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 11 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 595 462 492
Rank change year-on-year -133 +30 +24
Contract jobs citing NetBackup 35 50 34
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.076% 0.18% 0.11%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.69% 1.24% 0.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 33 18
10th Percentile £408 £376 £451
25th Percentile £460 £393 £476
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £500 £551
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -9.30% +22.50%
75th Percentile £600 £525 £608
90th Percentile £680 £530 -
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £538
% change year-on-year +5.00% -6.98% +15.59%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 3
10th Percentile £47.40 - -
25th Percentile £48.75 £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 5,109 4,017 3,953
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 11.05% 14.31% 12.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,404 2,636 2,603
10th Percentile £313 £277 £300
25th Percentile £425 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £600 £630
90th Percentile £705 £688 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £520
% change year-on-year +5.00% -3.85% -5.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 183 76 51
10th Percentile £20.60 £17.58 £21.05
25th Percentile £31.25 £19.75 £23.99
Median hourly rate £65.00 £34.00 £38.00
Median % change year-on-year +91.18% -10.53% -27.62%
75th Percentile £74.00 £63.49 £63.50
90th Percentile £89.75 £78.13 £74.44
UK median hourly rate £63.14 £25.50 £37.50
% change year-on-year +147.59% -32.00% -31.82%

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 11 October 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 11 October 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
East of England - 12 £600 -
London -94 11 £415 -17.00% 8
South West -25 4 - - 2
South East -70 4 £700 +86.67%
Midlands -43 2 £525 +5.00% 4
West Midlands -48 2 £525 +5.00% 4
Yorkshire -46 1 £519 +1.27%
North of England -92 1 £519 +1.27%
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 4 (11.43%) Exchange Server 2013
1 4 (11.43%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 6 (17.14%) Azure
2 4 (11.43%) AWS
3 2 (5.71%) Rubrik
4 1 (2.86%) Azure Storage
4 1 (2.86%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (2.86%) Datadog
4 1 (2.86%) GCP
4 1 (2.86%) GitHub
4 1 (2.86%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (2.86%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 17 (48.57%) SAN
2 14 (40.00%) DNS
3 7 (20.00%) Firewall
4 6 (17.14%) VLAN
5 2 (5.71%) DHCP
6 1 (2.86%) NAS
6 1 (2.86%) Network Security
6 1 (2.86%) TCP/IP
6 1 (2.86%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (5.71%) NonStop SQL
2 1 (2.86%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (2.86%) Git
1 1 (2.86%) Jenkins
1 1 (2.86%) JIRA
General
1 13 (37.14%) Social Skills
2 8 (22.86%) Documentation Skills
3 2 (5.71%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (2.86%) Banking
4 1 (2.86%) Legal
4 1 (2.86%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 11 (31.43%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 8 (22.86%) Storage Engineer
3 7 (20.00%) Senior
4 6 (17.14%) Backup Engineer
4 6 (17.14%) Backup Specialist
4 6 (17.14%) NetApp Engineer
5 5 (14.29%) NetApp Specialist
5 5 (14.29%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
