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 19 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 161 262 211
Rank change year-on-year +101 -51 +3
Permanent jobs citing Disaster Recovery 397 183 370
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.73% 1.11% 1.49%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.10% 1.19% 1.71%
Number of salaries quoted 279 138 238
10th Percentile £40,400 £31,775 £40,875
25th Percentile £46,250 £38,650 £49,414
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -15.38% +9.20%
75th Percentile £77,750 £77,188 £88,938
90th Percentile £90,000 £105,000 £102,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -5.98%

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 18,869 15,328 21,676
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 82.42% 92.95% 87.55%
Number of salaries quoted 13,610 8,889 15,263
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £44,972 £40,500 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -4.17% -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.71%

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 19 August 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 38 (9.57%) SharePoint
2 32 (8.06%) Microsoft Exchange
3 13 (3.27%) IIS
4 8 (2.02%) Apache
5 6 (1.51%) nginx
6 3 (0.76%) WordPress
7 1 (0.25%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.25%) Confluence
7 1 (0.25%) Site Server
Applications
1 7 (1.76%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.25%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 3 (0.76%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.25%) Oracle Applications
2 1 (0.25%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.25%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 262 (65.99%) Azure
2 122 (30.73%) AWS
3 114 (28.72%) Microsoft 365
4 85 (21.41%) SaaS
5 71 (17.88%) Entra ID
6 28 (7.05%) IaaS
7 25 (6.30%) GCP
8 22 (5.54%) Power Platform
9 21 (5.29%) Azure Monitor
9 21 (5.29%) PaaS
10 20 (5.04%) Nutanix
11 13 (3.27%) Azure DevOps
11 13 (3.27%) OneDrive
12 10 (2.52%) AWS CloudFormation
12 10 (2.52%) Azure Sentinel
13 9 (2.27%) Azure Data Factory
13 9 (2.27%) GitHub
14 8 (2.02%) GitHub Actions
14 8 (2.02%) Mimecast
15 7 (1.76%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 109 (27.46%) Firewall
2 77 (19.40%) DNS
3 57 (14.36%) DHCP
4 55 (13.85%) VPN
5 35 (8.82%) TCP/IP
6 32 (8.06%) WAN
7 30 (7.56%) Network Security
8 26 (6.55%) LAN
9 18 (4.53%) VLAN
10 13 (3.27%) Wi-Fi
11 9 (2.27%) SD-WAN
11 9 (2.27%) VSAN
11 9 (2.27%) Wireless
12 7 (1.76%) Cisco ISE
12 7 (1.76%) NGFW
12 7 (1.76%) SAN
13 6 (1.51%) Fibre Channel
13 6 (1.51%) iSCSI
14 5 (1.26%) Cisco Nexus
15 4 (1.01%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (5.79%) SQL Server
2 12 (3.02%) Azure SQL Database
3 10 (2.52%) PostgreSQL
3 10 (2.52%) Power BI
4 3 (0.76%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (0.50%) Oracle Database
5 2 (0.50%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 2 (0.50%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 2 (0.50%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 1 (0.25%) MongoDB
6 1 (0.25%) MySQL
6 1 (0.25%) Oracle Exadata
6 1 (0.25%) Oracle Reports
