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 26 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 243 199 198
Rank change year-on-year -44 -1 +98
Permanent jobs citing Disaster Recovery 171 337 381
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.06% 1.68% 1.68%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.14% 1.91% 1.76%
Number of salaries quoted 135 161 357
10th Percentile £40,960 £37,500 £36,650
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% +11.06%
75th Percentile £85,625 £77,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £105,000 £91,500 £77,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £59,526
% change year-on-year - +0.80% +10.23%

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 15,065 17,685 21,619
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 93.47% 88.16% 95.09%
Number of salaries quoted 8,395 10,619 17,539
10th Percentile £29,750 £36,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £46,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £62,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% - -
75th Percentile £77,500 £81,250 £80,070
90th Percentile £100,000 £101,250 £97,500
UK median annual salary £54,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.00% - -

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 26 October 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 29 (16.96%) SharePoint
2 27 (15.79%) Microsoft Exchange
3 6 (3.51%) IIS
3 6 (3.51%) Tomcat
3 6 (3.51%) WebSphere
3 6 (3.51%) WebSphere Application Server
4 3 (1.75%) Skype for Business
5 1 (0.58%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 10 (5.85%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (4.68%) Spreadsheet
3 4 (2.34%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (2.34%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (1.17%) Sage 200
2 1 (0.58%) Raiser’s Edge
Cloud Services
1 90 (52.63%) Azure
2 65 (38.01%) AWS
3 51 (29.82%) Microsoft 365
4 26 (15.20%) Entra ID
5 20 (11.70%) AWS CloudFormation
6 18 (10.53%) GCP
7 16 (9.36%) Power Automate
8 14 (8.19%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 14 (8.19%) Power Platform
9 13 (7.60%) Azure DevOps
9 13 (7.60%) OneDrive
10 12 (7.02%) Serverless
11 11 (6.43%) Microsoft Copilot
11 11 (6.43%) PowerApps
12 10 (5.85%) IaaS
13 9 (5.26%) Amazon EC2
13 9 (5.26%) GitHub
13 9 (5.26%) PaaS
13 9 (5.26%) Route 53
13 9 (5.26%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 37 (21.64%) Firewall
2 33 (19.30%) VPN
3 25 (14.62%) DNS
3 25 (14.62%) WAN
4 19 (11.11%) DHCP
5 18 (10.53%) SD-WAN
6 16 (9.36%) LAN
7 14 (8.19%) VoIP
8 12 (7.02%) SSL
9 11 (6.43%) Wi-Fi
10 8 (4.68%) Unified Communications
11 7 (4.09%) VLAN
12 6 (3.51%) Wireless
13 4 (2.34%) TCP/IP
14 3 (1.75%) BGP
14 3 (1.75%) Network Security
15 2 (1.17%) NAS
15 2 (1.17%) SAN
16 1 (0.58%) Internet
16 1 (0.58%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (14.62%) SQL Server
2 16 (9.36%) PostgreSQL
3 12 (7.02%) Power BI
4 10 (5.85%) NoSQL
5 8 (4.68%) Amazon RDS
5 8 (4.68%) MongoDB
5 8 (4.68%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 7 (4.09%) Azure SQL Database
7 6 (3.51%) DB2
7 6 (3.51%) MySQL
7 6 (3.51%) Oracle Database
8 5 (2.92%) RDBMS
8 5 (2.92%) Relational Database
9 4 (2.34%) Oracle Database 12c
