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 £500, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 19 June 2024.

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

6 months to
19 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 373 421 488
Rank change year-on-year +48 +67 -48
Contract jobs requiring a Backup Engineer 28 9 16
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.13% 0.040% 0.053%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.14% 0.042% 0.055%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 6 11
10th Percentile £375 £366 £373
25th Percentile £463 £372 £383
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £388 £385
Median % change year-on-year +29.03% +0.65% -14.44%
75th Percentile £525 £417 £440
90th Percentile £600 £460 £619
UK median daily rate £500 £435 £463
% change year-on-year +14.94% -5.95% +2.78%

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 19,709 21,379 29,050
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.42% 94.21% 95.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,751 14,853 20,421
10th Percentile £213 £225 £208
25th Percentile £363 £388 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +8.57%
75th Percentile £593 £600 £575
90th Percentile £680 £688 £656
UK median daily rate £525 £538 £525
% change year-on-year -2.42% +2.48% +6.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,515 1,090 1,383
10th Percentile £12.63 £13.41 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.92 £18.08 £15.00
Median hourly rate £40.00 £42.08 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -4.94% +110.39% +7.82%
75th Percentile £62.83 £65.00 £47.25
90th Percentile £74.00 £75.68 £62.45
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -16.67% +80.00% +16.28%

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 19 June 2024.

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 19 June 2024. 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
South West - 14 £500 - 2
South East +21 7 £450 -
Midlands +19 4 £600 +20.00%
East Midlands - 4 £600 -
North of England +15 2 £514 +32.65% 2
Yorkshire +13 2 £514 +27.31%
East of England +4 1 - - 3
Backup Engineer
UK

Backup Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 19 June 2024, 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 18 (64.29%) Security Cleared
2 15 (53.57%) SAN
3 11 (39.29%) Dell
4 10 (35.71%) VMware
4 10 (35.71%) DV Cleared
5 9 (32.14%) Windows
5 9 (32.14%) Linux
6 8 (28.57%) EMC
6 8 (28.57%) Public Sector
7 7 (25.00%) Brocade
7 7 (25.00%) SC Cleared
7 7 (25.00%) NAS
8 6 (21.43%) VMware Infrastructure
8 6 (21.43%) NetBackup
9 5 (17.86%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 4 (14.29%) Virtual Environments
10 4 (14.29%) Presentation Skills
10 4 (14.29%) Tivoli Storage Manager
10 4 (14.29%) IBM
10 4 (14.29%) AIX
10 4 (14.29%) Solaris
10 4 (14.29%) EMC NetWorker
10 4 (14.29%) Cybersecurity
11 3 (10.71%) Performance Tuning
11 3 (10.71%) Enterprise Storage
11 3 (10.71%) Fibre Channel
11 3 (10.71%) IBM XIV
11 3 (10.71%) Analytical Skills
11 3 (10.71%) Cisco
11 3 (10.71%) Veritas

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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (3.57%) Amazon S3
1 1 (3.57%) AWS
1 1 (3.57%) Azure
1 1 (3.57%) GCP
1 1 (3.57%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 15 (53.57%) SAN
2 7 (25.00%) NAS
3 3 (10.71%) Fibre Channel
4 2 (7.14%) VLAN
General
1 8 (28.57%) Public Sector
2 4 (14.29%) Presentation Skills
3 3 (10.71%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (10.71%) Social Skills
4 2 (7.14%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (3.57%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (3.57%) Flash
Miscellaneous
1 3 (10.71%) Enterprise Storage
1 3 (10.71%) IBM XIV
2 2 (7.14%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
2 2 (7.14%) Driving Licence
2 2 (7.14%) HP Storage
2 2 (7.14%) Replication
3 1 (3.57%) Data Centre
3 1 (3.57%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (3.57%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 9 (32.14%) Linux
1 9 (32.14%) Windows
2 4 (14.29%) AIX
2 4 (14.29%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (17.86%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 4 (14.29%) Cybersecurity
2 4 (14.29%) Virtual Environments
3 3 (10.71%) Change Management
3 3 (10.71%) Database Migration
3 3 (10.71%) Migration
3 3 (10.71%) Performance Tuning
4 2 (7.14%) Customer Requirements
4 2 (7.14%) Data Protection
4 2 (7.14%) Decision-Making
4 2 (7.14%) Full Stack Development
4 2 (7.14%) ITIL
4 2 (7.14%) Performance Monitoring
4 2 (7.14%) Project Delivery
4 2 (7.14%) Service Delivery
4 2 (7.14%) Statistics
4 2 (7.14%) Time Management
4 2 (7.14%) User Acceptance Testing
5 1 (3.57%) Patch Management
5 1 (3.57%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 2 (7.14%) Bash
1 2 (7.14%) PowerShell
1 2 (7.14%) SQL
Qualifications
1 18 (64.29%) Security Cleared
2 10 (35.71%) DV Cleared
3 7 (25.00%) SC Cleared
4 1 (3.57%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (3.57%) Degree
4 1 (3.57%) IBM Certification
System Software
1 6 (21.43%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (3.57%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 6 (21.43%) NetBackup
2 4 (14.29%) EMC NetWorker
2 4 (14.29%) Tivoli Storage Manager
3 3 (10.71%) Avamar
4 2 (7.14%) Ansible
4 2 (7.14%) HP Data Protector
4 2 (7.14%) Puppet
Vendors
1 11 (39.29%) Dell
2 10 (35.71%) VMware
3 8 (28.57%) EMC
4 7 (25.00%) Brocade
5 4 (14.29%) IBM
6 3 (10.71%) Cisco
6 3 (10.71%) Veritas
7 2 (7.14%) HP
7 2 (7.14%) NetApp
7 2 (7.14%) Oracle
7 2 (7.14%) Symantec
8 1 (3.57%) Google
8 1 (3.57%) Isilon