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

6 months to
24 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 168 247 194
Rank change year-on-year +79 -53 +35
Permanent jobs citing Disaster Recovery 357 189 462
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.64% 1.15% 1.63%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.99% 1.23% 1.85%
Number of salaries quoted 243 141 335
10th Percentile £40,100 £32,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £40,600 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -
75th Percentile £79,496 £76,250 £78,005
90th Percentile £90,000 £97,500 £94,550
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 17,978 15,345 25,010
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 82.84% 93.19% 88.41%
Number of salaries quoted 13,054 9,077 18,589
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,750 £34,750
25th Percentile £44,972 £41,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.35% -8.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £76,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,410 £95,000
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 24 July 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 30 (8.40%) Microsoft Exchange
1 30 (8.40%) SharePoint
2 11 (3.08%) IIS
3 8 (2.24%) Apache
4 6 (1.68%) nginx
5 3 (0.84%) WordPress
6 1 (0.28%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.28%) Site Server
Applications
1 7 (1.96%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.28%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (0.84%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.28%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 233 (65.27%) Azure
2 110 (30.81%) AWS
3 94 (26.33%) Microsoft 365
4 75 (21.01%) SaaS
5 52 (14.57%) Entra ID
6 22 (6.16%) Nutanix
7 20 (5.60%) GCP
8 19 (5.32%) Power Platform
9 16 (4.48%) IaaS
9 16 (4.48%) PaaS
10 11 (3.08%) Azure DevOps
11 10 (2.80%) Azure Monitor
12 9 (2.52%) AWS CloudFormation
12 9 (2.52%) Azure Data Factory
12 9 (2.52%) Mimecast
13 8 (2.24%) GitHub
14 7 (1.96%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 7 (1.96%) Amazon ECS
14 7 (1.96%) Azure Sentinel
14 7 (1.96%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 103 (28.85%) Firewall
2 62 (17.37%) DNS
3 58 (16.25%) VPN
4 44 (12.32%) DHCP
5 34 (9.52%) WAN
6 29 (8.12%) TCP/IP
7 27 (7.56%) LAN
8 26 (7.28%) Network Security
9 15 (4.20%) Wi-Fi
10 14 (3.92%) VLAN
11 9 (2.52%) VSAN
12 7 (1.96%) NGFW
12 7 (1.96%) Wireless
13 6 (1.68%) Cisco ISE
13 6 (1.68%) Fibre Channel
13 6 (1.68%) iSCSI
13 6 (1.68%) SD-WAN
14 5 (1.40%) SAN
15 4 (1.12%) Cisco Nexus
15 4 (1.12%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (5.60%) SQL Server
2 9 (2.52%) Power BI
3 8 (2.24%) Azure SQL Database
3 8 (2.24%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (1.40%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (0.28%) Amazon Aurora
5 1 (0.28%) MySQL
5 1 (0.28%) Oracle Exadata
5 1 (0.28%) Relational Database
5 1 (0.28%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 1 (0.28%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (0.28%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 7 (1.96%) Git
