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 11 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 169 243 193
Rank change year-on-year +74 -50 +47
Permanent jobs citing Disaster Recovery 344 196 543
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.61% 1.19% 1.69%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.95% 1.27% 1.90%
Number of salaries quoted 248 147 415
10th Percentile £41,175 £32,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £47,188 £40,925 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% - -3.40%
75th Percentile £82,500 £74,443 £77,500
90th Percentile £91,625 £87,750 £96,250
UK median annual salary £57,500 £62,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.00% +13.64% -5.17%

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 17,644 15,382 28,524
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 82.79% 93.39% 88.95%
Number of salaries quoted 12,905 9,093 21,741
10th Percentile £35,000 £30,000 £33,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £41,250 £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 £78,750 £75,772
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -8.72%

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 11 July 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 35 (10.17%) Microsoft Exchange
2 34 (9.88%) SharePoint
3 10 (2.91%) IIS
4 5 (1.45%) Apache
5 3 (0.87%) nginx
5 3 (0.87%) WordPress
6 1 (0.29%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.29%) Site Server
Applications
1 7 (2.03%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.58%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (0.87%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.58%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (0.58%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 217 (63.08%) Azure
2 95 (27.62%) Microsoft 365
3 90 (26.16%) AWS
4 56 (16.28%) SaaS
5 49 (14.24%) Entra ID
6 25 (7.27%) Nutanix
7 20 (5.81%) Power Platform
8 17 (4.94%) GCP
8 17 (4.94%) IaaS
8 17 (4.94%) PaaS
9 12 (3.49%) Azure DevOps
9 12 (3.49%) GitHub
10 11 (3.20%) Azure Data Factory
10 11 (3.20%) Mimecast
11 10 (2.91%) Azure Monitor
12 8 (2.33%) Amazon EKS
12 8 (2.33%) AWS CloudFormation
13 7 (2.03%) Amazon EC2
13 7 (2.03%) Amazon ECS
13 7 (2.03%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 102 (29.65%) Firewall
2 63 (18.31%) VPN
3 62 (18.02%) DNS
4 46 (13.37%) DHCP
5 39 (11.34%) WAN
6 33 (9.59%) TCP/IP
7 29 (8.43%) LAN
8 24 (6.98%) Network Security
9 17 (4.94%) Wi-Fi
10 16 (4.65%) VLAN
11 9 (2.62%) VSAN
12 8 (2.33%) SD-WAN
13 7 (2.03%) NGFW
14 6 (1.74%) Cisco ISE
14 6 (1.74%) Fibre Channel
14 6 (1.74%) iSCSI
14 6 (1.74%) SAN
14 6 (1.74%) Wireless
15 4 (1.16%) Cisco Nexus
15 4 (1.16%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (6.98%) SQL Server
2 10 (2.91%) Azure SQL Database
2 10 (2.91%) Power BI
3 9 (2.62%) Amazon RDS
4 6 (1.74%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (0.58%) Amazon Aurora
5 2 (0.58%) Data Lake
5 2 (0.58%) Delta Lake
6 1 (0.29%) MySQL
6 1 (0.29%) Oracle Exadata
6 1 (0.29%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.29%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 1 (0.29%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (0.29%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 9 (2.62%) Git
