Disaster Recovery Jobs

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 6 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
6 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 223 302 334
Rank change year-on-year +79 +32 -15
Permanent jobs citing Disaster Recovery 1,366 1,123 2,083
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.28% 1.20% 1.22%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.53% 1.25% 1.27%
Number of salaries quoted 1,132 816 1,180
10th Percentile £33,000 £32,875 £34,200
25th Percentile £41,250 £42,116 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £56,125
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +2.45% +6.90%
75th Percentile £70,000 £72,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £88,738 £93,750 £87,625
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +5.56%

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 89,168 89,599 164,158
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 83.34% 95.45% 95.91%
Number of salaries quoted 61,788 54,096 83,725
10th Percentile £29,500 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,800 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.54% +1.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,250
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 6 June 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 6 June 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 +79 1,240 £55,000 -4.35% 250
UK excluding London +47 942 £50,000 - 191
Work from Home +51 548 £60,000 +0.80% 103
London +101 384 £74,500 +14.62% 78
North of England +55 300 £46,000 +2.22% 55
Midlands +28 214 £46,500 -7.00% 34
North West +83 187 £47,000 -6.00% 32
South East +61 171 £57,500 - 40
West Midlands +27 124 £52,500 +5.00% 20
East Midlands -12 90 £42,500 -20.24% 14
East of England +4 88 £50,000 -11.11% 26
South West -75 68 £54,043 +27.16% 21
Yorkshire +6 67 £50,000 +25.00% 17
Scotland -38 65 £50,000 -14.55% 17
North East +10 48 £45,000 +12.50% 7
Wales +10 28 £32,500 -7.14% 2
Northern Ireland +15 5 £41,750 -44.33% 1
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
1 141 (10.32%) Microsoft Exchange
2 105 (7.69%) SharePoint
3 22 (1.61%) IIS
4 18 (1.32%) WebSphere
5 15 (1.10%) Apache
6 13 (0.95%) WebLogic
7 11 (0.81%) Tomcat
8 10 (0.73%) JBoss
9 8 (0.59%) Confluence
10 7 (0.51%) WildFly
11 5 (0.37%) GlassFish
12 4 (0.29%) Apache Airflow
12 4 (0.29%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
12 4 (0.29%) Jupyter
12 4 (0.29%) SAS
12 4 (0.29%) WordPress
13 3 (0.22%) MQSeries
13 3 (0.22%) Oracle Application Server
13 3 (0.22%) Oracle HTTP Server
14 2 (0.15%) CMS
Applications
1 53 (3.88%) Microsoft Office
2 16 (1.17%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.22%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.073%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.073%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 21 (1.54%) Dynamics CRM
2 14 (1.02%) Teamcenter
3 7 (0.51%) NEC Housing
4 5 (0.37%) SAP ERP
5 4 (0.29%) Sage 200
