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 26 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
26 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 558 457 441
Rank change year-on-year -101 -16 +46
Contract jobs citing Veeam 71 61 77
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.16% 0.22% 0.23%
As % of the Vendors category 0.37% 0.47% 0.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 47 45 54
10th Percentile £350 £369 £216
25th Percentile £410 £388 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £419
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +31.34% -1.47%
75th Percentile £594 £650 £575
90th Percentile £616 - £608
UK median daily rate £500 £550 £456
% change year-on-year -9.09% +20.55% +7.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 2
10th Percentile - - £65.18
25th Percentile - £65.75 £67.31
Median hourly rate - £66.50 £72.75
Median % change year-on-year - -8.59% +81.88%
75th Percentile - £67.25 £76.31
90th Percentile - - £77.33
UK median hourly rate - £66.50 £72.75
% change year-on-year - -8.59% +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 18,972 12,987 14,487
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 41.53% 47.14% 43.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,900 8,220 9,114
10th Percentile £313 £275 £300
25th Percentile £413 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £501 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.35% -4.62% -
75th Percentile £615 £615 £628
90th Percentile £700 £713 £733
UK median daily rate £510 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +2.00% -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,035 640 692
10th Percentile £14.50 £14.75 £13.50
25th Percentile £17.50 £17.49 £15.62
Median hourly rate £32.00 £25.15 £29.39
Median % change year-on-year +27.24% -14.41% -29.19%
75th Percentile £65.58 £47.50 £63.75
90th Percentile £85.00 £69.65 £71.25
UK median hourly rate £29.07 £25.15 £28.00
% change year-on-year +15.59% -10.18% -36.00%

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 26 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 26 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 -76 20 £505 -19.20% 10
London -69 14 £433 -11.28% 7
North of England -78 13 £500 +25.00% 4
East of England -13 12 £600 - 4
Midlands -47 12 £463 +23.33% 2
West Midlands -52 12 £463 +23.33% 1
Yorkshire -35 6 £519 +34.81%
North West -58 5 £500 +17.65% 4
North East -41 2 £213 -
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 4 (5.63%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (4.23%) Apache
2 3 (4.23%) CloudStack
2 3 (4.23%) Exchange Server 2013
3 1 (1.41%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (4.23%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.41%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 21 (29.58%) Azure
2 9 (12.68%) AWS
3 5 (7.04%) Microsoft 365
4 4 (5.63%) Entra ID
4 4 (5.63%) Rubrik
5 3 (4.23%) Cohesity
5 3 (4.23%) IaaS
5 3 (4.23%) OpenShift
5 3 (4.23%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 2 (2.82%) Azure Storage
6 2 (2.82%) Datadog
6 2 (2.82%) GitHub
6 2 (2.82%) GitHub Actions
6 2 (2.82%) Google Workspace
7 1 (1.41%) Azure Monitor
7 1 (1.41%) GCP
7 1 (1.41%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 31 (43.66%) SAN
2 20 (28.17%) Firewall
3 18 (25.35%) DNS
4 17 (23.94%) VLAN
5 10 (14.08%) NAS
6 9 (12.68%) DHCP
7 7 (9.86%) VPN
8 5 (7.04%) LAN
8 5 (7.04%) VSAN
9 4 (5.63%) SD-WAN
9 4 (5.63%) TCP/IP
9 4 (5.63%) WAN
9 4 (5.63%) Wi-Fi
10 3 (4.23%) Cisco Nexus
10 3 (4.23%) Fibre Channel
10 3 (4.23%) Structured Cabling
11 2 (2.82%) Connectrix
12 1 (1.41%) Cisco ASA
12 1 (1.41%) Remote Desktop
12 1 (1.41%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (4.23%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 2 (2.82%) Jenkins
1 2 (2.82%) Sonatype Nexus
2 1 (1.41%) JIRA
General
1 13 (18.31%) Social Skills
2 7 (9.86%) Documentation Skills
3 4 (5.63%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (2.82%) Banking
4 2 (2.82%) Finance
4 2 (2.82%) Organisational Skills
4 2 (2.82%) Public Sector
5 1 (1.41%) Advertising
5 1 (1.41%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (1.41%) Law
Job Titles
1 25 (35.21%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 15 (21.13%) Consultant
3 12 (16.90%) Storage Engineer
4 10 (14.08%) Senior
5 6 (8.45%) Architect
5 6 (8.45%) Data Centre Engineer
5 6 (8.45%) Lead
6 5 (7.04%) Backup Engineer
6 5 (7.04%) Backup Specialist
6 5 (7.04%) Data Centre Infrastructure Engineer
