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

6 months to
2 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 169 253 200
Rank change year-on-year +84 -53 +48
Permanent jobs citing Disaster Recovery 320 186 556
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.54% 1.17% 1.66%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.87% 1.24% 1.87%
Number of salaries quoted 239 142 427
10th Percentile £41,200 £32,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £40,763 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £59,500
Median % change year-on-year - +0.84% -0.04%
75th Percentile £82,500 £74,721 £77,752
90th Percentile £91,500 £89,625 £96,250
UK median annual salary £57,500 £62,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.00% +13.64% -4.35%

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 17,138 14,975 29,784
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 82.33% 93.80% 89.02%
Number of salaries quoted 12,509 8,834 22,919
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,913 £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 £80,000 £75,662
90th Percentile £100,000 £103,750 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -9.09%

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 2 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 36 (11.25%) Microsoft Exchange
2 35 (10.94%) SharePoint
3 9 (2.81%) IIS
4 4 (1.25%) Apache
5 3 (0.94%) WordPress
6 2 (0.63%) nginx
7 1 (0.31%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.31%) Site Server
Applications
1 7 (2.19%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.63%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (0.94%) Dynamics CRM
1 3 (0.94%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (0.63%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 196 (61.25%) Azure
2 93 (29.06%) Microsoft 365
3 74 (23.13%) AWS
4 48 (15.00%) Entra ID
5 40 (12.50%) SaaS
6 25 (7.81%) Nutanix
7 19 (5.94%) Power Platform
8 16 (5.00%) GCP
8 16 (5.00%) IaaS
9 15 (4.69%) PaaS
10 12 (3.75%) GitHub
10 12 (3.75%) Mimecast
11 11 (3.44%) Azure Data Factory
11 11 (3.44%) Azure DevOps
12 10 (3.13%) Azure Monitor
13 9 (2.81%) Amazon EKS
14 8 (2.50%) Amazon EC2
15 7 (2.19%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 7 (2.19%) Amazon ECS
15 7 (2.19%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 97 (30.31%) Firewall
2 60 (18.75%) VPN
3 59 (18.44%) DNS
4 44 (13.75%) DHCP
5 41 (12.81%) WAN
6 33 (10.31%) TCP/IP
7 29 (9.06%) LAN
8 24 (7.50%) Network Security
9 17 (5.31%) Wi-Fi
10 14 (4.38%) VLAN
11 10 (3.13%) SD-WAN
12 9 (2.81%) VSAN
13 7 (2.19%) NGFW
14 6 (1.88%) Cisco ISE
14 6 (1.88%) Fibre Channel
14 6 (1.88%) iSCSI
14 6 (1.88%) SAN
14 6 (1.88%) Wireless
15 4 (1.25%) Internet
15 4 (1.25%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (7.19%) SQL Server
2 10 (3.13%) Amazon RDS
2 10 (3.13%) Azure SQL Database
3 9 (2.81%) Power BI
4 6 (1.88%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (0.94%) Amazon Aurora
5 3 (0.94%) Data Lake
5 3 (0.94%) Delta Lake
6 1 (0.31%) MySQL
6 1 (0.31%) Oracle Exadata
6 1 (0.31%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.31%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 1 (0.31%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (0.31%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 10 (3.13%) Git
