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

6 months to
17 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 161 268 208
Rank change year-on-year +107 -60 -11
Permanent jobs citing Disaster Recovery 397 166 366
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.63% 1.02% 1.57%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.00% 1.10% 1.79%
Number of salaries quoted 268 128 207
10th Percentile £37,250 £33,675 £40,750
25th Percentile £46,250 £49,688 £54,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year - -11.11% +12.50%
75th Percentile £75,437 £82,813 £91,500
90th Percentile £86,588 £105,000 £112,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% - +2.56%

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 19,802 15,135 20,484
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 81.49% 93.17% 87.77%
Number of salaries quoted 14,194 8,610 12,632
10th Percentile £34,000 £30,000 £35,500
25th Percentile £44,972 £40,750 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -4.17%

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 17 September 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 42 (10.58%) SharePoint
2 35 (8.82%) Microsoft Exchange
3 12 (3.02%) IIS
4 7 (1.76%) nginx
5 6 (1.51%) Apache
6 3 (0.76%) WordPress
7 1 (0.25%) Confluence
7 1 (0.25%) FactoryTalk
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
Cloud Services
1 261 (65.74%) Azure
2 125 (31.49%) AWS
3 113 (28.46%) Microsoft 365
4 88 (22.17%) SaaS
5 74 (18.64%) Entra ID
6 32 (8.06%) IaaS
7 30 (7.56%) GCP
8 24 (6.05%) Azure Monitor
9 23 (5.79%) Power Platform
10 22 (5.54%) PaaS
11 18 (4.53%) OneDrive
12 16 (4.03%) Nutanix
13 14 (3.53%) Azure DevOps
14 10 (2.52%) Microsoft Copilot
15 9 (2.27%) AWS CloudFormation
15 9 (2.27%) Azure Data Factory
15 9 (2.27%) Microsoft Purview
16 8 (2.02%) Azure Sentinel
17 7 (1.76%) Azure Cosmos DB
17 7 (1.76%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 99 (24.94%) Firewall
2 84 (21.16%) DNS
3 66 (16.62%) DHCP
4 55 (13.85%) VPN
5 36 (9.07%) TCP/IP
6 31 (7.81%) WAN
7 27 (6.80%) Network Security
8 25 (6.30%) LAN
9 22 (5.54%) VLAN
10 13 (3.27%) Wi-Fi
11 10 (2.52%) SD-WAN
12 9 (2.27%) VSAN
12 9 (2.27%) Wireless
13 8 (2.02%) Fibre Channel
13 8 (2.02%) SAN
14 7 (1.76%) NGFW
15 6 (1.51%) iSCSI
16 5 (1.26%) Cisco ISE
17 4 (1.01%) Broadband
17 4 (1.01%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (5.54%) SQL Server
2 14 (3.53%) PostgreSQL
3 12 (3.02%) Azure SQL Database
4 10 (2.52%) Power BI
5 5 (1.26%) Amazon RDS
6 3 (0.76%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 2 (0.50%) Oracle Database
7 2 (0.50%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 2 (0.50%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 1 (0.25%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (0.25%) MongoDB
8 1 (0.25%) MySQL
8 1 (0.25%) Oracle Exadata
8 1 (0.25%) Oracle Reports
8 1 (0.25%) Relational Database
8 1 (0.25%) SSDT
Development Applications
1 6 (1.51%) JIRA
2 5 (1.26%) GitLab
3 4 (1.01%) Git
3 4 (1.01%) Visual Studio Code
4 2 (0.50%) Terragrunt
5 1 (0.25%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.25%) Claude Code
5 1 (0.25%) Flyway
