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 14 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 179 209 202
Rank change year-on-year +30 -7 +81
Permanent jobs citing Disaster Recovery 239 209 488
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.37% 1.59% 1.53%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.65% 1.68% 1.67%
Number of salaries quoted 178 160 460
10th Percentile £42,250 £35,425 £41,250
25th Percentile £53,750 £43,938 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% - +8.79%
75th Percentile £91,250 £73,886 £77,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £90,000 £88,875
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +9.09% -

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 14,510 12,456 29,185
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 83.19% 94.79% 91.56%
Number of salaries quoted 10,123 8,932 23,488
10th Percentile £32,000 £32,500 £33,750
25th Percentile £44,972 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -8.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -10.57%

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 14 April 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 (13.39%) SharePoint
2 30 (12.55%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (0.84%) Apache
3 2 (0.84%) IIS
4 1 (0.42%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 6 (2.51%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (1.67%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (1.26%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.42%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 4 (1.67%) Markit EDM
2 3 (1.26%) Oracle EBS
3 2 (0.84%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 146 (61.09%) Azure
2 65 (27.20%) Microsoft 365
3 44 (18.41%) AWS
4 40 (16.74%) Entra ID
5 22 (9.21%) Nutanix
6 16 (6.69%) Amazon EKS
6 16 (6.69%) OneDrive
7 15 (6.28%) Azure Monitor
7 15 (6.28%) GitHub
8 14 (5.86%) SaaS
9 13 (5.44%) Amazon EC2
9 13 (5.44%) Azure Data Factory
9 13 (5.44%) Azure DevOps
9 13 (5.44%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 11 (4.60%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 11 (4.60%) IaaS
10 11 (4.60%) Mimecast
10 11 (4.60%) PaaS
11 9 (3.77%) AWS CloudFormation
11 9 (3.77%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 60 (25.10%) Firewall
2 57 (23.85%) VPN
3 41 (17.15%) DNS
4 38 (15.90%) WAN
5 29 (12.13%) DHCP
6 28 (11.72%) TCP/IP
7 20 (8.37%) LAN
8 15 (6.28%) SD-WAN
9 13 (5.44%) Network Security
10 11 (4.60%) VLAN
11 9 (3.77%) Wi-Fi
12 6 (2.51%) BGP
13 5 (2.09%) Wireless
14 4 (1.67%) Cisco ISE
14 4 (1.67%) Cisco Nexus
14 4 (1.67%) Intrusion Detection
14 4 (1.67%) SAN
15 3 (1.26%) PuTTY
15 3 (1.26%) Unified Communications
16 2 (0.84%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (7.95%) Amazon RDS
1 19 (7.95%) SQL Server
2 13 (5.44%) Azure SQL Database
3 9 (3.77%) Data Lake
3 9 (3.77%) Delta Lake
4 8 (3.35%) Amazon Aurora
5 4 (1.67%) Data Warehouse
5 4 (1.67%) MySQL
5 4 (1.67%) Oracle Database
5 4 (1.67%) PostgreSQL
6 3 (1.26%) Oracle Database 10g
6 3 (1.26%) Oracle Database 11g
6 3 (1.26%) Oracle Database 12c
6 3 (1.26%) Power BI
7 1 (0.42%) DynamoDB
7 1 (0.42%) Oracle Exadata
