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 20 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 155 252 210
Rank change year-on-year +97 -42 -6
Permanent jobs citing Disaster Recovery 399 170 372
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.63% 1.04% 1.59%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.00% 1.12% 1.81%
Number of salaries quoted 269 131 208
10th Percentile £37,250 £33,750 £41,225
25th Percentile £46,250 £47,625 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year - -11.11% +12.50%
75th Percentile £75,437 £83,750 £91,500
90th Percentile £85,475 £105,000 £112,599
UK median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% - +1.69%

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 19,914 15,166 20,533
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 81.38% 93.21% 87.84%
Number of salaries quoted 14,271 8,607 12,553
10th Percentile £34,000 £30,000 £35,250
25th Percentile £44,972 £40,903 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -4.17%

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 20 September 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 43 (10.78%) SharePoint
2 36 (9.02%) Microsoft Exchange
3 12 (3.01%) IIS
4 7 (1.75%) nginx
5 6 (1.50%) Apache
6 3 (0.75%) WordPress
7 1 (0.25%) Confluence
7 1 (0.25%) FactoryTalk
7 1 (0.25%) Site Server
Applications
1 7 (1.75%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.25%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 3 (0.75%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.25%) Oracle Applications
2 1 (0.25%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 262 (65.66%) Azure
2 124 (31.08%) AWS
3 112 (28.07%) Microsoft 365
4 89 (22.31%) SaaS
5 74 (18.55%) Entra ID
6 32 (8.02%) IaaS
7 30 (7.52%) GCP
8 24 (6.02%) Azure Monitor
9 23 (5.76%) Power Platform
10 22 (5.51%) PaaS
11 19 (4.76%) OneDrive
12 16 (4.01%) Nutanix
13 14 (3.51%) Azure DevOps
14 10 (2.51%) Microsoft Copilot
15 9 (2.26%) AWS CloudFormation
15 9 (2.26%) Azure Data Factory
15 9 (2.26%) Microsoft Purview
16 8 (2.01%) Azure Sentinel
17 7 (1.75%) Azure Cosmos DB
17 7 (1.75%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 98 (24.56%) Firewall
2 87 (21.80%) DNS
3 69 (17.29%) DHCP
4 54 (13.53%) VPN
5 37 (9.27%) TCP/IP
6 31 (7.77%) WAN
7 26 (6.52%) Network Security
8 25 (6.27%) LAN
9 24 (6.02%) VLAN
10 13 (3.26%) Wi-Fi
11 10 (2.51%) SD-WAN
12 9 (2.26%) VSAN
12 9 (2.26%) Wireless
13 8 (2.01%) Fibre Channel
13 8 (2.01%) SAN
14 7 (1.75%) NGFW
15 6 (1.50%) iSCSI
16 4 (1.00%) Broadband
16 4 (1.00%) Cisco ISE
16 4 (1.00%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (5.51%) SQL Server
2 14 (3.51%) PostgreSQL
3 12 (3.01%) Azure SQL Database
4 10 (2.51%) Power BI
5 5 (1.25%) Amazon RDS
6 3 (0.75%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 2 (0.50%) Oracle Database
7 2 (0.50%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 2 (0.50%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 1 (0.25%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (0.25%) MongoDB
8 1 (0.25%) MySQL
8 1 (0.25%) Oracle Exadata
8 1 (0.25%) Oracle Reports
8 1 (0.25%) Relational Database
8 1 (0.25%) SSDT
Development Applications
1 6 (1.50%) JIRA
2 5 (1.25%) GitLab
3 4 (1.00%) Git
