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

6 months to
27 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 173 263 196
Rank change year-on-year +90 -67 +48
Permanent jobs citing Disaster Recovery 301 181 562
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.47% 1.16% 1.67%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.79% 1.23% 1.88%
Number of salaries quoted 237 137 433
10th Percentile £41,150 £32,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £41,250 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £58,500
Median % change year-on-year - +2.56% -1.72%
75th Percentile £82,500 £75,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £91,750 £91,500 £92,000
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 16,791 14,738 29,927
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 82.17% 94.32% 89.12%
Number of salaries quoted 12,235 8,589 23,073
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,750 £33,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £41,500 £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 £79,625 £75,750
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 27 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 36 (11.96%) Microsoft Exchange
2 35 (11.63%) SharePoint
3 8 (2.66%) IIS
4 3 (1.00%) Apache
4 3 (1.00%) WordPress
5 1 (0.33%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.33%) nginx
5 1 (0.33%) Site Server
Applications
1 7 (2.33%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.33%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (1.00%) Dynamics CRM
1 3 (1.00%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (0.66%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 178 (59.14%) Azure
2 92 (30.56%) Microsoft 365
3 58 (19.27%) AWS
4 47 (15.61%) Entra ID
5 25 (8.31%) Nutanix
6 24 (7.97%) SaaS
7 18 (5.98%) Power Platform
8 16 (5.32%) GCP
9 15 (4.98%) IaaS
10 14 (4.65%) PaaS
11 13 (4.32%) GitHub
12 12 (3.99%) Azure Data Factory
12 12 (3.99%) Azure DevOps
12 12 (3.99%) Mimecast
13 11 (3.65%) Azure Monitor
14 9 (2.99%) Amazon EKS
15 8 (2.66%) Amazon EC2
16 7 (2.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 7 (2.33%) Amazon ECS
16 7 (2.33%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 95 (31.56%) Firewall
2 58 (19.27%) VPN
3 57 (18.94%) DNS
4 43 (14.29%) DHCP
5 41 (13.62%) WAN
6 32 (10.63%) TCP/IP
7 29 (9.63%) LAN
8 24 (7.97%) Network Security
9 17 (5.65%) Wi-Fi
10 14 (4.65%) VLAN
11 10 (3.32%) SD-WAN
12 9 (2.99%) VSAN
13 7 (2.33%) NGFW
14 6 (1.99%) Cisco ISE
14 6 (1.99%) Fibre Channel
14 6 (1.99%) iSCSI
14 6 (1.99%) SAN
14 6 (1.99%) Wireless
15 4 (1.33%) Cisco Nexus
15 4 (1.33%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (7.31%) SQL Server
2 11 (3.65%) Azure SQL Database
3 10 (3.32%) Amazon RDS
4 8 (2.66%) Power BI
5 6 (1.99%) PostgreSQL
6 4 (1.33%) Data Lake
6 4 (1.33%) Delta Lake
7 3 (1.00%) Amazon Aurora
8 1 (0.33%) MySQL
8 1 (0.33%) Oracle Exadata
8 1 (0.33%) Relational Database
8 1 (0.33%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 1 (0.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 1 (0.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 11 (3.65%) Git
2 6 (1.99%) Visual Studio Code
