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

6 months to
15 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 158 253 211
Rank change year-on-year +95 -42 +7
Permanent jobs citing Disaster Recovery 389 183 366
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.71% 1.10% 1.48%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.07% 1.19% 1.69%
Number of salaries quoted 270 138 235
10th Percentile £40,450 £31,775 £41,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £38,650 £49,881
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -15.38% +9.20%
75th Percentile £78,563 £77,188 £88,875
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% -7.60%

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 18,830 15,402 21,672
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 82.54% 92.96% 87.66%
Number of salaries quoted 13,568 8,927 15,410
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £44,972 £40,584 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £58,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% -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 15 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 (9.77%) SharePoint
2 34 (8.74%) Microsoft Exchange
3 13 (3.34%) IIS
4 8 (2.06%) Apache
5 6 (1.54%) nginx
6 3 (0.77%) WordPress
7 1 (0.26%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.26%) Confluence
7 1 (0.26%) Site Server
Applications
1 7 (1.80%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.26%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.26%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 3 (0.77%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.26%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 258 (66.32%) Azure
2 117 (30.08%) AWS
3 110 (28.28%) Microsoft 365
4 84 (21.59%) SaaS
5 68 (17.48%) Entra ID
6 25 (6.43%) IaaS
7 23 (5.91%) GCP
8 21 (5.40%) Nutanix
8 21 (5.40%) Power Platform
9 19 (4.88%) PaaS
10 18 (4.63%) Azure Monitor
11 13 (3.34%) Azure DevOps
12 12 (3.08%) OneDrive
13 10 (2.57%) AWS CloudFormation
13 10 (2.57%) Azure Sentinel
14 9 (2.31%) Azure Data Factory
14 9 (2.31%) GitHub
15 8 (2.06%) GitHub Actions
15 8 (2.06%) Mimecast
16 7 (1.80%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 105 (26.99%) Firewall
2 75 (19.28%) DNS
3 55 (14.14%) DHCP
3 55 (14.14%) VPN
4 33 (8.48%) TCP/IP
5 31 (7.97%) WAN
6 28 (7.20%) Network Security
7 25 (6.43%) LAN
8 17 (4.37%) VLAN
9 15 (3.86%) Wi-Fi
10 9 (2.31%) VSAN
11 8 (2.06%) Wireless
12 7 (1.80%) NGFW
12 7 (1.80%) SAN
13 6 (1.54%) Cisco ISE
13 6 (1.54%) Fibre Channel
13 6 (1.54%) iSCSI
13 6 (1.54%) SD-WAN
14 4 (1.03%) Cisco Nexus
14 4 (1.03%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (5.66%) SQL Server
2 11 (2.83%) Azure SQL Database
3 10 (2.57%) Power BI
4 9 (2.31%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (0.51%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (0.51%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 2 (0.51%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 2 (0.51%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 1 (0.26%) MongoDB
6 1 (0.26%) MySQL
6 1 (0.26%) Oracle Database
6 1 (0.26%) Oracle Exadata
6 1 (0.26%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 7 (1.80%) Git
