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 1 May 2026, 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
1 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 517 445 427
Rank change year-on-year -72 -18 +90
Contract jobs citing Veeam 67 40 115
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.17% 0.16% 0.31%
As % of the Vendors category 0.40% 0.35% 0.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 57 24 70
10th Percentile £340 £300 £175
25th Percentile £425 £373 £306
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £544 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.29% +8.75% +11.11%
75th Percentile £575 £613 £608
90th Percentile £660 £650 -
UK median daily rate £505 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +1.00% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 4
10th Percentile - - £18.28
25th Percentile - - £20.19
Median hourly rate - - £45.00
75th Percentile - - £72.94
90th Percentile - - £75.98
UK median hourly rate - - £45.00
% change year-on-year - - -15.65%

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 16,936 11,564 15,642
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 41.95% 47.50% 42.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,050 7,453 9,947
10th Percentile £313 £288 £257
25th Percentile £413 £408 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £520
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +0.96% -3.26%
75th Percentile £609 £625 £631
90th Percentile £711 £725 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £515 £515
% change year-on-year -2.91% -0.04% -1.87%
Number of hourly rates quoted 886 460 995
10th Percentile £15.36 £14.84 £12.00
25th Percentile £18.75 £18.10 £14.26
Median hourly rate £30.63 £27.13 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +12.90% +20.56% -44.10%
75th Percentile £60.00 £60.00 £56.91
90th Percentile £79.13 £76.25 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £31.09 £26.45 £22.50
% change year-on-year +17.53% +17.56% -49.44%

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 1 May 2026.

