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

6 months to
21 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 180 210 204
Rank change year-on-year +30 -6 +74
Permanent jobs citing Disaster Recovery 244 208 489
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.37% 1.56% 1.51%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.64% 1.64% 1.65%
Number of salaries quoted 179 159 460
10th Percentile £42,250 £35,350 £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% - +4.35%
75th Percentile £91,250 £73,818 £78,005
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 14,857 12,645 29,601
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 83.17% 94.76% 91.49%
Number of salaries quoted 10,372 8,952 23,522
10th Percentile £32,500 £32,000 £33,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £61,644 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -2.67% +7.21% -8.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £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% -10.86%

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 21 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 33 (13.52%) SharePoint
2 31 (12.70%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (0.82%) Apache
3 2 (0.82%) IIS
4 1 (0.41%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 5 (2.05%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (1.64%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (1.23%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (1.64%) Markit EDM
2 3 (1.23%) Oracle EBS
3 2 (0.82%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.82%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 149 (61.07%) Azure
2 67 (27.46%) Microsoft 365
3 43 (17.62%) AWS
4 41 (16.80%) Entra ID
5 24 (9.84%) Nutanix
6 16 (6.56%) Azure Monitor
6 16 (6.56%) OneDrive
7 15 (6.15%) Amazon EKS
7 15 (6.15%) GitHub
7 15 (6.15%) SaaS
8 13 (5.33%) Azure Data Factory
8 13 (5.33%) Azure DevOps
9 12 (4.92%) Amazon EC2
9 12 (4.92%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 11 (4.51%) IaaS
10 11 (4.51%) Mimecast
10 11 (4.51%) PaaS
11 10 (4.10%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 9 (3.69%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 9 (3.69%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 62 (25.41%) Firewall
2 56 (22.95%) VPN
3 43 (17.62%) DNS
4 41 (16.80%) WAN
5 31 (12.70%) DHCP
6 30 (12.30%) TCP/IP
7 22 (9.02%) LAN
8 15 (6.15%) SD-WAN
9 13 (5.33%) Network Security
10 11 (4.51%) VLAN
11 9 (3.69%) Wi-Fi
12 5 (2.05%) BGP
12 5 (2.05%) Cisco ISE
12 5 (2.05%) SAN
12 5 (2.05%) Wireless
13 4 (1.64%) Cisco Nexus
13 4 (1.64%) Intrusion Detection
13 4 (1.64%) VSAN
14 3 (1.23%) PuTTY
14 3 (1.23%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (7.38%) Amazon RDS
1 18 (7.38%) SQL Server
2 13 (5.33%) Azure SQL Database
3 9 (3.69%) Data Lake
3 9 (3.69%) Delta Lake
4 8 (3.28%) Amazon Aurora
5 4 (1.64%) Data Warehouse
5 4 (1.64%) MySQL
6 3 (1.23%) Oracle Database
6 3 (1.23%) PostgreSQL
6 3 (1.23%) Power BI
7 2 (0.82%) Oracle Database 10g
7 2 (0.82%) Oracle Database 11g
7 2 (0.82%) Oracle Database 12c
8 1 (0.41%) DynamoDB
8 1 (0.41%) Oracle Exadata
