Backup Exec Contracts in England

Symantec Backup Exec
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring Backup Exec skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Backup Exec over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 481 540 648
Rank change year-on-year +59 +108 +121
Contract jobs citing Backup Exec 4 2 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.016% 0.005% 0.010%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.11% 0.046% 0.063%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 5
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £406 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £250 £350
Median % change year-on-year +65.00% -28.57% -10.26%
75th Percentile £419 - £490
90th Percentile - - £519
UK median daily rate £413 £250 £350
% change year-on-year +65.00% -28.57% -18.04%

All Systems Management Skills
England

Backup Exec falls under the Systems Management category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring systems management skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 3,779 4,390 7,902
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 15.52% 11.80% 15.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,614 3,174 5,772
10th Percentile £313 £250 £350
25th Percentile £420 £409 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -8.70% -
75th Percentile £628 £625 £680
90th Percentile £738 £700 £755
UK median daily rate £525 £515 £563
% change year-on-year +1.90% -8.41% -0.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 120 184
10th Percentile £15.22 £14.00 £16.83
25th Percentile £23.64 £17.74 £23.13
Median hourly rate £27.38 £27.25 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year +0.46% -52.61% +167.44%
75th Percentile £62.44 £51.13 £72.80
90th Percentile £76.09 £70.13 £82.16
UK median hourly rate £26.45 £30.00 £57.50
% change year-on-year -11.83% -47.83% +155.56%

Backup Exec
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Backup Exec in England

Backup Exec
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Backup Exec in England.

Daily rate trend for Backup Exec in England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Backup Exec in England.

Hourly rate trend for Backup Exec in England

Backup Exec
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Backup Exec within the England region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
North West - 3 - - 1
North of England - 3 - - 1
Backup Exec
UK

Backup Exec
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (25.00%) Skype for Business
Communications & Networking
1 4 (100.00%) SAN
2 3 (75.00%) LAN
2 3 (75.00%) Network Security
2 3 (75.00%) WLAN
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) 3rd Line Engineer
1 3 (75.00%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
1 3 (75.00%) Industrial Engineer
1 3 (75.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Systems Engineer
Operating Systems
1 4 (100.00%) Windows
1 4 (100.00%) Windows Server
2 3 (75.00%) Linux
2 3 (75.00%) Windows Server 2003
2 3 (75.00%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Asset Management
1 3 (75.00%) Business Continuity
1 3 (75.00%) Data Management
1 3 (75.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 3 (75.00%) ITIL
1 3 (75.00%) Proactive Maintenance
1 3 (75.00%) Roadmaps
1 3 (75.00%) Storage Management
1 3 (75.00%) Strategic Roadmap
2 1 (25.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (25.00%) Server Virtualisation
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 3 (75.00%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 3 (75.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (25.00%) Hyper-V
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft App-V
2 1 (25.00%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 3 (75.00%) vCenter Server
2 1 (25.00%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (75.00%) Cisco
2 3 (75.00%) Symantec
2 3 (75.00%) Veeam
2 3 (75.00%) VMware
3 1 (25.00%) Citrix
3 1 (25.00%) HP
3 1 (25.00%) IBM
3 1 (25.00%) NetApp