3 3 (1.00%) JIRA
3 3 (1.00%) Selenium
4 2 (0.66%) Terragrunt
5 1 (0.33%) Claude Code
5 1 (0.33%) GitLab
5 1 (0.33%) MLflow
General
1 112 (37.21%) Social Skills
2 53 (17.61%) Finance
3 38 (12.62%) Analytical Skills
4 26 (8.64%) Legal
5 25 (8.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 23 (7.64%) Banking
7 20 (6.64%) Law
8 18 (5.98%) Retail
9 16 (5.32%) Public Sector
10 15 (4.98%) Documentation Skills
11 14 (4.65%) Back Office
11 14 (4.65%) Organisational Skills
12 6 (1.99%) Advertising
12 6 (1.99%) Marketing
13 5 (1.66%) Influencing Skills
14 4 (1.33%) Presentation Skills
15 3 (1.00%) Financial Institution
16 2 (0.66%) Manufacturing
16 2 (0.66%) Social Housing
17 1 (0.33%) Police
Job Titles
1 59 (19.60%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 59 (19.60%) Senior
2 25 (8.31%) IT Manager
3 23 (7.64%) Lead
3 23 (7.64%) Support Engineer
4 22 (7.31%) IT Engineer
4 22 (7.31%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
5 21 (6.98%) Architect
6 19 (6.31%) Platform Engineer
7 18 (5.98%) Consultant
8 17 (5.65%) Azure Engineer
8 17 (5.65%) Security Manager
9 16 (5.32%) IT Support
10 15 (4.98%) Cloud Engineer
10 15 (4.98%) Security Specialist
10 15 (4.98%) Senior Architect
10 15 (4.98%) Senior Technical Consultant
10 15 (4.98%) Senior VMware Consultant
10 15 (4.98%) VMware Consultant
10 15 (4.98%) VMware Technical Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (3.32%) ARM Templates
2 7 (2.33%) Microsoft Graph
3 6 (1.99%) Middleware
4 4 (1.33%) PySpark
4 4 (1.33%) RESTful
5 3 (1.00%) JSON
5 3 (1.00%) Loki
5 3 (1.00%) Node.js
5 3 (1.00%) Nuxt
5 3 (1.00%) Playwright
5 3 (1.00%) Ruby on Rails
6 2 (0.66%) Kafka
7 1 (0.33%) NumPy
7 1 (0.33%) OAuth
7 1 (0.33%) OAuth2
7 1 (0.33%) OpenCV
7 1 (0.33%) Pandas
7 1 (0.33%) pytest
7 1 (0.33%) SQLAlchemy
7 1 (0.33%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 31 (10.30%) Data Centre
2 25 (8.31%) Hybrid Cloud
3 23 (7.64%) Cloud Native
3 23 (7.64%) Management Information System
4 22 (7.31%) Replication
5 20 (6.64%) Enterprise Storage
6 18 (5.98%) Driving Licence
7 16 (5.32%) Onboarding
8 15 (4.98%) Self-Motivation
9 14 (4.65%) CMDB
9 14 (4.65%) Cyber Threat
10 13 (4.32%) Legacy Systems
10 13 (4.32%) Security Posture
11 12 (3.99%) Data Protection Act
12 11 (3.65%) iSeries
13 10 (3.32%) Public Cloud
14 8 (2.66%) Virtual Team
15 7 (2.33%) Enterprise Software
15 7 (2.33%) Freedom of Information
15 7 (2.33%) Freedom of Information Act
Operating Systems
1 94 (31.23%) Windows
2 64 (21.26%) Windows Server
3 27 (8.97%) Linux
4 8 (2.66%) Mac OS
5 6 (1.99%) Windows 10
5 6 (1.99%) Windows Server 2016
6 5 (1.66%) Apple iOS
6 5 (1.66%) Windows Server 2019
7 3 (1.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 3 (1.00%) Unix
8 1 (0.33%) AIX
8 1 (0.33%) CentOS
8 1 (0.33%) Solaris
8 1 (0.33%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 113 (37.54%) Business Continuity
2 101 (33.55%) Cybersecurity
3 95 (31.56%) Problem-Solving
4 85 (28.24%) Continuous Improvement
5 84 (27.91%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 63 (20.93%) Incident Response
7 57 (18.94%) Service Delivery
8 50 (16.61%) Information Security
9 46 (15.28%) CI/CD
9 46 (15.28%) DevOps
