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

6 months to
17 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 168 251 210
Rank change year-on-year +83 -41 +3
Permanent jobs citing Disaster Recovery 388 183 368
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.70% 1.10% 1.49%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.06% 1.19% 1.71%
Number of salaries quoted 269 138 237
10th Percentile £40,400 £31,775 £41,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £38,650 £49,762
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -15.38% +9.20%
75th Percentile £78,000 £77,188 £89,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £105,000 £102,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -5.98%

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 18,803 15,435 21,557
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 82.40% 92.94% 87.56%
Number of salaries quoted 13,575 8,949 15,283
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £44,972 £40,549 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -4.17% -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.71%

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 17 August 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 (9.54%) SharePoint
2 32 (8.25%) Microsoft Exchange
3 13 (3.35%) IIS
4 8 (2.06%) Apache
5 6 (1.55%) nginx
6 3 (0.77%) WordPress
7 1 (0.26%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.26%) Confluence
7 1 (0.26%) Site Server
Applications
1 7 (1.80%) 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%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 256 (65.98%) Azure
2 117 (30.15%) AWS
3 109 (28.09%) Microsoft 365
4 85 (21.91%) SaaS
5 67 (17.27%) Entra ID
6 25 (6.44%) IaaS
7 23 (5.93%) GCP
8 22 (5.67%) Power Platform
9 20 (5.15%) Nutanix
10 19 (4.90%) PaaS
11 18 (4.64%) Azure Monitor
12 13 (3.35%) Azure DevOps
13 12 (3.09%) OneDrive
14 10 (2.58%) AWS CloudFormation
14 10 (2.58%) Azure Sentinel
15 9 (2.32%) Azure Data Factory
15 9 (2.32%) GitHub
16 8 (2.06%) GitHub Actions
16 8 (2.06%) Mimecast
17 7 (1.80%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 105 (27.06%) Firewall
2 73 (18.81%) DNS
3 53 (13.66%) DHCP
3 53 (13.66%) VPN
4 33 (8.51%) TCP/IP
5 29 (7.47%) WAN
6 28 (7.22%) Network Security
7 23 (5.93%) LAN
8 17 (4.38%) VLAN
9 13 (3.35%) Wi-Fi
10 9 (2.32%) VSAN
11 8 (2.06%) Wireless
12 7 (1.80%) NGFW
12 7 (1.80%) SAN
13 6 (1.55%) Cisco ISE
13 6 (1.55%) Fibre Channel
13 6 (1.55%) iSCSI
13 6 (1.55%) SD-WAN
14 4 (1.03%) Cisco Nexus
14 4 (1.03%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (5.67%) SQL Server
2 12 (3.09%) Azure SQL Database
3 10 (2.58%) Power BI
4 9 (2.32%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (0.52%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (0.52%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 2 (0.52%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 2 (0.52%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 1 (0.26%) MongoDB
6 1 (0.26%) MySQL
6 1 (0.26%) Oracle Database
6 1 (0.26%) Oracle Exadata
6 1 (0.26%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 7 (1.80%) Git
2 6 (1.55%) Visual Studio Code
