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

6 months to
15 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 196 225 208
Rank change year-on-year +29 -17 +61
Permanent jobs citing Disaster Recovery 187 241 334
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.23% 1.46% 1.55%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.41% 1.56% 1.66%
Number of salaries quoted 139 152 311
10th Percentile £43,200 £37,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £51,563 £49,125 £51,483
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £68,736 £63,750 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.82% +2.00% +15.74%
75th Percentile £92,500 £77,813 £75,000
90th Percentile £105,000 £91,500 £81,250
UK median annual salary £62,500 £59,125 £60,000
% change year-on-year +5.71% -1.46% +14.29%

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 13,292 15,442 20,133
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 87.37% 93.78% 93.53%
Number of salaries quoted 8,469 9,092 16,280
10th Percentile £30,000 £36,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £41,925 £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 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

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 15 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 28 (14.97%) SharePoint
2 27 (14.44%) Microsoft Exchange
3 6 (3.21%) IIS
3 6 (3.21%) Tomcat
3 6 (3.21%) WebSphere
3 6 (3.21%) WebSphere Application Server
4 1 (0.53%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 11 (5.88%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (4.28%) Microsoft Excel
3 7 (3.74%) MS Visio
4 6 (3.21%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 4 (2.14%) Markit EDM
2 1 (0.53%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.53%) Raiser’s Edge
2 1 (0.53%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 115 (61.50%) Azure
2 59 (31.55%) AWS
3 50 (26.74%) Microsoft 365
4 39 (20.86%) Entra ID
5 20 (10.70%) Azure Monitor
6 18 (9.63%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 18 (9.63%) Amazon EKS
6 18 (9.63%) Azure DevOps
7 17 (9.09%) AWS CloudFormation
8 15 (8.02%) Amazon EC2
8 15 (8.02%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 13 (6.95%) Azure Data Factory
9 13 (6.95%) Nutanix
10 12 (6.42%) Serverless
11 11 (5.88%) IaaS
11 11 (5.88%) OneDrive
12 10 (5.35%) AWS Lambda
12 10 (5.35%) GitHub
12 10 (5.35%) PaaS
13 9 (4.81%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 47 (25.13%) VPN
2 38 (20.32%) WAN
3 36 (19.25%) DNS
4 32 (17.11%) Firewall
5 28 (14.97%) DHCP
6 26 (13.90%) SD-WAN
7 18 (9.63%) TCP/IP
8 17 (9.09%) LAN
9 13 (6.95%) SSL
10 10 (5.35%) VLAN
11 9 (4.81%) Unified Communications
11 9 (4.81%) VoIP
11 9 (4.81%) Wi-Fi
12 5 (2.67%) Wireless
13 4 (2.14%) BGP
13 4 (2.14%) SAN
14 3 (1.60%) Network Security
14 3 (1.60%) PuTTY
15 2 (1.07%) NAS
16 1 (0.53%) Structured Cabling
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (11.23%) SQL Server
2 18 (9.63%) Amazon RDS
3 13 (6.95%) Azure SQL Database
3 13 (6.95%) PostgreSQL
4 8 (4.28%) Data Lake
4 8 (4.28%) Delta Lake
5 7 (3.74%) Amazon Aurora
6 6 (3.21%) DB2
6 6 (3.21%) Oracle Database
7 5 (2.67%) MySQL
7 5 (2.67%) Oracle Database 12c
8 4 (2.14%) Data Warehouse
