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 15 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 169 252 201
Rank change year-on-year +83 -51 +57
Permanent jobs citing Disaster Recovery 259 190 508
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.40% 1.30% 1.57%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.69% 1.37% 1.72%
Number of salaries quoted 197 143 458
10th Percentile £41,250 £32,350 £41,186
25th Percentile £52,500 £42,250 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% - +0.80%
75th Percentile £87,500 £72,500 £78,564
90th Percentile £92,700 £83,750 £92,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £62,250 £55,000
% change year-on-year -3.61% +13.18% -1.92%

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 15,340 13,907 29,523
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 82.77% 95.05% 91.04%
Number of salaries quoted 10,890 8,636 23,352
10th Percentile £33,750 £31,250 £33,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £44,188 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,100 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +0.17% +4.35% -8.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +9.09% -10.10%

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 15 May 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 36 (13.90%) SharePoint
2 35 (13.51%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (0.77%) Apache
3 2 (0.77%) IIS
4 1 (0.39%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 7 (2.70%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (1.54%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (1.16%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (1.54%) Markit EDM
2 3 (1.16%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (1.16%) Oracle EBS
3 2 (0.77%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 160 (61.78%) Azure
2 78 (30.12%) Microsoft 365
3 45 (17.37%) Entra ID
4 40 (15.44%) AWS
5 28 (10.81%) Nutanix
6 17 (6.56%) GitHub
7 16 (6.18%) Azure Monitor
7 16 (6.18%) SaaS
8 15 (5.79%) OneDrive
9 13 (5.02%) Azure Data Factory
9 13 (5.02%) Azure DevOps
10 12 (4.63%) Amazon EKS
10 12 (4.63%) GCP
10 12 (4.63%) IaaS
10 12 (4.63%) PaaS
11 11 (4.25%) Mimecast
12 10 (3.86%) Amazon EC2
12 10 (3.86%) Power Platform
12 10 (3.86%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 9 (3.47%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 71 (27.41%) Firewall
2 54 (20.85%) VPN
3 43 (16.60%) WAN
4 42 (16.22%) DNS
5 30 (11.58%) DHCP
6 28 (10.81%) TCP/IP
7 24 (9.27%) LAN
8 16 (6.18%) Network Security
9 15 (5.79%) SD-WAN
10 12 (4.63%) Wi-Fi
11 10 (3.86%) VLAN
12 9 (3.47%) VSAN
13 6 (2.32%) Cisco ISE
13 6 (2.32%) Wireless
14 5 (1.93%) SAN
15 4 (1.54%) Cisco Nexus
15 4 (1.54%) Intrusion Detection
15 4 (1.54%) NGFW
16 3 (1.16%) Fibre Channel
16 3 (1.16%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (6.18%) SQL Server
2 15 (5.79%) Amazon RDS
3 13 (5.02%) Azure SQL Database
4 9 (3.47%) Data Lake
4 9 (3.47%) Delta Lake
5 7 (2.70%) Amazon Aurora
6 4 (1.54%) Data Warehouse
7 3 (1.16%) Power BI
8 2 (0.77%) PostgreSQL
9 1 (0.39%) Oracle Exadata
9 1 (0.39%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 1 (0.39%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 1 (0.39%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 19 (7.34%) Git
