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

6 months to
9 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 198 207 195
Rank change year-on-year +9 -12 +89
Permanent jobs citing Disaster Recovery 190 295 335
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.24% 1.57% 1.62%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.38% 1.72% 1.71%
Number of salaries quoted 141 173 317
10th Percentile £42,500 £37,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £51,250 £50,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £61,250 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +6.12% -2.00% +15.74%
75th Percentile £91,250 £77,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £105,000 £91,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £59,526
% change year-on-year +4.35% -3.40% +12.31%

All Process and 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 13,775 17,158 19,587
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 90.07% 91.24% 94.98%
Number of salaries quoted 8,682 10,397 15,831
10th Percentile £29,750 £36,250 £36,270
25th Percentile £40,000 £46,250 £46,306
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £62,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% - -
75th Percentile £78,750 £81,250 £80,070
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -0.83%

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 9 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 34 (17.89%) SharePoint
2 33 (17.37%) Microsoft Exchange
3 6 (3.16%) IIS
3 6 (3.16%) Tomcat
3 6 (3.16%) WebSphere
3 6 (3.16%) WebSphere Application Server
4 3 (1.58%) Skype for Business
5 1 (0.53%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 14 (7.37%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (3.16%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (3.16%) MS Visio
2 6 (3.16%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (1.05%) Markit EDM
2 1 (0.53%) Raiser’s Edge
2 1 (0.53%) Sage 200
Cloud Services
1 109 (57.37%) Azure
2 65 (34.21%) AWS
3 55 (28.95%) Microsoft 365
4 36 (18.95%) Entra ID
5 18 (9.47%) AWS CloudFormation
6 16 (8.42%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 16 (8.42%) Azure DevOps
6 16 (8.42%) OneDrive
7 15 (7.89%) Amazon EKS
7 15 (7.89%) Azure Monitor
7 15 (7.89%) Serverless
8 13 (6.84%) GCP
9 12 (6.32%) Amazon EC2
9 12 (6.32%) IaaS
9 12 (6.32%) Power Automate
9 12 (6.32%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 11 (5.79%) Nutanix
10 11 (5.79%) PaaS
11 10 (5.26%) AWS Lambda
11 10 (5.26%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 40 (21.05%) VPN
2 36 (18.95%) Firewall
3 33 (17.37%) DNS
4 31 (16.32%) WAN
5 26 (13.68%) DHCP
6 23 (12.11%) SD-WAN
7 17 (8.95%) LAN
8 13 (6.84%) VoIP
9 12 (6.32%) SSL
10 11 (5.79%) TCP/IP
10 11 (5.79%) Wi-Fi
11 8 (4.21%) Unified Communications
11 8 (4.21%) VLAN
12 7 (3.68%) Wireless
13 4 (2.11%) BGP
14 3 (1.58%) Network Security
15 2 (1.05%) NAS
15 2 (1.05%) PuTTY
15 2 (1.05%) SAN
16 1 (0.53%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (11.05%) SQL Server
2 14 (7.37%) PostgreSQL
3 13 (6.84%) Amazon RDS
4 8 (4.21%) Azure SQL Database
4 8 (4.21%) Power BI
5 6 (3.16%) DB2
5 6 (3.16%) MySQL
5 6 (3.16%) NoSQL
5 6 (3.16%) Oracle Database
6 5 (2.63%) MongoDB
6 5 (2.63%) Oracle Database 12c
7 4 (2.11%) Amazon Aurora
