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

6 months to
9 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 154 266 203
Rank change year-on-year +112 -63 -4
Permanent jobs citing Disaster Recovery 417 165 359
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.68% 0.98% 1.66%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.09% 1.05% 1.88%
Number of salaries quoted 270 130 185
10th Percentile £37,150 £40,340 £37,500
25th Percentile £46,250 £50,000 £52,500
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 £82,500
90th Percentile £87,625 £105,250 £102,500
UK median annual salary £55,319 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.80% - +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 19,953 15,755 19,120
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 80.51% 93.83% 88.22%
Number of salaries quoted 14,223 8,440 11,340
10th Percentile £33,750 £29,750 £35,700
25th Percentile £44,447 £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 £102,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
% 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 9 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 46 (11.03%) Microsoft Exchange
2 44 (10.55%) SharePoint
3 12 (2.88%) IIS
4 8 (1.92%) nginx
5 6 (1.44%) 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 (1.68%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.24%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.24%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 4 (0.96%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.24%) Oracle Applications
2 1 (0.24%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.24%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 269 (64.51%) Azure
2 129 (30.94%) AWS
3 120 (28.78%) Microsoft 365
4 102 (24.46%) SaaS
5 90 (21.58%) Entra ID
6 36 (8.63%) IaaS
7 35 (8.39%) GCP
8 33 (7.91%) Azure Monitor
9 27 (6.47%) PaaS
10 26 (6.24%) Power Platform
11 23 (5.52%) Azure DevOps
12 20 (4.80%) OneDrive
13 14 (3.36%) Nutanix
14 13 (3.12%) GitHub
15 11 (2.64%) Google Workspace
15 11 (2.64%) Microsoft Copilot
16 10 (2.40%) AWS CloudFormation
16 10 (2.40%) Azure Sentinel
17 9 (2.16%) Azure ExpressRoute
17 9 (2.16%) Azure Storage
Communications & Networking
1 98 (23.50%) DNS
2 95 (22.78%) Firewall
3 81 (19.42%) DHCP
4 66 (15.83%) VPN
5 45 (10.79%) TCP/IP
6 33 (7.91%) VLAN
7 30 (7.19%) WAN
8 25 (6.00%) Network Security
9 24 (5.76%) LAN
10 14 (3.36%) Wi-Fi
11 12 (2.88%) SD-WAN
12 11 (2.64%) SAN
13 10 (2.40%) Wireless
14 8 (1.92%) Fibre Channel
15 7 (1.68%) NGFW
15 7 (1.68%) VSAN
16 6 (1.44%) BGP
16 6 (1.44%) iSCSI
17 5 (1.20%) Internet
17 5 (1.20%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (6.00%) PostgreSQL
2 22 (5.28%) SQL Server
3 14 (3.36%) Amazon RDS
3 14 (3.36%) Azure SQL Database
4 10 (2.40%) Power BI
5 3 (0.72%) Oracle Database
5 3 (0.72%) Relational Database
5 3 (0.72%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 2 (0.48%) Metadata
6 2 (0.48%) MySQL
6 2 (0.48%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 1 (0.24%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (0.24%) MongoDB
7 1 (0.24%) Oracle Exadata
7 1 (0.24%) Oracle Reports
7 1 (0.24%) RDBMS
7 1 (0.24%) Redis
