Storage and Backup Engineer Contracts

Storage and Backup Engineer
UK

The median Storage and Backup Engineer daily rate in the UK is £500 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 18 April 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
18 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 567 703 846
Rank change year-on-year +136 +143 -168
Contract jobs requiring a Storage and Backup Engineer 20 12 14
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.046% 0.020% 0.016%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.049% 0.021% 0.016%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 10 8
10th Percentile £366 £274 £300
25th Percentile £453 £370 £360
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £391 £385
Median % change year-on-year +27.80% +1.62% -18.95%
75th Percentile £518 £419 £411
90th Percentile £565 £420 £527
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £388 £385
% change year-on-year +29.03% +0.65% -12.00%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. 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 with a recognized job title 40,554 57,501 85,863
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.77% 94.56% 95.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,500 40,089 60,302
10th Percentile £275 £310 £313
25th Percentile £409 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £745 £750 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £493 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -1.40% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,611 1,615 2,125
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.36 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.25 £19.25 £15.38
Median hourly rate £35.00 £45.00 £22.88
Median % change year-on-year -22.22% +96.68% -0.52%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.65 £63.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £36.27 £42.26 £19.50
% change year-on-year -14.17% +116.72% +2.63%

Storage and Backup Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Storage and Backup Engineer in the UK

Storage and Backup Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Storage and Backup Engineer in the UK

Storage and Backup Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Storage and Backup Engineer over the 6 months to 18 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Storage and Backup Engineer in the UK

Storage and Backup Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Storage and Backup Engineer in the UK

Storage and Backup Engineer
Top 11 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 18 April 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
UK excluding London +60 19 £500 +29.03% 6
England +134 17 £500 +29.03% 6
South West +27 10 £500 +81.82% 2
Work from Home +133 4 £475 +13.10%
South East - 4 £450 - 1
Scotland - 2 £259 -
North of England +33 1 £480 +18.89%
East of England +13 1 - - 3
East Midlands - 1 £600 -
Midlands - 1 £600 -
North West - 1 £480 -

Storage and Backup Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 18 April 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 featuring Storage and Backup Engineer in the job title.

1 12 (60.00%) Security Cleared
2 11 (55.00%) Dell
3 10 (50.00%) DV Cleared
3 10 (50.00%) VMware
4 9 (45.00%) SAN
5 7 (35.00%) NAS
6 6 (30.00%) Public Sector
6 6 (30.00%) VMware Infrastructure
7 5 (25.00%) EMC
7 5 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 5 (25.00%) Avamar
8 4 (20.00%) Presentation Skills
8 4 (20.00%) Virtual Environments
8 4 (20.00%) Windows
8 4 (20.00%) Linux
9 3 (15.00%) Migration
9 3 (15.00%) Database Migration
10 2 (10.00%) Knowledge Transfer
10 2 (10.00%) Rubrik
10 2 (10.00%) Customer Requirements
10 2 (10.00%) Decision-Making
10 2 (10.00%) Cohesity
10 2 (10.00%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (10.00%) Enterprise Storage
10 2 (10.00%) Veeam
10 2 (10.00%) Stakeholder Management
10 2 (10.00%) Brocade
10 2 (10.00%) Microsoft
10 2 (10.00%) Time Management
10 2 (10.00%) Data Protection

Storage and Backup Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 (5.00%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (5.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 2 (10.00%) Cohesity
1 2 (10.00%) Rubrik
2 1 (5.00%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 9 (45.00%) SAN
2 7 (35.00%) NAS
3 1 (5.00%) Fibre Channel
General
1 6 (30.00%) Public Sector
2 4 (20.00%) Presentation Skills
3 2 (10.00%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (5.00%) Finance
4 1 (5.00%) Legal
4 1 (5.00%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 2 (10.00%) Enterprise Storage
Operating Systems
1 4 (20.00%) Linux
1 4 (20.00%) Windows
2 1 (5.00%) AIX
2 1 (5.00%) Solaris
2 1 (5.00%) Unix
2 1 (5.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 4 (20.00%) Virtual Environments
3 3 (15.00%) Database Migration
3 3 (15.00%) Migration
4 2 (10.00%) Customer Requirements
4 2 (10.00%) Data Protection
4 2 (10.00%) Decision-Making
4 2 (10.00%) Knowledge Transfer
4 2 (10.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 2 (10.00%) Time Management
5 1 (5.00%) Asset Management
5 1 (5.00%) Change Management
5 1 (5.00%) Cybersecurity
5 1 (5.00%) ITIL
5 1 (5.00%) Storage Management
5 1 (5.00%) Ticket Management
Qualifications
1 12 (60.00%) Security Cleared
2 10 (50.00%) DV Cleared
3 2 (10.00%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 6 (30.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (25.00%) Avamar
2 1 (5.00%) EMC NetWorker
2 1 (5.00%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 11 (55.00%) Dell
2 10 (50.00%) VMware
3 5 (25.00%) EMC
4 2 (10.00%) Brocade
4 2 (10.00%) Microsoft
4 2 (10.00%) NetApp
4 2 (10.00%) Veeam
5 1 (5.00%) Cisco
5 1 (5.00%) Commvault
5 1 (5.00%) Veritas