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

6 months to
10 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 188 226 208
Rank change year-on-year +38 -18 +62
Permanent jobs citing Disaster Recovery 184 238 339
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.22% 1.44% 1.57%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.40% 1.54% 1.68%
Number of salaries quoted 136 149 317
10th Percentile £43,375 £37,500 £34,600
25th Percentile £51,719 £48,750 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £61,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +14.75% -2.40% +16.28%
75th Percentile £92,500 £77,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £105,000 £91,500 £81,175
UK median annual salary £61,000 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +6.09% -4.17% +14.29%

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 13,165 15,405 20,125
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 87.43% 93.51% 93.50%
Number of salaries quoted 8,370 9,087 16,278
10th Percentile £30,000 £36,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £46,875 £46,000
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 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

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 10 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 29 (15.76%) SharePoint
2 28 (15.22%) Microsoft Exchange
3 6 (3.26%) IIS
3 6 (3.26%) Tomcat
3 6 (3.26%) WebSphere
3 6 (3.26%) WebSphere Application Server
4 1 (0.54%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 11 (5.98%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (3.80%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (3.80%) MS Visio
3 6 (3.26%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 4 (2.17%) Markit EDM
2 1 (0.54%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.54%) Raiser’s Edge
Cloud Services
1 114 (61.96%) Azure
2 59 (32.07%) AWS
3 49 (26.63%) Microsoft 365
4 40 (21.74%) Entra ID
5 19 (10.33%) Azure Monitor
6 17 (9.24%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 17 (9.24%) Amazon EKS
6 17 (9.24%) AWS CloudFormation
6 17 (9.24%) Azure DevOps
7 14 (7.61%) Amazon EC2
7 14 (7.61%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 13 (7.07%) Nutanix
9 12 (6.52%) Azure Data Factory
9 12 (6.52%) OneDrive
9 12 (6.52%) Serverless
10 10 (5.43%) AWS Lambda
10 10 (5.43%) IaaS
11 9 (4.89%) Amazon S3
11 9 (4.89%) PaaS
11 9 (4.89%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 48 (26.09%) VPN
2 39 (21.20%) WAN
3 35 (19.02%) DNS
4 31 (16.85%) Firewall
5 28 (15.22%) DHCP
6 27 (14.67%) SD-WAN
7 18 (9.78%) LAN
7 18 (9.78%) TCP/IP
8 13 (7.07%) SSL
9 10 (5.43%) VLAN
9 10 (5.43%) VoIP
9 10 (5.43%) Wi-Fi
10 9 (4.89%) Unified Communications
11 5 (2.72%) Wireless
12 4 (2.17%) BGP
12 4 (2.17%) SAN
13 3 (1.63%) Network Security
13 3 (1.63%) PuTTY
14 2 (1.09%) NAS
15 1 (0.54%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (10.87%) SQL Server
2 16 (8.70%) Amazon RDS
3 13 (7.07%) PostgreSQL
4 12 (6.52%) Azure SQL Database
5 7 (3.80%) Data Lake
5 7 (3.80%) Delta Lake
6 6 (3.26%) Amazon Aurora
6 6 (3.26%) DB2
6 6 (3.26%) Oracle Database
7 5 (2.72%) MySQL
7 5 (2.72%) Oracle Database 12c
8 4 (2.17%) Data Warehouse
8 4 (2.17%) Oracle Database 10g
