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

6 months to
24 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 185 205 192
Rank change year-on-year +20 -13 +98
Permanent jobs citing Disaster Recovery 236 211 488
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.39% 1.62% 1.60%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.64% 1.70% 1.74%
Number of salaries quoted 177 160 465
10th Percentile £42,250 £37,375 £41,036
25th Percentile £53,750 £43,938 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £92,500 £72,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £90,000 £85,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +9.09% +1.85%

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 14,370 12,407 28,124
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 84.57% 95.09% 91.94%
Number of salaries quoted 9,532 8,764 23,078
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,500 £33,763
25th Percentile £42,500 £46,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -8.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £81,250 £75,772
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -11.29%

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 24 March 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 35 (14.83%) SharePoint
2 34 (14.41%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (0.85%) Apache
3 2 (0.85%) IIS
3 2 (0.85%) Tomcat
3 2 (0.85%) WebSphere
3 2 (0.85%) WebSphere Application Server
4 1 (0.42%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.42%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 7 (2.97%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (1.69%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (1.27%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.42%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 4 (1.69%) Markit EDM
2 3 (1.27%) Oracle EBS
3 2 (0.85%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 141 (59.75%) Azure
2 65 (27.54%) Microsoft 365
3 48 (20.34%) AWS
4 46 (19.49%) Entra ID
5 24 (10.17%) Nutanix
6 18 (7.63%) Amazon EKS
7 15 (6.36%) Amazon EC2
7 15 (6.36%) Azure Monitor
7 15 (6.36%) OneDrive
7 15 (6.36%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 14 (5.93%) GitHub
9 13 (5.51%) Azure Data Factory
9 13 (5.51%) Azure DevOps
9 13 (5.51%) SaaS
10 12 (5.08%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 11 (4.66%) AWS CloudFormation
11 11 (4.66%) IaaS
12 10 (4.24%) PaaS
13 9 (3.81%) Amazon S3
13 9 (3.81%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 57 (24.15%) VPN
2 50 (21.19%) Firewall
3 43 (18.22%) DNS
4 37 (15.68%) WAN
5 33 (13.98%) DHCP
6 28 (11.86%) TCP/IP
7 19 (8.05%) LAN
8 16 (6.78%) SD-WAN
9 13 (5.51%) VLAN
10 12 (5.08%) Network Security
11 10 (4.24%) Wi-Fi
12 6 (2.54%) BGP
13 5 (2.12%) SAN
13 5 (2.12%) Wireless
14 4 (1.69%) Cisco ISE
14 4 (1.69%) Cisco Nexus
14 4 (1.69%) Intrusion Detection
14 4 (1.69%) SSL
15 3 (1.27%) PuTTY
15 3 (1.27%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (8.90%) Amazon RDS
2 20 (8.47%) SQL Server
3 13 (5.51%) Azure SQL Database
4 9 (3.81%) Data Lake
4 9 (3.81%) Delta Lake
5 8 (3.39%) Amazon Aurora
6 7 (2.97%) PostgreSQL
7 5 (2.12%) Oracle Database
8 4 (1.69%) Data Warehouse
8 4 (1.69%) MySQL
8 4 (1.69%) Oracle Database 10g
8 4 (1.69%) Oracle Database 11g
