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

6 months to
22 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 167 262 204
Rank change year-on-year +95 -58 +64
Permanent jobs citing Disaster Recovery 263 173 512
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.40% 1.18% 1.57%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.69% 1.25% 1.73%
Number of salaries quoted 201 129 455
10th Percentile £41,250 £32,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £52,500 £42,500 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,478 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.80% - +0.80%
75th Percentile £85,000 £73,750 £78,005
90th Percentile £92,500 £83,750 £92,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.00% +13.64% -4.35%

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 15,563 13,877 29,569
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 82.79% 94.97% 90.86%
Number of salaries quoted 11,091 8,168 23,322
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,000 £33,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £43,750 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,100 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +0.17% +4.35% -8.00%
75th Percentile £80,500 £80,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £106,250 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £59,648 £55,000
% change year-on-year +0.59% +8.45% -9.84%

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 22 May 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 37 (14.07%) Microsoft Exchange
1 37 (14.07%) SharePoint
2 2 (0.76%) Apache
2 2 (0.76%) IIS
3 1 (0.38%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 9 (3.42%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (1.52%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (1.14%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (1.52%) Markit EDM
2 3 (1.14%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (1.14%) Oracle EBS
3 2 (0.76%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 163 (61.98%) Azure
2 83 (31.56%) Microsoft 365
3 48 (18.25%) Entra ID
4 41 (15.59%) AWS
5 27 (10.27%) Nutanix
6 17 (6.46%) GitHub
6 17 (6.46%) SaaS
7 16 (6.08%) Azure Monitor
8 14 (5.32%) Azure Data Factory
8 14 (5.32%) OneDrive
9 13 (4.94%) Azure DevOps
9 13 (4.94%) GCP
10 12 (4.56%) Amazon EKS
10 12 (4.56%) IaaS
10 12 (4.56%) PaaS
11 11 (4.18%) Amazon EC2
11 11 (4.18%) Mimecast
11 11 (4.18%) Power Platform
12 10 (3.80%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 9 (3.42%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 72 (27.38%) Firewall
2 52 (19.77%) VPN
3 43 (16.35%) WAN
4 42 (15.97%) DNS
5 30 (11.41%) DHCP
6 27 (10.27%) TCP/IP
7 24 (9.13%) LAN
8 16 (6.08%) Network Security
9 14 (5.32%) SD-WAN
10 13 (4.94%) Wi-Fi
11 10 (3.80%) VLAN
12 9 (3.42%) VSAN
13 6 (2.28%) Cisco ISE
13 6 (2.28%) NGFW
13 6 (2.28%) SAN
13 6 (2.28%) Wireless
14 4 (1.52%) Cisco Nexus
14 4 (1.52%) Fibre Channel
14 4 (1.52%) Intrusion Detection
14 4 (1.52%) iSCSI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (5.70%) Amazon RDS
1 15 (5.70%) SQL Server
2 12 (4.56%) Azure SQL Database
3 9 (3.42%) Data Lake
3 9 (3.42%) Delta Lake
4 7 (2.66%) Amazon Aurora
5 4 (1.52%) Data Warehouse
6 3 (1.14%) PostgreSQL
6 3 (1.14%) Power BI
