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 10 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 225 312 312
Rank change year-on-year +87 0 +11
Permanent jobs citing Disaster Recovery 1,325 1,137 2,009
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.34% 1.13% 1.28%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.56% 1.18% 1.33%
Number of salaries quoted 1,158 842 1,185
10th Percentile £33,000 £33,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £41,933 £41,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,150 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -0.27% -4.09% +15.00%
75th Percentile £70,000 £70,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £89,125 £90,000 £88,750
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 84,917 96,578 150,488
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.59% 95.61% 95.67%
Number of salaries quoted 59,883 56,844 82,330
10th Percentile £29,008 £34,000 £33,515
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,190 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.12% +1.98% +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 10 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 10 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 +102 1,202 £57,046 +3.44% 275
UK excluding London +44 890 £50,000 - 179
Work from Home +46 508 £60,000 +0.80% 105
London +132 392 £75,000 +15.38% 104
North of England +81 316 £47,500 +5.56% 56
North West +95 195 £47,500 +5.56% 30
Midlands +7 163 £46,500 -7.00% 33
South East +66 161 £57,500 - 46
West Midlands +31 107 £52,500 +5.00% 18
East of England +33 86 £50,000 -13.04% 18
Yorkshire +42 75 £50,000 +25.00% 18
South West -63 68 £51,716 +8.88% 13
Scotland -20 63 £50,000 -16.00% 8
East Midlands -21 56 £43,250 -16.14% 15
North East +21 48 £45,000 +12.50% 8
Wales +8 27 £32,500 -7.14% 1
Northern Ireland +13 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
1 153 (11.55%) Microsoft Exchange
2 112 (8.45%) SharePoint
3 21 (1.58%) IIS
4 18 (1.36%) WebSphere
5 13 (0.98%) Apache
6 12 (0.91%) WebLogic
7 11 (0.83%) Tomcat
8 10 (0.75%) JBoss
9 8 (0.60%) 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 (4.08%) Microsoft Office
2 21 (1.58%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.23%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.15%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.075%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 22 (1.66%) Dynamics CRM
2 14 (1.06%) Teamcenter
3 8 (0.60%) 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 (0.075%) Magento
8 1 (0.075%) Oracle Applications
8 1 (0.075%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 628 (47.40%) Azure
2 309 (23.32%) Microsoft 365
3 222 (16.75%) AWS
4 132 (9.96%) Power Platform
5 103 (7.77%) Entra ID
6 86 (6.49%) GCP
7 71 (5.36%) IaaS
8 60 (4.53%) SaaS
9 49 (3.70%) PaaS
10 44 (3.32%) OneDrive
11 33 (2.49%) OCI
12 30 (2.26%) Amazon S3
12 30 (2.26%) Azure DevOps
12 30 (2.26%) Nutanix
13 24 (1.81%) PowerApps
14 21 (1.58%) Azure Monitor
15 20 (1.51%) Cloud Computing
16 19 (1.43%) Power Automate
16 19 (1.43%) Serverless
17 18 (1.36%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 331 (24.98%) Firewall
2 209 (15.77%) DNS
3 163 (12.30%) WAN
4 154 (11.62%) DHCP
5 127 (9.58%) LAN
6 113 (8.53%) VPN
7 104 (7.85%) SAN
8 84 (6.34%) Broadband
9 79 (5.96%) Network Security
9 79 (5.96%) TCP/IP
10 63 (4.75%) Wi-Fi
11 54 (4.08%) SD-WAN
12 52 (3.92%) Internet
13 50 (3.77%) VLAN
13 50 (3.77%) Wireless
14 38 (2.87%) VoIP
15 29 (2.19%) Intrusion Detection
16 27 (2.04%) NAS
17 24 (1.81%) SSL
