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

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 229 306 325
Rank change year-on-year +77 +19 -10
Permanent jobs citing Disaster Recovery 1,324 1,141 2,024
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.33% 1.15% 1.26%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.56% 1.20% 1.32%
Number of salaries quoted 1,148 832 1,177
10th Percentile £33,000 £33,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £41,887 £41,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £56,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +2.68% +8.74%
75th Percentile £70,000 £71,250 £71,250
90th Percentile £87,875 £91,125 £87,500
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 85,135 94,784 153,905
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.22% 95.58% 95.76%
Number of salaries quoted 59,872 55,911 82,488
10th Percentile £29,089 £34,000 £33,635
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 £96,250
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 18 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 18 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 +81 1,200 £57,046 -0.79% 284
UK excluding London +38 900 £50,000 - 196
Work from Home +52 513 £60,000 +0.80% 106
London +125 382 £75,000 +15.38% 106
North of England +85 315 £47,500 +5.56% 56
North West +101 193 £47,500 +5.56% 29
Midlands +11 171 £46,500 -7.00% 32
South East +59 162 £57,500 - 57
West Midlands +44 110 £52,500 +5.00% 16
East of England +19 88 £50,000 -13.04% 20
Yorkshire +31 75 £50,000 +25.00% 18
South West -71 67 £51,716 +14.45% 16
Scotland -25 64 £50,000 -12.68% 13
East Midlands -19 61 £42,500 -14.20% 16
North East +20 49 £44,500 +11.25% 9
Wales +8 27 £32,500 -7.14% 3
Northern Ireland +13 5 £41,750 -36.98% 4
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
1 145 (10.95%) Microsoft Exchange
2 106 (8.01%) 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 (0.60%) 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%) CMS
14 2 (0.15%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 53 (4.00%) Microsoft Office
2 20 (1.51%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.23%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.15%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.076%) 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
6 3 (0.23%) Oracle Financial Analyzer
7 2 (0.15%) Adaptiv
7 2 (0.15%) Oracle Receivables
8 1 (0.076%) Magento
8 1 (0.076%) Oracle Applications
8 1 (0.076%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 619 (46.75%) Azure
2 301 (22.73%) Microsoft 365
3 220 (16.62%) AWS
4 130 (9.82%) Power Platform
5 100 (7.55%) Entra ID
6 84 (6.34%) GCP
7 68 (5.14%) IaaS
8 59 (4.46%) SaaS
9 46 (3.47%) PaaS
10 42 (3.17%) OneDrive
11 35 (2.64%) OCI
12 30 (2.27%) Nutanix
13 29 (2.19%) Amazon S3
14 28 (2.11%) Azure DevOps
15 22 (1.66%) PowerApps
16 21 (1.59%) Azure Monitor
17 20 (1.51%) Serverless
18 19 (1.44%) Cloud Computing
19 18 (1.36%) GitHub
19 18 (1.36%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 329 (24.85%) Firewall
2 204 (15.41%) DNS
3 161 (12.16%) WAN
4 150 (11.33%) DHCP
5 126 (9.52%) LAN
6 111 (8.38%) VPN
7 101 (7.63%) SAN
8 84 (6.34%) Broadband
9 77 (5.82%) TCP/IP
10 76 (5.74%) Network Security
11 61 (4.61%) Wi-Fi
12 53 (4.00%) SD-WAN
13 51 (3.85%) Internet
14 50 (3.78%) VLAN
15 49 (3.70%) Wireless
16 37 (2.79%) VoIP
17 29 (2.19%) Intrusion Detection
18 27 (2.04%) NAS
19 24 (1.81%) SSL
20 19 (1.44%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 237 (17.90%) SQL Server
2 111 (8.38%) Power BI
3 92 (6.95%) Azure SQL Database
4 43 (3.25%) MySQL
5 33 (2.49%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 31 (2.34%) MongoDB
