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 2 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 200 208 199
Rank change year-on-year +8 -9 +86
Permanent jobs citing Disaster Recovery 182 300 338
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.20% 1.57% 1.63%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.33% 1.73% 1.72%
Number of salaries quoted 138 176 319
10th Percentile £42,200 £38,125 £32,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £50,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,989 £62,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +0.78% - +15.74%
75th Percentile £87,500 £77,500 £70,750
90th Percentile £105,000 £91,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £59,526
% change year-on-year +4.35% -3.40% +10.75%

All Process and 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 13,659 17,335 19,699
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 90.20% 90.79% 94.98%
Number of salaries quoted 8,596 10,457 15,949
10th Percentile £29,250 £36,250 £36,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £46,250 £46,306
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £62,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% - -
75th Percentile £77,500 £81,250 £80,070
90th Percentile £98,750 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -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 2 December 2025.

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 (17.58%) SharePoint
2 30 (16.48%) Microsoft Exchange
3 6 (3.30%) IIS
3 6 (3.30%) Tomcat
3 6 (3.30%) WebSphere
3 6 (3.30%) WebSphere Application Server
4 3 (1.65%) Skype for Business
5 1 (0.55%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 13 (7.14%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (3.85%) Spreadsheet
3 5 (2.75%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (2.75%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.55%) Markit EDM
1 1 (0.55%) Raiser’s Edge
1 1 (0.55%) Sage 200
Cloud Services
1 100 (54.95%) Azure
2 63 (34.62%) AWS
3 55 (30.22%) Microsoft 365
4 32 (17.58%) Entra ID
5 19 (10.44%) AWS CloudFormation
6 14 (7.69%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 14 (7.69%) Azure DevOps
6 14 (7.69%) GCP
6 14 (7.69%) OneDrive
6 14 (7.69%) Serverless
7 13 (7.14%) Azure Monitor
7 13 (7.14%) Power Automate
8 12 (6.59%) Amazon EKS
9 11 (6.04%) IaaS
9 11 (6.04%) Nutanix
9 11 (6.04%) Power Platform
10 10 (5.49%) AWS Lambda
10 10 (5.49%) Microsoft Copilot
10 10 (5.49%) PaaS
11 9 (4.95%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 39 (21.43%) Firewall
2 38 (20.88%) VPN
3 32 (17.58%) DNS
4 29 (15.93%) WAN
5 25 (13.74%) DHCP
6 22 (12.09%) SD-WAN
7 17 (9.34%) LAN
8 13 (7.14%) VoIP
9 12 (6.59%) SSL
10 11 (6.04%) Wi-Fi
11 10 (5.49%) TCP/IP
12 8 (4.40%) Unified Communications
12 8 (4.40%) VLAN
13 7 (3.85%) Wireless
14 4 (2.20%) BGP
14 4 (2.20%) Network Security
15 2 (1.10%) NAS
15 2 (1.10%) SAN
16 1 (0.55%) PuTTY
16 1 (0.55%) Structured Cabling
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (12.09%) SQL Server
2 14 (7.69%) PostgreSQL
3 10 (5.49%) Amazon RDS
4 9 (4.95%) Power BI
5 7 (3.85%) NoSQL
6 6 (3.30%) Azure SQL Database
6 6 (3.30%) DB2
6 6 (3.30%) MySQL
6 6 (3.30%) Oracle Database
7 5 (2.75%) MongoDB
7 5 (2.75%) Oracle Database 12c
8 4 (2.20%) Oracle Database 10g