3 5 (1.29%) JIRA
4 4 (1.03%) GitLab
5 2 (0.52%) Terragrunt
6 1 (0.26%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.26%) Claude Code
6 1 (0.26%) MLflow
6 1 (0.26%) Selenium
General
1 120 (30.93%) Social Skills
2 64 (16.49%) Finance
3 49 (12.63%) Analytical Skills
4 42 (10.82%) Law
5 36 (9.28%) Legal
6 21 (5.41%) Banking
6 21 (5.41%) Retail
7 18 (4.64%) Documentation Skills
8 17 (4.38%) Public Sector
9 15 (3.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 15 (3.87%) Organisational Skills
10 10 (2.58%) Back Office
11 9 (2.32%) Manufacturing
12 7 (1.80%) Advertising
13 6 (1.55%) Influencing Skills
14 5 (1.29%) Marketing
15 4 (1.03%) Presentation Skills
16 3 (0.77%) Local Government
17 2 (0.52%) Social Housing
18 1 (0.26%) Police
Job Titles
1 73 (18.81%) IT Manager
2 64 (16.49%) Senior
3 52 (13.40%) Service Manager
4 50 (12.89%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 50 (12.89%) IT Services Manager
4 50 (12.89%) Resilience Manager
5 30 (7.73%) Architect
6 27 (6.96%) Lead
7 25 (6.44%) Consultant
8 22 (5.67%) IT Engineer
8 22 (5.67%) Support Engineer
9 20 (5.15%) Azure Engineer
9 20 (5.15%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
10 19 (4.90%) Analyst
10 19 (4.90%) Senior Architect
10 19 (4.90%) Technical Consultant
11 18 (4.64%) Cloud Engineer
12 16 (4.12%) IT Support
13 15 (3.87%) Senior Consultant
13 15 (3.87%) VMware Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 60 (15.46%) Middleware
2 12 (3.09%) ARM Templates
3 7 (1.80%) Microsoft Graph
4 6 (1.55%) Web Services
5 3 (0.77%) JSON
5 3 (0.77%) Nuxt
5 3 (0.77%) Ruby on Rails
6 2 (0.52%) .NET
6 2 (0.52%) Kafka
7 1 (0.26%) 802.1X
7 1 (0.26%) AWS CDK
7 1 (0.26%) FastAPI
7 1 (0.26%) JWT
7 1 (0.26%) OAuth2
7 1 (0.26%) OpenCV
7 1 (0.26%) Pandas
7 1 (0.26%) Playwright
7 1 (0.26%) pytest
7 1 (0.26%) PyTorch
7 1 (0.26%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 58 (14.95%) Cyber Threat
2 32 (8.25%) Data Centre
3 30 (7.73%) Replication
4 25 (6.44%) Hybrid Cloud
5 23 (5.93%) Cloud Native
5 23 (5.93%) Enterprise Storage
5 23 (5.93%) Management Information System
6 20 (5.15%) Onboarding
7 16 (4.12%) Security Posture
8 14 (3.61%) Driving Licence
9 13 (3.35%) Self-Motivation
10 12 (3.09%) Data Protection Act
10 12 (3.09%) Enterprise Software
10 12 (3.09%) Public Cloud
11 11 (2.84%) iSeries
12 10 (2.58%) CMDB
13 8 (2.06%) Virtual Team
14 7 (1.80%) Freedom of Information
14 7 (1.80%) Freedom of Information Act
14 7 (1.80%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 122 (31.44%) Windows
2 89 (22.94%) Windows Server
3 42 (10.82%) Linux
4 8 (2.06%) Mac OS
5 7 (1.80%) Ubuntu
5 7 (1.80%) Windows Server 2016
6 6 (1.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 6 (1.55%) Windows 10
6 6 (1.55%) Windows Server 2019
7 5 (1.29%) Unix
8 2 (0.52%) CentOS
8 2 (0.52%) Debian
8 2 (0.52%) Solaris
9 1 (0.26%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 204 (52.58%) Business Continuity
2 121 (31.19%) Problem-Solving
3 113 (29.12%) Cybersecurity
4 109 (28.09%) Continuous Improvement
5 105 (27.06%) Information Security
6 99 (25.52%) DevOps
7 92 (23.71%) ITIL
8 84 (21.65%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 79 (20.36%) Agile