7 30 (2.27%) Amazon RDS
8 25 (1.89%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 18 (1.36%) BigQuery
9 18 (1.36%) Oracle Database
10 17 (1.28%) Relational Database
11 16 (1.21%) Data Warehouse
11 16 (1.21%) DB2
12 14 (1.06%) Elasticsearch
13 13 (0.98%) Data Hub
13 13 (0.98%) NoSQL
14 12 (0.91%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
14 12 (0.91%) PostgreSQL
15 11 (0.83%) SQL Server Analysis Services
16 6 (0.45%) InfluxDB
Development Applications
1 35 (2.64%) Git
2 33 (2.49%) Jenkins
3 22 (1.66%) JIRA
4 12 (0.91%) GitLab
4 12 (0.91%) TeamCity
5 7 (0.53%) Katalon Studio
5 7 (0.53%) Visual Studio
6 6 (0.45%) JMeter
7 5 (0.38%) Gatling
7 5 (0.38%) JUnit
7 5 (0.38%) LoadRunner
7 5 (0.38%) Subversion
8 4 (0.30%) Selenium
8 4 (0.30%) Visual Studio Code
9 3 (0.23%) Bitbucket
9 3 (0.23%) CircleCI
9 3 (0.23%) Maven
9 3 (0.23%) TestNG
9 3 (0.23%) Travis CI
10 2 (0.15%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 462 (34.89%) Social Skills
2 283 (21.37%) Finance
3 159 (12.01%) Analytical Skills
4 90 (6.80%) Legal
5 76 (5.74%) Banking
6 66 (4.98%) Telecoms
7 56 (4.23%) Retail
8 46 (3.47%) Law
9 39 (2.95%) Organisational Skills
10 35 (2.64%) Manufacturing
11 33 (2.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 28 (2.11%) Documentation Skills
13 27 (2.04%) Financial Institution
14 21 (1.59%) Presentation Skills
14 21 (1.59%) Public Sector
15 13 (0.98%) Local Government
16 10 (0.76%) Back Office
17 8 (0.60%) Influencing Skills
18 7 (0.53%) Investment Banking
18 7 (0.53%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 177 (13.37%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 171 (12.92%) Senior
3 136 (10.27%) DBA
4 132 (9.97%) Analyst
5 112 (8.46%) IT Manager
6 99 (7.48%) IT Engineer
6 99 (7.48%) SQL DBA
7 98 (7.40%) Lead
8 68 (5.14%) Network Engineer
9 55 (4.15%) Cloud Engineer
10 54 (4.08%) Administrator
11 52 (3.93%) Architect
11 52 (3.93%) IT Support
12 51 (3.85%) Support Engineer
13 43 (3.25%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
14 37 (2.79%) Security Analyst
15 35 (2.64%) Consultant
16 34 (2.57%) Infrastructure Manager
16 34 (2.57%) Systems Engineer
17 33 (2.49%) IT Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (1.96%) Middleware
2 21 (1.59%) 802.1X
2 21 (1.59%) YAML
3 19 (1.44%) Kafka
4 18 (1.36%) Elastic Stack
4 18 (1.36%) LDAP
5 14 (1.06%) HTML
6 13 (0.98%) ARM Templates
7 11 (0.83%) .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
12 5 (0.38%) XML
13 4 (0.30%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 154 (11.63%) Management Information System
2 151 (11.40%) Data Centre
3 99 (7.48%) Replication
4 60 (4.53%) Clustering
5 48 (3.63%) Public Cloud
5 48 (3.63%) Security Posture
6 44 (3.32%) Cyber Threat
7 43 (3.25%) Self-Motivation
8 29 (2.19%) Data Protection Act
9 27 (2.04%) Cyberattack
10 26 (1.96%) IoT
11 22 (1.66%) Cloud Native
11 22 (1.66%) Driving Licence
12 20 (1.51%) Data Fabric
12 20 (1.51%) PMI
13 19 (1.44%) Hybrid Cloud
14 15 (1.13%) Onboarding
15 12 (0.91%) Enterprise Software
16 11 (0.83%) Enterprise Cloud
17 10 (0.76%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
Operating Systems
1 467 (35.27%) Windows
2 263 (19.86%) Linux
3 255 (19.26%) Windows Server
4 76 (5.74%) VMS
5 57 (4.31%) Windows Server 2019
6 49 (3.70%) Windows Server 2016
7 41 (3.10%) Windows 10
8 38 (2.87%) Unix
9 35 (2.64%) Solaris
10 32 (2.42%) Windows Server 2012
11 25 (1.89%) zOS
12 20 (1.51%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13 18 (1.36%) CentOS
14 16 (1.21%) AIX
15 15 (1.13%) Ubuntu
16 14 (1.06%) Android
17 12 (0.91%) Oracle Linux
17 12 (0.91%) Windows XP
18 11 (0.83%) Windows 7
