The first table below looks at the demand for the Backup Engineer role in IT contracts advertised for the England region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Backup Engineer in their job title over the 3 months to 24 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all Job Titles advertised for the England region.

Note that daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Backup Engineer
Rank 498 538 564
Rank change year-on-year
+40 +26
Contract jobs requiring a Backup Engineer 15 21 7
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 0.036% 0.039% 0.012%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.039% 0.043% 0.013%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 14 5
Average daily rate £366 £320 £450
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+14.45% -28.88%
UK excluding London average daily rate - £325 £450
% change year-on-year
- -27.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 2 2
Average hourly rate £25.00 £31.25 £19.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-20.00% +64.47%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £23.00 £28.25 £18.20
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £27.00 £34.25 £19.80
UK excluding London average hourly rate £25.00 £31.25 £19.00
% change year-on-year
-20.00% +64.47%
All Job Titles
England
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
38421 49352 52077
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 92.41% 92.53% 92.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 22588 27902 28893
Average daily rate £400 £400 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -5.88%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £240 £246 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £575 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 1983 2412 2765
Average hourly rate £19.00 £18.50 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+2.70% -7.50%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.21 £11.00 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £41.86 £40.00 £40.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Backup Engineer
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Backup Engineer
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Backup Engineer across the England region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

England Backup Engineer Jobs Demand Trend

Backup Engineer
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Backup Engineer across the England region.

England Backup Engineer Daily Rate Trend

Backup Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Backup Engineer across the England region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

England Backup Engineer Daily Rate Histogram

Backup Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Backup Engineer across the England region.

England Backup Engineer Hourly Rate Trend

Backup Engineer
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Backup Engineer within the England region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
London +47 12 £366 +22.08%
East of England +14 3 - -
Backup Engineer
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Backup Engineer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England region that cited Backup Engineer in their job title mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled with Backup Engineer in their job title.

1 20 (68.97%) Windows
2 18 (62.07%) EMC
3 16 (55.17%) SAN
4 10 (34.48%) Celerra
4 10 (34.48%) Windows Server 2008
4 10 (34.48%) VMware
5 8 (27.59%) Tivoli Storage Manager
5 8 (27.59%) EMC NetWorker
6 7 (24.14%) NAS
6 7 (24.14%) NetApp
6 7 (24.14%) IBM
7 6 (20.69%) HP
7 6 (20.69%) Hyper-V
7 6 (20.69%) NetBackup
8 5 (17.24%) EMC Centera
8 5 (17.24%) Linux
8 5 (17.24%) Oracle
8 5 (17.24%) UNIX
9 4 (13.79%) CLARiiON
9 4 (13.79%) Symmetrix
9 4 (13.79%) ITIL
9 4 (13.79%) Dell
9 4 (13.79%) Symmetrix DMX
10 3 (10.34%) CommVault
10 3 (10.34%) Perl
10 3 (10.34%) VB
10 3 (10.34%) SUSE
11 2 (6.897%) PowerShell
11 2 (6.897%) Finance
11 2 (6.897%) Tivoli

Backup Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England region that cited Backup Engineer in their job title mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled with Backup Engineer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Communications & Networking
1 16 (55.17%) SAN
2 7 (24.14%) NAS
3 2 (6.897%) HTTP
4 1 (3.448%) Fibre Channel
4 1 (3.448%) iSCSI
General
1 2 (6.897%) Finance
2 1 (3.448%) Automotive
Miscellaneous
1 10 (34.48%) Celerra
2 5 (17.24%) EMC Centera
3 4 (13.79%) CLARiiON
3 4 (13.79%) Symmetrix
3 4 (13.79%) Symmetrix DMX
4 1 (3.448%) Management Information System
4 1 (3.448%) SaaS
4 1 (3.448%) PaaS
4 1 (3.448%) EqualLogic
4 1 (3.448%) IaaS
4 1 (3.448%) Cloud Computing
Operating Systems
1 20 (68.97%) Windows
2 10 (34.48%) Windows Server 2008
3 5 (17.24%) Linux
3 5 (17.24%) UNIX
4 3 (10.34%) SUSE
5 2 (6.897%) Solaris
6 1 (3.448%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (13.79%) ITIL
2 1 (3.448%) Change Control
2 1 (3.448%) Capacity Management
2 1 (3.448%) Business Transformation
2 1 (3.448%) Information Management
2 1 (3.448%) Problem Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (10.34%) Perl
1 3 (10.34%) VB
2 2 (6.897%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (3.448%) SC Cleared
1 1 (3.448%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 6 (20.69%) Hyper-V
2 1 (3.448%) Active Directory
2 1 (3.448%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (3.448%) Oracle RMAN
2 1 (3.448%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 8 (27.59%) Tivoli Storage Manager
1 8 (27.59%) EMC NetWorker
2 6 (20.69%) NetBackup
3 2 (6.897%) Tivoli
3 2 (6.897%) Legato
4 1 (3.448%) ARCserve
Vendors
1 18 (62.07%) EMC
2 10 (34.48%) VMware
3 7 (24.14%) NetApp
3 7 (24.14%) IBM
4 6 (20.69%) HP
5 5 (17.24%) Oracle
6 4 (13.79%) Dell
7 3 (10.34%) CommVault
8 2 (6.897%) Cisco
9 1 (3.448%) Hitachi
9 1 (3.448%) Microsoft
9 1 (3.448%) StorageTek
9 1 (3.448%) 3PAR
9 1 (3.448%) Veeam
9 1 (3.448%) Brocade
London
Strong Knowledge of EMC Networker concepts. -Should understand the EMC Networker process flow & error codes... - OS Administration: Sun Solaris, Linux,AIX & Windows Responsibilities: -Reviews the existing backup architecture,...
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Posted: 1 May 2013