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

6 months to
18 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 183 204 208
Rank change year-on-year +21 +4 +72
Permanent jobs citing Disaster Recovery 245 208 493
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.38% 1.57% 1.52%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.66% 1.66% 1.66%
Number of salaries quoted 182 159 465
10th Percentile £42,250 £35,350 £41,250
25th Percentile £53,750 £44,000 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% - +7.00%
75th Percentile £91,250 £73,818 £77,500
90th Percentile £94,800 £90,000 £91,991
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +9.09% -

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 14,746 12,526 29,775
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 83.22% 94.76% 91.58%
Number of salaries quoted 10,299 8,909 23,673
10th Percentile £32,250 £32,436 £33,750
25th Percentile £44,972 £45,000 £42,500
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 £80,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -10.51%

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 18 April 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 33 (13.47%) SharePoint
2 31 (12.65%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (1.22%) IIS
4 2 (0.82%) Apache
5 1 (0.41%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 6 (2.45%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (1.63%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (1.22%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.41%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 4 (1.63%) Markit EDM
2 3 (1.22%) Oracle EBS
3 2 (0.82%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.82%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 152 (62.04%) Azure
2 68 (27.76%) Microsoft 365
3 44 (17.96%) AWS
4 41 (16.73%) Entra ID
5 25 (10.20%) Nutanix
6 16 (6.53%) Amazon EKS
6 16 (6.53%) OneDrive
7 15 (6.12%) Azure Monitor
7 15 (6.12%) GitHub
7 15 (6.12%) SaaS
8 13 (5.31%) Amazon EC2
8 13 (5.31%) Azure Data Factory
8 13 (5.31%) Azure DevOps
8 13 (5.31%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 12 (4.90%) IaaS
9 12 (4.90%) PaaS
10 11 (4.49%) Mimecast
11 10 (4.08%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 9 (3.67%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 9 (3.67%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 62 (25.31%) Firewall
2 58 (23.67%) VPN
3 42 (17.14%) DNS
4 41 (16.73%) WAN
5 30 (12.24%) DHCP
5 30 (12.24%) TCP/IP
6 21 (8.57%) LAN
7 16 (6.53%) SD-WAN
8 13 (5.31%) Network Security
9 12 (4.90%) VLAN
10 9 (3.67%) Wi-Fi
11 6 (2.45%) BGP
12 5 (2.04%) Cisco ISE
12 5 (2.04%) SAN
12 5 (2.04%) Wireless
13 4 (1.63%) Cisco Nexus
13 4 (1.63%) Intrusion Detection
13 4 (1.63%) VSAN
14 3 (1.22%) PuTTY
14 3 (1.22%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (7.76%) Amazon RDS
2 18 (7.35%) SQL Server
3 13 (5.31%) Azure SQL Database
4 9 (3.67%) Data Lake
4 9 (3.67%) Delta Lake
5 8 (3.27%) Amazon Aurora
6 4 (1.63%) Data Warehouse
6 4 (1.63%) MySQL
7 3 (1.22%) Oracle Database
7 3 (1.22%) PostgreSQL
7 3 (1.22%) Power BI
8 2 (0.82%) Oracle Database 10g
8 2 (0.82%) Oracle Database 11g
8 2 (0.82%) Oracle Database 12c
9 1 (0.41%) DynamoDB
9 1 (0.41%) Oracle Exadata
