The first table below looks at the demand for the Backup Engineer role in IT contracts advertised for the London 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 19 June 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 London 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Backup Engineer
Rank 378 407 -
Rank change year-on-year
+29 -
Contract jobs requiring a Backup Engineer 6 3 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 0.026% 0.011% -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.029% 0.012% -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 3 0
Average daily rate £425 £300 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+41.66% -
UK excluding London average daily rate - £315 £450
% change year-on-year
- -30.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.50 £27.50 £19.00
% change year-on-year
- +44.73%
All Job Titles
London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
20976 24602 29086
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 91.99% 92.53% 92.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 14169 15932 18722
Average daily rate £450 £438 £475
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+2.85% -7.89%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £275 £275 £293
10% offered a daily rate of more than £600 £600 £625
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 447 607 665
Average hourly rate £20.00 £19.50 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+2.56% -2.50%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.50 £12.50 £12.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £45.00 £41.00 £47.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £19.94
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -9.72%
Backup Engineer
England

Backup Engineer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

London 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 London region.

London 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 London region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

London 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 London region.

London 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 London region over the 3 months to 19 June 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
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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
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Backup Engineer
England

Backup Engineer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London 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 13 (76.47%) Windows
1 13 (76.47%) EMC
2 8 (47.06%) SAN
3 7 (41.18%) Celerra
4 6 (35.29%) EMC NetWorker
4 6 (35.29%) UNIX
4 6 (35.29%) NetApp
5 5 (29.41%) VMware
5 5 (29.41%) HP
5 5 (29.41%) Windows Server 2008
6 4 (23.53%) Symmetrix DMX
6 4 (23.53%) Oracle
6 4 (23.53%) CLARiiON
6 4 (23.53%) Symmetrix
6 4 (23.53%) EMC Centera
7 3 (17.65%) NetBackup
7 3 (17.65%) ITIL
7 3 (17.65%) VB
7 3 (17.65%) CommVault
7 3 (17.65%) Hyper-V
7 3 (17.65%) NAS
8 2 (11.76%) iSCSI
8 2 (11.76%) VMware Infrastructure
8 2 (11.76%) PowerShell
8 2 (11.76%) Fibre Channel
8 2 (11.76%) Capacity Management
8 2 (11.76%) Active Directory
8 2 (11.76%) Hitachi
8 2 (11.76%) Solaris
8 2 (11.76%) HTTP

Backup Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London 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 8 (47.06%) SAN
2 3 (17.65%) NAS
3 2 (11.76%) iSCSI
3 2 (11.76%) Fibre Channel
3 2 (11.76%) HTTP
Miscellaneous
1 7 (41.18%) Celerra
2 4 (23.53%) Symmetrix DMX
2 4 (23.53%) CLARiiON
2 4 (23.53%) Symmetrix
2 4 (23.53%) EMC Centera
3 1 (5.882%) EqualLogic
Operating Systems
1 13 (76.47%) Windows
2 6 (35.29%) UNIX
3 5 (29.41%) Windows Server 2008
4 2 (11.76%) Solaris
4 2 (11.76%) Windows Server 2003
5 1 (5.882%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (17.65%) ITIL
2 2 (11.76%) Capacity Management
3 1 (5.882%) Data Management
3 1 (5.882%) Information Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (17.65%) VB
2 2 (11.76%) PowerShell
System Software
1 3 (17.65%) Hyper-V
2 2 (11.76%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (11.76%) Active Directory
3 1 (5.882%) NDS
3 1 (5.882%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 6 (35.29%) EMC NetWorker
2 3 (17.65%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 13 (76.47%) EMC
2 6 (35.29%) NetApp
3 5 (29.41%) VMware
3 5 (29.41%) HP
4 4 (23.53%) Oracle
5 3 (17.65%) CommVault
6 2 (11.76%) Hitachi
6 2 (11.76%) Brocade
7 1 (5.882%) Novell
7 1 (5.882%) Cisco
7 1 (5.882%) IBM
7 1 (5.882%) Microsoft
7 1 (5.882%) Dell
7 1 (5.882%) 3PAR
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