2 6 (1.74%) Visual Studio Code
3 5 (1.45%) JIRA
4 3 (0.87%) Selenium
5 2 (0.58%) Terragrunt
6 1 (0.29%) Claude Code
6 1 (0.29%) GitLab
6 1 (0.29%) MLflow
General
1 120 (34.88%) Social Skills
2 56 (16.28%) Finance
3 50 (14.53%) Law
4 39 (11.34%) Analytical Skills
5 29 (8.43%) Legal
6 25 (7.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 23 (6.69%) Banking
8 20 (5.81%) Retail
9 17 (4.94%) Documentation Skills
9 17 (4.94%) Public Sector
10 14 (4.07%) Back Office
11 13 (3.78%) Organisational Skills
12 6 (1.74%) Advertising
12 6 (1.74%) Marketing
13 5 (1.45%) Influencing Skills
14 4 (1.16%) Manufacturing
14 4 (1.16%) Presentation Skills
15 3 (0.87%) Financial Institution
16 2 (0.58%) Social Housing
17 1 (0.29%) Police
Job Titles
1 59 (17.15%) Senior
2 55 (15.99%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 54 (15.70%) IT Manager
4 38 (11.05%) Service Manager
5 36 (10.47%) IT Services Manager
6 31 (9.01%) Resilience Manager
7 25 (7.27%) Lead
8 24 (6.98%) Architect
8 24 (6.98%) Support Engineer
9 22 (6.40%) IT Engineer
10 20 (5.81%) Consultant
10 20 (5.81%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
11 18 (5.23%) Azure Engineer
11 18 (5.23%) Security Manager
12 17 (4.94%) Platform Engineer
12 17 (4.94%) Technical Consultant
13 16 (4.65%) IT Support
13 16 (4.65%) Senior Architect
14 15 (4.36%) VMware Consultant
14 15 (4.36%) VMware Technical Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (10.76%) Middleware
2 12 (3.49%) ARM Templates
3 7 (2.03%) Microsoft Graph
4 4 (1.16%) RESTful
5 3 (0.87%) JSON
5 3 (0.87%) Node.js
5 3 (0.87%) Nuxt
5 3 (0.87%) Playwright
5 3 (0.87%) Ruby on Rails
5 3 (0.87%) Web Services
6 2 (0.58%) Kafka
6 2 (0.58%) Loki
6 2 (0.58%) PySpark
7 1 (0.29%) NumPy
7 1 (0.29%) OAuth2
7 1 (0.29%) OpenCV
7 1 (0.29%) Pandas
7 1 (0.29%) pytest
7 1 (0.29%) SQLAlchemy
7 1 (0.29%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 45 (13.08%) Cyber Threat
2 32 (9.30%) Data Centre
3 26 (7.56%) Cloud Native
4 25 (7.27%) Hybrid Cloud
5 24 (6.98%) Management Information System
6 22 (6.40%) Replication
7 20 (5.81%) Enterprise Storage
8 19 (5.52%) Driving Licence
9 16 (4.65%) Onboarding
10 15 (4.36%) Self-Motivation
11 14 (4.07%) Security Posture
12 13 (3.78%) CMDB
12 13 (3.78%) Legacy Systems
13 12 (3.49%) Data Protection Act
14 11 (3.20%) iSeries
15 10 (2.91%) Public Cloud
16 9 (2.62%) Enterprise Software
17 8 (2.33%) Virtual Team
18 7 (2.03%) Freedom of Information
18 7 (2.03%) Freedom of Information Act
Operating Systems
1 98 (28.49%) Windows
2 69 (20.06%) Windows Server
3 30 (8.72%) Linux
4 8 (2.33%) Mac OS
5 6 (1.74%) Windows 10
5 6 (1.74%) Windows Server 2016
6 5 (1.45%) Windows Server 2019
7 4 (1.16%) Unix
8 3 (0.87%) Apple iOS
8 3 (0.87%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 2 (0.58%) CentOS
9 2 (0.58%) Solaris
9 2 (0.58%) Ubuntu
10 1 (0.29%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 152 (44.19%) Business Continuity
2 106 (30.81%) Cybersecurity
2 106 (30.81%) Problem-Solving
3 93 (27.03%) Continuous Improvement
4 82 (23.84%) Information Security
5 81 (23.55%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 78 (22.67%) DevOps
7 76 (22.09%) ITIL
