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

6 months to
6 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 170 260 215
Rank change year-on-year +90 -45 0
Permanent jobs citing Disaster Recovery 368 181 376
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.63% 1.10% 1.49%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.97% 1.18% 1.70%
Number of salaries quoted 251 136 249
10th Percentile £40,000 £31,625 £41,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £37,875 £49,298
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -15.38% +8.33%
75th Percentile £78,750 £76,250 £87,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £98,750 £102,500
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 18,662 15,317 22,161
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 82.81% 92.95% 87.77%
Number of salaries quoted 13,504 9,019 15,975
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £44,972 £40,903 £43,329
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £59,250 £58,800
Median % change year-on-year +1.27% +0.77% -5.92%
75th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £97,500
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 6 August 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 (8.70%) Microsoft Exchange
1 32 (8.70%) SharePoint
2 12 (3.26%) IIS
3 8 (2.17%) Apache
4 6 (1.63%) nginx
5 3 (0.82%) WordPress
6 1 (0.27%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.27%) Confluence
6 1 (0.27%) Site Server
Applications
1 7 (1.90%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (0.82%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.27%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 243 (66.03%) Azure
2 114 (30.98%) AWS
3 101 (27.45%) Microsoft 365
4 78 (21.20%) SaaS
5 59 (16.03%) Entra ID
6 21 (5.71%) GCP
7 20 (5.43%) Nutanix
7 20 (5.43%) Power Platform
8 17 (4.62%) IaaS
9 16 (4.35%) PaaS
10 12 (3.26%) Azure Monitor
11 11 (2.99%) Azure DevOps
12 10 (2.72%) Azure Sentinel
13 9 (2.45%) AWS CloudFormation
13 9 (2.45%) Azure Data Factory
14 8 (2.17%) GitHub
14 8 (2.17%) Mimecast
15 7 (1.90%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 7 (1.90%) Azure Cosmos DB
15 7 (1.90%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 103 (27.99%) Firewall
2 69 (18.75%) DNS
3 54 (14.67%) VPN
4 49 (13.32%) DHCP
5 32 (8.70%) WAN
6 31 (8.42%) TCP/IP
7 27 (7.34%) Network Security
8 26 (7.07%) LAN
9 15 (4.08%) VLAN
10 14 (3.80%) Wi-Fi
11 9 (2.45%) VSAN
12 8 (2.17%) Wireless
13 7 (1.90%) NGFW
14 6 (1.63%) Cisco ISE
14 6 (1.63%) Fibre Channel
14 6 (1.63%) iSCSI
14 6 (1.63%) SD-WAN
15 5 (1.36%) SAN
16 4 (1.09%) Broadband
16 4 (1.09%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (5.71%) SQL Server
2 10 (2.72%) Power BI
3 9 (2.45%) Azure SQL Database
3 9 (2.45%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (0.82%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (0.54%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 2 (0.54%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 2 (0.54%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 1 (0.27%) MongoDB
6 1 (0.27%) MySQL
6 1 (0.27%) Oracle Database
6 1 (0.27%) Oracle Exadata
6 1 (0.27%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 7 (1.90%) Git
