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 24 January 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
24 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 482 452 445
Rank change year-on-year -30 -7 +94
Contract jobs citing Veeam 67 36 115
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.21% 0.13% 0.31%
As % of the Vendors category 0.45% 0.29% 0.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 57 20 79
10th Percentile £353 £197 £262
25th Percentile £425 £314 £353
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% +5.56% +5.88%
75th Percentile £575 £538 £578
90th Percentile £668 £607 £625
UK median daily rate £550 £475 £438
% change year-on-year +15.79% +8.57% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 2
10th Percentile - - £17.43
25th Percentile £65.75 - £18.06
Median hourly rate £66.50 £112.00 £20.25
Median % change year-on-year -40.63% +453.09% +6.58%
75th Percentile £67.25 - £22.56
90th Percentile - - £23.28
UK median hourly rate £66.50 £112.00 £20.25
% change year-on-year -40.63% +453.09% +6.58%

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 15,033 12,308 16,340
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 46.24% 46.05% 43.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,872 7,418 10,563
10th Percentile £300 £288 £250
25th Percentile £411 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £506 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.71% - -2.78%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £638
90th Percentile £711 £715 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 712 357 771
10th Percentile £15.25 £15.62 £13.15
25th Percentile £17.69 £18.50 £16.25
Median hourly rate £23.50 £30.00 £34.23
Median % change year-on-year -21.67% -12.36% +5.32%
75th Percentile £48.75 £63.75 £59.98
90th Percentile £71.95 £80.75 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £23.79 £27.50 £33.44
% change year-on-year -13.50% -17.76% +7.61%

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 24 January 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 24 January 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
North of England -51 18 £438 -7.89% 22
South West -9 15 £550 -5.38% 13
London -12 13 £530 +10.42% 8
South East -16 13 £563 +181.25% 31
North West -24 11 £398 -16.32% 7
Yorkshire -52 7 £450 - 14
Midlands -45 3 £320 +14.29% 15
West Midlands -46 3 £320 +72.97% 5
East of England - 3 £550 - 11
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 16 (23.88%) Microsoft Exchange
2 12 (17.91%) SharePoint
3 7 (10.45%) Skype for Business
4 4 (5.97%) SharePoint Server
5 3 (4.48%) Confluence
Applications
1 9 (13.43%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (7.46%) Acrobat
3 1 (1.49%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 29 (43.28%) Azure
2 19 (28.36%) Microsoft 365
3 8 (11.94%) AWS
3 8 (11.94%) SaaS
4 5 (7.46%) Nutanix
5 4 (5.97%) Cohesity
5 4 (5.97%) Entra ID
6 3 (4.48%) Rubrik
7 1 (1.49%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 1 (1.49%) Amazon S3
7 1 (1.49%) Azure Functions
7 1 (1.49%) Azure Logic Apps
7 1 (1.49%) Azure Monitor
7 1 (1.49%) Azure Sentinel
7 1 (1.49%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 1 (1.49%) GCP
7 1 (1.49%) PaaS
7 1 (1.49%) Power Platform
7 1 (1.49%) Serverless
7 1 (1.49%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 25 (37.31%) DNS
2 14 (20.90%) DHCP
2 14 (20.90%) Firewall
2 14 (20.90%) TCP/IP
3 11 (16.42%) LAN
3 11 (16.42%) Skype
3 11 (16.42%) VLAN
4 10 (14.93%) SAN
5 8 (11.94%) WAN
6 6 (8.96%) iSCSI
6 6 (8.96%) Unified Communications
7 5 (7.46%) Wi-Fi
8 4 (5.97%) VSAN
9 3 (4.48%) NetScaler
9 3 (4.48%) VPN
10 2 (2.99%) Fibre Channel
10 2 (2.99%) Network Security
10 2 (2.99%) VXLAN
11 1 (1.49%) SSL
11 1 (1.49%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (8.96%) SQL Server
2 1 (1.49%) Amazon Redshift
2 1 (1.49%) Data Vault
2 1 (1.49%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (1.49%) Metadata
2 1 (1.49%) Power BI
2 1 (1.49%) Redis
2 1 (1.49%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 4 (5.97%) Jenkins
2 3 (4.48%) Bitbucket
2 3 (4.48%) Git
2 3 (4.48%) JIRA
3 1 (1.49%) GitLab
General
1 24 (35.82%) Social Skills
2 15 (22.39%) Analytical Skills
3 14 (20.90%) Public Sector
4 8 (11.94%) Finance
5 6 (8.96%) Documentation Skills
6 5 (7.46%) Banking
7 2 (2.99%) Aerospace
7 2 (2.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (2.99%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (1.49%) Advertising
8 1 (1.49%) International Banking
8 1 (1.49%) Legal
8 1 (1.49%) Local Government
8 1 (1.49%) Police
Job Titles
1 17 (25.37%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 10 (14.93%) Platform Engineer
3 6 (8.96%) Server Engineer
