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

6 months to
22 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 178 212 190
Rank change year-on-year +34 -22 +96
Permanent jobs citing Disaster Recovery 218 239 473
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.33% 1.56% 1.70%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.55% 1.64% 1.84%
Number of salaries quoted 162 152 450
10th Percentile £42,588 £38,974 £41,250
25th Percentile £54,468 £50,000 £52,896
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.00% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £92,500 £75,063 £71,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £90,000 £81,250
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year - +4.35% +8.49%

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 14,069 14,554 25,755
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 85.89% 94.92% 92.71%
Number of salaries quoted 9,144 8,791 21,402
10th Percentile £30,500 £36,250 £34,760
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £43,000
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 £82,500 £76,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £103,750 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -12.00%

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 February 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 38 (17.43%) SharePoint
2 37 (16.97%) Microsoft Exchange
3 6 (2.75%) IIS
4 4 (1.83%) Tomcat
4 4 (1.83%) WebSphere
4 4 (1.83%) WebSphere Application Server
5 1 (0.46%) Apache
5 1 (0.46%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 7 (3.21%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (2.75%) Spreadsheet
3 4 (1.83%) Microsoft Excel
4 3 (1.38%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (1.83%) Markit EDM
2 3 (1.38%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.46%) Raiser’s Edge
3 1 (0.46%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 134 (61.47%) Azure
2 63 (28.90%) Microsoft 365
3 57 (26.15%) AWS
4 49 (22.48%) Entra ID
5 20 (9.17%) Amazon EKS
6 19 (8.72%) Azure Monitor
7 18 (8.26%) Nutanix
8 17 (7.80%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 17 (7.80%) Amazon EC2
8 17 (7.80%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 15 (6.88%) AWS CloudFormation
10 14 (6.42%) Azure Data Factory
10 14 (6.42%) Azure DevOps
10 14 (6.42%) IaaS
10 14 (6.42%) OneDrive
10 14 (6.42%) SaaS
11 13 (5.96%) PaaS
12 12 (5.50%) GitHub
13 10 (4.59%) Amazon S3
13 10 (4.59%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 63 (28.90%) VPN
2 48 (22.02%) DNS
3 46 (21.10%) WAN
4 43 (19.72%) Firewall
5 38 (17.43%) DHCP
6 26 (11.93%) TCP/IP
7 25 (11.47%) SD-WAN
8 22 (10.09%) LAN
9 14 (6.42%) VLAN
10 13 (5.96%) Wi-Fi
11 11 (5.05%) SSL
12 7 (3.21%) BGP
12 7 (3.21%) Unified Communications
13 6 (2.75%) Network Security
13 6 (2.75%) VoIP
14 5 (2.29%) Wireless
15 4 (1.83%) SAN
16 3 (1.38%) PuTTY
17 2 (0.92%) Cisco ISE
17 2 (0.92%) Cisco Nexus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (9.63%) Amazon RDS
2 19 (8.72%) SQL Server
3 11 (5.05%) Azure SQL Database
3 11 (5.05%) PostgreSQL
4 9 (4.13%) Data Lake
4 9 (4.13%) Delta Lake
5 8 (3.67%) Amazon Aurora
6 5 (2.29%) MySQL
6 5 (2.29%) Oracle Database
7 4 (1.83%) Data Warehouse
7 4 (1.83%) DB2