3 4 (1.00%) Visual Studio Code
4 2 (0.50%) Terragrunt
5 1 (0.25%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.25%) Claude Code
5 1 (0.25%) Flyway
5 1 (0.25%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.25%) Selenium
General
1 123 (30.83%) Social Skills
2 67 (16.79%) Finance
3 51 (12.78%) Analytical Skills
4 44 (11.03%) Law
5 35 (8.77%) Legal
6 25 (6.27%) Retail
7 19 (4.76%) Banking
7 19 (4.76%) Documentation Skills
7 19 (4.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 18 (4.51%) Public Sector
9 13 (3.26%) Organisational Skills
10 12 (3.01%) Back Office
11 11 (2.76%) Manufacturing
12 6 (1.50%) Advertising
13 5 (1.25%) Influencing Skills
14 4 (1.00%) Presentation Skills
15 2 (0.50%) Local Government
15 2 (0.50%) Police
16 1 (0.25%) Marketing
16 1 (0.25%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 69 (17.29%) IT Manager
2 66 (16.54%) Senior
3 55 (13.78%) Service Manager
4 51 (12.78%) IT Services Manager
4 51 (12.78%) Resilience Manager
5 50 (12.53%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 33 (8.27%) Consultant
7 32 (8.02%) Architect
8 27 (6.77%) IT Engineer
9 25 (6.27%) Support Engineer
10 24 (6.02%) Lead
10 24 (6.02%) Technical Consultant
11 23 (5.76%) Analyst
12 20 (5.01%) Senior Architect
13 19 (4.76%) Azure Engineer
13 19 (4.76%) IT Support
13 19 (4.76%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
14 18 (4.51%) Cloud Engineer
15 16 (4.01%) Technical Architect
16 15 (3.76%) Senior Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 65 (16.29%) Middleware
2 61 (15.29%) Terraform
3 13 (3.26%) ARM Templates
4 7 (1.75%) Microsoft Graph
5 6 (1.50%) Web Services
6 4 (1.00%) .NET
6 4 (1.00%) JSON
6 4 (1.00%) OpenTelemetry
7 3 (0.75%) Nuxt
7 3 (0.75%) Ruby on Rails
8 2 (0.50%) 802.1X
8 2 (0.50%) Kafka
8 2 (0.50%) REST
9 1 (0.25%) Elastic Stack
9 1 (0.25%) LDAP
9 1 (0.25%) Node.js
9 1 (0.25%) Oracle Fusion
9 1 (0.25%) Playwright
9 1 (0.25%) XML
9 1 (0.25%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 55 (13.78%) Cyber Threat
2 36 (9.02%) Data Centre
3 35 (8.77%) Replication
4 24 (6.02%) Enterprise Storage
5 23 (5.76%) Hybrid Cloud
6 22 (5.51%) Cloud Native
7 21 (5.26%) Management Information System
7 21 (5.26%) Onboarding
8 15 (3.76%) Security Posture
9 13 (3.26%) Self-Motivation
10 12 (3.01%) Data Protection Act
10 12 (3.01%) Driving Licence
10 12 (3.01%) Enterprise Software
11 11 (2.76%) iSeries
12 10 (2.51%) Public Cloud
13 8 (2.01%) CMDB
14 7 (1.75%) Blog
14 7 (1.75%) Freedom of Information
14 7 (1.75%) Freedom of Information Act
14 7 (1.75%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 135 (33.83%) Windows
2 107 (26.82%) Windows Server
3 46 (11.53%) Linux
4 9 (2.26%) Ubuntu
5 8 (2.01%) Windows Server 2016
5 8 (2.01%) Windows Server 2019
6 7 (1.75%) Mac OS
7 6 (1.50%) Windows 10
8 5 (1.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 5 (1.25%) Unix
9 4 (1.00%) Debian
10 3 (0.75%) VMS
11 2 (0.50%) AIX
11 2 (0.50%) CentOS
11 2 (0.50%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 210 (52.63%) Business Continuity
2 132 (33.08%) Problem-Solving
3 118 (29.57%) Continuous Improvement
4 104 (26.07%) Information Security
5 102 (25.56%) Cybersecurity
6 94 (23.56%) ITIL
7 93 (23.31%) DevOps
8 86 (21.55%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 77 (19.30%) Agile