4 5 (7.46%) Architect
4 5 (7.46%) Coordinator
4 5 (7.46%) Storage Engineer
4 5 (7.46%) Wintel Engineer
5 4 (5.97%) Senior
5 4 (5.97%) Systems Engineer
5 4 (5.97%) VMware Engineer
5 4 (5.97%) Windows Engineer
6 3 (4.48%) Infrastructure Services Engineer
6 3 (4.48%) IT Engineer
6 3 (4.48%) Lead
6 3 (4.48%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
6 3 (4.48%) Support Engineer
6 3 (4.48%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
6 3 (4.48%) Windows Infrastructure Engineer
7 2 (2.99%) Migration Engineer
7 2 (2.99%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (2.99%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (1.49%) RabbitMQ
2 1 (1.49%) REST
2 1 (1.49%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 14 (20.90%) PKI
1 14 (20.90%) Replication
2 6 (8.96%) Data Centre
2 6 (8.96%) Private Cloud
3 5 (7.46%) CMDB
3 5 (7.46%) Enterprise Software
3 5 (7.46%) Hybrid Cloud
3 5 (7.46%) Onboarding
4 4 (5.97%) Public Cloud
5 3 (4.48%) Client/Server
6 2 (2.99%) Analytical Mindset
6 2 (2.99%) Clustering
6 2 (2.99%) Enterprise Storage
7 1 (1.49%) Cloud Native
7 1 (1.49%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (1.49%) Fat Client
7 1 (1.49%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 48 (71.64%) Windows
2 28 (41.79%) Windows Server
3 19 (28.36%) Linux
4 10 (14.93%) Windows Server 2016
5 7 (10.45%) Windows 10
5 7 (10.45%) Windows Server 2019
6 4 (5.97%) Ubuntu
6 4 (5.97%) Windows Server 2012
7 1 (1.49%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (1.49%) Solaris
7 1 (1.49%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (34.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 17 (25.37%) Disaster Recovery
2 17 (25.37%) ITIL
3 13 (19.40%) Service Management
4 11 (16.42%) Problem-Solving
5 10 (14.93%) Continuous Improvement
6 9 (13.43%) Business Continuity
6 9 (13.43%) Data Protection
6 9 (13.43%) Mentoring
7 8 (11.94%) Change Management
7 8 (11.94%) Critical Thinking
7 8 (11.94%) Migration
7 8 (11.94%) Root Cause Analysis
7 8 (11.94%) System Testing
8 7 (10.45%) Computer Science
8 7 (10.45%) Platform Engineering
9 6 (8.96%) Cybersecurity
9 6 (8.96%) Project Delivery
9 6 (8.96%) Server Management
9 6 (8.96%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 31 (46.27%) PowerShell
2 9 (13.43%) SQL
3 5 (7.46%) Python
4 1 (1.49%) Bash
4 1 (1.49%) Perl
4 1 (1.49%) VB
4 1 (1.49%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 30 (44.78%) Security Cleared
2 21 (31.34%) SC Cleared
3 14 (20.90%) Microsoft Certification
4 13 (19.40%) Degree
5 11 (16.42%) DV Cleared
6 10 (14.93%) MCSE
7 7 (10.45%) Cisco Certification
8 6 (8.96%) CCNA
8 6 (8.96%) CCNP
9 5 (7.46%) ITIL Certification
9 5 (7.46%) Master's Degree
10 4 (5.97%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 3 (4.48%) MCSA
11 3 (4.48%) OCA
11 3 (4.48%) Oracle Certification
12 2 (2.99%) Azure Certification
12 2 (2.99%) CompTIA Security+
13 1 (1.49%) CISSP
13 1 (1.49%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (5.97%) GDPR
2 2 (2.99%) ISO 22301
3 1 (1.49%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (1.49%) GRC
3 1 (1.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.49%) MiFID
3 1 (1.49%) NCSC
3 1 (1.49%) NIST
3 1 (1.49%) NIST 800
3 1 (1.49%) PCI DSS
3 1 (1.49%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 35 (52.24%) VMware Infrastructure
2 33 (49.25%) Active Directory
3 14 (20.90%) vSphere
4 11 (16.42%) VMware ESXi
5 9 (13.43%) Virtual Desktop
6 8 (11.94%) VMware NSX
7 7 (10.45%) Docker
7 7 (10.45%) Virtual Servers
8 6 (8.96%) Hyper-V
9 5 (7.46%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 5 (7.46%) Virtual Machines
10 2 (2.99%) KVM
10 2 (2.99%) NFS
11 1 (1.49%) Firmware
11 1 (1.49%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 18 (26.87%) Microsoft Intune
2 17 (25.37%) vCenter Server
3 15 (22.39%) SCCM
4 11 (16.42%) Ansible
5 9 (13.43%) Terraform
6 8 (11.94%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 8 (11.94%) WSUS
7 7 (10.45%) VxRail
8 4 (5.97%) Kubernetes
9 3 (4.48%) SCOM
10 2 (2.99%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
10 2 (2.99%) PowerCLI
11 1 (1.49%) EMC NetWorker
11 1 (1.49%) FortiGate
11 1 (1.49%) Grafana
11 1 (1.49%) Nessus
11 1 (1.49%) NetBackup
11 1 (1.49%) Red Hat Satellite
11 1 (1.49%) SCOrch
11 1 (1.49%) SolarWinds Orion
Vendors
1 43 (64.18%) VMware
2 36 (53.73%) Microsoft
3 23 (34.33%) SolarWinds
4 21 (31.34%) Cisco
5 15 (22.39%) Dell
6 8 (11.94%) NetApp
6 8 (11.94%) Splunk
7 6 (8.96%) Meraki
8 5 (7.46%) Adobe
8 5 (7.46%) Oracle
9 4 (5.97%) Commvault
9 4 (5.97%) IBM
10 3 (4.48%) Atlassian
10 3 (4.48%) F5
10 3 (4.48%) ServiceNow
11 2 (2.99%) Brocade
11 2 (2.99%) CrowdStrike
11 2 (2.99%) Fortinet
11 2 (2.99%) Palo Alto
11 2 (2.99%) Zerto