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

6 months to
25 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 155 248 216
Rank change year-on-year +93 -32 -5
Permanent jobs citing Disaster Recovery 402 185 370
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.74% 1.12% 1.49%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.11% 1.20% 1.71%
Number of salaries quoted 283 140 235
10th Percentile £40,560 £31,925 £39,088
25th Percentile £46,250 £39,950 £49,274
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £56,250 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% -13.46% +9.20%
75th Percentile £77,500 £76,563 £86,875
90th Percentile £88,750 £105,000 £102,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -5.98%

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 19,038 15,384 21,698
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 82.21% 92.95% 87.45%
Number of salaries quoted 13,740 8,914 14,935
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £44,972 £40,500 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -4.17% -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.33%

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 August 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 40 (9.95%) SharePoint
2 32 (7.96%) Microsoft Exchange
3 13 (3.23%) IIS
4 7 (1.74%) Apache
5 6 (1.49%) nginx
6 3 (0.75%) WordPress
7 1 (0.25%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.25%) Confluence
7 1 (0.25%) Site Server
Applications
1 7 (1.74%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.25%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 3 (0.75%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.25%) Oracle Applications
2 1 (0.25%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.25%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 265 (65.92%) Azure
2 127 (31.59%) AWS
3 115 (28.61%) Microsoft 365
4 87 (21.64%) SaaS
5 69 (17.16%) Entra ID
6 31 (7.71%) IaaS
7 28 (6.97%) GCP
8 23 (5.72%) Azure Monitor
9 22 (5.47%) PaaS
9 22 (5.47%) Power Platform
10 19 (4.73%) Nutanix
11 15 (3.73%) OneDrive
12 13 (3.23%) Azure DevOps
13 10 (2.49%) AWS CloudFormation
13 10 (2.49%) Azure Sentinel
14 9 (2.24%) Azure Data Factory
14 9 (2.24%) GitHub
14 9 (2.24%) Microsoft Copilot
15 8 (1.99%) GitHub Actions
15 8 (1.99%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 107 (26.62%) Firewall
2 77 (19.15%) DNS
3 57 (14.18%) DHCP
4 54 (13.43%) VPN
5 35 (8.71%) TCP/IP
6 33 (8.21%) WAN
7 29 (7.21%) Network Security
8 27 (6.72%) LAN
9 18 (4.48%) VLAN
10 13 (3.23%) Wi-Fi
11 10 (2.49%) SD-WAN
12 9 (2.24%) VSAN
12 9 (2.24%) Wireless
13 7 (1.74%) NGFW
13 7 (1.74%) SAN
14 6 (1.49%) Cisco ISE
14 6 (1.49%) Fibre Channel
14 6 (1.49%) iSCSI
15 4 (1.00%) Cisco Nexus
15 4 (1.00%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (5.72%) SQL Server
2 12 (2.99%) Azure SQL Database
3 11 (2.74%) PostgreSQL
4 10 (2.49%) Power BI
5 4 (1.00%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (0.50%) Oracle Database
6 2 (0.50%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 2 (0.50%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 2 (0.50%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 1 (0.25%) MongoDB
7 1 (0.25%) MySQL
7 1 (0.25%) Oracle Exadata
7 1 (0.25%) Oracle Reports