5 1 (0.25%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.25%) Selenium
General
1 121 (30.48%) Social Skills
2 67 (16.88%) Finance
3 50 (12.59%) Analytical Skills
4 43 (10.83%) Law
5 34 (8.56%) Legal
6 25 (6.30%) Retail
7 20 (5.04%) Banking
8 19 (4.79%) Documentation Skills
8 19 (4.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 18 (4.53%) Public Sector
10 13 (3.27%) Organisational Skills
11 11 (2.77%) Back Office
11 11 (2.77%) Manufacturing
12 6 (1.51%) Advertising
13 5 (1.26%) Influencing Skills
14 4 (1.01%) Presentation Skills
15 3 (0.76%) Marketing
16 2 (0.50%) Local Government
17 1 (0.25%) Military
17 1 (0.25%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 70 (17.63%) IT Manager
2 66 (16.62%) Senior
3 54 (13.60%) Service Manager
4 51 (12.85%) IT Services Manager
4 51 (12.85%) Resilience Manager
5 50 (12.59%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 32 (8.06%) Architect
6 32 (8.06%) Consultant
7 26 (6.55%) IT Engineer
8 24 (6.05%) Support Engineer
8 24 (6.05%) Technical Consultant
9 23 (5.79%) Lead
10 22 (5.54%) Analyst
11 20 (5.04%) Senior Architect
12 19 (4.79%) Azure Engineer
12 19 (4.79%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
13 18 (4.53%) Cloud Engineer
13 18 (4.53%) IT Support
14 16 (4.03%) Technical Architect
15 15 (3.78%) Senior Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 65 (16.37%) Middleware
2 61 (15.37%) Terraform
3 13 (3.27%) ARM Templates
4 7 (1.76%) Microsoft Graph
5 6 (1.51%) Web Services
6 4 (1.01%) .NET
6 4 (1.01%) JSON
6 4 (1.01%) OpenTelemetry
7 3 (0.76%) Nuxt
7 3 (0.76%) Ruby on Rails
8 2 (0.50%) 802.1X
8 2 (0.50%) Kafka
8 2 (0.50%) REST
9 1 (0.25%) LDAP
9 1 (0.25%) Node.js
9 1 (0.25%) Oracle Fusion
9 1 (0.25%) Playwright
9 1 (0.25%) React
9 1 (0.25%) XML
9 1 (0.25%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 55 (13.85%) Cyber Threat
2 36 (9.07%) Data Centre
3 35 (8.82%) Replication
4 24 (6.05%) Enterprise Storage
5 23 (5.79%) Cloud Native
5 23 (5.79%) Hybrid Cloud
6 21 (5.29%) Management Information System
7 20 (5.04%) Onboarding
8 15 (3.78%) Security Posture
9 13 (3.27%) Self-Motivation
10 12 (3.02%) Data Protection Act
10 12 (3.02%) Driving Licence
10 12 (3.02%) Enterprise Software
11 11 (2.77%) iSeries
12 10 (2.52%) Public Cloud
13 8 (2.02%) CMDB
14 7 (1.76%) Blog
14 7 (1.76%) Freedom of Information
14 7 (1.76%) Freedom of Information Act
14 7 (1.76%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 134 (33.75%) Windows
2 104 (26.20%) Windows Server
3 46 (11.59%) Linux
4 9 (2.27%) Ubuntu
5 8 (2.02%) Windows Server 2016
5 8 (2.02%) Windows Server 2019
6 7 (1.76%) Mac OS
7 6 (1.51%) Windows 10
8 5 (1.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 5 (1.26%) Unix
9 4 (1.01%) Debian
10 3 (0.76%) VMS
11 2 (0.50%) AIX
11 2 (0.50%) CentOS
11 2 (0.50%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 209 (52.64%) Business Continuity
2 130 (32.75%) Problem-Solving
3 114 (28.72%) Continuous Improvement
4 104 (26.20%) Cybersecurity
5 103 (25.94%) Information Security
6 93 (23.43%) DevOps
7 92 (23.17%) ITIL
8 86 (21.66%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 77 (19.40%) Agile