8 4 (2.14%) Oracle Database 10g
8 4 (2.14%) Oracle Database 11g
9 2 (1.07%) NoSQL
10 1 (0.53%) Apache Hive
10 1 (0.53%) DynamoDB
10 1 (0.53%) Hadoop
10 1 (0.53%) MongoDB
10 1 (0.53%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 16 (8.56%) Git
2 7 (3.74%) Jenkins
3 3 (1.60%) Maven
3 3 (1.60%) Sonatype Nexus
4 1 (0.53%) Bitbucket
4 1 (0.53%) JIRA
4 1 (0.53%) Selenium
General
1 67 (35.83%) Finance
2 54 (28.88%) Social Skills
3 22 (11.76%) Analytical Skills
4 17 (9.09%) Law
5 16 (8.56%) Banking
6 9 (4.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 6 (3.21%) Back Office
7 6 (3.21%) Public Sector
7 6 (3.21%) Telecoms
8 4 (2.14%) Documentation Skills
8 4 (2.14%) Financial Institution
8 4 (2.14%) Organisational Skills
8 4 (2.14%) Retail
9 3 (1.60%) Influencing Skills
9 3 (1.60%) Social Housing
10 2 (1.07%) Local Government
10 2 (1.07%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.53%) Games
11 1 (0.53%) Investment Banking
11 1 (0.53%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 37 (19.79%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 32 (17.11%) Senior
3 25 (13.37%) Cloud Engineer
4 18 (9.63%) Support Engineer
5 14 (7.49%) Linux Engineer
6 13 (6.95%) Platform Engineer
7 12 (6.42%) AWS Engineer
7 12 (6.42%) DevOps Engineer
8 11 (5.88%) Administrator
8 11 (5.88%) DBA
8 11 (5.88%) Head of IT
8 11 (5.88%) Infrastructure Support
8 11 (5.88%) Lead
9 10 (5.35%) Applications Engineer
9 10 (5.35%) Applications Support
9 10 (5.35%) Applications Support Engineer
9 10 (5.35%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
10 9 (4.81%) Data Engineer
10 9 (4.81%) Infrastructure Manager
10 9 (4.81%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (4.28%) PySpark
2 7 (3.74%) LDAP
3 6 (3.21%) LAPP Stack
3 6 (3.21%) Loki
3 6 (3.21%) WebSphere MQ
4 5 (2.67%) REST
5 4 (2.14%) AWS SAM
5 4 (2.14%) Elastic Stack
6 3 (1.60%) ActiveMQ
6 3 (1.60%) LAMP
6 3 (1.60%) RAML
6 3 (1.60%) RESTful
6 3 (1.60%) SOAP
7 2 (1.07%) ARM Templates
7 2 (1.07%) AWS CDK
8 1 (0.53%) JDBC
8 1 (0.53%) Node.js
8 1 (0.53%) OAuth
8 1 (0.53%) ODBC
8 1 (0.53%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 22 (11.76%) Hybrid Cloud
2 16 (8.56%) Management Information System
3 15 (8.02%) Cloud Native
4 12 (6.42%) CMDB
4 12 (6.42%) Onboarding
5 11 (5.88%) Data Centre
6 10 (5.35%) Enterprise Software
7 7 (3.74%) Linux Command Line
8 6 (3.21%) Analytical Mindset
8 6 (3.21%) Operational Technology
8 6 (3.21%) Public Cloud
8 6 (3.21%) Replication
9 5 (2.67%) Distributed Systems
9 5 (2.67%) Mobile App
10 4 (2.14%) Cyber Threat
10 4 (2.14%) iPad
10 4 (2.14%) iPhone
10 4 (2.14%) PKI
10 4 (2.14%) Security Posture
10 4 (2.14%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 58 (31.02%) Windows
2 39 (20.86%) Linux
3 33 (17.65%) Windows Server
4 14 (7.49%) Unix
5 11 (5.88%) Windows 10
6 9 (4.81%) Apple iOS
7 6 (3.21%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 3 (1.60%) CentOS
8 3 (1.60%) Rocky
8 3 (1.60%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.53%) Solaris
9 1 (0.53%) VMS
9 1 (0.53%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 64 (34.22%) DevOps
2 52 (27.81%) Infrastructure as Code
2 52 (27.81%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 51 (27.27%) High Availability
4 50 (26.74%) CI/CD