9 1 (0.41%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 1 (0.41%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 1 (0.41%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 19 (7.76%) Git
2 5 (2.04%) Jenkins
3 4 (1.63%) Visual Studio Code
4 3 (1.22%) Maven
4 3 (1.22%) Sonatype Nexus
5 2 (0.82%) Selenium
6 1 (0.41%) JIRA
6 1 (0.41%) MLflow
General
1 84 (34.29%) Social Skills
2 66 (26.94%) Finance
3 26 (10.61%) Analytical Skills
4 24 (9.80%) Law
5 22 (8.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 20 (8.16%) Banking
7 14 (5.71%) Public Sector
8 12 (4.90%) Retail
9 11 (4.49%) Back Office
10 9 (3.67%) Organisational Skills
11 7 (2.86%) Documentation Skills
11 7 (2.86%) Legal
12 6 (2.45%) Financial Institution
12 6 (2.45%) Marketing
13 4 (1.63%) Presentation Skills
13 4 (1.63%) Social Housing
14 3 (1.22%) Local Government
15 2 (0.82%) Influencing Skills
15 2 (0.82%) Manufacturing
16 1 (0.41%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 52 (21.22%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 46 (18.78%) Senior
3 26 (10.61%) IT Manager
4 21 (8.57%) Lead
5 20 (8.16%) Platform Engineer
6 17 (6.94%) Security Specialist
6 17 (6.94%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
7 16 (6.53%) Cloud Engineer
8 14 (5.71%) AWS Engineer
8 14 (5.71%) IT Engineer
8 14 (5.71%) Security Manager
9 13 (5.31%) IT Security Specialist
10 12 (4.90%) Azure Engineer
10 12 (4.90%) Cloud Platform Engineer
10 12 (4.90%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
11 11 (4.49%) Operations Engineer
11 11 (4.49%) Support Engineer
12 10 (4.08%) Architect
13 9 (3.67%) Applications Support
13 9 (3.67%) Service Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (3.67%) PySpark
2 7 (2.86%) Loki
2 7 (2.86%) RESTful
3 6 (2.45%) ARM Templates
4 3 (1.22%) ActiveMQ
4 3 (1.22%) LAMP
4 3 (1.22%) RAML
4 3 (1.22%) REST
4 3 (1.22%) SOAP
5 2 (0.82%) AWS SAM
5 2 (0.82%) Elastic Stack
5 2 (0.82%) Node.js
5 2 (0.82%) Playwright
6 1 (0.41%) AWS CDK
6 1 (0.41%) FastAPI
6 1 (0.41%) Hugging Face
6 1 (0.41%) JWT
6 1 (0.41%) OpenCV
6 1 (0.41%) PyTorch
6 1 (0.41%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 32 (13.06%) Hybrid Cloud
2 23 (9.39%) Data Centre
3 22 (8.98%) Cloud Native
4 16 (6.53%) Driving Licence
4 16 (6.53%) Management Information System
5 13 (5.31%) Legacy Systems
5 13 (5.31%) Replication
6 11 (4.49%) CMDB
6 11 (4.49%) Cyber Threat
7 10 (4.08%) Enterprise Storage
8 9 (3.67%) Onboarding
9 7 (2.86%) iSeries
9 7 (2.86%) Public Cloud
10 6 (2.45%) Distributed Systems
10 6 (2.45%) Enterprise Software
11 5 (2.04%) Mobile App
11 5 (2.04%) Private Cloud
11 5 (2.04%) Security Posture
11 5 (2.04%) Self-Motivation
12 4 (1.63%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 67 (27.35%) Windows
2 43 (17.55%) Windows Server
3 28 (11.43%) Linux
4 13 (5.31%) Windows 10
5 12 (4.90%) Apple iOS
6 4 (1.63%) CentOS
6 4 (1.63%) Ubuntu
6 4 (1.63%) Unix
7 3 (1.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 3 (1.22%) Rocky
8 2 (0.82%) Mac OS
9 1 (0.41%) AIX
9 1 (0.41%) Solaris
9 1 (0.41%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 76 (31.02%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 72 (29.39%) Cybersecurity
3 62 (25.31%) Problem-Solving
4 61 (24.90%) Business Continuity
5 57 (23.27%) DevOps
6 56 (22.86%) Service Delivery
7 51 (20.82%) ITIL