5 4 (0.29%) SAP WM
6 3 (0.22%) Dynamics NAV
6 3 (0.22%) Maximo
6 3 (0.22%) Oracle Financial Analyzer
6 3 (0.22%) Oracle Receivables
7 2 (0.15%) Adaptiv
8 1 (0.073%) Magento
8 1 (0.073%) Oracle Applications
8 1 (0.073%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 633 (46.34%) Azure
2 302 (22.11%) Microsoft 365
3 224 (16.40%) AWS
4 129 (9.44%) Power Platform
5 102 (7.47%) Entra ID
6 84 (6.15%) GCP
7 73 (5.34%) IaaS
8 58 (4.25%) SaaS
9 48 (3.51%) PaaS
10 39 (2.86%) OneDrive
11 35 (2.56%) OCI
12 31 (2.27%) Nutanix
13 30 (2.20%) Azure DevOps
14 29 (2.12%) Amazon S3
15 22 (1.61%) Azure Monitor
16 21 (1.54%) Cloud Computing
16 21 (1.54%) Serverless
17 19 (1.39%) PowerApps
18 18 (1.32%) GitHub
18 18 (1.32%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 326 (23.87%) Firewall
2 208 (15.23%) DNS
3 153 (11.20%) WAN
4 152 (11.13%) DHCP
5 123 (9.00%) LAN
6 108 (7.91%) VPN
7 99 (7.25%) SAN
8 85 (6.22%) Broadband
9 78 (5.71%) TCP/IP
10 74 (5.42%) Network Security
11 60 (4.39%) Wi-Fi
12 50 (3.66%) SD-WAN
13 49 (3.59%) VLAN
13 49 (3.59%) Wireless
14 48 (3.51%) Internet
15 35 (2.56%) VoIP
16 28 (2.05%) Intrusion Detection
17 27 (1.98%) NAS
18 21 (1.54%) SSL
19 19 (1.39%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 239 (17.50%) SQL Server
2 109 (7.98%) Power BI
3 92 (6.73%) Azure SQL Database
4 42 (3.07%) MySQL
5 33 (2.42%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 31 (2.27%) MongoDB
7 30 (2.20%) Amazon RDS
8 23 (1.68%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 20 (1.46%) Data Warehouse
10 19 (1.39%) Oracle Database
11 18 (1.32%) BigQuery
12 16 (1.17%) DB2
12 16 (1.17%) Relational Database
13 13 (0.95%) Elasticsearch
13 13 (0.95%) NoSQL
14 12 (0.88%) Data Hub
14 12 (0.88%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
15 11 (0.81%) PostgreSQL
15 11 (0.81%) SQL Server Analysis Services
16 6 (0.44%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 35 (2.56%) Git
2 32 (2.34%) Jenkins
3 22 (1.61%) JIRA
4 12 (0.88%) GitLab
4 12 (0.88%) TeamCity
5 7 (0.51%) Katalon Studio
5 7 (0.51%) Visual Studio
6 6 (0.44%) JMeter
7 5 (0.37%) Gatling
7 5 (0.37%) JUnit
7 5 (0.37%) LoadRunner
7 5 (0.37%) Subversion
8 4 (0.29%) Selenium
8 4 (0.29%) Visual Studio Code
9 3 (0.22%) Bitbucket
9 3 (0.22%) CircleCI
9 3 (0.22%) TestNG
9 3 (0.22%) Travis CI
10 2 (0.15%) git-flow
10 2 (0.15%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 456 (33.38%) Social Skills
2 284 (20.79%) Finance
3 165 (12.08%) Analytical Skills
4 130 (9.52%) Legal
5 89 (6.52%) Retail
6 70 (5.12%) Banking
7 66 (4.83%) Telecoms
8 53 (3.88%) Law
9 40 (2.93%) Organisational Skills
10 34 (2.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 32 (2.34%) Manufacturing
12 29 (2.12%) Documentation Skills
13 27 (1.98%) Financial Institution
14 23 (1.68%) Presentation Skills
15 22 (1.61%) Public Sector
16 13 (0.95%) Local Government
17 10 (0.73%) Back Office
18 8 (0.59%) Influencing Skills
18 8 (0.59%) Marketing
19 6 (0.44%) Billing
Job Titles
1 186 (13.62%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 167 (12.23%) Analyst