8 4 (1.69%) Oracle Database 12c
9 3 (1.27%) Power BI
10 2 (0.85%) DB2
11 1 (0.42%) Apache Hive
11 1 (0.42%) Hadoop
11 1 (0.42%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 1 (0.42%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 1 (0.42%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 20 (8.47%) Git
2 7 (2.97%) Jenkins
3 3 (1.27%) Maven
3 3 (1.27%) Sonatype Nexus
3 3 (1.27%) Visual Studio Code
4 2 (0.85%) Selenium
5 1 (0.42%) JIRA
5 1 (0.42%) MLflow
General
1 75 (31.78%) Social Skills
2 72 (30.51%) Finance
3 24 (10.17%) Law
4 22 (9.32%) Analytical Skills
5 21 (8.90%) Banking
5 21 (8.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 14 (5.93%) Public Sector
7 10 (4.24%) Retail
8 8 (3.39%) Back Office
8 8 (3.39%) Organisational Skills
9 7 (2.97%) Documentation Skills
10 6 (2.54%) Financial Institution
10 6 (2.54%) Marketing
11 4 (1.69%) Legal
11 4 (1.69%) Social Housing
12 3 (1.27%) Local Government
13 2 (0.85%) Influencing Skills
13 2 (0.85%) Manufacturing
13 2 (0.85%) Presentation Skills
14 1 (0.42%) Police
Job Titles
1 46 (19.49%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 43 (18.22%) Senior
3 23 (9.75%) IT Manager
4 20 (8.47%) Lead
5 19 (8.05%) Platform Engineer
5 19 (8.05%) Security Specialist
6 15 (6.36%) AWS Engineer
6 15 (6.36%) Cloud Engineer
6 15 (6.36%) IT Security Specialist
6 15 (6.36%) Security Manager
7 14 (5.93%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
8 12 (5.08%) Support Engineer
9 11 (4.66%) Cloud Platform Engineer
9 11 (4.66%) Infrastructure Support
9 11 (4.66%) IT Engineer
10 10 (4.24%) Applications Support
10 10 (4.24%) Azure Engineer
10 10 (4.24%) Data Engineer
10 10 (4.24%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
10 10 (4.24%) Operations Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (3.81%) PySpark
2 7 (2.97%) Loki
2 7 (2.97%) RESTful
3 4 (1.69%) ARM Templates
4 3 (1.27%) ActiveMQ
4 3 (1.27%) AWS SAM
4 3 (1.27%) Elastic Stack
4 3 (1.27%) LAMP
4 3 (1.27%) LDAP
4 3 (1.27%) RAML
4 3 (1.27%) REST
4 3 (1.27%) SOAP
5 2 (0.85%) AWS CDK
5 2 (0.85%) LAPP Stack
5 2 (0.85%) Node.js
5 2 (0.85%) OAuth
5 2 (0.85%) OAuth2
5 2 (0.85%) Playwright
5 2 (0.85%) WebSphere MQ
6 1 (0.42%) FastAPI
Miscellaneous
1 33 (13.98%) Hybrid Cloud
2 21 (8.90%) Cloud Native
3 17 (7.20%) Management Information System
4 14 (5.93%) Driving Licence
5 12 (5.08%) Cyber Threat
5 12 (5.08%) Data Centre
5 12 (5.08%) Legacy Systems
6 10 (4.24%) Onboarding
7 9 (3.81%) CMDB
7 9 (3.81%) Replication
8 7 (2.97%) Distributed Systems
8 7 (2.97%) Public Cloud
9 6 (2.54%) Enterprise Software
10 5 (2.12%) Mobile App
10 5 (2.12%) Security Posture
11 4 (1.69%) Cyber Defence
11 4 (1.69%) iPad
11 4 (1.69%) iPhone
11 4 (1.69%) Private Cloud
11 4 (1.69%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 67 (28.39%) Windows
2 43 (18.22%) Windows Server
3 32 (13.56%) Linux
4 14 (5.93%) Windows 10
5 12 (5.08%) Apple iOS
6 8 (3.39%) Unix
7 4 (1.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 3 (1.27%) CentOS
8 3 (1.27%) Rocky
8 3 (1.27%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.42%) Mac OS
9 1 (0.42%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (0.42%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 70 (29.66%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 68 (28.81%) Cybersecurity
3 57 (24.15%) Business Continuity