6 1 (0.25%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 7 (1.76%) Git
2 6 (1.51%) JIRA
2 6 (1.51%) Visual Studio Code
3 4 (1.01%) 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
1 123 (30.98%) Social Skills
2 66 (16.62%) Finance
3 50 (12.59%) Analytical Skills
4 43 (10.83%) Law
5 36 (9.07%) Legal
6 22 (5.54%) Banking
6 22 (5.54%) Retail
7 18 (4.53%) Documentation Skills
7 18 (4.53%) Public Sector
8 16 (4.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 15 (3.78%) Organisational Skills
10 10 (2.52%) Back Office
10 10 (2.52%) Manufacturing
11 7 (1.76%) Advertising
12 6 (1.51%) Influencing Skills
13 5 (1.26%) Marketing
14 4 (1.01%) Presentation Skills
15 3 (0.76%) Local Government
16 2 (0.50%) Social Housing
17 1 (0.25%) Police
Job Titles
1 73 (18.39%) IT Manager
2 64 (16.12%) Senior
3 54 (13.60%) Service Manager
4 51 (12.85%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 50 (12.59%) IT Services Manager
5 50 (12.59%) Resilience Manager
6 31 (7.81%) Architect
7 27 (6.80%) Consultant
8 26 (6.55%) Lead
9 23 (5.79%) IT Engineer
10 22 (5.54%) Azure Engineer
10 22 (5.54%) Support Engineer
11 21 (5.29%) Technical Consultant
12 20 (5.04%) Analyst
12 20 (5.04%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
13 19 (4.79%) Senior Architect
14 18 (4.53%) Cloud Engineer
15 16 (4.03%) IT Support
16 15 (3.78%) Senior VMware Consultant
16 15 (3.78%) VMware Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 62 (15.62%) Middleware
2 12 (3.02%) ARM Templates
3 7 (1.76%) Microsoft Graph
4 6 (1.51%) Web Services
5 3 (0.76%) JSON
5 3 (0.76%) Nuxt
5 3 (0.76%) Ruby on Rails
6 2 (0.50%) .NET
6 2 (0.50%) 802.1X
6 2 (0.50%) Kafka
7 1 (0.25%) Node.js
7 1 (0.25%) NumPy
7 1 (0.25%) OAuth
7 1 (0.25%) OAuth2
7 1 (0.25%) OpenCV
7 1 (0.25%) Oracle Fusion
7 1 (0.25%) Pandas
7 1 (0.25%) pytest
7 1 (0.25%) RESTful
7 1 (0.25%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 58 (14.61%) Cyber Threat
2 33 (8.31%) Data Centre
3 31 (7.81%) Replication
4 27 (6.80%) Hybrid Cloud
5 23 (5.79%) Cloud Native
5 23 (5.79%) Enterprise Storage
6 21 (5.29%) Management Information System
7 20 (5.04%) Onboarding
8 16 (4.03%) Security Posture
9 14 (3.53%) Driving Licence
10 13 (3.27%) Self-Motivation
11 12 (3.02%) Data Protection Act
11 12 (3.02%) Enterprise Software
11 12 (3.02%) Public Cloud
12 11 (2.77%) iSeries
13 10 (2.52%) CMDB
14 8 (2.02%) Virtual Team
15 7 (1.76%) Freedom of Information
15 7 (1.76%) Freedom of Information Act
15 7 (1.76%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 127 (31.99%) Windows
2 95 (23.93%) Windows Server
3 43 (10.83%) Linux
4 8 (2.02%) Mac OS
4 8 (2.02%) Ubuntu
5 7 (1.76%) Windows Server 2016
6 6 (1.51%) Windows 10
6 6 (1.51%) Windows Server 2019
7 5 (1.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 5 (1.26%) Unix
8 3 (0.76%) Debian
9 2 (0.50%) AIX
9 2 (0.50%) CentOS
9 2 (0.50%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 210 (52.90%) Business Continuity
2 125 (31.49%) Problem-Solving
3 115 (28.97%) Cybersecurity
4 112 (28.21%) Continuous Improvement
5 106 (26.70%) Information Security
6 96 (24.18%) DevOps
7 93 (23.43%) ITIL
8 88 (22.17%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 80 (20.15%) Agile
