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

6 months to
3 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 158 263 197
Rank change year-on-year +105 -66 +4
Permanent jobs citing Disaster Recovery 414 170 369
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.66% 1.01% 1.65%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.06% 1.08% 1.87%
Number of salaries quoted 271 133 194
10th Percentile £37,250 £40,600 £37,875
25th Percentile £46,250 £50,000 £53,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £62,500 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year - -7.41% +12.50%
75th Percentile £77,500 £83,750 £88,313
90th Percentile £87,500 £107,000 £112,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% - +0.80%

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 20,104 15,790 19,699
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 80.81% 93.84% 88.14%
Number of salaries quoted 14,346 8,455 11,710
10th Percentile £33,750 £29,750 £35,500
25th Percentile £44,750 £40,000 £45,000
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 £78,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £101,250
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £58,700
% change year-on-year +9.09% -6.30% -2.17%

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 3 October 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 45 (10.87%) SharePoint
2 44 (10.63%) Microsoft Exchange
3 12 (2.90%) IIS
4 8 (1.93%) nginx
5 6 (1.45%) Apache
6 3 (0.72%) WordPress
7 1 (0.24%) Confluence
7 1 (0.24%) FactoryTalk
7 1 (0.24%) Site Server
Applications
1 7 (1.69%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.24%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.24%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 4 (0.97%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.24%) Oracle Applications
2 1 (0.24%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.24%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 271 (65.46%) Azure
2 129 (31.16%) AWS
3 117 (28.26%) Microsoft 365
4 98 (23.67%) SaaS
5 84 (20.29%) Entra ID
6 35 (8.45%) IaaS
7 34 (8.21%) GCP
8 31 (7.49%) Azure Monitor
9 27 (6.52%) PaaS
10 24 (5.80%) Power Platform
11 23 (5.56%) Azure DevOps
12 21 (5.07%) OneDrive
13 14 (3.38%) Nutanix
14 12 (2.90%) GitHub
15 11 (2.66%) AWS CloudFormation
15 11 (2.66%) Microsoft Copilot
16 9 (2.17%) Azure Data Factory
16 9 (2.17%) Azure Sentinel
16 9 (2.17%) Microsoft Purview
17 8 (1.93%) Azure ExpressRoute
Communications & Networking
1 99 (23.91%) Firewall
2 94 (22.71%) DNS
3 76 (18.36%) DHCP
4 64 (15.46%) VPN
5 42 (10.14%) TCP/IP
6 31 (7.49%) WAN
7 30 (7.25%) VLAN
8 25 (6.04%) LAN
8 25 (6.04%) Network Security
9 14 (3.38%) Wi-Fi
10 11 (2.66%) SD-WAN
11 10 (2.42%) Wireless
12 8 (1.93%) Fibre Channel
12 8 (1.93%) SAN
13 7 (1.69%) NGFW
13 7 (1.69%) VSAN
14 6 (1.45%) iSCSI
15 5 (1.21%) Internet
16 4 (0.97%) Broadband
16 4 (0.97%) Cisco ISE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (5.56%) SQL Server
2 22 (5.31%) PostgreSQL
3 13 (3.14%) Azure SQL Database
4 11 (2.66%) Amazon RDS
5 10 (2.42%) Power BI
6 3 (0.72%) Oracle Database
6 3 (0.72%) Relational Database
6 3 (0.72%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 2 (0.48%) Metadata
7 2 (0.48%) MySQL
7 2 (0.48%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 1 (0.24%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (0.24%) MongoDB
