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 28 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 195 230 199
Rank change year-on-year +35 -31 +88
Permanent jobs citing Disaster Recovery 196 249 326
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.28% 1.45% 1.59%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.45% 1.56% 1.68%
Number of salaries quoted 144 160 307
10th Percentile £43,375 £37,500 £34,600
25th Percentile £51,250 £49,634 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,250 £61,875 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.07% -1.00% +15.74%
75th Percentile £92,500 £77,813 £73,750
90th Percentile £105,000 £91,500 £81,250
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% -4.17% +13.96%

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 13,498 15,959 19,353
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 88.40% 92.95% 94.10%
Number of salaries quoted 8,596 9,592 15,564
10th Percentile £30,000 £36,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £46,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,500 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.40% +4.17% -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

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 28 December 2025.

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 32 (16.33%) SharePoint
2 31 (15.82%) Microsoft Exchange
3 6 (3.06%) IIS
3 6 (3.06%) Tomcat
3 6 (3.06%) WebSphere
3 6 (3.06%) WebSphere Application Server
4 2 (1.02%) Skype for Business
5 1 (0.51%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 14 (7.14%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (3.57%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (3.57%) MS Visio
3 6 (3.06%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 4 (2.04%) Markit EDM
2 1 (0.51%) Raiser’s Edge
Cloud Services
1 118 (60.20%) Azure
2 65 (33.16%) AWS
3 55 (28.06%) Microsoft 365
4 39 (19.90%) Entra ID
5 17 (8.67%) AWS CloudFormation
5 17 (8.67%) Azure DevOps
5 17 (8.67%) Azure Monitor
6 16 (8.16%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 16 (8.16%) Amazon EKS
7 14 (7.14%) Nutanix
7 14 (7.14%) OneDrive
8 13 (6.63%) Amazon EC2
8 13 (6.63%) Serverless
8 13 (6.63%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 11 (5.61%) Azure Data Factory
9 11 (5.61%) IaaS
10 10 (5.10%) AWS Lambda
10 10 (5.10%) GCP
10 10 (5.10%) PaaS
11 9 (4.59%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 48 (24.49%) VPN
2 39 (19.90%) DNS
2 39 (19.90%) WAN
3 35 (17.86%) Firewall
4 30 (15.31%) DHCP
5 26 (13.27%) SD-WAN
6 19 (9.69%) LAN
7 16 (8.16%) TCP/IP
8 13 (6.63%) SSL
9 11 (5.61%) VoIP
10 10 (5.10%) VLAN
10 10 (5.10%) Wi-Fi
11 9 (4.59%) Unified Communications
12 6 (3.06%) Wireless
13 4 (2.04%) BGP
13 4 (2.04%) SAN
14 3 (1.53%) Network Security
14 3 (1.53%) PuTTY
15 2 (1.02%) NAS
16 1 (0.51%) Structured Cabling
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (11.73%) SQL Server
2 15 (7.65%) Amazon RDS
3 14 (7.14%) PostgreSQL
4 12 (6.12%) Azure SQL Database
5 6 (3.06%) DB2
5 6 (3.06%) MySQL
5 6 (3.06%) Oracle Database
6 5 (2.55%) Amazon Aurora
6 5 (2.55%) Data Lake
6 5 (2.55%) Data Warehouse
6 5 (2.55%) Delta Lake
6 5 (2.55%) MongoDB
6 5 (2.55%) Oracle Database 12c
7 4 (2.04%) NoSQL
7 4 (2.04%) Oracle Database 10g
