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

6 months to
24 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 188 207 212
Rank change year-on-year +19 +5 +62
Permanent jobs citing Disaster Recovery 245 208 495
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.37% 1.56% 1.52%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.64% 1.65% 1.67%
Number of salaries quoted 182 159 467
10th Percentile £42,250 £34,550 £41,250
25th Percentile £53,750 £43,875 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,059 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.77% - +4.35%
75th Percentile £90,938 £73,818 £78,750
90th Percentile £94,800 £90,000 £91,991
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 14,918 12,640 29,709
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 83.13% 94.72% 91.45%
Number of salaries quoted 10,427 8,943 23,621
10th Percentile £32,500 £32,000 £33,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £61,206 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -1.97% +6.45% -8.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% +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 24 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 35 (14.29%) SharePoint
2 33 (13.47%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (0.82%) Apache
3 2 (0.82%) IIS
4 1 (0.41%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 5 (2.04%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (1.63%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (1.22%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (1.63%) Markit EDM
2 3 (1.22%) Oracle EBS
3 2 (0.82%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.82%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 154 (62.86%) Azure
2 70 (28.57%) Microsoft 365
3 44 (17.96%) Entra ID
4 43 (17.55%) AWS
5 26 (10.61%) Nutanix
6 16 (6.53%) Azure Monitor
6 16 (6.53%) GitHub
6 16 (6.53%) OneDrive
7 14 (5.71%) Amazon EKS
8 13 (5.31%) Azure Data Factory
8 13 (5.31%) Azure DevOps
8 13 (5.31%) SaaS
9 11 (4.49%) Amazon EC2
9 11 (4.49%) IaaS
9 11 (4.49%) Mimecast
9 11 (4.49%) PaaS
9 11 (4.49%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 10 (4.08%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 10 (4.08%) GCP
11 9 (3.67%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 64 (26.12%) Firewall
2 55 (22.45%) VPN
3 43 (17.55%) DNS
4 41 (16.73%) WAN
5 31 (12.65%) DHCP
6 29 (11.84%) TCP/IP
7 22 (8.98%) LAN
8 15 (6.12%) SD-WAN
9 13 (5.31%) Network Security
10 10 (4.08%) VLAN
10 10 (4.08%) Wi-Fi
11 7 (2.86%) Wireless
12 5 (2.04%) Cisco ISE
12 5 (2.04%) SAN
12 5 (2.04%) VSAN
13 4 (1.63%) BGP
13 4 (1.63%) Cisco Nexus
13 4 (1.63%) Intrusion Detection
14 3 (1.22%) PuTTY
14 3 (1.22%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (6.94%) Amazon RDS
1 17 (6.94%) SQL Server
2 13 (5.31%) Azure SQL Database
3 9 (3.67%) Data Lake
3 9 (3.67%) Delta Lake
4 8 (3.27%) Amazon Aurora
5 4 (1.63%) Data Warehouse
6 3 (1.22%) MySQL
6 3 (1.22%) Power BI
7 2 (0.82%) Oracle Database
7 2 (0.82%) PostgreSQL
8 1 (0.41%) DynamoDB
8 1 (0.41%) Oracle Database 10g
8 1 (0.41%) Oracle Database 11g
8 1 (0.41%) Oracle Database 12c
8 1 (0.41%) Oracle Exadata
