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 18 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 157 260 210
Rank change year-on-year +103 -50 -10
Permanent jobs citing Disaster Recovery 397 171 370
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.63% 1.05% 1.58%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.00% 1.12% 1.80%
Number of salaries quoted 269 132 207
10th Percentile £37,250 £33,750 £40,750
25th Percentile £46,250 £46,500 £54,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year - -11.11% +12.50%
75th Percentile £75,437 £83,750 £91,500
90th Percentile £86,475 £105,000 £112,632
UK median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% - +2.56%

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 19,826 15,207 20,601
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 81.45% 93.22% 87.84%
Number of salaries quoted 14,213 8,631 12,628
10th Percentile £34,000 £30,000 £35,500
25th Percentile £44,972 £40,812 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -4.17%

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 18 September 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 42 (10.58%) SharePoint
2 35 (8.82%) Microsoft Exchange
3 12 (3.02%) IIS
4 7 (1.76%) nginx
5 6 (1.51%) Apache
6 3 (0.76%) WordPress
7 1 (0.25%) Confluence
7 1 (0.25%) FactoryTalk
7 1 (0.25%) Site Server
Applications
1 7 (1.76%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.25%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 3 (0.76%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.25%) Oracle Applications
2 1 (0.25%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 260 (65.49%) Azure
2 124 (31.23%) AWS
3 112 (28.21%) Microsoft 365
4 89 (22.42%) SaaS
5 73 (18.39%) Entra ID
6 32 (8.06%) IaaS
7 30 (7.56%) GCP
8 24 (6.05%) Azure Monitor
9 23 (5.79%) Power Platform
10 22 (5.54%) PaaS
11 18 (4.53%) OneDrive
12 16 (4.03%) Nutanix
13 14 (3.53%) Azure DevOps
14 10 (2.52%) Microsoft Copilot
15 9 (2.27%) AWS CloudFormation
15 9 (2.27%) Azure Data Factory
15 9 (2.27%) Microsoft Purview
16 8 (2.02%) Azure Sentinel
17 7 (1.76%) Azure Cosmos DB
17 7 (1.76%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 97 (24.43%) Firewall
2 84 (21.16%) DNS
3 66 (16.62%) DHCP
4 53 (13.35%) VPN
5 36 (9.07%) TCP/IP
6 31 (7.81%) WAN
7 26 (6.55%) Network Security
8 25 (6.30%) LAN
9 22 (5.54%) VLAN
10 13 (3.27%) Wi-Fi
11 10 (2.52%) SD-WAN
12 9 (2.27%) VSAN
12 9 (2.27%) Wireless
13 8 (2.02%) Fibre Channel
13 8 (2.02%) SAN
14 7 (1.76%) NGFW
15 6 (1.51%) iSCSI
16 4 (1.01%) Broadband
16 4 (1.01%) Cisco ISE
16 4 (1.01%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (5.54%) SQL Server
2 14 (3.53%) PostgreSQL
3 12 (3.02%) Azure SQL Database
4 10 (2.52%) Power BI
5 5 (1.26%) Amazon RDS
6 3 (0.76%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 2 (0.50%) Oracle Database
7 2 (0.50%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 2 (0.50%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 1 (0.25%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (0.25%) MongoDB
8 1 (0.25%) MySQL
8 1 (0.25%) Oracle Exadata
8 1 (0.25%) Oracle Reports
8 1 (0.25%) Relational Database
8 1 (0.25%) SSDT
Development Applications
1 6 (1.51%) JIRA
2 5 (1.26%) GitLab
3 4 (1.01%) Git