7 4 (1.83%) Oracle Database 10g
7 4 (1.83%) Oracle Database 11g
7 4 (1.83%) Oracle Database 12c
8 1 (0.46%) Apache Hive
8 1 (0.46%) Big Data
8 1 (0.46%) DynamoDB
8 1 (0.46%) Hadoop
8 1 (0.46%) MongoDB
8 1 (0.46%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 16 (7.34%) Git
2 7 (3.21%) Jenkins
3 3 (1.38%) Maven
3 3 (1.38%) Sonatype Nexus
4 2 (0.92%) Selenium
5 1 (0.46%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.46%) JIRA
General
1 71 (32.57%) Finance
2 65 (29.82%) Social Skills
3 25 (11.47%) Law
4 20 (9.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 19 (8.72%) Analytical Skills
6 18 (8.26%) Banking
7 13 (5.96%) Public Sector
8 10 (4.59%) Retail
9 8 (3.67%) Back Office
10 7 (3.21%) Financial Institution
11 6 (2.75%) Documentation Skills
12 5 (2.29%) Organisational Skills
13 3 (1.38%) Social Housing
13 3 (1.38%) Telecoms
14 2 (0.92%) Local Government
14 2 (0.92%) Manufacturing
15 1 (0.46%) Advertising
15 1 (0.46%) Influencing Skills
15 1 (0.46%) Marketing
15 1 (0.46%) Police
Job Titles
1 52 (23.85%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 44 (20.18%) Senior
3 26 (11.93%) Cloud Engineer
4 18 (8.26%) Support Engineer
5 17 (7.80%) IT Manager
6 16 (7.34%) AWS Engineer
7 15 (6.88%) Lead
7 15 (6.88%) Platform Engineer
8 14 (6.42%) Security Specialist
9 13 (5.96%) DevOps Engineer
9 13 (5.96%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
10 12 (5.50%) Infrastructure Support
10 12 (5.50%) IT Security Specialist
10 12 (5.50%) Linux Engineer
10 12 (5.50%) Security Manager
11 10 (4.59%) Azure Engineer
11 10 (4.59%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
11 10 (4.59%) Data Engineer
11 10 (4.59%) Infrastructure Manager
11 10 (4.59%) IT Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (4.13%) PySpark
2 7 (3.21%) Loki
3 6 (2.75%) RESTful
4 5 (2.29%) LDAP
5 4 (1.83%) ARM Templates
5 4 (1.83%) AWS SAM
5 4 (1.83%) Elastic Stack
5 4 (1.83%) LAPP Stack
5 4 (1.83%) WebSphere MQ
6 3 (1.38%) ActiveMQ
6 3 (1.38%) LAMP
6 3 (1.38%) RAML
6 3 (1.38%) REST
6 3 (1.38%) SOAP
7 2 (0.92%) AWS CDK
7 2 (0.92%) Node.js
7 2 (0.92%) Playwright
8 1 (0.46%) Microsoft Graph
8 1 (0.46%) OAuth2
8 1 (0.46%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 30 (13.76%) Hybrid Cloud
2 18 (8.26%) Cloud Native
3 17 (7.80%) Management Information System
4 14 (6.42%) Onboarding
5 13 (5.96%) Data Centre
6 11 (5.05%) CMDB
6 11 (5.05%) Driving Licence
6 11 (5.05%) Legacy Systems
7 9 (4.13%) Cyber Threat
8 7 (3.21%) Distributed Systems
8 7 (3.21%) Enterprise Software
9 6 (2.75%) Public Cloud
9 6 (2.75%) Replication
10 5 (2.29%) Linux Command Line
10 5 (2.29%) Mobile App
11 4 (1.83%) iPad
11 4 (1.83%) iPhone
11 4 (1.83%) PKI
11 4 (1.83%) Video Conferencing
12 3 (1.38%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 68 (31.19%) Windows
2 41 (18.81%) Windows Server
3 38 (17.43%) Linux
4 14 (6.42%) Windows 10
5 12 (5.50%) Apple iOS
6 11 (5.05%) Unix
7 6 (2.75%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 3 (1.38%) CentOS
8 3 (1.38%) Rocky
8 3 (1.38%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.46%) Mac OS
9 1 (0.46%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 71 (32.57%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 65 (29.82%) DevOps
3 58 (26.61%) Infrastructure as Code
