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

6 months to
13 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 180 204 199
Rank change year-on-year +24 -5 +87
Permanent jobs citing Disaster Recovery 241 209 489
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.38% 1.60% 1.54%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.66% 1.68% 1.68%
Number of salaries quoted 179 160 461
10th Percentile £42,250 £35,425 £41,250
25th Percentile £53,750 £43,938 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,119 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.20% - +8.79%
75th Percentile £91,250 £73,886 £77,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £90,000 £88,750
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 14,543 12,420 29,040
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 83.23% 94.79% 91.50%
Number of salaries quoted 10,157 8,908 23,553
10th Percentile £32,250 £32,500 £33,754
25th Percentile £44,972 £45,750 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -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 13 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 32 (13.28%) SharePoint
2 30 (12.45%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (0.83%) Apache
3 2 (0.83%) IIS
4 1 (0.41%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.41%) Tomcat
4 1 (0.41%) WebSphere
4 1 (0.41%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 6 (2.49%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (1.66%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (1.24%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.41%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 4 (1.66%) Markit EDM
2 3 (1.24%) Oracle EBS
3 2 (0.83%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 146 (60.58%) Azure
2 65 (26.97%) Microsoft 365
3 46 (19.09%) AWS
4 40 (16.60%) Entra ID
5 23 (9.54%) Nutanix
6 17 (7.05%) Amazon EKS
7 16 (6.64%) OneDrive
8 15 (6.22%) Azure Monitor
8 15 (6.22%) GitHub
9 14 (5.81%) Amazon EC2
9 14 (5.81%) SaaS
9 14 (5.81%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 13 (5.39%) Azure Data Factory
10 13 (5.39%) Azure DevOps
11 11 (4.56%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 11 (4.56%) IaaS
11 11 (4.56%) Mimecast
11 11 (4.56%) PaaS
12 10 (4.15%) AWS CloudFormation
13 9 (3.73%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 59 (24.48%) Firewall
2 57 (23.65%) VPN
3 41 (17.01%) DNS
4 38 (15.77%) WAN
5 29 (12.03%) DHCP
6 28 (11.62%) TCP/IP
7 20 (8.30%) LAN
8 15 (6.22%) SD-WAN
9 13 (5.39%) Network Security
10 11 (4.56%) VLAN
11 9 (3.73%) Wi-Fi
12 6 (2.49%) BGP
13 5 (2.07%) Wireless
14 4 (1.66%) Cisco ISE
14 4 (1.66%) Cisco Nexus
14 4 (1.66%) Intrusion Detection
14 4 (1.66%) SAN
15 3 (1.24%) PuTTY
15 3 (1.24%) SSL
15 3 (1.24%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (8.30%) Amazon RDS
1 20 (8.30%) SQL Server
2 13 (5.39%) Azure SQL Database
3 9 (3.73%) Data Lake
3 9 (3.73%) Delta Lake
4 8 (3.32%) Amazon Aurora
5 5 (2.07%) PostgreSQL
6 4 (1.66%) Data Warehouse
6 4 (1.66%) MySQL
6 4 (1.66%) Oracle Database
7 3 (1.24%) Oracle Database 10g
7 3 (1.24%) Oracle Database 11g
7 3 (1.24%) Oracle Database 12c
7 3 (1.24%) Power BI
8 1 (0.41%) DB2
8 1 (0.41%) DynamoDB