10 68 (17.13%) Service Delivery
11 65 (16.37%) High Availability
11 65 (16.37%) Project Delivery
12 62 (15.62%) Incident Response
12 62 (15.62%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 62 (15.62%) Stakeholder Management
13 57 (14.36%) Enterprise Architecture
13 57 (14.36%) Runbook
14 55 (13.85%) Mentoring
15 54 (13.60%) Site Reliability Engineering
16 53 (13.35%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 90 (22.67%) PowerShell
2 44 (11.08%) Python
3 27 (6.80%) SQL
4 20 (5.04%) Bicep
5 9 (2.27%) Bash
6 6 (1.51%) Shell Script
7 3 (0.76%) Java
7 3 (0.76%) JavaScript
7 3 (0.76%) Ruby
8 2 (0.50%) C#
8 2 (0.50%) T-SQL
9 1 (0.25%) TypeScript
9 1 (0.25%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 73 (18.39%) CISSP
2 69 (17.38%) CISM
3 53 (13.35%) ITIL Certification
4 36 (9.07%) Azure Certification
5 35 (8.82%) Degree
6 26 (6.55%) Microsoft Certification
7 22 (5.54%) Security Cleared
8 20 (5.04%) Cisco Certification
9 19 (4.79%) SC Cleared
9 19 (4.79%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 16 (4.03%) CCNA
11 14 (3.53%) CCNP
11 14 (3.53%) CISA
12 13 (3.27%) Computer Science Degree
13 12 (3.02%) CEH
14 10 (2.52%) VCAP
15 9 (2.27%) VCDX
16 8 (2.02%) ISACA
17 7 (1.76%) CRISC
18 6 (1.51%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 94 (23.68%) NIST
2 69 (17.38%) ISO 22301
3 62 (15.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 41 (10.33%) GDPR
5 29 (7.30%) Cyber Essentials
6 22 (5.54%) SLA
7 21 (5.29%) PCI DSS
8 17 (4.28%) PMO
9 12 (3.02%) GRC
10 11 (2.77%) COBIT
11 10 (2.52%) SOC 2
12 8 (2.02%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 7 (1.76%) SOC 1
14 5 (1.26%) Actionable Recommendations
14 5 (1.26%) NCSC
15 4 (1.01%) Data Quality
15 4 (1.01%) ISO/IEC 20000
16 3 (0.76%) ISO 9001
17 2 (0.50%) Accessibility
17 2 (0.50%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 95 (23.93%) Active Directory
2 88 (22.17%) VMware Infrastructure
3 63 (15.87%) Hyper-V
4 24 (6.05%) vSphere
5 16 (4.03%) Docker
6 13 (3.27%) Firmware
7 10 (2.52%) VMware ESXi
7 10 (2.52%) VMware NSX
8 9 (2.27%) vCloud
8 9 (2.27%) Virtual Machines
9 7 (1.76%) Virtual Desktop
10 6 (1.51%) 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 60 (15.11%) Terraform
2 42 (10.58%) Microsoft Intune
3 33 (8.31%) Kubernetes
4 19 (4.79%) Ansible
5 7 (1.76%) Grafana
5 7 (1.76%) Packer
5 7 (1.76%) Prometheus
5 7 (1.76%) Single Sign-On
6 6 (1.51%) Avamar
6 6 (1.51%) Dell DRAC
6 6 (1.51%) EMC NetWorker
6 6 (1.51%) EMC VPLEX
6 6 (1.51%) FortiGate
6 6 (1.51%) VxRail
7 5 (1.26%) Proxmox
8 4 (1.01%) SCCM
9 3 (0.76%) vCenter Server
9 3 (0.76%) ZABBIX
10 2 (0.50%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 2 (0.50%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
Vendors
1 209 (52.64%) Microsoft
2 109 (27.46%) VMware
3 50 (12.59%) Veeam
4 40 (10.08%) Cisco
5 19 (4.79%) EMC
5 19 (4.79%) Palo Alto
6 17 (4.28%) Fortinet
6 17 (4.28%) NetApp
7 16 (4.03%) Dell
8 15 (3.78%) Commvault
8 15 (3.78%) Nimble Storage
9 13 (3.27%) Google
10 12 (3.02%) Oracle
11 11 (2.77%) Broadcom
11 11 (2.77%) HP
11 11 (2.77%) IBM
11 11 (2.77%) Splunk
12 10 (2.52%) iManage
12 10 (2.52%) Meraki
12 10 (2.52%) Sophos