7 1 (0.24%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 1 (0.24%) SSDT
Development Applications
1 6 (1.44%) GitLab
1 6 (1.44%) JIRA
1 6 (1.44%) TeamCity
2 2 (0.48%) Git
2 2 (0.48%) Jenkins
2 2 (0.48%) Terragrunt
2 2 (0.48%) Visual Studio Code
3 1 (0.24%) Bitbucket
3 1 (0.24%) Claude Code
3 1 (0.24%) Flyway
3 1 (0.24%) Selenium
General
1 139 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 83 (19.90%) Finance
3 62 (14.87%) Analytical Skills
4 51 (12.23%) Law
5 34 (8.15%) Legal
6 33 (7.91%) Retail
7 29 (6.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 26 (6.24%) Banking
8 26 (6.24%) Public Sector
9 19 (4.56%) Back Office
9 19 (4.56%) Documentation Skills
10 12 (2.88%) Organisational Skills
11 11 (2.64%) Manufacturing
12 9 (2.16%) Police
13 7 (1.68%) Financial Institution
14 6 (1.44%) Advertising
15 5 (1.20%) Aviation
15 5 (1.20%) Influencing Skills
16 2 (0.48%) Local Government
16 2 (0.48%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 73 (17.51%) Senior
2 63 (15.11%) IT Manager
3 59 (14.15%) Service Manager
4 54 (12.95%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 51 (12.23%) IT Services Manager
5 51 (12.23%) Resilience Manager
6 35 (8.39%) Architect
7 30 (7.19%) Consultant
8 29 (6.95%) IT Engineer
9 27 (6.47%) Lead
9 27 (6.47%) Support Engineer
10 26 (6.24%) Analyst
11 24 (5.76%) Senior Architect
12 23 (5.52%) Technical Consultant
13 21 (5.04%) Azure Engineer
14 20 (4.80%) IT Support
14 20 (4.80%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
15 19 (4.56%) Cloud Engineer
16 18 (4.32%) Technical Architect
17 16 (3.84%) IT Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 78 (18.71%) Terraform
2 68 (16.31%) Middleware
3 14 (3.36%) ARM Templates
4 12 (2.88%) OpenTelemetry
5 7 (1.68%) Microsoft Graph
5 7 (1.68%) REST
5 7 (1.68%) Web Services
6 6 (1.44%) RESTful
7 5 (1.20%) .NET
8 4 (0.96%) JSON
9 3 (0.72%) 802.1X
9 3 (0.72%) LDAP
9 3 (0.72%) Nuxt
9 3 (0.72%) Ruby on Rails
9 3 (0.72%) SAML
10 2 (0.48%) Kafka
10 2 (0.48%) React
10 2 (0.48%) YAML
11 1 (0.24%) OAuth2
11 1 (0.24%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 56 (13.43%) Cyber Threat
2 36 (8.63%) Replication
3 32 (7.67%) Cloud Native
4 30 (7.19%) Data Centre
5 29 (6.95%) Management Information System
6 24 (5.76%) Onboarding
7 22 (5.28%) Hybrid Cloud
8 20 (4.80%) Enterprise Storage
9 18 (4.32%) Enterprise Software
10 17 (4.08%) Security Posture
11 15 (3.60%) Blog
12 14 (3.36%) Distributed Systems
13 12 (2.88%) Data Protection Act
13 12 (2.88%) Self-Motivation
14 11 (2.64%) Driving Licence
15 8 (1.92%) Public Cloud
16 7 (1.68%) Freedom of Information
16 7 (1.68%) Freedom of Information Act
16 7 (1.68%) Virtual Team
17 6 (1.44%) Cyber Defence
Operating Systems
1 143 (34.29%) Windows
2 113 (27.10%) Windows Server
3 44 (10.55%) Linux
4 10 (2.40%) Windows Server 2016
4 10 (2.40%) Windows Server 2019
5 8 (1.92%) Mac OS
5 8 (1.92%) Ubuntu
6 7 (1.68%) Windows 10
7 5 (1.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 5 (1.20%) Unix
8 4 (0.96%) Debian
9 3 (0.72%) VMS
10 2 (0.48%) AIX
10 2 (0.48%) Solaris
11 1 (0.24%) Apple iOS
11 1 (0.24%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 215 (51.56%) Business Continuity
2 147 (35.25%) Problem-Solving
3 135 (32.37%) Continuous Improvement
