Hybrid/Remote Disaster Recovery Job Trends

Disaster Recovery
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for remote or hybrid work requiring Disaster Recovery skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 28 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 154 244 212
Rank change year-on-year +90 -32 +1
Permanent jobs citing Disaster Recovery 403 183 369
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.73% 1.11% 1.49%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.11% 1.19% 1.70%
Number of salaries quoted 283 138 231
10th Percentile £40,100 £31,775 £39,000
25th Percentile £46,250 £44,000 £49,881
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -11.54% +9.20%
75th Percentile £77,500 £77,188 £88,125
90th Percentile £88,750 £105,000 £102,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -5.98%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 19,089 15,370 21,707
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 82.04% 92.98% 87.48%
Number of salaries quoted 13,792 8,913 14,844
10th Percentile £34,750 £29,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £44,972 £40,500 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £58,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.33%

Disaster Recovery
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Disaster Recovery and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Disaster Recovery job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

Disaster Recovery
Salary Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Disaster Recovery.

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Disaster Recovery

Disaster Recovery
Salary Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Disaster Recovery over the 6 months to 28 August 2026.

Disaster Recovery salary histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

Disaster Recovery
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 42 (10.42%) SharePoint
2 33 (8.19%) Microsoft Exchange
3 13 (3.23%) IIS
4 7 (1.74%) Apache
5 6 (1.49%) nginx
6 3 (0.74%) WordPress
7 1 (0.25%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.25%) Confluence
7 1 (0.25%) Site Server
Applications
1 7 (1.74%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.25%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 3 (0.74%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.25%) Oracle Applications
2 1 (0.25%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.25%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 264 (65.51%) Azure
2 128 (31.76%) AWS
3 117 (29.03%) Microsoft 365
4 88 (21.84%) SaaS
5 70 (17.37%) Entra ID
6 32 (7.94%) IaaS
7 29 (7.20%) GCP
8 24 (5.96%) Azure Monitor
9 22 (5.46%) PaaS
9 22 (5.46%) Power Platform
10 18 (4.47%) Nutanix
11 17 (4.22%) OneDrive
12 13 (3.23%) Azure DevOps
13 10 (2.48%) AWS CloudFormation
13 10 (2.48%) Microsoft Copilot
14 9 (2.23%) Azure Data Factory
14 9 (2.23%) Azure Sentinel
14 9 (2.23%) GitHub
14 9 (2.23%) Microsoft Purview
15 8 (1.99%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 107 (26.55%) Firewall
2 78 (19.35%) DNS
3 58 (14.39%) DHCP
4 54 (13.40%) VPN
5 34 (8.44%) TCP/IP
6 33 (8.19%) WAN
7 29 (7.20%) Network Security
8 27 (6.70%) LAN
9 19 (4.71%) VLAN
10 13 (3.23%) Wi-Fi
11 10 (2.48%) SD-WAN
12 9 (2.23%) VSAN
12 9 (2.23%) Wireless
13 7 (1.74%) NGFW
13 7 (1.74%) SAN
14 6 (1.49%) Cisco ISE
14 6 (1.49%) Fibre Channel
14 6 (1.49%) iSCSI
15 4 (0.99%) Cisco Nexus
15 4 (0.99%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (5.71%) SQL Server