8 67 (19.48%) Incident Response
9 62 (18.02%) Service Delivery
10 58 (16.86%) Agile
11 53 (15.41%) Project Delivery
12 51 (14.83%) Stakeholder Management
13 48 (13.95%) CI/CD
14 47 (13.66%) High Availability
15 43 (12.50%) Risk Management
15 43 (12.50%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 42 (12.21%) Cloud Security
17 39 (11.34%) Infrastructure as Code
17 39 (11.34%) Runbook
Programming Languages
1 84 (24.42%) PowerShell
2 46 (13.37%) Python
3 26 (7.56%) SQL
4 12 (3.49%) Bicep
5 7 (2.03%) Java
6 6 (1.74%) Bash
7 3 (0.87%) Go
7 3 (0.87%) Ruby
7 3 (0.87%) TypeScript
8 2 (0.58%) Scala
9 1 (0.29%) C#
9 1 (0.29%) Shell Script
9 1 (0.29%) T-SQL
9 1 (0.29%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 52 (15.12%) CISSP
2 48 (13.95%) CISM
3 39 (11.34%) Degree
4 29 (8.43%) ITIL Certification
4 29 (8.43%) Microsoft Certification
5 23 (6.69%) Azure Certification
5 23 (6.69%) Security Cleared
6 20 (5.81%) Cisco Certification
6 20 (5.81%) SC Cleared
7 17 (4.94%) CCNA
8 16 (4.65%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 14 (4.07%) CCNP
9 14 (4.07%) CISA
10 13 (3.78%) CEH
11 12 (3.49%) Computer Science Degree
12 9 (2.62%) VCAP
12 9 (2.62%) VCDX
13 8 (2.33%) ISACA
14 7 (2.03%) CRISC
15 6 (1.74%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 81 (23.55%) NIST
2 78 (22.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 48 (13.95%) ISO 22301
4 44 (12.79%) GDPR
5 37 (10.76%) Cyber Essentials
6 26 (7.56%) PCI DSS
7 19 (5.52%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 17 (4.94%) PMO
8 17 (4.94%) SLA
9 15 (4.36%) SOC 2
10 12 (3.49%) GRC
11 11 (3.20%) COBIT
12 10 (2.91%) Actionable Recommendations
13 7 (2.03%) SOC 1
14 6 (1.74%) Data Quality
15 3 (0.87%) ISO 9001
16 2 (0.58%) ISO/IEC 20000
16 2 (0.58%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
16 2 (0.58%) NCSC
17 1 (0.29%) Accessibility
System Software
1 78 (22.67%) VMware Infrastructure
2 70 (20.35%) Active Directory
3 51 (14.83%) Hyper-V
4 24 (6.98%) vSphere
5 16 (4.65%) Firmware
6 12 (3.49%) Docker
7 9 (2.62%) vCloud
7 9 (2.62%) VMware NSX
8 8 (2.33%) VMware ESXi
9 5 (1.45%) Virtual Machines
10 3 (0.87%) Squid
10 3 (0.87%) Virtual Servers
11 2 (0.58%) KVM
11 2 (0.58%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 1 (0.29%) Oracle RAC
12 1 (0.29%) Terminal Services
12 1 (0.29%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 50 (14.53%) Terraform
2 41 (11.92%) Microsoft Intune
3 27 (7.85%) Kubernetes
4 15 (4.36%) Ansible
5 9 (2.62%) Packer
6 7 (2.03%) Dell DRAC
6 7 (2.03%) Single Sign-On
7 6 (1.74%) Avamar
7 6 (1.74%) EMC NetWorker
7 6 (1.74%) EMC VPLEX
7 6 (1.74%) VxRail
8 5 (1.45%) Grafana
8 5 (1.45%) Prometheus
8 5 (1.45%) vCenter Server
9 4 (1.16%) FortiGate
9 4 (1.16%) Proxmox
10 3 (0.87%) ZABBIX
11 2 (0.58%) SCCM
11 2 (0.58%) WhatsUp Gold
12 1 (0.29%) Data Guard
Vendors
1 170 (49.42%) Microsoft
2 101 (29.36%) VMware
3 39 (11.34%) Cisco
3 39 (11.34%) Veeam
4 20 (5.81%) Commvault
5 19 (5.52%) EMC
5 19 (5.52%) Fortinet
6 17 (4.94%) Dell
7 15 (4.36%) Meraki
7 15 (4.36%) NetApp
7 15 (4.36%) Nimble Storage
7 15 (4.36%) Palo Alto
8 11 (3.20%) Broadcom
8 11 (3.20%) HP
8 11 (3.20%) IBM
8 11 (3.20%) Sophos
9 10 (2.91%) Splunk
10 9 (2.62%) iManage
10 9 (2.62%) ServiceNow
11 8 (2.33%) Oracle