Disaster Recovery Jobs with Work from Home Options

Disaster Recovery
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and a requirement for Disaster Recovery skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Disaster Recovery over the 6 months to 12 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
12 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 217 271 338
Rank change year-on-year +54 +67 -5
Permanent jobs citing Disaster Recovery 508 522 700
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 1.50% 1.26% 1.02%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.64% 1.31% 1.05%
Number of salaries quoted 460 441 535
10th Percentile £41,229 £39,750 £40,000
25th Percentile £51,250 £47,500 £46,470
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £59,526 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.80% -0.79% +14.29%
75th Percentile £78,750 £73,750 £72,750
90th Percentile £92,000 £87,500 £86,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,150 £56,392
% change year-on-year -0.27% -2.20% +11.67%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

Disaster Recovery is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a WFH option and a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 30,887 39,758 66,711
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 91.37% 96.08% 97.00%
Number of salaries quoted 23,439 27,659 41,086
10th Percentile £33,750 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £45,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £75,000 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £61,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -9.84% +1.67% +9.09%

Disaster Recovery
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Disaster Recovery as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Disaster Recovery trend for jobs with a WFH option

Disaster Recovery
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Disaster Recovery.

Disaster Recovery salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Disaster Recovery
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Disaster Recovery over the 6 months to 12 May 2024.