4 50 (26.74%) ITIL
5 47 (25.13%) Problem-Solving
6 41 (21.93%) Cybersecurity
7 38 (20.32%) Service Delivery
8 37 (19.79%) Business Continuity
9 34 (18.18%) Migration
10 31 (16.58%) Continuous Improvement
11 28 (14.97%) Service Management
12 27 (14.44%) Observability
13 23 (12.30%) Vulnerability Management
14 22 (11.76%) Performance Tuning
15 21 (11.23%) Platform Engineering
15 21 (11.23%) Problem Management
16 20 (10.70%) Cloud Security
16 20 (10.70%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 59 (31.55%) Python
2 51 (27.27%) PowerShell
3 33 (17.65%) SQL
4 12 (6.42%) Java
5 11 (5.88%) Bash
6 10 (5.35%) Go
7 8 (4.28%) Scala
8 6 (3.21%) Bicep
9 4 (2.14%) JavaScript
9 4 (2.14%) Shell Script
9 4 (2.14%) T-SQL
10 3 (1.60%) TypeScript
11 1 (0.53%) C#
11 1 (0.53%) Perl
11 1 (0.53%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 37 (19.79%) Degree
2 24 (12.83%) Azure Certification
3 22 (11.76%) AWS Certification
4 18 (9.63%) Microsoft Certification
5 14 (7.49%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 13 (6.95%) Security Cleared
7 11 (5.88%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 10 (5.35%) Cisco Certification
8 10 (5.35%) Computer Science Degree
8 10 (5.35%) ITIL Certification
8 10 (5.35%) Master's Degree
9 9 (4.81%) CCNP
9 9 (4.81%) CEH
10 8 (4.28%) SC Cleared
11 6 (3.21%) PMI Certification
11 6 (3.21%) PMP
12 5 (2.67%) BPSS Clearance
13 4 (2.14%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
14 3 (1.60%) MCP
15 2 (1.07%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (16.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 22 (11.76%) NIST
3 16 (8.56%) SLA
4 11 (5.88%) Cyber Essentials
5 10 (5.35%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 9 (4.81%) GDPR
6 9 (4.81%) ISO 22301
7 8 (4.28%) Data Quality
8 6 (3.21%) PCI DSS
9 4 (2.14%) SOC 2
10 3 (1.60%) ISO/IEC 20000
11 2 (1.07%) GRC
11 2 (1.07%) ISO 9001
11 2 (1.07%) NCSC
12 1 (0.53%) Accessibility
12 1 (0.53%) Basel III
12 1 (0.53%) COBIT
12 1 (0.53%) HIPAA
12 1 (0.53%) MiFID
12 1 (0.53%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 42 (22.46%) Active Directory
2 24 (12.83%) VMware Infrastructure
3 20 (10.70%) Hyper-V
4 16 (8.56%) Docker
5 10 (5.35%) Virtual Servers
6 9 (4.81%) Virtual Machines
7 5 (2.67%) Virtual Desktop
8 4 (2.14%) Firmware
9 3 (1.60%) VMware ESXi
10 2 (1.07%) vSphere
11 1 (0.53%) Microsoft Virtual Server
11 1 (0.53%) Oracle RAC
11 1 (0.53%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 54 (28.88%) Terraform
2 35 (18.72%) Microsoft Intune
3 27 (14.44%) Kubernetes
4 25 (13.37%) Ansible
5 15 (8.02%) Grafana
6 11 (5.88%) Prometheus
7 6 (3.21%) FortiGate
8 4 (2.14%) Nagios
9 3 (1.60%) Nessus
9 3 (1.60%) Proxmox
9 3 (1.60%) SCOM
10 1 (0.53%) Data Guard
10 1 (0.53%) Dell DRAC
10 1 (0.53%) Jamf Pro
10 1 (0.53%) Oracle RMAN
10 1 (0.53%) Packer
Vendors
1 91 (48.66%) Microsoft
2 39 (20.86%) VMware
3 13 (6.95%) IBM
4 12 (6.42%) Commvault
5 11 (5.88%) Cisco
6 10 (5.35%) Oracle
7 9 (4.81%) Fortinet
8 8 (4.28%) Databricks
9 7 (3.74%) Red Hat
10 6 (3.21%) SonicWALL
11 5 (2.67%) Palo Alto
11 5 (2.67%) Veeam
12 4 (2.14%) Ab Initio
12 4 (2.14%) Mitel
13 3 (1.60%) CrowdStrike
13 3 (1.60%) Foundry
13 3 (1.60%) Google
13 3 (1.60%) Meraki
13 3 (1.60%) MuleSoft
14 2 (1.07%) ConnectWise