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 15 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 184 202 207
Rank change year-on-year +18 +5 +76
Permanent jobs citing Disaster Recovery 240 210 488
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.37% 1.60% 1.52%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.65% 1.69% 1.66%
Number of salaries quoted 179 160 460
10th Percentile £42,250 £35,425 £41,250
25th Percentile £53,750 £43,938 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% - +8.79%
75th Percentile £91,250 £73,886 £77,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £90,000 £88,875
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +9.09% -

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 14,527 12,420 29,443
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 83.14% 94.78% 91.62%
Number of salaries quoted 10,146 8,885 23,513
10th Percentile £32,000 £32,500 £33,750
25th Percentile £44,972 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -8.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -10.54%

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 15 April 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 32 (13.33%) SharePoint
2 30 (12.50%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (0.83%) Apache
3 2 (0.83%) IIS
4 1 (0.42%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 6 (2.50%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (1.67%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (1.25%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.42%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 4 (1.67%) Markit EDM
2 3 (1.25%) Oracle EBS
3 2 (0.83%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 146 (60.83%) Azure
2 65 (27.08%) Microsoft 365
3 43 (17.92%) AWS
4 40 (16.67%) Entra ID
5 24 (10.00%) Nutanix
6 16 (6.67%) Amazon EKS
6 16 (6.67%) OneDrive
7 15 (6.25%) Azure Monitor
7 15 (6.25%) GitHub
8 14 (5.83%) SaaS
9 13 (5.42%) Amazon EC2
9 13 (5.42%) Azure Data Factory
9 13 (5.42%) Azure DevOps
9 13 (5.42%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 11 (4.58%) IaaS
10 11 (4.58%) Mimecast
10 11 (4.58%) PaaS
11 10 (4.17%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 9 (3.75%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 8 (3.33%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 60 (25.00%) Firewall
2 57 (23.75%) VPN
3 41 (17.08%) DNS
4 38 (15.83%) WAN
5 29 (12.08%) DHCP
6 28 (11.67%) TCP/IP
7 20 (8.33%) LAN
8 15 (6.25%) SD-WAN
9 13 (5.42%) Network Security
10 11 (4.58%) VLAN
11 9 (3.75%) Wi-Fi
12 6 (2.50%) BGP
13 5 (2.08%) Wireless
14 4 (1.67%) Cisco ISE
14 4 (1.67%) Cisco Nexus
14 4 (1.67%) Intrusion Detection
14 4 (1.67%) SAN
14 4 (1.67%) VSAN
15 3 (1.25%) PuTTY
15 3 (1.25%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (7.92%) Amazon RDS
1 19 (7.92%) SQL Server
2 13 (5.42%) Azure SQL Database
3 9 (3.75%) Data Lake
3 9 (3.75%) Delta Lake
4 8 (3.33%) Amazon Aurora
5 4 (1.67%) Data Warehouse
5 4 (1.67%) MySQL
5 4 (1.67%) Oracle Database
5 4 (1.67%) PostgreSQL
6 3 (1.25%) Oracle Database 10g
6 3 (1.25%) Oracle Database 11g
6 3 (1.25%) Oracle Database 12c
6 3 (1.25%) Power BI
7 1 (0.42%) DynamoDB
7 1 (0.42%) Oracle Exadata