Disaster Recovery salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Disaster Recovery
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 45 (8.86%) Microsoft Exchange
2 42 (8.27%) SharePoint
3 13 (2.56%) IIS
4 7 (1.38%) Apache
5 4 (0.79%) Apache Airflow
5 4 (0.79%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
6 3 (0.59%) Confluence
6 3 (0.59%) GlassFish
6 3 (0.59%) JBoss
6 3 (0.59%) Tomcat
6 3 (0.59%) WordPress
7 2 (0.39%) CMS
7 2 (0.39%) Drupal
7 2 (0.39%) Oracle Application Server
7 2 (0.39%) WebLogic
8 1 (0.20%) NetWeaver
8 1 (0.20%) Site Server
Applications
1 12 (2.36%) Microsoft Excel
1 12 (2.36%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (0.59%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 13 (2.56%) Dynamics CRM
2 8 (1.57%) NEC Housing
3 3 (0.59%) Dynamics NAV
4 2 (0.39%) Oracle Financial Analyzer
4 2 (0.39%) SAP Business One
5 1 (0.20%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 270 (53.15%) Azure
2 118 (23.23%) Power Platform
3 109 (21.46%) Microsoft 365
4 88 (17.32%) AWS
5 64 (12.60%) GCP
6 36 (7.09%) Entra ID
7 27 (5.31%) Amazon S3
7 27 (5.31%) IaaS
8 22 (4.33%) OneDrive
9 19 (3.74%) SaaS
10 17 (3.35%) Nutanix
10 17 (3.35%) PowerApps
11 15 (2.95%) Azure DevOps
11 15 (2.95%) Cloud Computing
12 14 (2.76%) Serverless
13 13 (2.56%) Amazon EC2
14 11 (2.17%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 11 (2.17%) AWS Lambda
14 11 (2.17%) Power Automate
15 10 (1.97%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 99 (19.49%) Firewall
2 74 (14.57%) Broadband
3 72 (14.17%) DNS
4 55 (10.83%) WAN
5 44 (8.66%) DHCP
6 39 (7.68%) LAN
7 33 (6.50%) SAN
8 29 (5.71%) VPN
9 28 (5.51%) Internet
10 27 (5.31%) Wi-Fi
11 26 (5.12%) TCP/IP
12 24 (4.72%) Network Security
12 24 (4.72%) SD-WAN
13 17 (3.35%) Intrusion Detection
14 12 (2.36%) BGP
14 12 (2.36%) iSCSI
14 12 (2.36%) SNMP
15 10 (1.97%) tcpdump
15 10 (1.97%) VoIP
15 10 (1.97%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 152 (29.92%) SQL Server
2 105 (20.67%) Power BI
3 75 (14.76%) Azure SQL Database
4 30 (5.91%) MongoDB
5 18 (3.54%) BigQuery
6 17 (3.35%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 16 (3.15%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 14 (2.76%) MySQL
9 13 (2.56%) Data Hub
10 12 (2.36%) DB2
10 12 (2.36%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
11 10 (1.97%) Elasticsearch
12 9 (1.77%) Amazon RDS
13 8 (1.57%) Data Warehouse
13 8 (1.57%) Relational Database
13 8 (1.57%) SQL Server Analysis Services
14 7 (1.38%) NoSQL
15 5 (0.98%) InfluxDB
16 4 (0.79%) Flink
16 4 (0.79%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 24 (4.72%) Jenkins
2 23 (4.53%) Git
3 10 (1.97%) TeamCity
4 5 (0.98%) JIRA
5 2 (0.39%) GitLab
5 2 (0.39%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (0.20%) Liquibase
General
1 213 (41.93%) Social Skills
2 152 (29.92%) Finance
3 59 (11.61%) Analytical Skills
4 47 (9.25%) Banking
5 41 (8.07%) Legal
6 26 (5.12%) Retail
7 22 (4.33%) Law
8 21 (4.13%) Telecoms
9 20 (3.94%) Financial Institution
10 19 (3.74%) Documentation Skills
11 17 (3.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 6 (1.18%) Advertising
12 6 (1.18%) Billing
12 6 (1.18%) Presentation Skills
13 5 (0.98%) Back Office
13 5 (0.98%) Influencing Skills
13 5 (0.98%) Manufacturing
13 5 (0.98%) Public Sector
14 2 (0.39%) Organisational Skills
14 2 (0.39%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 104 (20.47%) DBA
2 89 (17.52%) SQL DBA
3 71 (13.98%) Senior
4 63 (12.40%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 43 (8.46%) Lead
6 41 (8.07%) Analyst
7 33 (6.50%) IT Manager
8 29 (5.71%) IT Engineer
9 22 (4.33%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
10 21 (4.13%) Infrastructure Manager
11 19 (3.74%) Support Engineer
12 17 (3.35%) Administrator
13 16 (3.15%) Network Engineer
14 15 (2.95%) Cloud Engineer
15 14 (2.76%) Business Analyst
15 14 (2.76%) Consultant
15 14 (2.76%) Head of IT
15 14 (2.76%) Linux Engineer
15 14 (2.76%) Resilience Manager
15 14 (2.76%) Technical Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (3.54%) Kafka
1 18 (3.54%) Middleware
2 11 (2.17%) Elastic Stack
2 11 (2.17%) YAML
3 9 (1.77%) LDAP
4 5 (0.98%) .NET
4 5 (0.98%) CSS
4 5 (0.98%) HTML
4 5 (0.98%) React
5 4 (0.79%) AngularJS
5 4 (0.79%) Node.js
5 4 (0.79%) RESTful
6 3 (0.59%) SAML
7 2 (0.39%) .NET Core
7 2 (0.39%) .NET Framework
7 2 (0.39%) EDI
7 2 (0.39%) Oracle Fusion
7 2 (0.39%) Web Services
7 2 (0.39%) WSH
8 1 (0.20%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 58 (11.42%) Data Centre
2 49 (9.65%) Replication
3 44 (8.66%) Management Information System