8 1 (0.24%) Oracle Exadata
8 1 (0.24%) Oracle Reports
8 1 (0.24%) RDBMS
8 1 (0.24%) Redis
8 1 (0.24%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 1 (0.24%) SSDT
Development Applications
1 6 (1.45%) GitLab
1 6 (1.45%) JIRA
2 3 (0.72%) TeamCity
3 2 (0.48%) Git
3 2 (0.48%) Jenkins
3 2 (0.48%) Terragrunt
3 2 (0.48%) Visual Studio Code
4 1 (0.24%) Bitbucket
4 1 (0.24%) Claude Code
4 1 (0.24%) Flyway
4 1 (0.24%) Selenium
General
1 134 (32.37%) Social Skills
2 79 (19.08%) Finance
3 57 (13.77%) Analytical Skills
4 48 (11.59%) Law
5 33 (7.97%) Legal
6 30 (7.25%) Retail
7 25 (6.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 24 (5.80%) Public Sector
9 23 (5.56%) Banking
10 19 (4.59%) Documentation Skills
11 16 (3.86%) Back Office
12 12 (2.90%) Organisational Skills
13 11 (2.66%) Manufacturing
14 8 (1.93%) Police
15 6 (1.45%) Advertising
16 5 (1.21%) Influencing Skills
17 4 (0.97%) Aviation
17 4 (0.97%) Financial Institution
18 3 (0.72%) Presentation Skills
19 2 (0.48%) Fire and Rescue
Job Titles
1 73 (17.63%) Senior
2 63 (15.22%) IT Manager
3 58 (14.01%) Service Manager
4 53 (12.80%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 51 (12.32%) IT Services Manager
5 51 (12.32%) Resilience Manager
6 36 (8.70%) Architect
7 32 (7.73%) Consultant
8 30 (7.25%) IT Engineer
9 27 (6.52%) Lead
9 27 (6.52%) Support Engineer
10 25 (6.04%) Analyst
11 24 (5.80%) Senior Architect
12 23 (5.56%) Technical Consultant
13 20 (4.83%) Cloud Engineer
13 20 (4.83%) IT Support
13 20 (4.83%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
14 19 (4.59%) Azure Engineer
15 18 (4.35%) Technical Architect
16 16 (3.86%) IT Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 74 (17.87%) Terraform
2 67 (16.18%) Middleware
3 15 (3.62%) ARM Templates
4 9 (2.17%) OpenTelemetry
5 7 (1.69%) Microsoft Graph
5 7 (1.69%) REST
6 6 (1.45%) Web Services
7 4 (0.97%) .NET
7 4 (0.97%) JSON
8 3 (0.72%) 802.1X
8 3 (0.72%) LDAP
8 3 (0.72%) Nuxt
8 3 (0.72%) RESTful
8 3 (0.72%) Ruby on Rails
9 2 (0.48%) Kafka
9 2 (0.48%) React
9 2 (0.48%) YAML
10 1 (0.24%) OAuth
10 1 (0.24%) OpenID
10 1 (0.24%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 55 (13.29%) Cyber Threat
2 37 (8.94%) Replication
3 34 (8.21%) Data Centre
4 29 (7.00%) Cloud Native
5 27 (6.52%) Management Information System
6 24 (5.80%) Onboarding
7 23 (5.56%) Enterprise Storage
7 23 (5.56%) Hybrid Cloud
8 17 (4.11%) Enterprise Software
9 15 (3.62%) Security Posture
10 12 (2.90%) Blog
10 12 (2.90%) Data Protection Act
10 12 (2.90%) Self-Motivation
11 11 (2.66%) Distributed Systems
12 10 (2.42%) Driving Licence
12 10 (2.42%) iSeries
13 8 (1.93%) Public Cloud
14 7 (1.69%) Freedom of Information
14 7 (1.69%) Freedom of Information Act
14 7 (1.69%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 141 (34.06%) Windows
2 110 (26.57%) Windows Server
3 45 (10.87%) Linux
4 9 (2.17%) Ubuntu
4 9 (2.17%) Windows Server 2016
4 9 (2.17%) Windows Server 2019
5 8 (1.93%) Mac OS
6 7 (1.69%) Windows 10
7 5 (1.21%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 5 (1.21%) Unix
8 4 (0.97%) Debian
9 3 (0.72%) VMS
10 2 (0.48%) AIX
10 2 (0.48%) CentOS
10 2 (0.48%) Solaris
11 1 (0.24%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 209 (50.48%) Business Continuity
2 142 (34.30%) Problem-Solving
3 132 (31.88%) Continuous Improvement
4 105 (25.36%) Cybersecurity
