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

6 months to
25 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 177 259 197
Rank change year-on-year +82 -62 +47
Permanent jobs citing Disaster Recovery 296 181 563
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.45% 1.16% 1.65%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.77% 1.23% 1.85%
Number of salaries quoted 232 136 434
10th Percentile £41,025 £32,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £41,088 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £58,750 £59,750
Median % change year-on-year +2.13% -1.67% +0.38%
75th Percentile £82,500 £75,188 £77,878
90th Percentile £92,375 £88,125 £94,975
UK median annual salary £57,500 £62,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.00% +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 16,752 14,765 30,420
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 82.20% 94.42% 89.03%
Number of salaries quoted 12,192 8,606 23,487
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,750 £33,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £42,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.35% -8.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -9.54%

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 June 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 (12.50%) Microsoft Exchange
2 36 (12.16%) SharePoint
3 8 (2.70%) IIS
4 3 (1.01%) WordPress
5 2 (0.68%) Apache
6 1 (0.34%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.34%) Site Server
Applications
1 7 (2.36%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.34%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (1.01%) Dynamics CRM
1 3 (1.01%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (0.68%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 175 (59.12%) Azure
2 93 (31.42%) Microsoft 365
3 57 (19.26%) AWS
4 48 (16.22%) Entra ID
5 25 (8.45%) Nutanix
6 24 (8.11%) SaaS
7 18 (6.08%) Power Platform
8 16 (5.41%) GCP
9 14 (4.73%) IaaS
10 13 (4.39%) GitHub
10 13 (4.39%) PaaS
11 12 (4.05%) Azure Data Factory
11 12 (4.05%) Azure DevOps
11 12 (4.05%) Mimecast
12 11 (3.72%) Azure Monitor
13 10 (3.38%) Amazon EKS
14 9 (3.04%) Amazon EC2
15 8 (2.70%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 8 (2.70%) OneDrive
16 7 (2.36%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 92 (31.08%) Firewall
2 58 (19.59%) VPN
3 57 (19.26%) DNS
4 44 (14.86%) DHCP
5 41 (13.85%) WAN
6 33 (11.15%) TCP/IP
7 28 (9.46%) LAN
8 23 (7.77%) Network Security
9 17 (5.74%) Wi-Fi
10 14 (4.73%) VLAN
11 10 (3.38%) SD-WAN
12 9 (3.04%) VSAN
13 7 (2.36%) NGFW
14 6 (2.03%) Cisco ISE
14 6 (2.03%) Fibre Channel
14 6 (2.03%) iSCSI
14 6 (2.03%) SAN
15 5 (1.69%) Wireless
16 4 (1.35%) Internet
16 4 (1.35%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (7.43%) SQL Server
2 11 (3.72%) Amazon RDS
2 11 (3.72%) Azure SQL Database
3 8 (2.70%) Power BI
4 6 (2.03%) PostgreSQL
5 4 (1.35%) Amazon Aurora
5 4 (1.35%) Data Lake
5 4 (1.35%) Delta Lake
6 1 (0.34%) MySQL
6 1 (0.34%) Oracle Exadata
6 1 (0.34%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.34%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 1 (0.34%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (0.34%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 11 (3.72%) Git