19 10 (0.76%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 327 (24.70%) Business Continuity
2 302 (22.81%) Cybersecurity
3 276 (20.85%) ITIL
4 257 (19.41%) Problem-Solving
5 222 (16.77%) High Availability
6 213 (16.09%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 189 (14.27%) Performance Tuning
8 177 (13.37%) Information Security
9 143 (10.80%) DevOps
10 136 (10.27%) Project Management
11 133 (10.05%) Continuous Improvement
12 124 (9.37%) Collaborative Working
13 123 (9.29%) Business Intelligence
13 123 (9.29%) Data Protection
14 109 (8.23%) Agile
15 103 (7.78%) Mentoring
16 100 (7.55%) Incident Response
16 100 (7.55%) Migration
17 97 (7.33%) Customer Service
18 93 (7.02%) Capacity Planning
Programming Languages
1 248 (18.73%) SQL
2 162 (12.24%) PowerShell
3 114 (8.61%) T-SQL
4 86 (6.50%) Python
5 64 (4.83%) Bash
6 26 (1.96%) Perl
6 26 (1.96%) PL/SQL
7 25 (1.89%) C#
8 20 (1.51%) Java
9 12 (0.91%) Shell Script
10 10 (0.76%) JavaScript
10 10 (0.76%) RPG
11 8 (0.60%) PHP
12 5 (0.38%) ABAP
12 5 (0.38%) Bicep
12 5 (0.38%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 4 (0.30%) VBA
14 2 (0.15%) ActionScript
14 2 (0.15%) VBScript
14 2 (0.15%) XPath
Qualifications
1 238 (17.98%) Degree
2 142 (10.73%) Microsoft Certification
3 99 (7.48%) Cisco Certification
4 87 (6.57%) CISSP
5 70 (5.29%) CCNA
6 58 (4.38%) Computer Science Degree
7 54 (4.08%) Security Cleared
8 45 (3.40%) CCNP
9 44 (3.32%) CISM
10 39 (2.95%) SC Cleared
11 35 (2.64%) MCSE
12 32 (2.42%) CISA
13 30 (2.27%) Azure Certification
14 26 (1.96%) PMI Certification
14 26 (1.96%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
15 25 (1.89%) MCSA
16 22 (1.66%) CompTIA Security+
16 22 (1.66%) GIAC
17 21 (1.59%) DV Cleared
18 18 (1.36%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 149 (11.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 66 (4.98%) GDPR
3 46 (3.47%) Cyber Essentials
4 44 (3.32%) SLA
5 43 (3.25%) PCI DSS
6 35 (2.64%) Data Quality
7 28 (2.11%) NIST
7 28 (2.11%) QA
8 25 (1.89%) ISO 22301
9 21 (1.59%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
10 19 (1.44%) Accessibility
11 18 (1.36%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 15 (1.13%) COBIT
13 12 (0.91%) NCSC
14 10 (0.76%) HIPAA
15 8 (0.60%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 6 (0.45%) GRC
16 6 (0.45%) ISO 9001
16 6 (0.45%) PMO
17 4 (0.30%) ITGC
System Software
1 363 (27.42%) Active Directory
2 222 (16.77%) VMware Infrastructure
3 147 (11.10%) Virtual Machines
4 111 (8.38%) Hyper-V
5 56 (4.23%) Docker
6 42 (3.17%) Virtual Servers
7 38 (2.87%) VMware ESXi
8 28 (2.11%) Firmware
9 25 (1.89%) vSphere
10 23 (1.74%) 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 (0.076%) Microsoft App-V
16 1 (0.076%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 87 (6.57%) Terraform
2 72 (5.44%) Ansible
3 67 (5.06%) Microsoft Intune
4 64 (4.83%) Kubernetes
5 34 (2.57%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 33 (2.49%) SCCM
7 31 (2.34%) SCOM
7 31 (2.34%) vCenter Server
8 25 (1.89%) FortiGate
8 25 (1.89%) ZABBIX
9 22 (1.66%) Nagios
10 21 (1.59%) WSUS
11 20 (1.51%) Grafana
12 18 (1.36%) VxRail
13 16 (1.21%) NetBackup
14 14 (1.06%) Puppet
15 13 (0.98%) EMC NetWorker
16 12 (0.91%) Graphite
16 12 (0.91%) HAProxy
16 12 (0.91%) Opsgenie
Vendors
1 538 (40.63%) Microsoft
2 276 (20.85%) VMware
3 170 (12.84%) Cisco
4 104 (7.85%) Oracle
5 99 (7.48%) Veeam
6 55 (4.15%) Citrix
7 50 (3.78%) Dell
8 49 (3.70%) HP
9 45 (3.40%) NetApp
10 42 (3.17%) Google
10 42 (3.17%) IBM
11 40 (3.02%) SolarWinds
12 39 (2.95%) Splunk
13 33 (2.49%) Aruba
14 32 (2.42%) Juniper
15 30 (2.27%) F5
15 30 (2.27%) ServiceNow
16 26 (1.96%) Commvault
16 26 (1.96%) Palo Alto
17 25 (1.89%) Red Hat