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

6 months to
25 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 179 220 194
Rank change year-on-year +41 -26 +96
Permanent jobs citing Disaster Recovery 197 253 323
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.29% 1.46% 1.62%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.45% 1.58% 1.71%
Number of salaries quoted 146 163 305
10th Percentile £43,375 £37,500 £34,056
25th Percentile £51,250 £49,506 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% - +15.74%
75th Percentile £92,188 £79,375 £73,750
90th Percentile £105,000 £91,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% -4.17% +13.96%

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 13,541 16,057 18,863
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 88.44% 92.92% 94.34%
Number of salaries quoted 8,650 9,686 15,144
10th Percentile £30,000 £36,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £41,000 £46,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +4.17% -4.00%
75th Percentile £78,918 £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 25 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 31 (15.74%) SharePoint
2 30 (15.23%) Microsoft Exchange
3 6 (3.05%) IIS
3 6 (3.05%) Tomcat
3 6 (3.05%) WebSphere
3 6 (3.05%) WebSphere Application Server
4 2 (1.02%) Skype for Business
5 1 (0.51%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 14 (7.11%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (3.55%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (3.55%) MS Visio
3 6 (3.05%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 4 (2.03%) Markit EDM
2 1 (0.51%) Raiser’s Edge
Cloud Services
1 120 (60.91%) Azure
2 65 (32.99%) AWS
3 54 (27.41%) Microsoft 365
4 38 (19.29%) Entra ID
5 19 (9.64%) AWS CloudFormation
6 18 (9.14%) Azure DevOps
6 18 (9.14%) Azure Monitor
7 16 (8.12%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 15 (7.61%) Amazon EKS
9 14 (7.11%) Nutanix
10 13 (6.60%) OneDrive
10 13 (6.60%) Serverless
11 12 (6.09%) Amazon EC2
11 12 (6.09%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 11 (5.58%) Azure Data Factory
12 11 (5.58%) GCP
12 11 (5.58%) IaaS
13 10 (5.08%) AWS Lambda
13 10 (5.08%) PaaS
14 9 (4.57%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 48 (24.37%) VPN
2 39 (19.80%) WAN
3 38 (19.29%) DNS
4 36 (18.27%) Firewall
5 29 (14.72%) DHCP
6 26 (13.20%) SD-WAN
7 20 (10.15%) LAN
8 15 (7.61%) TCP/IP
9 13 (6.60%) SSL
10 11 (5.58%) VoIP
10 11 (5.58%) Wi-Fi
11 10 (5.08%) VLAN
12 9 (4.57%) Unified Communications
13 6 (3.05%) Wireless
14 4 (2.03%) BGP
14 4 (2.03%) Network Security
14 4 (2.03%) SAN
15 3 (1.52%) PuTTY
16 2 (1.02%) NAS
17 1 (0.51%) Structured Cabling
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (11.68%) SQL Server
2 14 (7.11%) Amazon RDS
2 14 (7.11%) PostgreSQL
3 12 (6.09%) Azure SQL Database
4 6 (3.05%) DB2
4 6 (3.05%) MySQL
4 6 (3.05%) Oracle Database
5 5 (2.54%) Data Lake
5 5 (2.54%) Data Warehouse
5 5 (2.54%) Delta Lake
5 5 (2.54%) MongoDB
5 5 (2.54%) Oracle Database 12c
6 4 (2.03%) Amazon Aurora
6 4 (2.03%) NoSQL
6 4 (2.03%) Oracle Database 10g
6 4 (2.03%) Oracle Database 11g
7 3 (1.52%) Power BI
7 3 (1.52%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 2 (1.02%) RDBMS