3 162 (11.86%) Senior
4 137 (10.03%) DBA
5 121 (8.86%) Lead
6 116 (8.49%) IT Manager
7 100 (7.32%) IT Engineer
8 99 (7.25%) SQL DBA
9 64 (4.69%) Network Engineer
10 59 (4.32%) Architect
11 56 (4.10%) Business Analyst
11 56 (4.10%) Cloud Engineer
12 55 (4.03%) Administrator
12 55 (4.03%) IT Support
13 52 (3.81%) Support Engineer
14 44 (3.22%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
15 38 (2.78%) Team Leader
16 36 (2.64%) Infrastructure Manager
17 35 (2.56%) Systems Engineer
18 34 (2.49%) Security Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (1.98%) Middleware
2 21 (1.54%) 802.1X
2 21 (1.54%) YAML
3 20 (1.46%) LDAP
4 18 (1.32%) Elastic Stack
4 18 (1.32%) Kafka
5 12 (0.88%) .NET
6 10 (0.73%) ARM Templates
6 10 (0.73%) HTML
6 10 (0.73%) Web Services
7 9 (0.66%) SAML
8 8 (0.59%) XML
9 7 (0.51%) Node.js
10 6 (0.44%) CSS
10 6 (0.44%) React
11 5 (0.37%) BREW
11 5 (0.37%) Flash
11 5 (0.37%) Ruby on Rails
11 5 (0.37%) SAP Basis
11 5 (0.37%) SAP Fiori
Miscellaneous
1 154 (11.27%) Data Centre
2 150 (10.98%) Management Information System
3 101 (7.39%) Replication
4 57 (4.17%) Clustering
5 48 (3.51%) Public Cloud
6 47 (3.44%) Cyber Threat
7 42 (3.07%) Self-Motivation
8 41 (3.00%) Security Posture
9 31 (2.27%) Data Protection Act
10 30 (2.20%) IoT
11 28 (2.05%) Cyberattack
12 23 (1.68%) Cloud Native
13 22 (1.61%) Driving Licence
14 21 (1.54%) Hybrid Cloud
15 20 (1.46%) Data Fabric
15 20 (1.46%) PMI
16 18 (1.32%) Onboarding
17 11 (0.81%) Enterprise Cloud
18 10 (0.73%) CCTV
18 10 (0.73%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 473 (34.63%) Windows
2 264 (19.33%) Linux
3 251 (18.37%) Windows Server
4 76 (5.56%) VMS
5 59 (4.32%) Windows Server 2019
6 50 (3.66%) Windows Server 2016
7 43 (3.15%) Windows 10
8 41 (3.00%) Unix
9 36 (2.64%) Solaris
10 32 (2.34%) Windows Server 2012
11 25 (1.83%) zOS
12 20 (1.46%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13 19 (1.39%) CentOS
14 16 (1.17%) AIX
14 16 (1.17%) Ubuntu
15 15 (1.10%) Android
16 12 (0.88%) Oracle Linux
16 12 (0.88%) Windows XP
17 11 (0.81%) Windows 7
18 10 (0.73%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 344 (25.18%) Business Continuity
2 311 (22.77%) ITIL
3 291 (21.30%) Cybersecurity
4 265 (19.40%) Problem-Solving
5 221 (16.18%) High Availability
5 221 (16.18%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 189 (13.84%) Performance Tuning
7 171 (12.52%) Information Security
8 149 (10.91%) DevOps
9 139 (10.18%) Project Management
10 135 (9.88%) Continuous Improvement
11 124 (9.08%) Collaborative Working
12 122 (8.93%) Business Intelligence
13 117 (8.57%) Data Protection
14 107 (7.83%) Mentoring
15 101 (7.39%) Agile
15 101 (7.39%) Capacity Planning
15 101 (7.39%) Migration
16 99 (7.25%) Incident Response
17 94 (6.88%) Customer Service
Programming Languages
1 247 (18.08%) SQL
2 162 (11.86%) PowerShell
3 112 (8.20%) T-SQL
4 92 (6.73%) Python
5 68 (4.98%) Bash
6 30 (2.20%) Perl
7 25 (1.83%) PL/SQL
8 21 (1.54%) C#
9 20 (1.46%) Java
