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

6 months to
14 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 160 254 208
Rank change year-on-year +94 -46 -12
Permanent jobs citing Disaster Recovery 391 171 363
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.64% 1.05% 1.56%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.01% 1.13% 1.78%
Number of salaries quoted 267 133 208
10th Percentile £37,250 £32,300 £41,600
25th Percentile £46,250 £46,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year - -11.11% +12.50%
75th Percentile £75,437 £82,500 £91,500
90th Percentile £85,500 £105,000 £112,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% - +2.56%

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 19,442 15,153 20,421
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 81.35% 93.11% 87.69%
Number of salaries quoted 13,983 8,632 12,822
10th Percentile £34,000 £29,854 £35,500
25th Percentile £44,972 £40,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -4.17%

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 14 September 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 43 (11.00%) SharePoint
2 35 (8.95%) Microsoft Exchange
3 12 (3.07%) IIS
4 6 (1.53%) Apache
4 6 (1.53%) nginx
5 3 (0.77%) WordPress
6 1 (0.26%) Confluence
6 1 (0.26%) FactoryTalk
6 1 (0.26%) Site Server
Applications
1 7 (1.79%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.26%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.26%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 3 (0.77%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.26%) Oracle Applications
2 1 (0.26%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.26%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 262 (67.01%) Azure
2 123 (31.46%) AWS
3 115 (29.41%) Microsoft 365
4 88 (22.51%) SaaS
5 73 (18.67%) Entra ID
6 32 (8.18%) IaaS
7 28 (7.16%) GCP
8 24 (6.14%) Azure Monitor
9 22 (5.63%) PaaS
9 22 (5.63%) Power Platform
10 18 (4.60%) OneDrive
11 16 (4.09%) Nutanix
12 13 (3.32%) Azure DevOps
13 10 (2.56%) Microsoft Copilot
14 9 (2.30%) AWS CloudFormation
14 9 (2.30%) Azure Data Factory
14 9 (2.30%) Microsoft Purview
15 8 (2.05%) Azure Sentinel
15 8 (2.05%) GitHub
16 7 (1.79%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 101 (25.83%) Firewall
2 83 (21.23%) DNS
3 65 (16.62%) DHCP
4 53 (13.55%) VPN
5 35 (8.95%) TCP/IP
6 31 (7.93%) WAN
7 28 (7.16%) Network Security
8 25 (6.39%) LAN
9 22 (5.63%) VLAN
10 13 (3.32%) Wi-Fi
11 10 (2.56%) SD-WAN
12 9 (2.30%) VSAN
12 9 (2.30%) Wireless
13 8 (2.05%) Fibre Channel
13 8 (2.05%) SAN
14 7 (1.79%) NGFW
15 6 (1.53%) iSCSI
16 5 (1.28%) Cisco ISE
17 4 (1.02%) Broadband
17 4 (1.02%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (5.63%) SQL Server
2 12 (3.07%) PostgreSQL
3 11 (2.81%) Azure SQL Database
4 10 (2.56%) Power BI
5 3 (0.77%) Amazon RDS
5 3 (0.77%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 2 (0.51%) Oracle Database
6 2 (0.51%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 2 (0.51%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 1 (0.26%) MongoDB
7 1 (0.26%) MySQL
7 1 (0.26%) Oracle Exadata
7 1 (0.26%) Oracle Reports
7 1 (0.26%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 6 (1.53%) JIRA