8 1 (0.41%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 1 (0.41%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 1 (0.41%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 18 (7.38%) Git
2 4 (1.64%) Jenkins
2 4 (1.64%) Visual Studio Code
3 3 (1.23%) Maven
3 3 (1.23%) Sonatype Nexus
4 2 (0.82%) Selenium
5 1 (0.41%) JIRA
5 1 (0.41%) MLflow
General
1 83 (34.02%) Social Skills
2 64 (26.23%) Finance
3 26 (10.66%) Analytical Skills
4 23 (9.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 22 (9.02%) Law
6 20 (8.20%) Banking
7 14 (5.74%) Public Sector
8 13 (5.33%) Retail
9 11 (4.51%) Back Office
10 9 (3.69%) Organisational Skills
11 8 (3.28%) Legal
12 7 (2.87%) Documentation Skills
13 6 (2.46%) Marketing
14 5 (2.05%) Financial Institution
15 4 (1.64%) Presentation Skills
15 4 (1.64%) Social Housing
16 3 (1.23%) Local Government
17 2 (0.82%) Influencing Skills
17 2 (0.82%) Manufacturing
18 1 (0.41%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 51 (20.90%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 48 (19.67%) Senior
3 26 (10.66%) IT Manager
4 20 (8.20%) Platform Engineer
5 19 (7.79%) Lead
6 18 (7.38%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
7 16 (6.56%) Security Specialist
8 14 (5.74%) Cloud Engineer
8 14 (5.74%) IT Engineer
8 14 (5.74%) Security Manager
9 13 (5.33%) AWS Engineer
10 12 (4.92%) Architect
10 12 (4.92%) Cloud Platform Engineer
10 12 (4.92%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
10 12 (4.92%) IT Security Specialist
11 11 (4.51%) Azure Engineer
11 11 (4.51%) Operations Engineer
11 11 (4.51%) Support Engineer
12 9 (3.69%) Applications Support
12 9 (3.69%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (3.69%) PySpark
2 7 (2.87%) Loki
3 6 (2.46%) ARM Templates
3 6 (2.46%) RESTful
4 3 (1.23%) ActiveMQ
4 3 (1.23%) LAMP
4 3 (1.23%) RAML
4 3 (1.23%) REST
4 3 (1.23%) SOAP
5 2 (0.82%) AWS SAM
5 2 (0.82%) Elastic Stack
5 2 (0.82%) Node.js
5 2 (0.82%) 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%) NumPy
6 1 (0.41%) OAuth
6 1 (0.41%) SQLAlchemy
Miscellaneous
1 31 (12.70%) Hybrid Cloud
2 22 (9.02%) Data Centre
3 21 (8.61%) Cloud Native
4 16 (6.56%) Driving Licence
4 16 (6.56%) Management Information System
5 13 (5.33%) Legacy Systems
5 13 (5.33%) Replication
6 11 (4.51%) Cyber Threat
6 11 (4.51%) Onboarding
7 10 (4.10%) CMDB
7 10 (4.10%) Enterprise Storage
8 7 (2.87%) Enterprise Software
8 7 (2.87%) iSeries
9 6 (2.46%) Public Cloud
9 6 (2.46%) Self-Motivation
10 5 (2.05%) Data Protection Act
10 5 (2.05%) Distributed Systems
10 5 (2.05%) Mobile App
10 5 (2.05%) Private Cloud
10 5 (2.05%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 66 (27.05%) Windows
2 43 (17.62%) Windows Server
3 28 (11.48%) Linux
4 13 (5.33%) Windows 10
5 12 (4.92%) Apple iOS
6 4 (1.64%) CentOS
6 4 (1.64%) Ubuntu
6 4 (1.64%) Unix
7 3 (1.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 3 (1.23%) Rocky
8 2 (0.82%) Mac OS
9 1 (0.41%) AIX
9 1 (0.41%) Solaris
9 1 (0.41%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 74 (30.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 72 (29.51%) Cybersecurity
3 64 (26.23%) Business Continuity
4 60 (24.59%) Problem-Solving
