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

6 months to
31 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 195 229 200
Rank change year-on-year +34 -29 +75
Permanent jobs citing Disaster Recovery 192 248 331
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.27% 1.45% 1.63%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.43% 1.56% 1.73%
Number of salaries quoted 141 159 311
10th Percentile £43,375 £37,500 £36,000
25th Percentile £51,250 £49,506 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £62,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +8.00% - +15.74%
75th Percentile £92,500 £78,125 £73,750
90th Percentile £105,000 £91,500 £81,250
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% -4.17% +14.29%

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 13,414 15,924 19,130
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 88.55% 93.02% 94.08%
Number of salaries quoted 8,496 9,556 15,380
10th Percentile £30,000 £36,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £46,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.60% +4.17% -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

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 31 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 (16.67%) SharePoint
2 31 (16.15%) Microsoft Exchange
3 6 (3.13%) IIS
3 6 (3.13%) Tomcat
3 6 (3.13%) WebSphere
3 6 (3.13%) WebSphere Application Server
4 2 (1.04%) Skype for Business
5 1 (0.52%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 14 (7.29%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (3.65%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (3.65%) MS Visio
3 6 (3.13%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 4 (2.08%) Markit EDM
2 1 (0.52%) Raiser’s Edge
Cloud Services
1 116 (60.42%) Azure
2 62 (32.29%) AWS
3 55 (28.65%) Microsoft 365
4 39 (20.31%) Entra ID
5 17 (8.85%) AWS CloudFormation
5 17 (8.85%) Azure DevOps
5 17 (8.85%) Azure Monitor
6 16 (8.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 16 (8.33%) Amazon EKS
7 14 (7.29%) Nutanix
7 14 (7.29%) OneDrive
8 13 (6.77%) Amazon EC2
8 13 (6.77%) Serverless
8 13 (6.77%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 11 (5.73%) Azure Data Factory
9 11 (5.73%) IaaS
10 10 (5.21%) AWS Lambda
10 10 (5.21%) PaaS
11 9 (4.69%) Amazon S3
11 9 (4.69%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 47 (24.48%) VPN
2 38 (19.79%) DNS
2 38 (19.79%) WAN
3 34 (17.71%) Firewall
4 30 (15.63%) DHCP
5 26 (13.54%) SD-WAN
6 18 (9.38%) LAN
7 16 (8.33%) TCP/IP
8 13 (6.77%) SSL
9 11 (5.73%) VoIP
10 10 (5.21%) VLAN
10 10 (5.21%) Wi-Fi
11 9 (4.69%) Unified Communications
12 6 (3.13%) Wireless
13 4 (2.08%) BGP
13 4 (2.08%) SAN
14 3 (1.56%) Network Security
14 3 (1.56%) PuTTY
15 2 (1.04%) NAS
16 1 (0.52%) Structured Cabling
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (11.46%) SQL Server
2 15 (7.81%) Amazon RDS
3 14 (7.29%) PostgreSQL
4 11 (5.73%) Azure SQL Database
5 6 (3.13%) DB2
5 6 (3.13%) MySQL
5 6 (3.13%) Oracle Database
6 5 (2.60%) Amazon Aurora
6 5 (2.60%) Data Lake
6 5 (2.60%) Delta Lake
6 5 (2.60%) Oracle Database 12c
7 4 (2.08%) Data Warehouse
7 4 (2.08%) NoSQL
7 4 (2.08%) Oracle Database 10g
7 4 (2.08%) Oracle Database 11g
