Symantec Backup Exec
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Backup Exec skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Backup Exec over the 6 months to 4 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 871 959 1129
Rank change year-on-year +88 +170 -282
Permanent jobs citing Backup Exec 40 40 84
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.041% 0.039% 0.054%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.40% 0.26% 0.30%
Number of salaries quoted 37 29 76
10th Percentile £30,300 £23,750 £25,750
25th Percentile £38,750 £32,000 £30,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,000 £40,000 £38,750
Median % change year-on-year +40.00% +3.23% -3.13%
75th Percentile £57,500 £57,500 £46,000
90th Percentile £62,000 £59,500 £57,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,000 £37,500 £37,500
% change year-on-year +52.00% - +10.29%

All Systems Management Skills
UK

Backup Exec is in the Systems Management category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 9,955 15,150 28,382
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.11% 14.63% 18.14%
Number of salaries quoted 7,174 9,323 14,201
10th Percentile £32,750 £35,400 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £48,091 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £67,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% -3.57% +12.00%
75th Percentile £82,500 £87,500 £87,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% +9.09%

Backup Exec
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Backup Exec as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Backup Exec in the UK

Backup Exec
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Backup Exec.

Salary trend for Backup Exec in the UK

Backup Exec
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Backup Exec over the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Backup Exec in the UK

Backup Exec
Top 11 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Backup Exec within the UK over the 6 months to 4 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +87 37 £56,000 +40.00% 14
UK excluding London -6 27 £57,000 +52.00% 12
South West -13 13 £57,000 +1.33% 7
London +114 10 £43,750 -12.50% 4
Work from Home +65 6 £60,000 +87.50% 7
Midlands +15 6 £60,000 +87.50% 2
West Midlands +13 5 £60,000 +87.50% 2
Yorkshire +93 4 £60,000 +26.32%
North of England +37 4 £60,000 +65.52% 2
South East +15 4 £54,500 +39.74% 1
East Midlands - 1 £60,000 -

Backup Exec
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:

Application Platforms
1 32 (80.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 8 (20.00%) SharePoint
3 7 (17.50%) Exchange Server 2010
4 3 (7.50%) IIS
Applications
1 3 (7.50%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (2.50%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (2.50%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (2.50%) Sage 200
Cloud Services
1 17 (42.50%) Microsoft 365
2 12 (30.00%) Azure
3 11 (27.50%) Entra ID
4 10 (25.00%) OneDrive
5 2 (5.00%) Amazon S3
5 2 (5.00%) AWS
5 2 (5.00%) Mimecast
5 2 (5.00%) OpenDNS
6 1 (2.50%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 20 (50.00%) SAN
2 9 (22.50%) Firewall
2 9 (22.50%) VPN
3 7 (17.50%) LAN
3 7 (17.50%) WAN
4 6 (15.00%) DHCP
4 6 (15.00%) DNS
4 6 (15.00%) Wi-Fi
5 5 (12.50%) PSTN
6 4 (10.00%) NAS
6 4 (10.00%) Unified Communications
7 2 (5.00%) EIGRP
7 2 (5.00%) HSRP
7 2 (5.00%) IPsec
7 2 (5.00%) iSCSI
7 2 (5.00%) OSPF
7 2 (5.00%) RIP
7 2 (5.00%) SSL
7 2 (5.00%) TCP/IP
7 2 (5.00%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (10.00%) SQL Server
2 2 (5.00%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (2.50%) Crystal Reports
General
1 20 (50.00%) Finance
2 15 (37.50%) Organisational Skills
2 15 (37.50%) Social Skills
3 3 (7.50%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (7.50%) Military
4 2 (5.00%) Law
4 2 (5.00%) Legal
5 1 (2.50%) Retail
Job Titles
1 19 (47.50%) Support Engineer
2 7 (17.50%) IT Support
2 7 (17.50%) Systems Engineer
3 6 (15.00%) Consultant
4 4 (10.00%) Analyst
4 4 (10.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 4 (10.00%) IT Engineer
4 4 (10.00%) IT Support Engineer
4 4 (10.00%) Support Analyst
4 4 (10.00%) Support Consultant
4 4 (10.00%) Technical Consultant
4 4 (10.00%) Technical Support
4 4 (10.00%) Technical Support Consultant
5 3 (7.50%) Infrastructure Support
5 3 (7.50%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
5 3 (7.50%) IT Consultant
5 3 (7.50%) Systems Support
5 3 (7.50%) Systems Support Engineer
6 2 (5.00%) 3rd Line Support
6 2 (5.00%) Infrastructure Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (5.00%) .NET
1 2 (5.00%) LAMP
1 2 (5.00%) V-Ray
Miscellaneous
1 16 (40.00%) Clustering
2 6 (15.00%) Management Information System
3 5 (12.50%) Blackberry
4 2 (5.00%) PKI
4 2 (5.00%) Replication
5 1 (2.50%) Driving Licence
5 1 (2.50%) Microsoft Licensing
5 1 (2.50%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 35 (87.50%) Windows
2 13 (32.50%) Windows Server
3 12 (30.00%) AIX
4 10 (25.00%) Linux
5 9 (22.50%) Windows 10
6 5 (12.50%) Windows 7
7 4 (10.00%) Windows Server 2008
8 1 (2.50%) Android
8 1 (2.50%) Apple iOS
8 1 (2.50%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (2.50%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (47.50%) ITIL
2 12 (30.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 12 (30.00%) Customer Requirements
3 6 (15.00%) Migration
4 5 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 5 (12.50%) Server Management
5 4 (10.00%) Project Management
6 3 (7.50%) Artificial Intelligence
6 3 (7.50%) Collaborative Culture
6 3 (7.50%) Cybersecurity
6 3 (7.50%) Machine Learning
6 3 (7.50%) Model-Based Systems Engineering
6 3 (7.50%) Project Delivery
6 3 (7.50%) Server Patching
6 3 (7.50%) Systems Engineering
7 2 (5.00%) Customer Service
7 2 (5.00%) Mentoring
7 2 (5.00%) Patch Management
7 2 (5.00%) Preventative Maintenance
7 2 (5.00%) Server Migrations
Programming Languages
1 18 (45.00%) SQL
2 3 (7.50%) R
3 1 (2.50%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 15 (37.50%) Security Cleared
2 12 (30.00%) ITIL Certification
2 12 (30.00%) SC Cleared
3 6 (15.00%) DV Cleared
4 2 (5.00%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (2.50%) Azure Certification
5 1 (2.50%) CCA
5 1 (2.50%) Citrix Certification
5 1 (2.50%) Degree
5 1 (2.50%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (30.00%) SLA
2 6 (15.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 3 (7.50%) JSP 440
4 1 (2.50%) GDPR
4 1 (2.50%) HIPAA
System Software
1 35 (87.50%) Active Directory
2 18 (45.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 11 (27.50%) Hyper-V
4 6 (15.00%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (5.00%) Citrix Hypervisor
5 2 (5.00%) Docker
5 2 (5.00%) pfSense
5 2 (5.00%) Terminal Services
5 2 (5.00%) Virtual Servers
6 1 (2.50%) XenApp
6 1 (2.50%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 12 (30.00%) NetBackup
2 11 (27.50%) Microsoft Intune
3 7 (17.50%) SCCM
4 4 (10.00%) vCenter Server
5 2 (5.00%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
5 2 (5.00%) Symantec Endpoint Protection
5 2 (5.00%) ZABBIX
6 1 (2.50%) SCDPM
Vendors
1 34 (85.00%) Microsoft
2 28 (70.00%) Veritas
3 23 (57.50%) VMware
4 16 (40.00%) NetApp
4 16 (40.00%) Veeam
5 12 (30.00%) Hitachi
5 12 (30.00%) Oracle
5 12 (30.00%) Snow
6 11 (27.50%) Cisco
7 9 (22.50%) IBM
8 8 (20.00%) Aruba
8 8 (20.00%) Symantec
9 6 (15.00%) Avaya
10 5 (12.50%) Bloomberg
10 5 (12.50%) Fortinet
10 5 (12.50%) Palo Alto
11 3 (7.50%) Citrix
11 3 (7.50%) Red Hat
11 3 (7.50%) Sophos
12 2 (5.00%) HP