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

6 months to
3 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 175 271 199
Rank change year-on-year +96 -72 +54
Permanent jobs citing Disaster Recovery 273 171 538
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.42% 1.15% 1.60%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.72% 1.22% 1.79%
Number of salaries quoted 217 128 446
10th Percentile £41,250 £32,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £51,250 £41,813 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £56,250 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% -6.25% +0.80%
75th Percentile £85,000 £73,886 £78,005
90th Percentile £92,500 £83,750 £92,000
UK median annual salary £58,598 £62,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -6.24% +13.64% -4.35%

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 15,829 14,071 30,131
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 82.52% 94.77% 89.76%
Number of salaries quoted 11,309 8,239 23,590
10th Percentile £35,000 £30,000 £33,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £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 £80,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -9.69%

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 3 June 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 (13.92%) Microsoft Exchange
2 37 (13.55%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.73%) Apache
3 2 (0.73%) IIS
4 1 (0.37%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.37%) WordPress
Applications
1 8 (2.93%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.73%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.37%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (1.10%) Dynamics CRM
1 3 (1.10%) Markit EDM
1 3 (1.10%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (0.73%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 167 (61.17%) Azure
2 88 (32.23%) Microsoft 365
3 48 (17.58%) Entra ID
4 46 (16.85%) AWS
5 28 (10.26%) Nutanix
6 17 (6.23%) SaaS
7 16 (5.86%) GCP
7 16 (5.86%) GitHub
8 15 (5.49%) Power Platform
9 14 (5.13%) Azure Data Factory
9 14 (5.13%) IaaS
10 13 (4.76%) Azure DevOps
10 13 (4.76%) Azure Monitor
10 13 (4.76%) PaaS
11 12 (4.40%) Amazon EKS
11 12 (4.40%) Mimecast
12 11 (4.03%) Amazon EC2
12 11 (4.03%) OneDrive
13 9 (3.30%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 9 (3.30%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 81 (29.67%) Firewall
2 52 (19.05%) VPN
3 47 (17.22%) DNS
4 43 (15.75%) WAN
5 33 (12.09%) DHCP
6 27 (9.89%) TCP/IP
7 26 (9.52%) LAN
8 19 (6.96%) Network Security
9 16 (5.86%) Wi-Fi
10 13 (4.76%) SD-WAN
11 12 (4.40%) VLAN
12 9 (3.30%) VSAN
13 7 (2.56%) NGFW
13 7 (2.56%) SAN
14 6 (2.20%) Cisco ISE
14 6 (2.20%) Fibre Channel
14 6 (2.20%) iSCSI
14 6 (2.20%) Wireless
15 4 (1.47%) Cisco Nexus
15 4 (1.47%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (5.49%) SQL Server
2 14 (5.13%) Amazon RDS
3 12 (4.40%) Azure SQL Database
4 7 (2.56%) Data Lake
4 7 (2.56%) Delta Lake
5 6 (2.20%) Amazon Aurora
6 5 (1.83%) Power BI
7 4 (1.47%) PostgreSQL
8 3 (1.10%) Data Warehouse
9 1 (0.37%) Oracle Exadata
9 1 (0.37%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 1 (0.37%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 1 (0.37%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 15 (5.49%) Git