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 1 May 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
South East -37 26 £515 -20.77% 10
North of England -61 20 £450 +12.50% 14
London -47 11 £555 +11.00% 1
North West -35 10 £360 -34.55% 4
Yorkshire -48 10 £450 +16.88% 8
East of England -26 3 £550 - 4
South West -35 3 £750 +30.43% 3
West Midlands -63 2 £273 -21.01% 2
Midlands -77 2 £273 -21.01% 5
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 3 (4.48%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (2.99%) Confluence
3 1 (1.49%) SharePoint
Applications
1 6 (8.96%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (7.46%) Acrobat
3 1 (1.49%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (1.49%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 29 (43.28%) Azure
2 18 (26.87%) Microsoft 365
3 11 (16.42%) AWS
4 6 (8.96%) Cohesity
4 6 (8.96%) Nutanix
5 5 (7.46%) SaaS
6 4 (5.97%) Rubrik
7 2 (2.99%) Entra ID
7 2 (2.99%) OpenShift
8 1 (1.49%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 1 (1.49%) Azure Monitor
8 1 (1.49%) Azure Storage
8 1 (1.49%) Cloud Computing
8 1 (1.49%) Datadog
8 1 (1.49%) GCP
8 1 (1.49%) GitHub
8 1 (1.49%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 18 (26.87%) Firewall
2 12 (17.91%) VLAN
3 11 (16.42%) DHCP
3 11 (16.42%) DNS
3 11 (16.42%) LAN
3 11 (16.42%) SAN
3 11 (16.42%) TCP/IP
4 8 (11.94%) WAN
5 6 (8.96%) Wi-Fi
6 5 (7.46%) NAS
7 4 (5.97%) NetScaler
7 4 (5.97%) VSAN
8 3 (4.48%) Cisco Nexus
8 3 (4.48%) VPN
9 2 (2.99%) Connectrix
10 1 (1.49%) Fibre Channel
10 1 (1.49%) iSCSI
10 1 (1.49%) NX-OS
10 1 (1.49%) SSL
10 1 (1.49%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (4.48%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 3 (4.48%) Jenkins
1 3 (4.48%) JIRA
2 2 (2.99%) Bitbucket
2 2 (2.99%) Git
2 2 (2.99%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 19 (28.36%) Social Skills
2 10 (14.93%) Analytical Skills
3 9 (13.43%) Finance
4 8 (11.94%) Public Sector
5 5 (7.46%) Banking
5 5 (7.46%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (2.99%) Aerospace
6 2 (2.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (2.99%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (1.49%) Advertising
7 1 (1.49%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (1.49%) Legal
7 1 (1.49%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (1.49%) Police
Job Titles
1 26 (38.81%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 6 (8.96%) Storage Engineer
3 5 (7.46%) Coordinator
3 5 (7.46%) Infrastructure Services Engineer
3 5 (7.46%) Platform Engineer
4 4 (5.97%) Consultant
4 4 (5.97%) Lead
4 4 (5.97%) Project Manager
4 4 (5.97%) Senior
4 4 (5.97%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 4 (5.97%) VMware Engineer
4 4 (5.97%) Windows Engineer
5 3 (4.48%) 3rd Line Engineer
5 3 (4.48%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
5 3 (4.48%) Architect
5 3 (4.48%) Backup Engineer
5 3 (4.48%) Storage and Backup Engineer
5 3 (4.48%) Support Engineer
5 3 (4.48%) Systems Engineer
5 3 (4.48%) Windows Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (2.99%) Middleware
1 2 (2.99%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 16 (23.88%) Replication
2 10 (14.93%) Enterprise Storage
3 5 (7.46%) CMDB
3 5 (7.46%) Data Centre
3 5 (7.46%) EMC VMAX
3 5 (7.46%) Enterprise Software
3 5 (7.46%) Onboarding
4 4 (5.97%) EMC VNX
4 4 (5.97%) Private Cloud
4 4 (5.97%) Public Cloud
5 3 (4.48%) Analytical Mindset
5 3 (4.48%) Client/Server
5 3 (4.48%) Hybrid Cloud
5 3 (4.48%) PKI
6 2 (2.99%) Celerra
6 2 (2.99%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (2.99%) EMC Centera
6 2 (2.99%) IBM XIV
6 2 (2.99%) Symmetrix
6 2 (2.99%) Symmetrix DMX
Operating Systems
1 36 (53.73%) Windows
2 23 (34.33%) Windows Server
3 11 (16.42%) Linux
4 7 (10.45%) Windows Server 2016
5 6 (8.96%) Windows Server 2019
6 5 (7.46%) Windows Server 2012
7 3 (4.48%) Ubuntu
8 2 (2.99%) Data ONTAP
8 2 (2.99%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (1.49%) CoreOS
9 1 (1.49%) Solaris
9 1 (1.49%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (47.76%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 25 (37.31%) Disaster Recovery
3 15 (22.39%) ITIL
4 13 (19.40%) Capacity Planning
4 13 (19.40%) Data Protection
4 13 (19.40%) Migration
4 13 (19.40%) Problem-Solving
5 11 (16.42%) Business Continuity
6 10 (14.93%) Change Management
7 9 (13.43%) Continuous Improvement
7 9 (13.43%) Service Delivery
8 8 (11.94%) Performance Optimisation
8 8 (11.94%) Performance Tuning
9 7 (10.45%) DevOps
9 7 (10.45%) Root Cause Analysis
9 7 (10.45%) Runbook
9 7 (10.45%) Stakeholder Management
10 6 (8.96%) Customer Service
10 6 (8.96%) Cybersecurity
10 6 (8.96%) Infrastructure Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 23 (34.33%) PowerShell
2 4 (5.97%) Python
3 3 (4.48%) Bash
4 2 (2.99%) SQL
5 1 (1.49%) Go
5 1 (1.49%) Java
5 1 (1.49%) Perl
Qualifications
1 27 (40.30%) Security Cleared
2 14 (20.90%) DV Cleared
2 14 (20.90%) SC Cleared
3 9 (13.43%) Degree
4 6 (8.96%) Microsoft Certification
4 6 (8.96%) NCDA
5 4 (5.97%) Azure Certification
5 4 (5.97%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 2 (2.99%) CompTIA Security+
6 2 (2.99%) MCSA
6 2 (2.99%) MCSE
6 2 (2.99%) OCA
6 2 (2.99%) Oracle Certification
7 1 (1.49%) NCIE
7 1 (1.49%) PMI Certification
7 1 (1.49%) PMP
7 1 (1.49%) RHCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.99%) GDPR
1 2 (2.99%) ISO 22301
1 2 (2.99%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (1.49%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (1.49%) GRC
2 1 (1.49%) HIPAA
2 1 (1.49%) PCI DSS
2 1 (1.49%) SOC 2
System Software
1 26 (38.81%) VMware Infrastructure
2 22 (32.84%) vSphere
3 21 (31.34%) Active Directory
4 15 (22.39%) VMware ESXi
5 9 (13.43%) Virtual Desktop
6 7 (10.45%) Docker
6 7 (10.45%) Hyper-V
6 7 (10.45%) Virtual Machines
7 3 (4.48%) EMC RecoverPoint
8 2 (2.99%) KVM
9 1 (1.49%) Ceph
9 1 (1.49%) Firmware
9 1 (1.49%) NFS
9 1 (1.49%) SRDF
Systems Management
1 16 (23.88%) Microsoft Intune
2 13 (19.40%) vCenter Server
3 11 (16.42%) Ansible
3 11 (16.42%) SCCM
4 7 (10.45%) Terraform
4 7 (10.45%) VxRail
5 6 (8.96%) Kubernetes
6 5 (7.46%) SCOM
7 4 (5.97%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 4 (5.97%) EMC VPLEX
7 4 (5.97%) PowerCLI
8 3 (4.48%) NetBackup
8 3 (4.48%) SCSM
9 2 (2.99%) Argo
9 2 (2.99%) EMC NetWorker
9 2 (2.99%) Grafana
9 2 (2.99%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
9 2 (2.99%) Prometheus
9 2 (2.99%) SnapMirror
9 2 (2.99%) SnapVault
Vendors
1 31 (46.27%) VMware
2 24 (35.82%) Microsoft
3 12 (17.91%) Dell
4 11 (16.42%) Cisco
4 11 (16.42%) NetApp
5 8 (11.94%) Commvault
5 8 (11.94%) SolarWinds
6 6 (8.96%) Brocade
6 6 (8.96%) EMC
6 6 (8.96%) Meraki
7 5 (7.46%) 3PAR
7 5 (7.46%) Adobe
7 5 (7.46%) IBM
8 4 (5.97%) F5
8 4 (5.97%) Oracle
8 4 (5.97%) Pure Storage
8 4 (5.97%) ServiceNow
8 4 (5.97%) Zerto
9 3 (4.48%) HP
9 3 (4.48%) Red Hat