5 56 (22.95%) Service Delivery
6 55 (22.54%) DevOps
7 50 (20.49%) ITIL
8 47 (19.26%) Continuous Improvement
9 46 (18.85%) CI/CD
10 41 (16.80%) Infrastructure as Code
11 38 (15.57%) Incident Response
12 36 (14.75%) Vulnerability Management
13 35 (14.34%) High Availability
14 33 (13.52%) Cloud Security
15 32 (13.11%) Migration
16 29 (11.89%) Mentoring
16 29 (11.89%) Platform Engineering
17 27 (11.07%) Root Cause Analysis
18 25 (10.25%) Identity Access Management
18 25 (10.25%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 65 (26.64%) PowerShell
2 60 (24.59%) Python
3 25 (10.25%) SQL
4 10 (4.10%) Bash
4 10 (4.10%) Java
5 9 (3.69%) Scala
6 8 (3.28%) Bicep
7 7 (2.87%) Go
8 3 (1.23%) Shell Script
9 2 (0.82%) JavaScript
9 2 (0.82%) TypeScript
10 1 (0.41%) C#
10 1 (0.41%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 39 (15.98%) Degree
2 22 (9.02%) Microsoft Certification
3 16 (6.56%) Azure Certification
3 16 (6.56%) CEH
4 15 (6.15%) Security Cleared
5 13 (5.33%) Computer Science Degree
5 13 (5.33%) SC Cleared
6 9 (3.69%) Cisco Certification
7 8 (3.28%) BPSS Clearance
7 8 (3.28%) CCNP
7 8 (3.28%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 6 (2.46%) CCNA
8 6 (2.46%) CISSP
9 4 (1.64%) CISM
9 4 (1.64%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 4 (1.64%) MCSE
9 4 (1.64%) VCAP
9 4 (1.64%) VCDX
10 3 (1.23%) ISACA
11 2 (0.82%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 52 (21.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 32 (13.11%) NIST
3 29 (11.89%) Cyber Essentials
4 25 (10.25%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 19 (7.79%) GDPR
6 16 (6.56%) PCI DSS
7 13 (5.33%) Data Quality
7 13 (5.33%) ISO 22301
8 10 (4.10%) Actionable Recommendations
8 10 (4.10%) GRC
9 9 (3.69%) SLA
9 9 (3.69%) SOC 2
10 5 (2.05%) PMO
11 3 (1.23%) COBIT
12 2 (0.82%) Accessibility
12 2 (0.82%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
12 2 (0.82%) NCSC
12 2 (0.82%) SOC 1
13 1 (0.41%) Basel III
13 1 (0.41%) MiFID
System Software
1 50 (20.49%) Active Directory
2 47 (19.26%) VMware Infrastructure
3 24 (9.84%) Hyper-V
4 14 (5.74%) Firmware
5 10 (4.10%) Docker
6 9 (3.69%) vSphere
7 6 (2.46%) Virtual Machines
8 5 (2.05%) vCloud
9 4 (1.64%) Virtual Servers
9 4 (1.64%) VMware NSX
10 3 (1.23%) Microsoft Virtual Server
10 3 (1.23%) VMware ESXi
11 2 (0.82%) Virtual Desktop
12 1 (0.41%) KVM
12 1 (0.41%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 46 (18.85%) Terraform
2 35 (14.34%) Microsoft Intune
3 24 (9.84%) Kubernetes
4 16 (6.56%) Ansible
5 10 (4.10%) Grafana
6 7 (2.87%) Prometheus
7 6 (2.46%) Packer
8 4 (1.64%) FortiGate
8 4 (1.64%) vCenter Server
9 3 (1.23%) Dell DRAC
9 3 (1.23%) Nagios
10 2 (0.82%) 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
1 121 (49.59%) Microsoft
2 77 (31.56%) VMware
3 26 (10.66%) Cisco
4 25 (10.25%) Commvault
5 14 (5.74%) Fortinet
6 11 (4.51%) EMC
6 11 (4.51%) IBM
6 11 (4.51%) Meraki
6 11 (4.51%) Veeam
7 10 (4.10%) Oracle
8 9 (3.69%) Databricks
9 8 (3.28%) Dell
9 8 (3.28%) ServiceNow
9 8 (3.28%) Sophos
10 7 (2.87%) HP
11 6 (2.46%) NetApp
11 6 (2.46%) Palo Alto
12 5 (2.05%) Apple
12 5 (2.05%) Nimble Storage
12 5 (2.05%) Splunk