4 111 (26.62%) Cybersecurity
5 108 (25.90%) Information Security
6 106 (25.42%) DevOps
7 102 (24.46%) ITIL
8 92 (22.06%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 83 (19.90%) Agile
10 78 (18.71%) High Availability
11 76 (18.23%) Stakeholder Management
12 69 (16.55%) Project Delivery
12 69 (16.55%) Service Delivery
13 64 (15.35%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 62 (14.87%) Enterprise Architecture
14 62 (14.87%) Runbook
15 61 (14.63%) Infrastructure as Code
16 60 (14.39%) CI/CD
17 56 (13.43%) Waterfall
18 55 (13.19%) Cloud Security
Programming Languages
1 90 (21.58%) PowerShell
2 43 (10.31%) Python
3 39 (9.35%) SQL
4 30 (7.19%) Bicep
5 15 (3.60%) Bash
6 14 (3.36%) Java
7 6 (1.44%) Go
7 6 (1.44%) Shell Script
8 5 (1.20%) JavaScript
9 3 (0.72%) C#
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 71 (17.03%) CISSP
2 68 (16.31%) CISM
3 57 (13.67%) ITIL Certification
4 41 (9.83%) Azure Certification
5 38 (9.11%) Security Cleared
6 34 (8.15%) SC Cleared
7 27 (6.47%) Microsoft Certification
8 25 (6.00%) Degree
9 16 (3.84%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 14 (3.36%) CISA
10 14 (3.36%) Cisco Certification
11 13 (3.12%) CCNA
12 12 (2.88%) Computer Science Degree
13 9 (2.16%) CCNP
14 8 (1.92%) ISACA
14 8 (1.92%) VCAP
15 7 (1.68%) CRISC
15 7 (1.68%) VCDX
16 6 (1.44%) Dell Certification
16 6 (1.44%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 88 (21.10%) NIST
2 73 (17.51%) ISO 22301
3 63 (15.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 37 (8.87%) GDPR
5 28 (6.71%) SLA
6 27 (6.47%) PCI DSS
7 26 (6.24%) Cyber Essentials
8 17 (4.08%) SOC 2
9 16 (3.84%) PMO
10 11 (2.64%) COBIT
11 7 (1.68%) NCSC
11 7 (1.68%) SOC 1
12 6 (1.44%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 4 (0.96%) 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
1 115 (27.58%) Active Directory
2 86 (20.62%) VMware Infrastructure
3 73 (17.51%) Hyper-V
4 22 (5.28%) vSphere
5 21 (5.04%) Docker
6 19 (4.56%) Virtual Machines
7 10 (2.40%) Virtual Desktop
7 10 (2.40%) VMware ESXi
8 8 (1.92%) Firmware
8 8 (1.92%) VMware NSX
9 7 (1.68%) vCloud
10 6 (1.44%) Squid
11 1 (0.24%) DFS Replication
11 1 (0.24%) KVM
11 1 (0.24%) Oracle RAC
11 1 (0.24%) Terminal Services
11 1 (0.24%) Virtual Servers
11 1 (0.24%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 49 (11.75%) Microsoft Intune
2 44 (10.55%) Kubernetes
3 24 (5.76%) Grafana
4 18 (4.32%) Prometheus
5 16 (3.84%) Ansible
5 16 (3.84%) Single Sign-On
6 8 (1.92%) FortiGate
7 6 (1.44%) Avamar
7 6 (1.44%) Dell DRAC
7 6 (1.44%) EMC NetWorker
7 6 (1.44%) EMC VPLEX
7 6 (1.44%) SCCM
7 6 (1.44%) VxRail
8 5 (1.20%) Proxmox
9 4 (0.96%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 3 (0.72%) Kibana
10 3 (0.72%) Packer
10 3 (0.72%) WSUS
10 3 (0.72%) ZABBIX
11 2 (0.48%) WhatsUp Gold
Vendors
1 217 (52.04%) Microsoft
2 108 (25.90%) VMware
3 55 (13.19%) Veeam
4 31 (7.43%) Cisco
5 23 (5.52%) Palo Alto
6 22 (5.28%) Google
7 21 (5.04%) Fortinet
8 19 (4.56%) Dell
9 15 (3.60%) NetApp
9 15 (3.60%) WatchGuard
10 14 (3.36%) Oracle
11 13 (3.12%) Nimble Storage
12 12 (2.88%) SonicWALL
13 11 (2.64%) SolarWinds
14 10 (2.40%) Dynatrace
14 10 (2.40%) Meraki
15 9 (2.16%) Adobe
15 9 (2.16%) Broadcom
15 9 (2.16%) EMC
15 9 (2.16%) N-able