7 1 (0.42%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 1 (0.42%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 1 (0.42%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 19 (7.92%) Git
2 5 (2.08%) Jenkins
3 4 (1.67%) Visual Studio Code
4 3 (1.25%) Maven
4 3 (1.25%) Sonatype Nexus
5 2 (0.83%) Selenium
6 1 (0.42%) JIRA
6 1 (0.42%) MLflow
General
1 81 (33.75%) Social Skills
2 67 (27.92%) Finance
3 25 (10.42%) Analytical Skills
4 24 (10.00%) Law
5 21 (8.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 20 (8.33%) Banking
7 13 (5.42%) Public Sector
8 12 (5.00%) Retail
9 9 (3.75%) Back Office
9 9 (3.75%) Organisational Skills
10 7 (2.92%) Documentation Skills
10 7 (2.92%) Legal
11 6 (2.50%) Financial Institution
11 6 (2.50%) Marketing
12 4 (1.67%) Presentation Skills
12 4 (1.67%) Social Housing
13 3 (1.25%) Local Government
14 2 (0.83%) Influencing Skills
14 2 (0.83%) Manufacturing
15 1 (0.42%) Police
Job Titles
1 51 (21.25%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 45 (18.75%) Senior
3 25 (10.42%) IT Manager
4 20 (8.33%) Platform Engineer
5 19 (7.92%) Lead
6 17 (7.08%) Security Specialist
6 17 (7.08%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
7 15 (6.25%) Cloud Engineer
8 14 (5.83%) AWS Engineer
9 13 (5.42%) IT Engineer
9 13 (5.42%) IT Security Specialist
9 13 (5.42%) Security Manager
10 12 (5.00%) Azure Engineer
10 12 (5.00%) Cloud Platform Engineer
10 12 (5.00%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
11 11 (4.58%) Operations Engineer
12 10 (4.17%) Support Engineer
13 9 (3.75%) Applications Support
13 9 (3.75%) Architect
13 9 (3.75%) Service Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (3.75%) PySpark
2 7 (2.92%) Loki
2 7 (2.92%) RESTful
3 6 (2.50%) ARM Templates
4 3 (1.25%) ActiveMQ
4 3 (1.25%) LAMP
4 3 (1.25%) RAML
4 3 (1.25%) REST
4 3 (1.25%) SOAP
5 2 (0.83%) AWS SAM
5 2 (0.83%) Elastic Stack
5 2 (0.83%) Node.js
5 2 (0.83%) Playwright
6 1 (0.42%) AWS CDK
6 1 (0.42%) FastAPI
6 1 (0.42%) Hugging Face
6 1 (0.42%) JWT
6 1 (0.42%) Pandas
6 1 (0.42%) pytest
6 1 (0.42%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 32 (13.33%) Hybrid Cloud
2 22 (9.17%) Cloud Native
3 21 (8.75%) Data Centre
4 16 (6.67%) Driving Licence
5 15 (6.25%) Management Information System
6 14 (5.83%) Replication
7 13 (5.42%) Legacy Systems
8 11 (4.58%) CMDB
8 11 (4.58%) Cyber Threat
9 9 (3.75%) Enterprise Storage
9 9 (3.75%) Onboarding
10 7 (2.92%) iSeries
11 6 (2.50%) Distributed Systems
11 6 (2.50%) Enterprise Software
11 6 (2.50%) Public Cloud
12 5 (2.08%) Mobile App
12 5 (2.08%) Private Cloud
12 5 (2.08%) Self-Motivation
13 4 (1.67%) iPad
13 4 (1.67%) iPhone
Operating Systems
1 66 (27.50%) Windows
2 42 (17.50%) Windows Server
3 28 (11.67%) Linux
4 13 (5.42%) Windows 10
5 12 (5.00%) Apple iOS
6 4 (1.67%) CentOS
6 4 (1.67%) Ubuntu
6 4 (1.67%) Unix
7 3 (1.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 3 (1.25%) Rocky
8 1 (0.42%) AIX
8 1 (0.42%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.42%) Solaris
8 1 (0.42%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 74 (30.83%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 69 (28.75%) Cybersecurity
3 61 (25.42%) Business Continuity
4 58 (24.17%) Problem-Solving
5 55 (22.92%) DevOps
5 55 (22.92%) Service Delivery
