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

6 months to
17 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 186 206 209
Rank change year-on-year +20 +3 +69
Permanent jobs citing Disaster Recovery 242 210 495
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.37% 1.59% 1.52%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.65% 1.68% 1.66%
Number of salaries quoted 180 161 467
10th Percentile £42,250 £35,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £53,750 £44,000 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% - +7.00%
75th Percentile £91,250 £73,886 £77,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £90,000 £91,991
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +9.09% -

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 14,665 12,537 29,844
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 83.19% 94.79% 91.61%
Number of salaries quoted 10,232 8,912 23,714
10th Percentile £32,250 £32,500 £33,750
25th Percentile £44,972 £45,000 £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 £80,063 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -10.20%

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 17 April 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 32 (13.22%) SharePoint
2 30 (12.40%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (1.24%) IIS
4 2 (0.83%) Apache
5 1 (0.41%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 6 (2.48%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (1.65%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (1.24%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.41%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 4 (1.65%) Markit EDM
2 3 (1.24%) Oracle EBS
3 2 (0.83%) SAP ERP
4 1 (0.41%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 150 (61.98%) Azure
2 66 (27.27%) Microsoft 365
3 44 (18.18%) AWS
4 40 (16.53%) Entra ID
5 25 (10.33%) Nutanix
6 16 (6.61%) Amazon EKS
6 16 (6.61%) OneDrive
7 15 (6.20%) Azure Monitor
7 15 (6.20%) GitHub
7 15 (6.20%) SaaS
8 13 (5.37%) Amazon EC2
8 13 (5.37%) Azure Data Factory
8 13 (5.37%) Azure DevOps
8 13 (5.37%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 12 (4.96%) IaaS
9 12 (4.96%) PaaS
10 11 (4.55%) Mimecast
11 10 (4.13%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 9 (3.72%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 9 (3.72%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 62 (25.62%) Firewall
2 58 (23.97%) VPN
3 41 (16.94%) DNS
4 40 (16.53%) WAN
5 29 (11.98%) DHCP
5 29 (11.98%) TCP/IP
6 20 (8.26%) LAN
7 16 (6.61%) SD-WAN
8 13 (5.37%) Network Security
9 12 (4.96%) VLAN
10 9 (3.72%) Wi-Fi
11 6 (2.48%) BGP
12 5 (2.07%) Cisco ISE
12 5 (2.07%) SAN
12 5 (2.07%) Wireless
13 4 (1.65%) Cisco Nexus
13 4 (1.65%) Intrusion Detection
13 4 (1.65%) VSAN
14 3 (1.24%) PuTTY
14 3 (1.24%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (7.85%) Amazon RDS
2 18 (7.44%) SQL Server
3 13 (5.37%) Azure SQL Database
4 9 (3.72%) Data Lake
4 9 (3.72%) Delta Lake
5 8 (3.31%) Amazon Aurora
6 4 (1.65%) Data Warehouse
6 4 (1.65%) MySQL
7 3 (1.24%) Oracle Database
7 3 (1.24%) PostgreSQL
7 3 (1.24%) Power BI
8 2 (0.83%) Oracle Database 10g
8 2 (0.83%) Oracle Database 11g
8 2 (0.83%) Oracle Database 12c
9 1 (0.41%) DynamoDB
9 1 (0.41%) Oracle Exadata
