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 12 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 182 245 200
Rank change year-on-year +63 -45 +56
Permanent jobs citing Disaster Recovery 252 196 503
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.36% 1.35% 1.54%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.65% 1.42% 1.70%
Number of salaries quoted 195 149 460
10th Percentile £41,250 £33,400 £41,229
25th Percentile £52,500 £42,500 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% - +0.80%
75th Percentile £87,500 £72,500 £78,750
90th Percentile £92,800 £83,750 £92,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +9.09% -0.27%

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 15,280 13,822 29,655
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 82.76% 95.02% 91.06%
Number of salaries quoted 10,821 8,823 23,459
10th Percentile £33,750 £31,250 £33,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,100 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +0.17% +4.35% -8.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +9.09% -9.84%

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 12 May 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 37 (14.68%) SharePoint
2 35 (13.89%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (0.79%) Apache
3 2 (0.79%) IIS
4 1 (0.40%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 7 (2.78%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (1.59%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (1.19%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (1.59%) Markit EDM
2 3 (1.19%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (1.19%) Oracle EBS
3 2 (0.79%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 159 (63.10%) Azure
2 78 (30.95%) Microsoft 365
3 45 (17.86%) Entra ID
4 40 (15.87%) AWS
5 27 (10.71%) Nutanix
6 17 (6.75%) GitHub
7 15 (5.95%) Azure Monitor
7 15 (5.95%) OneDrive
8 14 (5.56%) SaaS
9 13 (5.16%) Azure Data Factory
9 13 (5.16%) Azure DevOps
10 12 (4.76%) Amazon EKS
10 12 (4.76%) GCP
10 12 (4.76%) IaaS
10 12 (4.76%) PaaS
11 11 (4.37%) Mimecast
12 10 (3.97%) Amazon EC2
12 10 (3.97%) Power Platform
12 10 (3.97%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 9 (3.57%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 71 (28.17%) Firewall
2 54 (21.43%) VPN
3 43 (17.06%) WAN
4 42 (16.67%) DNS
5 30 (11.90%) DHCP
6 28 (11.11%) TCP/IP
7 24 (9.52%) LAN
8 16 (6.35%) Network Security
9 15 (5.95%) SD-WAN
10 12 (4.76%) Wi-Fi
11 10 (3.97%) VLAN
12 8 (3.17%) VSAN
13 6 (2.38%) Cisco ISE
13 6 (2.38%) Wireless
14 5 (1.98%) SAN
15 4 (1.59%) Cisco Nexus
15 4 (1.59%) Intrusion Detection
15 4 (1.59%) NGFW
16 3 (1.19%) BGP
16 3 (1.19%) PuTTY
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (6.35%) SQL Server
2 15 (5.95%) Amazon RDS
3 13 (5.16%) Azure SQL Database
4 9 (3.57%) Data Lake
4 9 (3.57%) Delta Lake
5 7 (2.78%) Amazon Aurora
6 4 (1.59%) Data Warehouse
7 3 (1.19%) Power BI
8 1 (0.40%) Oracle Exadata
8 1 (0.40%) PostgreSQL
8 1 (0.40%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 1 (0.40%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 1 (0.40%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 19 (7.54%) Git
2 6 (2.38%) Visual Studio Code
