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

6 months to
7 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 156 256 194
Rank change year-on-year +100 -62 +2
Permanent jobs citing Disaster Recovery 420 171 366
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.68% 1.02% 1.67%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.09% 1.08% 1.90%
Number of salaries quoted 275 134 193
10th Percentile £37,250 £38,780 £37,750
25th Percentile £46,250 £50,000 £53,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £62,500 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year - -7.41% +12.50%
75th Percentile £77,500 £83,750 £89,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £106,750 £112,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% - +0.80%

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 20,103 15,768 19,267
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 80.63% 93.81% 88.15%
Number of salaries quoted 14,356 8,416 11,421
10th Percentile £33,750 £29,750 £35,026
25th Percentile £44,652 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -4.17% -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £78,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £102,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -

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 7 October 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 46 (10.95%) Microsoft Exchange
2 45 (10.71%) SharePoint
3 12 (2.86%) IIS
4 8 (1.90%) nginx
5 6 (1.43%) Apache
6 3 (0.71%) WordPress
7 1 (0.24%) Confluence
7 1 (0.24%) FactoryTalk
7 1 (0.24%) Site Server
Applications
1 7 (1.67%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.24%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.24%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 4 (0.95%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.24%) Oracle Applications
2 1 (0.24%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.24%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 275 (65.48%) Azure
2 130 (30.95%) AWS
3 121 (28.81%) Microsoft 365
4 101 (24.05%) SaaS
5 89 (21.19%) Entra ID
6 37 (8.81%) IaaS
7 35 (8.33%) GCP
8 33 (7.86%) Azure Monitor
9 28 (6.67%) PaaS
10 26 (6.19%) Power Platform
11 24 (5.71%) Azure DevOps
12 21 (5.00%) OneDrive
13 14 (3.33%) Nutanix
14 13 (3.10%) GitHub
15 11 (2.62%) AWS CloudFormation
15 11 (2.62%) Microsoft Copilot
16 10 (2.38%) Azure Sentinel
16 10 (2.38%) Google Workspace
17 9 (2.14%) Azure ExpressRoute
17 9 (2.14%) Azure Storage
Communications & Networking
1 100 (23.81%) Firewall
2 98 (23.33%) DNS
3 79 (18.81%) DHCP
4 67 (15.95%) VPN
5 44 (10.48%) TCP/IP
6 32 (7.62%) VLAN
6 32 (7.62%) WAN
7 26 (6.19%) Network Security
8 25 (5.95%) LAN
9 14 (3.33%) Wi-Fi
10 12 (2.86%) SD-WAN
11 10 (2.38%) SAN
11 10 (2.38%) Wireless
12 8 (1.90%) Fibre Channel
13 7 (1.67%) NGFW
13 7 (1.67%) VSAN
14 6 (1.43%) iSCSI
15 5 (1.19%) BGP
15 5 (1.19%) Internet
16 4 (0.95%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (5.71%) PostgreSQL
2 23 (5.48%) SQL Server
3 14 (3.33%) Azure SQL Database
4 13 (3.10%) Amazon RDS
5 10 (2.38%) Power BI
6 3 (0.71%) Oracle Database
6 3 (0.71%) Relational Database
6 3 (0.71%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 2 (0.48%) Metadata
7 2 (0.48%) MySQL
7 2 (0.48%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 1 (0.24%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (0.24%) MongoDB
