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 18 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 156 261 217
Rank change year-on-year +105 -44 +1
Permanent jobs citing Disaster Recovery 397 183 368
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.73% 1.11% 1.49%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.10% 1.19% 1.71%
Number of salaries quoted 277 138 237
10th Percentile £40,680 £31,775 £41,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £38,650 £49,762
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -15.38% +9.20%
75th Percentile £78,000 £77,188 £89,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £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 18,872 15,371 21,572
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 82.41% 92.94% 87.56%
Number of salaries quoted 13,617 8,911 15,260
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £44,972 £40,500 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -4.17% -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.71%

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 18 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 38 (9.57%) SharePoint
2 32 (8.06%) Microsoft Exchange
3 13 (3.27%) IIS
4 8 (2.02%) Apache
5 6 (1.51%) nginx
6 3 (0.76%) WordPress
7 1 (0.25%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.25%) Confluence
7 1 (0.25%) Site Server
Applications
1 7 (1.76%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.25%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 3 (0.76%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.25%) Oracle Applications
2 1 (0.25%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.25%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 263 (66.25%) Azure
2 122 (30.73%) AWS
3 112 (28.21%) Microsoft 365
4 86 (21.66%) SaaS
5 69 (17.38%) Entra ID
6 28 (7.05%) IaaS
7 25 (6.30%) GCP
8 22 (5.54%) Power Platform
9 21 (5.29%) Azure Monitor
9 21 (5.29%) PaaS
10 20 (5.04%) Nutanix
11 13 (3.27%) Azure DevOps
11 13 (3.27%) OneDrive
12 10 (2.52%) AWS CloudFormation
12 10 (2.52%) Azure Sentinel
13 9 (2.27%) Azure Data Factory
13 9 (2.27%) GitHub
14 8 (2.02%) GitHub Actions
14 8 (2.02%) Mimecast
15 7 (1.76%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 108 (27.20%) Firewall
2 75 (18.89%) DNS
3 55 (13.85%) DHCP
3 55 (13.85%) VPN
4 35 (8.82%) TCP/IP
5 32 (8.06%) WAN
6 30 (7.56%) Network Security
7 26 (6.55%) LAN
8 18 (4.53%) VLAN
9 13 (3.27%) Wi-Fi
10 9 (2.27%) SD-WAN
10 9 (2.27%) VSAN
10 9 (2.27%) Wireless
11 7 (1.76%) Cisco ISE
11 7 (1.76%) NGFW
11 7 (1.76%) SAN
12 6 (1.51%) Fibre Channel
12 6 (1.51%) iSCSI
13 5 (1.26%) Cisco Nexus
14 4 (1.01%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (5.79%) SQL Server
2 12 (3.02%) Azure SQL Database
3 10 (2.52%) PostgreSQL
3 10 (2.52%) Power BI
4 3 (0.76%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (0.50%) Oracle Database
5 2 (0.50%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 2 (0.50%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 2 (0.50%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 1 (0.25%) MongoDB
6 1 (0.25%) MySQL
6 1 (0.25%) Oracle Exadata
6 1 (0.25%) Oracle Reports