18 19 (1.43%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 238 (17.96%) SQL Server
2 112 (8.45%) Power BI
3 94 (7.09%) Azure SQL Database
4 44 (3.32%) MySQL
5 33 (2.49%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 32 (2.42%) MongoDB
7 31 (2.34%) Amazon RDS
8 25 (1.89%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 19 (1.43%) Relational Database
10 18 (1.36%) BigQuery
10 18 (1.36%) Oracle Database
11 16 (1.21%) Data Warehouse
11 16 (1.21%) DB2
12 15 (1.13%) Elasticsearch
13 13 (0.98%) Data Hub
14 12 (0.91%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
14 12 (0.91%) NoSQL
14 12 (0.91%) PostgreSQL
15 11 (0.83%) SQL Server Analysis Services
16 6 (0.45%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 35 (2.64%) Git
2 33 (2.49%) Jenkins
3 22 (1.66%) 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
1 464 (35.02%) Social Skills
2 284 (21.43%) Finance
3 157 (11.85%) Analytical Skills
4 83 (6.26%) Legal
5 75 (5.66%) Banking
6 67 (5.06%) Telecoms
7 48 (3.62%) Retail
8 47 (3.55%) Law
9 39 (2.94%) Organisational Skills
10 34 (2.57%) Manufacturing
11 33 (2.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 28 (2.11%) Documentation Skills
13 27 (2.04%) Financial Institution
14 20 (1.51%) Presentation Skills
14 20 (1.51%) Public Sector
15 13 (0.98%) Local Government
16 10 (0.75%) Back Office
17 8 (0.60%) Influencing Skills
18 7 (0.53%) Marketing
19 6 (0.45%) Billing
Job Titles
1 182 (13.74%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 173 (13.06%) Senior
3 136 (10.26%) DBA
4 125 (9.43%) Analyst
5 112 (8.45%) IT Manager
6 100 (7.55%) IT Engineer
7 99 (7.47%) SQL DBA
8 94 (7.09%) Lead
9 69 (5.21%) Network Engineer
10 58 (4.38%) Administrator
11 57 (4.30%) Cloud Engineer
12 52 (3.92%) Support Engineer
13 51 (3.85%) Architect
13 51 (3.85%) IT Support
14 44 (3.32%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
15 36 (2.72%) Security Analyst
16 35 (2.64%) Consultant
16 35 (2.64%) Systems Engineer
17 34 (2.57%) Infrastructure Manager
18 33 (2.49%) IT Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (1.96%) Middleware
2 22 (1.66%) YAML
3 21 (1.58%) 802.1X
4 19 (1.43%) Elastic Stack
4 19 (1.43%) Kafka
4 19 (1.43%) LDAP
5 14 (1.06%) HTML
6 13 (0.98%) ARM Templates
7 10 (0.75%) .NET
8 9 (0.68%) Web Services
9 8 (0.60%) 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
1 152 (11.47%) Management Information System
2 151 (11.40%) Data Centre
3 99 (7.47%) Replication
4 65 (4.91%) Clustering
5 49 (3.70%) Security Posture
6 48 (3.62%) Public Cloud
7 44 (3.32%) Cyber Threat
8 43 (3.25%) Self-Motivation
9 29 (2.19%) Data Protection Act
10 27 (2.04%) Cyberattack
11 26 (1.96%) IoT
12 22 (1.66%) Driving Licence
13 21 (1.58%) Cloud Native
14 20 (1.51%) Data Fabric
14 20 (1.51%) PMI
15 18 (1.36%) Hybrid Cloud
16 15 (1.13%) Onboarding
17 11 (0.83%) Enterprise Cloud
17 11 (0.83%) Enterprise Software
18 10 (0.75%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
Operating Systems
1 477 (36.00%) Windows
2 265 (20.00%) Linux
2 265 (20.00%) Windows Server
3 76 (5.74%) VMS
4 61 (4.60%) Windows Server 2019
5 53 (4.00%) Windows Server 2016
6 42 (3.17%) Windows 10
7 38 (2.87%) Unix
8 36 (2.72%) Windows Server 2012
9 35 (2.64%) Solaris
10 25 (1.89%) zOS
11 20 (1.51%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 18 (1.36%) CentOS
13 17 (1.28%) AIX
14 16 (1.21%) Android
15 15 (1.13%) Ubuntu
16 12 (0.91%) Oracle Linux
16 12 (0.91%) Windows XP
17 11 (0.83%) Apple iOS
17 11 (0.83%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 328 (24.75%) Business Continuity
2 304 (22.94%) Cybersecurity
3 273 (20.60%) ITIL
4 251 (18.94%) Problem-Solving