2 6 (1.88%) Visual Studio Code
3 4 (1.25%) JIRA
4 3 (0.94%) Selenium
5 2 (0.63%) Terragrunt
6 1 (0.31%) Claude Code
6 1 (0.31%) GitLab
6 1 (0.31%) MLflow
General
1 116 (36.25%) Social Skills
2 56 (17.50%) Finance
3 39 (12.19%) Analytical Skills
4 36 (11.25%) Law
5 28 (8.75%) Legal
6 25 (7.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 23 (7.19%) Banking
8 19 (5.94%) Retail
9 16 (5.00%) Public Sector
10 15 (4.69%) Documentation Skills
11 14 (4.38%) Back Office
12 13 (4.06%) Organisational Skills
13 6 (1.88%) Advertising
13 6 (1.88%) Marketing
14 5 (1.56%) Influencing Skills
15 4 (1.25%) Presentation Skills
16 3 (0.94%) Financial Institution
16 3 (0.94%) Manufacturing
17 2 (0.63%) Social Housing
18 1 (0.31%) Police
Job Titles
1 61 (19.06%) Senior
2 58 (18.13%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 40 (12.50%) IT Manager
4 24 (7.50%) Lead
4 24 (7.50%) Service Manager
4 24 (7.50%) Support Engineer
5 22 (6.88%) Architect
5 22 (6.88%) IT Engineer
5 22 (6.88%) IT Services Manager
5 22 (6.88%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
6 18 (5.63%) Consultant
6 18 (5.63%) Platform Engineer
6 18 (5.63%) Security Manager
7 17 (5.31%) Azure Engineer
7 17 (5.31%) Resilience Manager
8 16 (5.00%) IT Support
8 16 (5.00%) Senior Architect
9 15 (4.69%) Senior VMware Consultant
9 15 (4.69%) VMware Consultant
9 15 (4.69%) VMware Technical Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (6.88%) Middleware
2 11 (3.44%) ARM Templates
3 7 (2.19%) Microsoft Graph
4 4 (1.25%) RESTful
5 3 (0.94%) JSON
5 3 (0.94%) Loki
5 3 (0.94%) Node.js
5 3 (0.94%) Nuxt
5 3 (0.94%) Playwright
5 3 (0.94%) PySpark
5 3 (0.94%) Ruby on Rails
6 2 (0.63%) Kafka
6 2 (0.63%) Web Services
7 1 (0.31%) .NET
7 1 (0.31%) NumPy
7 1 (0.31%) OAuth
7 1 (0.31%) OpenCV
7 1 (0.31%) SQLAlchemy
7 1 (0.31%) WebSockets
7 1 (0.31%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 31 (9.69%) Data Centre
2 29 (9.06%) Cyber Threat
3 25 (7.81%) Hybrid Cloud
4 24 (7.50%) Cloud Native
5 23 (7.19%) Management Information System
6 22 (6.88%) Replication
7 20 (6.25%) Enterprise Storage
8 19 (5.94%) Driving Licence
9 16 (5.00%) Onboarding
10 15 (4.69%) Self-Motivation
11 14 (4.38%) CMDB
12 13 (4.06%) Legacy Systems
12 13 (4.06%) Security Posture
13 12 (3.75%) Data Protection Act
14 11 (3.44%) iSeries
15 10 (3.13%) Public Cloud
16 8 (2.50%) Enterprise Software
16 8 (2.50%) Virtual Team
17 7 (2.19%) Freedom of Information
17 7 (2.19%) Freedom of Information Act
Operating Systems
1 96 (30.00%) Windows
2 66 (20.63%) Windows Server
3 28 (8.75%) Linux
4 8 (2.50%) Mac OS
5 7 (2.19%) Windows 10
6 6 (1.88%) Windows Server 2016
7 5 (1.56%) Apple iOS
7 5 (1.56%) Windows Server 2019
8 3 (0.94%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 3 (0.94%) Unix
9 1 (0.31%) AIX
9 1 (0.31%) CentOS
9 1 (0.31%) Solaris
9 1 (0.31%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 131 (40.94%) Business Continuity
2 102 (31.88%) Cybersecurity
3 99 (30.94%) Problem-Solving
4 89 (27.81%) Continuous Improvement
5 83 (25.94%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 66 (20.63%) Information Security
7 65 (20.31%) Incident Response