2 6 (2.20%) Visual Studio Code
3 3 (1.10%) Selenium
4 2 (0.73%) JIRA
4 2 (0.73%) Terragrunt
5 1 (0.37%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.37%) Maven
5 1 (0.37%) MLflow
5 1 (0.37%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 94 (34.43%) Social Skills
2 52 (19.05%) Finance
3 41 (15.02%) Analytical Skills
4 23 (8.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 20 (7.33%) Law
6 19 (6.96%) Banking
7 14 (5.13%) Legal
7 14 (5.13%) Public Sector
7 14 (5.13%) Retail
8 13 (4.76%) Organisational Skills
9 11 (4.03%) Back Office
10 8 (2.93%) Documentation Skills
11 6 (2.20%) Marketing
12 5 (1.83%) Advertising
13 4 (1.47%) Presentation Skills
14 3 (1.10%) Financial Institution
14 3 (1.10%) Social Housing
15 2 (0.73%) Influencing Skills
15 2 (0.73%) Local Government
16 1 (0.37%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 60 (21.98%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 54 (19.78%) Senior
3 23 (8.42%) IT Manager
4 22 (8.06%) IT Engineer
5 21 (7.69%) Platform Engineer
5 21 (7.69%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
6 18 (6.59%) Consultant
6 18 (6.59%) Support Engineer
7 17 (6.23%) Architect
7 17 (6.23%) Lead
7 17 (6.23%) Security Specialist
8 16 (5.86%) Azure Engineer
8 16 (5.86%) Cloud Engineer
9 15 (5.49%) Senior Consultant
9 15 (5.49%) Senior Technical Consultant
9 15 (5.49%) Senior VMware Consultant
9 15 (5.49%) Technical Consultant
9 15 (5.49%) VMware Consultant
9 15 (5.49%) VMware Technical Consultant
10 14 (5.13%) Security Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (2.93%) ARM Templates
2 7 (2.56%) Microsoft Graph
2 7 (2.56%) PySpark
3 6 (2.20%) Loki
4 4 (1.47%) RESTful
5 3 (1.10%) JSON
5 3 (1.10%) Node.js
5 3 (1.10%) Playwright
6 2 (0.73%) Kafka
7 1 (0.37%) NumPy
7 1 (0.37%) OAuth
7 1 (0.37%) OAuth2
7 1 (0.37%) OpenCV
7 1 (0.37%) Pandas
7 1 (0.37%) pytest
7 1 (0.37%) RAML
7 1 (0.37%) REST
7 1 (0.37%) Ruby on Rails
7 1 (0.37%) SQLAlchemy
7 1 (0.37%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 31 (11.36%) Data Centre
2 24 (8.79%) Hybrid Cloud
3 21 (7.69%) Cloud Native
4 19 (6.96%) Enterprise Storage
4 19 (6.96%) Replication
5 17 (6.23%) Driving Licence
5 17 (6.23%) Management Information System
6 14 (5.13%) CMDB
6 14 (5.13%) Legacy Systems
6 14 (5.13%) Onboarding
7 12 (4.40%) Cyber Threat
8 11 (4.03%) iSeries
9 9 (3.30%) Public Cloud
10 8 (2.93%) Self-Motivation
11 7 (2.56%) Security Posture
11 7 (2.56%) Virtual Team
12 6 (2.20%) Data Protection Act
12 6 (2.20%) Private Cloud
12 6 (2.20%) VxBlock/Vblock
13 4 (1.47%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 84 (30.77%) Windows
2 54 (19.78%) Windows Server
3 25 (9.16%) Linux
4 8 (2.93%) Apple iOS
4 8 (2.93%) Windows 10
5 6 (2.20%) Mac OS
5 6 (2.20%) Windows Server 2016
6 5 (1.83%) Windows Server 2019
7 3 (1.10%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 3 (1.10%) Unix
8 1 (0.37%) AIX
8 1 (0.37%) CentOS
8 1 (0.37%) Solaris
8 1 (0.37%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 88 (32.23%) Business Continuity
2 86 (31.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 83 (30.40%) Cybersecurity
4 76 (27.84%) Problem-Solving
5 58 (21.25%) Continuous Improvement