6 51 (21.25%) ITIL
7 49 (20.42%) CI/CD
8 44 (18.33%) Continuous Improvement
9 43 (17.92%) Infrastructure as Code
10 36 (15.00%) Vulnerability Management
11 35 (14.58%) High Availability
12 34 (14.17%) Cloud Security
12 34 (14.17%) Migration
13 33 (13.75%) Incident Response
14 30 (12.50%) Mentoring
14 30 (12.50%) Platform Engineering
15 27 (11.25%) Root Cause Analysis
16 25 (10.42%) Identity Access Management
16 25 (10.42%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 68 (28.33%) PowerShell
2 64 (26.67%) Python
3 27 (11.25%) SQL
4 11 (4.58%) Java
5 10 (4.17%) Bash
6 9 (3.75%) Bicep
6 9 (3.75%) Scala
7 8 (3.33%) Go
8 3 (1.25%) Shell Script
9 2 (0.83%) JavaScript
9 2 (0.83%) TypeScript
10 1 (0.42%) C#
10 1 (0.42%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 38 (15.83%) Degree
2 22 (9.17%) Microsoft Certification
3 17 (7.08%) Azure Certification
3 17 (7.08%) CEH
4 15 (6.25%) Security Cleared
5 13 (5.42%) SC Cleared
6 12 (5.00%) Computer Science Degree
7 8 (3.33%) BPSS Clearance
7 8 (3.33%) Cisco Certification
7 8 (3.33%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 7 (2.92%) CCNP
9 5 (2.08%) CCNA
9 5 (2.08%) CISSP
10 4 (1.67%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 4 (1.67%) MCSE
10 4 (1.67%) VCAP
10 4 (1.67%) VCDX
11 3 (1.25%) CISM
11 3 (1.25%) ITIL Certification
12 2 (0.83%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 52 (21.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 32 (13.33%) NIST
3 27 (11.25%) Cyber Essentials
4 24 (10.00%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 16 (6.67%) GDPR
5 16 (6.67%) PCI DSS
6 14 (5.83%) ISO 22301
7 13 (5.42%) Data Quality
8 10 (4.17%) Actionable Recommendations
8 10 (4.17%) GRC
9 9 (3.75%) SOC 2
10 7 (2.92%) SLA
11 4 (1.67%) PMO
12 2 (0.83%) Accessibility
12 2 (0.83%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
13 1 (0.42%) Basel III
13 1 (0.42%) COBIT
13 1 (0.42%) ISO/IEC 20000
13 1 (0.42%) MiFID
13 1 (0.42%) SOC 1
System Software
1 48 (20.00%) Active Directory
2 45 (18.75%) VMware Infrastructure
3 23 (9.58%) Hyper-V
4 13 (5.42%) Firmware
5 11 (4.58%) Docker
6 8 (3.33%) vSphere
7 6 (2.50%) Virtual Machines
8 5 (2.08%) vCloud
9 4 (1.67%) Virtual Servers
9 4 (1.67%) VMware NSX
10 3 (1.25%) Microsoft Virtual Server
10 3 (1.25%) VMware ESXi
11 2 (0.83%) Virtual Desktop
12 1 (0.42%) KVM
12 1 (0.42%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 49 (20.42%) Terraform
2 36 (15.00%) Microsoft Intune
3 24 (10.00%) Kubernetes
4 17 (7.08%) Ansible
5 10 (4.17%) Grafana
6 7 (2.92%) Prometheus
7 6 (2.50%) Packer
8 4 (1.67%) vCenter Server
9 3 (1.25%) FortiGate
9 3 (1.25%) Nagios
10 2 (0.83%) Dell DRAC
10 2 (0.83%) SCCM
11 1 (0.42%) Data Guard
11 1 (0.42%) Jamf Pro
11 1 (0.42%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
11 1 (0.42%) Oracle Flashback
11 1 (0.42%) PowerCLI
Vendors
1 119 (49.58%) Microsoft
2 76 (31.67%) VMware
3 26 (10.83%) Commvault
4 25 (10.42%) Cisco
5 14 (5.83%) Fortinet
6 11 (4.58%) EMC
6 11 (4.58%) IBM
6 11 (4.58%) Oracle
7 10 (4.17%) Meraki
7 10 (4.17%) Veeam
8 9 (3.75%) Databricks
9 8 (3.33%) ServiceNow
9 8 (3.33%) Sophos
10 7 (2.92%) Dell
10 7 (2.92%) HP
11 6 (2.50%) Palo Alto
12 5 (2.08%) Apple
12 5 (2.08%) NetApp
12 5 (2.08%) Splunk
13 4 (1.67%) Red Hat