7 4 (2.11%) Oracle Database 10g
7 4 (2.11%) Oracle Database 11g
8 3 (1.58%) Data Warehouse
8 3 (1.58%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 2 (1.05%) Data Lake
9 2 (1.05%) Delta Lake
9 2 (1.05%) RDBMS
9 2 (1.05%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 12 (6.32%) Git
2 6 (3.16%) Jenkins
3 5 (2.63%) Maven
4 3 (1.58%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 3 (1.58%) GitLab
4 3 (1.58%) Subversion
5 2 (1.05%) Bitbucket
5 2 (1.05%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (0.53%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 58 (30.53%) Finance
2 53 (27.89%) Social Skills
3 21 (11.05%) Analytical Skills
4 16 (8.42%) Banking
5 13 (6.84%) Law
6 12 (6.32%) Telecoms
7 8 (4.21%) Presentation Skills
8 7 (3.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 5 (2.63%) Back Office
9 5 (2.63%) Public Sector
10 4 (2.11%) Financial Institution
11 3 (1.58%) Aviation
11 3 (1.58%) Influencing Skills
11 3 (1.58%) Manufacturing
11 3 (1.58%) Retail
12 2 (1.05%) Advertising
12 2 (1.05%) Social Housing
13 1 (0.53%) Games
13 1 (0.53%) Investment Banking
13 1 (0.53%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 30 (15.79%) Senior
2 29 (15.26%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 23 (12.11%) Cloud Engineer
4 17 (8.95%) Support Engineer
5 14 (7.37%) DBA
6 13 (6.84%) Administrator
6 13 (6.84%) Lead
7 12 (6.32%) AWS DevOps
7 12 (6.32%) Linux Engineer
8 11 (5.79%) DevOps Engineer
8 11 (5.79%) Senior DevOps
9 10 (5.26%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
9 10 (5.26%) Head of IT
9 10 (5.26%) Infrastructure Manager
9 10 (5.26%) Infrastructure Support
10 9 (4.74%) AWS Engineer
10 9 (4.74%) IT Manager
11 8 (4.21%) Applications Engineer
11 8 (4.21%) Azure Engineer
11 8 (4.21%) Head of IT Operations
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (3.68%) LDAP
1 7 (3.68%) REST
2 6 (3.16%) LAPP Stack
2 6 (3.16%) WebSphere MQ
3 4 (2.11%) AWS SAM
3 4 (2.11%) Elastic Stack
4 3 (1.58%) AngularJS
4 3 (1.58%) Ionic Framework
4 3 (1.58%) LAMP
4 3 (1.58%) Loki
4 3 (1.58%) RESTful
4 3 (1.58%) Spring
4 3 (1.58%) Spring Boot
5 2 (1.05%) ActiveMQ
5 2 (1.05%) AWS CDK
5 2 (1.05%) OAuth
5 2 (1.05%) PySpark
5 2 (1.05%) RAML
5 2 (1.05%) SOAP
6 1 (0.53%) Microsoft Graph
Miscellaneous
1 20 (10.53%) Hybrid Cloud
2 17 (8.95%) Cloud Native
2 17 (8.95%) Management Information System
3 13 (6.84%) Data Centre
4 11 (5.79%) Enterprise Software
5 10 (5.26%) CMDB
5 10 (5.26%) Onboarding
6 9 (4.74%) Replication
7 7 (3.68%) Linux Command Line
7 7 (3.68%) Operational Technology
8 6 (3.16%) Public Cloud
8 6 (3.16%) Self-Motivation
9 5 (2.63%) Analytical Mindset
9 5 (2.63%) Distributed Systems
9 5 (2.63%) Driving Licence
9 5 (2.63%) Legacy Systems
9 5 (2.63%) Mobile App
10 4 (2.11%) AI Agents
10 4 (2.11%) iPhone
10 4 (2.11%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 64 (33.68%) Windows
2 38 (20.00%) Linux
3 35 (18.42%) Windows Server
4 13 (6.84%) Unix
5 6 (3.16%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (3.16%) Windows 10
6 4 (2.11%) Apple iOS
7 3 (1.58%) CentOS
7 3 (1.58%) Rocky
7 3 (1.58%) Ubuntu
7 3 (1.58%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (0.53%) Solaris
8 1 (0.53%) VMS
8 1 (0.53%) Windows Server 2008
8 1 (0.53%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 58 (30.53%) DevOps
2 55 (28.95%) ITIL