8 3 (1.56%) MongoDB
9 2 (1.04%) Power BI
9 2 (1.04%) RDBMS
9 2 (1.04%) Relational Database
9 2 (1.04%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 14 (7.29%) Git
2 7 (3.65%) Jenkins
3 4 (2.08%) Maven
4 3 (1.56%) Sonatype Nexus
5 2 (1.04%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.52%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 1 (0.52%) GitLab
6 1 (0.52%) Subversion
General
1 63 (32.81%) Finance
2 56 (29.17%) Social Skills
3 23 (11.98%) Analytical Skills
4 17 (8.85%) Law
5 16 (8.33%) Banking
6 11 (5.73%) Telecoms
7 9 (4.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 6 (3.13%) Back Office
8 6 (3.13%) Public Sector
9 4 (2.08%) Financial Institution
9 4 (2.08%) Presentation Skills
9 4 (2.08%) Retail
10 3 (1.56%) Documentation Skills
10 3 (1.56%) Influencing Skills
10 3 (1.56%) Organisational Skills
10 3 (1.56%) Social Housing
11 2 (1.04%) Advertising
11 2 (1.04%) Local Government
12 1 (0.52%) Games
12 1 (0.52%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 34 (17.71%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 32 (16.67%) Senior
3 23 (11.98%) Cloud Engineer
4 18 (9.38%) Support Engineer
5 13 (6.77%) DBA
5 13 (6.77%) Linux Engineer
6 12 (6.25%) Administrator
6 12 (6.25%) Head of IT
7 11 (5.73%) DevOps Engineer
7 11 (5.73%) Lead
8 10 (5.21%) Applications Engineer
8 10 (5.21%) Applications Support
8 10 (5.21%) Applications Support Engineer
8 10 (5.21%) AWS DevOps
8 10 (5.21%) AWS Engineer
8 10 (5.21%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
8 10 (5.21%) Infrastructure Support
9 9 (4.69%) Infrastructure Manager
9 9 (4.69%) IT Security Specialist
9 9 (4.69%) Security Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (3.65%) LDAP
2 6 (3.13%) LAPP Stack
2 6 (3.13%) REST
2 6 (3.13%) WebSphere MQ
3 5 (2.60%) PySpark
4 4 (2.08%) AWS SAM
4 4 (2.08%) Elastic Stack
4 4 (2.08%) Loki
5 3 (1.56%) ActiveMQ
5 3 (1.56%) LAMP
5 3 (1.56%) RAML
5 3 (1.56%) RESTful
5 3 (1.56%) SOAP
6 2 (1.04%) ARM Templates
6 2 (1.04%) AWS CDK
7 1 (0.52%) Ionic Framework
7 1 (0.52%) JDBC
7 1 (0.52%) OAuth
7 1 (0.52%) ODBC
7 1 (0.52%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 22 (11.46%) Hybrid Cloud
2 18 (9.38%) Management Information System
3 17 (8.85%) Cloud Native
4 12 (6.25%) Onboarding
5 11 (5.73%) CMDB
5 11 (5.73%) Data Centre
5 11 (5.73%) Enterprise Software
6 7 (3.65%) Linux Command Line
6 7 (3.65%) Operational Technology
6 7 (3.65%) Replication
7 6 (3.13%) Analytical Mindset
7 6 (3.13%) Public Cloud
8 5 (2.60%) Distributed Systems
8 5 (2.60%) Mobile App
9 4 (2.08%) Driving Licence
9 4 (2.08%) iPad
9 4 (2.08%) Legacy Systems
9 4 (2.08%) PKI
9 4 (2.08%) Security Posture
9 4 (2.08%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 63 (32.81%) Windows
2 38 (19.79%) Linux
3 36 (18.75%) Windows Server
4 13 (6.77%) Unix
5 9 (4.69%) Windows 10
6 7 (3.65%) Apple iOS
7 6 (3.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 3 (1.56%) CentOS
8 3 (1.56%) Rocky
8 3 (1.56%) Ubuntu
9 2 (1.04%) Windows Server 2019
10 1 (0.52%) Solaris
10 1 (0.52%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 61 (31.77%) DevOps
2 52 (27.08%) ITIL
2 52 (27.08%) Problem-Solving
3 51 (26.56%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 48 (25.00%) CI/CD