10 70 (17.63%) High Availability
11 68 (17.13%) Project Delivery
11 68 (17.13%) Service Delivery
12 62 (15.62%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 62 (15.62%) Stakeholder Management
13 58 (14.61%) Enterprise Architecture
14 56 (14.11%) Waterfall
15 54 (13.60%) Mentoring
15 54 (13.60%) Runbook
15 54 (13.60%) Site Reliability Engineering
16 53 (13.35%) Incident Response
Programming Languages
1 85 (21.41%) PowerShell
2 38 (9.57%) Python
3 28 (7.05%) SQL
4 20 (5.04%) Bicep
5 9 (2.27%) Bash
6 6 (1.51%) Java
6 6 (1.51%) Shell Script
7 4 (1.01%) JavaScript
8 3 (0.76%) C#
8 3 (0.76%) Ruby
9 2 (0.50%) T-SQL
10 1 (0.25%) Groovy
10 1 (0.25%) TypeScript
10 1 (0.25%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 70 (17.63%) CISSP
2 68 (17.13%) CISM
3 54 (13.60%) ITIL Certification
4 33 (8.31%) Azure Certification
5 27 (6.80%) Degree
6 25 (6.30%) Microsoft Certification
7 24 (6.05%) Security Cleared
8 20 (5.04%) SC Cleared
9 19 (4.79%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 17 (4.28%) Cisco Certification
11 14 (3.53%) CCNA
11 14 (3.53%) CISA
12 11 (2.77%) CCNP
12 11 (2.77%) Computer Science Degree
13 10 (2.52%) VCAP
14 9 (2.27%) VCDX
15 8 (2.02%) ISACA
16 7 (1.76%) CRISC
17 6 (1.51%) CEH
17 6 (1.51%) Dell Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 88 (22.17%) NIST
2 69 (17.38%) ISO 22301
3 55 (13.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 39 (9.82%) GDPR
5 26 (6.55%) Cyber Essentials
6 25 (6.30%) SLA
7 20 (5.04%) PCI DSS
8 18 (4.53%) PMO
9 11 (2.77%) COBIT
9 11 (2.77%) SOC 2
10 7 (1.76%) SOC 1
11 6 (1.51%) GRC
11 6 (1.51%) NCSC
12 5 (1.26%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 4 (1.01%) ISO/IEC 20000
14 3 (0.76%) ISO 9001
15 2 (0.50%) Actionable Recommendations
15 2 (0.50%) Data Quality
15 2 (0.50%) ITGC
15 2 (0.50%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 102 (25.69%) Active Directory
2 92 (23.17%) VMware Infrastructure
3 68 (17.13%) Hyper-V
4 25 (6.30%) vSphere
5 16 (4.03%) Docker
6 14 (3.53%) Firmware
7 13 (3.27%) Virtual Machines
8 10 (2.52%) VMware ESXi
8 10 (2.52%) VMware NSX
9 9 (2.27%) vCloud
10 8 (2.02%) Virtual Desktop
11 6 (1.51%) Squid
12 1 (0.25%) KVM
12 1 (0.25%) Oracle RAC
12 1 (0.25%) Terminal Services
12 1 (0.25%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 41 (10.33%) Microsoft Intune
2 33 (8.31%) Kubernetes
3 17 (4.28%) Ansible
4 10 (2.52%) Prometheus
5 9 (2.27%) Grafana
6 7 (1.76%) Single Sign-On
7 6 (1.51%) Avamar
7 6 (1.51%) Dell DRAC
7 6 (1.51%) EMC NetWorker
7 6 (1.51%) EMC VPLEX
7 6 (1.51%) FortiGate
7 6 (1.51%) SCCM
7 6 (1.51%) VxRail
8 5 (1.26%) Packer
8 5 (1.26%) Proxmox
9 3 (0.76%) WSUS
9 3 (0.76%) ZABBIX
10 2 (0.50%) Data Guard
10 2 (0.50%) SCOM
10 2 (0.50%) WhatsUp Gold
Vendors
1 209 (52.64%) Microsoft
2 112 (28.21%) VMware
3 58 (14.61%) Veeam
4 34 (8.56%) Cisco
5 20 (5.04%) Dell
5 20 (5.04%) Palo Alto
6 19 (4.79%) Fortinet
7 17 (4.28%) EMC
7 17 (4.28%) NetApp
8 16 (4.03%) Google
9 15 (3.78%) Nimble Storage
10 12 (3.02%) Commvault
10 12 (3.02%) Oracle
11 11 (2.77%) Broadcom
11 11 (2.77%) HP
11 11 (2.77%) IBM
12 10 (2.52%) Meraki
12 10 (2.52%) N-able
12 10 (2.52%) WatchGuard
13 9 (2.27%) SonicWALL