8 4 (2.20%) Oracle Database 11g
9 3 (1.65%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 2 (1.10%) Data Warehouse
10 2 (1.10%) RDBMS
10 2 (1.10%) Relational Database
11 1 (0.55%) Big Data
11 1 (0.55%) DynamoDB
11 1 (0.55%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 10 (5.49%) Git
2 6 (3.30%) Jenkins
3 5 (2.75%) Maven
4 3 (1.65%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 3 (1.65%) GitLab
4 3 (1.65%) Subversion
5 2 (1.10%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.55%) MSBuild
6 1 (0.55%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (0.55%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 52 (28.57%) Finance
2 50 (27.47%) Social Skills
3 19 (10.44%) Analytical Skills
4 16 (8.79%) Banking
5 13 (7.14%) Law
6 12 (6.59%) Telecoms
7 8 (4.40%) Presentation Skills
8 6 (3.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 5 (2.75%) Back Office
9 5 (2.75%) Public Sector
10 4 (2.20%) Financial Institution
10 4 (2.20%) Retail
11 3 (1.65%) Aviation
11 3 (1.65%) Influencing Skills
12 2 (1.10%) Advertising
12 2 (1.10%) Manufacturing
12 2 (1.10%) Organisational Skills
12 2 (1.10%) Social Housing
13 1 (0.55%) Games
13 1 (0.55%) Legal
Job Titles
1 31 (17.03%) Senior
2 28 (15.38%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 19 (10.44%) Cloud Engineer
4 17 (9.34%) Support Engineer
5 15 (8.24%) DBA
6 14 (7.69%) Administrator
6 14 (7.69%) AWS DevOps
6 14 (7.69%) Senior DevOps
7 13 (7.14%) DevOps Engineer
8 12 (6.59%) Lead
9 10 (5.49%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
9 10 (5.49%) Head of IT
9 10 (5.49%) Infrastructure Manager
10 9 (4.95%) Infrastructure Support
10 9 (4.95%) Linux Engineer
11 8 (4.40%) Azure Engineer
11 8 (4.40%) Head of IT Operations
11 8 (4.40%) Linux Support
11 8 (4.40%) Linux Support Engineer
11 8 (4.40%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (3.85%) LDAP
2 6 (3.30%) LAPP Stack
2 6 (3.30%) REST
2 6 (3.30%) WebSphere MQ
3 5 (2.75%) Elastic Stack
4 4 (2.20%) AWS SAM
5 3 (1.65%) AngularJS
5 3 (1.65%) Ionic Framework
5 3 (1.65%) LAMP
5 3 (1.65%) RESTful
5 3 (1.65%) Spring
5 3 (1.65%) Spring Boot
6 2 (1.10%) AWS CDK
6 2 (1.10%) OAuth
7 1 (0.55%) ARM Templates
7 1 (0.55%) gRPC
7 1 (0.55%) Microsoft Graph
7 1 (0.55%) OAuth2
7 1 (0.55%) RAML
7 1 (0.55%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 20 (10.99%) Hybrid Cloud
2 17 (9.34%) Cloud Native
3 16 (8.79%) Management Information System
4 13 (7.14%) Data Centre
5 11 (6.04%) Enterprise Software
6 10 (5.49%) CMDB
7 9 (4.95%) Replication
8 8 (4.40%) Onboarding
9 7 (3.85%) Linux Command Line
9 7 (3.85%) Operational Technology
10 6 (3.30%) Distributed Systems
10 6 (3.30%) Driving Licence
10 6 (3.30%) Public Cloud
10 6 (3.30%) Self-Motivation
11 4 (2.20%) AI Agents
11 4 (2.20%) Analytical Mindset
11 4 (2.20%) Legacy Systems
11 4 (2.20%) Mobile App
11 4 (2.20%) PKI
12 3 (1.65%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 62 (34.07%) Windows
2 35 (19.23%) Linux
3 34 (18.68%) Windows Server
4 14 (7.69%) Unix
5 6 (3.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 5 (2.75%) Windows 10
7 3 (1.65%) Apple iOS
7 3 (1.65%) CentOS
7 3 (1.65%) Rocky
7 3 (1.65%) Ubuntu
7 3 (1.65%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (0.55%) Solaris
8 1 (0.55%) VMS
8 1 (0.55%) Windows Server 2008