10 3 (1.75%) Oracle Database 10g
10 3 (1.75%) Oracle Database 11g
11 1 (0.58%) Apache Hive
11 1 (0.58%) Data Warehouse
11 1 (0.58%) Hadoop
11 1 (0.58%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 8 (4.68%) Git
2 6 (3.51%) Bitbucket
2 6 (3.51%) Jenkins
3 4 (2.34%) Maven
4 3 (1.75%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 3 (1.75%) GitLab
4 3 (1.75%) Subversion
5 1 (0.58%) Artifactory
5 1 (0.58%) MSBuild
5 1 (0.58%) Oracle APEX
5 1 (0.58%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 48 (28.07%) Social Skills
2 47 (27.49%) Finance
3 19 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
4 14 (8.19%) Banking
5 13 (7.60%) Telecoms
6 9 (5.26%) Law
6 9 (5.26%) Presentation Skills
7 5 (2.92%) Public Sector
8 4 (2.34%) Advertising
8 4 (2.34%) Back Office
8 4 (2.34%) Manufacturing
8 4 (2.34%) Retail
9 3 (1.75%) Aviation
9 3 (1.75%) Financial Institution
9 3 (1.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (1.75%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (1.17%) Legal
10 2 (1.17%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.58%) Games
11 1 (0.58%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 30 (17.54%) Senior
2 27 (15.79%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 19 (11.11%) AWS DevOps
3 19 (11.11%) DBA
4 18 (10.53%) Cloud Engineer
5 17 (9.94%) Senior DevOps
6 15 (8.77%) Administrator
7 14 (8.19%) DevOps Engineer
7 14 (8.19%) Support Engineer
8 12 (7.02%) SQL DBA
9 11 (6.43%) Architect
9 11 (6.43%) Lead
10 10 (5.85%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
10 10 (5.85%) Head of IT
11 9 (5.26%) AWS Architect
11 9 (5.26%) AWS Engineer
11 9 (5.26%) DevOps Architect
11 9 (5.26%) Senior Architect
11 9 (5.26%) Senior Solutions Architect
11 9 (5.26%) TOGAF Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (4.09%) LDAP
2 6 (3.51%) LAPP Stack
2 6 (3.51%) WebSphere MQ
3 5 (2.92%) Elastic Stack
3 5 (2.92%) REST
4 3 (1.75%) AngularJS
4 3 (1.75%) Ionic Framework
4 3 (1.75%) Spring
4 3 (1.75%) Spring Boot
5 2 (1.17%) AWS CDK
5 2 (1.17%) AWS SAM
5 2 (1.17%) OAuth
5 2 (1.17%) RESTful
6 1 (0.58%) boto
6 1 (0.58%) gRPC
6 1 (0.58%) LAMP
6 1 (0.58%) Microsoft Graph
6 1 (0.58%) OAuth2
6 1 (0.58%) RFC 2544
6 1 (0.58%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 18 (10.53%) Cloud Native
2 16 (9.36%) Management Information System
3 11 (6.43%) Hybrid Cloud
4 10 (5.85%) CMDB
4 10 (5.85%) Data Centre
5 8 (4.68%) Driving Licence
5 8 (4.68%) Enterprise Software
5 8 (4.68%) Replication
6 7 (4.09%) Linux Command Line
6 7 (4.09%) Operational Technology
6 7 (4.09%) Self-Motivation
7 5 (2.92%) Clustering
7 5 (2.92%) Distributed Systems
7 5 (2.92%) Onboarding
7 5 (2.92%) Public Cloud
8 4 (2.34%) AI Agents
8 4 (2.34%) Analytical Mindset
8 4 (2.34%) PKI
9 3 (1.75%) Legacy Systems
10 2 (1.17%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 54 (31.58%) Windows
2 33 (19.30%) Linux
3 30 (17.54%) Windows Server
4 15 (8.77%) Unix
5 6 (3.51%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (2.34%) Windows Server 2019
7 2 (1.17%) Solaris
7 2 (1.17%) Windows Server 2008
7 2 (1.17%) Windows Server 2012
8 1 (0.58%) CentOS
8 1 (0.58%) Rocky
8 1 (0.58%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.58%) VMS
8 1 (0.58%) Windows 10