6 5 (7.04%) NetApp Engineer
6 5 (7.04%) NetApp Specialist
6 5 (7.04%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
6 5 (7.04%) Senior Technical Specialist
6 5 (7.04%) Senior Unix Technical Specialist
6 5 (7.04%) Support Engineer
6 5 (7.04%) Technical Specialist
6 5 (7.04%) VMware Consultant
7 4 (5.63%) Infrastructure Services Engineer
7 4 (5.63%) Storage Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (7.04%) Terraform
2 3 (4.23%) Elastic Stack
3 2 (2.82%) Middleware
3 2 (2.82%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 28 (39.44%) Replication
2 21 (29.58%) Data Centre
3 9 (12.68%) Enterprise Storage
4 7 (9.86%) EMC VMAX
5 6 (8.45%) Clustering
5 6 (8.45%) EMC VNX
6 5 (7.04%) Hybrid Cloud
7 3 (4.23%) Celerra
7 3 (4.23%) EMC Centera
7 3 (4.23%) IBM XIV
7 3 (4.23%) Public Cloud
7 3 (4.23%) Symmetrix
7 3 (4.23%) Symmetrix DMX
8 2 (2.82%) Cloud Native
8 2 (2.82%) Data Protection Act
9 1 (1.41%) Analytical Mindset
9 1 (1.41%) Linux Command Line
9 1 (1.41%) Mainframe
9 1 (1.41%) Operational Technology
9 1 (1.41%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 33 (46.48%) Windows
2 27 (38.03%) Windows Server
3 22 (30.99%) Linux
4 12 (16.90%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 11 (15.49%) CentOS
5 11 (15.49%) Rocky
6 7 (9.86%) VMS
7 5 (7.04%) Windows Server 2019
8 4 (5.63%) AIX
8 4 (5.63%) Unix
9 3 (4.23%) Data ONTAP
9 3 (4.23%) OpenVMS
9 3 (4.23%) Ubuntu
9 3 (4.23%) Windows Server 2012
10 2 (2.82%) Windows 7
10 2 (2.82%) Windows Server 2008
10 2 (2.82%) Windows Server 2016
11 1 (1.41%) CoreOS
11 1 (1.41%) Mac OS
11 1 (1.41%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (47.89%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 24 (33.80%) Disaster Recovery
3 18 (25.35%) Migration
4 17 (23.94%) Capacity Planning
5 13 (18.31%) ITIL
6 10 (14.08%) Security Hardening
7 8 (11.27%) Business Continuity
7 8 (11.27%) High Availability
7 8 (11.27%) Problem-Solving
8 7 (9.86%) Data Centre Operations
8 7 (9.86%) DevOps
8 7 (9.86%) Observability
8 7 (9.86%) Root Cause Analysis
8 7 (9.86%) Service Delivery
9 6 (8.45%) Data Protection
9 6 (8.45%) Infrastructure Monitoring
9 6 (8.45%) Storage Management
10 5 (7.04%) Collaborative Working
10 5 (7.04%) Continuous Improvement
10 5 (7.04%) Infrastructure Automation
Programming Languages
1 21 (29.58%) PowerShell
2 7 (9.86%) Python
3 5 (7.04%) SQL
4 4 (5.63%) Perl
5 3 (4.23%) Bash
6 1 (1.41%) Go
6 1 (1.41%) Java
Qualifications
1 32 (45.07%) Security Cleared
2 19 (26.76%) SC Cleared
3 11 (15.49%) DV Cleared
4 7 (9.86%) Azure Certification
5 5 (7.04%) Cisco Certification
5 5 (7.04%) NCDA
5 5 (7.04%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 4 (5.63%) AWS Certification
6 4 (5.63%) Microsoft Certification
7 3 (4.23%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 3 (4.23%) CCNP
7 3 (4.23%) Degree
8 2 (2.82%) NCIE
9 1 (1.41%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 1 (1.41%) CCNA
9 1 (1.41%) CISSP
9 1 (1.41%) MCSE
9 1 (1.41%) PMI Certification
9 1 (1.41%) PMP
9 1 (1.41%) RHCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.41%) GRC
1 1 (1.41%) HIPAA
1 1 (1.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (1.41%) PCI DSS
1 1 (1.41%) SLA
1 1 (1.41%) SOC 2
System Software
1 29 (40.85%) VMware Infrastructure
2 22 (30.99%) vSphere
3 14 (19.72%) Active Directory
4 12 (16.90%) Virtual Machines
4 12 (16.90%) VMware ESXi
5 7 (9.86%) Hyper-V
6 5 (7.04%) EMC RecoverPoint
6 5 (7.04%) VMware NSX
7 4 (5.63%) Firmware
7 4 (5.63%) PowerHA
8 2 (2.82%) NFS
8 2 (2.82%) SRDF
9 1 (1.41%) Ceph
9 1 (1.41%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 18 (25.35%) Ansible
1 18 (25.35%) NetBackup
2 13 (18.31%) vCenter Server
3 9 (12.68%) Kubernetes
4 7 (9.86%) Grafana
4 7 (9.86%) Prometheus
5 6 (8.45%) EMC VPLEX
6 4 (5.63%) Avamar
6 4 (5.63%) Microsoft Intune
6 4 (5.63%) SCCM
6 4 (5.63%) SCOM
6 4 (5.63%) Tivoli Storage Manager
7 3 (4.23%) Argo
7 3 (4.23%) Check_MK
7 3 (4.23%) EMC NetWorker
7 3 (4.23%) PowerCLI
7 3 (4.23%) SCSM
7 3 (4.23%) SnapMirror
7 3 (4.23%) SnapVault
8 2 (2.82%) WSUS
Vendors
1 36 (50.70%) VMware
2 26 (36.62%) NetApp
3 22 (30.99%) Microsoft
4 17 (23.94%) Cisco
5 15 (21.13%) Commvault
6 10 (14.08%) Dell
7 9 (12.68%) EMC
8 8 (11.27%) SolarWinds
9 7 (9.86%) 3PAR
9 7 (9.86%) IBM
10 6 (8.45%) Brocade
11 4 (5.63%) BT
11 4 (5.63%) CheckPoint
11 4 (5.63%) Fortinet
11 4 (5.63%) Meraki
11 4 (5.63%) Pure Storage
11 4 (5.63%) Veritas
11 4 (5.63%) Xerox
12 3 (4.23%) Isilon
12 3 (4.23%) Zerto