8 1 (0.24%) Oracle Exadata
8 1 (0.24%) Oracle Reports
8 1 (0.24%) RDBMS
8 1 (0.24%) Redis
8 1 (0.24%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 1 (0.24%) SSDT
Development Applications
1 6 (1.43%) GitLab
1 6 (1.43%) JIRA
2 5 (1.19%) TeamCity
3 2 (0.48%) Git
3 2 (0.48%) Jenkins
3 2 (0.48%) Terragrunt
3 2 (0.48%) Visual Studio Code
4 1 (0.24%) Bitbucket
4 1 (0.24%) Claude Code
4 1 (0.24%) Flyway
4 1 (0.24%) Selenium
General
1 138 (32.86%) Social Skills
2 82 (19.52%) Finance
3 59 (14.05%) Analytical Skills
4 50 (11.90%) Law
5 33 (7.86%) Legal
6 32 (7.62%) Retail
7 27 (6.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 26 (6.19%) Public Sector
9 25 (5.95%) Banking
10 19 (4.52%) Documentation Skills
11 18 (4.29%) Back Office
12 12 (2.86%) Organisational Skills
13 11 (2.62%) Manufacturing
14 9 (2.14%) Police
15 6 (1.43%) Advertising
15 6 (1.43%) Financial Institution
16 5 (1.19%) Influencing Skills
17 4 (0.95%) Aviation
18 3 (0.71%) Presentation Skills
19 2 (0.48%) Fire and Rescue
Job Titles
1 75 (17.86%) Senior
2 63 (15.00%) IT Manager
3 58 (13.81%) Service Manager
4 54 (12.86%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 51 (12.14%) IT Services Manager
5 51 (12.14%) Resilience Manager
6 36 (8.57%) Architect
7 32 (7.62%) Consultant
8 29 (6.90%) IT Engineer
9 27 (6.43%) Lead
9 27 (6.43%) Support Engineer
10 26 (6.19%) Analyst
11 24 (5.71%) Senior Architect
12 23 (5.48%) Technical Consultant
13 21 (5.00%) Azure Engineer
13 21 (5.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
14 20 (4.76%) Cloud Engineer
14 20 (4.76%) IT Support
15 18 (4.29%) Technical Architect
16 16 (3.81%) IT Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 79 (18.81%) Terraform
2 68 (16.19%) Middleware
3 15 (3.57%) ARM Templates
4 11 (2.62%) OpenTelemetry
5 7 (1.67%) Microsoft Graph
5 7 (1.67%) REST
6 6 (1.43%) Web Services
7 5 (1.19%) .NET
7 5 (1.19%) RESTful
8 4 (0.95%) JSON
9 3 (0.71%) 802.1X
9 3 (0.71%) LDAP
9 3 (0.71%) Nuxt
9 3 (0.71%) Ruby on Rails
10 2 (0.48%) Kafka
10 2 (0.48%) React
10 2 (0.48%) SAML
10 2 (0.48%) YAML
11 1 (0.24%) OAuth2
11 1 (0.24%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 56 (13.33%) Cyber Threat
2 38 (9.05%) Replication
3 34 (8.10%) Data Centre
4 32 (7.62%) Cloud Native
5 29 (6.90%) Management Information System
6 24 (5.71%) Onboarding
7 23 (5.48%) Hybrid Cloud
8 22 (5.24%) Enterprise Storage
9 18 (4.29%) Enterprise Software
10 17 (4.05%) Security Posture
11 14 (3.33%) Blog
12 13 (3.10%) Distributed Systems
13 12 (2.86%) Data Protection Act
13 12 (2.86%) Self-Motivation
14 11 (2.62%) Driving Licence
15 8 (1.90%) iSeries
15 8 (1.90%) Public Cloud
16 7 (1.67%) Freedom of Information
16 7 (1.67%) Freedom of Information Act
16 7 (1.67%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 144 (34.29%) Windows
2 113 (26.90%) Windows Server
3 45 (10.71%) Linux
4 10 (2.38%) Windows Server 2016
4 10 (2.38%) Windows Server 2019
5 9 (2.14%) Ubuntu
6 8 (1.90%) Mac OS
7 7 (1.67%) Windows 10
8 5 (1.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 5 (1.19%) Unix
9 4 (0.95%) Debian
10 3 (0.71%) VMS
11 2 (0.48%) AIX
11 2 (0.48%) CentOS
11 2 (0.48%) Solaris
12 1 (0.24%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 213 (50.71%) Business Continuity
2 146 (34.76%) Problem-Solving
3 133 (31.67%) Continuous Improvement
4 108 (25.71%) Cybersecurity
4 108 (25.71%) Information Security
5 107 (25.48%) DevOps
6 100 (23.81%) ITIL