2 5 (1.28%) Git
2 5 (1.28%) Visual Studio Code
3 4 (1.02%) GitLab
4 2 (0.51%) Terragrunt
5 1 (0.26%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.26%) Claude Code
5 1 (0.26%) Selenium
General
1 119 (30.43%) Social Skills
2 65 (16.62%) Finance
3 50 (12.79%) Analytical Skills
4 42 (10.74%) Law
5 34 (8.70%) Legal
6 24 (6.14%) Retail
7 20 (5.12%) Documentation Skills
8 19 (4.86%) Banking
8 19 (4.86%) Public Sector
9 18 (4.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 14 (3.58%) Organisational Skills
11 11 (2.81%) Manufacturing
12 10 (2.56%) Back Office
13 6 (1.53%) Advertising
14 5 (1.28%) Influencing Skills
14 5 (1.28%) Presentation Skills
15 3 (0.77%) Marketing
16 2 (0.51%) Local Government
16 2 (0.51%) Social Housing
17 1 (0.26%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 69 (17.65%) IT Manager
2 64 (16.37%) Senior
3 53 (13.55%) Service Manager
4 51 (13.04%) Resilience Manager
5 50 (12.79%) IT Services Manager
6 49 (12.53%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 33 (8.44%) Architect
8 32 (8.18%) Consultant
9 26 (6.65%) IT Engineer
10 24 (6.14%) Support Engineer
10 24 (6.14%) Technical Consultant
11 22 (5.63%) Analyst
11 22 (5.63%) Lead
12 20 (5.12%) Azure Engineer
12 20 (5.12%) Senior Architect
13 18 (4.60%) Cloud Engineer
13 18 (4.60%) IT Support
13 18 (4.60%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
14 16 (4.09%) Technical Architect
15 15 (3.84%) Senior Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 65 (16.62%) Middleware
2 59 (15.09%) Terraform
3 12 (3.07%) ARM Templates
4 7 (1.79%) Microsoft Graph
5 6 (1.53%) Web Services
6 3 (0.77%) JSON
6 3 (0.77%) Nuxt
6 3 (0.77%) OpenTelemetry
6 3 (0.77%) Ruby on Rails
7 2 (0.51%) .NET
7 2 (0.51%) 802.1X
7 2 (0.51%) Kafka
8 1 (0.26%) Node.js
8 1 (0.26%) Oracle Fusion
8 1 (0.26%) Playwright
8 1 (0.26%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 55 (14.07%) Cyber Threat
2 35 (8.95%) Data Centre
3 34 (8.70%) Replication
4 24 (6.14%) Enterprise Storage
5 23 (5.88%) Hybrid Cloud
6 22 (5.63%) Cloud Native
7 20 (5.12%) Management Information System
7 20 (5.12%) Onboarding
8 16 (4.09%) Security Posture
9 13 (3.32%) Driving Licence
9 13 (3.32%) Self-Motivation
10 12 (3.07%) Data Protection Act
10 12 (3.07%) Enterprise Software
11 11 (2.81%) iSeries
11 11 (2.81%) Public Cloud
12 9 (2.30%) CMDB
13 7 (1.79%) Freedom of Information
13 7 (1.79%) Freedom of Information Act
13 7 (1.79%) Virtual Team
14 6 (1.53%) Cyber Kill Chain
Operating Systems
1 130 (33.25%) Windows
2 101 (25.83%) Windows Server
3 45 (11.51%) Linux
4 9 (2.30%) Ubuntu
5 8 (2.05%) Windows Server 2016
5 8 (2.05%) Windows Server 2019
6 7 (1.79%) Mac OS
7 6 (1.53%) Windows 10
8 5 (1.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 5 (1.28%) Unix
9 4 (1.02%) Debian
10 2 (0.51%) AIX
10 2 (0.51%) CentOS
10 2 (0.51%) Solaris
10 2 (0.51%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 210 (53.71%) Business Continuity
2 130 (33.25%) Problem-Solving
3 113 (28.90%) Continuous Improvement
4 104 (26.60%) Information Security
5 103 (26.34%) Cybersecurity
6 92 (23.53%) DevOps
7 90 (23.02%) ITIL
8 85 (21.74%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 78 (19.95%) Agile