5 230 (17.36%) High Availability
6 218 (16.45%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 193 (14.57%) Performance Tuning
8 177 (13.36%) Information Security
9 147 (11.09%) DevOps
10 135 (10.19%) Project Management
11 134 (10.11%) Continuous Improvement
12 124 (9.36%) Collaborative Working
13 123 (9.28%) Business Intelligence
14 122 (9.21%) Data Protection
15 109 (8.23%) Agile
16 102 (7.70%) Mentoring
16 102 (7.70%) Migration
17 101 (7.62%) Incident Response
18 100 (7.55%) Customer Service
19 97 (7.32%) Capacity Planning
Programming Languages
1 248 (18.72%) SQL
2 168 (12.68%) PowerShell
3 114 (8.60%) T-SQL
4 88 (6.64%) Python
5 68 (5.13%) Bash
6 27 (2.04%) Perl
7 26 (1.96%) PL/SQL
8 25 (1.89%) C#
9 20 (1.51%) Java
10 12 (0.91%) Shell Script
11 10 (0.75%) RPG
12 9 (0.68%) JavaScript
13 8 (0.60%) PHP
14 6 (0.45%) ABAP
15 5 (0.38%) Bicep
15 5 (0.38%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 4 (0.30%) VBA
17 3 (0.23%) VBScript
18 2 (0.15%) ActionScript
18 2 (0.15%) Korn
Qualifications
1 232 (17.51%) Degree
2 142 (10.72%) Microsoft Certification
3 102 (7.70%) Cisco Certification
4 88 (6.64%) CISSP
5 72 (5.43%) CCNA
6 57 (4.30%) Computer Science Degree
7 55 (4.15%) Security Cleared
8 45 (3.40%) CCNP
9 44 (3.32%) CISM
10 39 (2.94%) SC Cleared
11 36 (2.72%) MCSE
12 33 (2.49%) CISA
13 30 (2.26%) Azure Certification
14 26 (1.96%) PMI Certification
14 26 (1.96%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
15 25 (1.89%) MCSA
16 24 (1.81%) CompTIA Security+
17 22 (1.66%) GIAC
18 21 (1.58%) DV Cleared
19 18 (1.36%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 150 (11.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 65 (4.91%) GDPR
3 48 (3.62%) Cyber Essentials
4 45 (3.40%) SLA
5 43 (3.25%) PCI DSS
6 34 (2.57%) Data Quality
7 28 (2.11%) NIST
8 23 (1.74%) ISO 22301
9 21 (1.58%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
10 19 (1.43%) Accessibility
10 19 (1.43%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 19 (1.43%) QA
11 15 (1.13%) COBIT
12 12 (0.91%) NCSC
13 10 (0.75%) HIPAA
14 8 (0.60%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 6 (0.45%) GRC
15 6 (0.45%) ISO 9001
16 5 (0.38%) PMO
17 4 (0.30%) HMG Security Policy Framework
System Software
1 375 (28.30%) Active Directory
2 229 (17.28%) VMware Infrastructure
3 149 (11.25%) Virtual Machines
4 117 (8.83%) Hyper-V
5 59 (4.45%) Docker
6 42 (3.17%) Virtual Servers
7 39 (2.94%) VMware ESXi
8 28 (2.11%) Firmware
9 25 (1.89%) vSphere
10 22 (1.66%) Virtual Desktop
11 15 (1.13%) VMware NSX
12 13 (0.98%) 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 (0.075%) Microsoft App-V
16 1 (0.075%) PowerHA
Systems Management
1 90 (6.79%) Terraform
2 74 (5.58%) Ansible
3 69 (5.21%) Microsoft Intune
4 66 (4.98%) Kubernetes
5 35 (2.64%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 34 (2.57%) SCCM
7 32 (2.42%) SCOM
7 32 (2.42%) vCenter Server
8 27 (2.04%) FortiGate
9 25 (1.89%) ZABBIX
10 23 (1.74%) Nagios
11 22 (1.66%) WSUS
12 21 (1.58%) Grafana
13 18 (1.36%) VxRail
14 16 (1.21%) NetBackup
15 15 (1.13%) Puppet
16 13 (0.98%) EMC NetWorker
16 13 (0.98%) Graphite
16 13 (0.98%) HAProxy
17 12 (0.91%) Opsgenie
Vendors
1 548 (41.36%) Microsoft
2 282 (21.28%) VMware
3 172 (12.98%) Cisco
4 102 (7.70%) Oracle
5 99 (7.47%) Veeam
6 58 (4.38%) Citrix
7 51 (3.85%) Dell
8 50 (3.77%) HP
9 45 (3.40%) NetApp
10 43 (3.25%) IBM
11 40 (3.02%) Google
11 40 (3.02%) SolarWinds
11 40 (3.02%) Splunk
12 34 (2.57%) Aruba
13 32 (2.42%) Juniper
13 32 (2.42%) ServiceNow
14 30 (2.26%) F5
15 26 (1.96%) Commvault
15 26 (1.96%) Palo Alto
16 25 (1.89%) Red Hat