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

6 months to
28 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 186 208 213
Rank change year-on-year +22 +5 +65
Permanent jobs citing Disaster Recovery 246 208 491
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.35% 1.54% 1.51%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.64% 1.63% 1.66%
Number of salaries quoted 184 159 462
10th Percentile £42,250 £34,550 £41,250
25th Percentile £53,701 £43,875 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% - +4.35%
75th Percentile £90,313 £73,818 £78,750
90th Percentile £94,400 £90,000 £91,991
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 15,038 12,797 29,634
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 82.83% 94.76% 91.34%
Number of salaries quoted 10,506 8,904 23,499
10th Percentile £32,500 £31,500 £33,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £61,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -1.64% +6.09% -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% -10.93%

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 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 36 (14.63%) SharePoint
2 34 (13.82%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (0.81%) Apache
3 2 (0.81%) IIS
4 1 (0.41%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 4 (1.63%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (1.63%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (1.22%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (1.63%) Markit EDM
2 3 (1.22%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (1.22%) Oracle EBS
3 2 (0.81%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 156 (63.41%) Azure
2 71 (28.86%) Microsoft 365
3 45 (18.29%) Entra ID
4 42 (17.07%) AWS
5 26 (10.57%) Nutanix
6 16 (6.50%) Azure Monitor
6 16 (6.50%) GitHub
6 16 (6.50%) OneDrive
7 14 (5.69%) Amazon EKS
8 13 (5.28%) Azure Data Factory
8 13 (5.28%) Azure DevOps
8 13 (5.28%) SaaS
9 11 (4.47%) Amazon EC2
9 11 (4.47%) IaaS
9 11 (4.47%) Mimecast
9 11 (4.47%) PaaS
9 11 (4.47%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 10 (4.07%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 10 (4.07%) GCP
11 9 (3.66%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 65 (26.42%) Firewall
2 56 (22.76%) VPN
3 44 (17.89%) DNS
4 43 (17.48%) WAN
5 32 (13.01%) DHCP
6 31 (12.60%) TCP/IP
7 23 (9.35%) LAN
8 16 (6.50%) SD-WAN
9 13 (5.28%) Network Security
10 11 (4.47%) VLAN
11 10 (4.07%) Wi-Fi
12 7 (2.85%) Wireless
13 6 (2.44%) Cisco ISE
14 5 (2.03%) SAN
14 5 (2.03%) VSAN
15 4 (1.63%) BGP
15 4 (1.63%) Cisco Nexus
15 4 (1.63%) Intrusion Detection
16 3 (1.22%) PuTTY
16 3 (1.22%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (6.91%) Amazon RDS
1 17 (6.91%) SQL Server
2 13 (5.28%) Azure SQL Database
3 9 (3.66%) Data Lake
3 9 (3.66%) Delta Lake
4 8 (3.25%) Amazon Aurora
5 4 (1.63%) Data Warehouse
6 3 (1.22%) MySQL
6 3 (1.22%) Power BI
7 2 (0.81%) PostgreSQL
8 1 (0.41%) DynamoDB
8 1 (0.41%) Oracle Database
8 1 (0.41%) Oracle Database 10g
8 1 (0.41%) Oracle Database 11g
8 1 (0.41%) Oracle Database 12c
8 1 (0.41%) Oracle Exadata
8 1 (0.41%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 1 (0.41%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 1 (0.41%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 19 (7.72%) Git