8 2 (1.02%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 16 (8.12%) Git
2 7 (3.55%) Jenkins
3 6 (3.05%) Maven
4 3 (1.52%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 3 (1.52%) GitLab
4 3 (1.52%) Sonatype Nexus
4 3 (1.52%) Subversion
5 2 (1.02%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.51%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 62 (31.47%) Finance
2 55 (27.92%) Social Skills
3 25 (12.69%) Analytical Skills
4 17 (8.63%) Law
5 16 (8.12%) Banking
6 11 (5.58%) Telecoms
7 9 (4.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 6 (3.05%) Back Office
8 6 (3.05%) Public Sector
9 4 (2.03%) Financial Institution
9 4 (2.03%) Presentation Skills
9 4 (2.03%) Retail
10 3 (1.52%) Aviation
10 3 (1.52%) Documentation Skills
10 3 (1.52%) Influencing Skills
10 3 (1.52%) Organisational Skills
10 3 (1.52%) Social Housing
11 2 (1.02%) Advertising
11 2 (1.02%) Local Government
11 2 (1.02%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 34 (17.26%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 32 (16.24%) Senior
3 24 (12.18%) Cloud Engineer
4 18 (9.14%) Support Engineer
5 14 (7.11%) DBA
6 13 (6.60%) Administrator
7 12 (6.09%) Head of IT
7 12 (6.09%) Linux Engineer
8 11 (5.58%) DevOps Engineer
8 11 (5.58%) Lead
9 10 (5.08%) Applications Engineer
9 10 (5.08%) Applications Support
9 10 (5.08%) Applications Support Engineer
9 10 (5.08%) AWS DevOps
9 10 (5.08%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
9 10 (5.08%) Infrastructure Manager
9 10 (5.08%) Infrastructure Support
10 9 (4.57%) IT Security Specialist
10 9 (4.57%) Security Specialist
10 9 (4.57%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (4.06%) REST
2 7 (3.55%) LDAP
3 6 (3.05%) LAPP Stack
3 6 (3.05%) WebSphere MQ
4 5 (2.54%) PySpark
5 4 (2.03%) AWS SAM
5 4 (2.03%) Elastic Stack
6 3 (1.52%) ActiveMQ
6 3 (1.52%) AngularJS
6 3 (1.52%) Ionic Framework
6 3 (1.52%) LAMP
6 3 (1.52%) Loki
6 3 (1.52%) RAML
6 3 (1.52%) RESTful
6 3 (1.52%) SOAP
6 3 (1.52%) Spring
6 3 (1.52%) Spring Boot
7 2 (1.02%) ARM Templates
7 2 (1.02%) AWS CDK
7 2 (1.02%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 23 (11.68%) Hybrid Cloud
2 18 (9.14%) Cloud Native
2 18 (9.14%) Management Information System
3 12 (6.09%) Onboarding
4 11 (5.58%) CMDB
4 11 (5.58%) Data Centre
4 11 (5.58%) Enterprise Software
5 9 (4.57%) Replication
6 7 (3.55%) Linux Command Line
6 7 (3.55%) Operational Technology
7 6 (3.05%) Analytical Mindset
7 6 (3.05%) Public Cloud
8 5 (2.54%) Distributed Systems
8 5 (2.54%) Mobile App
9 4 (2.03%) AI Agents
9 4 (2.03%) Driving Licence
9 4 (2.03%) iPad
9 4 (2.03%) Legacy Systems
9 4 (2.03%) PKI
9 4 (2.03%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 63 (31.98%) Windows
2 39 (19.80%) Linux
3 36 (18.27%) Windows Server
4 13 (6.60%) Unix
5 8 (4.06%) Windows 10
6 6 (3.05%) Apple iOS
6 6 (3.05%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 3 (1.52%) CentOS
7 3 (1.52%) Rocky
7 3 (1.52%) Ubuntu
8 2 (1.02%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.51%) Solaris
9 1 (0.51%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 62 (31.47%) DevOps
2 54 (27.41%) Problem-Solving
3 52 (26.40%) ITIL
4 51 (25.89%) CI/CD
4 51 (25.89%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 49 (24.87%) High Availability