8 1 (0.41%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 1 (0.41%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 1 (0.41%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 19 (7.76%) Git
2 5 (2.04%) Visual Studio Code
3 4 (1.63%) Jenkins
4 3 (1.22%) Maven
4 3 (1.22%) Sonatype Nexus
5 2 (0.82%) Selenium
6 1 (0.41%) JIRA
6 1 (0.41%) MLflow
General
1 83 (33.88%) Social Skills
2 61 (24.90%) Finance
3 28 (11.43%) Analytical Skills
4 22 (8.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 21 (8.57%) Law
6 19 (7.76%) Banking
7 14 (5.71%) Public Sector
8 12 (4.90%) Retail
9 10 (4.08%) Back Office
9 10 (4.08%) Organisational Skills
10 8 (3.27%) Legal
11 7 (2.86%) Documentation Skills
12 6 (2.45%) Marketing
13 4 (1.63%) Financial Institution
13 4 (1.63%) Presentation Skills
13 4 (1.63%) Social Housing
14 3 (1.22%) Local Government
15 2 (0.82%) Manufacturing
16 1 (0.41%) Advertising
16 1 (0.41%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 50 (20.41%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 50 (20.41%) Senior
2 26 (10.61%) IT Manager
3 21 (8.57%) Platform Engineer
4 19 (7.76%) Lead
5 18 (7.35%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
6 16 (6.53%) Security Specialist
7 14 (5.71%) Cloud Engineer
7 14 (5.71%) IT Engineer
7 14 (5.71%) Security Manager
8 13 (5.31%) Architect
8 13 (5.31%) Cloud Platform Engineer
9 12 (4.90%) AWS Engineer
9 12 (4.90%) Azure Engineer
9 12 (4.90%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
9 12 (4.90%) IT Security Specialist
9 12 (4.90%) Support Engineer
10 11 (4.49%) Operations Engineer
11 10 (4.08%) Consultant
12 9 (3.67%) Applications Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (3.67%) PySpark
2 7 (2.86%) Loki
3 6 (2.45%) ARM Templates
4 5 (2.04%) RESTful
5 3 (1.22%) ActiveMQ
5 3 (1.22%) RAML
5 3 (1.22%) REST
5 3 (1.22%) SOAP
6 2 (0.82%) AWS SAM
6 2 (0.82%) Elastic Stack
6 2 (0.82%) LAMP
6 2 (0.82%) Node.js
6 2 (0.82%) Playwright
7 1 (0.41%) .NET
7 1 (0.41%) AWS CDK
7 1 (0.41%) FastAPI
7 1 (0.41%) Hugging Face
7 1 (0.41%) JWT
7 1 (0.41%) OAuth
7 1 (0.41%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 30 (12.24%) Hybrid Cloud
2 22 (8.98%) Data Centre
3 20 (8.16%) Cloud Native
4 16 (6.53%) Driving Licence
4 16 (6.53%) Management Information System
5 14 (5.71%) Legacy Systems
6 13 (5.31%) Onboarding
7 12 (4.90%) Replication
8 11 (4.49%) CMDB
8 11 (4.49%) Cyber Threat
8 11 (4.49%) Enterprise Storage
9 7 (2.86%) Enterprise Software
9 7 (2.86%) iSeries
9 7 (2.86%) Public Cloud
10 6 (2.45%) Private Cloud
10 6 (2.45%) Self-Motivation
11 5 (2.04%) Data Protection Act
11 5 (2.04%) Mobile App
11 5 (2.04%) Security Posture
12 4 (1.63%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 69 (28.16%) Windows
2 46 (18.78%) Windows Server
3 28 (11.43%) Linux
4 13 (5.31%) Windows 10
5 12 (4.90%) Apple iOS
6 4 (1.63%) Unix
7 3 (1.22%) CentOS
7 3 (1.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 3 (1.22%) Ubuntu
8 2 (0.82%) Mac OS
8 2 (0.82%) Rocky
9 1 (0.41%) AIX
9 1 (0.41%) Solaris
9 1 (0.41%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 73 (29.80%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 72 (29.39%) Cybersecurity
3 68 (27.76%) Business Continuity
4 61 (24.90%) Problem-Solving
5 55 (22.45%) Service Delivery
6 54 (22.04%) DevOps