2 6 (1.63%) Visual Studio Code
3 5 (1.36%) JIRA
4 4 (1.09%) GitLab
5 2 (0.54%) Terragrunt
6 1 (0.27%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.27%) Claude Code
6 1 (0.27%) MLflow
6 1 (0.27%) Selenium
General
1 116 (31.52%) Social Skills
2 59 (16.03%) Finance
3 46 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
4 45 (12.23%) Law
5 34 (9.24%) Legal
6 23 (6.25%) Retail
7 21 (5.71%) Banking
8 18 (4.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 17 (4.62%) Documentation Skills
10 15 (4.08%) Organisational Skills
11 12 (3.26%) Public Sector
12 10 (2.72%) Back Office
13 7 (1.90%) Manufacturing
14 6 (1.63%) Advertising
14 6 (1.63%) Influencing Skills
15 5 (1.36%) Marketing
16 4 (1.09%) Presentation Skills
17 3 (0.82%) Local Government
18 2 (0.54%) Social Housing
19 1 (0.27%) Police
Job Titles
1 72 (19.57%) IT Manager
2 58 (15.76%) Senior
3 52 (14.13%) Service Manager
4 50 (13.59%) IT Services Manager
4 50 (13.59%) Resilience Manager
5 46 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 25 (6.79%) Architect
6 25 (6.79%) Lead
7 23 (6.25%) Consultant
8 22 (5.98%) Support Engineer
9 21 (5.71%) IT Engineer
10 20 (5.43%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
11 19 (5.16%) Analyst
11 19 (5.16%) Azure Engineer
11 19 (5.16%) Technical Consultant
12 16 (4.35%) IT Support
12 16 (4.35%) Senior Architect
13 15 (4.08%) Cloud Engineer
13 15 (4.08%) Senior VMware Consultant
13 15 (4.08%) VMware Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 56 (15.22%) Middleware
2 11 (2.99%) ARM Templates
3 7 (1.90%) Microsoft Graph
4 6 (1.63%) Web Services
5 3 (0.82%) JSON
5 3 (0.82%) Nuxt
5 3 (0.82%) Ruby on Rails
6 2 (0.54%) .NET
6 2 (0.54%) Kafka
7 1 (0.27%) 802.1X
7 1 (0.27%) Node.js
7 1 (0.27%) NumPy
7 1 (0.27%) OAuth
7 1 (0.27%) OAuth2
7 1 (0.27%) OpenCV
7 1 (0.27%) Pandas
7 1 (0.27%) pytest
7 1 (0.27%) RESTful
7 1 (0.27%) SQLAlchemy
7 1 (0.27%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 60 (16.30%) Cyber Threat
2 31 (8.42%) Data Centre
3 29 (7.88%) Replication
4 26 (7.07%) Hybrid Cloud
5 25 (6.79%) Management Information System
6 22 (5.98%) Cloud Native
7 21 (5.71%) Enterprise Storage
7 21 (5.71%) Onboarding
8 16 (4.35%) Driving Licence
8 16 (4.35%) Security Posture
9 15 (4.08%) Self-Motivation
10 12 (3.26%) Data Protection Act
10 12 (3.26%) Enterprise Software
11 11 (2.99%) iSeries
11 11 (2.99%) Public Cloud
12 10 (2.72%) CMDB
13 8 (2.17%) Virtual Team
14 7 (1.90%) Freedom of Information
14 7 (1.90%) Freedom of Information Act
15 6 (1.63%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 111 (30.16%) Windows
2 82 (22.28%) Windows Server
3 38 (10.33%) Linux
4 8 (2.17%) Mac OS
5 7 (1.90%) Windows Server 2016
6 6 (1.63%) Windows 10
6 6 (1.63%) Windows Server 2019
7 5 (1.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 5 (1.36%) Ubuntu
8 4 (1.09%) Unix
9 2 (0.54%) CentOS
9 2 (0.54%) Solaris
10 1 (0.27%) AIX
10 1 (0.27%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 192 (52.17%) Business Continuity
2 117 (31.79%) Problem-Solving
3 111 (30.16%) Cybersecurity
4 103 (27.99%) Continuous Improvement
5 102 (27.72%) Information Security
6 95 (25.82%) DevOps
7 89 (24.18%) ITIL