2 6 (1.68%) Visual Studio Code
3 4 (1.12%) JIRA
4 3 (0.84%) GitLab
5 2 (0.56%) Terragrunt
6 1 (0.28%) Claude Code
6 1 (0.28%) MLflow
6 1 (0.28%) Selenium
General
1 115 (32.21%) Social Skills
2 57 (15.97%) Finance
3 47 (13.17%) Law
4 38 (10.64%) Analytical Skills
5 30 (8.40%) Legal
6 22 (6.16%) Retail
7 21 (5.88%) Banking
7 21 (5.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 16 (4.48%) Documentation Skills
9 15 (4.20%) Public Sector
10 13 (3.64%) Organisational Skills
11 11 (3.08%) Back Office
12 7 (1.96%) Manufacturing
13 6 (1.68%) Advertising
14 5 (1.40%) Influencing Skills
14 5 (1.40%) Marketing
15 4 (1.12%) Presentation Skills
16 2 (0.56%) Local Government
16 2 (0.56%) Social Housing
17 1 (0.28%) Police
Job Titles
1 75 (21.01%) IT Manager
2 58 (16.25%) Senior
3 56 (15.69%) Service Manager
4 54 (15.13%) IT Services Manager
5 50 (14.01%) Resilience Manager
6 45 (12.61%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 25 (7.00%) Architect
8 22 (6.16%) Lead
8 22 (6.16%) Support Engineer
9 20 (5.60%) Consultant
9 20 (5.60%) IT Engineer
10 19 (5.32%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
11 18 (5.04%) Azure Engineer
12 17 (4.76%) Security Manager
12 17 (4.76%) Technical Consultant
13 16 (4.48%) Analyst
13 16 (4.48%) IT Support
13 16 (4.48%) Senior Architect
14 15 (4.20%) VMware Consultant
14 15 (4.20%) VMware Technical Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 56 (15.69%) Middleware
2 12 (3.36%) ARM Templates
3 7 (1.96%) Microsoft Graph
4 6 (1.68%) Web Services
5 3 (0.84%) JSON
5 3 (0.84%) Nuxt
5 3 (0.84%) Ruby on Rails
6 2 (0.56%) Kafka
6 2 (0.56%) RESTful
7 1 (0.28%) Loki
7 1 (0.28%) Node.js
7 1 (0.28%) NumPy
7 1 (0.28%) OAuth
7 1 (0.28%) OAuth2
7 1 (0.28%) OpenCV
7 1 (0.28%) Pandas
7 1 (0.28%) pytest
7 1 (0.28%) SQLAlchemy
7 1 (0.28%) WebSockets
7 1 (0.28%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 62 (17.37%) Cyber Threat
2 31 (8.68%) Data Centre
3 25 (7.00%) Management Information System
4 24 (6.72%) Cloud Native
4 24 (6.72%) Replication
5 23 (6.44%) Hybrid Cloud
6 20 (5.60%) Enterprise Storage
7 18 (5.04%) Driving Licence
8 17 (4.76%) Onboarding
9 15 (4.20%) Security Posture
9 15 (4.20%) Self-Motivation
10 12 (3.36%) Data Protection Act
11 11 (3.08%) CMDB
11 11 (3.08%) iSeries
12 10 (2.80%) Enterprise Software
12 10 (2.80%) Legacy Systems
12 10 (2.80%) Public Cloud
13 8 (2.24%) Virtual Team
14 7 (1.96%) Freedom of Information
14 7 (1.96%) Freedom of Information Act
Operating Systems
1 99 (27.73%) Windows
2 71 (19.89%) Windows Server
3 32 (8.96%) Linux
4 8 (2.24%) Mac OS
5 7 (1.96%) Windows 10
6 6 (1.68%) Windows Server 2016
7 5 (1.40%) Windows Server 2019
8 3 (0.84%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 2 (0.56%) CentOS
9 2 (0.56%) Solaris
9 2 (0.56%) Ubuntu
9 2 (0.56%) Unix
10 1 (0.28%) AIX
10 1 (0.28%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 179 (50.14%) Business Continuity
2 109 (30.53%) Problem-Solving
3 108 (30.25%) Cybersecurity
4 100 (28.01%) Information Security
5 95 (26.61%) Continuous Improvement
5 95 (26.61%) DevOps
6 88 (24.65%) ITIL
7 75 (21.01%) Agile
8 73 (20.45%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 65 (18.21%) Incident Response
