Backup Engineer Jobs in England

Backup Engineer
UK > England

The median Backup Engineer salary in England is £51,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 11 May 2024.

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

6 months to
11 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 818 892 1129
Rank change year-on-year +74 +237 -283
Permanent jobs requiring a Backup Engineer 21 26 26
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.024% 0.029% 0.020%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.026% 0.032% 0.020%
Number of salaries quoted 19 8 26
10th Percentile £45,000 £31,839 £31,625
25th Percentile £47,500 £32,371 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,000 £55,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.27% +22.22% -37.50%
75th Percentile £53,000 £63,688 £50,125
90th Percentile £53,150 £84,575 £58,750
UK median annual salary £51,000 £55,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -7.27% +22.22% -37.50%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in England. 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 permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in England with a recognized job title 81,157 82,189 127,880
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.48% 91.48% 96.07%
Number of salaries quoted 60,579 52,238 74,819
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,250 £45,000 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,500 £60,800 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.01% +1.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,500 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £90,822 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

Backup Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Backup Engineer in England

Backup Engineer
Salary Trend in England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Backup Engineer in England.

Salary trend for Backup Engineer in England

Backup Engineer
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Backup Engineer in England over the 6 months to 11 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Backup Engineer in England

Backup Engineer
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Backup Engineer within the England region over the 6 months to 11 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
South West -13 19 £51,000 -7.27% 4
North of England +32 2 - - 2
North West +5 2 - - 2
Backup Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 11 May 2024, Backup Engineer 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 permanent job ads across the England region featuring Backup Engineer in the job title.

1 19 (90.48%) EMC
2 18 (85.71%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 16 (76.19%) Veeam
3 16 (76.19%) EMC NetWorker
3 16 (76.19%) Windows
3 16 (76.19%) Linux
4 15 (71.43%) VMware
4 15 (71.43%) Security Cleared
4 15 (71.43%) EMC VNX
5 14 (66.67%) vCenter Server
5 14 (66.67%) VMware Infrastructure
5 14 (66.67%) SC Cleared
5 14 (66.67%) SolarWinds
5 14 (66.67%) VMware ESXi
5 14 (66.67%) Brocade
5 14 (66.67%) Nagios
6 11 (52.38%) iSCSI
6 11 (52.38%) Public Sector
7 8 (38.10%) ZABBIX
7 8 (38.10%) Mentoring
7 8 (38.10%) Fibre Channel
7 8 (38.10%) NetApp
7 8 (38.10%) Replication
8 6 (28.57%) Microsoft
8 6 (28.57%) Hyper-V
9 5 (23.81%) Windows Server
9 5 (23.81%) Self-Motivation
9 5 (23.81%) Kubernetes
9 5 (23.81%) Public Cloud
9 5 (23.81%) Security Patching

Backup Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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:

Cloud Services
1 5 (23.81%) AWS
1 5 (23.81%) Azure
1 5 (23.81%) Microsoft 365
1 5 (23.81%) Nutanix
1 5 (23.81%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 11 (52.38%) iSCSI
2 8 (38.10%) Fibre Channel
3 5 (23.81%) WLAN
4 2 (9.52%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (23.81%) MySQL
1 5 (23.81%) SQL Server
General
1 11 (52.38%) Public Sector
2 2 (9.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
Miscellaneous
1 15 (71.43%) EMC VNX
2 8 (38.10%) Replication
3 5 (23.81%) Public Cloud
3 5 (23.81%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 16 (76.19%) Linux
1 16 (76.19%) Windows
2 5 (23.81%) Windows Server
2 5 (23.81%) Windows Server 2016
2 5 (23.81%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (85.71%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 8 (38.10%) Mentoring
3 5 (23.81%) ITSM
3 5 (23.81%) Security Patching
3 5 (23.81%) Server Management
3 5 (23.81%) Service Management
4 2 (9.52%) Data Protection
4 2 (9.52%) Digital Engineering
4 2 (9.52%) Storage Management
Qualifications
1 15 (71.43%) Security Cleared
2 14 (66.67%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 14 (66.67%) VMware ESXi
1 14 (66.67%) VMware Infrastructure
2 6 (28.57%) Hyper-V
3 5 (23.81%) Active Directory
3 5 (23.81%) Docker
4 2 (9.52%) SRDF
5 1 (4.76%) KVM
Systems Management
1 16 (76.19%) EMC NetWorker
2 14 (66.67%) Nagios
2 14 (66.67%) vCenter Server
3 8 (38.10%) ZABBIX
4 5 (23.81%) Ansible
4 5 (23.81%) Kubernetes
4 5 (23.81%) SCCM
Vendors
1 19 (90.48%) EMC
2 16 (76.19%) Veeam
3 15 (71.43%) VMware
4 14 (66.67%) Brocade
4 14 (66.67%) SolarWinds
5 8 (38.10%) NetApp
6 6 (28.57%) Microsoft
7 5 (23.81%) Aruba
7 5 (23.81%) Meraki
7 5 (23.81%) Red Hat
8 1 (4.76%) Dell