7 4 (2.04%) Oracle Database 11g
8 3 (1.53%) Power BI
8 3 (1.53%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 2 (1.02%) RDBMS
9 2 (1.02%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 16 (8.16%) Git
2 7 (3.57%) Jenkins
3 6 (3.06%) Maven
4 3 (1.53%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 3 (1.53%) GitLab
4 3 (1.53%) Sonatype Nexus
4 3 (1.53%) Subversion
5 2 (1.02%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.51%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 63 (32.14%) Finance
2 57 (29.08%) Social Skills
3 25 (12.76%) Analytical Skills
4 17 (8.67%) Law
5 16 (8.16%) Banking
6 11 (5.61%) Telecoms
7 9 (4.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 6 (3.06%) Back Office
8 6 (3.06%) Public Sector
9 4 (2.04%) Financial Institution
9 4 (2.04%) Presentation Skills
9 4 (2.04%) Retail
10 3 (1.53%) Aviation
10 3 (1.53%) Documentation Skills
10 3 (1.53%) Influencing Skills
10 3 (1.53%) Organisational Skills
10 3 (1.53%) Social Housing
11 2 (1.02%) Advertising
11 2 (1.02%) Local Government
11 2 (1.02%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 35 (17.86%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 33 (16.84%) Senior
3 23 (11.73%) Cloud Engineer
4 18 (9.18%) Support Engineer
5 14 (7.14%) DBA
6 13 (6.63%) Linux Engineer
7 12 (6.12%) Administrator
7 12 (6.12%) Head of IT
8 11 (5.61%) DevOps Engineer
8 11 (5.61%) Lead
9 10 (5.10%) Applications Engineer
9 10 (5.10%) Applications Support
9 10 (5.10%) Applications Support Engineer
9 10 (5.10%) AWS DevOps
9 10 (5.10%) AWS Engineer
9 10 (5.10%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
9 10 (5.10%) Infrastructure Support
10 9 (4.59%) Infrastructure Manager
10 9 (4.59%) IT Security Specialist
10 9 (4.59%) Security Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (4.08%) REST
2 7 (3.57%) LDAP
3 6 (3.06%) LAPP Stack
3 6 (3.06%) WebSphere MQ
4 5 (2.55%) PySpark
5 4 (2.04%) AWS SAM
5 4 (2.04%) Elastic Stack
5 4 (2.04%) Loki
6 3 (1.53%) ActiveMQ
6 3 (1.53%) AngularJS
6 3 (1.53%) Ionic Framework
6 3 (1.53%) LAMP
6 3 (1.53%) RAML
6 3 (1.53%) RESTful
6 3 (1.53%) SOAP
6 3 (1.53%) Spring
6 3 (1.53%) Spring Boot
7 2 (1.02%) ARM Templates
7 2 (1.02%) AWS CDK
8 1 (0.51%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 22 (11.22%) Hybrid Cloud
2 18 (9.18%) Management Information System
3 17 (8.67%) Cloud Native
4 12 (6.12%) Onboarding
5 11 (5.61%) CMDB
5 11 (5.61%) Data Centre
5 11 (5.61%) Enterprise Software
6 9 (4.59%) Replication
7 7 (3.57%) Linux Command Line
7 7 (3.57%) Operational Technology
8 6 (3.06%) Analytical Mindset
8 6 (3.06%) Public Cloud
9 5 (2.55%) Distributed Systems
9 5 (2.55%) Mobile App
10 4 (2.04%) Driving Licence
10 4 (2.04%) iPad
10 4 (2.04%) Legacy Systems
10 4 (2.04%) PKI
10 4 (2.04%) Security Posture
10 4 (2.04%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 64 (32.65%) Windows
2 40 (20.41%) Linux
3 37 (18.88%) Windows Server
4 13 (6.63%) Unix
5 9 (4.59%) Windows 10
6 7 (3.57%) Apple iOS
7 6 (3.06%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 3 (1.53%) CentOS
8 3 (1.53%) Rocky
8 3 (1.53%) Ubuntu
9 2 (1.02%) Windows Server 2019
10 1 (0.51%) Solaris
10 1 (0.51%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 61 (31.12%) DevOps
2 54 (27.55%) Problem-Solving
