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

6 months to
2 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 192 203 194
Rank change year-on-year +11 -9 +91
Permanent jobs citing Disaster Recovery 218 227 477
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.33% 1.55% 1.67%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.55% 1.63% 1.81%
Number of salaries quoted 163 148 456
10th Percentile £42,500 £38,375 £41,250
25th Percentile £54,734 £50,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.00% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £92,500 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £90,375 £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 14,057 13,953 26,346
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 85.59% 95.12% 92.40%
Number of salaries quoted 9,126 8,602 21,863
10th Percentile £30,994 £35,500 £34,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £42,725
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 2 March 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 37 (16.97%) Microsoft Exchange
1 37 (16.97%) SharePoint
2 4 (1.83%) IIS
2 4 (1.83%) Tomcat
2 4 (1.83%) WebSphere
2 4 (1.83%) WebSphere Application Server
3 1 (0.46%) Apache
3 1 (0.46%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 7 (3.21%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (1.83%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.83%) Spreadsheet
3 3 (1.38%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (1.83%) Markit EDM
2 3 (1.38%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.46%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 136 (62.39%) Azure
2 63 (28.90%) Microsoft 365
3 55 (25.23%) AWS
4 49 (22.48%) Entra ID
5 20 (9.17%) Amazon EKS
5 20 (9.17%) Nutanix
6 19 (8.72%) Azure Monitor
7 17 (7.80%) Amazon EC2
7 17 (7.80%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 16 (7.34%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 15 (6.88%) AWS CloudFormation
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%) Azure Data Factory
11 13 (5.96%) PaaS
12 11 (5.05%) GitHub
13 10 (4.59%) Route 53
13 10 (4.59%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 61 (27.98%) VPN
2 48 (22.02%) DNS
3 43 (19.72%) Firewall
3 43 (19.72%) WAN
4 38 (17.43%) DHCP
5 27 (12.39%) TCP/IP
6 22 (10.09%) SD-WAN
7 21 (9.63%) LAN
8 14 (6.42%) VLAN
9 12 (5.50%) Wi-Fi
10 9 (4.13%) SSL
11 7 (3.21%) BGP
12 6 (2.75%) Network Security
12 6 (2.75%) Unified Communications
13 5 (2.29%) VoIP
13 5 (2.29%) Wireless
14 4 (1.83%) SAN
15 3 (1.38%) PuTTY
16 2 (0.92%) DSL
16 2 (0.92%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (9.63%) Amazon RDS
2 18 (8.26%) SQL Server
3 11 (5.05%) Azure SQL Database
4 10 (4.59%) PostgreSQL
5 9 (4.13%) Data Lake
5 9 (4.13%) Delta Lake
6 8 (3.67%) Amazon Aurora
7 5 (2.29%) Oracle Database
8 4 (1.83%) Data Warehouse
8 4 (1.83%) DB2
8 4 (1.83%) MySQL
8 4 (1.83%) Oracle Database 10g
8 4 (1.83%) Oracle Database 11g
8 4 (1.83%) Oracle Database 12c
9 1 (0.46%) Apache Hive
9 1 (0.46%) Big Data
9 1 (0.46%) DynamoDB
9 1 (0.46%) Hadoop
9 1 (0.46%) Power BI
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%) JIRA
General
1 71 (32.57%) Finance
2 67 (30.73%) Social Skills
3 26 (11.93%) Law
4 20 (9.17%) Analytical Skills
4 20 (9.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 19 (8.72%) Banking
6 13 (5.96%) Public Sector
7 10 (4.59%) Retail
8 8 (3.67%) Back Office
9 7 (3.21%) Financial Institution
10 6 (2.75%) Documentation Skills
11 5 (2.29%) Organisational Skills
12 2 (0.92%) Influencing Skills
12 2 (0.92%) Legal
12 2 (0.92%) Local Government
12 2 (0.92%) Manufacturing
12 2 (0.92%) Social Housing
12 2 (0.92%) Telecoms
13 1 (0.46%) Marketing
13 1 (0.46%) Police
Job Titles
1 51 (23.39%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 43 (19.72%) Senior
3 24 (11.01%) Cloud Engineer
4 18 (8.26%) Lead
4 18 (8.26%) Support Engineer
5 16 (7.34%) AWS Engineer
6 15 (6.88%) IT Manager
6 15 (6.88%) Platform Engineer
6 15 (6.88%) Security Specialist
7 13 (5.96%) IT Security Specialist
7 13 (5.96%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
8 12 (5.50%) DevOps Engineer
