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 30 July 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
30 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 555 444 452
Rank change year-on-year -111 +8 +62
Contract jobs citing Veeam 65 62 83
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.14% 0.23% 0.24%
As % of the Vendors category 0.35% 0.48% 0.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 44 43 56
10th Percentile £358 £367 £175
25th Percentile £450 £381 £359
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £575 £400
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +43.75% -11.11%
75th Percentile £595 £650 £575
90th Percentile £607 - £608
UK median daily rate £500 £575 £419
% change year-on-year -13.04% +37.31% -6.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £65.18
25th Percentile - - £67.31
Median hourly rate - - £72.75
75th Percentile - - £76.31
90th Percentile - - £77.33
UK median hourly rate - - £72.75
% change year-on-year - - +36.36%

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 18,575 12,956 14,742
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 41.10% 47.11% 43.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,741 8,207 9,455
10th Percentile £313 £278 £292
25th Percentile £413 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £508 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.49% -3.33% -
75th Percentile £613 £620 £625
90th Percentile £700 £725 £738
UK median daily rate £503 £500 £520
% change year-on-year +0.60% -3.85% -0.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 989 622 806
10th Percentile £16.07 £14.75 £13.69
25th Percentile £19.93 £17.46 £15.62
Median hourly rate £35.53 £25.15 £28.00
Median % change year-on-year +41.27% -10.18% -29.20%
75th Percentile £67.50 £50.00 £61.60
90th Percentile £85.00 £68.75 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £25.15 £27.50
% change year-on-year +39.17% -8.55% -34.21%

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 30 July 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 30 July 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 -72 21 £495 -20.80% 26
North of England -73 14 £500 +25.00% 11
East of England -6 12 £600 - 3
Midlands -53 11 £425 +14.86% 7
West Midlands -58 11 £425 +14.86% 3
London -67 7 £500 +11.11% 12
Yorkshire -47 6 £519 +34.81% 1
North West -54 6 £500 +25.00% 7
North East -45 2 £213 - 3
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 (4.62%) Apache
1 3 (4.62%) CloudStack
1 3 (4.62%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (3.08%) Exchange Server 2013
3 1 (1.54%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (4.62%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.54%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 18 (27.69%) Azure
2 9 (13.85%) AWS
3 6 (9.23%) Microsoft 365
4 4 (6.15%) Entra ID
5 3 (4.62%) IaaS
5 3 (4.62%) OpenShift
5 3 (4.62%) Rubrik
5 3 (4.62%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 2 (3.08%) Azure Storage
6 2 (3.08%) Cohesity
6 2 (3.08%) Datadog
6 2 (3.08%) GitHub
6 2 (3.08%) GitHub Actions
6 2 (3.08%) Google Workspace
7 1 (1.54%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (1.54%) Nutanix
7 1 (1.54%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 27 (41.54%) SAN
2 22 (33.85%) Firewall
3 18 (27.69%) DNS
3 18 (27.69%) VLAN
4 10 (15.38%) DHCP
5 9 (13.85%) NAS
6 7 (10.77%) VPN
7 5 (7.69%) LAN
7 5 (7.69%) TCP/IP
7 5 (7.69%) VSAN
8 4 (6.15%) Cisco Nexus
8 4 (6.15%) SD-WAN
8 4 (6.15%) WAN
8 4 (6.15%) Wi-Fi
9 3 (4.62%) Structured Cabling
10 2 (3.08%) Connectrix
11 1 (1.54%) iSCSI
11 1 (1.54%) Network Security
11 1 (1.54%) NX-OS
11 1 (1.54%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (4.62%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 2 (3.08%) Jenkins
1 2 (3.08%) Sonatype Nexus
2 1 (1.54%) JIRA
General
1 11 (16.92%) Social Skills
2 5 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (6.15%) Documentation Skills
4 3 (4.62%) Public Sector
5 2 (3.08%) Finance
5 2 (3.08%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (1.54%) Advertising
6 1 (1.54%) Banking
6 1 (1.54%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (1.54%) Law
Job Titles
1 26 (40.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 12 (18.46%) Storage Engineer
3 10 (15.38%) Consultant
4 8 (12.31%) Senior
5 6 (9.23%) Backup Engineer
5 6 (9.23%) Data Centre Engineer
5 6 (9.23%) Lead
6 5 (7.69%) Backup Specialist