3 4 (1.01%) Visual Studio Code
4 2 (0.50%) Terragrunt
5 1 (0.25%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.25%) Claude Code
5 1 (0.25%) Flyway
5 1 (0.25%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.25%) Selenium
General
1 122 (30.73%) Social Skills
2 67 (16.88%) Finance
3 50 (12.59%) Analytical Skills
4 44 (11.08%) Law
5 35 (8.82%) Legal
6 25 (6.30%) Retail
7 19 (4.79%) Banking
7 19 (4.79%) Documentation Skills
7 19 (4.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 18 (4.53%) Public Sector
9 13 (3.27%) Organisational Skills
10 12 (3.02%) Back Office
11 11 (2.77%) Manufacturing
12 6 (1.51%) Advertising
13 5 (1.26%) Influencing Skills
14 4 (1.01%) Presentation Skills
15 2 (0.50%) Local Government
15 2 (0.50%) Marketing
16 1 (0.25%) Aerospace
16 1 (0.25%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 70 (17.63%) IT Manager
2 66 (16.62%) Senior
3 55 (13.85%) Service Manager
4 51 (12.85%) IT Services Manager
4 51 (12.85%) Resilience Manager
5 50 (12.59%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 32 (8.06%) Architect
6 32 (8.06%) Consultant
7 26 (6.55%) IT Engineer
8 24 (6.05%) Lead
8 24 (6.05%) Support Engineer
8 24 (6.05%) Technical Consultant
9 22 (5.54%) Analyst
10 20 (5.04%) Senior Architect
11 19 (4.79%) Azure Engineer
11 19 (4.79%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
12 18 (4.53%) Cloud Engineer
12 18 (4.53%) IT Support
13 16 (4.03%) Technical Architect
14 15 (3.78%) Senior Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 65 (16.37%) Middleware
2 61 (15.37%) Terraform
3 13 (3.27%) ARM Templates
4 7 (1.76%) Microsoft Graph
5 6 (1.51%) Web Services
6 4 (1.01%) .NET
6 4 (1.01%) JSON
6 4 (1.01%) OpenTelemetry
7 3 (0.76%) Nuxt
7 3 (0.76%) Ruby on Rails
8 2 (0.50%) 802.1X
8 2 (0.50%) Kafka
8 2 (0.50%) REST
9 1 (0.25%) LDAP
9 1 (0.25%) Node.js
9 1 (0.25%) Oracle Fusion
9 1 (0.25%) Playwright
9 1 (0.25%) React
9 1 (0.25%) XML
9 1 (0.25%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 55 (13.85%) Cyber Threat
2 36 (9.07%) Data Centre
3 35 (8.82%) Replication
4 24 (6.05%) Enterprise Storage
5 23 (5.79%) Hybrid Cloud
6 22 (5.54%) Cloud Native
7 21 (5.29%) Management Information System
8 20 (5.04%) Onboarding
9 15 (3.78%) Security Posture
10 13 (3.27%) Self-Motivation
11 12 (3.02%) Data Protection Act
11 12 (3.02%) Driving Licence
11 12 (3.02%) Enterprise Software
12 11 (2.77%) iSeries
13 10 (2.52%) Public Cloud
14 8 (2.02%) CMDB
15 7 (1.76%) Blog
15 7 (1.76%) Freedom of Information
15 7 (1.76%) Freedom of Information Act
15 7 (1.76%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 133 (33.50%) Windows
2 104 (26.20%) Windows Server
3 46 (11.59%) Linux
4 9 (2.27%) Ubuntu
5 8 (2.02%) Windows Server 2016
5 8 (2.02%) Windows Server 2019
6 7 (1.76%) Mac OS
7 6 (1.51%) Windows 10
8 5 (1.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 5 (1.26%) Unix
9 4 (1.01%) Debian
10 3 (0.76%) VMS
11 2 (0.50%) AIX
11 2 (0.50%) CentOS
11 2 (0.50%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 210 (52.90%) Business Continuity
2 130 (32.75%) Problem-Solving
3 116 (29.22%) Continuous Improvement
4 104 (26.20%) Information Security
5 103 (25.94%) Cybersecurity
6 93 (23.43%) DevOps
6 93 (23.43%) ITIL
7 85 (21.41%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 76 (19.14%) Agile