2 6 (2.03%) Visual Studio Code
3 3 (1.01%) JIRA
3 3 (1.01%) Selenium
4 2 (0.68%) Terragrunt
5 1 (0.34%) Claude Code
5 1 (0.34%) GitLab
5 1 (0.34%) MLflow
General
1 109 (36.82%) Social Skills
2 52 (17.57%) Finance
3 37 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
4 26 (8.78%) Legal
5 25 (8.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 23 (7.77%) Banking
7 20 (6.76%) Law
8 17 (5.74%) Retail
9 16 (5.41%) Public Sector
10 14 (4.73%) Back Office
11 12 (4.05%) Documentation Skills
12 11 (3.72%) Organisational Skills
13 6 (2.03%) Advertising
13 6 (2.03%) Marketing
14 4 (1.35%) Presentation Skills
15 3 (1.01%) Financial Institution
16 2 (0.68%) Influencing Skills
16 2 (0.68%) Social Housing
17 1 (0.34%) Aviation
17 1 (0.34%) Police
Job Titles
1 60 (20.27%) Senior
2 59 (19.93%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 25 (8.45%) IT Manager
4 23 (7.77%) Lead
4 23 (7.77%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 23 (7.77%) Support Engineer
5 22 (7.43%) IT Engineer
6 20 (6.76%) Architect
6 20 (6.76%) Platform Engineer
7 18 (6.08%) Consultant
8 17 (5.74%) Security Manager
9 16 (5.41%) Azure Engineer
9 16 (5.41%) IT Support
10 15 (5.07%) Cloud Engineer
10 15 (5.07%) Security Specialist
10 15 (5.07%) Senior Architect
10 15 (5.07%) Senior Technical Consultant
10 15 (5.07%) Senior VMware Consultant
10 15 (5.07%) VMware Consultant
10 15 (5.07%) VMware Technical Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (3.04%) ARM Templates
2 7 (2.36%) Microsoft Graph
3 6 (2.03%) Middleware
4 4 (1.35%) Loki
4 4 (1.35%) PySpark
4 4 (1.35%) RESTful
5 3 (1.01%) JSON
5 3 (1.01%) Node.js
5 3 (1.01%) Nuxt
5 3 (1.01%) Playwright
5 3 (1.01%) Ruby on Rails
6 2 (0.68%) Kafka
7 1 (0.34%) NumPy
7 1 (0.34%) OAuth
7 1 (0.34%) OAuth2
7 1 (0.34%) OpenCV
7 1 (0.34%) Pandas
7 1 (0.34%) pytest
7 1 (0.34%) SQLAlchemy
7 1 (0.34%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 31 (10.47%) Data Centre
2 25 (8.45%) Hybrid Cloud
3 23 (7.77%) Management Information System
4 22 (7.43%) Cloud Native
4 22 (7.43%) Replication
5 20 (6.76%) Enterprise Storage
6 17 (5.74%) Driving Licence
7 14 (4.73%) CMDB
7 14 (4.73%) Cyber Threat
8 13 (4.39%) Legacy Systems
8 13 (4.39%) Onboarding
8 13 (4.39%) Security Posture
9 12 (4.05%) Self-Motivation
10 11 (3.72%) iSeries
11 10 (3.38%) Public Cloud
12 9 (3.04%) Data Protection Act
13 8 (2.70%) Virtual Team
14 7 (2.36%) Enterprise Software
14 7 (2.36%) Freedom of Information
14 7 (2.36%) Freedom of Information Act
Operating Systems
1 94 (31.76%) Windows
2 64 (21.62%) Windows Server
3 27 (9.12%) Linux
4 8 (2.70%) Mac OS
5 6 (2.03%) Apple iOS
5 6 (2.03%) Windows 10
5 6 (2.03%) Windows Server 2016
6 5 (1.69%) Windows Server 2019
7 3 (1.01%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 3 (1.01%) Unix
8 1 (0.34%) AIX
8 1 (0.34%) CentOS
8 1 (0.34%) Solaris
8 1 (0.34%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 109 (36.82%) Business Continuity
2 98 (33.11%) Cybersecurity
3 92 (31.08%) Problem-Solving
4 84 (28.38%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 80 (27.03%) Continuous Improvement
6 63 (21.28%) Incident Response
