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

6 months to
7 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 184 207 199
Rank change year-on-year +23 -8 +88
Permanent jobs citing Disaster Recovery 239 208 483
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.39% 1.61% 1.54%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.67% 1.70% 1.68%
Number of salaries quoted 179 160 456
10th Percentile £42,250 £36,250 £41,250
25th Percentile £53,750 £43,938 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £91,250 £73,784 £76,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £90,000 £85,000
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 14,331 12,231 28,767
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 83.46% 94.80% 91.61%
Number of salaries quoted 10,023 8,889 23,341
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,500 £34,000
25th Percentile £43,750 £46,250 £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 £81,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £56,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -6.67% +9.09% -10.57%

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 7 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 31 (12.97%) SharePoint
2 29 (12.13%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (0.84%) Apache
3 2 (0.84%) IIS
4 1 (0.42%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.42%) Tomcat
4 1 (0.42%) WebSphere
4 1 (0.42%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 7 (2.93%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (1.67%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (1.26%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.42%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 4 (1.67%) Markit EDM
2 3 (1.26%) Oracle EBS
3 2 (0.84%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 144 (60.25%) Azure
2 63 (26.36%) Microsoft 365
3 44 (18.41%) AWS
4 40 (16.74%) Entra ID
5 23 (9.62%) Nutanix
6 17 (7.11%) Amazon EKS
7 15 (6.28%) GitHub
7 15 (6.28%) OneDrive
8 14 (5.86%) Amazon EC2
8 14 (5.86%) Azure Monitor
8 14 (5.86%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 13 (5.44%) Azure Data Factory
9 13 (5.44%) SaaS
10 12 (5.02%) Azure DevOps
11 11 (4.60%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 11 (4.60%) Mimecast
12 10 (4.18%) AWS CloudFormation
12 10 (4.18%) IaaS
12 10 (4.18%) PaaS
13 9 (3.77%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 57 (23.85%) Firewall
2 56 (23.43%) VPN
3 40 (16.74%) DNS
4 37 (15.48%) WAN
5 28 (11.72%) DHCP
6 27 (11.30%) TCP/IP
7 19 (7.95%) LAN
8 15 (6.28%) SD-WAN
9 13 (5.44%) Network Security
10 11 (4.60%) VLAN
11 9 (3.77%) Wi-Fi
12 6 (2.51%) BGP
13 5 (2.09%) Wireless
14 4 (1.67%) Cisco ISE
14 4 (1.67%) Cisco Nexus
14 4 (1.67%) Intrusion Detection
14 4 (1.67%) SAN
15 3 (1.26%) PuTTY
15 3 (1.26%) SSL
15 3 (1.26%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (8.37%) Amazon RDS
2 19 (7.95%) SQL Server
3 13 (5.44%) Azure SQL Database
4 9 (3.77%) Data Lake
4 9 (3.77%) Delta Lake
5 8 (3.35%) Amazon Aurora
6 6 (2.51%) PostgreSQL
7 5 (2.09%) Oracle Database
8 4 (1.67%) Data Warehouse
8 4 (1.67%) MySQL
8 4 (1.67%) Oracle Database 10g
8 4 (1.67%) Oracle Database 11g
8 4 (1.67%) Oracle Database 12c
