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

6 months to
22 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 192 222 204
Rank change year-on-year +30 -18 +64
Permanent jobs citing Disaster Recovery 192 246 387
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.24% 1.50% 1.62%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.43% 1.60% 1.73%
Number of salaries quoted 146 152 366
10th Percentile £42,938 £37,500 £37,000
25th Percentile £54,601 £50,000 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% +4.00% +13.64%
75th Percentile £92,500 £77,500 £73,750
90th Percentile £105,000 £91,475 £80,563
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.17% +4.35% +9.21%

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 13,454 15,421 22,310
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 86.93% 94.05% 93.16%
Number of salaries quoted 8,565 9,081 18,236
10th Percentile £30,000 £36,250 £35,125
25th Percentile £42,000 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £96,539
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% -8.00%

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 22 January 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 31 (16.15%) SharePoint
2 30 (15.63%) Microsoft Exchange
3 6 (3.13%) IIS
3 6 (3.13%) Tomcat
3 6 (3.13%) WebSphere
3 6 (3.13%) WebSphere Application Server
4 1 (0.52%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 10 (5.21%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (3.65%) Microsoft Excel
3 6 (3.13%) MS Visio
3 6 (3.13%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 4 (2.08%) Markit EDM
2 2 (1.04%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.52%) Raiser’s Edge
3 1 (0.52%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 120 (62.50%) Azure
2 57 (29.69%) AWS
3 53 (27.60%) Microsoft 365
4 41 (21.35%) Entra ID
5 21 (10.94%) Azure Monitor
6 18 (9.38%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 18 (9.38%) Amazon EKS
6 18 (9.38%) AWS CloudFormation
6 18 (9.38%) Azure DevOps
7 15 (7.81%) Amazon EC2
7 15 (7.81%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 14 (7.29%) Azure Data Factory
8 14 (7.29%) Nutanix
9 13 (6.77%) IaaS
10 12 (6.25%) GitHub
10 12 (6.25%) OneDrive
10 12 (6.25%) PaaS
10 12 (6.25%) Serverless
11 10 (5.21%) AWS Lambda
11 10 (5.21%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 49 (25.52%) VPN
2 39 (20.31%) WAN
3 38 (19.79%) DNS
4 31 (16.15%) Firewall
5 30 (15.63%) DHCP
6 26 (13.54%) SD-WAN
7 19 (9.90%) TCP/IP
8 18 (9.38%) LAN
9 13 (6.77%) SSL
10 10 (5.21%) VLAN
10 10 (5.21%) Wi-Fi
11 9 (4.69%) Unified Communications
11 9 (4.69%) VoIP
12 5 (2.60%) Wireless
13 4 (2.08%) BGP
14 3 (1.56%) Network Security
14 3 (1.56%) PuTTY
14 3 (1.56%) SAN
15 2 (1.04%) DSL
16 1 (0.52%) EIGRP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (11.46%) SQL Server
2 18 (9.38%) Amazon RDS
3 13 (6.77%) Azure SQL Database
3 13 (6.77%) PostgreSQL
4 9 (4.69%) Data Lake
4 9 (4.69%) Delta Lake
5 7 (3.65%) Amazon Aurora
6 6 (3.13%) DB2
7 5 (2.60%) MySQL
7 5 (2.60%) Oracle Database
8 4 (2.08%) Data Warehouse
8 4 (2.08%) Oracle Database 10g
8 4 (2.08%) Oracle Database 11g
8 4 (2.08%) Oracle Database 12c
9 1 (0.52%) Apache Hive
9 1 (0.52%) Hadoop