8 49 (20.00%) CI/CD
9 46 (18.78%) Continuous Improvement
10 43 (17.55%) Infrastructure as Code
11 37 (15.10%) Vulnerability Management
12 35 (14.29%) Incident Response
13 34 (13.88%) Cloud Security
13 34 (13.88%) High Availability
14 33 (13.47%) Migration
15 30 (12.24%) Mentoring
15 30 (12.24%) Platform Engineering
16 28 (11.43%) Root Cause Analysis
17 25 (10.20%) Identity Access Management
17 25 (10.20%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 67 (27.35%) PowerShell
2 63 (25.71%) Python
3 26 (10.61%) SQL
4 11 (4.49%) Java
5 10 (4.08%) Bash
6 9 (3.67%) Bicep
6 9 (3.67%) Scala
7 8 (3.27%) Go
8 3 (1.22%) Shell Script
9 2 (0.82%) JavaScript
9 2 (0.82%) TypeScript
10 1 (0.41%) C#
10 1 (0.41%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 40 (16.33%) Degree
2 22 (8.98%) Microsoft Certification
3 17 (6.94%) Azure Certification
3 17 (6.94%) CEH
4 15 (6.12%) Security Cleared
5 14 (5.71%) Computer Science Degree
6 13 (5.31%) SC Cleared
7 8 (3.27%) BPSS Clearance
7 8 (3.27%) Cisco Certification
7 8 (3.27%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 7 (2.86%) CCNP
9 5 (2.04%) CCNA
9 5 (2.04%) CISSP
10 4 (1.63%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 4 (1.63%) MCSE
10 4 (1.63%) VCAP
10 4 (1.63%) VCDX
11 3 (1.22%) CISM
11 3 (1.22%) ITIL Certification
12 2 (0.82%) ISACA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 53 (21.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 32 (13.06%) NIST
3 28 (11.43%) Cyber Essentials
4 25 (10.20%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 17 (6.94%) GDPR
6 16 (6.53%) PCI DSS
7 14 (5.71%) ISO 22301
8 13 (5.31%) Data Quality
9 10 (4.08%) Actionable Recommendations
9 10 (4.08%) GRC
10 9 (3.67%) SOC 2
11 8 (3.27%) SLA
12 5 (2.04%) PMO
13 2 (0.82%) Accessibility
13 2 (0.82%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
13 2 (0.82%) NCSC
14 1 (0.41%) Basel III
14 1 (0.41%) COBIT
14 1 (0.41%) MiFID
14 1 (0.41%) SOC 1
System Software
1 49 (20.00%) Active Directory
2 47 (19.18%) VMware Infrastructure
3 25 (10.20%) Hyper-V
4 14 (5.71%) Firmware
5 11 (4.49%) Docker
6 9 (3.67%) vSphere
7 6 (2.45%) Virtual Machines
8 5 (2.04%) vCloud
8 5 (2.04%) Virtual Servers
9 4 (1.63%) VMware NSX
10 3 (1.22%) Microsoft Virtual Server
10 3 (1.22%) VMware ESXi
11 2 (0.82%) Virtual Desktop
12 1 (0.41%) KVM
12 1 (0.41%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 49 (20.00%) Terraform
2 36 (14.69%) Microsoft Intune
3 25 (10.20%) Kubernetes
4 17 (6.94%) Ansible
5 10 (4.08%) Grafana
6 7 (2.86%) Prometheus
7 6 (2.45%) Packer
8 4 (1.63%) vCenter Server
9 3 (1.22%) Dell DRAC
9 3 (1.22%) FortiGate
9 3 (1.22%) Nagios
10 2 (0.82%) SCCM
11 1 (0.41%) Data Guard
11 1 (0.41%) EMC NetWorker
11 1 (0.41%) EMC VPLEX
11 1 (0.41%) Jamf Pro
11 1 (0.41%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
11 1 (0.41%) Oracle Flashback
11 1 (0.41%) PowerCLI
11 1 (0.41%) VxRail
Vendors
1 122 (49.80%) Microsoft
2 78 (31.84%) VMware
3 26 (10.61%) Cisco
3 26 (10.61%) Commvault
4 14 (5.71%) Fortinet
5 11 (4.49%) EMC
5 11 (4.49%) IBM
5 11 (4.49%) Meraki
5 11 (4.49%) Veeam
6 10 (4.08%) Oracle
7 9 (3.67%) Databricks
8 8 (3.27%) Dell
8 8 (3.27%) ServiceNow
8 8 (3.27%) Sophos
9 7 (2.86%) HP
10 6 (2.45%) NetApp
10 6 (2.45%) Palo Alto
11 5 (2.04%) Apple
11 5 (2.04%) Nimble Storage
11 5 (2.04%) Splunk