Backup Engineer Contracts in England

Backup Engineer
UK > England

The median Backup Engineer daily rate in England is £500 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 5 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
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 513 649 785
Rank change year-on-year +136 +136 -175
Contract jobs requiring a Backup Engineer 28 12 14
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.076% 0.024% 0.020%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.082% 0.025% 0.021%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 10 9
10th Percentile £405 £274 £290
25th Percentile £463 £370 £380
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £391 £385
Median % change year-on-year +27.80% +1.62% -16.66%
75th Percentile £521 £419 £488
90th Percentile £600 £455 £524
UK median daily rate £500 £410 £385
% change year-on-year +21.95% +6.49% -14.44%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract 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 contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in England with a recognized job title 34,183 47,267 67,930
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.70% 94.63% 95.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,703 33,560 48,361
10th Percentile £280 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
75th Percentile £643 £663 £638
90th Percentile £750 £760 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,433 1,401 1,881
10th Percentile £13.00 £14.36 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.50 £44.00 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -17.05% +95.56% +2.27%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £48.75
90th Percentile £72.82 £77.00 £62.75
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.60
% change year-on-year -18.89% +90.68% +4.89%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Backup Engineer in England

Backup Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Backup Engineer in England over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Backup Engineer in England

Backup Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Backup Engineer in England

Backup Engineer
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Backup Engineer within the England region over the 6 months to 5 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 +34 12 £500 +81.82% 5
South East - 8 £438 - 1
Midlands +33 5 £550 +10.00%
East Midlands - 4 £600 -
North of England +32 3 £514 +27.31%
Yorkshire +19 2 £514 +27.31%
West Midlands +23 1 £400 -20.00%
East of England +16 1 - - 2
North West - 1 £480 -
Backup Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 5 May 2024, 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 England region featuring Backup Engineer in the job title.

1 19 (67.86%) Security Cleared
2 15 (53.57%) SAN
3 12 (42.86%) Windows
3 12 (42.86%) Linux
4 11 (39.29%) Dell
4 11 (39.29%) VMware
4 11 (39.29%) DV Cleared
5 9 (32.14%) NetBackup
6 8 (28.57%) SC Cleared
6 8 (28.57%) EMC
7 7 (25.00%) NAS
7 7 (25.00%) Public Sector
8 6 (21.43%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 6 (21.43%) VMware Infrastructure
8 6 (21.43%) Brocade
9 5 (17.86%) Enterprise Storage
9 5 (17.86%) ITIL
9 5 (17.86%) NetApp
9 5 (17.86%) Veritas
10 4 (14.29%) Virtual Environments
10 4 (14.29%) Social Skills
10 4 (14.29%) AIX
10 4 (14.29%) Solaris
10 4 (14.29%) HP
10 4 (14.29%) EMC NetWorker
11 3 (10.71%) Data Protection
11 3 (10.71%) Fibre Channel
11 3 (10.71%) Migration
11 3 (10.71%) Change Management
11 3 (10.71%) Disaster Recovery

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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (3.57%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (3.57%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 1 (3.57%) Amazon S3
1 1 (3.57%) AWS
1 1 (3.57%) Azure
1 1 (3.57%) Cohesity
1 1 (3.57%) GCP
1 1 (3.57%) OneDrive
1 1 (3.57%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 15 (53.57%) SAN
2 7 (25.00%) NAS
3 3 (10.71%) Fibre Channel
4 2 (7.14%) VLAN
General
1 7 (25.00%) Public Sector
2 4 (14.29%) Social Skills
3 3 (10.71%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (7.14%) Organisational Skills
4 2 (7.14%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (3.57%) Finance
5 1 (3.57%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (3.57%) Flash
Miscellaneous
1 5 (17.86%) Enterprise Storage
2 2 (7.14%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
2 2 (7.14%) HP Storage
2 2 (7.14%) Replication
3 1 (3.57%) Data Centre
3 1 (3.57%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (3.57%) Driving Licence
3 1 (3.57%) IBM XIV
3 1 (3.57%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 12 (42.86%) Linux
1 12 (42.86%) Windows
2 4 (14.29%) AIX
2 4 (14.29%) Solaris
3 2 (7.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (7.14%) Windows Server 2012
3 2 (7.14%) Windows Server 2016
3 2 (7.14%) Windows Server 2019
4 1 (3.57%) Unix
4 1 (3.57%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (21.43%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 5 (17.86%) ITIL
3 4 (14.29%) Virtual Environments
4 3 (10.71%) Change Management
4 3 (10.71%) Data Protection
4 3 (10.71%) Database Migration
4 3 (10.71%) Disaster Recovery
4 3 (10.71%) Migration
4 3 (10.71%) Performance Tuning
4 3 (10.71%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (7.14%) Cybersecurity
5 2 (7.14%) Decision-Making
5 2 (7.14%) Mentoring
5 2 (7.14%) Performance Monitoring
5 2 (7.14%) Problem Management
5 2 (7.14%) Release Management
5 2 (7.14%) Service Delivery
5 2 (7.14%) Statistics
5 2 (7.14%) Time Management
5 2 (7.14%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 2 (7.14%) Bash
1 2 (7.14%) PowerShell
1 2 (7.14%) Shell Script
1 2 (7.14%) SQL
Qualifications
1 19 (67.86%) Security Cleared
2 11 (39.29%) DV Cleared
3 8 (28.57%) SC Cleared
4 1 (3.57%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (3.57%) Degree
4 1 (3.57%) IBM Certification
System Software
1 6 (21.43%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (3.57%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 9 (32.14%) NetBackup
2 4 (14.29%) EMC NetWorker
3 3 (10.71%) Avamar
4 2 (7.14%) Ansible
4 2 (7.14%) HP Data Protector
4 2 (7.14%) Puppet
4 2 (7.14%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 11 (39.29%) Dell
1 11 (39.29%) VMware
2 8 (28.57%) EMC
3 6 (21.43%) Brocade
4 5 (17.86%) NetApp
4 5 (17.86%) Veritas
5 4 (14.29%) HP
6 3 (10.71%) Cisco
7 2 (7.14%) 3PAR
7 2 (7.14%) IBM
7 2 (7.14%) Microsoft
7 2 (7.14%) Nimble Storage
7 2 (7.14%) Oracle
7 2 (7.14%) Red Hat
7 2 (7.14%) Symantec
8 1 (3.57%) Google
8 1 (3.57%) Isilon
8 1 (3.57%) Veeam