8 1 (0.55%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (29.12%) DevOps
1 53 (29.12%) ITIL
2 46 (25.27%) Problem-Solving
3 44 (24.18%) CI/CD
3 44 (24.18%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 40 (21.98%) High Availability
5 39 (21.43%) Infrastructure as Code
6 36 (19.78%) Business Continuity
6 36 (19.78%) Cybersecurity
7 31 (17.03%) Migration
8 27 (14.84%) Service Delivery
9 25 (13.74%) Continuous Improvement
9 25 (13.74%) Performance Tuning
10 23 (12.64%) Service Management
11 20 (10.99%) Observability
12 19 (10.44%) Infrastructure Management
13 17 (9.34%) Collaborative Culture
13 17 (9.34%) Computer Science
13 17 (9.34%) Mentoring
14 16 (8.79%) Budgeting
Programming Languages
1 47 (25.82%) Python
2 42 (23.08%) PowerShell
3 29 (15.93%) SQL
4 17 (9.34%) Java
5 11 (6.04%) Go
6 7 (3.85%) Bash
6 7 (3.85%) C#
6 7 (3.85%) Shell Script
6 7 (3.85%) T-SQL
7 6 (3.30%) JavaScript
8 5 (2.75%) Bicep
9 2 (1.10%) TypeScript
10 1 (0.55%) Kusto Query Language
10 1 (0.55%) Perl
10 1 (0.55%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 33 (18.13%) Azure Certification
2 28 (15.38%) Degree
3 26 (14.29%) AWS Certification
4 18 (9.89%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 14 (7.69%) Microsoft Certification
6 12 (6.59%) Cisco Certification
6 12 (6.59%) Security Cleared
7 11 (6.04%) CCNP
8 10 (5.49%) ITIL Certification
9 9 (4.95%) Master's Degree
10 7 (3.85%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 7 (3.85%) PMI Certification
10 7 (3.85%) PMP
10 7 (3.85%) SC Cleared
11 6 (3.30%) CEH
11 6 (3.30%) DBS Check
12 5 (2.75%) Computer Science Degree
12 5 (2.75%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13 4 (2.20%) BPSS Clearance
14 3 (1.65%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (13.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 24 (13.19%) NIST
3 21 (11.54%) SLA
4 15 (8.24%) GDPR
5 7 (3.85%) HIPAA
5 7 (3.85%) ISO 22301
6 5 (2.75%) Cyber Essentials
7 4 (2.20%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 4 (2.20%) PCI DSS
7 4 (2.20%) SOC 2
8 3 (1.65%) GRC
9 2 (1.10%) ISO 9001
9 2 (1.10%) ISO/IEC 20000
9 2 (1.10%) NCSC
10 1 (0.55%) Basel III
10 1 (0.55%) COBIT
10 1 (0.55%) MiFID
10 1 (0.55%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 32 (17.58%) Active Directory
2 24 (13.19%) Hyper-V
3 20 (10.99%) Docker
4 17 (9.34%) VMware Infrastructure
5 10 (5.49%) Virtual Machines
6 9 (4.95%) Virtual Servers
7 6 (3.30%) Virtual Desktop
8 3 (1.65%) VMware ESXi
9 2 (1.10%) vSphere
10 1 (0.55%) Oracle RAC
10 1 (0.55%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 46 (25.27%) Terraform
2 30 (16.48%) Ansible
3 28 (15.38%) Microsoft Intune
4 26 (14.29%) Kubernetes
5 10 (5.49%) Grafana
6 6 (3.30%) Prometheus
7 5 (2.75%) FortiGate
8 4 (2.20%) Nagios
9 3 (1.65%) Nessus
9 3 (1.65%) Proxmox
9 3 (1.65%) SCOM
10 1 (0.55%) Data Guard
10 1 (0.55%) Jamf Pro
10 1 (0.55%) Oracle RMAN
10 1 (0.55%) PaperCut
Vendors
1 91 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 28 (15.38%) VMware
3 15 (8.24%) Cisco
4 10 (5.49%) IBM
5 9 (4.95%) Commvault
5 9 (4.95%) Google
6 8 (4.40%) Oracle
6 8 (4.40%) Veeam
7 7 (3.85%) Palo Alto
7 7 (3.85%) Red Hat
8 6 (3.30%) Fortinet
8 6 (3.30%) SonicWALL
9 4 (2.20%) CrowdStrike
9 4 (2.20%) Foundry
9 4 (2.20%) Mitel
9 4 (2.20%) Sophos
10 3 (1.65%) ConnectWise
10 3 (1.65%) Datto
10 3 (1.65%) ESET
10 3 (1.65%) Ubiquiti