9 70 (17.63%) High Availability
10 68 (17.13%) Project Delivery
10 68 (17.13%) Service Delivery
11 63 (15.87%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 63 (15.87%) Stakeholder Management
12 58 (14.61%) Enterprise Architecture
13 56 (14.11%) Waterfall
14 54 (13.60%) Runbook
14 54 (13.60%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 53 (13.35%) Incident Response
15 53 (13.35%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 84 (21.16%) PowerShell
2 38 (9.57%) Python
3 29 (7.30%) SQL
4 20 (5.04%) Bicep
5 9 (2.27%) Bash
6 6 (1.51%) Java
6 6 (1.51%) Shell Script
7 4 (1.01%) JavaScript
8 3 (0.76%) C#
8 3 (0.76%) Ruby
9 2 (0.50%) T-SQL
10 1 (0.25%) Groovy
10 1 (0.25%) TypeScript
10 1 (0.25%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 71 (17.88%) CISSP
2 69 (17.38%) CISM
3 55 (13.85%) ITIL Certification
4 33 (8.31%) Azure Certification
5 27 (6.80%) Degree
6 25 (6.30%) Microsoft Certification
7 24 (6.05%) Security Cleared
8 20 (5.04%) SC Cleared
9 19 (4.79%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 16 (4.03%) Cisco Certification
11 14 (3.53%) CISA
12 13 (3.27%) CCNA
13 11 (2.77%) Computer Science Degree
14 10 (2.52%) CCNP
14 10 (2.52%) VCAP
15 9 (2.27%) VCDX
16 8 (2.02%) ISACA
17 7 (1.76%) CRISC
18 6 (1.51%) CEH
18 6 (1.51%) Dell Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 88 (22.17%) NIST
2 69 (17.38%) ISO 22301
3 56 (14.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 40 (10.08%) GDPR
5 27 (6.80%) Cyber Essentials
6 25 (6.30%) SLA
7 20 (5.04%) PCI DSS
8 18 (4.53%) PMO
9 11 (2.77%) COBIT
9 11 (2.77%) SOC 2
10 7 (1.76%) SOC 1
11 6 (1.51%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 6 (1.51%) NCSC
12 5 (1.26%) GRC
13 4 (1.01%) ISO/IEC 20000
14 3 (0.76%) ISO 9001
15 2 (0.50%) Actionable Recommendations
15 2 (0.50%) ITGC
15 2 (0.50%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 1 (0.25%) Accessibility
System Software
1 101 (25.44%) Active Directory
2 92 (23.17%) VMware Infrastructure
3 68 (17.13%) Hyper-V
4 25 (6.30%) vSphere
5 16 (4.03%) Docker
6 14 (3.53%) Firmware
7 13 (3.27%) Virtual Machines
8 10 (2.52%) VMware ESXi
8 10 (2.52%) VMware NSX
9 9 (2.27%) vCloud
10 8 (2.02%) Virtual Desktop
11 6 (1.51%) Squid
12 1 (0.25%) KVM
12 1 (0.25%) Oracle RAC
12 1 (0.25%) Terminal Services
12 1 (0.25%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 41 (10.33%) Microsoft Intune
2 33 (8.31%) Kubernetes
3 17 (4.28%) Ansible
4 10 (2.52%) Prometheus
5 9 (2.27%) Grafana
6 7 (1.76%) Single Sign-On
7 6 (1.51%) Avamar
7 6 (1.51%) Dell DRAC
7 6 (1.51%) EMC NetWorker
7 6 (1.51%) EMC VPLEX
7 6 (1.51%) FortiGate
7 6 (1.51%) SCCM
7 6 (1.51%) VxRail
8 5 (1.26%) Packer
8 5 (1.26%) Proxmox
9 3 (0.76%) WSUS
9 3 (0.76%) ZABBIX
10 2 (0.50%) Data Guard
10 2 (0.50%) NetBackup
10 2 (0.50%) SCOM
Vendors
1 210 (52.90%) Microsoft
2 112 (28.21%) VMware
3 58 (14.61%) Veeam
4 33 (8.31%) Cisco
5 20 (5.04%) Dell
5 20 (5.04%) Palo Alto
6 18 (4.53%) Fortinet
7 17 (4.28%) EMC
7 17 (4.28%) NetApp
8 16 (4.03%) Google
9 15 (3.78%) Nimble Storage
10 13 (3.27%) Commvault
11 12 (3.02%) Oracle
12 11 (2.77%) Broadcom
12 11 (2.77%) HP
12 11 (2.77%) IBM
13 10 (2.52%) Meraki
13 10 (2.52%) N-able
13 10 (2.52%) WatchGuard
14 9 (2.27%) SonicWALL