8 4 (2.17%) Oracle Database 11g
9 3 (1.63%) NoSQL
10 1 (0.54%) Apache Hive
10 1 (0.54%) Hadoop
10 1 (0.54%) Metadata
10 1 (0.54%) Power BI
10 1 (0.54%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 15 (8.15%) Git
2 7 (3.80%) Jenkins
3 3 (1.63%) Maven
3 3 (1.63%) Sonatype Nexus
4 1 (0.54%) Bitbucket
General
1 66 (35.87%) Finance
2 53 (28.80%) Social Skills
3 21 (11.41%) Analytical Skills
4 17 (9.24%) Law
5 16 (8.70%) Banking
6 9 (4.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 7 (3.80%) Telecoms
8 6 (3.26%) Back Office
8 6 (3.26%) Public Sector
9 4 (2.17%) Documentation Skills
9 4 (2.17%) Financial Institution
9 4 (2.17%) Organisational Skills
9 4 (2.17%) Retail
10 3 (1.63%) Influencing Skills
10 3 (1.63%) Presentation Skills
10 3 (1.63%) Social Housing
11 2 (1.09%) Local Government
12 1 (0.54%) Investment Banking
12 1 (0.54%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.54%) Police
Job Titles
1 36 (19.57%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 33 (17.93%) Senior
3 24 (13.04%) Cloud Engineer
4 18 (9.78%) Support Engineer
5 14 (7.61%) Linux Engineer
6 12 (6.52%) Head of IT
7 11 (5.98%) Administrator
7 11 (5.98%) AWS Engineer
7 11 (5.98%) DBA
7 11 (5.98%) DevOps Engineer
7 11 (5.98%) Infrastructure Support
7 11 (5.98%) Platform Engineer
8 10 (5.43%) Applications Engineer
8 10 (5.43%) Applications Support
8 10 (5.43%) Applications Support Engineer
8 10 (5.43%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
8 10 (5.43%) Lead
9 9 (4.89%) AWS DevOps
9 9 (4.89%) Infrastructure Manager
9 9 (4.89%) IT Security Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (3.80%) LDAP
1 7 (3.80%) PySpark
2 6 (3.26%) LAPP Stack
2 6 (3.26%) WebSphere MQ
3 5 (2.72%) Loki
3 5 (2.72%) REST
4 4 (2.17%) AWS SAM
4 4 (2.17%) Elastic Stack
5 3 (1.63%) ActiveMQ
5 3 (1.63%) LAMP
5 3 (1.63%) RAML
5 3 (1.63%) RESTful
5 3 (1.63%) SOAP
6 2 (1.09%) ARM Templates
6 2 (1.09%) AWS CDK
7 1 (0.54%) gRPC
7 1 (0.54%) Microsoft Graph
7 1 (0.54%) OAuth
7 1 (0.54%) OAuth2
7 1 (0.54%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 22 (11.96%) Hybrid Cloud
2 17 (9.24%) Management Information System
3 16 (8.70%) Cloud Native
4 12 (6.52%) CMDB
4 12 (6.52%) Onboarding
5 11 (5.98%) Data Centre
6 10 (5.43%) Enterprise Software
7 7 (3.80%) Linux Command Line
7 7 (3.80%) Operational Technology
8 6 (3.26%) Analytical Mindset
8 6 (3.26%) Public Cloud
8 6 (3.26%) Replication
9 5 (2.72%) Distributed Systems
9 5 (2.72%) Mobile App
10 4 (2.17%) iPad
10 4 (2.17%) iPhone
10 4 (2.17%) Legacy Systems
10 4 (2.17%) PKI
10 4 (2.17%) Security Posture
10 4 (2.17%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 58 (31.52%) Windows
2 37 (20.11%) Linux
3 32 (17.39%) Windows Server
4 13 (7.07%) Unix
5 11 (5.98%) Windows 10
6 9 (4.89%) Apple iOS
7 6 (3.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 3 (1.63%) CentOS
8 3 (1.63%) Rocky
8 3 (1.63%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.54%) Solaris
9 1 (0.54%) VMS
9 1 (0.54%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 62 (33.70%) DevOps
2 51 (27.72%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 51 (27.72%) ITIL
3 50 (27.17%) High Availability
3 50 (27.17%) Infrastructure as Code
4 48 (26.09%) CI/CD
5 46 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