9 3 (1.26%) Power BI
10 1 (0.42%) DB2
10 1 (0.42%) DynamoDB
10 1 (0.42%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 1 (0.42%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 1 (0.42%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 20 (8.37%) Git
2 6 (2.51%) Jenkins
3 4 (1.67%) Visual Studio Code
4 3 (1.26%) Maven
4 3 (1.26%) Sonatype Nexus
5 2 (0.84%) Selenium
6 1 (0.42%) JIRA
6 1 (0.42%) MLflow
General
1 78 (32.64%) Social Skills
2 69 (28.87%) Finance
3 24 (10.04%) Analytical Skills
3 24 (10.04%) Law
4 20 (8.37%) Banking
4 20 (8.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 14 (5.86%) Public Sector
6 10 (4.18%) Retail
7 9 (3.77%) Organisational Skills
8 8 (3.35%) Back Office
9 7 (2.93%) Documentation Skills
10 6 (2.51%) Financial Institution
10 6 (2.51%) Marketing
11 5 (2.09%) Legal
12 4 (1.67%) Presentation Skills
12 4 (1.67%) Social Housing
13 3 (1.26%) Local Government
14 2 (0.84%) Influencing Skills
14 2 (0.84%) Manufacturing
15 1 (0.42%) Police
Job Titles
1 49 (20.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 43 (17.99%) Senior
3 24 (10.04%) IT Manager
4 20 (8.37%) Lead
4 20 (8.37%) Platform Engineer
5 18 (7.53%) Security Specialist
6 16 (6.69%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
7 15 (6.28%) AWS Engineer
7 15 (6.28%) Cloud Engineer
8 14 (5.86%) IT Security Specialist
9 13 (5.44%) IT Engineer
9 13 (5.44%) Security Manager
10 12 (5.02%) Azure Engineer
10 12 (5.02%) Cloud Platform Engineer
10 12 (5.02%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
11 11 (4.60%) Operations Engineer
11 11 (4.60%) Support Engineer
12 10 (4.18%) Applications Support
12 10 (4.18%) Infrastructure Support
13 9 (3.77%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (3.77%) PySpark
2 7 (2.93%) Loki
2 7 (2.93%) RESTful
3 5 (2.09%) ARM Templates
4 3 (1.26%) ActiveMQ
4 3 (1.26%) AWS SAM
4 3 (1.26%) Elastic Stack
4 3 (1.26%) LAMP
4 3 (1.26%) RAML
4 3 (1.26%) REST
4 3 (1.26%) SOAP
5 2 (0.84%) AWS CDK
5 2 (0.84%) Node.js
5 2 (0.84%) Playwright
6 1 (0.42%) FastAPI
6 1 (0.42%) Hugging Face
6 1 (0.42%) JWT
6 1 (0.42%) NumPy
6 1 (0.42%) PyTorch
6 1 (0.42%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 32 (13.39%) Hybrid Cloud
2 21 (8.79%) Cloud Native
3 18 (7.53%) Data Centre
4 16 (6.69%) Driving Licence
5 15 (6.28%) Management Information System
6 14 (5.86%) Replication
7 12 (5.02%) Legacy Systems
8 11 (4.60%) Cyber Threat
9 10 (4.18%) CMDB
10 9 (3.77%) Onboarding
11 8 (3.35%) Enterprise Storage
12 7 (2.93%) Public Cloud
13 6 (2.51%) Distributed Systems
13 6 (2.51%) iSeries
14 5 (2.09%) Enterprise Software
14 5 (2.09%) Mobile App
14 5 (2.09%) Private Cloud
15 4 (1.67%) Cyber Defence
15 4 (1.67%) iPad
15 4 (1.67%) iPhone
Operating Systems
1 64 (26.78%) Windows
2 40 (16.74%) Windows Server
3 30 (12.55%) Linux
4 13 (5.44%) Windows 10
5 12 (5.02%) Apple iOS
6 6 (2.51%) Unix
7 4 (1.67%) CentOS
7 4 (1.67%) Ubuntu
8 3 (1.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 3 (1.26%) Rocky
9 1 (0.42%) Mac OS
9 1 (0.42%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 74 (30.96%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 67 (28.03%) Cybersecurity
3 59 (24.69%) Business Continuity