2 5 (2.03%) Visual Studio Code
3 4 (1.63%) Jenkins
4 3 (1.22%) Maven
4 3 (1.22%) Sonatype Nexus
5 2 (0.81%) Selenium
6 1 (0.41%) JIRA
6 1 (0.41%) MLflow
General
1 85 (34.55%) Social Skills
2 60 (24.39%) Finance
3 29 (11.79%) Analytical Skills
4 23 (9.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 21 (8.54%) Law
6 19 (7.72%) Banking
7 14 (5.69%) Public Sector
8 12 (4.88%) Retail
9 11 (4.47%) Back Office
10 10 (4.07%) Organisational Skills
11 8 (3.25%) Legal
12 7 (2.85%) Documentation Skills
13 6 (2.44%) Marketing
14 4 (1.63%) Financial Institution
14 4 (1.63%) Presentation Skills
14 4 (1.63%) Social Housing
15 3 (1.22%) Local Government
16 2 (0.81%) Manufacturing
17 1 (0.41%) Advertising
17 1 (0.41%) Police
Job Titles
1 50 (20.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 50 (20.33%) Senior
2 27 (10.98%) IT Manager
3 21 (8.54%) Platform Engineer
4 19 (7.72%) Lead
5 18 (7.32%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
6 16 (6.50%) Security Specialist
7 15 (6.10%) IT Engineer
8 14 (5.69%) Cloud Engineer
8 14 (5.69%) Security Manager
9 13 (5.28%) Cloud Platform Engineer
9 13 (5.28%) Support Engineer
10 12 (4.88%) Architect
10 12 (4.88%) AWS Engineer
10 12 (4.88%) Azure Engineer
10 12 (4.88%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
10 12 (4.88%) IT Security Specialist
11 11 (4.47%) Operations Engineer
12 10 (4.07%) Consultant
13 9 (3.66%) Applications Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (3.66%) PySpark
2 7 (2.85%) Loki
3 6 (2.44%) ARM Templates
4 5 (2.03%) RESTful
5 3 (1.22%) ActiveMQ
5 3 (1.22%) RAML
5 3 (1.22%) REST
5 3 (1.22%) SOAP
6 2 (0.81%) AWS SAM
6 2 (0.81%) Elastic Stack
6 2 (0.81%) LAMP
6 2 (0.81%) Node.js
6 2 (0.81%) Playwright
7 1 (0.41%) AWS CDK
7 1 (0.41%) FastAPI
7 1 (0.41%) Hugging Face
7 1 (0.41%) JWT
7 1 (0.41%) NumPy
7 1 (0.41%) PyTorch
7 1 (0.41%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 30 (12.20%) Hybrid Cloud
2 23 (9.35%) Data Centre
3 20 (8.13%) Cloud Native
4 16 (6.50%) Driving Licence
4 16 (6.50%) Management Information System
5 14 (5.69%) Legacy Systems
6 13 (5.28%) Onboarding
7 12 (4.88%) Replication
8 11 (4.47%) CMDB
8 11 (4.47%) Cyber Threat
8 11 (4.47%) Enterprise Storage
9 8 (3.25%) Public Cloud
10 7 (2.85%) Enterprise Software
10 7 (2.85%) iSeries
11 6 (2.44%) Private Cloud
11 6 (2.44%) Self-Motivation
12 5 (2.03%) Data Protection Act
12 5 (2.03%) Mobile App
12 5 (2.03%) Security Posture
13 4 (1.63%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 69 (28.05%) Windows
2 47 (19.11%) Windows Server
3 27 (10.98%) Linux
4 13 (5.28%) Windows 10
5 12 (4.88%) Apple iOS
6 4 (1.63%) Unix
7 3 (1.22%) CentOS
7 3 (1.22%) Mac OS
7 3 (1.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 3 (1.22%) Ubuntu
8 2 (0.81%) Rocky
9 1 (0.41%) AIX
9 1 (0.41%) Solaris
9 1 (0.41%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 74 (30.08%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 73 (29.67%) Cybersecurity
3 68 (27.64%) Business Continuity
4 63 (25.61%) Problem-Solving
5 56 (22.76%) Service Delivery
6 55 (22.36%) DevOps
7 50 (20.33%) Continuous Improvement
8 46 (18.70%) ITIL
9 45 (18.29%) CI/CD
