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 27 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 596 478 491
Rank change year-on-year -118 +13 +47
Contract jobs citing NetBackup 39 45 32
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.084% 0.16% 0.098%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.77% 1.15% 0.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 29 20
10th Percentile £407 £375 £454
25th Percentile £450 £385 £492
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £585
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -14.53% +30.00%
75th Percentile £600 £519 £608
90th Percentile £665 £527 -
UK median daily rate £525 £496 £550
% change year-on-year +5.85% -9.82% +18.03%
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 5,069 3,900 3,960
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 10.93% 13.97% 12.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,375 2,568 2,657
10th Percentile £313 £275 £300
25th Percentile £425 £402 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £618 £600 £625
90th Percentile £700 £688 £725
UK median daily rate £523 £500 £520
% change year-on-year +4.60% -3.85% -5.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 167 71 52
10th Percentile £21.25 £17.79 £19.95
25th Percentile £32.87 £20.41 £24.09
Median hourly rate £67.00 £34.00 £43.09
Median % change year-on-year +97.06% -21.10% -17.92%
75th Percentile £74.50 £63.75 £71.25
90th Percentile £90.00 £77.50 £74.94
UK median hourly rate £63.48 £25.50 £38.00
% change year-on-year +148.94% -32.89% -30.91%

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 27 September 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 27 September 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 -84 13 £433 -13.50% 5
East of England - 12 £600 - 1
South East -71 4 £700 +86.67% 2
South West - 4 - - 2
Yorkshire -59 3 £519 +1.27%
North of England -80 3 £519 +1.27%
Midlands -36 2 £525 +5.00% 4
West Midlands -44 2 £525 +5.00% 4
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 (7.69%) Exchange Server 2013
1 3 (7.69%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 7 (17.95%) Azure
2 4 (10.26%) AWS
3 2 (5.13%) Azure Storage
3 2 (5.13%) Datadog
3 2 (5.13%) GitHub
3 2 (5.13%) GitHub Actions
3 2 (5.13%) OpenShift
3 2 (5.13%) Rubrik
4 1 (2.56%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (2.56%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 19 (48.72%) SAN
2 13 (33.33%) DNS
3 7 (17.95%) Firewall
4 6 (15.38%) VLAN
5 3 (7.69%) NAS
6 2 (5.13%) DHCP
6 2 (5.13%) VSAN
7 1 (2.56%) Network Security
7 1 (2.56%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (5.13%) NonStop SQL
2 1 (2.56%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (5.13%) Jenkins
2 1 (2.56%) Git
2 1 (2.56%) JIRA
General
1 14 (35.90%) Social Skills
2 8 (20.51%) Documentation Skills
3 3 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (5.13%) Banking
5 1 (2.56%) Legal
5 1 (2.56%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 11 (28.21%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 10 (25.64%) Storage Engineer
3 7 (17.95%) Senior
4 6 (15.38%) Architect
4 6 (15.38%) Backup Engineer
4 6 (15.38%) Backup Specialist
4 6 (15.38%) NetApp Engineer
4 6 (15.38%) NetBackup Engineer
5 5 (12.82%) NetApp Specialist
5 5 (12.82%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