2 6 (1.54%) Visual Studio Code
3 5 (1.29%) JIRA
4 4 (1.03%) GitLab
5 2 (0.51%) Terragrunt
6 1 (0.26%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.26%) Claude Code
6 1 (0.26%) MLflow
6 1 (0.26%) Selenium
General
1 121 (31.11%) Social Skills
2 63 (16.20%) Finance
3 49 (12.60%) Analytical Skills
4 43 (11.05%) Law
5 36 (9.25%) Legal
6 21 (5.40%) Retail
7 20 (5.14%) Banking
8 18 (4.63%) Documentation Skills
9 17 (4.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 17 (4.37%) Public Sector
10 15 (3.86%) Organisational Skills
11 10 (2.57%) Back Office
12 9 (2.31%) Manufacturing
13 6 (1.54%) Advertising
13 6 (1.54%) Influencing Skills
14 5 (1.29%) Marketing
15 4 (1.03%) Presentation Skills
16 3 (0.77%) Local Government
17 2 (0.51%) Social Housing
18 1 (0.26%) Police
Job Titles
1 73 (18.77%) IT Manager
2 64 (16.45%) Senior
3 52 (13.37%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 52 (13.37%) Service Manager
4 50 (12.85%) IT Services Manager
4 50 (12.85%) Resilience Manager
5 30 (7.71%) Architect
6 26 (6.68%) Lead
7 24 (6.17%) Consultant
7 24 (6.17%) IT Engineer
8 22 (5.66%) Support Engineer
9 20 (5.14%) Azure Engineer
9 20 (5.14%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
10 19 (4.88%) Analyst
10 19 (4.88%) Senior Architect
10 19 (4.88%) Technical Consultant
11 18 (4.63%) Cloud Engineer
12 16 (4.11%) IT Support
13 15 (3.86%) VMware Consultant
13 15 (3.86%) VMware Technical Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 60 (15.42%) Middleware
2 12 (3.08%) ARM Templates
3 7 (1.80%) Microsoft Graph
4 6 (1.54%) Web Services
5 3 (0.77%) JSON
5 3 (0.77%) Nuxt
5 3 (0.77%) Ruby on Rails
6 2 (0.51%) .NET
6 2 (0.51%) Kafka
7 1 (0.26%) 802.1X
7 1 (0.26%) AWS CDK
7 1 (0.26%) FastAPI
7 1 (0.26%) JWT
7 1 (0.26%) OAuth2
7 1 (0.26%) OpenCV
7 1 (0.26%) Pandas
7 1 (0.26%) Playwright
7 1 (0.26%) pytest
7 1 (0.26%) PyTorch
7 1 (0.26%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 58 (14.91%) Cyber Threat
2 32 (8.23%) Data Centre
3 30 (7.71%) Replication
4 26 (6.68%) Hybrid Cloud
5 23 (5.91%) Cloud Native
5 23 (5.91%) Enterprise Storage
5 23 (5.91%) Management Information System
6 20 (5.14%) Onboarding
7 16 (4.11%) Driving Licence
7 16 (4.11%) Security Posture
8 13 (3.34%) Self-Motivation
9 12 (3.08%) Data Protection Act
9 12 (3.08%) Enterprise Software
9 12 (3.08%) Public Cloud
10 11 (2.83%) iSeries
11 10 (2.57%) CMDB
12 8 (2.06%) Virtual Team
13 7 (1.80%) Freedom of Information
13 7 (1.80%) Freedom of Information Act
13 7 (1.80%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 122 (31.36%) Windows
2 89 (22.88%) Windows Server
3 42 (10.80%) Linux
4 8 (2.06%) Mac OS
5 7 (1.80%) Ubuntu
5 7 (1.80%) Windows Server 2016
6 6 (1.54%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 6 (1.54%) Windows 10
6 6 (1.54%) Windows Server 2019
7 5 (1.29%) Unix
8 2 (0.51%) CentOS
8 2 (0.51%) Debian
8 2 (0.51%) Solaris
9 1 (0.26%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 202 (51.93%) Business Continuity
2 122 (31.36%) Problem-Solving
3 113 (29.05%) Cybersecurity
4 108 (27.76%) Continuous Improvement
5 105 (26.99%) Information Security
6 99 (25.45%) DevOps
7 93 (23.91%) ITIL
8 86 (22.11%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 79 (20.31%) Agile
10 67 (17.22%) Service Delivery