10 61 (17.09%) Service Delivery
10 61 (17.09%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 58 (16.25%) Enterprise Architecture
12 57 (15.97%) Stakeholder Management
13 56 (15.69%) Runbook
14 55 (15.41%) Contract Negotiation
14 55 (15.41%) Test Automation
15 54 (15.13%) Project Delivery
16 53 (14.85%) Site Reliability Engineering
17 50 (14.01%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 80 (22.41%) PowerShell
2 40 (11.20%) Python
3 22 (6.16%) SQL
4 15 (4.20%) Bicep
5 7 (1.96%) Bash
6 3 (0.84%) Java
6 3 (0.84%) Ruby
6 3 (0.84%) Shell Script
7 1 (0.28%) C#
7 1 (0.28%) Go
7 1 (0.28%) JavaScript
7 1 (0.28%) T-SQL
7 1 (0.28%) TypeScript
7 1 (0.28%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 71 (19.89%) CISSP
2 67 (18.77%) CISM
3 49 (13.73%) ITIL Certification
4 37 (10.36%) Degree
5 29 (8.12%) Azure Certification
6 28 (7.84%) Microsoft Certification
7 23 (6.44%) Security Cleared
8 20 (5.60%) Cisco Certification
8 20 (5.60%) SC Cleared
9 19 (5.32%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 17 (4.76%) CCNA
11 14 (3.92%) CCNP
11 14 (3.92%) CISA
12 12 (3.36%) CEH
12 12 (3.36%) Computer Science Degree
13 9 (2.52%) VCAP
13 9 (2.52%) VCDX
14 8 (2.24%) ISACA
15 7 (1.96%) CRISC
16 6 (1.68%) Dell Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 97 (27.17%) NIST
2 71 (19.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 67 (18.77%) ISO 22301
4 44 (12.32%) GDPR
5 35 (9.80%) Cyber Essentials
6 24 (6.72%) PCI DSS
7 17 (4.76%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 17 (4.76%) PMO
7 17 (4.76%) SLA
8 13 (3.64%) SOC 2
9 12 (3.36%) GRC
10 11 (3.08%) COBIT
11 9 (2.52%) Actionable Recommendations
12 7 (1.96%) SOC 1
13 4 (1.12%) Data Quality
14 3 (0.84%) ISO 9001
14 3 (0.84%) NCSC
15 2 (0.56%) Accessibility
15 2 (0.56%) ISO/IEC 20000
15 2 (0.56%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 80 (22.41%) VMware Infrastructure
2 71 (19.89%) Active Directory
3 52 (14.57%) Hyper-V
4 24 (6.72%) vSphere
5 14 (3.92%) Firmware
6 13 (3.64%) Docker
7 11 (3.08%) VMware ESXi
8 9 (2.52%) vCloud
8 9 (2.52%) VMware NSX
9 6 (1.68%) Squid
10 5 (1.40%) Virtual Machines
11 2 (0.56%) KVM
12 1 (0.28%) Oracle RAC
12 1 (0.28%) Terminal Services
12 1 (0.28%) Virtual Desktop
12 1 (0.28%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 51 (14.29%) Terraform
2 42 (11.76%) Microsoft Intune
3 29 (8.12%) Kubernetes
4 16 (4.48%) Ansible
5 7 (1.96%) Packer
5 7 (1.96%) Single Sign-On
6 6 (1.68%) Avamar
6 6 (1.68%) Dell DRAC
6 6 (1.68%) EMC NetWorker
6 6 (1.68%) EMC VPLEX
6 6 (1.68%) Grafana
6 6 (1.68%) Prometheus
6 6 (1.68%) VxRail
7 5 (1.40%) vCenter Server
8 4 (1.12%) FortiGate
8 4 (1.12%) Proxmox
9 3 (0.84%) ZABBIX
10 2 (0.56%) SCCM
10 2 (0.56%) WhatsUp Gold
11 1 (0.28%) Data Guard
Vendors
1 173 (48.46%) Microsoft
2 102 (28.57%) VMware
3 43 (12.04%) Veeam
4 37 (10.36%) Cisco
5 19 (5.32%) EMC
6 17 (4.76%) Commvault
6 17 (4.76%) Fortinet
7 16 (4.48%) Dell
8 15 (4.20%) NetApp
8 15 (4.20%) Nimble Storage
8 15 (4.20%) Palo Alto
9 12 (3.36%) Meraki
10 11 (3.08%) Broadcom
10 11 (3.08%) HP
10 11 (3.08%) IBM
10 11 (3.08%) Sophos
11 10 (2.80%) Splunk
12 9 (2.52%) iManage
13 8 (2.24%) Google
13 8 (2.24%) ServiceNow