Disaster Recovery Jobs in the West Midlands

Disaster Recovery
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands 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 15 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 172 147 183
Rank change year-on-year -25 +36 -13
Permanent jobs citing Disaster Recovery 25 109 77
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.58% 1.48% 1.22%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.64% 1.79% 1.26%
Number of salaries quoted 22 75 58
10th Percentile £41,375 £36,779 £37,875
25th Percentile £44,000 £40,478 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,750 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £59,688 £63,125 £57,500
90th Percentile £62,250 £96,250 £67,500
England median annual salary £62,500 £55,700 £57,500
% change year-on-year +12.21% -3.13% +4.55%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Midlands

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 in the West Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,930 6,099 6,130
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 91.25% 82.77% 96.78%
Number of salaries quoted 1,635 4,542 3,189
10th Percentile £29,000 £26,250 £30,925
25th Percentile £37,500 £35,700 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £67,500 £64,375 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £78,750
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -12.00% +4.17%

Disaster Recovery
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing Disaster Recovery as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Disaster Recovery in the West Midlands

Disaster Recovery
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

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

Salary trend for Disaster Recovery in the West Midlands

Disaster Recovery
Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Disaster Recovery in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 15 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Disaster Recovery in the West Midlands

Disaster Recovery
Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Disaster Recovery within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 15 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
Birmingham +10 13 £46,000 -26.40% 7
Staffordshire +11 7 £60,000 +14.29% 6
Herefordshire - 2 - - 1
Worcestershire +18 1 £55,000 +51.52% 4
Coventry -6 1 £45,000 - 5
Disaster Recovery
England

Disaster Recovery
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 3 (12.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 12 (48.00%) Azure
2 9 (36.00%) AWS
3 6 (24.00%) Microsoft 365
4 5 (20.00%) Entra ID
5 4 (16.00%) Amazon EC2
5 4 (16.00%) Azure Sentinel
5 4 (16.00%) IBM Cloud
5 4 (16.00%) Microsoft Purview
5 4 (16.00%) Route 53
6 2 (8.00%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (8.00%) Azure Functions
6 2 (8.00%) Azure Key Vault
6 2 (8.00%) Azure Logic Apps
6 2 (8.00%) GitHub
6 2 (8.00%) Google Workspace
6 2 (8.00%) IaaS
6 2 (8.00%) PaaS
6 2 (8.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 7 (28.00%) Firewall
1 7 (28.00%) VLAN
2 6 (24.00%) WAN
3 5 (20.00%) VPN
4 4 (16.00%) DHCP
4 4 (16.00%) DNS
4 4 (16.00%) HTTPS
4 4 (16.00%) SD-WAN
5 3 (12.00%) Network Security
5 3 (12.00%) TCP/IP
6 2 (8.00%) Wi-Fi
7 1 (4.00%) BGP
7 1 (4.00%) LAN
7 1 (4.00%) NAS
7 1 (4.00%) SAN
7 1 (4.00%) VoIP
7 1 (4.00%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.00%) MySQL
General
1 8 (32.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 7 (28.00%) Social Skills
3 3 (12.00%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (12.00%) Law
4 2 (8.00%) Retail
5 1 (4.00%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (4.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 9 (36.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 7 (28.00%) Service Manager
3 5 (20.00%) Lead
4 4 (16.00%) Azure Engineer
4 4 (16.00%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
4 4 (16.00%) Cloud Engineer
4 4 (16.00%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
5 3 (12.00%) Technical Manager
6 2 (8.00%) Azure Infrastructure Lead
6 2 (8.00%) IT Manager
6 2 (8.00%) Security Manager
6 2 (8.00%) Service Desk Manager
6 2 (8.00%) Service Security Manager
6 2 (8.00%) Technical Leader
6 2 (8.00%) Technical Services Manager
7 1 (4.00%) IT Engineer
7 1 (4.00%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
7 1 (4.00%) IT Services Manager
7 1 (4.00%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
7 1 (4.00%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (8.00%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 3 (12.00%) Housing Association
2 2 (8.00%) Management Information System
2 2 (8.00%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 9 (36.00%) Windows
1 9 (36.00%) Windows Server
2 2 (8.00%) Linux
2 2 (8.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (4.00%) Windows Server 2016
3 1 (4.00%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (44.00%) ITIL
2 9 (36.00%) Cloud Security
2 9 (36.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 7 (28.00%) Collaborative Culture
3 7 (28.00%) Problem Management
4 6 (24.00%) Cost Management
4 6 (24.00%) Cybersecurity
4 6 (24.00%) Infrastructure Management
5 5 (20.00%) Data Protection
5 5 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
5 5 (20.00%) SIEM
5 5 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
6 4 (16.00%) Business Continuity
6 4 (16.00%) Change Management
6 4 (16.00%) Data Security
6 4 (16.00%) Identity Management
6 4 (16.00%) Load Balancing
6 4 (16.00%) Project Management
6 4 (16.00%) Risk Management
6 4 (16.00%) Tech Ops
Programming Languages
1 5 (20.00%) PowerShell
2 2 (8.00%) Bash
2 2 (8.00%) Perl
2 2 (8.00%) Python
3 1 (4.00%) PHP
Qualifications
1 6 (24.00%) Azure Certification
2 4 (16.00%) AWS Certification
2 4 (16.00%) CompTIA Security+
2 4 (16.00%) Microsoft Certification
3 3 (12.00%) CISA
3 3 (12.00%) CISM
3 3 (12.00%) CISSP
4 2 (8.00%) DV Cleared
4 2 (8.00%) Security Cleared
5 1 (4.00%) CCNA
5 1 (4.00%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (4.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (20.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (16.00%) SLA
3 1 (4.00%) Accessibility
3 1 (4.00%) QA
System Software
1 7 (28.00%) Active Directory
2 4 (16.00%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (12.00%) Hyper-V
3 3 (12.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (16.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (8.00%) Ansible
2 2 (8.00%) Progress Chef
2 2 (8.00%) Puppet
2 2 (8.00%) SCOM
2 2 (8.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (28.00%) Microsoft
2 6 (24.00%) ServiceNow
3 5 (20.00%) Veeam
4 4 (16.00%) IBM
4 4 (16.00%) LogicMonitor
4 4 (16.00%) SolarWinds
5 3 (12.00%) VMware
6 2 (8.00%) ArcSight
6 2 (8.00%) Google
6 2 (8.00%) HP
6 2 (8.00%) Red Hat
6 2 (8.00%) Splunk
7 1 (4.00%) Acronis
7 1 (4.00%) Aruba
7 1 (4.00%) Cisco