Storage and Backup Engineer Contract Job Trends in London

Storage and Backup Engineer
England > London

The median Storage and Backup Engineer daily rate in London is £465, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 20 September 2026.

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

6 months to
20 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 451 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Storage and Backup Engineer 3 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.015% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.016% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 - -
75th Percentile £528 - -
90th Percentile £566 - -
England median daily rate £465 - £500
% change year-on-year - - +3.90%

All Contract IT Job Roles
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 18,881 12,479 15,325
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.27% 92.73% 94.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,191 8,352 10,227
10th Percentile £363 £331 £341
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £543 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.29% -1.27% -4.35%
75th Percentile £658 £675 £675
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 395 206 180
10th Percentile £17.39 £17.00 £17.48
25th Percentile £22.00 £23.00 £23.80
Median hourly rate £40.00 £30.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +33.33% -14.29% -4.21%
75th Percentile £63.10 £51.13 £56.38
90th Percentile £81.25 £66.54 £72.19
England median hourly rate £43.61 £25.15 £46.18
% change year-on-year +73.38% -45.54% +2.62%

Storage and Backup Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Storage and Backup Engineer job vacancy trend in London

Storage and Backup Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Storage and Backup Engineer job vacancies in London.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Storage and Backup Engineer job vacancies in London

Storage and Backup Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend in London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Storage and Backup Engineer job vacancies in London.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Storage and Backup Engineer job vacancies in London

Storage and Backup Engineer Skill Set
Top 26 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London

For the 6 months to 20 September 2026, Storage and 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 London region featuring Storage and Backup Engineer in the job title.

1 3 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 3 (100.00%) Firmware
1 3 (100.00%) High Availability
2 2 (66.67%) Capacity Planning
2 2 (66.67%) Cohesity
2 2 (66.67%) Data ONTAP
2 2 (66.67%) NetApp
2 2 (66.67%) NFS
2 2 (66.67%) Performance Tuning
2 2 (66.67%) Rubrik
2 2 (66.67%) SnapMirror
2 2 (66.67%) Virtual Machines
2 2 (66.67%) VMware
2 2 (66.67%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (33.33%) Brocade
3 1 (33.33%) Capacity Management
3 1 (33.33%) Change Management
3 1 (33.33%) Dell
3 1 (33.33%) ITIL
3 1 (33.33%) Linux
3 1 (33.33%) NAS
3 1 (33.33%) Runbook
3 1 (33.33%) SAN
3 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
3 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
3 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management

Storage and Backup Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) Cohesity
1 2 (66.67%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) NAS
1 1 (33.33%) SAN
General
1 3 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (66.67%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (66.67%) Documentation Skills
Miscellaneous
1 3 (100.00%) Enterprise Storage
2 2 (66.67%) Clustering
3 1 (33.33%) EMC VNX
3 1 (33.33%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 2 (66.67%) Data ONTAP
2 1 (33.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 3 (100.00%) High Availability
2 2 (66.67%) Capacity Planning
2 2 (66.67%) Performance Tuning
3 1 (33.33%) Capacity Management
3 1 (33.33%) Change Management
3 1 (33.33%) ITIL
3 1 (33.33%) Runbook
3 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 3 (100.00%) Firmware
2 2 (66.67%) NFS
2 2 (66.67%) Virtual Machines
2 2 (66.67%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) SnapMirror
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) NetApp
1 2 (66.67%) VMware
2 1 (33.33%) Brocade
2 1 (33.33%) Dell