8 12 (5.50%) Infrastructure Support
8 12 (5.50%) Linux Engineer
8 12 (5.50%) Security Manager
9 11 (5.05%) Azure Engineer
10 10 (4.59%) Data Engineer
10 10 (4.59%) Infrastructure Manager
10 10 (4.59%) IT Engineer
10 10 (4.59%) Operations 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%) OAuth2
8 1 (0.46%) ODBC
8 1 (0.46%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 34 (15.60%) 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 12 (5.50%) Driving Licence
7 11 (5.05%) Legacy Systems
8 9 (4.13%) CMDB
8 9 (4.13%) Cyber Threat
9 7 (3.21%) Distributed Systems
9 7 (3.21%) Enterprise Software
10 6 (2.75%) Public Cloud
10 6 (2.75%) Replication
11 5 (2.29%) Linux Command Line
11 5 (2.29%) Mobile App
12 4 (1.83%) iPad
12 4 (1.83%) iPhone
12 4 (1.83%) PKI
12 4 (1.83%) Video Conferencing
13 3 (1.38%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 67 (30.73%) 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 72 (33.03%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 65 (29.82%) DevOps
3 56 (25.69%) CI/CD
3 56 (25.69%) Infrastructure as Code
4 55 (25.23%) ITIL
4 55 (25.23%) Problem-Solving
5 49 (22.48%) Cybersecurity
6 46 (21.10%) High Availability
7 45 (20.64%) Continuous Improvement
7 45 (20.64%) Migration
8 42 (19.27%) Business Continuity
9 41 (18.81%) Service Delivery
10 34 (15.60%) Vulnerability Management
11 31 (14.22%) Service Management
12 29 (13.30%) Cloud Security
12 29 (13.30%) Observability
13 28 (12.84%) Incident Response
14 27 (12.39%) Identity Access Management
14 27 (12.39%) Platform Engineering
14 27 (12.39%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 69 (31.65%) Python
2 68 (31.19%) PowerShell
3 28 (12.84%) SQL
4 14 (6.42%) Java
5 11 (5.05%) Bash
5 11 (5.05%) Bicep
5 11 (5.05%) Go
6 9 (4.13%) Scala
7 4 (1.83%) JavaScript
7 4 (1.83%) TypeScript
8 3 (1.38%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 40 (18.35%) Degree
2 28 (12.84%) Microsoft Certification
3 22 (10.09%) Azure Certification
4 20 (9.17%) Security Cleared
5 16 (7.34%) SC Cleared
6 15 (6.88%) AWS Certification
7 14 (6.42%) CEH
8 13 (5.96%) Computer Science Degree
9 11 (5.05%) BPSS Clearance
10 9 (4.13%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 8 (3.67%) Cisco Certification
11 8 (3.67%) ITIL Certification
12 7 (3.21%) CCNP
12 7 (3.21%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
13 6 (2.75%) Master's Degree
13 6 (2.75%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
14 3 (1.38%) CCNA
14 3 (1.38%) MCSE
14 3 (1.38%) Microsoft Certified Professional
15 2 (0.92%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 51 (23.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 29 (13.30%) NIST
3 23 (10.55%) Cyber Essentials
4 22 (10.09%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 14 (6.42%) SLA
6 13 (5.96%) ISO 22301
6 13 (5.96%) PCI DSS
7 11 (5.05%) GDPR
8 9 (4.13%) Data Quality
8 9 (4.13%) SOC 2
9 5 (2.29%) Actionable Recommendations
10 4 (1.83%) GRC
11 2 (0.92%) NCSC
12 1 (0.46%) Accessibility
12 1 (0.46%) Basel III
12 1 (0.46%) ISO/IEC 20000
12 1 (0.46%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
12 1 (0.46%) MiFID
System Software
1 53 (24.31%) Active Directory
2 31 (14.22%) VMware Infrastructure
3 21 (9.63%) Hyper-V
4 17 (7.80%) Docker
5 10 (4.59%) Virtual Machines
5 10 (4.59%) Virtual Servers
6 6 (2.75%) Firmware
6 6 (2.75%) VMware ESXi
7 4 (1.83%) vSphere
8 3 (1.38%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 3 (1.38%) Virtual Desktop
9 1 (0.46%) KVM
9 1 (0.46%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 60 (27.52%) Terraform
2 44 (20.18%) Microsoft Intune
3 29 (13.30%) Kubernetes
4 25 (11.47%) Ansible
5 14 (6.42%) 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
8 3 (1.38%) vCenter Server
9 2 (0.92%) Dell DRAC
9 2 (0.92%) Packer
10 1 (0.46%) Jamf Pro
10 1 (0.46%) PowerCLI
Vendors
1 99 (45.41%) Microsoft
2 57 (26.15%) VMware
3 19 (8.72%) Commvault
4 17 (7.80%) Cisco
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
9 4 (1.83%) Ab Initio
9 4 (1.83%) Mitel
9 4 (1.83%) SonicWALL
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
10 3 (1.38%) Splunk