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

6 months to
29 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 187 216 209
Rank change year-on-year +29 -7 +67
Permanent jobs citing Disaster Recovery 207 250 417
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.31% 1.53% 1.62%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.51% 1.62% 1.75%
Number of salaries quoted 158 154 395
10th Percentile £43,113 £37,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £54,601 £50,000 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,368 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +6.72% +4.00% +13.64%
75th Percentile £92,500 £77,500 £73,875
90th Percentile £105,000 £90,875 £81,250
UK median annual salary £61,750 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +2.92% +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 13,689 15,415 23,848
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 86.83% 94.43% 92.92%
Number of salaries quoted 8,688 9,091 19,584
10th Percentile £30,000 £36,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £96,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £57,444
% change year-on-year -8.33% +4.45% -8.09%

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 29 January 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 34 (16.43%) SharePoint
2 33 (15.94%) Microsoft Exchange
3 6 (2.90%) IIS
3 6 (2.90%) Tomcat
3 6 (2.90%) WebSphere
3 6 (2.90%) WebSphere Application Server
4 1 (0.48%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 9 (4.35%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (2.90%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (2.90%) Spreadsheet
3 5 (2.42%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (1.93%) Markit EDM
2 3 (1.45%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.48%) Raiser’s Edge
3 1 (0.48%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 125 (60.39%) Azure
2 59 (28.50%) AWS
3 56 (27.05%) Microsoft 365
4 43 (20.77%) Entra ID
5 22 (10.63%) Amazon EKS
6 20 (9.66%) Azure Monitor
7 19 (9.18%) Amazon EC2
7 19 (9.18%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 18 (8.70%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 17 (8.21%) AWS CloudFormation
10 16 (7.73%) Azure DevOps
10 16 (7.73%) Nutanix
11 14 (6.76%) Azure Data Factory
12 13 (6.28%) IaaS
12 13 (6.28%) OneDrive
12 13 (6.28%) SaaS
13 12 (5.80%) Amazon S3
13 12 (5.80%) GitHub
13 12 (5.80%) PaaS
13 12 (5.80%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 55 (26.57%) VPN
2 42 (20.29%) DNS
3 41 (19.81%) WAN
4 34 (16.43%) DHCP
4 34 (16.43%) Firewall
5 26 (12.56%) SD-WAN
6 25 (12.08%) TCP/IP
7 18 (8.70%) LAN
8 14 (6.76%) VLAN
9 13 (6.28%) SSL
10 11 (5.31%) Wi-Fi
11 8 (3.86%) Unified Communications
11 8 (3.86%) VoIP
12 7 (3.38%) BGP
13 5 (2.42%) Wireless
14 4 (1.93%) Network Security
14 4 (1.93%) SAN
15 3 (1.45%) PuTTY
16 2 (0.97%) DSL
17 1 (0.48%) EIGRP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (10.63%) Amazon RDS
1 22 (10.63%) SQL Server
2 13 (6.28%) PostgreSQL
3 12 (5.80%) Azure SQL Database
4 9 (4.35%) Data Lake
4 9 (4.35%) Delta Lake
5 8 (3.86%) Amazon Aurora
6 6 (2.90%) DB2
7 5 (2.42%) MySQL
7 5 (2.42%) Oracle Database
8 4 (1.93%) Data Warehouse
8 4 (1.93%) Oracle Database 10g
8 4 (1.93%) Oracle Database 11g
