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 11 March 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
11 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 505 432 441
Rank change year-on-year -73 +9 +97
Contract jobs citing Veeam 62 41 105
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.17% 0.17% 0.28%
As % of the Vendors category 0.39% 0.35% 0.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 53 21 65
10th Percentile £330 £200 £175
25th Percentile £425 £300 £275
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +10.53% -5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £575 £606 £588
90th Percentile £681 £613 £625
UK median daily rate £525 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +10.53% -5.00% +9.59%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 4
10th Percentile - - £18.28
25th Percentile - - £20.19
Median hourly rate - £112.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year - +148.89% -15.65%
75th Percentile - - £72.94
90th Percentile - - £75.98
UK median hourly rate - £112.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year - +148.89% -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 16,091 11,643 16,322
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 44.32% 47.17% 42.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,483 7,405 10,441
10th Percentile £306 £288 £250
25th Percentile £413 £408 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £517
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% +1.55% -4.26%
75th Percentile £610 £625 £630
90th Percentile £700 £725 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £520 £515
% change year-on-year -3.85% +0.97% -2.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 856 384 949
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.62 £12.13
25th Percentile £18.50 £21.19 £14.48
Median hourly rate £25.00 £30.78 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -18.78% +23.12% -28.57%
75th Percentile £58.75 £65.00 £51.25
90th Percentile £74.84 £81.98 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £25.00 £29.00 £24.65
% change year-on-year -13.79% +17.65% -29.63%

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 11 March 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 11 March 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 -31 17 £525 +162.50% 14
North of England -67 16 £431 -9.21% 18
London -36 12 £555 +23.33% 3
South West -17 9 £563 -2.17% 5
North West -33 8 £350 -26.32% 7
Yorkshire -65 8 £450 +12.50% 9
East of England -22 4 £550 - 5
West Midlands -56 2 £273 +47.30% 4
Midlands -65 2 £273 +47.30% 6
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 10 (16.13%) Microsoft Exchange
2 6 (9.68%) SharePoint
3 3 (4.84%) Confluence
3 3 (4.84%) Skype for Business
4 2 (3.23%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 7 (11.29%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (8.06%) Acrobat
3 1 (1.61%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 27 (43.55%) Azure
2 20 (32.26%) Microsoft 365
3 9 (14.52%) AWS
4 6 (9.68%) Nutanix
5 5 (8.06%) SaaS
6 4 (6.45%) Cohesity
6 4 (6.45%) Entra ID
7 3 (4.84%) Rubrik
8 1 (1.61%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 1 (1.61%) Amazon S3
8 1 (1.61%) Azure Functions
8 1 (1.61%) Azure Logic Apps
8 1 (1.61%) Azure Monitor
8 1 (1.61%) Azure Sentinel
8 1 (1.61%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 1 (1.61%) GCP
8 1 (1.61%) PaaS
8 1 (1.61%) Power Platform
8 1 (1.61%) Serverless
8 1 (1.61%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 17 (27.42%) Firewall
2 15 (24.19%) DNS
3 13 (20.97%) DHCP
4 11 (17.74%) LAN
4 11 (17.74%) TCP/IP
5 9 (14.52%) VLAN
6 8 (12.90%) WAN
7 7 (11.29%) SAN
8 5 (8.06%) Skype
8 5 (8.06%) Wi-Fi
9 4 (6.45%) NetScaler
10 3 (4.84%) Unified Communications
10 3 (4.84%) VPN
11 2 (3.23%) NAS
11 2 (3.23%) Network Security
11 2 (3.23%) VSAN
11 2 (3.23%) VXLAN
12 1 (1.61%) Fibre Channel
12 1 (1.61%) NX-OS
12 1 (1.61%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (4.84%) SQL Server
2 1 (1.61%) Amazon Redshift
2 1 (1.61%) Data Mining
2 1 (1.61%) Data Vault
2 1 (1.61%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (1.61%) Metadata
2 1 (1.61%) Power BI
2 1 (1.61%) Redis
2 1 (1.61%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 4 (6.45%) Jenkins
2 3 (4.84%) Bitbucket
2 3 (4.84%) Git
2 3 (4.84%) JIRA
3 1 (1.61%) GitLab
General
1 21 (33.87%) Social Skills
2 12 (19.35%) Analytical Skills
3 10 (16.13%) Public Sector
4 9 (14.52%) Finance
5 6 (9.68%) Documentation Skills
6 4 (6.45%) Banking
7 2 (3.23%) Aerospace
7 2 (3.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (3.23%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (1.61%) Advertising
8 1 (1.61%) Legal
8 1 (1.61%) Local Government
8 1 (1.61%) Police
Job Titles