9 46 (15.28%) ITIL
10 44 (14.62%) High Availability
11 43 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
12 40 (13.29%) Risk Management
13 39 (12.96%) Cloud Security
14 38 (12.62%) Infrastructure as Code
15 36 (11.96%) Vulnerability Management
16 35 (11.63%) Mentoring
17 33 (10.96%) SIEM
18 31 (10.30%) Data Protection
Programming Languages
1 79 (26.25%) PowerShell
2 44 (14.62%) Python
3 26 (8.64%) SQL
4 9 (2.99%) Bicep
5 7 (2.33%) Java
6 5 (1.66%) Bash
7 4 (1.33%) Scala
8 3 (1.00%) Go
8 3 (1.00%) Ruby
8 3 (1.00%) TypeScript
9 1 (0.33%) C#
9 1 (0.33%) T-SQL
9 1 (0.33%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 39 (12.96%) Degree
2 27 (8.97%) Microsoft Certification
3 20 (6.64%) Azure Certification
3 20 (6.64%) Cisco Certification
4 19 (6.31%) CISSP
4 19 (6.31%) Security Cleared
5 17 (5.65%) CCNA
5 17 (5.65%) SC Cleared
6 16 (5.32%) CISM
7 14 (4.65%) CCNP
7 14 (4.65%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 12 (3.99%) CEH
8 12 (3.99%) CISA
9 10 (3.32%) Computer Science Degree
10 9 (2.99%) VCAP
10 9 (2.99%) VCDX
11 8 (2.66%) ISACA
12 7 (2.33%) CRISC
13 6 (1.99%) BPSS Clearance
13 6 (1.99%) Dell Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 73 (24.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 46 (15.28%) NIST
3 42 (13.95%) GDPR
4 36 (11.96%) Cyber Essentials
5 24 (7.97%) PCI DSS
6 19 (6.31%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 17 (5.65%) ISO 22301
7 17 (5.65%) PMO
8 15 (4.98%) SLA
9 14 (4.65%) SOC 2
10 11 (3.65%) GRC
11 10 (3.32%) Actionable Recommendations
11 10 (3.32%) COBIT
12 8 (2.66%) Data Quality
13 7 (2.33%) SOC 1
14 3 (1.00%) ISO 9001
15 2 (0.66%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
15 2 (0.66%) NCSC
16 1 (0.33%) Accessibility
16 1 (0.33%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 73 (24.25%) VMware Infrastructure
2 71 (23.59%) Active Directory
3 46 (15.28%) Hyper-V
4 24 (7.97%) vSphere
5 16 (5.32%) Firmware
6 10 (3.32%) Docker
7 9 (2.99%) vCloud
7 9 (2.99%) VMware NSX
8 6 (1.99%) VMware ESXi
9 5 (1.66%) Virtual Machines
10 4 (1.33%) Virtual Servers
11 3 (1.00%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 1 (0.33%) KVM
12 1 (0.33%) Oracle RAC
12 1 (0.33%) Squid
12 1 (0.33%) Terminal Services
12 1 (0.33%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 49 (16.28%) Terraform
2 41 (13.62%) Microsoft Intune
3 23 (7.64%) Kubernetes
4 14 (4.65%) Ansible
5 9 (2.99%) Packer
6 7 (2.33%) Dell DRAC
6 7 (2.33%) Single Sign-On
7 6 (1.99%) Avamar
7 6 (1.99%) EMC NetWorker
7 6 (1.99%) EMC VPLEX
7 6 (1.99%) Grafana
7 6 (1.99%) Prometheus
7 6 (1.99%) VxRail
8 5 (1.66%) vCenter Server
9 4 (1.33%) FortiGate
9 4 (1.33%) Proxmox
10 3 (1.00%) ZABBIX
11 2 (0.66%) SCCM
11 2 (0.66%) WhatsUp Gold
12 1 (0.33%) Data Guard
Vendors
1 160 (53.16%) Microsoft
2 97 (32.23%) VMware
3 39 (12.96%) Cisco
4 35 (11.63%) Veeam
5 20 (6.64%) Commvault
6 19 (6.31%) EMC
7 17 (5.65%) Dell
7 17 (5.65%) Fortinet
8 15 (4.98%) Meraki
8 15 (4.98%) NetApp
8 15 (4.98%) Nimble Storage
9 13 (4.32%) Palo Alto
10 11 (3.65%) Broadcom
10 11 (3.65%) HP
10 11 (3.65%) IBM
10 11 (3.65%) Sophos
11 9 (2.99%) ServiceNow
11 9 (2.99%) Splunk
12 8 (2.66%) iManage
12 8 (2.66%) Oracle