7 1 (0.25%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 7 (1.74%) Git
2 6 (1.49%) JIRA
2 6 (1.49%) Visual Studio Code
3 4 (1.00%) GitLab
4 2 (0.50%) Terragrunt
5 1 (0.25%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.25%) Claude Code
5 1 (0.25%) MLflow
5 1 (0.25%) Selenium
General
1 123 (30.60%) Social Skills
2 69 (17.16%) Finance
3 49 (12.19%) Analytical Skills
4 43 (10.70%) Law
5 36 (8.96%) Legal
6 23 (5.72%) Banking
6 23 (5.72%) Retail
7 20 (4.98%) Public Sector
8 18 (4.48%) Documentation Skills
8 18 (4.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 15 (3.73%) Organisational Skills
10 10 (2.49%) Back Office
10 10 (2.49%) Manufacturing
11 7 (1.74%) Advertising
12 6 (1.49%) Influencing Skills
13 5 (1.24%) Marketing
13 5 (1.24%) Presentation Skills
14 3 (0.75%) Local Government
15 2 (0.50%) Social Housing
16 1 (0.25%) Police
Job Titles
1 72 (17.91%) IT Manager
2 65 (16.17%) Senior
3 54 (13.43%) Service Manager
4 51 (12.69%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 51 (12.69%) Resilience Manager
5 50 (12.44%) IT Services Manager
6 33 (8.21%) Architect
7 27 (6.72%) Consultant
8 26 (6.47%) Lead
9 23 (5.72%) IT Engineer
10 22 (5.47%) Azure Engineer
10 22 (5.47%) Support Engineer
11 21 (5.22%) Technical Consultant
12 20 (4.98%) Analyst
12 20 (4.98%) Senior Architect
12 20 (4.98%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
13 18 (4.48%) Cloud Engineer
14 16 (3.98%) IT Support
15 15 (3.73%) Technical Architect
15 15 (3.73%) VMware Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 64 (15.92%) Middleware
2 61 (15.17%) Terraform
3 12 (2.99%) ARM Templates
4 7 (1.74%) Microsoft Graph
5 6 (1.49%) Web Services
6 3 (0.75%) JSON
6 3 (0.75%) Nuxt
6 3 (0.75%) Ruby on Rails
7 2 (0.50%) .NET
7 2 (0.50%) 802.1X
7 2 (0.50%) Kafka
7 2 (0.50%) OpenTelemetry
8 1 (0.25%) OAuth
8 1 (0.25%) OAuth2
8 1 (0.25%) OpenCV
8 1 (0.25%) Oracle Fusion
8 1 (0.25%) Pandas
8 1 (0.25%) pytest
8 1 (0.25%) PyTorch
8 1 (0.25%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 58 (14.43%) Cyber Threat
2 33 (8.21%) Data Centre
3 32 (7.96%) Replication
4 27 (6.72%) Hybrid Cloud
5 24 (5.97%) Cloud Native
5 24 (5.97%) Enterprise Storage
6 21 (5.22%) Management Information System
7 20 (4.98%) Onboarding
8 16 (3.98%) Security Posture
9 13 (3.23%) Driving Licence
9 13 (3.23%) Self-Motivation
10 12 (2.99%) Data Protection Act
10 12 (2.99%) Enterprise Software
10 12 (2.99%) Public Cloud
11 11 (2.74%) iSeries
12 10 (2.49%) CMDB
13 8 (1.99%) Virtual Team
14 7 (1.74%) Freedom of Information
14 7 (1.74%) Freedom of Information Act
14 7 (1.74%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 127 (31.59%) Windows
2 96 (23.88%) Windows Server
3 43 (10.70%) Linux
4 8 (1.99%) Ubuntu
5 7 (1.74%) Mac OS
5 7 (1.74%) Windows Server 2016
6 6 (1.49%) Windows 10
6 6 (1.49%) Windows Server 2019
7 5 (1.24%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 5 (1.24%) Unix
8 3 (0.75%) Debian
9 2 (0.50%) AIX
9 2 (0.50%) CentOS
9 2 (0.50%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 215 (53.48%) Business Continuity
2 124 (30.85%) Problem-Solving
3 114 (28.36%) Cybersecurity
4 113 (28.11%) Continuous Improvement
5 108 (26.87%) Information Security
6 96 (23.88%) DevOps
7 94 (23.38%) ITIL
8 88 (21.89%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 82 (20.40%) Agile