7 1 (0.42%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 1 (0.42%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 1 (0.42%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 19 (7.95%) Git
2 5 (2.09%) Jenkins
3 4 (1.67%) Visual Studio Code
4 3 (1.26%) Maven
4 3 (1.26%) Sonatype Nexus
5 2 (0.84%) Selenium
6 1 (0.42%) JIRA
6 1 (0.42%) MLflow
General
1 81 (33.89%) Social Skills
2 67 (28.03%) Finance
3 25 (10.46%) Analytical Skills
4 24 (10.04%) Law
5 21 (8.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 20 (8.37%) Banking
7 14 (5.86%) Public Sector
8 12 (5.02%) Retail
9 9 (3.77%) Back Office
9 9 (3.77%) Organisational Skills
10 7 (2.93%) Documentation Skills
10 7 (2.93%) Legal
11 6 (2.51%) Financial Institution
11 6 (2.51%) Marketing
12 4 (1.67%) Presentation Skills
12 4 (1.67%) Social Housing
13 3 (1.26%) Local Government
14 2 (0.84%) Influencing Skills
14 2 (0.84%) Manufacturing
15 1 (0.42%) Police
Job Titles
1 51 (21.34%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 44 (18.41%) Senior
3 25 (10.46%) IT Manager
4 20 (8.37%) Platform Engineer
5 19 (7.95%) Lead
6 17 (7.11%) Security Specialist
6 17 (7.11%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
7 15 (6.28%) AWS Engineer
7 15 (6.28%) Cloud Engineer
8 13 (5.44%) IT Engineer
8 13 (5.44%) IT Security Specialist
8 13 (5.44%) Security Manager
9 12 (5.02%) Azure Engineer
9 12 (5.02%) Cloud Platform Engineer
9 12 (5.02%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
10 11 (4.60%) Operations Engineer
11 10 (4.18%) Support Engineer
12 9 (3.77%) Applications Support
12 9 (3.77%) Architect
12 9 (3.77%) Service Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (3.77%) PySpark
2 7 (2.93%) Loki
2 7 (2.93%) RESTful
3 6 (2.51%) ARM Templates
4 3 (1.26%) ActiveMQ
4 3 (1.26%) AWS SAM
4 3 (1.26%) Elastic Stack
4 3 (1.26%) LAMP
4 3 (1.26%) RAML
4 3 (1.26%) REST
4 3 (1.26%) SOAP
5 2 (0.84%) AWS CDK
5 2 (0.84%) Node.js
5 2 (0.84%) Playwright
6 1 (0.42%) FastAPI
6 1 (0.42%) Hugging Face
6 1 (0.42%) JWT
6 1 (0.42%) NumPy
6 1 (0.42%) PyTorch
6 1 (0.42%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 32 (13.39%) Hybrid Cloud
2 22 (9.21%) Cloud Native
3 19 (7.95%) Data Centre
4 16 (6.69%) Driving Licence
5 15 (6.28%) Management Information System
6 14 (5.86%) Replication
7 13 (5.44%) Legacy Systems
8 11 (4.60%) CMDB
8 11 (4.60%) Cyber Threat
9 9 (3.77%) Enterprise Storage
9 9 (3.77%) Onboarding
10 7 (2.93%) iSeries
11 6 (2.51%) Distributed Systems
11 6 (2.51%) Enterprise Software
11 6 (2.51%) Public Cloud
12 5 (2.09%) Mobile App
12 5 (2.09%) Private Cloud
12 5 (2.09%) Self-Motivation
13 4 (1.67%) iPad
13 4 (1.67%) iPhone
Operating Systems
1 66 (27.62%) Windows
2 42 (17.57%) Windows Server
3 29 (12.13%) Linux
4 13 (5.44%) Windows 10
5 12 (5.02%) Apple iOS
6 5 (2.09%) Unix
7 4 (1.67%) CentOS
7 4 (1.67%) Ubuntu
8 3 (1.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 3 (1.26%) Rocky
9 1 (0.42%) AIX
9 1 (0.42%) Mac OS
9 1 (0.42%) Solaris
9 1 (0.42%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 74 (30.96%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 69 (28.87%) Cybersecurity
3 61 (25.52%) Business Continuity
4 58 (24.27%) Problem-Solving
5 56 (23.43%) DevOps
6 55 (23.01%) Service Delivery
7 51 (21.34%) ITIL
8 50 (20.92%) CI/CD