9 1 (0.52%) MongoDB
9 1 (0.52%) NoSQL
9 1 (0.52%) RDBMS
9 1 (0.52%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 17 (8.85%) Git
2 7 (3.65%) Jenkins
3 3 (1.56%) Maven
3 3 (1.56%) Sonatype Nexus
4 2 (1.04%) Selenium
5 1 (0.52%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.52%) JIRA
General
1 70 (36.46%) Finance
2 54 (28.13%) Social Skills
3 22 (11.46%) Analytical Skills
4 18 (9.38%) Law
5 16 (8.33%) Banking
6 10 (5.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 6 (3.13%) Back Office
7 6 (3.13%) Public Sector
7 6 (3.13%) Telecoms
8 4 (2.08%) Documentation Skills
8 4 (2.08%) Financial Institution
8 4 (2.08%) Retail
9 3 (1.56%) Influencing Skills
9 3 (1.56%) Organisational Skills
9 3 (1.56%) Social Housing
10 2 (1.04%) Local Government
10 2 (1.04%) Manufacturing
10 2 (1.04%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.52%) Advertising
11 1 (0.52%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 40 (20.83%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 32 (16.67%) Senior
3 26 (13.54%) Cloud Engineer
4 19 (9.90%) Support Engineer
5 14 (7.29%) Linux Engineer
5 14 (7.29%) Platform Engineer
6 13 (6.77%) DevOps Engineer
6 13 (6.77%) Lead
7 12 (6.25%) AWS Engineer
7 12 (6.25%) Infrastructure Support
8 11 (5.73%) Head of IT
9 10 (5.21%) Applications Engineer
9 10 (5.21%) Applications Support
9 10 (5.21%) Applications Support Engineer
9 10 (5.21%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
9 10 (5.21%) Data Engineer
9 10 (5.21%) IT Security Specialist
9 10 (5.21%) Security Specialist
9 10 (5.21%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
10 9 (4.69%) Infrastructure Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (4.69%) PySpark
2 7 (3.65%) LDAP
3 6 (3.13%) LAPP Stack
3 6 (3.13%) Loki
3 6 (3.13%) WebSphere MQ
4 5 (2.60%) REST
5 4 (2.08%) AWS SAM
5 4 (2.08%) Elastic Stack
6 3 (1.56%) ActiveMQ
6 3 (1.56%) ARM Templates
6 3 (1.56%) LAMP
6 3 (1.56%) RAML
6 3 (1.56%) RESTful
6 3 (1.56%) SOAP
7 2 (1.04%) AWS CDK
7 2 (1.04%) Node.js
7 2 (1.04%) Playwright
8 1 (0.52%) gRPC
8 1 (0.52%) Microsoft Graph
8 1 (0.52%) ODBC
Miscellaneous
1 24 (12.50%) Hybrid Cloud
2 15 (7.81%) Cloud Native
2 15 (7.81%) Management Information System
3 12 (6.25%) CMDB
3 12 (6.25%) Onboarding
4 11 (5.73%) Data Centre
5 9 (4.69%) Enterprise Software
6 7 (3.65%) Linux Command Line
7 6 (3.13%) Operational Technology
7 6 (3.13%) Public Cloud
7 6 (3.13%) Replication
8 5 (2.60%) Analytical Mindset
8 5 (2.60%) Distributed Systems
8 5 (2.60%) Driving Licence
8 5 (2.60%) Mobile App
9 4 (2.08%) Cyber Threat
9 4 (2.08%) iPad
9 4 (2.08%) iPhone
9 4 (2.08%) Legacy Systems
9 4 (2.08%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 60 (31.25%) Windows
2 38 (19.79%) Linux
3 35 (18.23%) Windows Server
4 14 (7.29%) Unix
5 12 (6.25%) Windows 10
6 10 (5.21%) Apple iOS
7 6 (3.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 3 (1.56%) CentOS
8 3 (1.56%) Rocky
8 3 (1.56%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.52%) Solaris
9 1 (0.52%) VMS
9 1 (0.52%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 66 (34.38%) DevOps
2 56 (29.17%) Infrastructure as Code
2 56 (29.17%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 53 (27.60%) ITIL