7 94 (22.38%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 82 (19.52%) Agile
9 77 (18.33%) High Availability
9 77 (18.33%) Stakeholder Management
10 70 (16.67%) Project Delivery
11 68 (16.19%) Service Delivery
12 64 (15.24%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 63 (15.00%) Enterprise Architecture
13 63 (15.00%) Infrastructure as Code
14 61 (14.52%) Runbook
15 60 (14.29%) CI/CD
16 58 (13.81%) Cloud Security
17 56 (13.33%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 89 (21.19%) PowerShell
2 43 (10.24%) Python
3 38 (9.05%) SQL
4 31 (7.38%) Bicep
5 14 (3.33%) Bash
6 13 (3.10%) Java
7 6 (1.43%) Shell Script
8 5 (1.19%) Go
8 5 (1.19%) JavaScript
9 3 (0.71%) C#
9 3 (0.71%) Ruby
10 2 (0.48%) Groovy
10 2 (0.48%) T-SQL
11 1 (0.24%) TypeScript
11 1 (0.24%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 70 (16.67%) CISSP
2 68 (16.19%) CISM
3 56 (13.33%) ITIL Certification
4 40 (9.52%) Azure Certification
5 37 (8.81%) Security Cleared
6 33 (7.86%) SC Cleared
7 27 (6.43%) Microsoft Certification
8 25 (5.95%) Degree
9 17 (4.05%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 14 (3.33%) CISA
10 14 (3.33%) Cisco Certification
11 13 (3.10%) CCNA
11 13 (3.10%) Computer Science Degree
12 9 (2.14%) CCNP
13 8 (1.90%) ISACA
13 8 (1.90%) VCAP
14 7 (1.67%) CRISC
14 7 (1.67%) VCDX
15 6 (1.43%) Dell Certification
15 6 (1.43%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 89 (21.19%) NIST
2 72 (17.14%) ISO 22301
3 62 (14.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 38 (9.05%) GDPR
5 28 (6.67%) SLA
6 27 (6.43%) PCI DSS
7 26 (6.19%) Cyber Essentials
8 16 (3.81%) PMO
8 16 (3.81%) SOC 2
9 11 (2.62%) COBIT
10 7 (1.67%) SOC 1
11 6 (1.43%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 6 (1.43%) NCSC
12 4 (0.95%) ISO/IEC 20000
13 3 (0.71%) Accessibility
13 3 (0.71%) GRC
13 3 (0.71%) ISO 9001
14 2 (0.48%) ITGC
14 2 (0.48%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 1 (0.24%) Data Quality
System Software
1 114 (27.14%) Active Directory
2 90 (21.43%) VMware Infrastructure
3 74 (17.62%) Hyper-V
4 23 (5.48%) vSphere
5 22 (5.24%) Docker
6 19 (4.52%) Virtual Machines
7 11 (2.62%) Firmware
7 11 (2.62%) Virtual Desktop
8 10 (2.38%) VMware ESXi
9 8 (1.90%) VMware NSX
10 7 (1.67%) vCloud
11 6 (1.43%) Squid
12 1 (0.24%) DFS Replication
12 1 (0.24%) KVM
12 1 (0.24%) Oracle RAC
12 1 (0.24%) Terminal Services
12 1 (0.24%) Virtual Servers
12 1 (0.24%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 48 (11.43%) Microsoft Intune
2 44 (10.48%) Kubernetes
3 23 (5.48%) Grafana
4 17 (4.05%) Prometheus
5 16 (3.81%) Ansible
6 14 (3.33%) Single Sign-On
7 7 (1.67%) FortiGate
8 6 (1.43%) Avamar
8 6 (1.43%) Dell DRAC
8 6 (1.43%) EMC NetWorker
8 6 (1.43%) EMC VPLEX
8 6 (1.43%) SCCM
8 6 (1.43%) VxRail
9 5 (1.19%) Proxmox
10 3 (0.71%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 3 (0.71%) Kibana
10 3 (0.71%) Packer
10 3 (0.71%) WSUS
10 3 (0.71%) ZABBIX
11 2 (0.48%) WhatsUp Gold
Vendors
1 222 (52.86%) Microsoft
2 113 (26.90%) VMware
3 60 (14.29%) Veeam
4 31 (7.38%) Cisco
5 23 (5.48%) Palo Alto
6 22 (5.24%) Fortinet
7 21 (5.00%) Google
8 20 (4.76%) Dell
9 15 (3.57%) NetApp
9 15 (3.57%) WatchGuard
10 14 (3.33%) Oracle
11 13 (3.10%) Nimble Storage
12 12 (2.86%) EMC
12 12 (2.86%) SonicWALL
13 10 (2.38%) Commvault
13 10 (2.38%) Dynatrace
13 10 (2.38%) Meraki
13 10 (2.38%) N-able
13 10 (2.38%) SolarWinds
14 9 (2.14%) Broadcom