2 6 (2.32%) Visual Studio Code
3 3 (1.16%) Jenkins
3 3 (1.16%) Maven
3 3 (1.16%) Sonatype Nexus
4 2 (0.77%) Selenium
5 1 (0.39%) JIRA
5 1 (0.39%) MLflow
General
1 88 (33.98%) Social Skills
2 60 (23.17%) Finance
3 36 (13.90%) Analytical Skills
4 24 (9.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 20 (7.72%) Banking
5 20 (7.72%) Law
6 14 (5.41%) Retail
7 13 (5.02%) Public Sector
8 11 (4.25%) Back Office
8 11 (4.25%) Organisational Skills
9 10 (3.86%) Legal
10 7 (2.70%) Documentation Skills
11 6 (2.32%) Marketing
12 4 (1.54%) Advertising
12 4 (1.54%) Presentation Skills
12 4 (1.54%) Social Housing
13 3 (1.16%) Financial Institution
13 3 (1.16%) Local Government
14 2 (0.77%) Manufacturing
15 1 (0.39%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 54 (20.85%) Senior
2 51 (19.69%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 26 (10.04%) IT Manager
4 22 (8.49%) Platform Engineer
5 18 (6.95%) IT Engineer
5 18 (6.95%) Security Specialist
5 18 (6.95%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
6 17 (6.56%) Lead
7 15 (5.79%) Consultant
8 14 (5.41%) Azure Engineer
8 14 (5.41%) Cloud Platform Engineer
8 14 (5.41%) Support Engineer
9 13 (5.02%) Architect
9 13 (5.02%) Cloud Engineer
9 13 (5.02%) Security Manager
10 12 (4.63%) IT Security Specialist
10 12 (4.63%) Senior Consultant
10 12 (4.63%) Senior Technical Consultant
10 12 (4.63%) Senior VMware Consultant
10 12 (4.63%) Technical Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (3.47%) PySpark
2 7 (2.70%) Loki
3 6 (2.32%) ARM Templates
4 4 (1.54%) Microsoft Graph
4 4 (1.54%) RESTful
5 3 (1.16%) ActiveMQ
5 3 (1.16%) RAML
5 3 (1.16%) REST
5 3 (1.16%) SOAP
6 2 (0.77%) JSON
6 2 (0.77%) Kafka
6 2 (0.77%) Node.js
6 2 (0.77%) Playwright
7 1 (0.39%) AWS CDK
7 1 (0.39%) AWS SAM
7 1 (0.39%) FastAPI
7 1 (0.39%) Hugging Face
7 1 (0.39%) JWT
7 1 (0.39%) OpenCV
7 1 (0.39%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 27 (10.42%) Data Centre
2 26 (10.04%) Hybrid Cloud
3 20 (7.72%) Cloud Native
4 19 (7.34%) Management Information System
5 16 (6.18%) Driving Licence
5 16 (6.18%) Onboarding
6 14 (5.41%) Enterprise Storage
6 14 (5.41%) Legacy Systems
7 13 (5.02%) Replication
8 12 (4.63%) CMDB
9 11 (4.25%) Cyber Threat
10 9 (3.47%) iSeries
11 8 (3.09%) Public Cloud
11 8 (3.09%) Self-Motivation
12 7 (2.70%) Data Protection Act
12 7 (2.70%) Enterprise Software
12 7 (2.70%) Private Cloud
13 6 (2.32%) Security Posture
14 4 (1.54%) Cyber Defence
14 4 (1.54%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 78 (30.12%) Windows
2 49 (18.92%) Windows Server
3 27 (10.42%) Linux
4 12 (4.63%) Windows 10
5 11 (4.25%) Apple iOS
6 4 (1.54%) Mac OS
7 3 (1.16%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 3 (1.16%) Unix
7 3 (1.16%) Windows Server 2016
8 2 (0.77%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.39%) AIX
9 1 (0.39%) CentOS
9 1 (0.39%) Solaris
9 1 (0.39%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 79 (30.50%) Cybersecurity
2 77 (29.73%) Business Continuity
3 76 (29.34%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 71 (27.41%) Problem-Solving
5 56 (21.62%) Service Delivery
6 55 (21.24%) Continuous Improvement
7 53 (20.46%) DevOps
8 47 (18.15%) ITIL