3 52 (26.53%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 52 (26.53%) ITIL
4 50 (25.51%) CI/CD
5 48 (24.49%) High Availability
6 47 (23.98%) Infrastructure as Code
7 43 (21.94%) Cybersecurity
8 37 (18.88%) Service Delivery
9 36 (18.37%) Business Continuity
9 36 (18.37%) Migration
10 30 (15.31%) Continuous Improvement
11 27 (13.78%) Performance Tuning
12 26 (13.27%) Service Management
13 25 (12.76%) Observability
14 23 (11.73%) Vulnerability Management
15 21 (10.71%) Computer Science
15 21 (10.71%) Mentoring
16 19 (9.69%) Incident Management
16 19 (9.69%) Problem Management
Programming Languages
1 55 (28.06%) Python
2 51 (26.02%) PowerShell
3 34 (17.35%) SQL
4 16 (8.16%) Java
5 10 (5.10%) Go
6 9 (4.59%) Bash
7 7 (3.57%) Shell Script
7 7 (3.57%) T-SQL
8 6 (3.06%) Bicep
9 5 (2.55%) Scala
10 4 (2.04%) JavaScript
11 3 (1.53%) C#
12 2 (1.02%) TypeScript
13 1 (0.51%) Perl
13 1 (0.51%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 37 (18.88%) Degree
2 30 (15.31%) Azure Certification
3 25 (12.76%) AWS Certification
4 20 (10.20%) Microsoft Certification
5 17 (8.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 12 (6.12%) Security Cleared
7 11 (5.61%) Cisco Certification
7 11 (5.61%) Master's Degree
8 10 (5.10%) CCNP
8 10 (5.10%) Computer Science Degree
8 10 (5.10%) ITIL Certification
8 10 (5.10%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 9 (4.59%) CEH
10 7 (3.57%) PMI Certification
10 7 (3.57%) PMP
10 7 (3.57%) SC Cleared
11 6 (3.06%) DBS Check
12 5 (2.55%) BPSS Clearance
12 5 (2.55%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13 3 (1.53%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (15.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 25 (12.76%) NIST
3 18 (9.18%) SLA
4 11 (5.61%) Cyber Essentials
4 11 (5.61%) GDPR
5 10 (5.10%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 9 (4.59%) ISO 22301
7 6 (3.06%) PCI DSS
8 5 (2.55%) Data Quality
9 4 (2.04%) SOC 2
10 3 (1.53%) HIPAA
11 2 (1.02%) GRC
11 2 (1.02%) ISO 9001
11 2 (1.02%) ISO/IEC 20000
11 2 (1.02%) NCSC
12 1 (0.51%) Accessibility
12 1 (0.51%) Basel III
12 1 (0.51%) COBIT
12 1 (0.51%) MiFID
12 1 (0.51%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 41 (20.92%) Active Directory
2 22 (11.22%) Hyper-V
2 22 (11.22%) VMware Infrastructure
3 17 (8.67%) Docker
4 12 (6.12%) Virtual Machines
5 9 (4.59%) Virtual Servers
6 5 (2.55%) Virtual Desktop
7 3 (1.53%) Firmware
7 3 (1.53%) VMware ESXi
8 2 (1.02%) vSphere
9 1 (0.51%) Oracle RAC
9 1 (0.51%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 50 (25.51%) Terraform
2 35 (17.86%) Microsoft Intune
3 27 (13.78%) Ansible
3 27 (13.78%) Kubernetes
4 13 (6.63%) Grafana
5 9 (4.59%) Prometheus
6 6 (3.06%) FortiGate
7 4 (2.04%) Nagios
8 3 (1.53%) Nessus
8 3 (1.53%) Proxmox
8 3 (1.53%) SCOM
9 1 (0.51%) Data Guard
9 1 (0.51%) Dell DRAC
9 1 (0.51%) Jamf Pro
9 1 (0.51%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 99 (50.51%) Microsoft
2 37 (18.88%) VMware
3 13 (6.63%) Cisco
3 13 (6.63%) IBM
4 12 (6.12%) Commvault
5 9 (4.59%) Fortinet
5 9 (4.59%) Oracle
6 7 (3.57%) Red Hat
7 6 (3.06%) Palo Alto
7 6 (3.06%) SonicWALL
7 6 (3.06%) Veeam
8 5 (2.55%) Databricks
8 5 (2.55%) Google
9 4 (2.04%) Ab Initio
9 4 (2.04%) CrowdStrike
9 4 (2.04%) Mitel
10 3 (1.53%) Dell
10 3 (1.53%) Foundry
10 3 (1.53%) Meraki
10 3 (1.53%) MuleSoft