4 105 (25.36%) DevOps
4 105 (25.36%) Information Security
5 98 (23.67%) ITIL
6 93 (22.46%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 81 (19.57%) Agile
8 76 (18.36%) Stakeholder Management
9 75 (18.12%) High Availability
10 70 (16.91%) Project Delivery
11 68 (16.43%) Service Delivery
12 63 (15.22%) Enterprise Architecture
12 63 (15.22%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 61 (14.73%) Infrastructure as Code
14 58 (14.01%) Runbook
15 56 (13.53%) CI/CD
15 56 (13.53%) Mentoring
15 56 (13.53%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 86 (20.77%) PowerShell
2 41 (9.90%) Python
3 35 (8.45%) SQL
4 28 (6.76%) Bicep
5 12 (2.90%) Bash
6 11 (2.66%) Java
7 6 (1.45%) Shell Script
8 5 (1.21%) JavaScript
9 3 (0.72%) C#
9 3 (0.72%) Go
9 3 (0.72%) Ruby
10 2 (0.48%) Groovy
10 2 (0.48%) T-SQL
11 1 (0.24%) TypeScript
11 1 (0.24%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 70 (16.91%) CISSP
2 68 (16.43%) CISM
3 56 (13.53%) ITIL Certification
4 37 (8.94%) Azure Certification
5 35 (8.45%) Security Cleared
6 31 (7.49%) SC Cleared
7 25 (6.04%) Degree
8 24 (5.80%) Microsoft Certification
9 17 (4.11%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 14 (3.38%) CISA
10 14 (3.38%) Cisco Certification
11 13 (3.14%) CCNA
11 13 (3.14%) Computer Science Degree
12 9 (2.17%) CCNP
13 8 (1.93%) ISACA
13 8 (1.93%) VCAP
14 7 (1.69%) CRISC
14 7 (1.69%) VCDX
15 6 (1.45%) Dell Certification
15 6 (1.45%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 89 (21.50%) NIST
2 72 (17.39%) ISO 22301
3 59 (14.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 38 (9.18%) GDPR
5 27 (6.52%) SLA
6 25 (6.04%) Cyber Essentials
6 25 (6.04%) PCI DSS
7 16 (3.86%) PMO
8 14 (3.38%) SOC 2
9 11 (2.66%) COBIT
10 7 (1.69%) SOC 1
11 6 (1.45%) NCSC
12 5 (1.21%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 4 (0.97%) ISO/IEC 20000
14 3 (0.72%) Accessibility
14 3 (0.72%) GRC
14 3 (0.72%) ISO 9001
15 2 (0.48%) ITGC
15 2 (0.48%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 1 (0.24%) Data Quality
System Software
1 111 (26.81%) Active Directory
2 90 (21.74%) VMware Infrastructure
3 73 (17.63%) Hyper-V
4 23 (5.56%) vSphere
5 21 (5.07%) Docker
6 16 (3.86%) Virtual Machines
7 13 (3.14%) Firmware
8 11 (2.66%) Virtual Desktop
9 10 (2.42%) VMware ESXi
10 8 (1.93%) VMware NSX
11 7 (1.69%) vCloud
12 6 (1.45%) Squid
13 1 (0.24%) KVM
13 1 (0.24%) Oracle RAC
13 1 (0.24%) Terminal Services
13 1 (0.24%) Virtual Servers
13 1 (0.24%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 45 (10.87%) Microsoft Intune
2 41 (9.90%) Kubernetes
3 20 (4.83%) Grafana
4 16 (3.86%) Ansible
5 15 (3.62%) Prometheus
6 11 (2.66%) Single Sign-On
7 6 (1.45%) Avamar
7 6 (1.45%) Dell DRAC
7 6 (1.45%) EMC NetWorker
7 6 (1.45%) EMC VPLEX
7 6 (1.45%) FortiGate
7 6 (1.45%) VxRail
8 5 (1.21%) Proxmox
8 5 (1.21%) SCCM
9 3 (0.72%) Kibana
9 3 (0.72%) Packer
9 3 (0.72%) WSUS
9 3 (0.72%) ZABBIX
10 2 (0.48%) NetBackup
10 2 (0.48%) SCOM
Vendors
1 218 (52.66%) Microsoft
2 114 (27.54%) VMware
3 62 (14.98%) Veeam
4 30 (7.25%) Cisco
5 23 (5.56%) Palo Alto
6 22 (5.31%) Fortinet
7 20 (4.83%) Dell
8 19 (4.59%) Google
9 15 (3.62%) NetApp
9 15 (3.62%) WatchGuard
10 14 (3.38%) EMC
10 14 (3.38%) Oracle
11 13 (3.14%) Nimble Storage
12 12 (2.90%) Commvault
12 12 (2.90%) SonicWALL
13 10 (2.42%) HP
13 10 (2.42%) IBM
13 10 (2.42%) Meraki
13 10 (2.42%) N-able
14 9 (2.17%) Broadcom