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

6 months to
11 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 161 263 214
Rank change year-on-year +102 -49 -20
Permanent jobs citing Disaster Recovery 400 171 362
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.67% 1.05% 1.54%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.04% 1.13% 1.76%
Number of salaries quoted 276 133 210
10th Percentile £38,625 £32,300 £41,750
25th Percentile £46,250 £46,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year - -11.11% +13.40%
75th Percentile £75,437 £82,500 £91,500
90th Percentile £86,813 £105,000 £112,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £59,125
% change year-on-year -4.17% +1.48% +1.07%

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 19,633 15,114 20,558
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 81.88% 93.04% 87.64%
Number of salaries quoted 14,127 8,686 12,990
10th Percentile £34,000 £29,750 £35,250
25th Percentile £44,750 £40,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -4.17%

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 11 September 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 44 (11.00%) SharePoint
2 36 (9.00%) Microsoft Exchange
3 13 (3.25%) IIS
4 7 (1.75%) Apache
5 6 (1.50%) 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 (1.75%) 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
1 266 (66.50%) Azure
2 125 (31.25%) AWS
3 118 (29.50%) Microsoft 365
4 88 (22.00%) SaaS
5 73 (18.25%) Entra ID
6 32 (8.00%) IaaS
7 29 (7.25%) GCP
8 24 (6.00%) Azure Monitor
9 22 (5.50%) PaaS
9 22 (5.50%) Power Platform
10 19 (4.75%) OneDrive
11 17 (4.25%) Nutanix
12 13 (3.25%) Azure DevOps
13 10 (2.50%) AWS CloudFormation
13 10 (2.50%) Microsoft Copilot
14 9 (2.25%) Azure Data Factory
14 9 (2.25%) Azure Sentinel
14 9 (2.25%) Microsoft Purview
15 8 (2.00%) GitHub
16 7 (1.75%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 104 (26.00%) Firewall
2 84 (21.00%) DNS
3 65 (16.25%) DHCP
4 54 (13.50%) VPN
5 35 (8.75%) TCP/IP
6 32 (8.00%) WAN
7 28 (7.00%) Network Security
8 26 (6.50%) LAN
9 22 (5.50%) VLAN
10 13 (3.25%) Wi-Fi
11 10 (2.50%) SD-WAN
12 9 (2.25%) SAN
12 9 (2.25%) VSAN
12 9 (2.25%) Wireless
13 8 (2.00%) Fibre Channel
14 7 (1.75%) NGFW
15 6 (1.50%) iSCSI
16 5 (1.25%) Cisco ISE
17 4 (1.00%) Broadband
17 4 (1.00%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (5.75%) SQL Server
2 12 (3.00%) PostgreSQL
3 11 (2.75%) Azure SQL Database
4 10 (2.50%) Power BI
5 4 (1.00%) Amazon RDS
6 3 (0.75%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 2 (0.50%) Oracle Database
7 2 (0.50%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 2 (0.50%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 1 (0.25%) MongoDB
8 1 (0.25%) MySQL
8 1 (0.25%) Oracle Exadata
8 1 (0.25%) Oracle Reports
8 1 (0.25%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 6 (1.50%) Git
1 6 (1.50%) JIRA
2 5 (1.25%) 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
1 120 (30.00%) Social Skills
2 65 (16.25%) Finance
3 51 (12.75%) Analytical Skills
4 43 (10.75%) Law
5 34 (8.50%) Legal
6 24 (6.00%) Retail
7 21 (5.25%) Public Sector
8 20 (5.00%) Banking
8 20 (5.00%) Documentation Skills
9 19 (4.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 14 (3.50%) Organisational Skills
11 10 (2.50%) Back Office
11 10 (2.50%) Manufacturing
12 6 (1.50%) Advertising
13 5 (1.25%) Influencing Skills
13 5 (1.25%) Presentation Skills
14 4 (1.00%) Marketing
15 3 (0.75%) Local Government
16 2 (0.50%) Social Housing
17 1 (0.25%) Police
Job Titles
1 72 (18.00%) IT Manager
2 66 (16.50%) Senior
3 53 (13.25%) Service Manager
4 51 (12.75%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 51 (12.75%) Resilience Manager
5 50 (12.50%) IT Services Manager
6 33 (8.25%) Architect
7 32 (8.00%) Consultant
8 25 (6.25%) IT Engineer
9 24 (6.00%) Technical Consultant
10 23 (5.75%) Analyst
10 23 (5.75%) Support Engineer
11 22 (5.50%) Lead
12 20 (5.00%) Azure Engineer
12 20 (5.00%) Senior Architect
13 19 (4.75%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
14 18 (4.50%) Cloud Engineer
15 17 (4.25%) IT Support
16 16 (4.00%) Technical Architect
17 15 (3.75%) Senior Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 65 (16.25%) Middleware
2 60 (15.00%) Terraform
3 12 (3.00%) ARM Templates
4 7 (1.75%) Microsoft Graph
5 6 (1.50%) Web Services
6 3 (0.75%) JSON
6 3 (0.75%) Nuxt
6 3 (0.75%) OpenTelemetry
