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

6 months to
5 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 166 261 210
Rank change year-on-year +95 -51 +13
Permanent jobs citing Disaster Recovery 368 183 376
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.64% 1.11% 1.49%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.98% 1.19% 1.69%
Number of salaries quoted 250 138 250
10th Percentile £39,725 £31,775 £41,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £38,650 £49,414
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -15.38% +8.33%
75th Percentile £78,750 £76,250 £87,188
90th Percentile £90,000 £98,250 £102,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -7.60%

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 18,587 15,337 22,190
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 82.86% 92.94% 87.76%
Number of salaries quoted 13,454 9,043 15,990
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £44,972 £40,917 £43,329
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £59,400 £58,700
Median % change year-on-year +1.01% +1.19% -6.08%
75th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £77,500
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 5 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 33 (8.97%) Microsoft Exchange
1 33 (8.97%) SharePoint
2 12 (3.26%) IIS
3 8 (2.17%) Apache
4 6 (1.63%) nginx
5 3 (0.82%) WordPress
6 1 (0.27%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.27%) Confluence
6 1 (0.27%) Site Server
Applications
1 7 (1.90%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (0.82%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.27%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 244 (66.30%) Azure
2 114 (30.98%) AWS
3 102 (27.72%) Microsoft 365
4 77 (20.92%) SaaS
5 60 (16.30%) Entra ID
6 21 (5.71%) GCP
7 20 (5.43%) Nutanix
7 20 (5.43%) Power Platform
8 17 (4.62%) IaaS
9 16 (4.35%) PaaS
10 12 (3.26%) Azure Monitor
11 11 (2.99%) Azure DevOps
12 10 (2.72%) Azure Sentinel
13 9 (2.45%) AWS CloudFormation
13 9 (2.45%) Azure Data Factory
13 9 (2.45%) Mimecast
14 8 (2.17%) GitHub
15 7 (1.90%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 7 (1.90%) Azure Cosmos DB
15 7 (1.90%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 104 (28.26%) Firewall
2 70 (19.02%) DNS
3 56 (15.22%) VPN
4 50 (13.59%) DHCP
5 33 (8.97%) WAN
6 31 (8.42%) TCP/IP
7 28 (7.61%) Network Security
8 27 (7.34%) LAN
9 15 (4.08%) VLAN
9 15 (4.08%) Wi-Fi
10 9 (2.45%) VSAN
11 8 (2.17%) Wireless
12 7 (1.90%) Cisco ISE
12 7 (1.90%) NGFW
13 6 (1.63%) Fibre Channel
13 6 (1.63%) iSCSI
13 6 (1.63%) SD-WAN
14 5 (1.36%) Cisco Nexus
14 5 (1.36%) SAN
15 4 (1.09%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (5.71%) SQL Server
2 10 (2.72%) Power BI
3 9 (2.45%) Azure SQL Database
3 9 (2.45%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (0.82%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (0.54%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 2 (0.54%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 2 (0.54%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 1 (0.27%) MongoDB
6 1 (0.27%) MySQL
6 1 (0.27%) Oracle Database
6 1 (0.27%) Oracle Exadata
6 1 (0.27%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 7 (1.90%) Git
