NetBackup Contract Job Trends in England

Veritas NetBackup
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring NetBackup skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 576 462 476
Rank change year-on-year -114 +14 +68
Contract jobs citing NetBackup 50 44 43
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.11% 0.16% 0.13%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.82% 1.03% 0.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 28 35
10th Percentile £405 £371 £461
25th Percentile £431 £398 £507
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £496 £553
Median % change year-on-year +5.85% -10.31% +22.89%
75th Percentile £600 £525 £608
90th Percentile £630 £538 -
UK median daily rate £525 £492 £540
% change year-on-year +6.71% -8.89% +17.39%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 1 3
10th Percentile £46.00 - -
25th Percentile £46.50 £61.86 -
Median hourly rate £51.00 £63.72 £23.80
Median % change year-on-year -19.96% +167.71% -63.94%
75th Percentile - £65.57 -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £51.00 £63.72 £23.80
% change year-on-year -19.96% +167.71% -62.39%

All Systems Management Skills
England

NetBackup 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 6,118 4,289 4,490
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 13.34% 15.43% 13.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,156 2,855 3,199
10th Percentile £325 £301 £310
25th Percentile £425 £408 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.78%
75th Percentile £613 £606 £625
90th Percentile £700 £693 £710
UK median daily rate £525 £504 £525
% change year-on-year +4.22% -4.05% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 164 61 68
10th Percentile £20.73 £18.87 £20.35
25th Percentile £43.98 £26.45 £23.80
Median hourly rate £67.00 £54.50 £36.83
Median % change year-on-year +22.94% +47.97% -25.78%
75th Percentile £73.19 £66.50 £61.13
90th Percentile £82.91 £82.96 £74.13
UK median hourly rate £63.31 £36.00 £35.08
% change year-on-year +75.85% +2.62% -37.63%

NetBackup
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing NetBackup relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in England.

NetBackup job vacancy trend in England

NetBackup
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing NetBackup.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing NetBackup

NetBackup
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing NetBackup in England over the 6 months to 16 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for NetBackup in England

NetBackup
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing NetBackup.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing NetBackup

NetBackup
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 NetBackup within the England region over the 6 months to 16 August 2026. 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
London -78 14 £415 -16.33%
South West - 12 £525 -
North of England -80 10 £519 +1.27%
East of England - 10 £600 -
Yorkshire -45 9 £519 +1.27%
South East -79 4 £700 +81.82%
North West -44 1 £525 -
NetBackup
UK