8 4 (1.93%) Oracle Database 12c
9 1 (0.48%) Apache Hive
9 1 (0.48%) MongoDB
9 1 (0.48%) NoSQL
9 1 (0.48%) RDBMS
9 1 (0.48%) Relational Database
9 1 (0.48%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 16 (7.73%) Git
2 7 (3.38%) Jenkins
3 3 (1.45%) Maven
3 3 (1.45%) Sonatype Nexus
4 2 (0.97%) Selenium
5 1 (0.48%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.48%) JIRA
General
1 74 (35.75%) Finance
2 61 (29.47%) Social Skills
3 22 (10.63%) Analytical Skills
3 22 (10.63%) Law
4 18 (8.70%) Banking
5 14 (6.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 13 (6.28%) Public Sector
7 9 (4.35%) Back Office
8 8 (3.86%) Retail
9 7 (3.38%) Financial Institution
10 5 (2.42%) Documentation Skills
10 5 (2.42%) Telecoms
11 4 (1.93%) Organisational Skills
12 3 (1.45%) Social Housing
13 2 (0.97%) Influencing Skills
13 2 (0.97%) Local Government
13 2 (0.97%) Manufacturing
14 1 (0.48%) Advertising
14 1 (0.48%) Marketing
14 1 (0.48%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 47 (22.71%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 41 (19.81%) Senior
3 26 (12.56%) Cloud Engineer
4 20 (9.66%) Support Engineer
5 16 (7.73%) AWS Engineer
6 15 (7.25%) IT Manager
6 15 (7.25%) Platform Engineer
7 14 (6.76%) Lead
8 13 (6.28%) DevOps Engineer
8 13 (6.28%) Infrastructure Support
8 13 (6.28%) Linux Engineer
9 11 (5.31%) IT Security Specialist
9 11 (5.31%) Security Specialist
9 11 (5.31%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
10 10 (4.83%) Applications Engineer
10 10 (4.83%) Applications Support
10 10 (4.83%) Applications Support Engineer
10 10 (4.83%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
10 10 (4.83%) Data Engineer
10 10 (4.83%) Head of IT
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (4.35%) PySpark
2 7 (3.38%) LDAP
2 7 (3.38%) Loki
3 6 (2.90%) LAPP Stack
3 6 (2.90%) RESTful
3 6 (2.90%) WebSphere MQ
4 4 (1.93%) AWS SAM
4 4 (1.93%) Elastic Stack
4 4 (1.93%) REST
5 3 (1.45%) ActiveMQ
5 3 (1.45%) ARM Templates
5 3 (1.45%) LAMP
5 3 (1.45%) RAML
5 3 (1.45%) SOAP
6 2 (0.97%) AWS CDK
6 2 (0.97%) Node.js
6 2 (0.97%) Playwright
7 1 (0.48%) gRPC
7 1 (0.48%) OAuth2
7 1 (0.48%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 27 (13.04%) Hybrid Cloud
2 17 (8.21%) Cloud Native
3 14 (6.76%) Management Information System
4 12 (5.80%) CMDB
4 12 (5.80%) Data Centre
4 12 (5.80%) Onboarding
5 11 (5.31%) Legacy Systems
6 8 (3.86%) Distributed Systems
6 8 (3.86%) Enterprise Software
7 7 (3.38%) Driving Licence
7 7 (3.38%) Linux Command Line
8 6 (2.90%) Public Cloud
8 6 (2.90%) Replication
9 5 (2.42%) Cyber Threat
9 5 (2.42%) Mobile App
9 5 (2.42%) Operational Technology
10 4 (1.93%) Analytical Mindset
10 4 (1.93%) iPad
10 4 (1.93%) iPhone
10 4 (1.93%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 65 (31.40%) Windows
2 39 (18.84%) Linux
3 38 (18.36%) Windows Server
4 13 (6.28%) Unix
4 13 (6.28%) Windows 10
5 11 (5.31%) Apple iOS
6 6 (2.90%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 3 (1.45%) CentOS
7 3 (1.45%) Rocky
7 3 (1.45%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.48%) VMS
8 1 (0.48%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 66 (31.88%) DevOps
2 65 (31.40%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 60 (28.99%) ITIL