4 52 (27.08%) CI/CD
5 51 (26.56%) High Availability
6 45 (23.44%) Problem-Solving
7 40 (20.83%) Cybersecurity
7 40 (20.83%) Service Delivery
8 39 (20.31%) Business Continuity
9 34 (17.71%) Migration
10 33 (17.19%) Continuous Improvement
11 28 (14.58%) Service Management
12 27 (14.06%) Observability
13 24 (12.50%) Vulnerability Management
14 23 (11.98%) Identity Access Management
15 22 (11.46%) Cloud Security
15 22 (11.46%) Performance Tuning
15 22 (11.46%) Platform Engineering
15 22 (11.46%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 62 (32.29%) Python
2 55 (28.65%) PowerShell
3 32 (16.67%) SQL
4 12 (6.25%) Java
5 11 (5.73%) Bash
6 10 (5.21%) Go
7 9 (4.69%) Scala
8 8 (4.17%) Bicep
9 4 (2.08%) JavaScript
9 4 (2.08%) TypeScript
10 3 (1.56%) Shell Script
10 3 (1.56%) T-SQL
11 1 (0.52%) Perl
Qualifications
1 39 (20.31%) Degree
2 23 (11.98%) Azure Certification
3 21 (10.94%) AWS Certification
4 19 (9.90%) Microsoft Certification
5 15 (7.81%) Security Cleared
6 13 (6.77%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 11 (5.73%) Computer Science Degree
8 10 (5.21%) CEH
8 10 (5.21%) Cisco Certification
8 10 (5.21%) ITIL Certification
8 10 (5.21%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 10 (5.21%) Master's Degree
8 10 (5.21%) SC Cleared
9 9 (4.69%) CCNP
10 6 (3.13%) BPSS Clearance
10 6 (3.13%) PMI Certification
10 6 (3.13%) PMP
11 4 (2.08%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 3 (1.56%) MCP
13 2 (1.04%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (18.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 24 (12.50%) NIST
3 16 (8.33%) SLA
4 13 (6.77%) Cyber Essentials
5 12 (6.25%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 10 (5.21%) ISO 22301
7 9 (4.69%) Data Quality
7 9 (4.69%) GDPR
8 7 (3.65%) PCI DSS
9 4 (2.08%) SOC 2
10 3 (1.56%) ISO/IEC 20000
11 2 (1.04%) GRC
11 2 (1.04%) ISO 9001
11 2 (1.04%) NCSC
12 1 (0.52%) Accessibility
12 1 (0.52%) Actionable Recommendations
12 1 (0.52%) Basel III
12 1 (0.52%) COBIT
12 1 (0.52%) MiFID
12 1 (0.52%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 44 (22.92%) Active Directory
2 24 (12.50%) VMware Infrastructure
3 20 (10.42%) Hyper-V
4 17 (8.85%) Docker
5 11 (5.73%) Virtual Servers
6 9 (4.69%) Virtual Machines
7 5 (2.60%) Virtual Desktop
8 4 (2.08%) Firmware
9 3 (1.56%) VMware ESXi
10 2 (1.04%) Microsoft Virtual Server
10 2 (1.04%) vSphere
11 1 (0.52%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 57 (29.69%) Terraform
2 36 (18.75%) Microsoft Intune
3 27 (14.06%) Kubernetes
4 25 (13.02%) Ansible
5 15 (7.81%) Grafana
6 11 (5.73%) Prometheus
7 6 (3.13%) FortiGate
8 3 (1.56%) Nagios
8 3 (1.56%) Nessus
8 3 (1.56%) Proxmox
8 3 (1.56%) SCOM
9 2 (1.04%) Packer
10 1 (0.52%) Dell DRAC
10 1 (0.52%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 93 (48.44%) Microsoft
2 41 (21.35%) VMware
3 14 (7.29%) Commvault
4 13 (6.77%) IBM
5 12 (6.25%) Cisco
6 10 (5.21%) Oracle
7 9 (4.69%) Databricks
8 8 (4.17%) Fortinet
9 7 (3.65%) Red Hat
10 6 (3.13%) SonicWALL
11 5 (2.60%) Veeam
12 4 (2.08%) Ab Initio
12 4 (2.08%) Meraki
12 4 (2.08%) Mitel
13 3 (1.56%) Foundry
13 3 (1.56%) MuleSoft
13 3 (1.56%) Palo Alto
14 2 (1.04%) ConnectWise
14 2 (1.04%) IFS
14 2 (1.04%) ServiceNow