8 1 (0.58%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (30.99%) DevOps
2 49 (28.65%) ITIL
3 46 (26.90%) CI/CD
4 43 (25.15%) High Availability
5 42 (24.56%) Problem-Solving
6 41 (23.98%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 37 (21.64%) Infrastructure as Code
8 32 (18.71%) Cybersecurity
8 32 (18.71%) Migration
9 29 (16.96%) Business Continuity
10 25 (14.62%) Performance Tuning
10 25 (14.62%) Service Management
11 24 (14.04%) Continuous Improvement
12 21 (12.28%) Roadmaps
12 21 (12.28%) Service Delivery
13 18 (10.53%) Mentoring
14 17 (9.94%) Computer Science
14 17 (9.94%) Configuration Management
14 17 (9.94%) Observability
14 17 (9.94%) Technology Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 43 (25.15%) Python
2 36 (21.05%) SQL
3 32 (18.71%) PowerShell
4 18 (10.53%) Java
5 12 (7.02%) T-SQL
6 10 (5.85%) C#
6 10 (5.85%) Go
7 7 (4.09%) Bash
8 6 (3.51%) JavaScript
9 5 (2.92%) Shell Script
10 4 (2.34%) Bicep
11 2 (1.17%) PL/SQL
11 2 (1.17%) TypeScript
12 1 (0.58%) C++
12 1 (0.58%) Groovy
12 1 (0.58%) Kusto Query Language
12 1 (0.58%) Perl
Qualifications
1 33 (19.30%) Azure Certification
2 30 (17.54%) AWS Certification
3 28 (16.37%) Degree
4 21 (12.28%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 14 (8.19%) Microsoft Certification
5 14 (8.19%) Security Cleared
6 12 (7.02%) Cisco Certification
7 11 (6.43%) CCNP
7 11 (6.43%) SC Cleared
8 10 (5.85%) DBS Check
9 9 (5.26%) Master's Degree
10 8 (4.68%) ITIL Certification
11 7 (4.09%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 7 (4.09%) PMI Certification
11 7 (4.09%) PMP
12 5 (2.92%) BPSS Clearance
12 5 (2.92%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13 4 (2.34%) Computer Science Degree
14 3 (1.75%) CEH
14 3 (1.75%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (12.28%) NIST
2 19 (11.11%) SLA
3 17 (9.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 16 (9.36%) GDPR
5 10 (5.85%) HIPAA
6 5 (2.92%) ISO 22301
7 4 (2.34%) Cyber Essentials
8 3 (1.75%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 3 (1.75%) PCI DSS
8 3 (1.75%) SOC 2
9 2 (1.17%) GRC
9 2 (1.17%) ISO 9001
9 2 (1.17%) ISO/IEC 20000
10 1 (0.58%) COBIT
10 1 (0.58%) NCSC
10 1 (0.58%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 30 (17.54%) Active Directory
2 25 (14.62%) Docker
3 19 (11.11%) Hyper-V
4 13 (7.60%) VMware Infrastructure
5 9 (5.26%) Virtual Servers
6 7 (4.09%) Virtual Machines
7 6 (3.51%) Virtual Desktop
8 4 (2.34%) VMware ESXi
9 2 (1.17%) vSphere
10 1 (0.58%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 43 (25.15%) Terraform
2 28 (16.37%) Kubernetes
3 27 (15.79%) Ansible
4 23 (13.45%) Microsoft Intune
5 11 (6.43%) Grafana
6 7 (4.09%) Prometheus
7 5 (2.92%) FortiGate
8 3 (1.75%) Nessus
8 3 (1.75%) Proxmox
8 3 (1.75%) SCOM
9 2 (1.17%) Data Guard
9 2 (1.17%) Nagios
10 1 (0.58%) Oracle RMAN
10 1 (0.58%) Oracle ZFS
10 1 (0.58%) PaperCut
Vendors
1 82 (47.95%) Microsoft
2 18 (10.53%) VMware
3 17 (9.94%) Cisco
4 12 (7.02%) Google
5 9 (5.26%) IBM
5 9 (5.26%) Veeam
6 8 (4.68%) Oracle
7 7 (4.09%) Palo Alto
7 7 (4.09%) Red Hat
8 6 (3.51%) Fortinet
8 6 (3.51%) SonicWALL
9 5 (2.92%) Informatica
9 5 (2.92%) RedGate
9 5 (2.92%) Sophos
9 5 (2.92%) Talend
10 4 (2.34%) ConnectWise
10 4 (2.34%) CrowdStrike
10 4 (2.34%) ESET
10 4 (2.34%) Foundry
10 4 (2.34%) Ubiquiti