5 5 (14.29%) Senior Technical Specialist
5 5 (14.29%) Senior Unix Technical Specialist
5 5 (14.29%) Technical Specialist
6 4 (11.43%) Architect
7 3 (8.57%) Automation Specialist
7 3 (8.57%) Backup Infrastructure Engineer
7 3 (8.57%) NetBackup Engineer
7 3 (8.57%) Solutions Architect
7 3 (8.57%) Storage Architect
8 2 (5.71%) Automation Engineer
8 2 (5.71%) Storage and Backup Engineer
8 2 (5.71%) VMware Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.86%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 13 (37.14%) Replication
2 5 (14.29%) Data Centre
3 4 (11.43%) Enterprise Storage
4 1 (2.86%) Cloud Native
4 1 (2.86%) EMC VMAX
4 1 (2.86%) EMC VNX
Operating Systems
1 25 (71.43%) Windows
2 22 (62.86%) Linux
3 18 (51.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 18 (51.43%) Windows Server
4 13 (37.14%) CentOS
5 12 (34.29%) Rocky
6 7 (20.00%) AIX
6 7 (20.00%) Solaris
7 4 (11.43%) OpenVMS
7 4 (11.43%) VMS
7 4 (11.43%) Windows Server 2012
7 4 (11.43%) Windows Server 2019
8 3 (8.57%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
9 2 (5.71%) HPUX
9 2 (5.71%) Unix
9 2 (5.71%) Windows 7
9 2 (5.71%) Windows Server 2008
10 1 (2.86%) Data ONTAP
10 1 (2.86%) SUSE
10 1 (2.86%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (48.57%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 9 (25.71%) Migration
2 9 (25.71%) Problem-Solving
3 7 (20.00%) Disaster Recovery
4 6 (17.14%) Data Protection
5 5 (14.29%) Change Management
6 4 (11.43%) Business Continuity
6 4 (11.43%) Identity Access Management
6 4 (11.43%) ITIL
6 4 (11.43%) Project Delivery
6 4 (11.43%) Service Management
7 3 (8.57%) Cyber Resilience
7 3 (8.57%) Infrastructure Monitoring
7 3 (8.57%) Knowledge Transfer
7 3 (8.57%) Service Delivery
7 3 (8.57%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 3 (8.57%) Technical Leadership
7 3 (8.57%) Workload Management
8 2 (5.71%) Analytics
8 2 (5.71%) Change Control
Programming Languages
1 16 (45.71%) PowerShell
2 4 (11.43%) Shell Script
2 4 (11.43%) SQL
3 3 (8.57%) Bash
4 2 (5.71%) Python
Qualifications
1 27 (77.14%) Security Cleared
2 18 (51.43%) SC Cleared
3 5 (14.29%) DV Cleared
4 1 (2.86%) Azure Certification
4 1 (2.86%) NCDA
4 1 (2.86%) NCIE
4 1 (2.86%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.86%) SLA
System Software
1 12 (34.29%) VMware Infrastructure
2 6 (17.14%) Active Directory
3 5 (14.29%) VMware ESXi
4 4 (11.43%) vSphere
5 3 (8.57%) Hyper-V
5 3 (8.57%) VMware NSX
6 2 (5.71%) NFS
6 2 (5.71%) Veritas Cluster Server
7 1 (2.86%) Docker
7 1 (2.86%) EMC RecoverPoint
7 1 (2.86%) Oracle RAC
7 1 (2.86%) SRDF
7 1 (2.86%) Veritas Volume Manager
Systems Management
1 17 (48.57%) Ansible
2 2 (5.71%) EMC NetWorker
2 2 (5.71%) Puppet
2 2 (5.71%) SCCM
2 2 (5.71%) SCOM
2 2 (5.71%) vCenter Server
2 2 (5.71%) vRealize
2 2 (5.71%) WSUS
3 1 (2.86%) Argo
3 1 (2.86%) EMC VPLEX
3 1 (2.86%) Grafana
3 1 (2.86%) Kubernetes
3 1 (2.86%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
3 1 (2.86%) Opsview
3 1 (2.86%) Prometheus
3 1 (2.86%) SnapMirror
3 1 (2.86%) SnapVault
Vendors
1 18 (51.43%) Veeam
1 18 (51.43%) Veritas
2 16 (45.71%) NetApp
3 15 (42.86%) VMware
4 6 (17.14%) Oracle
5 5 (14.29%) Microsoft
6 4 (11.43%) Dell
6 4 (11.43%) HP
7 3 (8.57%) Red Hat
7 3 (8.57%) SolarWinds
7 3 (8.57%) Zerto
8 2 (5.71%) Broadcom
8 2 (5.71%) Brocade
8 2 (5.71%) Citrix
8 2 (5.71%) CyberArk
8 2 (5.71%) EMC
8 2 (5.71%) ServiceNow
8 2 (5.71%) Splunk
9 1 (2.86%) Cisco
9 1 (2.86%) Commvault