10 67 (16.67%) Service Delivery
11 66 (16.42%) Project Delivery
12 65 (16.17%) High Availability
13 63 (15.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 62 (15.42%) Stakeholder Management
15 61 (15.17%) Incident Response
16 57 (14.18%) Enterprise Architecture
16 57 (14.18%) Mentoring
17 56 (13.93%) Runbook
18 55 (13.68%) Waterfall
19 54 (13.43%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 88 (21.89%) PowerShell
2 43 (10.70%) Python
3 26 (6.47%) SQL
4 20 (4.98%) Bicep
5 9 (2.24%) Bash
6 6 (1.49%) Shell Script
7 4 (1.00%) Java
8 3 (0.75%) JavaScript
8 3 (0.75%) Ruby
9 2 (0.50%) C#
9 2 (0.50%) T-SQL
10 1 (0.25%) TypeScript
10 1 (0.25%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 73 (18.16%) CISSP
2 69 (17.16%) CISM
3 53 (13.18%) ITIL Certification
4 36 (8.96%) Azure Certification
5 34 (8.46%) Degree
6 25 (6.22%) Microsoft Certification
7 22 (5.47%) Security Cleared
8 19 (4.73%) Cisco Certification
8 19 (4.73%) SC Cleared
8 19 (4.73%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 15 (3.73%) CCNA
10 14 (3.48%) CISA
11 13 (3.23%) CCNP
11 13 (3.23%) Computer Science Degree
12 11 (2.74%) CEH
13 10 (2.49%) VCAP
14 9 (2.24%) VCDX
15 8 (1.99%) ISACA
16 7 (1.74%) CRISC
17 6 (1.49%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 93 (23.13%) NIST
2 69 (17.16%) ISO 22301
3 61 (15.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 41 (10.20%) GDPR
5 29 (7.21%) Cyber Essentials
6 22 (5.47%) SLA
7 21 (5.22%) PCI DSS
8 17 (4.23%) PMO
9 12 (2.99%) GRC
10 11 (2.74%) COBIT
11 10 (2.49%) SOC 2
12 8 (1.99%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 7 (1.74%) SOC 1
14 5 (1.24%) Actionable Recommendations
14 5 (1.24%) NCSC
15 4 (1.00%) Data Quality
15 4 (1.00%) ISO/IEC 20000
16 3 (0.75%) ISO 9001
17 2 (0.50%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
17 2 (0.50%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 95 (23.63%) Active Directory
2 88 (21.89%) VMware Infrastructure
3 63 (15.67%) Hyper-V
4 24 (5.97%) vSphere
5 16 (3.98%) Docker
6 13 (3.23%) Firmware
7 10 (2.49%) VMware ESXi
7 10 (2.49%) VMware NSX
8 9 (2.24%) vCloud
8 9 (2.24%) Virtual Machines
9 7 (1.74%) Virtual Desktop
10 6 (1.49%) Squid
11 1 (0.25%) KVM
11 1 (0.25%) Oracle RAC
11 1 (0.25%) Terminal Services
11 1 (0.25%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 41 (10.20%) Microsoft Intune
2 34 (8.46%) Kubernetes
3 19 (4.73%) Ansible
4 8 (1.99%) Grafana
4 8 (1.99%) Prometheus
5 7 (1.74%) FortiGate
5 7 (1.74%) Packer
5 7 (1.74%) Single Sign-On
6 6 (1.49%) Avamar
6 6 (1.49%) Dell DRAC
6 6 (1.49%) EMC NetWorker
6 6 (1.49%) EMC VPLEX
6 6 (1.49%) VxRail
7 5 (1.24%) Proxmox
7 5 (1.24%) SCCM
8 3 (0.75%) vCenter Server
8 3 (0.75%) ZABBIX
9 2 (0.50%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 2 (0.50%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
9 2 (0.50%) WhatsUp Gold
Vendors
1 211 (52.49%) Microsoft
2 108 (26.87%) VMware
3 51 (12.69%) Veeam
4 39 (9.70%) Cisco
5 19 (4.73%) EMC
5 19 (4.73%) Palo Alto
6 17 (4.23%) NetApp
7 16 (3.98%) Dell
7 16 (3.98%) Fortinet
8 15 (3.73%) Google
8 15 (3.73%) Nimble Storage
9 14 (3.48%) Commvault
10 12 (2.99%) Oracle
11 11 (2.74%) Broadcom
11 11 (2.74%) HP
11 11 (2.74%) IBM
12 10 (2.49%) iManage
12 10 (2.49%) Meraki
12 10 (2.49%) Splunk
13 9 (2.24%) ServiceNow