2 6 (1.63%) Visual Studio Code
3 5 (1.36%) JIRA
4 4 (1.09%) GitLab
5 2 (0.54%) Terragrunt
6 1 (0.27%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.27%) Claude Code
6 1 (0.27%) MLflow
6 1 (0.27%) Selenium
General
1 117 (31.79%) Social Skills
2 58 (15.76%) Finance
3 45 (12.23%) Analytical Skills
3 45 (12.23%) Law
4 34 (9.24%) Legal
5 22 (5.98%) Retail
6 21 (5.71%) Banking
7 19 (5.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 17 (4.62%) Documentation Skills
9 15 (4.08%) Organisational Skills
10 12 (3.26%) Public Sector
11 10 (2.72%) Back Office
12 7 (1.90%) Manufacturing
13 6 (1.63%) Advertising
13 6 (1.63%) Influencing Skills
14 5 (1.36%) Marketing
15 4 (1.09%) Presentation Skills
16 3 (0.82%) Local Government
17 2 (0.54%) Social Housing
18 1 (0.27%) Police
Job Titles
1 72 (19.57%) IT Manager
2 58 (15.76%) Senior
3 52 (14.13%) Service Manager
4 50 (13.59%) IT Services Manager
4 50 (13.59%) Resilience Manager
5 47 (12.77%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 25 (6.79%) Architect
6 25 (6.79%) Lead
7 23 (6.25%) Consultant
8 22 (5.98%) IT Engineer
8 22 (5.98%) Support Engineer
9 20 (5.43%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
10 19 (5.16%) Analyst
10 19 (5.16%) Azure Engineer
10 19 (5.16%) Technical Consultant
11 16 (4.35%) IT Support
11 16 (4.35%) Senior Architect
12 15 (4.08%) Cloud Engineer
12 15 (4.08%) Senior VMware Consultant
12 15 (4.08%) VMware Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 56 (15.22%) Middleware
2 11 (2.99%) ARM Templates
3 7 (1.90%) Microsoft Graph
4 6 (1.63%) Web Services
5 3 (0.82%) JSON
5 3 (0.82%) Nuxt
5 3 (0.82%) Ruby on Rails
6 2 (0.54%) .NET
6 2 (0.54%) Kafka
7 1 (0.27%) 802.1X
7 1 (0.27%) Node.js
7 1 (0.27%) NumPy
7 1 (0.27%) OAuth
7 1 (0.27%) OAuth2
7 1 (0.27%) OpenCV
7 1 (0.27%) Pandas
7 1 (0.27%) pytest
7 1 (0.27%) RESTful
7 1 (0.27%) SQLAlchemy
7 1 (0.27%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 60 (16.30%) Cyber Threat
2 31 (8.42%) Data Centre
3 29 (7.88%) Replication
4 26 (7.07%) Hybrid Cloud
5 25 (6.79%) Management Information System
6 22 (5.98%) Cloud Native
7 21 (5.71%) Enterprise Storage
7 21 (5.71%) Onboarding
8 17 (4.62%) Driving Licence
9 16 (4.35%) Security Posture
10 15 (4.08%) Self-Motivation
11 12 (3.26%) Data Protection Act
11 12 (3.26%) Enterprise Software
12 11 (2.99%) iSeries
12 11 (2.99%) Public Cloud
13 10 (2.72%) CMDB
14 8 (2.17%) Virtual Team
15 7 (1.90%) Freedom of Information
15 7 (1.90%) Freedom of Information Act
16 6 (1.63%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 111 (30.16%) Windows
2 82 (22.28%) Windows Server
3 38 (10.33%) Linux
4 8 (2.17%) Mac OS
5 7 (1.90%) Windows Server 2016
6 6 (1.63%) Windows 10
6 6 (1.63%) Windows Server 2019
7 5 (1.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 5 (1.36%) Ubuntu
8 4 (1.09%) Unix
9 2 (0.54%) CentOS
9 2 (0.54%) Solaris
10 1 (0.27%) AIX
10 1 (0.27%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 191 (51.90%) Business Continuity
2 118 (32.07%) Problem-Solving
3 111 (30.16%) Cybersecurity
4 102 (27.72%) Continuous Improvement
4 102 (27.72%) Information Security
5 95 (25.82%) DevOps
6 89 (24.18%) ITIL
7 79 (21.47%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 73 (19.84%) Agile