3 49 (25.79%) Problem-Solving
4 47 (24.74%) CI/CD
5 45 (23.68%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 44 (23.16%) Infrastructure as Code
7 43 (22.63%) High Availability
8 36 (18.95%) Business Continuity
8 36 (18.95%) Cybersecurity
9 33 (17.37%) Migration
10 31 (16.32%) Service Delivery
11 28 (14.74%) Continuous Improvement
12 26 (13.68%) Performance Tuning
13 23 (12.11%) Service Management
14 22 (11.58%) Observability
15 20 (10.53%) Mentoring
16 19 (10.00%) Infrastructure Management
17 18 (9.47%) Cloud Security
17 18 (9.47%) Computer Science
18 17 (8.95%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 49 (25.79%) Python
2 43 (22.63%) PowerShell
3 30 (15.79%) SQL
4 17 (8.95%) Java
5 10 (5.26%) Go
6 8 (4.21%) Bash
7 7 (3.68%) Shell Script
7 7 (3.68%) T-SQL
8 5 (2.63%) Bicep
8 5 (2.63%) C#
9 4 (2.11%) JavaScript
10 2 (1.05%) Scala
10 2 (1.05%) TypeScript
11 1 (0.53%) Perl
11 1 (0.53%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 33 (17.37%) Azure Certification
1 33 (17.37%) Degree
2 25 (13.16%) AWS Certification
3 17 (8.95%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 15 (7.89%) Microsoft Certification
5 12 (6.32%) Cisco Certification
6 11 (5.79%) CCNP
6 11 (5.79%) Security Cleared
7 10 (5.26%) ITIL Certification
8 9 (4.74%) Master's Degree
9 7 (3.68%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 7 (3.68%) PMI Certification
9 7 (3.68%) PMP
10 6 (3.16%) CEH
10 6 (3.16%) Computer Science Degree
10 6 (3.16%) DBS Check
10 6 (3.16%) SC Cleared
11 5 (2.63%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 4 (2.11%) BPSS Clearance
13 3 (1.58%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (12.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 23 (12.11%) NIST
3 22 (11.58%) SLA
4 13 (6.84%) GDPR
5 7 (3.68%) ISO 22301
6 6 (3.16%) Cyber Essentials
7 5 (2.63%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 5 (2.63%) HIPAA
8 4 (2.11%) PCI DSS
8 4 (2.11%) SOC 2
9 2 (1.05%) Data Quality
9 2 (1.05%) GRC
9 2 (1.05%) ISO 9001
9 2 (1.05%) ISO/IEC 20000
9 2 (1.05%) NCSC
10 1 (0.53%) Accessibility
10 1 (0.53%) Basel III
10 1 (0.53%) COBIT
10 1 (0.53%) MiFID
10 1 (0.53%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 35 (18.42%) Active Directory
2 25 (13.16%) Hyper-V
3 18 (9.47%) VMware Infrastructure
4 17 (8.95%) Docker
5 11 (5.79%) Virtual Machines
6 9 (4.74%) Virtual Servers
7 6 (3.16%) Virtual Desktop
8 3 (1.58%) VMware ESXi
9 2 (1.05%) vSphere
10 1 (0.53%) Oracle RAC
10 1 (0.53%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 50 (26.32%) Terraform
2 31 (16.32%) Microsoft Intune
3 29 (15.26%) Ansible
4 26 (13.68%) Kubernetes
5 12 (6.32%) Grafana
6 9 (4.74%) Prometheus
7 5 (2.63%) FortiGate
8 4 (2.11%) Nagios
9 3 (1.58%) Nessus
9 3 (1.58%) Proxmox
9 3 (1.58%) SCOM
10 1 (0.53%) Data Guard
10 1 (0.53%) Jamf Pro
10 1 (0.53%) Oracle RMAN
10 1 (0.53%) PaperCut
Vendors
1 95 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 29 (15.26%) VMware
3 14 (7.37%) Cisco
4 11 (5.79%) IBM
5 9 (4.74%) Commvault
5 9 (4.74%) Oracle
6 8 (4.21%) Google
7 7 (3.68%) Palo Alto
7 7 (3.68%) Red Hat
7 7 (3.68%) Veeam
8 6 (3.16%) Fortinet
8 6 (3.16%) SonicWALL
9 4 (2.11%) CrowdStrike
9 4 (2.11%) Foundry
9 4 (2.11%) Mitel
10 3 (1.58%) Dell
10 3 (1.58%) Sophos
11 2 (1.05%) Ab Initio
11 2 (1.05%) HP
11 2 (1.05%) Informatica