Veeam Contract Job Trends in England

Veeam
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring knowledge or experience of Veeam products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Veeam over the 6 months leading up to 22 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are not representative of contractor rates within Veeam Software.

6 months to
22 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 480 476 454
Rank change year-on-year -4 -22 +100
Contract jobs citing Veeam 64 42 110
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.20% 0.15% 0.30%
As % of the Vendors category 0.43% 0.32% 0.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 53 28 75
10th Percentile £351 £200 £263
25th Percentile £450 £317 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £388 £450
Median % change year-on-year +41.94% -13.89% -
75th Percentile £600 £496 £588
90th Percentile £650 £591 £625
UK median daily rate £550 £400 £425
% change year-on-year +37.50% -5.88% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 4
10th Percentile - - £18.28
25th Percentile £65.75 - £20.19
Median hourly rate £66.50 £112.00 £31.25
Median % change year-on-year -40.63% +258.40% +64.47%
75th Percentile £67.25 - £45.00
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £66.50 £112.00 £31.25
% change year-on-year -40.63% +258.40% +64.47%

All Vendors
England

Veeam falls under the Vendor Products and Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of all vendor products and services in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 14,896 13,167 16,461
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 47.45% 45.95% 44.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,658 7,999 10,739
10th Percentile £292 £293 £250
25th Percentile £406 £413 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% - -2.78%
75th Percentile £615 £625 £638
90th Percentile £705 £725 £728
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 729 383 599
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.49 £14.71
25th Percentile £18.22 £17.04 £20.50
Median hourly rate £23.63 £30.45 £45.88
Median % change year-on-year -22.40% -33.63% +76.46%
75th Percentile £47.00 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £73.85 £80.00 £76.53
UK median hourly rate £23.83 £27.75 £45.88
% change year-on-year -14.14% -39.52% +78.45%

Veeam
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Veeam job vacancy trend in England

Veeam
Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Veeam

Veeam
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Veeam in England over the 6 months to 22 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Veeam in England

Veeam
Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Veeam

Veeam
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 Veeam within the England region over the 6 months to 22 December 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
South West +4 15 £550 -4.35% 14
South East -12 15 £600 +84.62% 27
London +2 14 £530 +20.45% 12
North of England -37 12 £425 -10.53% 18
North West -22 10 £398 -16.32% 8
East of England -16 4 £550 +57.14% 4
West Midlands -25 4 £343 +85.14% 7
Midlands -40 4 £343 -8.67% 10
Yorkshire -42 2 £450 - 7
Veeam
UK