7 57 (19.26%) Service Delivery
8 47 (15.88%) Information Security
9 46 (15.54%) CI/CD
9 46 (15.54%) DevOps
9 46 (15.54%) ITIL
10 42 (14.19%) High Availability
11 39 (13.18%) Cloud Security
12 38 (12.84%) Stakeholder Management
13 37 (12.50%) Infrastructure as Code
13 37 (12.50%) Risk Management
14 36 (12.16%) Vulnerability Management
15 35 (11.82%) Mentoring
16 33 (11.15%) SIEM
17 29 (9.80%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 78 (26.35%) PowerShell
2 44 (14.86%) Python
3 26 (8.78%) SQL
4 8 (2.70%) Bicep
5 7 (2.36%) Java
6 6 (2.03%) Bash
7 4 (1.35%) Scala
8 3 (1.01%) Go
8 3 (1.01%) Ruby
8 3 (1.01%) TypeScript
9 1 (0.34%) C#
9 1 (0.34%) T-SQL
9 1 (0.34%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 39 (13.18%) Degree
2 26 (8.78%) Microsoft Certification
3 19 (6.42%) Cisco Certification
3 19 (6.42%) CISSP
4 18 (6.08%) Azure Certification
5 17 (5.74%) Security Cleared
6 16 (5.41%) CCNA
6 16 (5.41%) CISM
7 15 (5.07%) SC Cleared
8 13 (4.39%) CCNP
8 13 (4.39%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 12 (4.05%) CEH
9 12 (4.05%) CISA
10 9 (3.04%) Computer Science Degree
10 9 (3.04%) VCAP
10 9 (3.04%) VCDX
11 8 (2.70%) ISACA
12 7 (2.36%) CRISC
13 6 (2.03%) BPSS Clearance
13 6 (2.03%) Dell Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 70 (23.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 45 (15.20%) NIST
3 39 (13.18%) GDPR
4 36 (12.16%) Cyber Essentials
5 23 (7.77%) PCI DSS
6 19 (6.42%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 17 (5.74%) PMO
8 15 (5.07%) SLA
9 14 (4.73%) ISO 22301
9 14 (4.73%) SOC 2
10 11 (3.72%) GRC
11 10 (3.38%) Actionable Recommendations
11 10 (3.38%) COBIT
12 8 (2.70%) Data Quality
13 7 (2.36%) SOC 1
14 2 (0.68%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
14 2 (0.68%) NCSC
15 1 (0.34%) Accessibility
15 1 (0.34%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 73 (24.66%) VMware Infrastructure
2 72 (24.32%) Active Directory
3 46 (15.54%) Hyper-V
4 24 (8.11%) vSphere
5 16 (5.41%) Firmware
6 9 (3.04%) Docker
6 9 (3.04%) vCloud
6 9 (3.04%) VMware NSX
7 5 (1.69%) Virtual Machines
7 5 (1.69%) VMware ESXi
8 4 (1.35%) Virtual Servers
9 3 (1.01%) Microsoft Virtual Server
10 1 (0.34%) KVM
10 1 (0.34%) Oracle RAC
10 1 (0.34%) Terminal Services
10 1 (0.34%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 49 (16.55%) Terraform
2 41 (13.85%) Microsoft Intune
3 23 (7.77%) Kubernetes
4 14 (4.73%) Ansible
5 9 (3.04%) Packer
6 7 (2.36%) Dell DRAC
6 7 (2.36%) Grafana
6 7 (2.36%) Prometheus
6 7 (2.36%) Single Sign-On
7 6 (2.03%) Avamar
7 6 (2.03%) EMC NetWorker
7 6 (2.03%) EMC VPLEX
7 6 (2.03%) VxRail
8 5 (1.69%) vCenter Server
9 4 (1.35%) FortiGate
9 4 (1.35%) Proxmox
10 3 (1.01%) ZABBIX
11 2 (0.68%) SCCM
11 2 (0.68%) WhatsUp Gold
12 1 (0.34%) Data Guard
Vendors
1 158 (53.38%) Microsoft
2 97 (32.77%) VMware
3 38 (12.84%) Cisco
4 34 (11.49%) Veeam
5 20 (6.76%) Commvault
6 19 (6.42%) EMC
7 17 (5.74%) Dell
8 16 (5.41%) Fortinet
9 15 (5.07%) Meraki
9 15 (5.07%) NetApp
9 15 (5.07%) Nimble Storage
10 12 (4.05%) Palo Alto
11 11 (3.72%) Broadcom
11 11 (3.72%) HP
11 11 (3.72%) IBM
11 11 (3.72%) Sophos
12 9 (3.04%) ServiceNow
12 9 (3.04%) Splunk
13 8 (2.70%) iManage
13 8 (2.70%) Oracle