Backup Engineer Contract Job Trends in Shropshire

Backup Engineer
West Midlands > Shropshire

The median Backup Engineer daily rate in Shropshire is £525, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 19 September 2026.

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

6 months to
19 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 85 - 25
Rank change year-on-year - - -6
Contract jobs requiring a Backup Engineer 1 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in Shropshire 0.12% - 0.93%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.12% - 1.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £513 - £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 - £450
75th Percentile £538 - £463
90th Percentile - - -
West Midlands median daily rate £525 - £450
% change year-on-year - - -18.18%

All Contract IT Job Roles
Shropshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Shropshire. 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 Shropshire with a recognized job title 801 185 94
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 96.51% 89.37% 87.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 680 125 76
10th Percentile £366 £325 £215
25th Percentile £418 £405 £353
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £503
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -0.65% +5.95%
75th Percentile £548 £538 £532
90th Percentile £633 £549 £559
West Midlands median daily rate £490 £491 £500
% change year-on-year -0.20% -1.80% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 4 0
10th Percentile £14.36 - -
25th Percentile £22.85 £12.21 -
Median hourly rate £52.50 £18.68 -
Median % change year-on-year +181.05% - -
75th Percentile £59.75 £28.87 -
90th Percentile £64.40 £35.56 -
West Midlands median hourly rate £29.60 £25.15 £21.00
% change year-on-year +17.69% +19.76% -

Backup Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Shropshire

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

Backup Engineer job vacancy trend in Shropshire

Backup Engineer
Contract Job Locations in Shropshire

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 Shropshire region over the 6 months to 19 September 2026. 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
Telford - 1 £525 - 4
Backup Engineer
West Midlands

Backup Engineer Skill Set
Top 17 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Shropshire

For the 6 months to 19 September 2026, 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 Shropshire region featuring Backup Engineer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) AIX
1 1 (100.00%) Change Management
1 1 (100.00%) ITIL
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) NetBackup
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Service Management
1 1 (100.00%) Solaris
1 1 (100.00%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
1 1 (100.00%) Veritas
1 1 (100.00%) VMware
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Workload Management

Backup Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Shropshire 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:

Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) AIX
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Solaris
1 1 (100.00%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Change Management
1 1 (100.00%) ITIL
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Service Management
1 1 (100.00%) Workload Management
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Veritas
1 1 (100.00%) VMware