Backup Infrastructure Engineer Job Trends

Backup Infrastructure Engineer
UK

The median Backup Infrastructure Engineer salary in the UK is £53,080 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 16 December 2025.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 647 - 697
Rank change year-on-year - - +356
Permanent jobs requiring a Backup Infrastructure Engineer 4 0 2
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.007% - 0.004%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.008% - 0.004%
Number of salaries quoted 4 0 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £46,160 - £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,080 - £42,500
75th Percentile £66,250 - £43,750
90th Percentile £77,500 - -
UK excluding London median annual salary £46,160 - £42,500

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies. 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 UK with a recognized job title 52,799 53,782 46,643
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.16% 93.79% 95.24%
Number of salaries quoted 32,457 29,075 36,182
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,750 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £43,750 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £97,500 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £49,000 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -6.67% - -

Backup Infrastructure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Backup Infrastructure Engineer job vacancy trend in the UK

Backup Infrastructure Engineer
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for Backup Infrastructure Engineer job vacancies in the UK.

Salary distribution trend for Backup Infrastructure Engineer job vacancies in the UK

Backup Infrastructure Engineer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Backup Infrastructure Engineer over the 6 months to 16 December 2025.

Salary histogram for Backup Infrastructure Engineer in the UK

Backup Infrastructure Engineer
Top 6 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Backup Infrastructure Engineer within the UK over the 6 months to 16 December 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
England - 4 £53,080 - 4
UK excluding London - 3 £46,160 - 4
East of England - 2 £46,160 -
London - 1 £80,000 -
Yorkshire - 1 £60,000 - 4
North of England - 1 £60,000 - 4

Backup Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities

For the 6 months to 16 December 2025, Backup Infrastructure Engineer 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 permanent job ads featuring Backup Infrastructure Engineer in the job title.

1 3 (75.00%) Cisco
1 3 (75.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 2 (50.00%) Cohesity
2 2 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (50.00%) Incident Management
2 2 (50.00%) Incident Response
2 2 (50.00%) IT Strategy
2 2 (50.00%) ITIL
2 2 (50.00%) NetBackup
2 2 (50.00%) Proactive Monitoring
2 2 (50.00%) Roadmaps
2 2 (50.00%) SAN
2 2 (50.00%) SC Cleared
2 2 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 2 (50.00%) Storage Management
2 2 (50.00%) Virtual Environments
2 2 (50.00%) VMware
2 2 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (25.00%) Ansible
3 1 (25.00%) Commvault
3 1 (25.00%) Containerisation
3 1 (25.00%) DevOps
3 1 (25.00%) Fibre Channel
3 1 (25.00%) Firewall
3 1 (25.00%) Git
3 1 (25.00%) GitHub
3 1 (25.00%) Kubernetes
3 1 (25.00%) LAN
3 1 (25.00%) Linux

Backup Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) Cohesity
2 1 (25.00%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 2 (50.00%) SAN
2 1 (25.00%) Fibre Channel
2 1 (25.00%) Firewall
2 1 (25.00%) LAN
2 1 (25.00%) TCP/IP
2 1 (25.00%) WAN
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Git
General
1 1 (25.00%) Finance
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Linux
1 1 (25.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (25.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 2 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (50.00%) Incident Management
2 2 (50.00%) Incident Response
2 2 (50.00%) IT Strategy
2 2 (50.00%) ITIL
2 2 (50.00%) Proactive Monitoring
2 2 (50.00%) Roadmaps
2 2 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 2 (50.00%) Storage Management
2 2 (50.00%) Virtual Environments
3 1 (25.00%) Containerisation
3 1 (25.00%) DevOps
3 1 (25.00%) Virtual Infrastructure
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (50.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (25.00%) NFS
2 1 (25.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) NetBackup
2 1 (25.00%) Ansible
2 1 (25.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (25.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) Cisco
2 2 (50.00%) VMware
3 1 (25.00%) Commvault
3 1 (25.00%) Pure Storage
3 1 (25.00%) Red Hat
3 1 (25.00%) Veeam