3 3 (1.19%) Jenkins
3 3 (1.19%) Maven
3 3 (1.19%) Sonatype Nexus
4 2 (0.79%) Selenium
5 1 (0.40%) JIRA
5 1 (0.40%) MLflow
General
1 88 (34.92%) Social Skills
2 58 (23.02%) Finance
3 34 (13.49%) Analytical Skills
4 21 (8.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 19 (7.54%) Law
6 17 (6.75%) Banking
7 14 (5.56%) Public Sector
8 11 (4.37%) Organisational Skills
8 11 (4.37%) Retail
9 10 (3.97%) Back Office
10 9 (3.57%) Legal
11 7 (2.78%) Documentation Skills
12 6 (2.38%) Marketing
13 4 (1.59%) Presentation Skills
13 4 (1.59%) Social Housing
14 3 (1.19%) Advertising
14 3 (1.19%) Financial Institution
14 3 (1.19%) Local Government
15 2 (0.79%) Manufacturing
16 1 (0.40%) Police
Job Titles
1 53 (21.03%) Senior
2 51 (20.24%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 27 (10.71%) IT Manager
4 22 (8.73%) Platform Engineer
5 18 (7.14%) IT Engineer
5 18 (7.14%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
6 17 (6.75%) Lead
6 17 (6.75%) Security Specialist
7 14 (5.56%) Azure Engineer
7 14 (5.56%) Cloud Platform Engineer
7 14 (5.56%) Consultant
7 14 (5.56%) Support Engineer
8 13 (5.16%) Architect
8 13 (5.16%) Cloud Engineer
8 13 (5.16%) Security Manager
9 12 (4.76%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
9 12 (4.76%) IT Security Specialist
10 11 (4.37%) Operations Engineer
10 11 (4.37%) Senior VMware Consultant
10 11 (4.37%) VMware Technical Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (3.57%) PySpark
2 7 (2.78%) Loki
3 6 (2.38%) ARM Templates
4 4 (1.59%) Microsoft Graph
4 4 (1.59%) RESTful
5 3 (1.19%) ActiveMQ
5 3 (1.19%) RAML
5 3 (1.19%) REST
5 3 (1.19%) SOAP
6 2 (0.79%) Node.js
6 2 (0.79%) Playwright
7 1 (0.40%) JWT
7 1 (0.40%) Kafka
7 1 (0.40%) NumPy
7 1 (0.40%) OAuth2
7 1 (0.40%) OpenCV
7 1 (0.40%) Pandas
7 1 (0.40%) pytest
7 1 (0.40%) SQLAlchemy
7 1 (0.40%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 26 (10.32%) Data Centre
1 26 (10.32%) Hybrid Cloud
2 19 (7.54%) Cloud Native
3 17 (6.75%) Management Information System
4 16 (6.35%) Driving Licence
5 15 (5.95%) Onboarding
6 14 (5.56%) Enterprise Storage
6 14 (5.56%) Legacy Systems
7 12 (4.76%) CMDB
7 12 (4.76%) Replication
8 11 (4.37%) Cyber Threat
9 9 (3.57%) iSeries
10 8 (3.17%) Public Cloud
11 7 (2.78%) Enterprise Software
11 7 (2.78%) Private Cloud
11 7 (2.78%) Self-Motivation
12 6 (2.38%) Security Posture
13 5 (1.98%) Data Protection Act
14 4 (1.59%) Mobile App
14 4 (1.59%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 77 (30.56%) Windows
2 49 (19.44%) Windows Server
3 26 (10.32%) Linux
4 12 (4.76%) Windows 10
5 11 (4.37%) Apple iOS
6 4 (1.59%) Mac OS
7 3 (1.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 3 (1.19%) Unix
7 3 (1.19%) Windows Server 2016
8 2 (0.79%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.40%) AIX
9 1 (0.40%) CentOS
9 1 (0.40%) Solaris
9 1 (0.40%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 79 (31.35%) Cybersecurity
2 76 (30.16%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 73 (28.97%) Business Continuity
4 68 (26.98%) Problem-Solving
5 56 (22.22%) Service Delivery
6 52 (20.63%) Continuous Improvement
6 52 (20.63%) DevOps
7 46 (18.25%) ITIL
8 43 (17.06%) CI/CD
9 38 (15.08%) Incident Response
