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 30 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 568 462 497
Rank change year-on-year -106 +35 +37
Contract jobs citing NetBackup 48 46 33
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.10% 0.17% 0.10%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.95% 1.20% 0.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 30 24
10th Percentile £396 £374 £456
25th Percentile £418 £387 £514
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £473 £588
Median % change year-on-year +10.99% -19.49% +30.56%
75th Percentile £600 £519 £608
90th Percentile £654 £526 -
UK median daily rate £525 £472 £575
% change year-on-year +11.29% -17.96% +27.78%
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% -
75th Percentile - £65.57 -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £51.00 £63.72 £23.80
% change year-on-year -19.96% +167.71% -

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 5,064 3,831 3,960
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 11.02% 13.81% 12.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,393 2,537 2,767
10th Percentile £308 £282 £300
25th Percentile £418 £402 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -5.01%
75th Percentile £613 £600 £625
90th Percentile £700 £688 £712
UK median daily rate £518 £500 £520
% change year-on-year +3.50% -3.85% -5.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 173 60 59
10th Percentile £21.27 £18.87 £20.00
25th Percentile £44.86 £25.00 £23.80
Median hourly rate £67.00 £51.00 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +31.37% +36.00% -24.27%
75th Percentile £74.00 £66.63 £61.25
90th Percentile £85.20 £82.96 £74.00
UK median hourly rate £63.48 £30.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year +111.60% -20.00% -30.23%

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 30 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 30 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 -82 14 £433 -13.50% 3
South West - 13 £525 - 2
East of England - 11 £600 - 3
Yorkshire -55 6 £519 +5.11%
North of England -82 6 £519 +5.11%
South East -66 4 £700 +86.67% 1
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 3 (6.25%) Exchange Server 2013
1 3 (6.25%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (4.17%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 6 (12.50%) Azure
2 4 (8.33%) AWS
2 4 (8.33%) GitHub
2 4 (8.33%) Rubrik
3 3 (6.25%) OpenShift
4 2 (4.17%) Azure Storage
4 2 (4.17%) CloudBees
4 2 (4.17%) Datadog
4 2 (4.17%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (2.08%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (2.08%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 20 (41.67%) SAN
2 12 (25.00%) DNS
3 7 (14.58%) Firewall
4 6 (12.50%) NAS
4 6 (12.50%) VLAN
5 2 (4.17%) DHCP
5 2 (4.17%) Fibre Channel
5 2 (4.17%) VSAN
6 1 (2.08%) Network Security
6 1 (2.08%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (16.67%) NonStop SQL
2 1 (2.08%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (8.33%) Jenkins
2 3 (6.25%) JIRA
3 1 (2.08%) Git
General
1 14 (29.17%) Social Skills
2 7 (14.58%) Documentation Skills
3 3 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (6.25%) Finance
4 2 (4.17%) Banking
5 1 (2.08%) Legal
5 1 (2.08%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (2.08%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 13 (27.08%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 10 (20.83%) Storage Engineer
3 9 (18.75%) Senior
4 6 (12.50%) Architect