6 3 (0.75%) Ruby on Rails
7 2 (0.50%) .NET
7 2 (0.50%) 802.1X
7 2 (0.50%) Kafka
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%) RESTful
8 1 (0.25%) SQLAlchemy
Miscellaneous
1 56 (14.00%) Cyber Threat
2 35 (8.75%) Data Centre
2 35 (8.75%) Replication
3 24 (6.00%) Enterprise Storage
3 24 (6.00%) Hybrid Cloud
4 23 (5.75%) Cloud Native
5 21 (5.25%) Management Information System
6 20 (5.00%) Onboarding
7 16 (4.00%) Security Posture
8 13 (3.25%) Driving Licence
8 13 (3.25%) Self-Motivation
9 12 (3.00%) Data Protection Act
9 12 (3.00%) Enterprise Software
10 11 (2.75%) iSeries
10 11 (2.75%) Public Cloud
11 9 (2.25%) CMDB
12 7 (1.75%) Freedom of Information
12 7 (1.75%) Freedom of Information Act
12 7 (1.75%) Virtual Team
13 6 (1.50%) Cyber Kill Chain
Operating Systems
1 132 (33.00%) Windows
2 102 (25.50%) Windows Server
3 45 (11.25%) Linux
4 9 (2.25%) Ubuntu
4 9 (2.25%) Windows Server 2016
5 8 (2.00%) Windows Server 2019
6 7 (1.75%) Mac OS
7 6 (1.50%) Windows 10
8 5 (1.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 5 (1.25%) Unix
9 4 (1.00%) Debian
10 2 (0.50%) AIX
10 2 (0.50%) CentOS
10 2 (0.50%) Solaris
10 2 (0.50%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 215 (53.75%) Business Continuity
2 130 (32.50%) Problem-Solving
3 114 (28.50%) Continuous Improvement
4 109 (27.25%) Cybersecurity
5 104 (26.00%) Information Security
6 93 (23.25%) DevOps
7 91 (22.75%) ITIL
8 88 (22.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 79 (19.75%) Agile
10 70 (17.50%) Project Delivery
11 69 (17.25%) Service Delivery
12 68 (17.00%) High Availability
13 61 (15.25%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 60 (15.00%) Stakeholder Management
15 57 (14.25%) Enterprise Architecture
16 56 (14.00%) Waterfall
17 55 (13.75%) Incident Response
17 55 (13.75%) Mentoring
18 54 (13.50%) Runbook
18 54 (13.50%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 84 (21.00%) PowerShell
2 40 (10.00%) Python
3 26 (6.50%) SQL
4 19 (4.75%) Bicep
5 9 (2.25%) Bash
6 6 (1.50%) Shell Script
7 5 (1.25%) 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 72 (18.00%) CISSP
2 69 (17.25%) CISM
3 53 (13.25%) ITIL Certification
4 34 (8.50%) Azure Certification
5 30 (7.50%) Degree
6 25 (6.25%) Microsoft Certification
7 22 (5.50%) Security Cleared
8 19 (4.75%) SC Cleared
8 19 (4.75%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 18 (4.50%) Cisco Certification
10 14 (3.50%) CCNA
10 14 (3.50%) CISA
11 12 (3.00%) CCNP
12 11 (2.75%) Computer Science Degree
13 10 (2.50%) VCAP
14 9 (2.25%) CEH
14 9 (2.25%) VCDX
15 8 (2.00%) ISACA
16 7 (1.75%) CRISC
17 6 (1.50%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 90 (22.50%) NIST
2 70 (17.50%) ISO 22301
3 56 (14.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 39 (9.75%) GDPR
5 27 (6.75%) Cyber Essentials
6 25 (6.25%) SLA
7 21 (5.25%) PCI DSS
8 17 (4.25%) PMO
9 11 (2.75%) COBIT
10 10 (2.50%) SOC 2
11 8 (2.00%) GRC
12 7 (1.75%) SOC 1
13 6 (1.50%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 5 (1.25%) NCSC
15 4 (1.00%) ISO/IEC 20000
16 3 (0.75%) Actionable Recommendations
16 3 (0.75%) ISO 9001
17 2 (0.50%) Accessibility
17 2 (0.50%) ITGC
17 2 (0.50%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 100 (25.00%) Active Directory
2 91 (22.75%) VMware Infrastructure
3 68 (17.00%) Hyper-V
4 23 (5.75%) vSphere
5 16 (4.00%) Docker
6 13 (3.25%) Firmware
7 10 (2.50%) Virtual Machines
7 10 (2.50%) VMware NSX
8 9 (2.25%) vCloud
8 9 (2.25%) VMware ESXi
9 7 (1.75%) Virtual Desktop
10 6 (1.50%) 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 42 (10.50%) Microsoft Intune
2 34 (8.50%) Kubernetes
3 18 (4.50%) Ansible
4 9 (2.25%) Grafana
4 9 (2.25%) Prometheus
5 7 (1.75%) FortiGate
5 7 (1.75%) Single Sign-On
6 6 (1.50%) Avamar
6 6 (1.50%) Dell DRAC
6 6 (1.50%) EMC NetWorker
6 6 (1.50%) EMC VPLEX
6 6 (1.50%) Packer
6 6 (1.50%) VxRail
7 5 (1.25%) Proxmox
7 5 (1.25%) SCCM
8 3 (0.75%) ZABBIX
9 2 (0.50%) Data Guard
9 2 (0.50%) SCOM
9 2 (0.50%) WhatsUp Gold
9 2 (0.50%) WSUS
Vendors
1 214 (53.50%) Microsoft
2 112 (28.00%) VMware
3 57 (14.25%) Veeam
4 37 (9.25%) Cisco
5 21 (5.25%) Palo Alto
6 19 (4.75%) Dell
6 19 (4.75%) Fortinet
7 18 (4.50%) EMC
8 17 (4.25%) NetApp
9 16 (4.00%) Google
10 15 (3.75%) Nimble Storage
11 13 (3.25%) Commvault
12 12 (3.00%) Oracle
13 11 (2.75%) Broadcom
13 11 (2.75%) HP
13 11 (2.75%) IBM
13 11 (2.75%) N-able
14 10 (2.50%) Meraki
14 10 (2.50%) WatchGuard
15 9 (2.25%) iManage