10 36 (14.29%) Infrastructure as Code
11 35 (13.89%) Vulnerability Management
12 32 (12.70%) Cloud Security
13 30 (11.90%) Information Security
13 30 (11.90%) Migration
14 29 (11.51%) High Availability
14 29 (11.51%) Mentoring
14 29 (11.51%) Platform Engineering
15 27 (10.71%) Service Management
16 26 (10.32%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 69 (27.38%) PowerShell
2 54 (21.43%) Python
3 23 (9.13%) SQL
4 9 (3.57%) Bash
4 9 (3.57%) Bicep
4 9 (3.57%) Scala
5 8 (3.17%) Java
6 4 (1.59%) Go
7 2 (0.79%) TypeScript
8 1 (0.40%) C#
8 1 (0.40%) JavaScript
8 1 (0.40%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 43 (17.06%) Degree
2 24 (9.52%) Microsoft Certification
3 19 (7.54%) Azure Certification
4 15 (5.95%) CEH
5 14 (5.56%) Computer Science Degree
5 14 (5.56%) Security Cleared
6 13 (5.16%) SC Cleared
7 12 (4.76%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 11 (4.37%) Cisco Certification
9 8 (3.17%) BPSS Clearance
9 8 (3.17%) CCNA
9 8 (3.17%) CCNP
9 8 (3.17%) VCAP
9 8 (3.17%) VCDX
10 7 (2.78%) CISSP
11 4 (1.59%) CISM
11 4 (1.59%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 4 (1.59%) MCSE
12 3 (1.19%) Dell Certification
12 3 (1.19%) ISACA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 52 (20.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 34 (13.49%) NIST
3 32 (12.70%) Cyber Essentials
4 24 (9.52%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 20 (7.94%) GDPR
6 14 (5.56%) PCI DSS
7 13 (5.16%) Data Quality
7 13 (5.16%) ISO 22301
8 11 (4.37%) PMO
9 10 (3.97%) Actionable Recommendations
10 9 (3.57%) GRC
11 8 (3.17%) SLA
12 7 (2.78%) SOC 2
13 3 (1.19%) COBIT
14 2 (0.79%) Accessibility
14 2 (0.79%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
14 2 (0.79%) SOC 1
15 1 (0.40%) ISO/IEC 20000
15 1 (0.40%) MiFID
15 1 (0.40%) NCSC
System Software
1 61 (24.21%) Active Directory
2 57 (22.62%) VMware Infrastructure
3 28 (11.11%) Hyper-V
4 17 (6.75%) Firmware
5 15 (5.95%) vSphere
6 9 (3.57%) Docker
6 9 (3.57%) vCloud
7 8 (3.17%) VMware NSX
8 6 (2.38%) Virtual Machines
9 4 (1.59%) Virtual Servers
10 3 (1.19%) Microsoft Virtual Server
10 3 (1.19%) VMware ESXi
11 2 (0.79%) Virtual Desktop
12 1 (0.40%) KVM
12 1 (0.40%) Oracle RAC
12 1 (0.40%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 43 (17.06%) Microsoft Intune
2 42 (16.67%) Terraform
3 24 (9.52%) Kubernetes
4 11 (4.37%) Ansible
5 9 (3.57%) Grafana
6 8 (3.17%) Packer
7 7 (2.78%) Prometheus
8 5 (1.98%) Dell DRAC
9 4 (1.59%) FortiGate
9 4 (1.59%) vCenter Server
10 3 (1.19%) Avamar
10 3 (1.19%) EMC NetWorker
10 3 (1.19%) EMC VPLEX
10 3 (1.19%) VxRail
11 2 (0.79%) SCCM
11 2 (0.79%) Single Sign-On
12 1 (0.40%) Data Guard
12 1 (0.40%) Jamf Pro
12 1 (0.40%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
12 1 (0.40%) Oracle Flashback
Vendors
1 135 (53.57%) Microsoft
2 84 (33.33%) VMware
3 29 (11.51%) Cisco
4 24 (9.52%) Commvault
5 19 (7.54%) Veeam
6 15 (5.95%) EMC
7 14 (5.56%) Dell
7 14 (5.56%) Fortinet
8 13 (5.16%) IBM
9 12 (4.76%) Meraki
9 12 (4.76%) NetApp
10 11 (4.37%) Nimble Storage
11 10 (3.97%) ServiceNow
12 9 (3.57%) Databricks
12 9 (3.57%) HP
13 8 (3.17%) Broadcom
13 8 (3.17%) Palo Alto
13 8 (3.17%) Sophos
14 7 (2.78%) Oracle
15 6 (2.38%) F5