6 1 (0.25%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 7 (1.76%) Git
2 6 (1.51%) JIRA
2 6 (1.51%) Visual Studio Code
3 4 (1.01%) 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
1 122 (30.73%) Social Skills
2 66 (16.62%) Finance
3 49 (12.34%) Analytical Skills
4 43 (10.83%) Law
5 36 (9.07%) Legal
6 22 (5.54%) Banking
6 22 (5.54%) Retail
7 18 (4.53%) Documentation Skills
7 18 (4.53%) Public Sector
8 16 (4.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 15 (3.78%) Organisational Skills
10 10 (2.52%) Back Office
11 9 (2.27%) Manufacturing
12 7 (1.76%) Advertising
13 6 (1.51%) Influencing Skills
14 5 (1.26%) Marketing
15 4 (1.01%) Presentation Skills
16 3 (0.76%) Local Government
17 2 (0.50%) Social Housing
18 1 (0.25%) Police
Job Titles
1 73 (18.39%) IT Manager
2 64 (16.12%) Senior
3 54 (13.60%) Service Manager
4 50 (12.59%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 50 (12.59%) IT Services Manager
4 50 (12.59%) Resilience Manager
5 31 (7.81%) Architect
6 28 (7.05%) Lead
7 27 (6.80%) Consultant
8 22 (5.54%) Azure Engineer
8 22 (5.54%) IT Engineer
8 22 (5.54%) Support Engineer
9 21 (5.29%) Technical Consultant
10 20 (5.04%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
11 19 (4.79%) Analyst
11 19 (4.79%) Senior Architect
12 18 (4.53%) Cloud Engineer
13 16 (4.03%) IT Support
14 15 (3.78%) Senior VMware Consultant
14 15 (3.78%) VMware Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 62 (15.62%) Middleware
2 12 (3.02%) ARM Templates
3 7 (1.76%) Microsoft Graph
4 6 (1.51%) Web Services
5 3 (0.76%) JSON
5 3 (0.76%) Nuxt
5 3 (0.76%) Ruby on Rails
6 2 (0.50%) .NET
6 2 (0.50%) 802.1X
6 2 (0.50%) Kafka
7 1 (0.25%) Node.js
7 1 (0.25%) OAuth
7 1 (0.25%) OAuth2
7 1 (0.25%) OpenCV
7 1 (0.25%) Oracle Fusion
7 1 (0.25%) Pandas
7 1 (0.25%) pytest
7 1 (0.25%) RESTful
7 1 (0.25%) SQLAlchemy
7 1 (0.25%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 58 (14.61%) Cyber Threat
2 33 (8.31%) Data Centre
3 31 (7.81%) Replication
4 29 (7.30%) Hybrid Cloud
5 25 (6.30%) Enterprise Storage
6 24 (6.05%) Cloud Native
7 23 (5.79%) Management Information System
8 20 (5.04%) Onboarding
9 16 (4.03%) Security Posture
10 14 (3.53%) Driving Licence
11 13 (3.27%) Self-Motivation
12 12 (3.02%) Data Protection Act
12 12 (3.02%) Enterprise Software
12 12 (3.02%) Public Cloud
13 11 (2.77%) iSeries
14 10 (2.52%) CMDB
15 8 (2.02%) Virtual Team
16 7 (1.76%) Freedom of Information
16 7 (1.76%) Freedom of Information Act
16 7 (1.76%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 125 (31.49%) Windows
2 92 (23.17%) Windows Server
3 44 (11.08%) Linux
4 8 (2.02%) Mac OS
5 7 (1.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 7 (1.76%) Ubuntu
5 7 (1.76%) Windows Server 2016
6 6 (1.51%) Windows 10
6 6 (1.51%) Windows Server 2019
7 5 (1.26%) Unix
8 2 (0.50%) AIX
8 2 (0.50%) CentOS
8 2 (0.50%) Debian
8 2 (0.50%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 209 (52.64%) Business Continuity
2 123 (30.98%) Problem-Solving
3 114 (28.72%) Cybersecurity
4 111 (27.96%) Continuous Improvement
5 107 (26.95%) Information Security
6 99 (24.94%) DevOps
7 93 (23.43%) ITIL
8 87 (21.91%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 80 (20.15%) Agile
