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

6 months to
1 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 168 264 216
Rank change year-on-year +96 -48 +5
Permanent jobs citing Disaster Recovery 360 186 382
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.62% 1.12% 1.47%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.95% 1.21% 1.67%
Number of salaries quoted 246 139 258
10th Percentile £40,250 £31,850 £41,750
25th Percentile £46,250 £39,300 £49,822
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -15.38% +8.33%
75th Percentile £78,750 £76,250 £85,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £98,000 £102,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £54,043
% change year-on-year -4.17% +11.02% -9.21%

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 18,446 15,378 22,855
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 83.04% 92.99% 87.83%
Number of salaries quoted 13,393 9,086 16,698
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £44,972 £41,000 £42,725
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £57,965
Median % change year-on-year - +3.51% -7.26%
75th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £101,250 £97,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.41%

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 1 August 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 31 (8.61%) Microsoft Exchange
2 30 (8.33%) SharePoint
3 12 (3.33%) IIS
4 8 (2.22%) Apache
5 6 (1.67%) nginx
6 3 (0.83%) WordPress
7 1 (0.28%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.28%) Confluence
7 1 (0.28%) Site Server
Applications
1 7 (1.94%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.28%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (0.83%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.28%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 237 (65.83%) Azure
2 111 (30.83%) AWS
3 96 (26.67%) Microsoft 365
4 77 (21.39%) SaaS
5 57 (15.83%) Entra ID
6 21 (5.83%) Nutanix
7 20 (5.56%) GCP
7 20 (5.56%) Power Platform
8 17 (4.72%) IaaS
8 17 (4.72%) PaaS
9 11 (3.06%) Azure DevOps
10 10 (2.78%) Azure Monitor
11 9 (2.50%) AWS CloudFormation
11 9 (2.50%) Azure Data Factory
11 9 (2.50%) Mimecast
12 8 (2.22%) Azure Sentinel
12 8 (2.22%) GitHub
13 7 (1.94%) Amazon ECS
13 7 (1.94%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 7 (1.94%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 101 (28.06%) Firewall
2 64 (17.78%) DNS
3 55 (15.28%) VPN
4 45 (12.50%) DHCP
5 33 (9.17%) WAN
6 28 (7.78%) TCP/IP
7 27 (7.50%) LAN
7 27 (7.50%) Network Security
8 16 (4.44%) Wi-Fi
9 13 (3.61%) VLAN
10 9 (2.50%) VSAN
11 7 (1.94%) NGFW
11 7 (1.94%) Wireless
12 6 (1.67%) Cisco ISE
12 6 (1.67%) Fibre Channel
12 6 (1.67%) iSCSI
13 5 (1.39%) SAN
13 5 (1.39%) SD-WAN
14 4 (1.11%) Internet
14 4 (1.11%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (5.83%) SQL Server
2 10 (2.78%) Power BI
3 9 (2.50%) Azure SQL Database
3 9 (2.50%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (0.83%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (0.56%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 2 (0.56%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 2 (0.56%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 1 (0.28%) MongoDB