11 65 (16.71%) Project Delivery
12 64 (16.45%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 62 (15.94%) Incident Response
14 60 (15.42%) High Availability
15 58 (14.91%) Runbook
15 58 (14.91%) Stakeholder Management
16 57 (14.65%) Enterprise Architecture
17 54 (13.88%) Site Reliability Engineering
17 54 (13.88%) Test Automation
18 52 (13.37%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 88 (22.62%) PowerShell
2 44 (11.31%) Python
3 26 (6.68%) SQL
4 18 (4.63%) Bicep
5 9 (2.31%) Bash
6 6 (1.54%) Shell Script
7 3 (0.77%) JavaScript
7 3 (0.77%) Ruby
8 2 (0.51%) C#
8 2 (0.51%) Java
8 2 (0.51%) T-SQL
9 1 (0.26%) TypeScript
9 1 (0.26%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 72 (18.51%) CISSP
2 68 (17.48%) CISM
3 52 (13.37%) ITIL Certification
4 35 (9.00%) Degree
5 34 (8.74%) Azure Certification
6 28 (7.20%) Microsoft Certification
7 24 (6.17%) Security Cleared
8 21 (5.40%) SC Cleared
9 20 (5.14%) Cisco Certification
10 19 (4.88%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 16 (4.11%) CCNA
12 14 (3.60%) CCNP
12 14 (3.60%) CISA
13 13 (3.34%) Computer Science Degree
14 12 (3.08%) CEH
15 10 (2.57%) VCAP
16 9 (2.31%) VCDX
17 8 (2.06%) ISACA
18 7 (1.80%) CRISC
19 6 (1.54%) Dell Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 94 (24.16%) NIST
2 70 (17.99%) ISO 22301
3 64 (16.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 41 (10.54%) GDPR
5 30 (7.71%) Cyber Essentials
6 21 (5.40%) PCI DSS
6 21 (5.40%) SLA
7 17 (4.37%) PMO
8 12 (3.08%) GRC
9 11 (2.83%) COBIT
10 10 (2.57%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 10 (2.57%) SOC 2
11 7 (1.80%) SOC 1
12 5 (1.29%) Actionable Recommendations
12 5 (1.29%) NCSC
13 4 (1.03%) Data Quality
13 4 (1.03%) ISO/IEC 20000
14 3 (0.77%) ISO 9001
15 2 (0.51%) Accessibility
15 2 (0.51%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 90 (23.14%) Active Directory
2 88 (22.62%) VMware Infrastructure
3 60 (15.42%) Hyper-V
4 24 (6.17%) vSphere
5 16 (4.11%) Docker
6 13 (3.34%) Firmware
7 10 (2.57%) VMware ESXi
7 10 (2.57%) VMware NSX
8 9 (2.31%) vCloud
9 7 (1.80%) Virtual Machines
10 6 (1.54%) Squid
11 5 (1.29%) Virtual Desktop
12 1 (0.26%) KVM
12 1 (0.26%) Oracle RAC
12 1 (0.26%) Terminal Services
12 1 (0.26%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 58 (14.91%) Terraform
2 43 (11.05%) Microsoft Intune
3 33 (8.48%) Kubernetes
4 19 (4.88%) Ansible
5 7 (1.80%) Packer
5 7 (1.80%) Single Sign-On
6 6 (1.54%) Avamar
6 6 (1.54%) Dell DRAC
6 6 (1.54%) EMC NetWorker
6 6 (1.54%) EMC VPLEX
6 6 (1.54%) Grafana
6 6 (1.54%) Prometheus
6 6 (1.54%) VxRail
7 5 (1.29%) FortiGate
7 5 (1.29%) Proxmox
8 4 (1.03%) SCCM
9 3 (0.77%) vCenter Server
9 3 (0.77%) ZABBIX
10 2 (0.51%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 2 (0.51%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
Vendors
1 202 (51.93%) Microsoft
2 109 (28.02%) VMware
3 50 (12.85%) Veeam
4 41 (10.54%) Cisco
5 19 (4.88%) EMC
6 18 (4.63%) Palo Alto
7 17 (4.37%) Fortinet
7 17 (4.37%) NetApp
8 16 (4.11%) Commvault
8 16 (4.11%) Dell
9 15 (3.86%) Nimble Storage
10 12 (3.08%) Google
10 12 (3.08%) Meraki
11 11 (2.83%) Broadcom
11 11 (2.83%) HP
11 11 (2.83%) IBM
11 11 (2.83%) Oracle
12 10 (2.57%) Red Hat
12 10 (2.57%) Sophos
12 10 (2.57%) Splunk