5 5 (12.82%) Senior Technical Specialist
5 5 (12.82%) Senior Unix Technical Specialist
5 5 (12.82%) Storage Architect
5 5 (12.82%) Technical Specialist
6 3 (7.69%) Automation Specialist
6 3 (7.69%) Backup Infrastructure Engineer
6 3 (7.69%) Solutions Architect
7 2 (5.13%) Data Architect
7 2 (5.13%) Support Engineer
7 2 (5.13%) Technical Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (5.13%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 15 (38.46%) Replication
2 10 (25.64%) Data Centre
3 6 (15.38%) Enterprise Storage
4 3 (7.69%) EMC VMAX
4 3 (7.69%) EMC VNX
5 2 (5.13%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 24 (61.54%) Windows
2 22 (56.41%) Linux
3 18 (46.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 17 (43.59%) Windows Server
5 13 (33.33%) CentOS
6 12 (30.77%) Rocky
7 7 (17.95%) AIX
7 7 (17.95%) Solaris
8 3 (7.69%) Data ONTAP
8 3 (7.69%) OpenVMS
8 3 (7.69%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
8 3 (7.69%) VMS
8 3 (7.69%) Windows Server 2012
8 3 (7.69%) Windows Server 2019
9 2 (5.13%) HPUX
9 2 (5.13%) Unix
9 2 (5.13%) Windows 7
9 2 (5.13%) Windows Server 2008
10 1 (2.56%) SUSE
10 1 (2.56%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (43.59%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 12 (30.77%) Migration
3 9 (23.08%) Problem-Solving
4 8 (20.51%) Disaster Recovery
5 6 (15.38%) Data Protection
6 5 (12.82%) Change Management
7 4 (10.26%) Business Continuity
7 4 (10.26%) Infrastructure Monitoring
7 4 (10.26%) ITIL
7 4 (10.26%) Project Delivery
7 4 (10.26%) Service Management
7 4 (10.26%) Technical Leadership
8 3 (7.69%) Cloud Security
8 3 (7.69%) Cyber Resilience
8 3 (7.69%) DevOps
8 3 (7.69%) Identity Access Management
8 3 (7.69%) Infrastructure as Code
8 3 (7.69%) Knowledge Transfer
8 3 (7.69%) Runbook
8 3 (7.69%) Workload Management
Programming Languages
1 17 (43.59%) PowerShell
2 4 (10.26%) Bash
2 4 (10.26%) Shell Script
3 3 (7.69%) Python
3 3 (7.69%) SQL
Qualifications
1 27 (69.23%) Security Cleared
2 18 (46.15%) SC Cleared
3 4 (10.26%) DV Cleared
4 2 (5.13%) Azure Certification
4 2 (5.13%) NCDA
4 2 (5.13%) NCIE
4 2 (5.13%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.56%) SLA
System Software
1 13 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
2 7 (17.95%) VMware ESXi
3 6 (15.38%) vSphere
4 5 (12.82%) Active Directory
5 4 (10.26%) Hyper-V
5 4 (10.26%) Veritas Cluster Server
6 3 (7.69%) NFS
6 3 (7.69%) VMware NSX
7 2 (5.13%) EMC RecoverPoint
7 2 (5.13%) SRDF
8 1 (2.56%) Docker
8 1 (2.56%) Oracle RAC
8 1 (2.56%) Veritas Volume Manager
Systems Management
1 18 (46.15%) Ansible
2 4 (10.26%) EMC NetWorker
2 4 (10.26%) vCenter Server
3 3 (7.69%) EMC VPLEX
3 3 (7.69%) SnapMirror
3 3 (7.69%) SnapVault
4 2 (5.13%) Argo
4 2 (5.13%) Grafana
4 2 (5.13%) Kubernetes
4 2 (5.13%) Prometheus
4 2 (5.13%) Puppet
4 2 (5.13%) SCCM
4 2 (5.13%) SCOM
4 2 (5.13%) vRealize
4 2 (5.13%) WSUS
5 1 (2.56%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
5 1 (2.56%) Opsview
Vendors
1 20 (51.28%) Veritas
2 19 (48.72%) Veeam
3 18 (46.15%) NetApp
4 16 (41.03%) VMware
5 5 (12.82%) Dell
5 5 (12.82%) Microsoft
5 5 (12.82%) Oracle
6 4 (10.26%) Brocade
6 4 (10.26%) EMC
6 4 (10.26%) HP
6 4 (10.26%) Red Hat
6 4 (10.26%) SolarWinds
7 3 (7.69%) 3PAR
7 3 (7.69%) Cisco
7 3 (7.69%) ServiceNow
7 3 (7.69%) Zerto
8 2 (5.13%) Broadcom
8 2 (5.13%) Citrix
8 2 (5.13%) CyberArk
8 2 (5.13%) Pure Storage