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 during the 6 months to 20 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
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 369 439 483
Rank change year-on-year +70 +44 -53
Contract jobs requiring a Backup Engineer 25 7 16
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.12% 0.030% 0.052%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.13% 0.032% 0.054%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 6 10
10th Percentile £428 £322 £365
25th Percentile £466 £372 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £388 £390
Median % change year-on-year +29.03% -0.64% -13.33%
75th Percentile £521 £417 £445
90th Percentile £600 £460 £619
UK median daily rate £500 £420 £395
% change year-on-year +19.05% +6.33% -12.22%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised 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 18,742 21,812 29,390
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.48% 94.30% 95.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,456 15,203 20,621
10th Percentile £213 £225 £205
25th Percentile £363 £394 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £489 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.20% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £595 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £543 £525
% change year-on-year -3.23% +3.33% +8.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,269 1,109 1,458
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.41 £12.36
25th Percentile £15.75 £18.03 £14.50
Median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% +4.19%
75th Percentile £61.60 £65.00 £45.00
90th Percentile £73.75 £75.00 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -18.89% +88.21% +6.27%

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 20 May 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 20 May 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 +20 12 £500 +81.82% 4
South East - 5 £450 - 3
Midlands +21 4 £600 +20.00%
East Midlands - 4 £600 -
North of England +30 3 £514 +27.31% 3
Yorkshire +18 2 £514 +27.31% 1
East of England +10 1 - - 2
North West - 1 £480 - 2
Backup Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 20 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 job ads across the UK excluding London region featuring Backup Engineer in the job title.

1 17 (68.00%) Security Cleared
2 13 (52.00%) SAN
3 11 (44.00%) Dell
3 11 (44.00%) VMware
3 11 (44.00%) DV Cleared
4 10 (40.00%) Windows
4 10 (40.00%) Linux
5 8 (32.00%) EMC
6 7 (28.00%) NetBackup
6 7 (28.00%) NAS
6 7 (28.00%) Public Sector
7 6 (24.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 6 (24.00%) VMware Infrastructure
7 6 (24.00%) SC Cleared
7 6 (24.00%) Brocade
8 4 (16.00%) Virtual Environments
8 4 (16.00%) Social Skills
8 4 (16.00%) AIX
8 4 (16.00%) Solaris
8 4 (16.00%) EMC NetWorker
9 3 (12.00%) Data Protection
9 3 (12.00%) Analytical Skills
9 3 (12.00%) Performance Tuning
9 3 (12.00%) Enterprise Storage
9 3 (12.00%) Fibre Channel
9 3 (12.00%) ITIL
9 3 (12.00%) Cisco
9 3 (12.00%) NetApp
9 3 (12.00%) Veritas
9 3 (12.00%) Change Management

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 (4.00%) Amazon S3
1 1 (4.00%) AWS
1 1 (4.00%) Azure
1 1 (4.00%) Cohesity
1 1 (4.00%) GCP
1 1 (4.00%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 13 (52.00%) SAN
2 7 (28.00%) NAS
3 3 (12.00%) Fibre Channel
4 2 (8.00%) VLAN
General
1 7 (28.00%) Public Sector
2 4 (16.00%) Social Skills
3 3 (12.00%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (8.00%) Organisational Skills
4 2 (8.00%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (4.00%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (4.00%) Flash
Miscellaneous
1 3 (12.00%) Enterprise Storage
2 2 (8.00%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
2 2 (8.00%) HP Storage
2 2 (8.00%) Replication
3 1 (4.00%) Data Centre
3 1 (4.00%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (4.00%) Driving Licence
3 1 (4.00%) IBM XIV
3 1 (4.00%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 10 (40.00%) Linux
1 10 (40.00%) Windows
2 4 (16.00%) AIX
2 4 (16.00%) Solaris
3 1 (4.00%) Unix
3 1 (4.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (24.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 4 (16.00%) Virtual Environments
3 3 (12.00%) Change Management
3 3 (12.00%) Data Protection
3 3 (12.00%) Database Migration
3 3 (12.00%) ITIL
3 3 (12.00%) Migration
3 3 (12.00%) Performance Tuning
4 2 (8.00%) Cybersecurity
4 2 (8.00%) Decision-Making
4 2 (8.00%) Performance Monitoring
4 2 (8.00%) Project Delivery
4 2 (8.00%) Service Delivery
4 2 (8.00%) Statistics
4 2 (8.00%) Time Management
4 2 (8.00%) User Acceptance Testing
5 1 (4.00%) Patch Management
5 1 (4.00%) Problem-Solving
5 1 (4.00%) Storage Management
5 1 (4.00%) Ticket Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (8.00%) Bash
1 2 (8.00%) PowerShell
1 2 (8.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 17 (68.00%) Security Cleared
2 11 (44.00%) DV Cleared
3 6 (24.00%) SC Cleared
4 1 (4.00%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (4.00%) Degree
4 1 (4.00%) IBM Certification
System Software
1 6 (24.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (4.00%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 7 (28.00%) NetBackup
2 4 (16.00%) EMC NetWorker
3 3 (12.00%) Avamar
4 2 (8.00%) Ansible
4 2 (8.00%) HP Data Protector
4 2 (8.00%) Puppet
4 2 (8.00%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 11 (44.00%) Dell
1 11 (44.00%) VMware
2 8 (32.00%) EMC
3 6 (24.00%) Brocade
4 3 (12.00%) Cisco
4 3 (12.00%) NetApp
4 3 (12.00%) Veritas
5 2 (8.00%) HP
5 2 (8.00%) IBM
5 2 (8.00%) Oracle
5 2 (8.00%) Symantec
6 1 (4.00%) Google
6 1 (4.00%) Isilon
6 1 (4.00%) Microsoft