Storage and Backup Engineer Contracts

Storage and Backup Engineer
UK

The median Storage and Backup Engineer daily rate in the UK is £500 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 18 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
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 550 674 827
Rank change year-on-year +124 +153 -119
Contract jobs requiring a Storage and Backup Engineer 21 13 17
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.049% 0.023% 0.019%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.053% 0.024% 0.020%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 11 9
10th Percentile £423 £275 £300
25th Percentile £463 £371 £380
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £395 £385
Median % change year-on-year +26.58% +2.60% -18.95%
75th Percentile £516 £420 £488
90th Percentile £600 - £619
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £388 £385
% change year-on-year +29.03% +0.65% -12.00%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract 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 contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 39,507 53,867 83,506
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.79% 94.60% 95.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,718 37,620 58,687
10th Percentile £280 £313 £313
25th Percentile £410 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £544 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.40% +3.52% +9.38%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,672 1,498 2,036
10th Percentile £12.82 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.29 £19.13 £15.75
Median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.91
Median % change year-on-year -18.89% +88.21% +6.27%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.90 £76.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% +5.26%

Storage and Backup Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Storage and Backup Engineer in the UK

Storage and Backup Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Storage and Backup Engineer in the UK

Storage and Backup Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Storage and Backup Engineer over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Storage and Backup Engineer in the UK

Storage and Backup Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Storage and Backup Engineer in the UK

Storage and Backup Engineer
Top 10 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 18 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
England +119 20 £500 +29.03% 12
UK excluding London +73 20 £500 +29.03% 11
South West +18 12 £500 +81.82% 4
South East - 5 £450 - 3
Work from Home +105 3 £450 +7.14% 1
North of England +31 1 £480 +18.89% 3
East of England +3 1 - - 1
East Midlands - 1 £600 -
Midlands - 1 £600 -
North West - 1 £480 - 2

Storage and Backup Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 18 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 featuring Storage and Backup Engineer in the job title.

1 15 (71.43%) Security Cleared
2 12 (57.14%) Dell
3 11 (52.38%) SAN
3 11 (52.38%) VMware
3 11 (52.38%) DV Cleared
4 7 (33.33%) NAS
4 7 (33.33%) Public Sector
5 6 (28.57%) VMware Infrastructure
5 6 (28.57%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 6 (28.57%) EMC
6 5 (23.81%) Windows
6 5 (23.81%) Linux
7 4 (19.05%) SC Cleared
7 4 (19.05%) Brocade
7 4 (19.05%) Virtual Environments
8 3 (14.29%) Avamar
8 3 (14.29%) Database Migration
8 3 (14.29%) NetBackup
8 3 (14.29%) NetApp
8 3 (14.29%) Migration
8 3 (14.29%) Enterprise Storage
9 2 (9.52%) Decision-Making
9 2 (9.52%) Cybersecurity
9 2 (9.52%) Stakeholder Management
9 2 (9.52%) Veritas
9 2 (9.52%) Time Management
9 2 (9.52%) Data Protection
9 2 (9.52%) IBM
9 2 (9.52%) Tivoli Storage Manager
9 2 (9.52%) Cohesity

Storage and Backup Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 (9.52%) Cohesity
1 2 (9.52%) Rubrik
2 1 (4.76%) Amazon S3
2 1 (4.76%) AWS
2 1 (4.76%) Azure
2 1 (4.76%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 11 (52.38%) SAN
2 7 (33.33%) NAS
3 1 (4.76%) Fibre Channel
General
1 7 (33.33%) Public Sector
2 2 (9.52%) Organisational Skills
2 2 (9.52%) Presentation Skills
2 2 (9.52%) Social Skills
3 1 (4.76%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (4.76%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (4.76%) Flash
Miscellaneous
1 3 (14.29%) Enterprise Storage
2 1 (4.76%) Data Centre
2 1 (4.76%) Driving Licence
2 1 (4.76%) IBM XIV
2 1 (4.76%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 5 (23.81%) Linux
1 5 (23.81%) Windows
2 1 (4.76%) AIX
2 1 (4.76%) Solaris
2 1 (4.76%) Unix
2 1 (4.76%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (28.57%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 4 (19.05%) Virtual Environments
3 3 (14.29%) Database Migration
3 3 (14.29%) Migration
4 2 (9.52%) Cybersecurity
4 2 (9.52%) Data Protection
4 2 (9.52%) Decision-Making
4 2 (9.52%) Stakeholder Management
4 2 (9.52%) Time Management
5 1 (4.76%) Asset Management
5 1 (4.76%) Capacity Planning
5 1 (4.76%) Change Management
5 1 (4.76%) Computer Science
5 1 (4.76%) Disaster Recovery
5 1 (4.76%) ITIL
5 1 (4.76%) Patch Management
5 1 (4.76%) Performance Tuning
5 1 (4.76%) Problem-Solving
5 1 (4.76%) Storage Management
5 1 (4.76%) Ticket Management
Qualifications
1 15 (71.43%) Security Cleared
2 11 (52.38%) DV Cleared
3 4 (19.05%) SC Cleared
4 1 (4.76%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (4.76%) Degree
4 1 (4.76%) IBM Certification
System Software
1 6 (28.57%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (4.76%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 3 (14.29%) Avamar
1 3 (14.29%) NetBackup
2 2 (9.52%) Tivoli Storage Manager
3 1 (4.76%) EMC NetWorker
Vendors
1 12 (57.14%) Dell
2 11 (52.38%) VMware
3 6 (28.57%) EMC
4 4 (19.05%) Brocade
5 3 (14.29%) NetApp
6 2 (9.52%) IBM
6 2 (9.52%) Veritas
7 1 (4.76%) Cisco
7 1 (4.76%) Commvault
7 1 (4.76%) Google
7 1 (4.76%) Isilon
7 1 (4.76%) Microsoft
7 1 (4.76%) Veeam