Backup Engineer Contracts in the UK excluding London

Backup Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Backup Engineer daily rate in the UK excluding London is £380, 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 317 371 455
Rank change year-on-year +54 +84 +45
Contract jobs requiring a Backup Engineer 19 28 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.15% 0.13% 0.029%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.16% 0.15% 0.031%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 25 6
10th Percentile £363 £400 £322
25th Percentile £375 £450 £372
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £380 £500 £388
Median % change year-on-year -24.00% +29.03% +0.65%
75th Percentile £475 £521 £417
90th Percentile £476 £600 £460
UK median daily rate £384 £500 £398
% change year-on-year -23.20% +25.79% +3.25%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the UK excluding 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 the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 11,767 19,240 22,667
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.17% 92.63% 94.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,552 11,748 15,893
10th Percentile £213 £213 £225
25th Percentile £363 £363 £395
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £492 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.46% -1.60% +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £598 £595
90th Percentile £650 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 829 2,243 1,165
10th Percentile £14.00 £12.50 £13.45
25th Percentile £17.61 £15.75 £18.09
Median hourly rate £28.00 £39.55 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -29.20% -6.94% +117.95%
75th Percentile £64.50 £61.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £73.75 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
% change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +91.49%

Backup Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Backup Engineer in the UK excluding London

Backup Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Backup Engineer in the UK excluding London

Backup Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Backup Engineer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Backup Engineer in the UK excluding London

Backup Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Backup Engineer in the UK excluding London

Backup Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
North of England +28 12 £378 -26.56% 5
Yorkshire +15 9 £375 -27.04% 5
Scotland +16 5 £467 +80.31%
North West +19 3 £450 -6.25%
Wales - 2 £375 -
Backup Engineer
UK

Backup Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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 UK excluding London region featuring Backup Engineer in the job title.

1 14 (73.68%) Problem Management
2 13 (68.42%) Analytical Skills
2 13 (68.42%) Problem-Solving
2 13 (68.42%) Change Management
2 13 (68.42%) Disaster Recovery
2 13 (68.42%) Oracle RMAN
3 12 (63.16%) Finance
3 12 (63.16%) Performance Tuning
4 11 (57.89%) Oracle Database
4 11 (57.89%) Data Migration
4 11 (57.89%) Confluence
4 11 (57.89%) Data Centre
4 11 (57.89%) Translating Business Requirements
4 11 (57.89%) Migration
4 11 (57.89%) Commvault
4 11 (57.89%) Oracle Reports
4 11 (57.89%) Oracle
5 6 (31.58%) NetBackup
5 6 (31.58%) Veritas
6 5 (26.32%) SAN
6 5 (26.32%) Unix
7 4 (21.05%) Python
7 4 (21.05%) Security Cleared
7 4 (21.05%) Data Protection
8 3 (15.79%) Cohesity
8 3 (15.79%) Storage Management
8 3 (15.79%) Brocade
8 3 (15.79%) SC Cleared
8 3 (15.79%) Cisco
8 3 (15.79%) HP

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

Application Platforms
1 11 (57.89%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 3 (15.79%) Cohesity
2 2 (10.53%) Amazon S3
2 2 (10.53%) AWS
2 2 (10.53%) Azure
2 2 (10.53%) Cloud Computing
2 2 (10.53%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 5 (26.32%) SAN
2 2 (10.53%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (57.89%) Oracle Database
1 11 (57.89%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 2 (10.53%) Git
1 2 (10.53%) Jenkins
General
1 13 (68.42%) Analytical Skills
2 12 (63.16%) Finance
3 2 (10.53%) Social Skills
4 1 (5.26%) Banking
4 1 (5.26%) Public Sector
Miscellaneous
1 11 (57.89%) Data Centre
2 1 (5.26%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (5.26%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 5 (26.32%) Unix
2 3 (15.79%) Linux
3 2 (10.53%) Windows
3 2 (10.53%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (73.68%) Problem Management
2 13 (68.42%) Change Management
2 13 (68.42%) Disaster Recovery
2 13 (68.42%) Problem-Solving
3 12 (63.16%) Performance Tuning
4 11 (57.89%) Data Migration
4 11 (57.89%) Migration
4 11 (57.89%) Translating Business Requirements
5 4 (21.05%) Data Protection
6 3 (15.79%) Storage Management
7 2 (10.53%) CI/CD
7 2 (10.53%) Data Deduplication
7 2 (10.53%) Decision-Making
7 2 (10.53%) Task Automation
8 1 (5.26%) Active Listening
8 1 (5.26%) Customer Requirements
8 1 (5.26%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 1 (5.26%) Line Management
8 1 (5.26%) Security Hardening
8 1 (5.26%) Technical Analysis
Programming Languages
1 4 (21.05%) Python
2 2 (10.53%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 4 (21.05%) Security Cleared
2 3 (15.79%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 2 (10.53%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 13 (68.42%) Oracle RMAN
2 6 (31.58%) NetBackup
3 2 (10.53%) EMC NetWorker
3 2 (10.53%) HP Data Protector
3 2 (10.53%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 11 (57.89%) Commvault
1 11 (57.89%) Oracle
2 6 (31.58%) Veritas
3 3 (15.79%) Brocade
3 3 (15.79%) Cisco
3 3 (15.79%) EMC
3 3 (15.79%) HP
4 1 (5.26%) Microsoft