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 20 (8.30%) Git
2 6 (2.49%) Jenkins
3 4 (1.66%) Visual Studio Code
4 3 (1.24%) Maven
4 3 (1.24%) Sonatype Nexus
5 2 (0.83%) Selenium
6 1 (0.41%) JIRA
6 1 (0.41%) MLflow
General
1 81 (33.61%) Social Skills
2 69 (28.63%) Finance
3 25 (10.37%) Analytical Skills
3 25 (10.37%) Law
4 22 (9.13%) Banking
5 21 (8.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 14 (5.81%) Public Sector
7 12 (4.98%) Retail
8 9 (3.73%) Back Office
8 9 (3.73%) Organisational Skills
9 7 (2.90%) Documentation Skills
9 7 (2.90%) Legal
10 6 (2.49%) Financial Institution
10 6 (2.49%) Marketing
11 4 (1.66%) Presentation Skills
11 4 (1.66%) Social Housing
12 3 (1.24%) Local Government
13 2 (0.83%) Influencing Skills
13 2 (0.83%) Manufacturing
14 1 (0.41%) Police
Job Titles
1 50 (20.75%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 44 (18.26%) Senior
3 25 (10.37%) IT Manager
4 20 (8.30%) Platform Engineer
5 19 (7.88%) Lead
6 18 (7.47%) Security Specialist
7 17 (7.05%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
8 15 (6.22%) AWS Engineer
8 15 (6.22%) Cloud Engineer
9 14 (5.81%) IT Security Specialist
10 13 (5.39%) IT Engineer
10 13 (5.39%) Security Manager
11 12 (4.98%) Azure Engineer
11 12 (4.98%) Cloud Platform Engineer
11 12 (4.98%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
12 11 (4.56%) Operations Engineer
12 11 (4.56%) Support Engineer
13 10 (4.15%) Applications Support
13 10 (4.15%) Infrastructure Support
14 9 (3.73%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (3.73%) PySpark
2 7 (2.90%) Loki
2 7 (2.90%) RESTful
3 6 (2.49%) ARM Templates
4 3 (1.24%) ActiveMQ
4 3 (1.24%) AWS SAM
4 3 (1.24%) Elastic Stack
4 3 (1.24%) LAMP
4 3 (1.24%) RAML
4 3 (1.24%) REST
4 3 (1.24%) SOAP
5 2 (0.83%) AWS CDK
5 2 (0.83%) Node.js
5 2 (0.83%) Playwright
6 1 (0.41%) FastAPI
6 1 (0.41%) Hugging Face
6 1 (0.41%) JWT
6 1 (0.41%) NumPy
6 1 (0.41%) PyTorch
6 1 (0.41%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 33 (13.69%) Hybrid Cloud
2 22 (9.13%) Cloud Native
3 18 (7.47%) Data Centre
4 16 (6.64%) Driving Licence
4 16 (6.64%) Management Information System
5 13 (5.39%) Legacy Systems
5 13 (5.39%) Replication
6 11 (4.56%) CMDB
6 11 (4.56%) Cyber Threat
7 9 (3.73%) Onboarding
8 8 (3.32%) Enterprise Storage
9 7 (2.90%) Public Cloud
10 6 (2.49%) Distributed Systems
10 6 (2.49%) Enterprise Software
10 6 (2.49%) iSeries
11 5 (2.07%) Mobile App
11 5 (2.07%) Private Cloud
11 5 (2.07%) Self-Motivation
12 4 (1.66%) iPad
12 4 (1.66%) iPhone
Operating Systems
1 67 (27.80%) Windows
2 42 (17.43%) Windows Server
3 30 (12.45%) Linux
4 13 (5.39%) Windows 10
5 12 (4.98%) Apple iOS
6 6 (2.49%) Unix
7 4 (1.66%) CentOS
7 4 (1.66%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 4 (1.66%) Ubuntu
8 3 (1.24%) Rocky
9 1 (0.41%) AIX
9 1 (0.41%) Mac OS
9 1 (0.41%) Solaris
9 1 (0.41%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 75 (31.12%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 70 (29.05%) Cybersecurity
3 61 (25.31%) Business Continuity
4 58 (24.07%) Problem-Solving
5 57 (23.65%) DevOps
6 55 (22.82%) Service Delivery
7 52 (21.58%) ITIL
8 51 (21.16%) CI/CD
9 45 (18.67%) Infrastructure as Code
10 44 (18.26%) Continuous Improvement
