Storage and Backup Engineer Contracts in the UK excluding London

Storage and Backup Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Storage and Backup Engineer daily rate in the UK excluding London is £500 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 1 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 376 438 501
Rank change year-on-year +62 +63 -69
Contract jobs requiring a Storage and Backup Engineer 21 6 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.10% 0.025% 0.029%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.11% 0.027% 0.030%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 5 6
10th Percentile £382 £313 £340
25th Percentile £457 £369 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £388 £385
Median % change year-on-year +29.03% +0.65% -12.00%
75th Percentile £516 £406 -
90th Percentile £600 £415 £502
UK median daily rate £500 £395 £385
% change year-on-year +26.58% +2.60% -18.95%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 19,219 22,597 29,598
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.60% 94.17% 95.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,734 15,842 20,729
10th Percentile £213 £225 £200
25th Percentile £363 £400 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -1.60% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £599 £598 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,245 1,162 1,485
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.41 £12.02
25th Percentile £15.75 £18.08 £14.25
Median hourly rate £39.50 £42.43 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year -6.91% +117.60% +2.63%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £42.51
90th Percentile £73.75 £75.00 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £36.02 £45.00 £23.50
% change year-on-year -19.95% +91.49% +3.14%

Storage and Backup Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings that featured Storage and Backup Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Storage and Backup Engineer in the UK excluding London

Storage and Backup Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Storage and Backup Engineer in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Storage and Backup Engineer in the UK excluding London

Storage and Backup Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Storage and Backup Engineer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Storage and Backup Engineer in the UK excluding London

Storage and Backup Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Storage and Backup Engineer in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Storage and Backup Engineer in the UK excluding London

Storage and Backup Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Storage and Backup Engineer within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 1 May 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
South West +27 11 £500 +81.82% 2
South East - 5 £450 - 3
Scotland - 2 £259 -
North of England +28 1 £480 +18.89%
East of England +8 1 - - 2
East Midlands - 1 £600 -
Midlands - 1 £600 -
North West - 1 £480 -
Storage and Backup Engineer
UK

Storage and Backup Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 1 May 2024, Storage and Backup Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the UK excluding London region featuring Storage and Backup Engineer in the job title.

1 14 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 11 (52.38%) Dell
2 11 (52.38%) DV Cleared
3 10 (47.62%) SAN
3 10 (47.62%) VMware
4 7 (33.33%) NAS
4 7 (33.33%) Public Sector
5 6 (28.57%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 6 (28.57%) VMware Infrastructure
6 5 (23.81%) Avamar
7 4 (19.05%) Presentation Skills
7 4 (19.05%) Virtual Environments
7 4 (19.05%) EMC
7 4 (19.05%) Windows
7 4 (19.05%) Linux
8 3 (14.29%) Migration
8 3 (14.29%) Brocade
8 3 (14.29%) SC Cleared
8 3 (14.29%) Database Migration
9 2 (9.52%) Knowledge Transfer
9 2 (9.52%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (9.52%) Customer Requirements
9 2 (9.52%) Decision-Making
9 2 (9.52%) Microsoft
9 2 (9.52%) Enterprise Storage
9 2 (9.52%) Time Management
9 2 (9.52%) Data Protection
9 2 (9.52%) NetApp
10 1 (4.76%) Tivoli Storage Manager
10 1 (4.76%) Change Management

Storage and Backup Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 1 (4.76%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (4.76%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 1 (4.76%) Cohesity
1 1 (4.76%) OneDrive
1 1 (4.76%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 10 (47.62%) SAN
2 7 (33.33%) NAS
3 1 (4.76%) Fibre Channel
General
1 7 (33.33%) Public Sector
2 4 (19.05%) Presentation Skills
3 2 (9.52%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (4.76%) Finance
4 1 (4.76%) Legal
4 1 (4.76%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 2 (9.52%) Enterprise Storage
2 1 (4.76%) Driving Licence
2 1 (4.76%) IBM XIV
Operating Systems
1 4 (19.05%) Linux
1 4 (19.05%) Windows
2 1 (4.76%) AIX
2 1 (4.76%) Solaris
2 1 (4.76%) Unix
2 1 (4.76%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (28.57%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 4 (19.05%) Virtual Environments
3 3 (14.29%) Database Migration
3 3 (14.29%) Migration
4 2 (9.52%) Customer Requirements
4 2 (9.52%) Data Protection
4 2 (9.52%) Decision-Making
4 2 (9.52%) Knowledge Transfer
4 2 (9.52%) Time Management
5 1 (4.76%) Asset Management
5 1 (4.76%) Change Management
5 1 (4.76%) Cybersecurity
5 1 (4.76%) ITIL
5 1 (4.76%) Stakeholder Management
5 1 (4.76%) Storage Management
5 1 (4.76%) Ticket Management
Qualifications
1 14 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 11 (52.38%) DV Cleared
3 3 (14.29%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 6 (28.57%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (23.81%) Avamar
2 1 (4.76%) EMC NetWorker
2 1 (4.76%) NetBackup
2 1 (4.76%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 11 (52.38%) Dell
2 10 (47.62%) VMware
3 4 (19.05%) EMC
4 3 (14.29%) Brocade
5 2 (9.52%) Microsoft
5 2 (9.52%) NetApp
6 1 (4.76%) Cisco
6 1 (4.76%) IBM
6 1 (4.76%) Veeam