10 70 (17.54%) High Availability
11 69 (17.29%) Project Delivery
12 67 (16.79%) Service Delivery
13 63 (15.79%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 62 (15.54%) Stakeholder Management
15 58 (14.54%) Enterprise Architecture
16 56 (14.04%) Waterfall
17 54 (13.53%) Runbook
17 54 (13.53%) Site Reliability Engineering
18 53 (13.28%) Incident Response
18 53 (13.28%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 84 (21.05%) PowerShell
2 38 (9.52%) Python
3 29 (7.27%) SQL
4 20 (5.01%) Bicep
5 9 (2.26%) Bash
6 6 (1.50%) Java
6 6 (1.50%) Shell Script
7 4 (1.00%) JavaScript
8 3 (0.75%) C#
8 3 (0.75%) Ruby
9 2 (0.50%) T-SQL
10 1 (0.25%) Groovy
10 1 (0.25%) TypeScript
10 1 (0.25%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 71 (17.79%) CISSP
2 69 (17.29%) CISM
3 55 (13.78%) ITIL Certification
4 33 (8.27%) Azure Certification
5 27 (6.77%) Degree
6 25 (6.27%) Microsoft Certification
6 25 (6.27%) Security Cleared
7 21 (5.26%) SC Cleared
8 19 (4.76%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 16 (4.01%) Cisco Certification
10 14 (3.51%) CISA
11 13 (3.26%) CCNA
12 11 (2.76%) Computer Science Degree
13 10 (2.51%) CCNP
13 10 (2.51%) VCAP
14 9 (2.26%) VCDX
15 8 (2.01%) ISACA
16 7 (1.75%) CRISC
17 6 (1.50%) CEH
17 6 (1.50%) Dell Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 88 (22.06%) NIST
2 69 (17.29%) ISO 22301
3 56 (14.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 40 (10.03%) GDPR
5 27 (6.77%) Cyber Essentials
6 26 (6.52%) SLA
7 20 (5.01%) PCI DSS
8 18 (4.51%) PMO
9 11 (2.76%) COBIT
9 11 (2.76%) SOC 2
10 7 (1.75%) SOC 1
11 6 (1.50%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 6 (1.50%) NCSC
12 4 (1.00%) GRC
12 4 (1.00%) ISO/IEC 20000
13 3 (0.75%) ISO 9001
14 2 (0.50%) Actionable Recommendations
14 2 (0.50%) ITGC
14 2 (0.50%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 1 (0.25%) Accessibility
System Software
1 103 (25.81%) Active Directory
2 94 (23.56%) VMware Infrastructure
3 70 (17.54%) Hyper-V
4 25 (6.27%) vSphere
5 16 (4.01%) Docker
6 14 (3.51%) Firmware
6 14 (3.51%) Virtual Machines
7 10 (2.51%) VMware ESXi
7 10 (2.51%) VMware NSX
8 9 (2.26%) vCloud
9 8 (2.01%) Virtual Desktop
10 6 (1.50%) Squid
11 1 (0.25%) KVM
11 1 (0.25%) Oracle RAC
11 1 (0.25%) Terminal Services
11 1 (0.25%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 41 (10.28%) Microsoft Intune
2 33 (8.27%) Kubernetes
3 17 (4.26%) Ansible
4 10 (2.51%) Prometheus
5 9 (2.26%) Grafana
6 7 (1.75%) Single Sign-On
7 6 (1.50%) Avamar
7 6 (1.50%) Dell DRAC
7 6 (1.50%) EMC NetWorker
7 6 (1.50%) EMC VPLEX
7 6 (1.50%) FortiGate
7 6 (1.50%) SCCM
7 6 (1.50%) VxRail
8 5 (1.25%) Packer
8 5 (1.25%) Proxmox
9 3 (0.75%) WSUS
9 3 (0.75%) ZABBIX
10 2 (0.50%) Data Guard
10 2 (0.50%) NetBackup
10 2 (0.50%) WhatsUp Gold
Vendors
1 212 (53.13%) Microsoft
2 115 (28.82%) VMware
3 60 (15.04%) Veeam
4 33 (8.27%) Cisco
5 22 (5.51%) Palo Alto
6 21 (5.26%) Dell
7 20 (5.01%) Fortinet
8 17 (4.26%) EMC
8 17 (4.26%) NetApp
9 16 (4.01%) Google
10 15 (3.76%) Nimble Storage
11 13 (3.26%) Commvault
12 12 (3.01%) Oracle
12 12 (3.01%) WatchGuard
13 11 (2.76%) Broadcom
13 11 (2.76%) HP
13 11 (2.76%) IBM
13 11 (2.76%) N-able
14 10 (2.51%) Meraki
14 10 (2.51%) SonicWALL