7 50 (20.41%) Continuous Improvement
8 48 (19.59%) ITIL
9 45 (18.37%) CI/CD
10 39 (15.92%) Infrastructure as Code
11 38 (15.51%) Incident Response
12 35 (14.29%) Vulnerability Management
13 33 (13.47%) Cloud Security
13 33 (13.47%) High Availability
14 32 (13.06%) Migration
15 30 (12.24%) Mentoring
16 29 (11.84%) Platform Engineering
17 27 (11.02%) Root Cause Analysis
18 26 (10.61%) Information Security
19 25 (10.20%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 65 (26.53%) PowerShell
2 59 (24.08%) Python
3 24 (9.80%) SQL
4 10 (4.08%) Bash
5 9 (3.67%) Java
5 9 (3.67%) Scala
6 8 (3.27%) Bicep
7 6 (2.45%) Go
8 2 (0.82%) JavaScript
8 2 (0.82%) Shell Script
8 2 (0.82%) TypeScript
9 1 (0.41%) C#
9 1 (0.41%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 40 (16.33%) Degree
2 22 (8.98%) Microsoft Certification
3 17 (6.94%) Azure Certification
4 16 (6.53%) CEH
5 15 (6.12%) Security Cleared
6 13 (5.31%) Computer Science Degree
6 13 (5.31%) SC Cleared
7 9 (3.67%) Cisco Certification
7 9 (3.67%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 8 (3.27%) BPSS Clearance
8 8 (3.27%) CCNP
9 6 (2.45%) CCNA
9 6 (2.45%) CISSP
10 5 (2.04%) VCAP
10 5 (2.04%) VCDX
11 4 (1.63%) CISM
11 4 (1.63%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 4 (1.63%) MCSE
12 3 (1.22%) ISACA
13 2 (0.82%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 51 (20.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 32 (13.06%) NIST
3 31 (12.65%) Cyber Essentials
4 25 (10.20%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 19 (7.76%) GDPR
6 15 (6.12%) PCI DSS
7 13 (5.31%) Data Quality
7 13 (5.31%) ISO 22301
8 10 (4.08%) Actionable Recommendations
8 10 (4.08%) GRC
9 8 (3.27%) SLA
9 8 (3.27%) SOC 2
10 7 (2.86%) PMO
11 3 (1.22%) COBIT
12 2 (0.82%) Accessibility
12 2 (0.82%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
12 2 (0.82%) NCSC
12 2 (0.82%) SOC 1
13 1 (0.41%) Basel III
13 1 (0.41%) MiFID
System Software
1 53 (21.63%) Active Directory
2 50 (20.41%) VMware Infrastructure
3 25 (10.20%) Hyper-V
4 14 (5.71%) Firmware
5 11 (4.49%) vSphere
6 10 (4.08%) Docker
7 6 (2.45%) vCloud
7 6 (2.45%) Virtual Machines
8 5 (2.04%) VMware NSX
9 4 (1.63%) Virtual Servers
10 3 (1.22%) Microsoft Virtual Server
10 3 (1.22%) VMware ESXi
11 2 (0.82%) Virtual Desktop
12 1 (0.41%) KVM
12 1 (0.41%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 45 (18.37%) Terraform
2 38 (15.51%) Microsoft Intune
3 25 (10.20%) Kubernetes
4 15 (6.12%) Ansible
5 10 (4.08%) Grafana
6 7 (2.86%) Packer
6 7 (2.86%) Prometheus
7 4 (1.63%) Dell DRAC
7 4 (1.63%) FortiGate
7 4 (1.63%) vCenter Server
8 2 (0.82%) Avamar
8 2 (0.82%) EMC NetWorker
8 2 (0.82%) EMC VPLEX
8 2 (0.82%) Nagios
8 2 (0.82%) SCCM
8 2 (0.82%) VxRail
9 1 (0.41%) Data Guard
9 1 (0.41%) Jamf Pro
9 1 (0.41%) Oracle Flashback
9 1 (0.41%) PowerCLI
Vendors
1 124 (50.61%) Microsoft
2 80 (32.65%) VMware
3 27 (11.02%) Cisco
4 25 (10.20%) Commvault
5 14 (5.71%) Fortinet
5 14 (5.71%) Veeam
6 12 (4.90%) EMC
7 11 (4.49%) IBM
7 11 (4.49%) Meraki
8 10 (4.08%) Dell
9 9 (3.67%) Databricks
9 9 (3.67%) Oracle
9 9 (3.67%) ServiceNow
10 8 (3.27%) NetApp
10 8 (3.27%) Sophos
11 7 (2.86%) HP
11 7 (2.86%) Nimble Storage
11 7 (2.86%) Palo Alto
12 5 (2.04%) Apple
12 5 (2.04%) F5