9 1 (0.41%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 1 (0.41%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 1 (0.41%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 19 (7.85%) Git
2 5 (2.07%) Jenkins
3 4 (1.65%) Visual Studio Code
4 3 (1.24%) Maven
4 3 (1.24%) Sonatype Nexus
5 2 (0.83%) Selenium
6 1 (0.41%) JIRA
6 1 (0.41%) MLflow
General
1 82 (33.88%) Social Skills
2 66 (27.27%) Finance
3 26 (10.74%) Analytical Skills
4 24 (9.92%) Law
5 22 (9.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 20 (8.26%) Banking
7 13 (5.37%) Public Sector
8 12 (4.96%) Retail
9 10 (4.13%) Back Office
10 9 (3.72%) Organisational Skills
11 7 (2.89%) Documentation Skills
11 7 (2.89%) Legal
12 6 (2.48%) Financial Institution
12 6 (2.48%) Marketing
13 4 (1.65%) Presentation Skills
13 4 (1.65%) Social Housing
14 3 (1.24%) Local Government
15 2 (0.83%) Influencing Skills
15 2 (0.83%) Manufacturing
16 1 (0.41%) Police
Job Titles
1 52 (21.49%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 46 (19.01%) Senior
3 26 (10.74%) IT Manager
4 20 (8.26%) Lead
4 20 (8.26%) Platform Engineer
5 17 (7.02%) Security Specialist
5 17 (7.02%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
6 16 (6.61%) Cloud Engineer
7 14 (5.79%) AWS Engineer
8 13 (5.37%) IT Engineer
8 13 (5.37%) IT Security Specialist
8 13 (5.37%) Security Manager
9 12 (4.96%) Azure Engineer
9 12 (4.96%) Cloud Platform Engineer
9 12 (4.96%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
10 11 (4.55%) Operations Engineer
11 10 (4.13%) Architect
11 10 (4.13%) Support Engineer
12 9 (3.72%) Applications Support
12 9 (3.72%) Service Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (3.72%) PySpark
2 7 (2.89%) Loki
2 7 (2.89%) RESTful
3 6 (2.48%) ARM Templates
4 3 (1.24%) ActiveMQ
4 3 (1.24%) LAMP
4 3 (1.24%) RAML
4 3 (1.24%) REST
4 3 (1.24%) SOAP
5 2 (0.83%) AWS SAM
5 2 (0.83%) Elastic Stack
5 2 (0.83%) Node.js
5 2 (0.83%) Playwright
6 1 (0.41%) AWS CDK
6 1 (0.41%) FastAPI
6 1 (0.41%) Hugging Face
6 1 (0.41%) JWT
6 1 (0.41%) Pandas
6 1 (0.41%) pytest
6 1 (0.41%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 32 (13.22%) Hybrid Cloud
2 23 (9.50%) Data Centre
3 22 (9.09%) Cloud Native
4 16 (6.61%) Driving Licence
5 15 (6.20%) Management Information System
6 13 (5.37%) Legacy Systems
6 13 (5.37%) Replication
7 11 (4.55%) CMDB
7 11 (4.55%) Cyber Threat
8 10 (4.13%) Enterprise Storage
9 9 (3.72%) Onboarding
10 7 (2.89%) iSeries
10 7 (2.89%) Public Cloud
11 6 (2.48%) Distributed Systems
11 6 (2.48%) Enterprise Software
12 5 (2.07%) Mobile App
12 5 (2.07%) Private Cloud
12 5 (2.07%) Self-Motivation
13 4 (1.65%) iPhone
13 4 (1.65%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 66 (27.27%) Windows
2 42 (17.36%) Windows Server
3 28 (11.57%) Linux
4 13 (5.37%) Windows 10
5 12 (4.96%) Apple iOS
6 4 (1.65%) CentOS
6 4 (1.65%) Ubuntu
6 4 (1.65%) Unix
7 3 (1.24%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 3 (1.24%) Rocky
8 1 (0.41%) AIX
8 1 (0.41%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.41%) Solaris
8 1 (0.41%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 76 (31.40%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 70 (28.93%) Cybersecurity
3 60 (24.79%) Business Continuity
3 60 (24.79%) Problem-Solving
4 56 (23.14%) DevOps
5 55 (22.73%) Service Delivery
6 51 (21.07%) ITIL