6 48 (24.37%) Infrastructure as Code
7 43 (21.83%) Cybersecurity
8 36 (18.27%) Business Continuity
8 36 (18.27%) Migration
8 36 (18.27%) Service Delivery
9 30 (15.23%) Continuous Improvement
10 28 (14.21%) Performance Tuning
11 25 (12.69%) Service Management
12 24 (12.18%) Observability
13 23 (11.68%) Vulnerability Management
14 21 (10.66%) Computer Science
14 21 (10.66%) Mentoring
15 19 (9.64%) Incident Management
15 19 (9.64%) Infrastructure Management
Programming Languages
1 54 (27.41%) Python
2 52 (26.40%) PowerShell
3 34 (17.26%) SQL
4 16 (8.12%) Java
5 10 (5.08%) Go
6 8 (4.06%) Bash
7 7 (3.55%) Shell Script
7 7 (3.55%) T-SQL
8 6 (3.05%) Bicep
9 5 (2.54%) Scala
10 4 (2.03%) JavaScript
11 3 (1.52%) C#
12 2 (1.02%) TypeScript
13 1 (0.51%) Perl
13 1 (0.51%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 36 (18.27%) Degree
2 31 (15.74%) Azure Certification
3 25 (12.69%) AWS Certification
4 20 (10.15%) Microsoft Certification
5 17 (8.63%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 12 (6.09%) Cisco Certification
6 12 (6.09%) Security Cleared
7 11 (5.58%) CCNP
7 11 (5.58%) Master's Degree
8 10 (5.08%) Computer Science Degree
8 10 (5.08%) ITIL Certification
8 10 (5.08%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 9 (4.57%) CEH
10 7 (3.55%) PMI Certification
10 7 (3.55%) PMP
10 7 (3.55%) SC Cleared
11 6 (3.05%) DBS Check
12 5 (2.54%) BPSS Clearance
12 5 (2.54%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13 3 (1.52%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (15.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 25 (12.69%) NIST
3 18 (9.14%) SLA
4 11 (5.58%) Cyber Essentials
4 11 (5.58%) GDPR
5 10 (5.08%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 9 (4.57%) ISO 22301
7 6 (3.05%) PCI DSS
8 5 (2.54%) Data Quality
9 4 (2.03%) SOC 2
10 3 (1.52%) HIPAA
11 2 (1.02%) GRC
11 2 (1.02%) ISO 9001
11 2 (1.02%) ISO/IEC 20000
11 2 (1.02%) NCSC
12 1 (0.51%) Accessibility
12 1 (0.51%) Basel III
12 1 (0.51%) COBIT
12 1 (0.51%) MiFID
12 1 (0.51%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 40 (20.30%) Active Directory
2 22 (11.17%) Hyper-V
3 21 (10.66%) VMware Infrastructure
4 17 (8.63%) Docker
5 12 (6.09%) Virtual Machines
6 9 (4.57%) Virtual Servers
7 7 (3.55%) Virtual Desktop
8 3 (1.52%) Firmware
8 3 (1.52%) VMware ESXi
9 2 (1.02%) vSphere
10 1 (0.51%) Oracle RAC
10 1 (0.51%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 52 (26.40%) Terraform
2 34 (17.26%) Microsoft Intune
3 29 (14.72%) Ansible
4 26 (13.20%) Kubernetes
5 12 (6.09%) Grafana
6 9 (4.57%) Prometheus
7 6 (3.05%) FortiGate
8 4 (2.03%) Nagios
9 3 (1.52%) Nessus
9 3 (1.52%) Proxmox
9 3 (1.52%) SCOM
10 1 (0.51%) Data Guard
10 1 (0.51%) Dell DRAC
10 1 (0.51%) Jamf Pro
10 1 (0.51%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 99 (50.25%) Microsoft
2 36 (18.27%) VMware
3 14 (7.11%) Cisco
4 13 (6.60%) IBM
5 12 (6.09%) Commvault
6 10 (5.08%) Oracle
7 9 (4.57%) Fortinet
8 7 (3.55%) Palo Alto
8 7 (3.55%) Red Hat
9 6 (3.05%) Google
9 6 (3.05%) SonicWALL
9 6 (3.05%) Veeam
10 5 (2.54%) Databricks
11 4 (2.03%) Ab Initio
11 4 (2.03%) CrowdStrike
11 4 (2.03%) Foundry
11 4 (2.03%) Mitel
12 3 (1.52%) Dell
12 3 (1.52%) Meraki
12 3 (1.52%) MuleSoft