7 1 (0.38%) Oracle Exadata
7 1 (0.38%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 1 (0.38%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 1 (0.38%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 19 (7.22%) Git
2 6 (2.28%) Visual Studio Code
3 3 (1.14%) Jenkins
3 3 (1.14%) Maven
3 3 (1.14%) Sonatype Nexus
4 2 (0.76%) JIRA
4 2 (0.76%) Selenium
5 1 (0.38%) MLflow
5 1 (0.38%) Terragrunt
General
1 90 (34.22%) Social Skills
2 59 (22.43%) Finance
3 40 (15.21%) Analytical Skills
4 24 (9.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 20 (7.60%) Law
6 19 (7.22%) Banking
7 14 (5.32%) Retail
8 13 (4.94%) Public Sector
9 12 (4.56%) Legal
10 11 (4.18%) Back Office
10 11 (4.18%) Organisational Skills
11 7 (2.66%) Documentation Skills
12 6 (2.28%) Marketing
13 5 (1.90%) Advertising
14 4 (1.52%) Presentation Skills
14 4 (1.52%) Social Housing
15 3 (1.14%) Financial Institution
15 3 (1.14%) Local Government
16 2 (0.76%) Manufacturing
17 1 (0.38%) Police
Job Titles
1 54 (20.53%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 53 (20.15%) Senior
3 25 (9.51%) IT Manager
4 21 (7.98%) Platform Engineer
5 20 (7.60%) IT Engineer
6 19 (7.22%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
7 18 (6.84%) Security Specialist
8 16 (6.08%) Cloud Engineer
8 16 (6.08%) Consultant
8 16 (6.08%) Lead
8 16 (6.08%) Support Engineer
9 15 (5.70%) Azure Engineer
10 14 (5.32%) Architect
11 13 (4.94%) Security Manager
11 13 (4.94%) Senior Consultant
11 13 (4.94%) Senior Technical Consultant
11 13 (4.94%) Senior VMware Consultant
11 13 (4.94%) Technical Consultant
11 13 (4.94%) VMware Consultant
11 13 (4.94%) VMware Technical Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (3.42%) PySpark
2 7 (2.66%) ARM Templates
2 7 (2.66%) Loki
3 6 (2.28%) Microsoft Graph
4 4 (1.52%) RESTful
5 3 (1.14%) ActiveMQ
5 3 (1.14%) JSON
5 3 (1.14%) RAML
5 3 (1.14%) REST
5 3 (1.14%) SOAP
6 2 (0.76%) Kafka
6 2 (0.76%) Node.js
6 2 (0.76%) Playwright
7 1 (0.38%) AWS CDK
7 1 (0.38%) FastAPI
7 1 (0.38%) Hugging Face
7 1 (0.38%) JWT
7 1 (0.38%) OpenCV
7 1 (0.38%) PyTorch
7 1 (0.38%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 27 (10.27%) Data Centre
2 24 (9.13%) Hybrid Cloud
3 21 (7.98%) Cloud Native
3 21 (7.98%) Management Information System
4 16 (6.08%) Driving Licence
4 16 (6.08%) Onboarding
5 15 (5.70%) Enterprise Storage
5 15 (5.70%) Legacy Systems
5 15 (5.70%) Replication
6 12 (4.56%) CMDB
6 12 (4.56%) Cyber Threat
7 9 (3.42%) iSeries
8 8 (3.04%) Data Protection Act
8 8 (3.04%) Public Cloud
8 8 (3.04%) Self-Motivation
9 7 (2.66%) Security Posture
10 6 (2.28%) Enterprise Software
10 6 (2.28%) Private Cloud
10 6 (2.28%) Virtual Team
11 4 (1.52%) VxBlock/Vblock
Operating Systems
1 80 (30.42%) Windows
2 50 (19.01%) Windows Server
3 26 (9.89%) Linux
4 10 (3.80%) Apple iOS
4 10 (3.80%) Windows 10
5 5 (1.90%) Mac OS
6 4 (1.52%) Windows Server 2016
7 3 (1.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 3 (1.14%) Windows Server 2019
8 2 (0.76%) Unix
9 1 (0.38%) AIX
9 1 (0.38%) CentOS
9 1 (0.38%) Solaris
9 1 (0.38%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 81 (30.80%) Business Continuity
1 81 (30.80%) Cybersecurity
2 79 (30.04%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 75 (28.52%) Problem-Solving