11 37 (15.35%) Vulnerability Management
12 36 (14.94%) High Availability
13 34 (14.11%) Cloud Security
13 34 (14.11%) Migration
14 33 (13.69%) Incident Response
15 31 (12.86%) Mentoring
16 30 (12.45%) Platform Engineering
17 27 (11.20%) Root Cause Analysis
18 26 (10.79%) Service Management
19 25 (10.37%) Resilience Testing
Programming Languages
1 69 (28.63%) PowerShell
2 68 (28.22%) Python
3 27 (11.20%) SQL
4 11 (4.56%) Bash
4 11 (4.56%) Java
5 9 (3.73%) Bicep
5 9 (3.73%) Go
5 9 (3.73%) Scala
6 3 (1.24%) JavaScript
6 3 (1.24%) Shell Script
6 3 (1.24%) TypeScript
7 1 (0.41%) C#
7 1 (0.41%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 39 (16.18%) Degree
2 22 (9.13%) Microsoft Certification
3 18 (7.47%) CEH
4 17 (7.05%) Azure Certification
5 16 (6.64%) Security Cleared
6 14 (5.81%) SC Cleared
7 12 (4.98%) Computer Science Degree
8 8 (3.32%) BPSS Clearance
8 8 (3.32%) Cisco Certification
9 7 (2.90%) CCNP
10 6 (2.49%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 5 (2.07%) CCNA
11 5 (2.07%) CISSP
12 4 (1.66%) ITIL Certification
12 4 (1.66%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 4 (1.66%) MCSE
13 3 (1.24%) AWS Certification
13 3 (1.24%) CISM
14 2 (0.83%) DBS Check
14 2 (0.83%) VCDX
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 53 (21.99%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 33 (13.69%) NIST
3 27 (11.20%) Cyber Essentials
4 24 (9.96%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 16 (6.64%) GDPR
5 16 (6.64%) PCI DSS
6 15 (6.22%) ISO 22301
7 13 (5.39%) Data Quality
8 10 (4.15%) Actionable Recommendations
8 10 (4.15%) GRC
9 9 (3.73%) SLA
9 9 (3.73%) SOC 2
10 2 (0.83%) Accessibility
10 2 (0.83%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
10 2 (0.83%) PMO
11 1 (0.41%) Basel III
11 1 (0.41%) COBIT
11 1 (0.41%) ISO/IEC 20000
11 1 (0.41%) NCSC
11 1 (0.41%) SOC 1
System Software
1 48 (19.92%) Active Directory
2 42 (17.43%) VMware Infrastructure
3 22 (9.13%) Hyper-V
4 12 (4.98%) Docker
4 12 (4.98%) Firmware
5 6 (2.49%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (2.49%) vSphere
6 4 (1.66%) Virtual Servers
7 3 (1.24%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 3 (1.24%) vCloud
7 3 (1.24%) VMware ESXi
8 2 (0.83%) Virtual Desktop
8 2 (0.83%) VMware NSX
9 1 (0.41%) KVM
9 1 (0.41%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 51 (21.16%) Terraform
2 36 (14.94%) Microsoft Intune
3 25 (10.37%) Kubernetes
4 19 (7.88%) Ansible
5 11 (4.56%) Grafana
6 7 (2.90%) Prometheus
7 6 (2.49%) Packer
8 4 (1.66%) vCenter Server
9 3 (1.24%) FortiGate
9 3 (1.24%) Nagios
10 2 (0.83%) Dell DRAC
10 2 (0.83%) SCCM
11 1 (0.41%) Data Guard
11 1 (0.41%) Jamf Pro
11 1 (0.41%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
11 1 (0.41%) Oracle Flashback
11 1 (0.41%) PowerCLI
Vendors
1 118 (48.96%) Microsoft
2 74 (30.71%) VMware
3 26 (10.79%) Commvault
4 25 (10.37%) Cisco
5 14 (5.81%) Fortinet
6 11 (4.56%) IBM
6 11 (4.56%) Oracle
7 10 (4.15%) EMC
7 10 (4.15%) Meraki
8 9 (3.73%) Databricks
8 9 (3.73%) Veeam
9 8 (3.32%) ServiceNow
9 8 (3.32%) Sophos
10 6 (2.49%) HP
10 6 (2.49%) Palo Alto
11 5 (2.07%) Apple
11 5 (2.07%) Dell
11 5 (2.07%) Red Hat
11 5 (2.07%) Splunk
12 4 (1.66%) CheckPoint