9 63 (17.12%) Incident Response
9 63 (17.12%) Service Delivery
10 62 (16.85%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 57 (15.49%) Enterprise Architecture
11 57 (15.49%) Project Delivery
11 57 (15.49%) Stakeholder Management
12 56 (15.22%) High Availability
12 56 (15.22%) Runbook
13 54 (14.67%) Test Automation
14 53 (14.40%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 52 (14.13%) Contract Negotiation
Programming Languages
1 84 (22.83%) PowerShell
2 41 (11.14%) Python
3 24 (6.52%) SQL
4 16 (4.35%) Bicep
5 7 (1.90%) Bash
6 5 (1.36%) Shell Script
7 3 (0.82%) Ruby
8 2 (0.54%) C#
8 2 (0.54%) Java
8 2 (0.54%) JavaScript
8 2 (0.54%) T-SQL
9 1 (0.27%) TypeScript
9 1 (0.27%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 72 (19.57%) CISSP
2 68 (18.48%) CISM
3 50 (13.59%) ITIL Certification
4 35 (9.51%) Degree
5 32 (8.70%) Azure Certification
6 30 (8.15%) Microsoft Certification
7 23 (6.25%) Security Cleared
8 20 (5.43%) Cisco Certification
8 20 (5.43%) SC Cleared
9 19 (5.16%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 17 (4.62%) CCNA
11 14 (3.80%) CCNP
11 14 (3.80%) CISA
12 12 (3.26%) CEH
13 11 (2.99%) Computer Science Degree
14 9 (2.45%) VCAP
14 9 (2.45%) VCDX
15 8 (2.17%) ISACA
16 7 (1.90%) CRISC
17 6 (1.63%) Dell Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 96 (26.09%) NIST
2 68 (18.48%) ISO 22301
3 67 (18.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 42 (11.41%) GDPR
5 32 (8.70%) Cyber Essentials
6 22 (5.98%) PCI DSS
7 19 (5.16%) SLA
8 17 (4.62%) PMO
9 12 (3.26%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 12 (3.26%) GRC
9 12 (3.26%) SOC 2
10 11 (2.99%) COBIT
11 7 (1.90%) SOC 1
12 6 (1.63%) Actionable Recommendations
13 4 (1.09%) Data Quality
13 4 (1.09%) NCSC
14 3 (0.82%) ISO 9001
14 3 (0.82%) ISO/IEC 20000
15 2 (0.54%) Accessibility
15 2 (0.54%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 84 (22.83%) VMware Infrastructure
2 78 (21.20%) Active Directory
3 57 (15.49%) Hyper-V
4 23 (6.25%) vSphere
5 15 (4.08%) Docker
6 14 (3.80%) Firmware
7 10 (2.72%) VMware ESXi
8 9 (2.45%) vCloud
8 9 (2.45%) VMware NSX
9 6 (1.63%) Squid
9 6 (1.63%) Virtual Machines
10 4 (1.09%) Virtual Desktop
11 1 (0.27%) KVM
11 1 (0.27%) Oracle RAC
11 1 (0.27%) Terminal Services
11 1 (0.27%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 53 (14.40%) Terraform
2 43 (11.68%) Microsoft Intune
3 30 (8.15%) Kubernetes
4 17 (4.62%) Ansible
5 7 (1.90%) Packer
5 7 (1.90%) Single Sign-On
6 6 (1.63%) Avamar
6 6 (1.63%) Dell DRAC
6 6 (1.63%) EMC NetWorker
6 6 (1.63%) EMC VPLEX
6 6 (1.63%) Grafana
6 6 (1.63%) Prometheus
6 6 (1.63%) VxRail
7 5 (1.36%) FortiGate
8 4 (1.09%) Proxmox
9 3 (0.82%) SCCM
9 3 (0.82%) vCenter Server
9 3 (0.82%) ZABBIX
10 2 (0.54%) WhatsUp Gold
11 1 (0.27%) Puppet
Vendors
1 186 (50.54%) Microsoft
2 104 (28.26%) VMware
3 48 (13.04%) Veeam
4 40 (10.87%) Cisco
5 19 (5.16%) EMC
6 18 (4.89%) Fortinet
7 17 (4.62%) Palo Alto
8 16 (4.35%) Commvault
8 16 (4.35%) Dell
9 15 (4.08%) NetApp
9 15 (4.08%) Nimble Storage
10 13 (3.53%) Meraki
11 11 (2.99%) Broadcom
11 11 (2.99%) HP
11 11 (2.99%) IBM
11 11 (2.99%) Sophos
11 11 (2.99%) Splunk
12 10 (2.72%) iManage
12 10 (2.72%) Oracle
13 9 (2.45%) ServiceNow