2 12 (2.98%) Azure SQL Database
3 11 (2.73%) PostgreSQL
4 10 (2.48%) Power BI
5 4 (0.99%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (0.50%) Oracle Database
6 2 (0.50%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 2 (0.50%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 2 (0.50%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 1 (0.25%) MongoDB
7 1 (0.25%) MySQL
7 1 (0.25%) Oracle Exadata
7 1 (0.25%) Oracle Reports
7 1 (0.25%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 7 (1.74%) Git
2 6 (1.49%) JIRA
2 6 (1.49%) Visual Studio Code
3 4 (0.99%) GitLab
4 2 (0.50%) Terragrunt
5 1 (0.25%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.25%) Claude Code
5 1 (0.25%) MLflow
5 1 (0.25%) Selenium
General
1 123 (30.52%) Social Skills
2 68 (16.87%) Finance
3 49 (12.16%) Analytical Skills
4 43 (10.67%) Law
5 35 (8.68%) Legal
6 23 (5.71%) Retail
7 22 (5.46%) Banking
8 21 (5.21%) Public Sector
9 18 (4.47%) Documentation Skills
9 18 (4.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 15 (3.72%) Organisational Skills
11 10 (2.48%) Back Office
11 10 (2.48%) Manufacturing
12 7 (1.74%) Advertising
13 5 (1.24%) Influencing Skills
13 5 (1.24%) Marketing
13 5 (1.24%) Presentation Skills
14 3 (0.74%) Local Government
15 2 (0.50%) Social Housing
16 1 (0.25%) Police
Job Titles
1 72 (17.87%) IT Manager
2 66 (16.38%) Senior
3 54 (13.40%) Service Manager
4 51 (12.66%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 51 (12.66%) Resilience Manager
5 50 (12.41%) IT Services Manager
6 34 (8.44%) Architect
7 28 (6.95%) Consultant
8 25 (6.20%) Lead
9 24 (5.96%) IT Engineer
10 22 (5.46%) Support Engineer
10 22 (5.46%) Technical Consultant
11 21 (5.21%) Azure Engineer
11 21 (5.21%) Senior Architect
12 20 (4.96%) Analyst
12 20 (4.96%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
13 18 (4.47%) Cloud Engineer
14 16 (3.97%) IT Support
14 16 (3.97%) Technical Architect
15 15 (3.72%) Senior Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 65 (16.13%) Middleware
2 60 (14.89%) Terraform
3 12 (2.98%) ARM Templates
4 7 (1.74%) Microsoft Graph
5 6 (1.49%) Web Services
6 3 (0.74%) JSON
6 3 (0.74%) Nuxt
6 3 (0.74%) Ruby on Rails
7 2 (0.50%) .NET
7 2 (0.50%) 802.1X
7 2 (0.50%) Kafka
7 2 (0.50%) OpenTelemetry
8 1 (0.25%) Node.js
8 1 (0.25%) OAuth
8 1 (0.25%) OAuth2
8 1 (0.25%) OpenCV
8 1 (0.25%) Oracle Fusion
8 1 (0.25%) Pandas
8 1 (0.25%) pytest
8 1 (0.25%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 58 (14.39%) Cyber Threat
2 33 (8.19%) Data Centre
3 32 (7.94%) Replication
4 25 (6.20%) Hybrid Cloud
5 24 (5.96%) Cloud Native
5 24 (5.96%) Enterprise Storage
6 21 (5.21%) Management Information System
7 20 (4.96%) Onboarding
8 16 (3.97%) Security Posture
9 13 (3.23%) Driving Licence
9 13 (3.23%) Self-Motivation
10 12 (2.98%) Data Protection Act
10 12 (2.98%) Enterprise Software
10 12 (2.98%) Public Cloud
11 11 (2.73%) iSeries
12 10 (2.48%) CMDB
13 8 (1.99%) Virtual Team
14 7 (1.74%) Freedom of Information
14 7 (1.74%) Freedom of Information Act
14 7 (1.74%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 128 (31.76%) Windows
2 97 (24.07%) Windows Server
3 44 (10.92%) Linux
4 9 (2.23%) Ubuntu
5 7 (1.74%) Mac OS
5 7 (1.74%) Windows Server 2016
6 6 (1.49%) Windows 10
6 6 (1.49%) Windows Server 2019
7 5 (1.24%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 5 (1.24%) Unix
8 4 (0.99%) Debian
9 2 (0.50%) AIX
9 2 (0.50%) CentOS