6 52 (19.05%) Service Delivery
7 49 (17.95%) DevOps
7 49 (17.95%) ITIL
8 46 (16.85%) CI/CD
9 44 (16.12%) Incident Response
10 37 (13.55%) Cloud Security
10 37 (13.55%) Information Security
11 36 (13.19%) Infrastructure as Code
12 35 (12.82%) Vulnerability Management
13 34 (12.45%) High Availability
14 31 (11.36%) Mentoring
14 31 (11.36%) Migration
14 31 (11.36%) Service Management
15 30 (10.99%) Platform Engineering
16 29 (10.62%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 74 (27.11%) PowerShell
2 49 (17.95%) Python
3 23 (8.42%) SQL
4 8 (2.93%) Bicep
4 8 (2.93%) Java
5 7 (2.56%) Bash
5 7 (2.56%) Scala
6 3 (1.10%) Go
6 3 (1.10%) TypeScript
7 1 (0.37%) C#
7 1 (0.37%) Ruby
7 1 (0.37%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 42 (15.38%) Degree
2 30 (10.99%) Microsoft Certification
3 21 (7.69%) Azure Certification
4 16 (5.86%) SC Cleared
4 16 (5.86%) Security Cleared
5 15 (5.49%) Cisco Certification
6 14 (5.13%) CEH
7 13 (4.76%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 12 (4.40%) CCNA
8 12 (4.40%) Computer Science Degree
9 10 (3.66%) CISSP
10 9 (3.30%) CCNP
10 9 (3.30%) VCAP
10 9 (3.30%) VCDX
11 8 (2.93%) BPSS Clearance
12 7 (2.56%) CISM
13 6 (2.20%) Dell Certification
14 4 (1.47%) CISA
14 4 (1.47%) DBS Check
14 4 (1.47%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 59 (21.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 41 (15.02%) NIST
3 35 (12.82%) Cyber Essentials
4 26 (9.52%) GDPR
5 23 (8.42%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 17 (6.23%) PCI DSS
6 17 (6.23%) PMO
7 14 (5.13%) ISO 22301
8 11 (4.03%) Data Quality
9 10 (3.66%) Actionable Recommendations
9 10 (3.66%) SLA
10 9 (3.30%) GRC
11 8 (2.93%) SOC 2
12 6 (2.20%) COBIT
13 3 (1.10%) SOC 1
14 2 (0.73%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
15 1 (0.37%) Accessibility
15 1 (0.37%) ISO/IEC 20000
15 1 (0.37%) NCSC
System Software
1 72 (26.37%) Active Directory
2 65 (23.81%) VMware Infrastructure
3 33 (12.09%) Hyper-V
4 21 (7.69%) vSphere
5 19 (6.96%) Firmware
6 9 (3.30%) Docker
6 9 (3.30%) vCloud
6 9 (3.30%) VMware NSX
7 5 (1.83%) Virtual Machines
8 4 (1.47%) Virtual Servers
9 3 (1.10%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 3 (1.10%) VMware ESXi
10 2 (0.73%) Virtual Desktop
11 1 (0.37%) KVM
11 1 (0.37%) Oracle RAC
11 1 (0.37%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 46 (16.85%) Terraform
2 45 (16.48%) Microsoft Intune
3 24 (8.79%) Kubernetes
4 11 (4.03%) Ansible
5 9 (3.30%) Packer
6 8 (2.93%) Dell DRAC
7 7 (2.56%) Grafana
7 7 (2.56%) Prometheus
8 6 (2.20%) Avamar
8 6 (2.20%) EMC NetWorker
8 6 (2.20%) EMC VPLEX
8 6 (2.20%) Single Sign-On
8 6 (2.20%) VxRail
9 4 (1.47%) FortiGate
9 4 (1.47%) vCenter Server
10 2 (0.73%) SCCM
10 2 (0.73%) WhatsUp Gold
11 1 (0.37%) Data Guard
11 1 (0.37%) QRadar
11 1 (0.37%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 148 (54.21%) Microsoft
2 90 (32.97%) VMware
3 35 (12.82%) Cisco
4 32 (11.72%) Veeam
5 23 (8.42%) Commvault
6 19 (6.96%) EMC
7 18 (6.59%) Dell
8 17 (6.23%) Meraki
9 16 (5.86%) Fortinet
10 15 (5.49%) NetApp
10 15 (5.49%) Nimble Storage
11 14 (5.13%) IBM
12 11 (4.03%) Broadcom
12 11 (4.03%) HP
12 11 (4.03%) Sophos
13 9 (3.30%) Palo Alto
13 9 (3.30%) ServiceNow
14 8 (2.93%) Splunk
15 7 (2.56%) Databricks
16 6 (2.20%) F5