10 65 (16.75%) Project Delivery
10 65 (16.75%) Service Delivery
11 64 (16.49%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 62 (15.98%) Incident Response
13 60 (15.46%) High Availability
13 60 (15.46%) Stakeholder Management
14 57 (14.69%) Enterprise Architecture
14 57 (14.69%) Runbook
15 54 (13.92%) Site Reliability Engineering
16 53 (13.66%) Test Automation
17 52 (13.40%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 87 (22.42%) PowerShell
2 43 (11.08%) Python
3 27 (6.96%) SQL
4 18 (4.64%) Bicep
5 9 (2.32%) Bash
6 6 (1.55%) Shell Script
7 3 (0.77%) JavaScript
7 3 (0.77%) Ruby
8 2 (0.52%) C#
8 2 (0.52%) Java
8 2 (0.52%) T-SQL
9 1 (0.26%) TypeScript
9 1 (0.26%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 72 (18.56%) CISSP
2 68 (17.53%) CISM
3 53 (13.66%) ITIL Certification
4 35 (9.02%) Degree
5 34 (8.76%) Azure Certification
6 26 (6.70%) Microsoft Certification
7 22 (5.67%) Security Cleared
8 20 (5.15%) Cisco Certification
9 19 (4.90%) SC Cleared
9 19 (4.90%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 16 (4.12%) CCNA
11 14 (3.61%) CCNP
11 14 (3.61%) CISA
12 13 (3.35%) Computer Science Degree
13 11 (2.84%) CEH
14 10 (2.58%) VCAP
15 9 (2.32%) VCDX
16 8 (2.06%) ISACA
17 7 (1.80%) CRISC
18 6 (1.55%) Dell Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 93 (23.97%) NIST
2 69 (17.78%) ISO 22301
3 61 (15.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 41 (10.57%) GDPR
5 28 (7.22%) Cyber Essentials
6 21 (5.41%) PCI DSS
6 21 (5.41%) SLA
7 17 (4.38%) PMO
8 12 (3.09%) GRC
9 11 (2.84%) COBIT
10 10 (2.58%) SOC 2
11 8 (2.06%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 7 (1.80%) SOC 1
13 5 (1.29%) Actionable Recommendations
13 5 (1.29%) NCSC
14 4 (1.03%) Data Quality
14 4 (1.03%) ISO/IEC 20000
15 3 (0.77%) ISO 9001
16 2 (0.52%) Accessibility
16 2 (0.52%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 90 (23.20%) Active Directory
2 88 (22.68%) VMware Infrastructure
3 60 (15.46%) Hyper-V
4 24 (6.19%) vSphere
5 16 (4.12%) Docker
6 13 (3.35%) Firmware
7 10 (2.58%) VMware ESXi
7 10 (2.58%) VMware NSX
8 9 (2.32%) vCloud
9 7 (1.80%) Virtual Machines
10 6 (1.55%) Squid
11 5 (1.29%) Virtual Desktop
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 58 (14.95%) Terraform
2 41 (10.57%) Microsoft Intune
3 33 (8.51%) Kubernetes
4 19 (4.90%) Ansible
5 7 (1.80%) Packer
5 7 (1.80%) Single Sign-On
6 6 (1.55%) Avamar
6 6 (1.55%) Dell DRAC
6 6 (1.55%) EMC NetWorker
6 6 (1.55%) EMC VPLEX
6 6 (1.55%) Grafana
6 6 (1.55%) Prometheus
6 6 (1.55%) VxRail
7 5 (1.29%) FortiGate
7 5 (1.29%) Proxmox
8 4 (1.03%) SCCM
9 3 (0.77%) vCenter Server
9 3 (0.77%) ZABBIX
10 2 (0.52%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 2 (0.52%) WhatsUp Gold
Vendors
1 201 (51.80%) Microsoft
2 108 (27.84%) VMware
3 50 (12.89%) Veeam
4 39 (10.05%) Cisco
5 19 (4.90%) EMC
6 18 (4.64%) Palo Alto
7 17 (4.38%) Fortinet
7 17 (4.38%) NetApp
8 16 (4.12%) Dell
9 15 (3.87%) Commvault
9 15 (3.87%) Nimble Storage
10 12 (3.09%) Google
11 11 (2.84%) Broadcom
11 11 (2.84%) HP
11 11 (2.84%) IBM
11 11 (2.84%) Oracle
12 10 (2.58%) iManage
12 10 (2.58%) Red Hat
12 10 (2.58%) Sophos
12 10 (2.58%) Splunk