9 44 (18.41%) Continuous Improvement
9 44 (18.41%) Infrastructure as Code
10 36 (15.06%) High Availability
10 36 (15.06%) Vulnerability Management
11 34 (14.23%) Cloud Security
11 34 (14.23%) Migration
12 33 (13.81%) Incident Response
13 31 (12.97%) Mentoring
14 30 (12.55%) Platform Engineering
15 27 (11.30%) Root Cause Analysis
16 25 (10.46%) Identity Access Management
16 25 (10.46%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 68 (28.45%) PowerShell
2 65 (27.20%) Python
3 27 (11.30%) SQL
4 11 (4.60%) Bash
4 11 (4.60%) Java
5 9 (3.77%) Bicep
5 9 (3.77%) Go
5 9 (3.77%) Scala
6 3 (1.26%) JavaScript
6 3 (1.26%) Shell Script
6 3 (1.26%) TypeScript
7 1 (0.42%) C#
7 1 (0.42%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 38 (15.90%) Degree
2 22 (9.21%) Microsoft Certification
3 17 (7.11%) Azure Certification
3 17 (7.11%) CEH
4 16 (6.69%) Security Cleared
5 14 (5.86%) SC Cleared
6 12 (5.02%) Computer Science Degree
7 8 (3.35%) BPSS Clearance
7 8 (3.35%) Cisco Certification
8 7 (2.93%) CCNP
9 6 (2.51%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 5 (2.09%) CCNA
10 5 (2.09%) CISSP
11 4 (1.67%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 4 (1.67%) MCSE
12 3 (1.26%) CISM
12 3 (1.26%) ITIL Certification
13 2 (0.84%) DBS Check
13 2 (0.84%) VCAP
13 2 (0.84%) VCDX
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 52 (21.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 32 (13.39%) NIST
3 27 (11.30%) Cyber Essentials
4 24 (10.04%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 16 (6.69%) GDPR
5 16 (6.69%) PCI DSS
6 14 (5.86%) ISO 22301
7 13 (5.44%) Data Quality
8 10 (4.18%) Actionable Recommendations
8 10 (4.18%) GRC
9 9 (3.77%) SOC 2
10 7 (2.93%) SLA
11 2 (0.84%) Accessibility
11 2 (0.84%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 2 (0.84%) PMO
12 1 (0.42%) Basel III
12 1 (0.42%) COBIT
12 1 (0.42%) ISO/IEC 20000
12 1 (0.42%) NCSC
12 1 (0.42%) SOC 1
System Software
1 48 (20.08%) Active Directory
2 43 (17.99%) VMware Infrastructure
3 23 (9.62%) Hyper-V
4 13 (5.44%) Firmware
5 12 (5.02%) Docker
6 6 (2.51%) Virtual Machines
6 6 (2.51%) vSphere
7 4 (1.67%) Virtual Servers
8 3 (1.26%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 3 (1.26%) vCloud
8 3 (1.26%) VMware ESXi
9 2 (0.84%) Virtual Desktop
9 2 (0.84%) VMware NSX
10 1 (0.42%) KVM
10 1 (0.42%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 50 (20.92%) Terraform
2 36 (15.06%) Microsoft Intune
3 25 (10.46%) Kubernetes
4 18 (7.53%) Ansible
5 11 (4.60%) Grafana
6 7 (2.93%) Prometheus
7 6 (2.51%) Packer
8 4 (1.67%) vCenter Server
9 3 (1.26%) FortiGate
9 3 (1.26%) Nagios
10 2 (0.84%) Dell DRAC
10 2 (0.84%) SCCM
11 1 (0.42%) Data Guard
11 1 (0.42%) Jamf Pro
11 1 (0.42%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
11 1 (0.42%) Oracle Flashback
11 1 (0.42%) PowerCLI
Vendors
1 119 (49.79%) Microsoft
2 74 (30.96%) VMware
3 26 (10.88%) Commvault
4 25 (10.46%) Cisco
5 14 (5.86%) Fortinet
6 11 (4.60%) EMC
6 11 (4.60%) IBM
6 11 (4.60%) Oracle
7 10 (4.18%) Meraki
7 10 (4.18%) Veeam
8 9 (3.77%) Databricks
9 8 (3.35%) ServiceNow
9 8 (3.35%) Sophos
10 7 (2.93%) HP
11 6 (2.51%) Palo Alto
12 5 (2.09%) Apple
12 5 (2.09%) Dell
12 5 (2.09%) Splunk
13 4 (1.67%) CheckPoint
13 4 (1.67%) Red Hat