8 78 (21.20%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 74 (20.11%) Agile
10 64 (17.39%) Service Delivery
11 62 (16.85%) Incident Response
11 62 (16.85%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 57 (15.49%) Enterprise Architecture
12 57 (15.49%) Project Delivery
12 57 (15.49%) Stakeholder Management
13 56 (15.22%) High Availability
13 56 (15.22%) Runbook
14 54 (14.67%) Test Automation
15 53 (14.40%) Site Reliability Engineering
16 52 (14.13%) Contract Negotiation
Programming Languages
1 83 (22.55%) PowerShell
2 41 (11.14%) Python
3 24 (6.52%) SQL
4 16 (4.35%) Bicep
5 7 (1.90%) Bash
6 5 (1.36%) Shell Script
7 3 (0.82%) Ruby
8 2 (0.54%) C#
8 2 (0.54%) Java
8 2 (0.54%) JavaScript
8 2 (0.54%) T-SQL
9 1 (0.27%) TypeScript
9 1 (0.27%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 72 (19.57%) CISSP
2 68 (18.48%) CISM
3 51 (13.86%) ITIL Certification
4 35 (9.51%) Degree
5 32 (8.70%) Azure Certification
6 29 (7.88%) Microsoft Certification
7 22 (5.98%) Security Cleared
8 19 (5.16%) Cisco Certification
8 19 (5.16%) SC Cleared
8 19 (5.16%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 16 (4.35%) CCNA
10 14 (3.80%) CISA
11 13 (3.53%) CCNP
12 12 (3.26%) CEH
13 11 (2.99%) Computer Science Degree
14 9 (2.45%) VCAP
14 9 (2.45%) VCDX
15 8 (2.17%) ISACA
16 7 (1.90%) CRISC
17 6 (1.63%) Dell Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 96 (26.09%) NIST
2 69 (18.75%) ISO 22301
3 66 (17.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 42 (11.41%) GDPR
5 31 (8.42%) Cyber Essentials
6 22 (5.98%) PCI DSS
7 19 (5.16%) SLA
8 17 (4.62%) PMO
9 12 (3.26%) GRC
9 12 (3.26%) SOC 2
10 11 (2.99%) COBIT
10 11 (2.99%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 7 (1.90%) SOC 1
12 6 (1.63%) Actionable Recommendations
13 4 (1.09%) Data Quality
13 4 (1.09%) ISO/IEC 20000
13 4 (1.09%) NCSC
14 3 (0.82%) ISO 9001
15 2 (0.54%) Accessibility
15 2 (0.54%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 84 (22.83%) VMware Infrastructure
2 78 (21.20%) Active Directory
3 57 (15.49%) Hyper-V
4 23 (6.25%) vSphere
5 15 (4.08%) Docker
6 14 (3.80%) Firmware
7 10 (2.72%) VMware ESXi
8 9 (2.45%) vCloud
8 9 (2.45%) VMware NSX
9 6 (1.63%) Squid
9 6 (1.63%) Virtual Machines
10 4 (1.09%) Virtual Desktop
11 1 (0.27%) KVM
11 1 (0.27%) Oracle RAC
11 1 (0.27%) Terminal Services
11 1 (0.27%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 53 (14.40%) Terraform
2 42 (11.41%) Microsoft Intune
3 30 (8.15%) Kubernetes
4 17 (4.62%) Ansible
5 7 (1.90%) Packer
5 7 (1.90%) Single Sign-On
6 6 (1.63%) Avamar
6 6 (1.63%) Dell DRAC
6 6 (1.63%) EMC NetWorker
6 6 (1.63%) EMC VPLEX
6 6 (1.63%) Grafana
6 6 (1.63%) Prometheus
6 6 (1.63%) VxRail
7 5 (1.36%) FortiGate
8 4 (1.09%) Proxmox
9 3 (0.82%) SCCM
9 3 (0.82%) vCenter Server
9 3 (0.82%) ZABBIX
10 2 (0.54%) WhatsUp Gold
11 1 (0.27%) Puppet
Vendors
1 185 (50.27%) Microsoft
2 104 (28.26%) VMware
3 48 (13.04%) Veeam
4 38 (10.33%) Cisco
5 19 (5.16%) EMC
6 17 (4.62%) Fortinet
6 17 (4.62%) Palo Alto
7 16 (4.35%) Commvault
7 16 (4.35%) Dell
8 15 (4.08%) NetApp
8 15 (4.08%) Nimble Storage
9 12 (3.26%) Meraki
10 11 (2.99%) Broadcom
10 11 (2.99%) HP
10 11 (2.99%) IBM
11 10 (2.72%) iManage
11 10 (2.72%) Oracle
11 10 (2.72%) Sophos
11 10 (2.72%) Splunk
12 9 (2.45%) ServiceNow