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 2 August 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
2 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 554 443 450
Rank change year-on-year -111 +7 +46
Contract jobs citing Veeam 64 63 83
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.14% 0.23% 0.25%
As % of the Vendors category 0.34% 0.48% 0.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 44 44 56
10th Percentile £358 £368 £226
25th Percentile £450 £384 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £563 £419
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +34.33% -6.94%
75th Percentile £595 £650 £575
90th Percentile £607 - £608
UK median daily rate £500 £563 £456
% change year-on-year -11.11% +23.29% +1.39%
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 - - +81.88%

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 18,741 13,069 14,551
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 41.16% 47.06% 43.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,820 8,275 9,333
10th Percentile £313 £278 £300
25th Percentile £413 £402 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -2.86% -
75th Percentile £613 £622 £626
90th Percentile £700 £725 £738
UK median daily rate £505 £500 £520
% change year-on-year +1.00% -3.85% -0.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,005 629 775
10th Percentile £16.00 £14.75 £13.69
25th Percentile £19.50 £17.50 £15.62
Median hourly rate £35.50 £25.15 £29.00
Median % change year-on-year +41.15% -13.28% -26.72%
75th Percentile £67.50 £50.00 £62.53
90th Percentile £85.00 £69.72 £71.25
UK median hourly rate £34.91 £25.15 £28.00
% change year-on-year +38.79% -10.18% -33.01%

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 2 August 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 2 August 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 -73 21 £495 -20.80% 22
North of England -74 13 £500 +25.00% 11
East of England -5 12 £600 - 3
Midlands -46 11 £425 +14.86% 7
West Midlands -53 11 £425 +14.86% 3
London -58 7 £500 +11.11% 11
Yorkshire -43 6 £519 +34.81%
North West -59 5 £500 +25.00% 9
North East -39 2 £213 - 2
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 (4.69%) Apache
1 3 (4.69%) CloudStack
1 3 (4.69%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (3.13%) Exchange Server 2013
3 1 (1.56%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (4.69%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.56%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 17 (26.56%) Azure
2 8 (12.50%) AWS
3 5 (7.81%) Microsoft 365
4 4 (6.25%) Entra ID
5 3 (4.69%) IaaS
5 3 (4.69%) OpenShift
5 3 (4.69%) Rubrik
5 3 (4.69%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 2 (3.13%) Azure Storage
6 2 (3.13%) Cohesity
6 2 (3.13%) Datadog
6 2 (3.13%) GitHub
6 2 (3.13%) GitHub Actions
6 2 (3.13%) Google Workspace
7 1 (1.56%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (1.56%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 27 (42.19%) SAN
2 21 (32.81%) Firewall
3 18 (28.13%) VLAN
4 17 (26.56%) DNS
5 9 (14.06%) DHCP
5 9 (14.06%) NAS
6 7 (10.94%) VPN
7 5 (7.81%) LAN
7 5 (7.81%) VSAN
8 4 (6.25%) Cisco Nexus
8 4 (6.25%) SD-WAN
8 4 (6.25%) TCP/IP
8 4 (6.25%) WAN
8 4 (6.25%) Wi-Fi
9 3 (4.69%) Structured Cabling
10 2 (3.13%) Connectrix
11 1 (1.56%) iSCSI
11 1 (1.56%) Network Security
11 1 (1.56%) NX-OS
11 1 (1.56%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (4.69%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 2 (3.13%) Jenkins
1 2 (3.13%) Sonatype Nexus
2 1 (1.56%) JIRA
General
1 11 (17.19%) Social Skills
2 4 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (6.25%) Documentation Skills
3 3 (4.69%) Public Sector
4 2 (3.13%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (1.56%) Advertising
5 1 (1.56%) Banking
5 1 (1.56%) Finance
5 1 (1.56%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (1.56%) Law
Job Titles
1 25 (39.06%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 12 (18.75%) Storage Engineer
3 10 (15.63%) Consultant
4 8 (12.50%) Senior
5 6 (9.38%) Backup Engineer
5 6 (9.38%) Data Centre Engineer
5 6 (9.38%) Lead
6 5 (7.81%) Backup Specialist
6 5 (7.81%) Data Centre Infrastructure Engineer
6 5 (7.81%) NetApp Specialist
6 5 (7.81%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
6 5 (7.81%) Senior Technical Specialist
