Storage and Backup Engineer Contracts in the UK excluding London

Storage and Backup Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Storage and 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 374 440 486
Rank change year-on-year +66 +46 -48
Contract jobs requiring a Storage and Backup Engineer 20 6 13
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.099% 0.026% 0.042%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.11% 0.028% 0.044%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 5 7
10th Percentile £421 £313 £348
25th Percentile £463 £369 £383
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £388 £385
Median % change year-on-year +29.03% +0.65% -12.00%
75th Percentile £513 £406 £502
90th Percentile £600 £415 £619
UK median daily rate £500 £395 £385
% change year-on-year +26.58% +2.60% -18.95%

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%

Storage and Backup Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings that featured Storage and Backup Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Storage and Backup Engineer in the UK excluding London

Storage and Backup Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Storage and Backup Engineer in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Storage and Backup Engineer in the UK excluding London

Storage and Backup Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Storage and Backup Engineer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Storage and Backup Engineer in the UK excluding London

Storage and Backup Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Storage and Backup Engineer in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Storage and Backup Engineer in the UK excluding London

Storage and 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 Storage and 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
North of England +28 1 £480 +18.89% 3
East of England +10 1 - - 2
East Midlands - 1 £600 -
Midlands - 1 £600 -
North West - 1 £480 - 2
Storage and Backup Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 20 May 2024, Storage and 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 Storage and Backup Engineer in the job title.

1 15 (75.00%) Security Cleared
2 11 (55.00%) DV Cleared
2 11 (55.00%) Dell
2 11 (55.00%) VMware
2 11 (55.00%) SAN
3 7 (35.00%) NAS
3 7 (35.00%) Public Sector
4 6 (30.00%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (30.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 5 (25.00%) Windows
5 5 (25.00%) Linux
5 5 (25.00%) EMC
6 4 (20.00%) Brocade
6 4 (20.00%) Virtual Environments
6 4 (20.00%) SC Cleared
7 3 (15.00%) Avamar
7 3 (15.00%) Enterprise Storage
7 3 (15.00%) Migration
7 3 (15.00%) NetBackup
7 3 (15.00%) NetApp
7 3 (15.00%) Database Migration
8 2 (10.00%) Tivoli Storage Manager
8 2 (10.00%) IBM
8 2 (10.00%) Time Management
8 2 (10.00%) Data Protection
8 2 (10.00%) Decision-Making
8 2 (10.00%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (10.00%) Social Skills
8 2 (10.00%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (10.00%) Cybersecurity

Storage and 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 (5.00%) Amazon S3
1 1 (5.00%) AWS
1 1 (5.00%) Azure
1 1 (5.00%) Cohesity
1 1 (5.00%) GCP
1 1 (5.00%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 11 (55.00%) SAN
2 7 (35.00%) NAS
3 1 (5.00%) Fibre Channel
General
1 7 (35.00%) Public Sector
2 2 (10.00%) Organisational Skills
2 2 (10.00%) Presentation Skills
2 2 (10.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (5.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (5.00%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.00%) Flash
Miscellaneous
1 3 (15.00%) Enterprise Storage
2 1 (5.00%) Data Centre
2 1 (5.00%) Driving Licence
2 1 (5.00%) IBM XIV
2 1 (5.00%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 5 (25.00%) Linux
1 5 (25.00%) Windows
2 1 (5.00%) AIX
2 1 (5.00%) Solaris
2 1 (5.00%) Unix
2 1 (5.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (30.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 4 (20.00%) Virtual Environments
3 3 (15.00%) Database Migration
3 3 (15.00%) Migration
4 2 (10.00%) Cybersecurity
4 2 (10.00%) Data Protection
4 2 (10.00%) Decision-Making
4 2 (10.00%) Time Management
5 1 (5.00%) Asset Management
5 1 (5.00%) Capacity Planning
5 1 (5.00%) Change Management
5 1 (5.00%) Computer Science
5 1 (5.00%) Disaster Recovery
5 1 (5.00%) ITIL
5 1 (5.00%) Patch Management
5 1 (5.00%) Performance Tuning
5 1 (5.00%) Problem-Solving
5 1 (5.00%) Stakeholder Management
5 1 (5.00%) Storage Management
5 1 (5.00%) Ticket Management
Qualifications
1 15 (75.00%) Security Cleared
2 11 (55.00%) DV Cleared
3 4 (20.00%) SC Cleared
4 1 (5.00%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (5.00%) Degree
4 1 (5.00%) IBM Certification
System Software
1 6 (30.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (5.00%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 3 (15.00%) Avamar
1 3 (15.00%) NetBackup
2 2 (10.00%) Tivoli Storage Manager
3 1 (5.00%) EMC NetWorker
Vendors
1 11 (55.00%) Dell
1 11 (55.00%) VMware
2 5 (25.00%) EMC
3 4 (20.00%) Brocade
4 3 (15.00%) NetApp
5 2 (10.00%) IBM
6 1 (5.00%) Cisco
6 1 (5.00%) Google
6 1 (5.00%) Isilon
6 1 (5.00%) Microsoft
6 1 (5.00%) Veritas