8 62 (19.38%) ITIL
9 61 (19.06%) DevOps
10 59 (18.44%) Service Delivery
11 46 (14.38%) CI/CD
11 46 (14.38%) Stakeholder Management
12 45 (14.06%) High Availability
13 43 (13.44%) Agile
14 41 (12.81%) Cloud Security
14 41 (12.81%) Risk Management
15 38 (11.88%) Infrastructure as Code
16 37 (11.56%) Vulnerability Management
17 36 (11.25%) Mentoring
17 36 (11.25%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 80 (25.00%) PowerShell
2 44 (13.75%) Python
3 26 (8.13%) SQL
4 10 (3.13%) Bicep
5 7 (2.19%) Java
6 5 (1.56%) Bash
7 3 (0.94%) Go
7 3 (0.94%) Ruby
7 3 (0.94%) Scala
7 3 (0.94%) TypeScript
8 1 (0.31%) C#
8 1 (0.31%) T-SQL
8 1 (0.31%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 40 (12.50%) Degree
2 35 (10.94%) CISSP
3 32 (10.00%) CISM
4 28 (8.75%) Microsoft Certification
5 21 (6.56%) Azure Certification
5 21 (6.56%) Security Cleared
6 20 (6.25%) Cisco Certification
7 18 (5.63%) SC Cleared
8 17 (5.31%) CCNA
9 15 (4.69%) ITIL Certification
9 15 (4.69%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 14 (4.38%) CCNP
11 13 (4.06%) CISA
12 12 (3.75%) CEH
13 11 (3.44%) Computer Science Degree
14 9 (2.81%) VCAP
14 9 (2.81%) VCDX
15 8 (2.50%) ISACA
16 7 (2.19%) CRISC
17 6 (1.88%) Dell Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 76 (23.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 63 (19.69%) NIST
3 44 (13.75%) GDPR
4 36 (11.25%) Cyber Essentials
5 32 (10.00%) ISO 22301
6 25 (7.81%) PCI DSS
7 19 (5.94%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 17 (5.31%) PMO
9 15 (4.69%) SLA
9 15 (4.69%) SOC 2
10 12 (3.75%) GRC
11 10 (3.13%) Actionable Recommendations
11 10 (3.13%) COBIT
12 7 (2.19%) Data Quality
12 7 (2.19%) SOC 1
13 3 (0.94%) ISO 9001
14 2 (0.63%) ISO/IEC 20000
14 2 (0.63%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
14 2 (0.63%) NCSC
15 1 (0.31%) Accessibility
System Software
1 75 (23.44%) VMware Infrastructure
2 70 (21.88%) Active Directory
3 47 (14.69%) Hyper-V
4 24 (7.50%) vSphere
5 16 (5.00%) Firmware
6 11 (3.44%) Docker
7 9 (2.81%) vCloud
7 9 (2.81%) VMware NSX
8 7 (2.19%) VMware ESXi
9 5 (1.56%) Virtual Machines
10 4 (1.25%) Virtual Servers
11 3 (0.94%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 2 (0.63%) Squid
13 1 (0.31%) KVM
13 1 (0.31%) Oracle RAC
13 1 (0.31%) Terminal Services
13 1 (0.31%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 49 (15.31%) Terraform
2 42 (13.13%) Microsoft Intune
3 24 (7.50%) Kubernetes
4 14 (4.38%) Ansible
5 9 (2.81%) Packer
6 7 (2.19%) Dell DRAC
6 7 (2.19%) Single Sign-On
7 6 (1.88%) Avamar
7 6 (1.88%) EMC NetWorker
7 6 (1.88%) EMC VPLEX
7 6 (1.88%) Grafana
7 6 (1.88%) Prometheus
7 6 (1.88%) VxRail
8 5 (1.56%) vCenter Server
9 4 (1.25%) FortiGate
9 4 (1.25%) Proxmox
10 3 (0.94%) ZABBIX
11 2 (0.63%) SCCM
11 2 (0.63%) WhatsUp Gold
12 1 (0.31%) Data Guard
Vendors
1 164 (51.25%) Microsoft
2 98 (30.63%) VMware
3 39 (12.19%) Cisco
4 36 (11.25%) Veeam
5 20 (6.25%) Commvault
6 19 (5.94%) EMC
7 17 (5.31%) Dell
7 17 (5.31%) Fortinet
8 15 (4.69%) Meraki
8 15 (4.69%) NetApp
8 15 (4.69%) Nimble Storage
9 13 (4.06%) Palo Alto
10 11 (3.44%) Broadcom
10 11 (3.44%) HP
10 11 (3.44%) IBM
10 11 (3.44%) Sophos
11 9 (2.81%) iManage
11 9 (2.81%) Oracle
11 9 (2.81%) ServiceNow
11 9 (2.81%) Splunk