4 58 (28.02%) Infrastructure as Code
5 55 (26.57%) CI/CD
6 49 (23.67%) High Availability
7 48 (23.19%) Problem-Solving
8 43 (20.77%) Migration
9 42 (20.29%) Continuous Improvement
10 41 (19.81%) Business Continuity
10 41 (19.81%) Cybersecurity
11 39 (18.84%) Service Delivery
12 34 (16.43%) Service Management
13 31 (14.98%) Observability
14 26 (12.56%) Platform Engineering
14 26 (12.56%) Vulnerability Management
15 25 (12.08%) Mentoring
15 25 (12.08%) Performance Tuning
16 24 (11.59%) Identity Access Management
16 24 (11.59%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 67 (32.37%) Python
2 59 (28.50%) PowerShell
3 32 (15.46%) SQL
4 15 (7.25%) Java
5 13 (6.28%) Go
6 11 (5.31%) Bash
7 9 (4.35%) Bicep
7 9 (4.35%) Scala
8 4 (1.93%) JavaScript
8 4 (1.93%) TypeScript
9 3 (1.45%) Shell Script
10 2 (0.97%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 40 (19.32%) Degree
2 24 (11.59%) Azure Certification
3 21 (10.14%) Microsoft Certification
4 20 (9.66%) AWS Certification
5 17 (8.21%) Security Cleared
6 12 (5.80%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 12 (5.80%) SC Cleared
7 11 (5.31%) CEH
7 11 (5.31%) Computer Science Degree
8 10 (4.83%) ITIL Certification
9 9 (4.35%) Cisco Certification
9 9 (4.35%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 9 (4.35%) Master's Degree
10 8 (3.86%) CCNP
11 7 (3.38%) BPSS Clearance
12 5 (2.42%) PMI Certification
12 5 (2.42%) PMP
13 4 (1.93%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
14 3 (1.45%) DBS Check
14 3 (1.45%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (18.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 25 (12.08%) NIST
3 16 (7.73%) SLA
4 15 (7.25%) Cyber Essentials
5 14 (6.76%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 11 (5.31%) ISO 22301
7 10 (4.83%) PCI DSS
8 9 (4.35%) Data Quality
8 9 (4.35%) GDPR
9 7 (3.38%) SOC 2
10 2 (0.97%) Actionable Recommendations
10 2 (0.97%) GRC
10 2 (0.97%) ISO/IEC 20000
10 2 (0.97%) NCSC
11 1 (0.48%) Accessibility
11 1 (0.48%) Basel III
11 1 (0.48%) COBIT
11 1 (0.48%) ISO 9001
11 1 (0.48%) MiFID
System Software
1 48 (23.19%) Active Directory
2 25 (12.08%) VMware Infrastructure
3 20 (9.66%) Hyper-V
4 17 (8.21%) Docker
5 12 (5.80%) Virtual Servers
6 9 (4.35%) Virtual Machines
7 5 (2.42%) Firmware
8 4 (1.93%) Virtual Desktop
8 4 (1.93%) VMware ESXi
9 3 (1.45%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 3 (1.45%) vSphere
10 1 (0.48%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 61 (29.47%) Terraform
2 38 (18.36%) Microsoft Intune
3 28 (13.53%) Kubernetes
4 24 (11.59%) Ansible
5 16 (7.73%) Grafana
6 11 (5.31%) Prometheus
7 6 (2.90%) FortiGate
8 3 (1.45%) Nagios
8 3 (1.45%) Nessus
8 3 (1.45%) Proxmox
8 3 (1.45%) SCOM
9 2 (0.97%) Dell DRAC
9 2 (0.97%) Packer
10 1 (0.48%) Jamf Pro
10 1 (0.48%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 94 (45.41%) Microsoft
2 45 (21.74%) VMware
3 16 (7.73%) Commvault
4 14 (6.76%) Cisco
5 13 (6.28%) IBM
6 11 (5.31%) Oracle
7 9 (4.35%) Databricks
8 8 (3.86%) Fortinet
9 6 (2.90%) Meraki
9 6 (2.90%) Red Hat
9 6 (2.90%) SonicWALL
10 5 (2.42%) Veeam
11 4 (1.93%) Ab Initio
11 4 (1.93%) Mitel
12 3 (1.45%) Dell
12 3 (1.45%) IFS
12 3 (1.45%) MuleSoft
13 2 (0.97%) ConnectWise
13 2 (0.97%) Palo Alto
13 2 (0.97%) ServiceNow