1 21 (33.87%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 10 (16.13%) Platform Engineer
3 5 (8.06%) Coordinator
4 4 (6.45%) Infrastructure Services Engineer
4 4 (6.45%) IT Engineer
4 4 (6.45%) Senior
4 4 (6.45%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 4 (6.45%) Systems Engineer
4 4 (6.45%) VMware Engineer
4 4 (6.45%) Windows Engineer
5 3 (4.84%) Architect
5 3 (4.84%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
5 3 (4.84%) Lead
5 3 (4.84%) Support Engineer
5 3 (4.84%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
5 3 (4.84%) Windows Infrastructure Engineer
6 2 (3.23%) Consultant
6 2 (3.23%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
6 2 (3.23%) Migration Engineer
6 2 (3.23%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (3.23%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (1.61%) RabbitMQ
2 1 (1.61%) REST
2 1 (1.61%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 11 (17.74%) Replication
2 8 (12.90%) PKI
3 6 (9.68%) Enterprise Storage
4 5 (8.06%) CMDB
4 5 (8.06%) Enterprise Software
4 5 (8.06%) Onboarding
4 5 (8.06%) Private Cloud
5 4 (6.45%) Hybrid Cloud
5 4 (6.45%) Public Cloud
6 3 (4.84%) Client/Server
6 3 (4.84%) Data Centre
6 3 (4.84%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (3.23%) Analytical Mindset
8 1 (1.61%) Cloud Native
8 1 (1.61%) EMC VMAX
8 1 (1.61%) Fat Client
8 1 (1.61%) Mainframe
8 1 (1.61%) Product Ownership
8 1 (1.61%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 40 (64.52%) Windows
2 25 (40.32%) Windows Server
3 13 (20.97%) Linux
4 9 (14.52%) Windows Server 2016
5 6 (9.68%) Windows Server 2019
6 5 (8.06%) Windows Server 2012
7 4 (6.45%) Ubuntu
7 4 (6.45%) Windows 10
8 1 (1.61%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (1.61%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (43.55%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 20 (32.26%) Disaster Recovery
3 15 (24.19%) ITIL
4 13 (20.97%) Data Protection
5 11 (17.74%) Business Continuity
5 11 (17.74%) Problem-Solving
6 10 (16.13%) Continuous Improvement
7 8 (12.90%) Change Management
7 8 (12.90%) Migration
7 8 (12.90%) Root Cause Analysis
7 8 (12.90%) Service Management
8 7 (11.29%) Capacity Planning
8 7 (11.29%) Mentoring
8 7 (11.29%) Platform Engineering
8 7 (11.29%) Service Delivery
9 6 (9.68%) Customer Service
9 6 (9.68%) Cybersecurity
9 6 (9.68%) Runbook
10 5 (8.06%) DevOps
10 5 (8.06%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 27 (43.55%) PowerShell
2 5 (8.06%) Python
2 5 (8.06%) SQL
3 1 (1.61%) Bash
3 1 (1.61%) Perl
3 1 (1.61%) VB
3 1 (1.61%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 26 (41.94%) Security Cleared
2 19 (30.65%) SC Cleared
3 11 (17.74%) Degree
3 11 (17.74%) DV Cleared
4 9 (14.52%) Microsoft Certification
5 5 (8.06%) MCSE
6 4 (6.45%) Cisco Certification
6 4 (6.45%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 3 (4.84%) CCNA
7 3 (4.84%) CCNP
7 3 (4.84%) MCSA
7 3 (4.84%) NCDA
7 3 (4.84%) OCA
7 3 (4.84%) Oracle Certification
8 2 (3.23%) Azure Certification
8 2 (3.23%) CompTIA Security+
8 2 (3.23%) ITIL Certification
8 2 (3.23%) Master's Degree
9 1 (1.61%) CISSP
9 1 (1.61%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (6.45%) GDPR
2 2 (3.23%) GRC
2 2 (3.23%) ISO 22301
3 1 (1.61%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (1.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.61%) MiFID
3 1 (1.61%) NCSC
3 1 (1.61%) NIST
3 1 (1.61%) NIST 800
3 1 (1.61%) PCI DSS
3 1 (1.61%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 26 (41.94%) Active Directory
2 25 (40.32%) VMware Infrastructure
3 17 (27.42%) vSphere
4 11 (17.74%) VMware ESXi
5 10 (16.13%) Virtual Desktop
6 8 (12.90%) Docker
7 6 (9.68%) Hyper-V
8 3 (4.84%) Virtual Machines
8 3 (4.84%) VMware NSX
9 2 (3.23%) KVM
9 2 (3.23%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 2 (3.23%) Virtual Servers
10 1 (1.61%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 19 (30.65%) Microsoft Intune
2 14 (22.58%) SCCM
3 12 (19.35%) vCenter Server
4 11 (17.74%) Ansible
5 9 (14.52%) Terraform
5 9 (14.52%) VxRail
6 6 (9.68%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 5 (8.06%) Kubernetes
8 4 (6.45%) SCOM
8 4 (6.45%) WSUS
9 2 (3.23%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
9 2 (3.23%) PowerCLI
10 1 (1.61%) Avamar
10 1 (1.61%) EMC NetWorker
10 1 (1.61%) FortiGate
10 1 (1.61%) Grafana
10 1 (1.61%) NetBackup
10 1 (1.61%) Red Hat Satellite
10 1 (1.61%) SCOrch
10 1 (1.61%) SCSM
Vendors
1 33 (53.23%) VMware
2 29 (46.77%) Microsoft
3 12 (19.35%) SolarWinds
4 11 (17.74%) Cisco
4 11 (17.74%) Dell
5 6 (9.68%) Meraki
6 5 (8.06%) Adobe
6 5 (8.06%) Commvault
6 5 (8.06%) Oracle
7 4 (6.45%) F5
8 3 (4.84%) Atlassian
8 3 (4.84%) Fortinet
8 3 (4.84%) IBM
8 3 (4.84%) NetApp
8 3 (4.84%) Pure Storage
8 3 (4.84%) ServiceNow
8 3 (4.84%) Splunk
9 2 (3.23%) Brocade
9 2 (3.23%) CrowdStrike
9 2 (3.23%) HP