISSP
5 72 (5.45%) CCNA
6 57 (4.32%) Computer Science Degree
7 55 (4.17%) Security Cleared
8 45 (3.41%) CCNP
9 44 (3.33%) CISM
10 39 (2.95%) SC Cleared
11 36 (2.73%) MCSE
12 33 (2.50%) CISA
13 30 (2.27%) Azure Certification
14 28 (2.12%) PMI Certification
15 26 (1.97%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
16 25 (1.89%) MCSA
17 24 (1.82%) CompTIA Security+
18 22 (1.67%) GIAC
19 21 (1.59%) DV Cleared
20 18 (1.36%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 149 (11.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 64 (4.85%) GDPR
3 48 (3.64%) Cyber Essentials
4 46 (3.48%) SLA
5 43 (3.26%) PCI DSS
6 33 (2.50%) Data Quality
7 28 (2.12%) NIST
8 24 (1.82%) ISO 22301
9 21 (1.59%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
10 19 (1.44%) Accessibility
10 19 (1.44%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 15 (1.14%) COBIT
12 13 (0.98%) QA
13 12 (0.91%) NCSC
14 10 (0.76%) HIPAA
15 8 (0.61%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 6 (0.45%) GRC
16 6 (0.45%) ISO 9001
17 5 (0.38%) PMO
18 4 (0.30%) HMG Security Policy Framework
System Software
1 375 (28.41%) Active Directory
2 227 (17.20%) VMware Infrastructure
3 148 (11.21%) Virtual Machines
4 118 (8.94%) Hyper-V
5 59 (4.47%) Docker
6 41 (3.11%) Virtual Servers
7 39 (2.95%) VMware ESXi
8 29 (2.20%) Firmware
9 25 (1.89%) vSphere
10 22 (1.67%) Virtual Desktop
11 15 (1.14%) VMware NSX
12 12 (0.91%) Microsoft Virtual Server
13 4 (0.30%) Terminal Services
14 3 (0.23%) KVM
14 3 (0.23%) Oracle RAC
14 3 (0.23%) VirtualBox
15 2 (0.15%) Ceph
15 2 (0.15%) VMware Workstation
16 1 (0.076%) Microsoft App-V
16 1 (0.076%) PowerHA
Systems Management
1 90 (6.82%) Terraform
2 74 (5.61%) Ansible
3 70 (5.30%) Microsoft Intune
4 66 (5.00%) Kubernetes
5 35 (2.65%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 34 (2.58%) SCCM
7 33 (2.50%) SCOM
8 32 (2.42%) vCenter Server
9 28 (2.12%) FortiGate
10 25 (1.89%) ZABBIX
11 23 (1.74%) Nagios
12 22 (1.67%) WSUS
13 21 (1.59%) Grafana
14 18 (1.36%) VxRail
15 16 (1.21%) NetBackup
16 15 (1.14%) Puppet
17 13 (0.98%) EMC NetWorker
17 13 (0.98%) Graphite
17 13 (0.98%) HAProxy
18 12 (0.91%) Opsgenie
Vendors
1 546 (41.36%) Microsoft
2 280 (21.21%) VMware
3 174 (13.18%) Cisco
4 102 (7.73%) Oracle
5 100 (7.58%) Veeam
6 59 (4.47%) Citrix
7 51 (3.86%) Dell
8 50 (3.79%) HP
9 45 (3.41%) NetApp
10 43 (3.26%) IBM
11 41 (3.11%) Google
12 40 (3.03%) SolarWinds
12 40 (3.03%) Splunk
13 35 (2.65%) Aruba
14 32 (2.42%) Juniper
14 32 (2.42%) ServiceNow
15 30 (2.27%) F5
16 27 (2.05%) Commvault
17 26 (1.97%) Palo Alto
18 25 (1.89%) Meraki