Backup Engineer Jobs in the East of England

Backup Engineer
England > East of England

The median Backup Engineer salary in the East of England is £62,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 7 May 2025.

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

6 months to
7 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 176 - 231
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs requiring a Backup Engineer 2 0 4
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 0.061% - 0.073%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.068% - 0.087%
Number of salaries quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £61,250 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 - -
75th Percentile £63,750 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median annual salary £65,000 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +30.00% -4.76% +16.67%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
East of England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the East of England. 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 permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in the East of England with a recognized job title 2,954 5,718 4,586
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.61% 93.95% 84.18%
Number of salaries quoted 1,551 4,364 2,289
10th Percentile £27,500 £25,809 £26,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £31,250 £36,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,967 £47,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.30% -13.64% +10.00%
75th Percentile £66,200 £63,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £75,250 £75,000 £82,500
England median annual salary £57,500 £53,500 £60,800
% change year-on-year +7.48% -12.01% +1.33%

Backup Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

Job postings that featured Backup Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East of England.

Job vacancy trend for Backup Engineer in the East of England

Backup Engineer
Salary Trend in the East of England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Backup Engineer in the East of England.

Salary trend for Backup Engineer in the East of England

Backup Engineer
Job Locations in the East of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Backup Engineer within the East of England region over the 6 months to 7 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Hertfordshire - 2 £62,500 - 4
Backup Engineer
England

Backup Engineer Skill Set
Top 26 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England

For the 6 months to 7 May 2025, Backup Engineer 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 permanent job ads across the East of England region featuring Backup Engineer in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) Windows
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (100.00%) Commvault
1 2 (100.00%) Red Hat
1 2 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 2 (100.00%) Debian
1 2 (100.00%) VMware
1 2 (100.00%) NetBackup
1 2 (100.00%) Ubuntu
1 2 (100.00%) Data Protection
1 2 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 2 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 2 (100.00%) Hyper-V
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
1 2 (100.00%) Windows Server 2012
1 2 (100.00%) Public Cloud
1 2 (100.00%) Zerto
1 2 (100.00%) Driving Licence
1 2 (100.00%) Windows Server 2016
1 2 (100.00%) Windows Server 2019
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
1 2 (100.00%) Rubrik
1 2 (100.00%) Nutanix

Backup Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England 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 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
1 2 (100.00%) Nutanix
1 2 (100.00%) Rubrik
General
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Driving Licence
1 2 (100.00%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Debian
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
1 2 (100.00%) Ubuntu
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
1 2 (100.00%) Windows Server 2012
1 2 (100.00%) Windows Server 2016
1 2 (100.00%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Data Protection
1 2 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) PowerShell
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Hyper-V
1 2 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Commvault
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (100.00%) Red Hat
1 2 (100.00%) VMware
1 2 (100.00%) Zerto