4 6 (12.50%) Backup Engineer
4 6 (12.50%) Backup Specialist
4 6 (12.50%) NetBackup Engineer
5 5 (10.42%) NetApp Engineer
5 5 (10.42%) NetApp Specialist
5 5 (10.42%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
5 5 (10.42%) Senior Technical Specialist
5 5 (10.42%) Senior Unix Technical Specialist
5 5 (10.42%) Storage Architect
5 5 (10.42%) Technical Specialist
6 4 (8.33%) Consultant
6 4 (8.33%) Technical Consultant
6 4 (8.33%) VMware Consultant
6 4 (8.33%) VMware Technical Consultant
7 3 (6.25%) Solutions Architect
7 3 (6.25%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (4.17%) Terraform
2 1 (2.08%) Flash
2 1 (2.08%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 18 (37.50%) Replication
2 12 (25.00%) Data Centre
3 8 (16.67%) Enterprise Storage
4 3 (6.25%) EMC VMAX
4 3 (6.25%) EMC VNX
5 2 (4.17%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 21 (43.75%) Linux
1 21 (43.75%) Windows
2 15 (31.25%) Windows Server
3 14 (29.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 12 (25.00%) CentOS
5 11 (22.92%) Rocky
6 4 (8.33%) AIX
6 4 (8.33%) Solaris
7 3 (6.25%) Data ONTAP
7 3 (6.25%) OpenVMS
7 3 (6.25%) VMS
7 3 (6.25%) Windows Server 2012
7 3 (6.25%) Windows Server 2019
8 2 (4.17%) HPUX
8 2 (4.17%) Unix
8 2 (4.17%) Windows 7
8 2 (4.17%) Windows Server 2008
9 1 (2.08%) SUSE
9 1 (2.08%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (39.58%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 15 (31.25%) Migration
3 13 (27.08%) Data Protection
4 12 (25.00%) Disaster Recovery
5 6 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
5 6 (12.50%) Technical Leadership
6 5 (10.42%) DevOps
6 5 (10.42%) Infrastructure Monitoring
6 5 (10.42%) Runbook
7 4 (8.33%) Capacity Planning
7 4 (8.33%) Change Control
7 4 (8.33%) CI/CD
7 4 (8.33%) Data Migration
7 4 (8.33%) Infrastructure as Code
7 4 (8.33%) Project Delivery
7 4 (8.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 3 (6.25%) Business Continuity
8 3 (6.25%) Change Management
8 3 (6.25%) Service Delivery
8 3 (6.25%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 16 (33.33%) PowerShell
2 6 (12.50%) Bash
3 5 (10.42%) Python
4 4 (8.33%) Shell Script
5 3 (6.25%) SQL
Qualifications
1 23 (47.92%) Security Cleared
2 15 (31.25%) SC Cleared
3 4 (8.33%) DV Cleared
4 2 (4.17%) Azure Certification
4 2 (4.17%) NCDA
4 2 (4.17%) NCIE
4 2 (4.17%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.08%) SLA
System Software
1 18 (37.50%) VMware Infrastructure
2 16 (33.33%) VMware ESXi
3 13 (27.08%) vSphere
4 12 (25.00%) VMware NSX
5 5 (10.42%) Active Directory
6 4 (8.33%) Hyper-V
6 4 (8.33%) Veritas Cluster Server
7 3 (6.25%) NFS
8 2 (4.17%) EMC RecoverPoint
8 2 (4.17%) SRDF
9 1 (2.08%) Docker
9 1 (2.08%) Oracle RAC
9 1 (2.08%) Veritas Volume Manager
Systems Management
1 19 (39.58%) Ansible
2 9 (18.75%) vRealize
3 8 (16.67%) vCenter Server
4 6 (12.50%) EMC NetWorker
5 4 (8.33%) Puppet
6 3 (6.25%) EMC VPLEX
6 3 (6.25%) SnapMirror
6 3 (6.25%) SnapVault
7 2 (4.17%) Argo
7 2 (4.17%) Avamar
7 2 (4.17%) Grafana
7 2 (4.17%) Kubernetes
7 2 (4.17%) Prometheus
7 2 (4.17%) SCCM
7 2 (4.17%) SCOM
7 2 (4.17%) WSUS
8 1 (2.08%) Opsview
Vendors
1 28 (58.33%) Veritas
2 25 (52.08%) VMware
3 18 (37.50%) NetApp
4 17 (35.42%) Veeam
5 8 (16.67%) Zerto
6 6 (12.50%) Red Hat
7 5 (10.42%) Brocade
7 5 (10.42%) EMC
7 5 (10.42%) Oracle
8 4 (8.33%) Dell
8 4 (8.33%) Microsoft
8 4 (8.33%) Pure Storage
8 4 (8.33%) SolarWinds
9 3 (6.25%) 3PAR
9 3 (6.25%) Cisco
9 3 (6.25%) Commvault
9 3 (6.25%) HP
9 3 (6.25%) ServiceNow
10 2 (4.17%) Citrix
10 2 (4.17%) Splunk