Senior Backup Engineer Contract Job Trends in Newport

Senior Backup Engineer
South Wales > Newport

The median Senior Backup Engineer daily rate in Newport is £550, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 25 June 2026.

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

 6 months to
25 Jun 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 18 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Backup Engineer 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Newport 1.32% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 1.43% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 - -
South Wales median daily rate £550 - -

All Contract IT Job Roles
Newport

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Newport. 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 Newport with a recognized job title 70 31 75
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.11% 91.18% 85.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 12 35
10th Percentile £363 £148 £135
25th Percentile £375 £239 £173
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £353 £350
Median % change year-on-year +20.57% +0.71% -36.36%
75th Percentile £538 £509 £521
90th Percentile £609 £594 £625
South Wales median daily rate £450 £383 £450
% change year-on-year +17.65% -15.00% -10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 5 22
10th Percentile £19.90 £38.25 £15.26
25th Percentile £33.38 - £20.12
Median hourly rate £50.00 £45.00 £25.27
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% +78.08% +39.31%
75th Percentile £55.00 - £68.75
90th Percentile - £52.50 £87.62
South Wales median hourly rate £21.13 £19.51 £20.47
% change year-on-year +8.31% -4.71% +12.84%

Senior Backup Engineer Skill Set
Top 16 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Newport

For the 6 months to 25 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 Newport region featuring Senior Backup Engineer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Capacity Planning
1 1 (100.00%) Data Management
1 1 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Management
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) NetApp
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Optimisation
1 1 (100.00%) Presales
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) SAN
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) SLA
1 1 (100.00%) Storage Management
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Leadership

Senior Backup Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Newport 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%) SAN
General
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Data Centre
1 1 (100.00%) Enterprise Storage
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Capacity Planning
1 1 (100.00%) Data Management
1 1 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Management
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Optimisation
1 1 (100.00%) Presales
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Storage Management
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Leadership
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) SLA
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) NetApp
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