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 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 212 266 340
Rank change year-on-year +54 +74 +3
Permanent jobs citing Disaster Recovery 513 515 732
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 1.52% 1.27% 1.03%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.66% 1.32% 1.06%
Number of salaries quoted 456 437 557
10th Percentile £41,250 £38,900 £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% +11.11%
75th Percentile £78,005 £71,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £92,000 £90,000 £85,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £56,250
% change year-on-year -4.35% +2.22% +8.17%

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 30,838 38,971 69,157
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 91.21% 96.04% 97.04%
Number of salaries quoted 23,338 27,094 41,652
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 £61,180 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.10% +1.97% +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 20 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 42 (8.19%) Microsoft Exchange
2 37 (7.21%) SharePoint
3 13 (2.53%) IIS
4 7 (1.36%) Apache
5 4 (0.78%) Apache Airflow
5 4 (0.78%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
6 3 (0.58%) Confluence
6 3 (0.58%) GlassFish
6 3 (0.58%) JBoss
6 3 (0.58%) Tomcat
6 3 (0.58%) 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 (0.19%) Site Server
Applications
1 12 (2.34%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (2.14%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (0.58%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 13 (2.53%) Dynamics CRM
2 8 (1.56%) NEC Housing
3 3 (0.58%) Dynamics NAV
3 3 (0.58%) Oracle Financial Analyzer
4 1 (0.19%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 269 (52.44%) Azure
2 116 (22.61%) Power Platform
3 105 (20.47%) Microsoft 365
4 87 (16.96%) AWS
5 63 (12.28%) GCP
6 33 (6.43%) Entra ID
7 28 (5.46%) IaaS
8 26 (5.07%) Amazon S3
9 20 (3.90%) OneDrive
10 19 (3.70%) SaaS
11 18 (3.51%) Nutanix
12 15 (2.92%) Azure DevOps
12 15 (2.92%) Cloud Computing
12 15 (2.92%) PowerApps
12 15 (2.92%) Serverless
13 13 (2.53%) Amazon EC2
14 11 (2.14%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 11 (2.14%) AWS Lambda
15 10 (1.95%) PaaS
15 10 (1.95%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 97 (18.91%) Firewall
2 74 (14.42%) Broadband
3 71 (13.84%) DNS
4 55 (10.72%) WAN
5 43 (8.38%) DHCP
6 39 (7.60%) LAN
7 32 (6.24%) SAN
8 29 (5.65%) VPN
9 27 (5.26%) Internet
10 26 (5.07%) TCP/IP
10 26 (5.07%) Wi-Fi
11 24 (4.68%) SD-WAN
12 23 (4.48%) Network Security
13 17 (3.31%) Intrusion Detection
14 12 (2.34%) BGP
14 12 (2.34%) iSCSI
15 11 (2.14%) SNMP
16 10 (1.95%) Wireless
17 9 (1.75%) tcpdump
17 9 (1.75%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 154 (30.02%) SQL Server
2 104 (20.27%) Power BI
3 75 (14.62%) Azure SQL Database
4 29 (5.65%) MongoDB
5 18 (3.51%) BigQuery
6 17 (3.31%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 16 (3.12%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 13 (2.53%) Data Hub
8 13 (2.53%) MySQL
9 12 (2.34%) DB2
9 12 (2.34%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
10 9 (1.75%) Amazon RDS
10 9 (1.75%) Elasticsearch
11 8 (1.56%) Data Warehouse
11 8 (1.56%) NoSQL
11 8 (1.56%) Relational Database