Veeam
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 15 (23.44%) Microsoft Exchange
2 12 (18.75%) SharePoint
3 7 (10.94%) Skype for Business
4 4 (6.25%) SharePoint Server
5 3 (4.69%) Confluence
Applications
1 9 (14.06%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.56%) Acrobat
2 1 (1.56%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 23 (35.94%) Azure
2 13 (20.31%) Microsoft 365
3 6 (9.38%) AWS
4 4 (6.25%) Entra ID
4 4 (6.25%) Nutanix
4 4 (6.25%) SaaS
5 3 (4.69%) Rubrik
6 2 (3.13%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 2 (3.13%) Amazon S3
6 2 (3.13%) Cohesity
6 2 (3.13%) IaaS
6 2 (3.13%) PaaS
6 2 (3.13%) Serverless
7 1 (1.56%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (1.56%) AWS CloudTrail
7 1 (1.56%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (1.56%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (1.56%) GCP
7 1 (1.56%) Route 53
7 1 (1.56%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 25 (39.06%) DNS
2 14 (21.88%) DHCP
2 14 (21.88%) iSCSI
3 11 (17.19%) Skype
4 10 (15.63%) Firewall
5 9 (14.06%) Fibre Channel
5 9 (14.06%) TCP/IP
6 8 (12.50%) SAN
6 8 (12.50%) VLAN
7 7 (10.94%) LAN
8 6 (9.38%) Unified Communications
9 5 (7.81%) VSAN
10 3 (4.69%) VPN
10 3 (4.69%) WAN
11 2 (3.13%) NAS
11 2 (3.13%) NetScaler
11 2 (3.13%) Network Security
11 2 (3.13%) VXLAN
12 1 (1.56%) Multicast
12 1 (1.56%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (10.94%) SQL Server
2 1 (1.56%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (1.56%) Amazon Redshift
2 1 (1.56%) Data Vault
2 1 (1.56%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (1.56%) Metadata
2 1 (1.56%) Power BI
2 1 (1.56%) Redis
2 1 (1.56%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 4 (6.25%) Jenkins
2 3 (4.69%) Bitbucket
2 3 (4.69%) Git
2 3 (4.69%) JIRA
3 1 (1.56%) GitLab
General
1 17 (26.56%) Social Skills
2 13 (20.31%) Public Sector
3 12 (18.75%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (10.94%) Banking
4 7 (10.94%) Finance
5 4 (6.25%) Documentation Skills
6 3 (4.69%) International Banking
7 2 (3.13%) Aerospace
7 2 (3.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.56%) Advertising
8 1 (1.56%) Legal
8 1 (1.56%) Local Government
8 1 (1.56%) Police
Job Titles
1 14 (21.88%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 11 (17.19%) Architect
3 9 (14.06%) Platform Engineer
4 8 (12.50%) Infrastructure Architect
5 7 (10.94%) VMware Architect
6 6 (9.38%) Server Engineer
7 5 (7.81%) Senior
7 5 (7.81%) Storage Engineer
7 5 (7.81%) Wintel Engineer
8 4 (6.25%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
8 4 (6.25%) VMware Engineer
8 4 (6.25%) Windows Engineer
9 3 (4.69%) Backup Engineer
9 3 (4.69%) IT Engineer
9 3 (4.69%) Lead
9 3 (4.69%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
9 3 (4.69%) Windows Infrastructure Engineer
10 2 (3.13%) Automation Engineer
10 2 (3.13%) Infrastructure Services Engineer
10 2 (3.13%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (3.13%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (1.56%) RabbitMQ
2 1 (1.56%) REST
2 1 (1.56%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 18 (28.13%) Replication
2 14 (21.88%) PKI
3 5 (7.81%) Private Cloud
4 4 (6.25%) Data Centre
5 3 (4.69%) Client/Server
5 3 (4.69%) Hybrid Cloud
5 3 (4.69%) Public Cloud
6 2 (3.13%) Clustering
7 1 (1.56%) Cloud Native
7 1 (1.56%) CMDB
7 1 (1.56%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (1.56%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (1.56%) Fat Client
7 1 (1.56%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (1.56%) Onboarding
7 1 (1.56%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 50 (78.13%) Windows
2 34 (53.13%) Windows Server
3 21 (32.81%) Linux
4 12 (18.75%) Windows Server 2019
5 9 (14.06%) Windows Server 2016
6 7 (10.94%) Windows 10
7 5 (7.81%) Ubuntu
8 3 (4.69%) Windows Server 2012
9 2 (3.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 1 (1.56%) Solaris
10 1 (1.56%) SUSE
10 1 (1.56%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (29.69%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 16 (25.00%) Disaster Recovery
3 13 (20.31%) Service Management
4 12 (18.75%) ITIL
5 11 (17.19%) Mentoring
6 9 (14.06%) Business Continuity
6 9 (14.06%) Data Protection
7 8 (12.50%) Critical Thinking
7 8 (12.50%) System Testing
8 7 (10.94%) Migration
9 6 (9.38%) Platform Engineering
9 6 (9.38%) Root Cause Analysis
9 6 (9.38%) Server Management
10 5 (7.81%) Computer Science
10 5 (7.81%) Customer Requirements
10 5 (7.81%) Infrastructure Automation
10 5 (7.81%) Operational Stability
10 5 (7.81%) Problem-Solving
10 5 (7.81%) Project Delivery
10 5 (7.81%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 29 (45.31%) PowerShell
2 16 (25.00%) SQL
3 6 (9.38%) Python
4 2 (3.13%) Bash
5 1 (1.56%) Perl
5 1 (1.56%) VB
5 1 (1.56%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 31 (48.44%) Security Cleared
2 20 (31.25%) Microsoft Certification
3 17 (26.56%) DV Cleared
4 16 (25.00%) MCSE
4 16 (25.00%) SC Cleared
5 11 (17.19%) Degree
6 8 (12.50%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 7 (10.94%) Cisco Certification
8 6 (9.38%) CCNA
8 6 (9.38%) CCNP
9 5 (7.81%) ITIL Certification
9 5 (7.81%) Master's Degree
10 3 (4.69%) MCSA
10 3 (4.69%) OCA
10 3 (4.69%) Oracle Certification
10 3 (4.69%) VCP5
10 3 (4.69%) VCP6
11 2 (3.13%) Azure Certification
11 2 (3.13%) CompTIA Security+
12 1 (1.56%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (6.25%) GDPR
2 2 (3.13%) ISO 22301
3 1 (1.56%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (1.56%) GRC
3 1 (1.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.56%) MiFID
3 1 (1.56%) NCSC
3 1 (1.56%) NIST
3 1 (1.56%) NIST 800
3 1 (1.56%) PCI DSS
3 1 (1.56%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 39 (60.94%) VMware Infrastructure
2 32 (50.00%) Active Directory
3 14 (21.88%) vSphere
4 11 (17.19%) VMware ESXi
5 9 (14.06%) VMware NSX
6 8 (12.50%) NFS
6 8 (12.50%) Virtual Desktop
7 7 (10.94%) Virtual Servers
8 6 (9.38%) Docker
8 6 (9.38%) Virtual Machines
9 5 (7.81%) Hyper-V
9 5 (7.81%) Microsoft Virtual Server
10 1 (1.56%) Firmware
10 1 (1.56%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 14 (21.88%) SCCM
1 14 (21.88%) vCenter Server
2 12 (18.75%) Microsoft Intune
3 9 (14.06%) Ansible
4 8 (12.50%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 8 (12.50%) WSUS
5 7 (10.94%) Terraform
6 3 (4.69%) Kubernetes
6 3 (4.69%) NetBackup
6 3 (4.69%) PowerCLI
6 3 (4.69%) SCOM
6 3 (4.69%) Tivoli Storage Manager
6 3 (4.69%) VxRail
7 2 (3.13%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
8 1 (1.56%) FortiGate
8 1 (1.56%) Grafana
8 1 (1.56%) Nessus
8 1 (1.56%) Red Hat Satellite
8 1 (1.56%) SCOrch
8 1 (1.56%) SolarWinds Orion
Vendors
1 47 (73.44%) VMware
2 36 (56.25%) Microsoft
3 22 (34.38%) SolarWinds
4 17 (26.56%) Cisco
5 14 (21.88%) NetApp
5 14 (21.88%) Splunk
6 12 (18.75%) Dell
7 6 (9.38%) IBM
8 4 (6.25%) Atlassian
8 4 (6.25%) Commvault
9 3 (4.69%) Oracle
9 3 (4.69%) ServiceNow
10 2 (3.13%) Citrix
10 2 (3.13%) F5
10 2 (3.13%) Meraki
10 2 (3.13%) Palo Alto
10 2 (3.13%) Zerto
11 1 (1.56%) Adobe
11 1 (1.56%) HP
11 1 (1.56%) Red Hat