10 39 (15.85%) Incident Response
10 39 (15.85%) Infrastructure as Code
11 35 (14.23%) Vulnerability Management
12 33 (13.41%) Cloud Security
12 33 (13.41%) High Availability
13 32 (13.01%) Migration
14 29 (11.79%) Mentoring
14 29 (11.79%) Platform Engineering
15 27 (10.98%) Root Cause Analysis
16 26 (10.57%) Information Security
17 25 (10.16%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 65 (26.42%) PowerShell
2 59 (23.98%) Python
3 24 (9.76%) SQL
4 10 (4.07%) Bash
5 9 (3.66%) Java
5 9 (3.66%) Scala
6 8 (3.25%) Bicep
7 6 (2.44%) Go
8 2 (0.81%) JavaScript
8 2 (0.81%) Shell Script
8 2 (0.81%) TypeScript
9 1 (0.41%) C#
9 1 (0.41%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 41 (16.67%) Degree
2 22 (8.94%) Microsoft Certification
3 16 (6.50%) Azure Certification
3 16 (6.50%) CEH
4 15 (6.10%) Security Cleared
5 14 (5.69%) Computer Science Degree
6 13 (5.28%) SC Cleared
7 9 (3.66%) Cisco Certification
7 9 (3.66%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 8 (3.25%) BPSS Clearance
8 8 (3.25%) CCNP
9 6 (2.44%) CCNA
9 6 (2.44%) CISSP
10 5 (2.03%) VCAP
10 5 (2.03%) VCDX
11 4 (1.63%) CISM
11 4 (1.63%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 4 (1.63%) MCSE
12 3 (1.22%) ISACA
13 2 (0.81%) CRISC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 50 (20.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 32 (13.01%) NIST
3 31 (12.60%) Cyber Essentials
4 25 (10.16%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 19 (7.72%) GDPR
6 15 (6.10%) PCI DSS
7 13 (5.28%) Data Quality
7 13 (5.28%) ISO 22301
8 10 (4.07%) Actionable Recommendations
8 10 (4.07%) GRC
9 9 (3.66%) SLA
10 8 (3.25%) SOC 2
11 7 (2.85%) PMO
12 3 (1.22%) COBIT
13 2 (0.81%) Accessibility
13 2 (0.81%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
13 2 (0.81%) NCSC
13 2 (0.81%) SOC 1
14 1 (0.41%) Basel III
14 1 (0.41%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 54 (21.95%) Active Directory
2 51 (20.73%) VMware Infrastructure
3 26 (10.57%) Hyper-V
4 15 (6.10%) Firmware
5 11 (4.47%) vSphere
6 10 (4.07%) Docker
7 6 (2.44%) vCloud
7 6 (2.44%) Virtual Machines
8 5 (2.03%) VMware NSX
9 4 (1.63%) Virtual Servers
10 3 (1.22%) Microsoft Virtual Server
10 3 (1.22%) VMware ESXi
11 2 (0.81%) Virtual Desktop
12 1 (0.41%) KVM
12 1 (0.41%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 45 (18.29%) Terraform
2 38 (15.45%) Microsoft Intune
3 25 (10.16%) Kubernetes
4 15 (6.10%) Ansible
5 10 (4.07%) Grafana
6 7 (2.85%) Packer
6 7 (2.85%) Prometheus
7 4 (1.63%) Dell DRAC
7 4 (1.63%) FortiGate
7 4 (1.63%) vCenter Server
8 2 (0.81%) Avamar
8 2 (0.81%) EMC NetWorker
8 2 (0.81%) EMC VPLEX
8 2 (0.81%) Nagios
8 2 (0.81%) SCCM
8 2 (0.81%) VxRail
9 1 (0.41%) Jamf Pro
9 1 (0.41%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
9 1 (0.41%) Oracle Flashback
9 1 (0.41%) PowerCLI
Vendors
1 126 (51.22%) Microsoft
2 81 (32.93%) VMware
3 28 (11.38%) Cisco
4 25 (10.16%) Commvault
5 14 (5.69%) Fortinet
5 14 (5.69%) Veeam
6 12 (4.88%) EMC
6 12 (4.88%) Meraki
7 11 (4.47%) IBM
8 10 (4.07%) Dell
9 9 (3.66%) Databricks
9 9 (3.66%) ServiceNow
10 8 (3.25%) NetApp
10 8 (3.25%) Oracle
10 8 (3.25%) Sophos
11 7 (2.85%) HP
11 7 (2.85%) Nimble Storage
11 7 (2.85%) Palo Alto
12 5 (2.03%) Broadcom
12 5 (2.03%) F5