6 1 (0.28%) MySQL
6 1 (0.28%) Oracle Database
6 1 (0.28%) Oracle Exadata
6 1 (0.28%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 7 (1.94%) Git
2 6 (1.67%) Visual Studio Code
3 5 (1.39%) JIRA
4 4 (1.11%) GitLab
5 2 (0.56%) Terragrunt
6 1 (0.28%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.28%) Claude Code
6 1 (0.28%) MLflow
6 1 (0.28%) Selenium
General
1 114 (31.67%) Social Skills
2 56 (15.56%) Finance
3 45 (12.50%) Law
4 42 (11.67%) Analytical Skills
5 32 (8.89%) Legal
6 22 (6.11%) Retail
7 20 (5.56%) Banking
7 20 (5.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 16 (4.44%) Documentation Skills
9 14 (3.89%) Organisational Skills
10 11 (3.06%) Public Sector
11 10 (2.78%) Back Office
12 7 (1.94%) Manufacturing
13 6 (1.67%) Advertising
14 5 (1.39%) Influencing Skills
14 5 (1.39%) Marketing
15 4 (1.11%) Presentation Skills
16 3 (0.83%) Local Government
17 2 (0.56%) Social Housing
18 1 (0.28%) Police
Job Titles
1 71 (19.72%) IT Manager
2 57 (15.83%) Senior
3 52 (14.44%) Service Manager
4 50 (13.89%) IT Services Manager
4 50 (13.89%) Resilience Manager
5 45 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 25 (6.94%) Architect
7 22 (6.11%) Lead
7 22 (6.11%) Support Engineer
8 21 (5.83%) IT Engineer
9 20 (5.56%) Consultant
9 20 (5.56%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
10 19 (5.28%) Analyst
11 18 (5.00%) Azure Engineer
12 17 (4.72%) Technical Consultant
13 16 (4.44%) IT Support
13 16 (4.44%) Senior Architect
14 15 (4.17%) Senior VMware Consultant
14 15 (4.17%) VMware Consultant
14 15 (4.17%) VMware Technical Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 56 (15.56%) Middleware
2 12 (3.33%) ARM Templates
3 7 (1.94%) Microsoft Graph
4 6 (1.67%) Web Services
5 3 (0.83%) JSON
5 3 (0.83%) Nuxt
5 3 (0.83%) Ruby on Rails
6 2 (0.56%) .NET
6 2 (0.56%) Kafka
7 1 (0.28%) Node.js
7 1 (0.28%) NumPy
7 1 (0.28%) OAuth
7 1 (0.28%) OAuth2
7 1 (0.28%) OpenCV
7 1 (0.28%) Pandas
7 1 (0.28%) pytest
7 1 (0.28%) RESTful
7 1 (0.28%) SQLAlchemy
7 1 (0.28%) WebSockets
7 1 (0.28%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 60 (16.67%) Cyber Threat
2 31 (8.61%) Data Centre
3 28 (7.78%) Replication
4 25 (6.94%) Management Information System
5 23 (6.39%) Cloud Native
5 23 (6.39%) Hybrid Cloud
6 21 (5.83%) Enterprise Storage
7 19 (5.28%) Onboarding
8 18 (5.00%) Driving Licence
9 15 (4.17%) Security Posture
9 15 (4.17%) Self-Motivation
10 12 (3.33%) Data Protection Act
11 11 (3.06%) CMDB
11 11 (3.06%) Enterprise Software
11 11 (3.06%) iSeries
12 10 (2.78%) Public Cloud
13 8 (2.22%) Virtual Team
14 7 (1.94%) Freedom of Information
14 7 (1.94%) Freedom of Information Act
15 6 (1.67%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 104 (28.89%) Windows
2 75 (20.83%) Windows Server
3 34 (9.44%) Linux
4 8 (2.22%) Mac OS
5 7 (1.94%) Windows Server 2016
6 6 (1.67%) Windows 10
6 6 (1.67%) Windows Server 2019
7 4 (1.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 3 (0.83%) Ubuntu
8 3 (0.83%) Unix
9 2 (0.56%) CentOS
9 2 (0.56%) Solaris
10 1 (0.28%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 188 (52.22%) Business Continuity
2 114 (31.67%) Problem-Solving
3 109 (30.28%) Cybersecurity
4 101 (28.06%) Information Security
5 97 (26.94%) Continuous Improvement
6 95 (26.39%) DevOps