3 57 (24.15%) DevOps
4 53 (22.46%) Problem-Solving
5 52 (22.03%) CI/CD
5 52 (22.03%) ITIL
5 52 (22.03%) Service Delivery
6 44 (18.64%) Continuous Improvement
6 44 (18.64%) Infrastructure as Code
7 39 (16.53%) High Availability
7 39 (16.53%) Vulnerability Management
8 38 (16.10%) Migration
9 34 (14.41%) Incident Response
10 32 (13.56%) Cloud Security
11 30 (12.71%) Mentoring
11 30 (12.71%) Platform Engineering
12 27 (11.44%) Root Cause Analysis
13 26 (11.02%) Performance Tuning
13 26 (11.02%) Resilience Testing
Programming Languages
1 70 (29.66%) PowerShell
1 70 (29.66%) Python
2 28 (11.86%) SQL
3 12 (5.08%) Java
4 10 (4.24%) Bash
5 9 (3.81%) Go
5 9 (3.81%) Scala
6 8 (3.39%) Bicep
7 3 (1.27%) JavaScript
7 3 (1.27%) Shell Script
7 3 (1.27%) TypeScript
8 1 (0.42%) C#
8 1 (0.42%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 39 (16.53%) Degree
2 24 (10.17%) Microsoft Certification
3 19 (8.05%) CEH
4 18 (7.63%) Azure Certification
5 16 (6.78%) Security Cleared
6 14 (5.93%) SC Cleared
7 13 (5.51%) Computer Science Degree
8 8 (3.39%) BPSS Clearance
8 8 (3.39%) Cisco Certification
9 7 (2.97%) AWS Certification
9 7 (2.97%) CCNP
9 7 (2.97%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 6 (2.54%) ITIL Certification
11 5 (2.12%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 5 (2.12%) MCSE
12 4 (1.69%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 4 (1.69%) CCNA
12 4 (1.69%) CISSP
13 3 (1.27%) Master's Degree
14 2 (0.85%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 54 (22.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 31 (13.14%) NIST
3 28 (11.86%) Cyber Essentials
4 26 (11.02%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 15 (6.36%) ISO 22301
6 14 (5.93%) PCI DSS
7 12 (5.08%) Data Quality
8 11 (4.66%) GDPR
8 11 (4.66%) SLA
9 10 (4.24%) GRC
10 9 (3.81%) Actionable Recommendations
11 8 (3.39%) SOC 2
12 2 (0.85%) Accessibility
12 2 (0.85%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
12 2 (0.85%) NCSC
12 2 (0.85%) PMO
13 1 (0.42%) Basel III
13 1 (0.42%) ISO/IEC 20000
13 1 (0.42%) MiFID
System Software
1 51 (21.61%) Active Directory
2 34 (14.41%) VMware Infrastructure
3 16 (6.78%) Hyper-V
4 12 (5.08%) Docker
5 6 (2.54%) Firmware
5 6 (2.54%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (2.54%) vSphere
6 4 (1.69%) Virtual Servers
6 4 (1.69%) VMware ESXi
7 3 (1.27%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 3 (1.27%) vCloud
8 2 (0.85%) Virtual Desktop
8 2 (0.85%) VMware NSX
9 1 (0.42%) KVM
Systems Management
1 50 (21.19%) Terraform
2 39 (16.53%) Microsoft Intune
3 26 (11.02%) Kubernetes
4 22 (9.32%) Ansible
5 11 (4.66%) Grafana
6 8 (3.39%) Prometheus
7 5 (2.12%) Packer
8 4 (1.69%) FortiGate
9 3 (1.27%) Nagios
9 3 (1.27%) vCenter Server
10 2 (0.85%) Dell DRAC
11 1 (0.42%) Jamf Pro
11 1 (0.42%) Nessus
11 1 (0.42%) PowerCLI
11 1 (0.42%) Proxmox
11 1 (0.42%) SCCM
Vendors
1 111 (47.03%) Microsoft
2 66 (27.97%) VMware
3 22 (9.32%) Cisco
4 21 (8.90%) Commvault
5 12 (5.08%) Fortinet
6 11 (4.66%) Oracle
7 10 (4.24%) Meraki
8 9 (3.81%) Databricks
9 7 (2.97%) IBM
10 6 (2.54%) Sophos
11 5 (2.12%) Apple
11 5 (2.12%) Dell
11 5 (2.12%) Palo Alto
11 5 (2.12%) ServiceNow
11 5 (2.12%) Splunk
12 4 (1.69%) Ab Initio
12 4 (1.69%) CheckPoint
12 4 (1.69%) Okta
12 4 (1.69%) Red Hat
12 4 (1.69%) Zscaler