Senior Backup Engineer Contract Job Trends in Hertfordshire

Senior Backup Engineer
East of England > Hertfordshire

The median Senior Backup Engineer daily rate in Hertfordshire is £600, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 19 June 2026.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 64 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Backup Engineer 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Hertfordshire 0.12% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.13% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 - -
East of England median daily rate £600 - -

All Contract IT Job Roles
Hertfordshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Hertfordshire. 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 Hertfordshire with a recognized job title 750 303 779
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.36% 86.08% 89.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 295 144 311
10th Percentile £200 £244 £240
25th Percentile £413 £425 £315
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £533 £425
Median % change year-on-year -4.27% +25.35% -15.00%
75th Percentile £644 £600 £575
90th Percentile £750 £675 £650
East of England median daily rate £500 £488 £441
% change year-on-year +2.46% +10.72% -7.21%
Number of hourly rates quoted 288 80 302
10th Percentile £16.35 £20.58 £36.01
25th Percentile £20.09 £34.91 £43.00
Median hourly rate £50.00 £62.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -19.35% +24.00% -16.67%
75th Percentile £67.50 £73.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £82.25 £75.25
East of England median hourly rate £36.00 £42.85 £43.00
% change year-on-year -15.99% -0.35% +20.11%

Senior Backup Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Hertfordshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Senior Backup Engineer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Hertfordshire.

Senior Backup Engineer job vacancy trend in Hertfordshire

Senior Backup Engineer Skill Set
Top 21 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Hertfordshire

For the 6 months to 19 June 2026, Senior Backup Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Hertfordshire region featuring Senior Backup Engineer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) CentOS
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) NetApp
1 1 (100.00%) NetBackup
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Rocky
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) vCenter Server
1 1 (100.00%) Veeam
1 1 (100.00%) VLAN
1 1 (100.00%) VMware
1 1 (100.00%) VMware ESXi
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server

Senior Backup Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Hertfordshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) VLAN
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) CentOS
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Rocky
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) VMware ESXi
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) NetBackup
1 1 (100.00%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) NetApp
1 1 (100.00%) Veeam
1 1 (100.00%) VMware