6 5 (7.69%) Data Centre Infrastructure Engineer
6 5 (7.69%) Infrastructure Services Engineer
6 5 (7.69%) NetApp Specialist
6 5 (7.69%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
6 5 (7.69%) Senior Technical Specialist
6 5 (7.69%) Senior Unix Technical Specialist
6 5 (7.69%) Storage and Backup Engineer
6 5 (7.69%) Technical Specialist
6 5 (7.69%) VMware Consultant
7 4 (6.15%) Architect
7 4 (6.15%) Backup Infrastructure Engineer
7 4 (6.15%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (4.62%) Elastic Stack
2 2 (3.08%) Middleware
2 2 (3.08%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 23 (35.38%) Replication
2 16 (24.62%) Data Centre
3 10 (15.38%) Enterprise Storage
4 7 (10.77%) EMC VMAX
5 6 (9.23%) EMC VNX
6 5 (7.69%) Clustering
7 4 (6.15%) Public Cloud
8 3 (4.62%) Celerra
8 3 (4.62%) EMC Centera
8 3 (4.62%) Hybrid Cloud
8 3 (4.62%) IBM XIV
8 3 (4.62%) Symmetrix
8 3 (4.62%) Symmetrix DMX
9 2 (3.08%) Cloud Native
9 2 (3.08%) Data Protection Act
10 1 (1.54%) Analytical Mindset
10 1 (1.54%) Linux Command Line
10 1 (1.54%) Mainframe
10 1 (1.54%) NHS
10 1 (1.54%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 31 (47.69%) Windows
2 25 (38.46%) Windows Server
3 16 (24.62%) Linux
4 11 (16.92%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 10 (15.38%) CentOS
5 10 (15.38%) Rocky
6 4 (6.15%) AIX
6 4 (6.15%) Unix
6 4 (6.15%) Windows Server 2019
7 3 (4.62%) Data ONTAP
7 3 (4.62%) Ubuntu
7 3 (4.62%) VMS
7 3 (4.62%) Windows Server 2012
8 2 (3.08%) OpenVMS
9 1 (1.54%) CoreOS
9 1 (1.54%) Mac OS
9 1 (1.54%) Windows 7
9 1 (1.54%) Windows Server 2003
9 1 (1.54%) Windows Server 2008
9 1 (1.54%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (52.31%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 21 (32.31%) Disaster Recovery
3 18 (27.69%) Capacity Planning
3 18 (27.69%) Migration
4 12 (18.46%) ITIL
5 10 (15.38%) Security Hardening
6 9 (13.85%) Problem-Solving
7 8 (12.31%) DevOps
8 7 (10.77%) Data Centre Operations
8 7 (10.77%) Data Protection
8 7 (10.77%) High Availability
8 7 (10.77%) Observability
8 7 (10.77%) Root Cause Analysis
8 7 (10.77%) Service Delivery
9 6 (9.23%) Business Continuity
9 6 (9.23%) Infrastructure Monitoring
9 6 (9.23%) Performance Optimisation
9 6 (9.23%) Storage Management
10 5 (7.69%) Continuous Improvement
10 5 (7.69%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 20 (30.77%) PowerShell
2 7 (10.77%) Python
3 4 (6.15%) Perl
3 4 (6.15%) SQL
4 3 (4.62%) Bash
5 1 (1.54%) Go
5 1 (1.54%) Java
Qualifications
1 32 (49.23%) Security Cleared
2 20 (30.77%) SC Cleared
3 12 (18.46%) DV Cleared
4 7 (10.77%) NCDA
5 6 (9.23%) Azure Certification
6 5 (7.69%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 4 (6.15%) Cisco Certification
7 4 (6.15%) Microsoft Certification
8 3 (4.62%) AWS Certification
8 3 (4.62%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 3 (4.62%) CCNP
8 3 (4.62%) Degree
9 2 (3.08%) NCIE
10 1 (1.54%) CCNA
10 1 (1.54%) MCSE
10 1 (1.54%) PMI Certification
10 1 (1.54%) PMP
10 1 (1.54%) RHCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.54%) GRC
1 1 (1.54%) HIPAA
1 1 (1.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (1.54%) PCI DSS
1 1 (1.54%) SLA
1 1 (1.54%) SOC 2
System Software
1 29 (44.62%) VMware Infrastructure
2 24 (36.92%) vSphere
3 14 (21.54%) Active Directory
4 13 (20.00%) VMware ESXi
5 11 (16.92%) Virtual Machines
6 6 (9.23%) Hyper-V
7 5 (7.69%) EMC RecoverPoint
7 5 (7.69%) VMware NSX
8 4 (6.15%) Firmware
8 4 (6.15%) PowerHA
9 2 (3.08%) NFS
9 2 (3.08%) SRDF
9 2 (3.08%) Virtual Desktop
10 1 (1.54%) Ceph
10 1 (1.54%) Docker
Systems Management
1 16 (24.62%) NetBackup
2 15 (23.08%) Ansible
3 14 (21.54%) vCenter Server
4 10 (15.38%) Kubernetes
5 6 (9.23%) EMC VPLEX
5 6 (9.23%) Grafana
5 6 (9.23%) Prometheus
6 5 (7.69%) Microsoft Intune
6 5 (7.69%) SCCM
7 4 (6.15%) Avamar
7 4 (6.15%) Tivoli Storage Manager
8 3 (4.62%) Argo
8 3 (4.62%) Check_MK
8 3 (4.62%) EMC NetWorker
8 3 (4.62%) PowerCLI
8 3 (4.62%) SCOM
8 3 (4.62%) SCSM
8 3 (4.62%) SnapMirror
8 3 (4.62%) SnapVault
8 3 (4.62%) Terraform
Vendors
1 35 (53.85%) VMware
2 26 (40.00%) NetApp
3 21 (32.31%) Microsoft
4 18 (27.69%) Cisco
5 15 (23.08%) Commvault
6 8 (12.31%) EMC
6 8 (12.31%) SolarWinds
7 7 (10.77%) 3PAR
7 7 (10.77%) Dell
7 7 (10.77%) IBM
8 6 (9.23%) Brocade
9 4 (6.15%) BT
9 4 (6.15%) CheckPoint
9 4 (6.15%) Fortinet
9 4 (6.15%) Meraki
9 4 (6.15%) Xerox
10 3 (4.62%) Isilon
10 3 (4.62%) Pure Storage
10 3 (4.62%) Trend Micro
10 3 (4.62%) Zerto