9 44 (16.99%) CI/CD
10 39 (15.06%) Incident Response
11 37 (14.29%) Infrastructure as Code
12 35 (13.51%) Vulnerability Management
13 33 (12.74%) Information Security
14 32 (12.36%) Cloud Security
15 31 (11.97%) High Availability
16 30 (11.58%) Migration
16 30 (11.58%) Platform Engineering
17 29 (11.20%) Mentoring
18 27 (10.42%) Root Cause Analysis
18 27 (10.42%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 69 (26.64%) PowerShell
2 54 (20.85%) Python
3 24 (9.27%) SQL
4 9 (3.47%) Bash
4 9 (3.47%) Bicep
4 9 (3.47%) Java
4 9 (3.47%) Scala
5 4 (1.54%) Go
6 2 (0.77%) TypeScript
7 1 (0.39%) C#
7 1 (0.39%) JavaScript
7 1 (0.39%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 43 (16.60%) Degree
2 24 (9.27%) Microsoft Certification
3 19 (7.34%) Azure Certification
4 15 (5.79%) CEH
4 15 (5.79%) Security Cleared
5 14 (5.41%) Computer Science Degree
5 14 (5.41%) SC Cleared
6 13 (5.02%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 11 (4.25%) Cisco Certification
8 9 (3.47%) VCAP
8 9 (3.47%) VCDX
9 8 (3.09%) BPSS Clearance
9 8 (3.09%) CCNA
9 8 (3.09%) CCNP
9 8 (3.09%) CISSP
10 5 (1.93%) CISM
11 4 (1.54%) ISACA
11 4 (1.54%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 4 (1.54%) MCSE
12 3 (1.16%) CRISC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 55 (21.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 38 (14.67%) NIST
3 33 (12.74%) Cyber Essentials
4 24 (9.27%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 22 (8.49%) GDPR
6 17 (6.56%) PCI DSS
7 14 (5.41%) ISO 22301
8 13 (5.02%) Data Quality
9 12 (4.63%) PMO
10 10 (3.86%) Actionable Recommendations
11 9 (3.47%) GRC
12 8 (3.09%) SLA
12 8 (3.09%) SOC 2
13 6 (2.32%) COBIT
14 3 (1.16%) SOC 1
15 2 (0.77%) Accessibility
15 2 (0.77%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
16 1 (0.39%) Basel III
16 1 (0.39%) MiFID
16 1 (0.39%) NCSC
System Software
1 61 (23.55%) Active Directory
2 58 (22.39%) VMware Infrastructure
3 28 (10.81%) Hyper-V
4 17 (6.56%) Firmware
5 16 (6.18%) vSphere
6 10 (3.86%) vCloud
7 9 (3.47%) Docker
7 9 (3.47%) VMware NSX
8 6 (2.32%) Virtual Machines
9 4 (1.54%) Virtual Servers
10 3 (1.16%) Microsoft Virtual Server
10 3 (1.16%) VMware ESXi
11 2 (0.77%) Virtual Desktop
12 1 (0.39%) KVM
12 1 (0.39%) Oracle RAC
12 1 (0.39%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 43 (16.60%) Microsoft Intune
1 43 (16.60%) Terraform
2 25 (9.65%) Kubernetes
3 11 (4.25%) Ansible
4 9 (3.47%) Grafana
5 8 (3.09%) Packer
5 8 (3.09%) Prometheus
6 5 (1.93%) Dell DRAC
7 4 (1.54%) FortiGate
7 4 (1.54%) vCenter Server
8 3 (1.16%) Avamar
8 3 (1.16%) EMC NetWorker
8 3 (1.16%) EMC VPLEX
8 3 (1.16%) Single Sign-On
8 3 (1.16%) VxRail
9 2 (0.77%) SCCM
10 1 (0.39%) Data Guard
10 1 (0.39%) Jamf Pro
10 1 (0.39%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
10 1 (0.39%) Oracle Flashback
Vendors
1 136 (52.51%) Microsoft
2 85 (32.82%) VMware
3 29 (11.20%) Cisco
4 24 (9.27%) Commvault
5 19 (7.34%) Veeam
6 15 (5.79%) Dell
6 15 (5.79%) EMC
7 14 (5.41%) Fortinet
8 13 (5.02%) IBM
8 13 (5.02%) NetApp
9 12 (4.63%) Meraki
9 12 (4.63%) Nimble Storage
10 10 (3.86%) ServiceNow
11 9 (3.47%) Broadcom
11 9 (3.47%) Databricks
11 9 (3.47%) HP
12 8 (3.09%) Palo Alto
12 8 (3.09%) Sophos
13 7 (2.70%) Oracle
13 7 (2.70%) Splunk