4 57 (23.85%) Problem-Solving
5 56 (23.43%) DevOps
6 54 (22.59%) Service Delivery
7 52 (21.76%) ITIL
8 51 (21.34%) CI/CD
9 43 (17.99%) Continuous Improvement
9 43 (17.99%) Infrastructure as Code
10 37 (15.48%) Vulnerability Management
11 36 (15.06%) High Availability
12 34 (14.23%) Migration
13 33 (13.81%) Cloud Security
14 32 (13.39%) Incident Response
15 31 (12.97%) Mentoring
16 30 (12.55%) Platform Engineering
17 27 (11.30%) Root Cause Analysis
18 25 (10.46%) Performance Tuning
18 25 (10.46%) Resilience Testing
Programming Languages
1 68 (28.45%) PowerShell
2 67 (28.03%) Python
3 28 (11.72%) SQL
4 11 (4.60%) Java
5 10 (4.18%) Bash
6 9 (3.77%) Bicep
6 9 (3.77%) Go
6 9 (3.77%) Scala
7 3 (1.26%) JavaScript
7 3 (1.26%) Shell Script
7 3 (1.26%) TypeScript
8 1 (0.42%) C#
8 1 (0.42%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 39 (16.32%) Degree
2 23 (9.62%) Microsoft Certification
3 18 (7.53%) Azure Certification
3 18 (7.53%) CEH
4 16 (6.69%) Security Cleared
5 14 (5.86%) SC Cleared
6 12 (5.02%) Computer Science Degree
7 8 (3.35%) BPSS Clearance
8 7 (2.93%) Cisco Certification
8 7 (2.93%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 6 (2.51%) CCNP
10 5 (2.09%) ITIL Certification
10 5 (2.09%) MCSE
11 4 (1.67%) CCNA
11 4 (1.67%) CISSP
11 4 (1.67%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 3 (1.26%) AWS Certification
13 2 (0.84%) DBS Check
13 2 (0.84%) VCAP
13 2 (0.84%) VCDX
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 52 (21.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 32 (13.39%) NIST
3 26 (10.88%) Cyber Essentials
4 24 (10.04%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 15 (6.28%) ISO 22301
5 15 (6.28%) PCI DSS
6 13 (5.44%) Data Quality
6 13 (5.44%) GDPR
7 10 (4.18%) Actionable Recommendations
7 10 (4.18%) GRC
8 9 (3.77%) SLA
9 8 (3.35%) SOC 2
10 2 (0.84%) Accessibility
10 2 (0.84%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
10 2 (0.84%) PMO
11 1 (0.42%) Basel III
11 1 (0.42%) ISO/IEC 20000
11 1 (0.42%) MiFID
11 1 (0.42%) NCSC
System Software
1 47 (19.67%) Active Directory
2 42 (17.57%) VMware Infrastructure
3 22 (9.21%) Hyper-V
4 12 (5.02%) Docker
4 12 (5.02%) Firmware
5 6 (2.51%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (2.51%) vSphere
6 4 (1.67%) Virtual Servers
7 3 (1.26%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 3 (1.26%) vCloud
7 3 (1.26%) VMware ESXi
8 2 (0.84%) VMware NSX
9 1 (0.42%) KVM
9 1 (0.42%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 49 (20.50%) Terraform
2 36 (15.06%) Microsoft Intune
3 26 (10.88%) Kubernetes
4 20 (8.37%) Ansible
5 11 (4.60%) Grafana
6 7 (2.93%) Prometheus
7 6 (2.51%) Packer
8 4 (1.67%) vCenter Server
9 3 (1.26%) Nagios
10 2 (0.84%) Dell DRAC
10 2 (0.84%) FortiGate
10 2 (0.84%) SCCM
11 1 (0.42%) Jamf Pro
11 1 (0.42%) PowerCLI
Vendors
1 116 (48.54%) Microsoft
2 74 (30.96%) VMware
3 26 (10.88%) Commvault
4 25 (10.46%) Cisco
5 14 (5.86%) Fortinet
6 11 (4.60%) IBM
6 11 (4.60%) Oracle
7 10 (4.18%) EMC
7 10 (4.18%) Meraki
8 9 (3.77%) Databricks
9 8 (3.35%) Sophos
9 8 (3.35%) Veeam
10 7 (2.93%) ServiceNow
11 6 (2.51%) HP
11 6 (2.51%) Palo Alto
12 5 (2.09%) Apple
12 5 (2.09%) Dell
12 5 (2.09%) Splunk
13 4 (1.67%) Barracuda Networks
13 4 (1.67%) F5