4 41 (8.07%) Clustering
5 25 (4.92%) Self-Motivation
6 24 (4.72%) Cyber Threat
7 22 (4.33%) Cyberattack
8 21 (4.13%) Public Cloud
9 20 (3.94%) Data Fabric
9 20 (3.94%) PMI
10 18 (3.54%) Cloud Native
10 18 (3.54%) Security Posture
11 13 (2.56%) IoT
12 11 (2.17%) Driving Licence
13 10 (1.97%) Hybrid Cloud
14 6 (1.18%) Legacy Systems
14 6 (1.18%) Social Media
15 4 (0.79%) Enterprise Storage
15 4 (0.79%) Fat Client
15 4 (0.79%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 167 (32.87%) Windows
2 86 (16.93%) Linux
3 76 (14.96%) VMS
4 75 (14.76%) Windows Server
5 33 (6.50%) Solaris
5 33 (6.50%) Unix
6 24 (4.72%) zOS
7 23 (4.53%) Windows Server 2016
8 21 (4.13%) Windows Server 2019
9 15 (2.95%) AIX
9 15 (2.95%) Windows 10
10 12 (2.36%) CentOS
10 12 (2.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 12 (2.36%) Ubuntu
11 10 (1.97%) Oracle Linux
11 10 (1.97%) Windows Server 2012
12 3 (0.59%) Android
12 3 (0.59%) Apple iOS
13 2 (0.39%) Windows Server 2008
14 1 (0.20%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 147 (28.94%) High Availability
2 121 (23.82%) Performance Tuning
3 104 (20.47%) Business Intelligence
4 101 (19.88%) Business Continuity
5 95 (18.70%) ITIL
6 89 (17.52%) Collaborative Working
7 85 (16.73%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 76 (14.96%) Cybersecurity
9 71 (13.98%) Problem-Solving
10 69 (13.58%) DevOps
11 65 (12.80%) Agile
12 60 (11.81%) Capacity Planning
13 53 (10.43%) Mentoring
14 52 (10.24%) Information Security
15 51 (10.04%) Project Management
16 43 (8.46%) Decision-Making
17 42 (8.27%) Coaching
17 42 (8.27%) ETL
18 41 (8.07%) Infrastructure as Code
19 39 (7.68%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 134 (26.38%) SQL
2 95 (18.70%) T-SQL
3 72 (14.17%) PowerShell
4 53 (10.43%) Python
5 49 (9.65%) Bash
6 23 (4.53%) Perl
7 17 (3.35%) C#
8 11 (2.17%) PL/SQL
9 6 (1.18%) JavaScript
10 5 (0.98%) Bicep
10 5 (0.98%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 4 (0.79%) Java
11 4 (0.79%) VBA
12 3 (0.59%) PHP
13 2 (0.39%) ActionScript
13 2 (0.39%) Shell Script
13 2 (0.39%) VBScript
14 1 (0.20%) ABAP
14 1 (0.20%) Delphi
14 1 (0.20%) Go
Qualifications
1 93 (18.31%) Microsoft Certification
2 86 (16.93%) Degree
3 31 (6.10%) CISSP
4 22 (4.33%) PMI Certification
5 21 (4.13%) Cisco Certification
6 20 (3.94%) Computer Science Degree
7 16 (3.15%) CCNA
8 13 (2.56%) CISM
9 12 (2.36%) GIAC
9 12 (2.36%) GSEC
9 12 (2.36%) SSCP
10 9 (1.77%) ITIL Certification
10 9 (1.77%) MCSE
10 9 (1.77%) Security Cleared
11 8 (1.57%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
12 6 (1.18%) Azure Certification
12 6 (1.18%) CompTIA CySA+
12 6 (1.18%) CompTIA Security+
12 6 (1.18%) DBS Check
12 6 (1.18%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 45 (8.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 27 (5.31%) SLA
3 24 (4.72%) GDPR
4 19 (3.74%) Cyber Essentials
5 17 (3.35%) Data Quality
6 9 (1.77%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 9 (1.77%) NIST
6 9 (1.77%) PCI DSS
6 9 (1.77%) QA
7 6 (1.18%) ISO 22301
8 5 (0.98%) GRC
8 5 (0.98%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 3 (0.59%) COBIT
10 2 (0.39%) JSP 440
10 2 (0.39%) NIST 800
11 1 (0.20%) ISO 9001
11 1 (0.20%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 127 (25.00%) Active Directory
2 116 (22.83%) Virtual Machines
3 80 (15.75%) VMware Infrastructure
4 33 (6.50%) Docker
5 28 (5.51%) Hyper-V
6 18 (3.54%) Virtual Desktop
7 12 (2.36%) Firmware
7 12 (2.36%) Virtual Servers
8 10 (1.97%) VMware ESXi
9 8 (1.57%) vSphere
10 6 (1.18%) Microsoft Virtual Server
11 1 (0.20%) Ceph
11 1 (0.20%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 50 (9.84%) Terraform
2 44 (8.66%) Ansible
3 31 (6.10%) Kubernetes
4 29 (5.71%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 21 (4.13%) Microsoft Intune
6 17 (3.35%) Nagios
7 16 (3.15%) Grafana
8 13 (2.56%) HAProxy
9 12 (2.36%) Opsgenie
9 12 (2.36%) VxRail
9 12 (2.36%) ZABBIX
10 10 (1.97%) Graphite
10 10 (1.97%) Puppet
10 10 (1.97%) vCenter Server
11 7 (1.38%) Foglight
11 7 (1.38%) Microsoft Clustering
11 7 (1.38%) SCCM
12 6 (1.18%) Istio
12 6 (1.18%) WSUS
13 5 (0.98%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 240 (47.24%) Microsoft
2 98 (19.29%) VMware
3 44 (8.66%) Oracle
4 38 (7.48%) Cisco
5 27 (5.31%) ServiceNow
6 25 (4.92%) SolarWinds
7 20 (3.94%) Google
8 19 (3.74%) NetApp
9 18 (3.54%) Fortinet
9 18 (3.54%) IBM
9 18 (3.54%) Splunk
10 16 (3.15%) Databricks
11 15 (2.95%) F5
12 14 (2.76%) Citrix
12 14 (2.76%) HP
12 14 (2.76%) Red Hat
13 12 (2.36%) Dell
14 10 (1.97%) Serena
15 9 (1.77%) ArcSight
15 9 (1.77%) Veeam