11 8 (1.56%) SQL Server Analysis Services
12 5 (0.97%) InfluxDB
13 4 (0.78%) Flink
13 4 (0.78%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 24 (4.68%) Jenkins
2 23 (4.48%) Git
3 10 (1.95%) TeamCity
4 5 (0.97%) JIRA
5 2 (0.39%) GitLab
5 2 (0.39%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (0.19%) Liquibase
General
1 210 (40.94%) Social Skills
2 152 (29.63%) Finance
3 61 (11.89%) Analytical Skills
4 49 (9.55%) Legal
5 47 (9.16%) Banking
6 34 (6.63%) Retail
7 21 (4.09%) Law
8 20 (3.90%) Financial Institution
8 20 (3.90%) Telecoms
9 19 (3.70%) Documentation Skills
10 17 (3.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 6 (1.17%) Advertising
11 6 (1.17%) Billing
11 6 (1.17%) Presentation Skills
12 5 (0.97%) Back Office
12 5 (0.97%) Influencing Skills
12 5 (0.97%) Manufacturing
12 5 (0.97%) Public Sector
13 2 (0.39%) Organisational Skills
13 2 (0.39%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 106 (20.66%) DBA
2 91 (17.74%) SQL DBA
3 70 (13.65%) Senior
4 63 (12.28%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 49 (9.55%) Analyst
6 47 (9.16%) Lead
7 32 (6.24%) IT Manager
8 30 (5.85%) IT Engineer
9 23 (4.48%) Business Analyst
10 22 (4.29%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
11 21 (4.09%) Infrastructure Manager
12 19 (3.70%) Support Engineer
13 17 (3.31%) Administrator
14 16 (3.12%) Network Engineer
15 15 (2.92%) Cloud Engineer
16 14 (2.73%) Consultant
16 14 (2.73%) Head of IT
16 14 (2.73%) Resilience Manager
16 14 (2.73%) Technical Support
17 13 (2.53%) Linux Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (3.51%) Kafka
1 18 (3.51%) Middleware
2 10 (1.95%) Elastic Stack
2 10 (1.95%) YAML
3 8 (1.56%) LDAP
4 5 (0.97%) .NET
4 5 (0.97%) CSS
4 5 (0.97%) HTML
4 5 (0.97%) React
5 4 (0.78%) AngularJS
5 4 (0.78%) Node.js
5 4 (0.78%) RESTful
6 3 (0.58%) Oracle Fusion
6 3 (0.58%) SAML
7 2 (0.39%) .NET Core
7 2 (0.39%) .NET Framework
7 2 (0.39%) EDI
7 2 (0.39%) Web Services
7 2 (0.39%) WSH
8 1 (0.19%) AWS SAM
Miscellaneous
1 57 (11.11%) Data Centre
2 49 (9.55%) Replication
3 45 (8.77%) Management Information System
4 40 (7.80%) Clustering
5 24 (4.68%) Cyber Threat
5 24 (4.68%) Self-Motivation
6 22 (4.29%) Cyberattack
7 21 (4.09%) Public Cloud
8 20 (3.90%) Data Fabric
8 20 (3.90%) PMI
9 19 (3.70%) Cloud Native
10 17 (3.31%) Security Posture
11 14 (2.73%) IoT
12 11 (2.14%) Driving Licence
12 11 (2.14%) Hybrid Cloud
13 7 (1.36%) Legacy Systems
14 6 (1.17%) Social Media
15 4 (0.78%) Enterprise Storage
15 4 (0.78%) Fat Client
15 4 (0.78%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 165 (32.16%) Windows
2 84 (16.37%) Linux
3 76 (14.81%) VMS
4 72 (14.04%) Windows Server
5 33 (6.43%) Solaris
5 33 (6.43%) Unix
6 24 (4.68%) zOS
7 22 (4.29%) Windows Server 2016
8 20 (3.90%) Windows Server 2019
9 15 (2.92%) AIX
9 15 (2.92%) Windows 10
10 12 (2.34%) CentOS
10 12 (2.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 12 (2.34%) Ubuntu
11 10 (1.95%) Oracle Linux
12 9 (1.75%) Windows Server 2012
13 2 (0.39%) Android
13 2 (0.39%) Apple iOS
13 2 (0.39%) Windows Server 2008
14 1 (0.19%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 144 (28.07%) High Availability
2 120 (23.39%) Performance Tuning
3 104 (20.27%) Business Intelligence
4 102 (19.88%) ITIL
5 97 (18.91%) Business Continuity
6 89 (17.35%) Collaborative Working