7 87 (24.17%) ITIL
8 73 (20.28%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 72 (20.00%) Agile
10 64 (17.78%) Service Delivery
11 63 (17.50%) Incident Response
12 62 (17.22%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 58 (16.11%) Enterprise Architecture
14 57 (15.83%) Stakeholder Management
15 56 (15.56%) Project Delivery
16 55 (15.28%) Runbook
17 54 (15.00%) High Availability
17 54 (15.00%) Test Automation
18 53 (14.72%) Contract Negotiation
19 52 (14.44%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 81 (22.50%) PowerShell
2 40 (11.11%) Python
3 23 (6.39%) SQL
4 15 (4.17%) Bicep
5 6 (1.67%) Bash
6 4 (1.11%) Shell Script
7 3 (0.83%) Ruby
8 2 (0.56%) C#
8 2 (0.56%) Java
8 2 (0.56%) T-SQL
9 1 (0.28%) JavaScript
9 1 (0.28%) TypeScript
9 1 (0.28%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 71 (19.72%) CISSP
2 67 (18.61%) CISM
3 50 (13.89%) ITIL Certification
4 36 (10.00%) Degree
5 29 (8.06%) Azure Certification
5 29 (8.06%) Microsoft Certification
6 23 (6.39%) Security Cleared
7 20 (5.56%) Cisco Certification
7 20 (5.56%) SC Cleared
8 19 (5.28%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 17 (4.72%) CCNA
10 14 (3.89%) CCNP
10 14 (3.89%) CISA
11 12 (3.33%) Computer Science Degree
12 11 (3.06%) CEH
13 9 (2.50%) VCAP
13 9 (2.50%) VCDX
14 8 (2.22%) ISACA
15 7 (1.94%) CRISC
16 6 (1.67%) Dell Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 96 (26.67%) NIST
2 69 (19.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 68 (18.89%) ISO 22301
4 43 (11.94%) GDPR
5 33 (9.17%) Cyber Essentials
6 23 (6.39%) PCI DSS
7 17 (4.72%) PMO
7 17 (4.72%) SLA
8 15 (4.17%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 12 (3.33%) GRC
9 12 (3.33%) SOC 2
10 11 (3.06%) COBIT
11 7 (1.94%) Actionable Recommendations
11 7 (1.94%) SOC 1
12 4 (1.11%) Data Quality
13 3 (0.83%) ISO 9001
13 3 (0.83%) ISO/IEC 20000
13 3 (0.83%) NCSC
14 2 (0.56%) Accessibility
14 2 (0.56%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 82 (22.78%) VMware Infrastructure
2 73 (20.28%) Active Directory
3 53 (14.72%) Hyper-V
4 24 (6.67%) vSphere
5 15 (4.17%) Docker
6 14 (3.89%) Firmware
7 11 (3.06%) VMware ESXi
8 9 (2.50%) vCloud
8 9 (2.50%) VMware NSX
9 6 (1.67%) Squid
10 5 (1.39%) Virtual Machines
11 2 (0.56%) KVM
12 1 (0.28%) Oracle RAC
12 1 (0.28%) Terminal Services
12 1 (0.28%) Virtual Desktop
12 1 (0.28%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 51 (14.17%) Terraform
2 42 (11.67%) Microsoft Intune
3 28 (7.78%) Kubernetes
4 18 (5.00%) Ansible
5 7 (1.94%) Packer
5 7 (1.94%) Single Sign-On
6 6 (1.67%) Avamar
6 6 (1.67%) Dell DRAC
6 6 (1.67%) EMC NetWorker
6 6 (1.67%) EMC VPLEX
6 6 (1.67%) Grafana
6 6 (1.67%) Prometheus
6 6 (1.67%) VxRail
7 4 (1.11%) FortiGate
7 4 (1.11%) Proxmox
7 4 (1.11%) vCenter Server
8 3 (0.83%) ZABBIX
9 2 (0.56%) SCCM
9 2 (0.56%) WhatsUp Gold
10 1 (0.28%) Puppet
Vendors
1 179 (49.72%) Microsoft
2 102 (28.33%) VMware
3 46 (12.78%) Veeam
4 39 (10.83%) Cisco
5 19 (5.28%) EMC
6 17 (4.72%) Fortinet
7 16 (4.44%) Commvault
7 16 (4.44%) Dell
8 15 (4.17%) NetApp
8 15 (4.17%) Nimble Storage
8 15 (4.17%) Palo Alto
9 13 (3.61%) Meraki
10 11 (3.06%) Broadcom
10 11 (3.06%) HP
10 11 (3.06%) IBM
10 11 (3.06%) Sophos
11 10 (2.78%) iManage
11 10 (2.78%) Splunk
12 9 (2.50%) Oracle
13 8 (2.22%) Google