10 69 (17.65%) Project Delivery
11 67 (17.14%) High Availability
12 64 (16.37%) Service Delivery
13 61 (15.60%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 59 (15.09%) Stakeholder Management
15 57 (14.58%) Enterprise Architecture
16 56 (14.32%) Mentoring
16 56 (14.32%) Waterfall
17 54 (13.81%) Site Reliability Engineering
18 53 (13.55%) Runbook
19 52 (13.30%) Incident Response
Programming Languages
1 82 (20.97%) PowerShell
2 38 (9.72%) Python
3 25 (6.39%) SQL
4 19 (4.86%) Bicep
5 9 (2.30%) Bash
6 6 (1.53%) Shell Script
7 5 (1.28%) Java
8 3 (0.77%) JavaScript
8 3 (0.77%) Ruby
9 2 (0.51%) C#
9 2 (0.51%) T-SQL
10 1 (0.26%) TypeScript
10 1 (0.26%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 72 (18.41%) CISSP
2 69 (17.65%) CISM
3 53 (13.55%) ITIL Certification
4 34 (8.70%) Azure Certification
5 30 (7.67%) Degree
6 24 (6.14%) Microsoft Certification
7 22 (5.63%) Security Cleared
8 19 (4.86%) SC Cleared
9 18 (4.60%) Cisco Certification
9 18 (4.60%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 14 (3.58%) CCNA
10 14 (3.58%) CISA
11 12 (3.07%) CCNP
12 11 (2.81%) Computer Science Degree
13 10 (2.56%) VCAP
14 9 (2.30%) VCDX
15 8 (2.05%) CEH
15 8 (2.05%) ISACA
16 7 (1.79%) CRISC
17 6 (1.53%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 89 (22.76%) NIST
2 69 (17.65%) ISO 22301
3 54 (13.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 38 (9.72%) GDPR
5 26 (6.65%) Cyber Essentials
6 25 (6.39%) SLA
7 20 (5.12%) PCI DSS
8 17 (4.35%) PMO
9 11 (2.81%) COBIT
10 10 (2.56%) SOC 2
11 7 (1.79%) SOC 1
12 6 (1.53%) GRC
13 5 (1.28%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 5 (1.28%) NCSC
14 4 (1.02%) ISO/IEC 20000
15 3 (0.77%) Actionable Recommendations
15 3 (0.77%) ISO 9001
16 2 (0.51%) Data Quality
16 2 (0.51%) ITGC
16 2 (0.51%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 99 (25.32%) Active Directory
2 91 (23.27%) VMware Infrastructure
3 68 (17.39%) Hyper-V
4 23 (5.88%) vSphere
5 15 (3.84%) Docker
6 13 (3.32%) Firmware
7 11 (2.81%) Virtual Machines
8 10 (2.56%) VMware NSX
9 9 (2.30%) vCloud
9 9 (2.30%) VMware ESXi
10 7 (1.79%) Virtual Desktop
11 6 (1.53%) Squid
12 1 (0.26%) KVM
12 1 (0.26%) Oracle RAC
12 1 (0.26%) Terminal Services
12 1 (0.26%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 41 (10.49%) Microsoft Intune
2 33 (8.44%) Kubernetes
3 18 (4.60%) Ansible
4 9 (2.30%) Prometheus
5 8 (2.05%) Grafana
6 7 (1.79%) Single Sign-On
7 6 (1.53%) Avamar
7 6 (1.53%) Dell DRAC
7 6 (1.53%) EMC NetWorker
7 6 (1.53%) EMC VPLEX
7 6 (1.53%) FortiGate
7 6 (1.53%) Packer
7 6 (1.53%) VxRail
8 5 (1.28%) Proxmox
8 5 (1.28%) SCCM
9 3 (0.77%) ZABBIX
10 2 (0.51%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 2 (0.51%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
10 2 (0.51%) vCenter Server
10 2 (0.51%) WhatsUp Gold
Vendors
1 209 (53.45%) Microsoft
2 110 (28.13%) VMware
3 57 (14.58%) Veeam
4 36 (9.21%) Cisco
5 22 (5.63%) Palo Alto
6 20 (5.12%) Dell
6 20 (5.12%) Fortinet
7 18 (4.60%) EMC
8 17 (4.35%) NetApp
9 16 (4.09%) Google
10 15 (3.84%) Nimble Storage
11 12 (3.07%) Commvault
11 12 (3.07%) Oracle
12 11 (2.81%) Broadcom
12 11 (2.81%) HP
12 11 (2.81%) IBM
12 11 (2.81%) N-able
13 10 (2.56%) Meraki
13 10 (2.56%) Sophos
13 10 (2.56%) WatchGuard