6 5 (7.81%) Senior Unix Technical Specialist
6 5 (7.81%) Storage and Backup Engineer
6 5 (7.81%) Technical Specialist
6 5 (7.81%) VMware Consultant
7 4 (6.25%) Architect
7 4 (6.25%) NetApp Engineer
7 4 (6.25%) Project Manager
7 4 (6.25%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (4.69%) Elastic Stack
2 2 (3.13%) Middleware
2 2 (3.13%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 23 (35.94%) Replication
2 16 (25.00%) Data Centre
3 10 (15.63%) Enterprise Storage
4 7 (10.94%) EMC VMAX
5 6 (9.38%) EMC VNX
6 5 (7.81%) Clustering
7 3 (4.69%) Celerra
7 3 (4.69%) EMC Centera
7 3 (4.69%) Hybrid Cloud
7 3 (4.69%) IBM XIV
7 3 (4.69%) Public Cloud
7 3 (4.69%) Symmetrix
7 3 (4.69%) Symmetrix DMX
8 2 (3.13%) Cloud Native
8 2 (3.13%) Data Protection Act
9 1 (1.56%) Analytical Mindset
9 1 (1.56%) Driving Licence
9 1 (1.56%) Linux Command Line
9 1 (1.56%) Mainframe
9 1 (1.56%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 30 (46.88%) Windows
2 24 (37.50%) Windows Server
3 16 (25.00%) Linux
4 11 (17.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 10 (15.63%) CentOS
5 10 (15.63%) Rocky
6 4 (6.25%) AIX
6 4 (6.25%) Unix
7 3 (4.69%) Data ONTAP
7 3 (4.69%) Ubuntu
7 3 (4.69%) VMS
7 3 (4.69%) Windows Server 2019
8 2 (3.13%) OpenVMS
8 2 (3.13%) Windows Server 2012
9 1 (1.56%) CoreOS
9 1 (1.56%) Mac OS
9 1 (1.56%) Windows 7
9 1 (1.56%) Windows Server 2003
9 1 (1.56%) Windows Server 2008
9 1 (1.56%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (51.56%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 21 (32.81%) Disaster Recovery
3 18 (28.13%) Capacity Planning
3 18 (28.13%) Migration
4 12 (18.75%) ITIL
5 10 (15.63%) Security Hardening
6 8 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
7 7 (10.94%) Data Centre Operations
7 7 (10.94%) Data Protection
7 7 (10.94%) DevOps
7 7 (10.94%) High Availability
7 7 (10.94%) Observability
7 7 (10.94%) Service Delivery
8 6 (9.38%) Infrastructure Monitoring
8 6 (9.38%) Performance Optimisation
8 6 (9.38%) Root Cause Analysis
8 6 (9.38%) Storage Management
9 5 (7.81%) Change Control
9 5 (7.81%) Collaborative Working
9 5 (7.81%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 19 (29.69%) PowerShell
2 7 (10.94%) Python
3 4 (6.25%) Perl
3 4 (6.25%) SQL
4 3 (4.69%) Bash
5 1 (1.56%) Go
5 1 (1.56%) Java
Qualifications
1 32 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 20 (31.25%) SC Cleared
3 12 (18.75%) DV Cleared
4 7 (10.94%) NCDA
5 6 (9.38%) Azure Certification
6 5 (7.81%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 4 (6.25%) Cisco Certification
7 4 (6.25%) Microsoft Certification
8 3 (4.69%) AWS Certification
8 3 (4.69%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 3 (4.69%) CCNP
8 3 (4.69%) Degree
9 2 (3.13%) NCIE
10 1 (1.56%) CCNA
10 1 (1.56%) MCSE
10 1 (1.56%) PMI Certification
10 1 (1.56%) PMP
10 1 (1.56%) RHCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.56%) GRC
1 1 (1.56%) HIPAA
1 1 (1.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (1.56%) PCI DSS
1 1 (1.56%) SLA
1 1 (1.56%) SOC 2
System Software
1 28 (43.75%) VMware Infrastructure
2 23 (35.94%) vSphere
3 13 (20.31%) Active Directory
3 13 (20.31%) VMware ESXi
4 11 (17.19%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (9.38%) Hyper-V
6 5 (7.81%) EMC RecoverPoint
6 5 (7.81%) VMware NSX
7 4 (6.25%) Firmware
7 4 (6.25%) PowerHA
8 2 (3.13%) NFS
8 2 (3.13%) SRDF
9 1 (1.56%) Ceph
9 1 (1.56%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 16 (25.00%) NetBackup
2 15 (23.44%) Ansible
3 14 (21.88%) vCenter Server
4 9 (14.06%) Kubernetes
5 6 (9.38%) EMC VPLEX
5 6 (9.38%) Grafana
5 6 (9.38%) Prometheus
6 4 (6.25%) Avamar
6 4 (6.25%) Microsoft Intune
6 4 (6.25%) SCCM
6 4 (6.25%) Tivoli Storage Manager
7 3 (4.69%) Argo
7 3 (4.69%) Check_MK
7 3 (4.69%) EMC NetWorker
7 3 (4.69%) PowerCLI
7 3 (4.69%) SCOM
7 3 (4.69%) SCSM
7 3 (4.69%) SnapMirror
7 3 (4.69%) SnapVault
7 3 (4.69%) Terraform
Vendors
1 34 (53.13%) VMware
2 26 (40.63%) NetApp
3 21 (32.81%) Microsoft
4 18 (28.13%) Cisco
5 15 (23.44%) Commvault
6 8 (12.50%) EMC
6 8 (12.50%) SolarWinds
7 7 (10.94%) 3PAR
7 7 (10.94%) Dell
7 7 (10.94%) IBM
8 6 (9.38%) Brocade
9 4 (6.25%) BT
9 4 (6.25%) CheckPoint
9 4 (6.25%) Fortinet
9 4 (6.25%) Meraki
9 4 (6.25%) Xerox
10 3 (4.69%) Isilon
10 3 (4.69%) Trend Micro
10 3 (4.69%) Veritas
10 3 (4.69%) Zerto