4 56 (21.29%) Continuous Improvement
5 55 (20.91%) Service Delivery
6 51 (19.39%) DevOps
7 47 (17.87%) ITIL
8 44 (16.73%) CI/CD
9 41 (15.59%) Incident Response
10 37 (14.07%) Infrastructure as Code
11 36 (13.69%) Information Security
12 35 (13.31%) Cloud Security
12 35 (13.31%) Vulnerability Management
13 32 (12.17%) High Availability
13 32 (12.17%) Migration
14 31 (11.79%) Platform Engineering
15 30 (11.41%) Mentoring
16 28 (10.65%) Risk Management
16 28 (10.65%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 70 (26.62%) PowerShell
2 52 (19.77%) Python
3 24 (9.13%) SQL
4 9 (3.42%) Java
4 9 (3.42%) Scala
5 8 (3.04%) Bash
5 8 (3.04%) Bicep
6 3 (1.14%) Go
7 2 (0.76%) TypeScript
8 1 (0.38%) C#
8 1 (0.38%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 43 (16.35%) Degree
2 25 (9.51%) Microsoft Certification
3 20 (7.60%) Azure Certification
4 15 (5.70%) CEH
4 15 (5.70%) SC Cleared
4 15 (5.70%) Security Cleared
5 14 (5.32%) Computer Science Degree
6 13 (4.94%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 12 (4.56%) Cisco Certification
8 9 (3.42%) CCNA
8 9 (3.42%) CISSP
8 9 (3.42%) VCAP
8 9 (3.42%) VCDX
9 8 (3.04%) BPSS Clearance
9 8 (3.04%) CCNP
10 6 (2.28%) CISM
11 4 (1.52%) Dell Certification
11 4 (1.52%) ISACA
11 4 (1.52%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 4 (1.52%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 58 (22.05%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 40 (15.21%) NIST
3 35 (13.31%) Cyber Essentials
4 24 (9.13%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 24 (9.13%) GDPR
5 17 (6.46%) PCI DSS
6 14 (5.32%) ISO 22301
7 13 (4.94%) Data Quality
7 13 (4.94%) PMO
8 10 (3.80%) Actionable Recommendations
9 9 (3.42%) GRC
10 8 (3.04%) SLA
10 8 (3.04%) SOC 2
11 6 (2.28%) COBIT
12 3 (1.14%) SOC 1
13 2 (0.76%) Accessibility
13 2 (0.76%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
14 1 (0.38%) ISO/IEC 20000
14 1 (0.38%) NCSC
System Software
1 67 (25.48%) Active Directory
2 58 (22.05%) VMware Infrastructure
3 27 (10.27%) Hyper-V
4 18 (6.84%) vSphere
5 17 (6.46%) Firmware
6 9 (3.42%) vCloud
6 9 (3.42%) VMware NSX
7 8 (3.04%) Docker
8 6 (2.28%) Virtual Machines
9 4 (1.52%) Virtual Servers
10 3 (1.14%) Microsoft Virtual Server
10 3 (1.14%) VMware ESXi
11 2 (0.76%) Virtual Desktop
12 1 (0.38%) KVM
12 1 (0.38%) Oracle RAC
12 1 (0.38%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 46 (17.49%) Microsoft Intune
2 44 (16.73%) Terraform
3 24 (9.13%) Kubernetes
4 9 (3.42%) Ansible
5 8 (3.04%) Grafana
5 8 (3.04%) Packer
5 8 (3.04%) Prometheus
6 6 (2.28%) Dell DRAC
7 5 (1.90%) Single Sign-On
8 4 (1.52%) Avamar
8 4 (1.52%) EMC NetWorker
8 4 (1.52%) EMC VPLEX
8 4 (1.52%) FortiGate
8 4 (1.52%) vCenter Server
8 4 (1.52%) VxRail
9 2 (0.76%) SCCM
10 1 (0.38%) Data Guard
10 1 (0.38%) Oracle Flashback
10 1 (0.38%) QRadar
10 1 (0.38%) WhatsUp Gold
Vendors
1 143 (54.37%) Microsoft
2 83 (31.56%) VMware
3 30 (11.41%) Cisco
4 22 (8.37%) Commvault
4 22 (8.37%) Veeam
5 16 (6.08%) Dell
5 16 (6.08%) EMC
6 14 (5.32%) Fortinet
7 13 (4.94%) IBM
7 13 (4.94%) Meraki
7 13 (4.94%) NetApp
7 13 (4.94%) Nimble Storage
8 10 (3.80%) Broadcom
8 10 (3.80%) ServiceNow
9 9 (3.42%) Databricks
9 9 (3.42%) HP
9 9 (3.42%) Sophos
10 8 (3.04%) Palo Alto
10 8 (3.04%) Splunk
11 7 (2.66%) Oracle