Backup Engineer Contracts in London

Backup Engineer
England > London

The median Backup Engineer daily rate in London is £575, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 351 - 490
Rank change year-on-year - - +105
Contract jobs requiring a Backup Engineer 2 0 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.016% - 0.011%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.017% - 0.012%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 2
10th Percentile - - £375
25th Percentile £563 - £379
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 - £398
Median % change year-on-year - - +9.66%
75th Percentile £588 - £413
90th Percentile - - £416
England median daily rate £380 £500 £388
% change year-on-year -24.00% +29.03% +0.65%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in 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 London with a recognized job title 11,726 16,625 25,758
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.45% 93.24% 95.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,034 12,022 18,663
10th Percentile £341 £325 £363
25th Percentile £431 £444 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -
75th Percentile £675 £675 £700
90th Percentile £800 £800 £800
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 143 336 290
10th Percentile £20.45 £16.01 £18.00
25th Percentile £23.90 £20.02 £22.53
Median hourly rate £34.00 £27.81 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +22.26% -20.54% -
75th Percentile £50.75 £43.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £64.75 £65.00 £76.03
England median hourly rate £30.62 £36.31 £45.00
% change year-on-year -15.67% -19.32% +100.00%

Backup Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Backup Engineer in London

Backup Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Backup Engineer in London

Backup Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Backup Engineer in London

Backup Engineer Skill Set
Top 27 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, 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 London region featuring Backup Engineer in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) Windows
2 1 (50.00%) Cisco
2 1 (50.00%) Tivoli Storage Manager
2 1 (50.00%) Change Management
2 1 (50.00%) Migration
2 1 (50.00%) NetBackup
2 1 (50.00%) JIRA
2 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
2 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon S3
2 1 (50.00%) AWS
2 1 (50.00%) Kafka
2 1 (50.00%) FortiGate
2 1 (50.00%) Cisco ISE
2 1 (50.00%) logstash
2 1 (50.00%) GitLab
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 1 (50.00%) QRadar
2 1 (50.00%) Trend Micro Deep Security
2 1 (50.00%) Prometheus
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Storage Management
2 1 (50.00%) Avamar
2 1 (50.00%) Rubrik
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Knowledge Transfer
2 1 (50.00%) MySQL

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

Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon S3
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) Cisco ISE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) GitLab
1 1 (50.00%) JIRA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) Kafka
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Change Management
1 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (50.00%) Knowledge Transfer
1 1 (50.00%) Migration
1 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (50.00%) Storage Management
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Avamar
1 1 (50.00%) FortiGate
1 1 (50.00%) logstash
1 1 (50.00%) NetBackup
1 1 (50.00%) Prometheus
1 1 (50.00%) QRadar
1 1 (50.00%) Tivoli Storage Manager
1 1 (50.00%) Trend Micro Deep Security
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Cisco