10 67 (16.88%) Service Delivery
11 66 (16.62%) Project Delivery
12 64 (16.12%) High Availability
12 64 (16.12%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 62 (15.62%) Incident Response
13 62 (15.62%) Stakeholder Management
14 57 (14.36%) Enterprise Architecture
14 57 (14.36%) Runbook
15 55 (13.85%) Mentoring
16 54 (13.60%) Site Reliability Engineering
17 53 (13.35%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 90 (22.67%) PowerShell
2 44 (11.08%) Python
3 27 (6.80%) SQL
4 20 (5.04%) Bicep
5 9 (2.27%) Bash
6 6 (1.51%) Shell Script
7 3 (0.76%) Java
7 3 (0.76%) JavaScript
7 3 (0.76%) Ruby
8 2 (0.50%) C#
8 2 (0.50%) T-SQL
9 1 (0.25%) TypeScript
9 1 (0.25%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 73 (18.39%) CISSP
2 69 (17.38%) CISM
3 53 (13.35%) ITIL Certification
4 36 (9.07%) Azure Certification
5 35 (8.82%) Degree
6 26 (6.55%) Microsoft Certification
7 22 (5.54%) Security Cleared
8 20 (5.04%) Cisco Certification
9 19 (4.79%) SC Cleared
9 19 (4.79%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 16 (4.03%) CCNA
11 14 (3.53%) CCNP
11 14 (3.53%) CISA
12 13 (3.27%) Computer Science Degree
13 12 (3.02%) CEH
14 10 (2.52%) VCAP
15 9 (2.27%) VCDX
16 8 (2.02%) ISACA
17 7 (1.76%) CRISC
18 6 (1.51%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 94 (23.68%) NIST
2 69 (17.38%) ISO 22301
3 62 (15.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 41 (10.33%) GDPR
5 29 (7.30%) Cyber Essentials
6 22 (5.54%) SLA
7 21 (5.29%) PCI DSS
8 17 (4.28%) PMO
9 12 (3.02%) GRC
10 11 (2.77%) COBIT
11 10 (2.52%) SOC 2
12 8 (2.02%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 7 (1.76%) SOC 1
14 5 (1.26%) Actionable Recommendations
14 5 (1.26%) NCSC
15 4 (1.01%) Data Quality
15 4 (1.01%) ISO/IEC 20000
16 3 (0.76%) ISO 9001
17 2 (0.50%) Accessibility
17 2 (0.50%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 92 (23.17%) Active Directory
2 90 (22.67%) VMware Infrastructure
3 62 (15.62%) Hyper-V
4 24 (6.05%) vSphere
5 16 (4.03%) Docker
6 13 (3.27%) Firmware
7 10 (2.52%) VMware ESXi
7 10 (2.52%) VMware NSX
8 9 (2.27%) vCloud
8 9 (2.27%) Virtual Machines
9 7 (1.76%) Virtual Desktop
10 6 (1.51%) 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 61 (15.37%) Terraform
2 41 (10.33%) Microsoft Intune
3 35 (8.82%) Kubernetes
4 19 (4.79%) Ansible
5 7 (1.76%) Grafana
5 7 (1.76%) Packer
5 7 (1.76%) Prometheus
5 7 (1.76%) Single Sign-On
6 6 (1.51%) Avamar
6 6 (1.51%) Dell DRAC
6 6 (1.51%) EMC NetWorker
6 6 (1.51%) EMC VPLEX
6 6 (1.51%) FortiGate
6 6 (1.51%) VxRail
7 5 (1.26%) Proxmox
8 4 (1.01%) SCCM
9 3 (0.76%) vCenter Server
9 3 (0.76%) ZABBIX
10 2 (0.50%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 2 (0.50%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
Vendors
1 206 (51.89%) Microsoft
2 110 (27.71%) VMware
3 50 (12.59%) Veeam
4 40 (10.08%) Cisco
5 19 (4.79%) EMC
5 19 (4.79%) Palo Alto
6 17 (4.28%) Fortinet
6 17 (4.28%) NetApp
7 16 (4.03%) Dell
8 15 (3.78%) Commvault
8 15 (3.78%) Nimble Storage
9 13 (3.27%) Google
10 12 (3.02%) Oracle
11 11 (2.77%) Broadcom
11 11 (2.77%) HP
11 11 (2.77%) IBM
11 11 (2.77%) Splunk
12 10 (2.52%) Meraki
12 10 (2.52%) Red Hat
12 10 (2.52%) Sophos