6 41 (22.28%) Cybersecurity
7 38 (20.65%) Service Delivery
8 37 (20.11%) Business Continuity
9 34 (18.48%) Migration
10 30 (16.30%) Continuous Improvement
11 28 (15.22%) Service Management
12 26 (14.13%) Observability
13 23 (12.50%) Vulnerability Management
14 22 (11.96%) Performance Tuning
15 21 (11.41%) Problem Management
16 20 (10.87%) Identity Access Management
17 19 (10.33%) Infrastructure Management
17 19 (10.33%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 57 (30.98%) Python
2 50 (27.17%) PowerShell
3 33 (17.93%) SQL
4 12 (6.52%) Java
5 10 (5.43%) Bash
5 10 (5.43%) Go
6 7 (3.80%) Scala
7 6 (3.26%) Bicep
8 4 (2.17%) JavaScript
8 4 (2.17%) Shell Script
8 4 (2.17%) T-SQL
9 2 (1.09%) C#
9 2 (1.09%) TypeScript
10 1 (0.54%) Perl
10 1 (0.54%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 36 (19.57%) Degree
2 26 (14.13%) Azure Certification
3 24 (13.04%) AWS Certification
4 17 (9.24%) Microsoft Certification
5 16 (8.70%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 12 (6.52%) Security Cleared
7 11 (5.98%) Cisco Certification
7 11 (5.98%) Master's Degree
8 10 (5.43%) CCNP
8 10 (5.43%) Computer Science Degree
8 10 (5.43%) ITIL Certification
8 10 (5.43%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 9 (4.89%) CEH
10 7 (3.80%) PMI Certification
10 7 (3.80%) PMP
10 7 (3.80%) SC Cleared
11 5 (2.72%) BPSS Clearance
12 4 (2.17%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13 3 (1.63%) MCP
14 2 (1.09%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (16.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 24 (13.04%) NIST
3 17 (9.24%) SLA
4 11 (5.98%) Cyber Essentials
5 10 (5.43%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 10 (5.43%) GDPR
6 9 (4.89%) ISO 22301
7 7 (3.80%) Data Quality
8 6 (3.26%) PCI DSS
9 4 (2.17%) SOC 2
10 2 (1.09%) GRC
10 2 (1.09%) HIPAA
10 2 (1.09%) ISO 9001
10 2 (1.09%) ISO/IEC 20000
10 2 (1.09%) NCSC
11 1 (0.54%) Accessibility
11 1 (0.54%) Basel III
11 1 (0.54%) COBIT
11 1 (0.54%) MiFID
11 1 (0.54%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 41 (22.28%) Active Directory
2 23 (12.50%) VMware Infrastructure
3 19 (10.33%) Hyper-V
4 16 (8.70%) Docker
5 10 (5.43%) Virtual Servers
6 9 (4.89%) Virtual Machines
7 5 (2.72%) Virtual Desktop
8 3 (1.63%) Firmware
8 3 (1.63%) VMware ESXi
9 2 (1.09%) vSphere
10 1 (0.54%) Microsoft Virtual Server
10 1 (0.54%) Oracle RAC
10 1 (0.54%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 51 (27.72%) Terraform
2 35 (19.02%) Microsoft Intune
3 27 (14.67%) Kubernetes
4 24 (13.04%) Ansible
5 14 (7.61%) Grafana
6 10 (5.43%) Prometheus
7 6 (3.26%) FortiGate
8 4 (2.17%) Nagios
9 3 (1.63%) Nessus
9 3 (1.63%) Proxmox
9 3 (1.63%) SCOM
10 1 (0.54%) Data Guard
10 1 (0.54%) Dell DRAC
10 1 (0.54%) Jamf Pro
10 1 (0.54%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 91 (49.46%) Microsoft
2 38 (20.65%) VMware
3 13 (7.07%) IBM
4 12 (6.52%) Cisco
4 12 (6.52%) Commvault
5 10 (5.43%) Oracle
6 8 (4.35%) Fortinet
7 7 (3.80%) Databricks
7 7 (3.80%) Red Hat
8 6 (3.26%) SonicWALL
9 5 (2.72%) Palo Alto
9 5 (2.72%) Veeam
10 4 (2.17%) Ab Initio
10 4 (2.17%) Google
10 4 (2.17%) Mitel
11 3 (1.63%) CrowdStrike
11 3 (1.63%) Foundry
11 3 (1.63%) Meraki
11 3 (1.63%) MuleSoft
12 2 (1.09%) ServiceNow