NetBackup
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 5 (10.00%) Confluence
2 3 (6.00%) Exchange Server 2013
2 3 (6.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 7 (14.00%) GitHub
2 6 (12.00%) Azure
3 5 (10.00%) CloudBees
3 5 (10.00%) Rubrik
4 4 (8.00%) AWS
4 4 (8.00%) OpenShift
5 2 (4.00%) Azure Storage
5 2 (4.00%) Datadog
5 2 (4.00%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (2.00%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 19 (38.00%) SAN
2 11 (22.00%) DNS
3 7 (14.00%) Firewall
3 7 (14.00%) NAS
4 6 (12.00%) VLAN
5 3 (6.00%) Fibre Channel
6 2 (4.00%) DHCP
6 2 (4.00%) VSAN
7 1 (2.00%) iSCSI
7 1 (2.00%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (16.00%) NonStop SQL
Development Applications
1 7 (14.00%) Jenkins
2 5 (10.00%) JIRA
General
1 14 (28.00%) Social Skills
2 7 (14.00%) Documentation Skills
3 4 (8.00%) Banking
3 4 (8.00%) Finance
4 3 (6.00%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (2.00%) Legal
5 1 (2.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 12 (24.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 9 (18.00%) Senior
2 9 (18.00%) Storage Engineer
3 6 (12.00%) Backup Engineer
3 6 (12.00%) Backup Specialist
3 6 (12.00%) NetBackup Engineer
4 5 (10.00%) Architect
4 5 (10.00%) Consultant
4 5 (10.00%) NetApp Specialist
4 5 (10.00%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
4 5 (10.00%) Senior Technical Specialist
4 5 (10.00%) Senior Unix Technical Specialist
4 5 (10.00%) Storage Architect
4 5 (10.00%) Technical Specialist
5 4 (8.00%) NetApp Engineer
5 4 (8.00%) Technical Consultant
5 4 (8.00%) VMware Consultant
5 4 (8.00%) VMware Technical Consultant
6 3 (6.00%) Support Engineer
6 3 (6.00%) Virtualisation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (6.00%) REST
2 1 (2.00%) Flash
Miscellaneous
1 17 (34.00%) Replication
2 11 (22.00%) Data Centre
3 8 (16.00%) Enterprise Storage
4 4 (8.00%) EMC VMAX
5 3 (6.00%) EMC VNX
6 2 (4.00%) Cloud Native
7 1 (2.00%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (2.00%) Mainframe
7 1 (2.00%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 19 (38.00%) Windows
2 18 (36.00%) Linux
3 13 (26.00%) Windows Server
4 11 (22.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 10 (20.00%) CentOS
5 10 (20.00%) Rocky
6 3 (6.00%) AIX
6 3 (6.00%) Data ONTAP
6 3 (6.00%) OpenVMS
6 3 (6.00%) Solaris
6 3 (6.00%) VMS
6 3 (6.00%) Windows Server 2012
6 3 (6.00%) Windows Server 2019
7 2 (4.00%) HPUX
7 2 (4.00%) Windows 7
7 2 (4.00%) Windows Server 2008
8 1 (2.00%) SUSE
8 1 (2.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (38.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 16 (32.00%) Data Protection
3 14 (28.00%) Migration
4 12 (24.00%) Disaster Recovery
5 8 (16.00%) DevOps
5 8 (16.00%) Technical Leadership
6 6 (12.00%) CI/CD
6 6 (12.00%) Problem-Solving
7 5 (10.00%) Capacity Planning
7 5 (10.00%) Infrastructure Monitoring
7 5 (10.00%) Runbook
8 4 (8.00%) Change Control
8 4 (8.00%) Configuration Management
8 4 (8.00%) Data Migration
8 4 (8.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 4 (8.00%) Test Automation
9 3 (6.00%) Business Continuity
9 3 (6.00%) ITIL
9 3 (6.00%) Service Delivery
9 3 (6.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 15 (30.00%) PowerShell
2 9 (18.00%) Bash
3 7 (14.00%) Python
4 3 (6.00%) Shell Script
4 3 (6.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 20 (40.00%) Security Cleared
2 13 (26.00%) SC Cleared
3 3 (6.00%) DV Cleared
4 2 (4.00%) Azure Certification
4 2 (4.00%) NCDA
4 2 (4.00%) NCIE
4 2 (4.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.00%) GRC
1 1 (2.00%) SLA
System Software
1 18 (36.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 17 (34.00%) VMware ESXi
3 13 (26.00%) VMware NSX
4 12 (24.00%) vSphere
5 5 (10.00%) Active Directory
6 4 (8.00%) Hyper-V
7 3 (6.00%) Veritas Cluster Server
8 2 (4.00%) EMC RecoverPoint
8 2 (4.00%) NFS
8 2 (4.00%) SRDF
Systems Management
1 19 (38.00%) Ansible
2 9 (18.00%) vCenter Server
2 9 (18.00%) vRealize
3 5 (10.00%) EMC NetWorker
3 5 (10.00%) Puppet
4 3 (6.00%) EMC VPLEX
4 3 (6.00%) SnapMirror
4 3 (6.00%) SnapVault
5 2 (4.00%) Argo
5 2 (4.00%) Avamar
5 2 (4.00%) Grafana
5 2 (4.00%) Kubernetes
5 2 (4.00%) Prometheus
5 2 (4.00%) SCCM
5 2 (4.00%) SCOM
5 2 (4.00%) Terraform
5 2 (4.00%) WSUS
6 1 (2.00%) Opsview
Vendors
1 29 (58.00%) Veritas
2 24 (48.00%) VMware
3 17 (34.00%) NetApp
3 17 (34.00%) Veeam
4 9 (18.00%) Zerto
5 7 (14.00%) Commvault
5 7 (14.00%) Red Hat
6 6 (12.00%) EMC
7 5 (10.00%) Brocade
7 5 (10.00%) Dell
7 5 (10.00%) Pure Storage
8 4 (8.00%) 3PAR
8 4 (8.00%) SolarWinds
9 3 (6.00%) Cisco
9 3 (6.00%) HP
9 3 (6.00%) Microsoft
9 3 (6.00%) Oracle
10 2 (4.00%) Broadcom
10 2 (4.00%) Citrix
10 2 (4.00%) Splunk