7 85 (16.57%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 73 (14.23%) Problem-Solving
9 72 (14.04%) Cybersecurity
10 70 (13.65%) DevOps
11 65 (12.67%) Agile
12 60 (11.70%) Capacity Planning
13 54 (10.53%) Mentoring
14 53 (10.33%) Coaching
15 52 (10.14%) Information Security
15 52 (10.14%) Project Management
16 45 (8.77%) Decision-Making
17 42 (8.19%) ETL
18 40 (7.80%) Infrastructure as Code
19 39 (7.60%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 137 (26.71%) SQL
2 95 (18.52%) T-SQL
3 68 (13.26%) PowerShell
4 53 (10.33%) Python
5 48 (9.36%) Bash
6 23 (4.48%) Perl
7 17 (3.31%) C#
8 11 (2.14%) PL/SQL
9 6 (1.17%) JavaScript
10 5 (0.97%) Bicep
10 5 (0.97%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 4 (0.78%) VBA
12 3 (0.58%) Java
12 3 (0.58%) PHP
13 2 (0.39%) ActionScript
13 2 (0.39%) Shell Script
13 2 (0.39%) VBScript
14 1 (0.19%) Delphi
14 1 (0.19%) Go
Qualifications
1 93 (18.13%) Degree
1 93 (18.13%) Microsoft Certification
2 30 (5.85%) CISSP
3 22 (4.29%) PMI Certification
4 21 (4.09%) Computer Science Degree
5 20 (3.90%) Cisco Certification
6 15 (2.92%) CCNA
7 12 (2.34%) CISM
7 12 (2.34%) GIAC
7 12 (2.34%) GSEC
7 12 (2.34%) SSCP
8 9 (1.75%) Security Cleared
9 8 (1.56%) ITIL Certification
9 8 (1.56%) MCSE
9 8 (1.56%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
10 7 (1.36%) Azure Certification
11 6 (1.17%) AWS Certification
11 6 (1.17%) DBS Check
12 5 (0.97%) CompTIA Security+
12 5 (0.97%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 45 (8.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 25 (4.87%) GDPR
2 25 (4.87%) SLA
3 18 (3.51%) Cyber Essentials
3 18 (3.51%) Data Quality
3 18 (3.51%) QA
4 9 (1.75%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 9 (1.75%) NIST
4 9 (1.75%) PCI DSS
5 6 (1.17%) ISO 22301
6 5 (0.97%) GRC
6 5 (0.97%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
7 3 (0.58%) COBIT
8 2 (0.39%) JSP 440
8 2 (0.39%) NIST 800
9 1 (0.19%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 1 (0.19%) ISO 9001
9 1 (0.19%) PMO
9 1 (0.19%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 127 (24.76%) Active Directory
2 118 (23.00%) Virtual Machines
3 80 (15.59%) VMware Infrastructure
4 31 (6.04%) Docker
5 28 (5.46%) Hyper-V
6 19 (3.70%) Virtual Desktop
7 12 (2.34%) Firmware
7 12 (2.34%) Virtual Servers
8 9 (1.75%) VMware ESXi
9 8 (1.56%) vSphere
10 6 (1.17%) Microsoft Virtual Server
11 1 (0.19%) Ceph
11 1 (0.19%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 49 (9.55%) Terraform
2 42 (8.19%) Ansible
3 30 (5.85%) Kubernetes
4 28 (5.46%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 19 (3.70%) Microsoft Intune
6 16 (3.12%) Nagios
7 15 (2.92%) Grafana
8 12 (2.34%) HAProxy
8 12 (2.34%) Opsgenie
8 12 (2.34%) VxRail
8 12 (2.34%) ZABBIX
9 9 (1.75%) Graphite
9 9 (1.75%) Puppet
9 9 (1.75%) vCenter Server
10 7 (1.36%) Foglight
10 7 (1.36%) Microsoft Clustering
10 7 (1.36%) SCCM
11 6 (1.17%) Istio
12 5 (0.97%) Prometheus
12 5 (0.97%) WSUS
Vendors
1 237 (46.20%) Microsoft
2 99 (19.30%) VMware
3 45 (8.77%) Oracle
4 38 (7.41%) Cisco
5 25 (4.87%) ServiceNow
5 25 (4.87%) SolarWinds
6 22 (4.29%) Google
7 19 (3.70%) Fortinet
7 19 (3.70%) NetApp
8 18 (3.51%) IBM
8 18 (3.51%) Splunk
9 16 (3.12%) Databricks
10 15 (2.92%) F5
11 14 (2.73%) Citrix
11 14 (2.73%) HP
11 14 (2.73%) Red Hat
12 12 (2.34%) Dell
13 10 (1.95%) Serena
14 9 (1.75%) ArcSight
14 9 (1.75%) Veeam