4 48 (25.00%) High Availability
5 47 (24.48%) Infrastructure as Code
6 43 (22.40%) Cybersecurity
7 37 (19.27%) Service Delivery
8 36 (18.75%) Business Continuity
9 35 (18.23%) Migration
10 29 (15.10%) Continuous Improvement
11 26 (13.54%) Service Management
12 25 (13.02%) Observability
13 23 (11.98%) Performance Tuning
13 23 (11.98%) Vulnerability Management
14 21 (10.94%) Mentoring
15 19 (9.90%) Computer Science
15 19 (9.90%) Incident Management
15 19 (9.90%) Problem Management
Programming Languages
1 55 (28.65%) Python
2 51 (26.56%) PowerShell
3 33 (17.19%) SQL
4 14 (7.29%) Java
5 10 (5.21%) Go
6 9 (4.69%) Bash
7 6 (3.13%) Bicep
7 6 (3.13%) T-SQL
8 5 (2.60%) Scala
8 5 (2.60%) Shell Script
9 4 (2.08%) JavaScript
10 3 (1.56%) C#
11 2 (1.04%) TypeScript
12 1 (0.52%) Perl
12 1 (0.52%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 35 (18.23%) Degree
2 29 (15.10%) Azure Certification
3 25 (13.02%) AWS Certification
4 18 (9.38%) Microsoft Certification
5 17 (8.85%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 12 (6.25%) Security Cleared
7 11 (5.73%) Cisco Certification
7 11 (5.73%) Master's Degree
8 10 (5.21%) CCNP
8 10 (5.21%) Computer Science Degree
8 10 (5.21%) ITIL Certification
8 10 (5.21%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 9 (4.69%) CEH
10 7 (3.65%) PMI Certification
10 7 (3.65%) PMP
10 7 (3.65%) SC Cleared
11 6 (3.13%) DBS Check
12 5 (2.60%) BPSS Clearance
13 4 (2.08%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
14 3 (1.56%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (15.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 25 (13.02%) NIST
3 18 (9.38%) SLA
4 11 (5.73%) Cyber Essentials
4 11 (5.73%) GDPR
5 10 (5.21%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 9 (4.69%) ISO 22301
7 6 (3.13%) PCI DSS
8 5 (2.60%) Data Quality
9 4 (2.08%) SOC 2
10 3 (1.56%) HIPAA
11 2 (1.04%) GRC
11 2 (1.04%) ISO 9001
11 2 (1.04%) ISO/IEC 20000
11 2 (1.04%) NCSC
12 1 (0.52%) Accessibility
12 1 (0.52%) Basel III
12 1 (0.52%) COBIT
12 1 (0.52%) MiFID
12 1 (0.52%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 41 (21.35%) Active Directory
2 22 (11.46%) Hyper-V
2 22 (11.46%) VMware Infrastructure
3 17 (8.85%) Docker
4 10 (5.21%) Virtual Machines
5 9 (4.69%) Virtual Servers
6 5 (2.60%) Virtual Desktop
7 3 (1.56%) Firmware
7 3 (1.56%) VMware ESXi
8 2 (1.04%) vSphere
9 1 (0.52%) Oracle RAC
9 1 (0.52%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 50 (26.04%) Terraform
2 35 (18.23%) Microsoft Intune
3 27 (14.06%) Kubernetes
4 25 (13.02%) Ansible
5 13 (6.77%) Grafana
6 9 (4.69%) Prometheus
7 6 (3.13%) FortiGate
8 4 (2.08%) Nagios
9 3 (1.56%) Nessus
9 3 (1.56%) Proxmox
9 3 (1.56%) SCOM
10 1 (0.52%) Data Guard
10 1 (0.52%) Dell DRAC
10 1 (0.52%) Jamf Pro
10 1 (0.52%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 97 (50.52%) Microsoft
2 36 (18.75%) VMware
3 13 (6.77%) Cisco
3 13 (6.77%) IBM
4 12 (6.25%) Commvault
5 9 (4.69%) Fortinet
5 9 (4.69%) Oracle
6 7 (3.65%) Red Hat
7 6 (3.13%) Palo Alto
7 6 (3.13%) SonicWALL
7 6 (3.13%) Veeam
8 5 (2.60%) Databricks
8 5 (2.60%) Google
9 4 (2.08%) Ab Initio
9 4 (2.08%) CrowdStrike
9 4 (2.08%) Mitel
10 3 (1.56%) Dell
10 3 (1.56%) Foundry
10 3 (1.56%) Meraki
10 3 (1.56%) MuleSoft