10 13 (0.95%) Shell Script
11 10 (0.73%) RPG
12 9 (0.66%) JavaScript
13 8 (0.59%) PHP
14 5 (0.37%) ABAP
14 5 (0.37%) Bicep
14 5 (0.37%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 4 (0.29%) ActionScript
15 4 (0.29%) VBA
16 2 (0.15%) VBScript
16 2 (0.15%) XPath
Qualifications
1 270 (19.77%) Degree
2 139 (10.18%) Microsoft Certification
3 96 (7.03%) Cisco Certification
4 79 (5.78%) CISSP
5 71 (5.20%) CCNA
6 63 (4.61%) Computer Science Degree
7 56 (4.10%) Security Cleared
8 44 (3.22%) CCNP
9 42 (3.07%) CISM
10 41 (3.00%) SC Cleared
11 33 (2.42%) CISA
12 31 (2.27%) Azure Certification
12 31 (2.27%) MCSE
13 26 (1.90%) PMI Certification
14 25 (1.83%) MCSA
14 25 (1.83%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
15 22 (1.61%) GIAC
16 21 (1.54%) DV Cleared
17 19 (1.39%) CompTIA Security+
17 19 (1.39%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 151 (11.05%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 69 (5.05%) GDPR
3 63 (4.61%) QA
4 50 (3.66%) Cyber Essentials
5 41 (3.00%) PCI DSS
6 39 (2.86%) Data Quality
7 36 (2.64%) SLA
8 30 (2.20%) NIST
9 24 (1.76%) ISO 22301
10 23 (1.68%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 19 (1.39%) Accessibility
11 19 (1.39%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 16 (1.17%) COBIT
13 12 (0.88%) NCSC
14 10 (0.73%) HIPAA
15 8 (0.59%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 6 (0.44%) GRC
16 6 (0.44%) ISO 9001
16 6 (0.44%) PMO
17 4 (0.29%) HMG Security Policy Framework
System Software
1 366 (26.79%) Active Directory
2 227 (16.62%) VMware Infrastructure
3 152 (11.13%) Virtual Machines
4 111 (8.13%) Hyper-V
5 53 (3.88%) Docker
6 40 (2.93%) Virtual Servers
7 38 (2.78%) VMware ESXi
8 27 (1.98%) vSphere
9 26 (1.90%) Firmware
10 23 (1.68%) Virtual Desktop
11 15 (1.10%) VMware NSX
12 13 (0.95%) Microsoft Virtual Server
13 5 (0.37%) KVM
14 4 (0.29%) Terminal Services
15 3 (0.22%) Oracle RAC
15 3 (0.22%) VirtualBox
16 2 (0.15%) Ceph
16 2 (0.15%) VMware Workstation
17 1 (0.073%) BitLocker
17 1 (0.073%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 89 (6.52%) Terraform
2 73 (5.34%) Ansible
3 69 (5.05%) Microsoft Intune
4 63 (4.61%) Kubernetes
5 36 (2.64%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 36 (2.64%) SCCM
6 31 (2.27%) vCenter Server
7 30 (2.20%) SCOM
8 25 (1.83%) ZABBIX
9 22 (1.61%) FortiGate
9 22 (1.61%) Nagios
10 21 (1.54%) WSUS
11 20 (1.46%) Grafana
12 18 (1.32%) VxRail
13 16 (1.17%) NetBackup
14 14 (1.02%) Puppet
15 13 (0.95%) EMC NetWorker
16 12 (0.88%) Opsgenie
17 11 (0.81%) HAProxy
17 11 (0.81%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 536 (39.24%) Microsoft
2 285 (20.86%) VMware
3 165 (12.08%) Cisco
4 108 (7.91%) Oracle
5 97 (7.10%) Veeam
6 52 (3.81%) Citrix
7 50 (3.66%) Dell
8 46 (3.37%) HP
9 45 (3.29%) NetApp
10 44 (3.22%) Google
11 42 (3.07%) IBM
12 40 (2.93%) SolarWinds
13 33 (2.42%) Juniper
14 31 (2.27%) Aruba
14 31 (2.27%) Splunk
15 27 (1.98%) F5
16 26 (1.90%) Palo Alto
16 26 (1.90%) Red Hat
17 25 (1.83%) Commvault
18 23 (1.68%) Meraki