4 57 (26.15%) ITIL
5 56 (25.69%) CI/CD
6 54 (24.77%) Problem-Solving
7 48 (22.02%) Cybersecurity
7 48 (22.02%) High Availability
8 47 (21.56%) Migration
9 45 (20.64%) Continuous Improvement
10 42 (19.27%) Service Delivery
11 40 (18.35%) Business Continuity
12 32 (14.68%) Service Management
13 31 (14.22%) Vulnerability Management
14 30 (13.76%) Observability
15 27 (12.39%) Cloud Security
15 27 (12.39%) Platform Engineering
15 27 (12.39%) Root Cause Analysis
16 26 (11.93%) Identity Access Management
16 26 (11.93%) Incident Response
Programming Languages
1 68 (31.19%) Python
2 67 (30.73%) PowerShell
3 31 (14.22%) SQL
4 15 (6.88%) Java
5 12 (5.50%) Go
6 11 (5.05%) Bash
7 10 (4.59%) Bicep
8 9 (4.13%) Scala
9 4 (1.83%) JavaScript
9 4 (1.83%) TypeScript
10 3 (1.38%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.46%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 39 (17.89%) Degree
2 27 (12.39%) Microsoft Certification
3 22 (10.09%) Azure Certification
4 21 (9.63%) Security Cleared
5 16 (7.34%) AWS Certification
5 16 (7.34%) SC Cleared
6 12 (5.50%) CEH
6 12 (5.50%) Computer Science Degree
7 11 (5.05%) BPSS Clearance
8 10 (4.59%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 9 (4.13%) Cisco Certification
10 8 (3.67%) CCNP
10 8 (3.67%) ITIL Certification
11 7 (3.21%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 7 (3.21%) Master's Degree
12 6 (2.75%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13 3 (1.38%) CCNA
13 3 (1.38%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 3 (1.38%) PMI Certification
13 3 (1.38%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 48 (22.02%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 27 (12.39%) NIST
3 23 (10.55%) Cyber Essentials
4 22 (10.09%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 14 (6.42%) SLA
6 13 (5.96%) PCI DSS
7 12 (5.50%) GDPR
7 12 (5.50%) ISO 22301
8 9 (4.13%) Data Quality
8 9 (4.13%) SOC 2
9 5 (2.29%) Actionable Recommendations
10 2 (0.92%) GRC
10 2 (0.92%) NCSC
11 1 (0.46%) Accessibility
11 1 (0.46%) Basel III
11 1 (0.46%) COBIT
11 1 (0.46%) ISO/IEC 20000
11 1 (0.46%) MiFID
System Software
1 52 (23.85%) Active Directory
2 31 (14.22%) VMware Infrastructure
3 23 (10.55%) Hyper-V
4 18 (8.26%) Docker
5 12 (5.50%) Virtual Servers
6 10 (4.59%) Virtual Machines
7 6 (2.75%) Firmware
8 5 (2.29%) VMware ESXi
9 4 (1.83%) vSphere
10 3 (1.38%) Microsoft Virtual Server
10 3 (1.38%) Virtual Desktop
11 1 (0.46%) KVM
11 1 (0.46%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 62 (28.44%) Terraform
2 45 (20.64%) Microsoft Intune
3 30 (13.76%) Kubernetes
4 25 (11.47%) Ansible
5 15 (6.88%) Grafana
6 9 (4.13%) Prometheus
7 5 (2.29%) FortiGate
8 3 (1.38%) Nagios
8 3 (1.38%) Nessus
8 3 (1.38%) Proxmox
8 3 (1.38%) SCOM
9 2 (0.92%) Dell DRAC
9 2 (0.92%) Packer
9 2 (0.92%) vCenter Server
10 1 (0.46%) Jamf Pro
10 1 (0.46%) PowerCLI
Vendors
1 96 (44.04%) Microsoft
2 54 (24.77%) VMware
3 18 (8.26%) Cisco
4 17 (7.80%) Commvault
5 11 (5.05%) IBM
5 11 (5.05%) Oracle
6 10 (4.59%) Meraki
7 9 (4.13%) Databricks
7 9 (4.13%) Fortinet
8 6 (2.75%) Red Hat
8 6 (2.75%) SonicWALL
9 4 (1.83%) Ab Initio
9 4 (1.83%) Mitel
9 4 (1.83%) Veeam
10 3 (1.38%) ConnectWise
10 3 (1.38%) Dell
10 3 (1.38%) Draytek
10 3 (1.38%) IFS
10 3 (1.38%) MuleSoft
11 2 (0.92%) Zscaler