9 2 (0.50%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 214 (53.10%) Business Continuity
2 125 (31.02%) Problem-Solving
3 115 (28.54%) Cybersecurity
4 113 (28.04%) Continuous Improvement
5 108 (26.80%) Information Security
6 94 (23.33%) DevOps
7 93 (23.08%) ITIL
8 88 (21.84%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 82 (20.35%) Agile
10 69 (17.12%) Service Delivery
11 67 (16.63%) Project Delivery
12 65 (16.13%) High Availability
13 62 (15.38%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 62 (15.38%) Stakeholder Management
14 59 (14.64%) Incident Response
15 57 (14.14%) Enterprise Architecture
15 57 (14.14%) Mentoring
16 56 (13.90%) Waterfall
17 55 (13.65%) Runbook
18 54 (13.40%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 87 (21.59%) PowerShell
2 42 (10.42%) Python
3 26 (6.45%) SQL
4 19 (4.71%) Bicep
5 9 (2.23%) Bash
6 6 (1.49%) Shell Script
7 4 (0.99%) Java
8 3 (0.74%) JavaScript
8 3 (0.74%) Ruby
9 2 (0.50%) C#
9 2 (0.50%) T-SQL
10 1 (0.25%) TypeScript
10 1 (0.25%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 73 (18.11%) CISSP
2 69 (17.12%) CISM
3 53 (13.15%) ITIL Certification
4 35 (8.68%) Azure Certification
5 33 (8.19%) Degree
6 25 (6.20%) Microsoft Certification
7 22 (5.46%) Security Cleared
8 19 (4.71%) Cisco Certification
8 19 (4.71%) SC Cleared
8 19 (4.71%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 15 (3.72%) CCNA
10 14 (3.47%) CISA
11 13 (3.23%) CCNP
12 12 (2.98%) Computer Science Degree
13 11 (2.73%) CEH
14 10 (2.48%) VCAP
15 9 (2.23%) VCDX
16 8 (1.99%) ISACA
17 7 (1.74%) CRISC
18 6 (1.49%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 91 (22.58%) NIST
2 71 (17.62%) ISO 22301
3 59 (14.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 41 (10.17%) GDPR
5 29 (7.20%) Cyber Essentials
6 23 (5.71%) SLA
7 21 (5.21%) PCI DSS
8 17 (4.22%) PMO
9 11 (2.73%) COBIT
10 10 (2.48%) GRC
10 10 (2.48%) SOC 2
11 8 (1.99%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 7 (1.74%) SOC 1
13 5 (1.24%) Actionable Recommendations
13 5 (1.24%) NCSC
14 4 (0.99%) Data Quality
14 4 (0.99%) ISO/IEC 20000
15 3 (0.74%) ISO 9001
16 2 (0.50%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
16 2 (0.50%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 96 (23.82%) Active Directory
2 89 (22.08%) VMware Infrastructure
3 65 (16.13%) Hyper-V
4 23 (5.71%) vSphere
5 16 (3.97%) Docker
6 13 (3.23%) Firmware
7 10 (2.48%) VMware NSX
8 9 (2.23%) vCloud
8 9 (2.23%) Virtual Machines
8 9 (2.23%) VMware ESXi
9 7 (1.74%) Virtual Desktop
10 6 (1.49%) Squid
11 1 (0.25%) KVM
11 1 (0.25%) Oracle RAC
11 1 (0.25%) Terminal Services
11 1 (0.25%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 42 (10.42%) Microsoft Intune
2 34 (8.44%) Kubernetes
3 19 (4.71%) Ansible
4 8 (1.99%) Grafana
4 8 (1.99%) Prometheus
5 7 (1.74%) FortiGate
5 7 (1.74%) Packer
5 7 (1.74%) Single Sign-On
6 6 (1.49%) Avamar
6 6 (1.49%) Dell DRAC
6 6 (1.49%) EMC NetWorker
6 6 (1.49%) EMC VPLEX
6 6 (1.49%) VxRail
7 5 (1.24%) Proxmox
7 5 (1.24%) SCCM
8 3 (0.74%) ZABBIX
9 2 (0.50%) Data Guard
9 2 (0.50%) SCOM
9 2 (0.50%) WhatsUp Gold
9 2 (0.50%) WSUS
Vendors
1 211 (52.36%) Microsoft
2 107 (26.55%) VMware
3 52 (12.90%) Veeam
4 39 (9.68%) Cisco
5 20 (4.96%) Palo Alto
6 19 (4.71%) EMC
7 17 (4.22%) Fortinet
7 17 (4.22%) NetApp
8 16 (3.97%) Dell
8 16 (3.97%) Google
9 15 (3.72%) Nimble Storage
10 13 (3.23%) Commvault
11 12 (2.98%) Oracle
12 11 (2.73%) Broadcom
12 11 (2.73%) HP
12 11 (2.73%) IBM
13 10 (2.48%) iManage
13 10 (2.48%) Meraki
14 9 (2.23%) ServiceNow
14 9 (2.23%) Splunk