7 49 (20.25%) CI/CD
8 44 (18.18%) Continuous Improvement
9 43 (17.77%) Infrastructure as Code
10 36 (14.88%) Vulnerability Management
11 34 (14.05%) Cloud Security
11 34 (14.05%) High Availability
12 33 (13.64%) Incident Response
12 33 (13.64%) Migration
13 30 (12.40%) Mentoring
13 30 (12.40%) Platform Engineering
14 27 (11.16%) Root Cause Analysis
15 25 (10.33%) Identity Access Management
15 25 (10.33%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 67 (27.69%) PowerShell
2 63 (26.03%) Python
3 26 (10.74%) SQL
4 11 (4.55%) Java
5 10 (4.13%) Bash
6 9 (3.72%) Bicep
6 9 (3.72%) Scala
7 8 (3.31%) Go
8 3 (1.24%) Shell Script
9 2 (0.83%) JavaScript
9 2 (0.83%) TypeScript
10 1 (0.41%) C#
10 1 (0.41%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 39 (16.12%) Degree
2 22 (9.09%) Microsoft Certification
3 17 (7.02%) Azure Certification
3 17 (7.02%) CEH
4 15 (6.20%) Security Cleared
5 13 (5.37%) Computer Science Degree
5 13 (5.37%) SC Cleared
6 8 (3.31%) BPSS Clearance
6 8 (3.31%) Cisco Certification
6 8 (3.31%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 7 (2.89%) CCNP
8 5 (2.07%) CCNA
8 5 (2.07%) CISSP
9 4 (1.65%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 4 (1.65%) MCSE
9 4 (1.65%) VCAP
9 4 (1.65%) VCDX
10 3 (1.24%) CISM
10 3 (1.24%) ITIL Certification
11 2 (0.83%) ISACA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 52 (21.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 32 (13.22%) NIST
3 27 (11.16%) Cyber Essentials
4 24 (9.92%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 16 (6.61%) GDPR
5 16 (6.61%) PCI DSS
6 14 (5.79%) ISO 22301
7 13 (5.37%) Data Quality
8 10 (4.13%) Actionable Recommendations
8 10 (4.13%) GRC
9 9 (3.72%) SOC 2
10 7 (2.89%) SLA
11 5 (2.07%) PMO
12 2 (0.83%) Accessibility
12 2 (0.83%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
13 1 (0.41%) Basel III
13 1 (0.41%) COBIT
13 1 (0.41%) ISO/IEC 20000
13 1 (0.41%) MiFID
13 1 (0.41%) SOC 1
System Software
1 48 (19.83%) Active Directory
2 46 (19.01%) VMware Infrastructure
3 24 (9.92%) Hyper-V
4 14 (5.79%) Firmware
5 11 (4.55%) Docker
6 9 (3.72%) vSphere
7 6 (2.48%) Virtual Machines
8 5 (2.07%) vCloud
8 5 (2.07%) Virtual Servers
9 4 (1.65%) VMware NSX
10 3 (1.24%) Microsoft Virtual Server
10 3 (1.24%) VMware ESXi
11 2 (0.83%) Virtual Desktop
12 1 (0.41%) KVM
12 1 (0.41%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 49 (20.25%) Terraform
2 36 (14.88%) Microsoft Intune
3 25 (10.33%) Kubernetes
4 17 (7.02%) Ansible
5 10 (4.13%) Grafana
6 7 (2.89%) Prometheus
7 6 (2.48%) Packer
8 4 (1.65%) vCenter Server
9 3 (1.24%) Dell DRAC
9 3 (1.24%) FortiGate
9 3 (1.24%) Nagios
10 2 (0.83%) SCCM
11 1 (0.41%) Data Guard
11 1 (0.41%) EMC NetWorker
11 1 (0.41%) EMC VPLEX
11 1 (0.41%) Jamf Pro
11 1 (0.41%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
11 1 (0.41%) Oracle Flashback
11 1 (0.41%) PowerCLI
11 1 (0.41%) VxRail
Vendors
1 120 (49.59%) Microsoft
2 77 (31.82%) VMware
3 26 (10.74%) Cisco
3 26 (10.74%) Commvault
4 14 (5.79%) Fortinet
5 11 (4.55%) EMC
5 11 (4.55%) IBM
5 11 (4.55%) Meraki
5 11 (4.55%) Veeam
6 10 (4.13%) Oracle
7 9 (3.72%) Databricks
8 8 (3.31%) Dell
8 8 (3.31%) ServiceNow
8 8 (3.31%) Sophos
9 7 (2.89%) HP
10 6 (2.48%) NetApp
10 6 (2.48%) Palo Alto
11 5 (2.07%) Apple
11 5 (2.07%) Nimble Storage
11 5 (2.07%) Splunk