Backup Engineer Contracts with Work from Home Options

Backup Engineer
UK > Work from Home

The median Backup Engineer daily rate in Work from Home is £500 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 1 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 344 463 609
Rank change year-on-year +119 +146 -138
Contract jobs requiring a Backup Engineer 5 11 14
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.033% 0.043% 0.031%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.035% 0.045% 0.033%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 6 11
10th Percentile £418 £328 £300
25th Percentile £425 £391 £336
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £420 £385
Median % change year-on-year +19.05% +9.09% -14.44%
75th Percentile £525 - £424
90th Percentile £540 £460 £450
UK median daily rate £500 £398 £385
% change year-on-year +25.79% +3.25% -14.44%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies with a WFH option. 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 Work from Home with a recognized job title 14,327 24,531 42,707
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.53% 95.34% 95.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,575 17,328 30,855
10th Percentile £325 £358 £356
25th Percentile £425 £444 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% +2.38% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £625
90th Percentile £750 £750 £713
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 577 565 611
10th Percentile £14.35 £18.22 £13.12
25th Percentile £23.34 £25.95 £18.75
Median hourly rate £44.00 £55.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +57.14% +40.00%
75th Percentile £63.00 £68.75 £55.00
90th Percentile £75.25 £80.25 £66.00
UK median hourly rate £36.02 £45.00 £23.50
% change year-on-year -19.95% +91.49% +3.14%

Backup Engineer
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option which featured Backup Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Backup Engineer trend for jobs with a WFH option

Backup Engineer
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Backup Engineer.

Backup Engineer daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Backup Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Backup Engineer over the 6 months to 1 May 2024.

Backup Engineer daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Backup Engineer Skill Set
Top 25 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Job Vacancies with WFH Options

For the 6 months to 1 May 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 jobs with a WFH option featuring Backup Engineer in the job title.

1 4 (80.00%) EMC
2 3 (60.00%) Dell
3 2 (40.00%) Database Migration
3 2 (40.00%) Avamar
3 2 (40.00%) Migration
3 2 (40.00%) VMware
3 2 (40.00%) SAN
3 2 (40.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (40.00%) NAS
3 2 (40.00%) Veeam
4 1 (20.00%) OneDrive
4 1 (20.00%) Commvault
4 1 (20.00%) Veritas
4 1 (20.00%) Finance
4 1 (20.00%) Windows
4 1 (20.00%) AIX
4 1 (20.00%) Solaris
4 1 (20.00%) Linux
4 1 (20.00%) SharePoint
4 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (20.00%) Microsoft
4 1 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 1 (20.00%) EMC NetWorker
4 1 (20.00%) Cohesity
4 1 (20.00%) Rubrik

Backup Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (20.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 1 (20.00%) Cohesity
1 1 (20.00%) OneDrive
1 1 (20.00%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 2 (40.00%) NAS
1 2 (40.00%) SAN
General
1 1 (20.00%) Finance
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) AIX
1 1 (20.00%) Linux
1 1 (20.00%) Solaris
1 1 (20.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (40.00%) Database Migration
1 2 (40.00%) Migration
2 1 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
System Software
1 2 (40.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) Avamar
2 1 (20.00%) EMC NetWorker
Vendors
1 4 (80.00%) EMC
2 3 (60.00%) Dell
3 2 (40.00%) Veeam
3 2 (40.00%) VMware
4 1 (20.00%) Commvault
4 1 (20.00%) Microsoft
4 1 (20.00%) Veritas