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 28 November 2025, 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
28 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 467 465 472
Rank change year-on-year -2 +7 +87
Contract jobs citing Veeam 65 45 105
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.21% 0.14% 0.27%
As % of the Vendors category 0.44% 0.32% 0.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 51 31 72
10th Percentile £388 £200 £276
25th Percentile £483 £334 £372
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £375 £450
Median % change year-on-year +46.67% -16.67% -
75th Percentile £650 £491 £591
90th Percentile £651 £575 £625
UK median daily rate £550 £400 £450
% change year-on-year +37.50% -11.11% +5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 4
10th Percentile - - £18.28
25th Percentile £65.75 - £20.19
Median hourly rate £66.50 £112.00 £31.25
Median % change year-on-year -40.63% +258.40% -2.34%
75th Percentile £67.25 - £45.00
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £66.50 £112.00 £31.25
% change year-on-year -40.63% +258.40% -2.34%

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 14,660 14,077 17,358
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 47.68% 45.22% 44.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,468 8,469 11,390
10th Percentile £286 £300 £252
25th Percentile £405 £413 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.67% - -2.78%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £638
90th Percentile £700 £725 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -1.59%
Number of hourly rates quoted 716 437 620
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.24 £15.25
25th Percentile £18.50 £17.00 £20.50
Median hourly rate £25.00 £32.50 £44.75
Median % change year-on-year -23.08% -27.37% +69.73%
75th Percentile £45.14 £65.00 £63.75
90th Percentile £74.26 £75.00 £76.53
UK median hourly rate £25.08 £30.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -16.42% -32.58% +73.08%

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 28 November 2025.

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 28 November 2025. 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 +12 20 £613 +88.46% 26
London +14 15 £528 +31.88% 13
South West +6 14 £550 -4.35% 7
North of England -38 9 £438 -7.89% 14
North West -17 7 £425 -10.53% 8
Midlands -29 4 £365 -2.67% 7
East of England -15 3 £525 +50.00% 2
West Midlands -35 3 £365 +97.30% 5
Yorkshire -39 2 £450 - 4
East Midlands -18 1 - - 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 16 (24.62%) Microsoft Exchange
2 11 (16.92%) SharePoint
3 7 (10.77%) Skype for Business
4 4 (6.15%) Confluence
4 4 (6.15%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 8 (12.31%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.54%) Acrobat
2 1 (1.54%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 19 (29.23%) Azure
2 11 (16.92%) Microsoft 365
3 6 (9.23%) Entra ID
4 4 (6.15%) AWS
4 4 (6.15%) SaaS
5 3 (4.62%) Rubrik
6 2 (3.08%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 2 (3.08%) Amazon S3
6 2 (3.08%) Cohesity
6 2 (3.08%) IaaS
6 2 (3.08%) Mimecast
6 2 (3.08%) Nutanix
6 2 (3.08%) OneDrive
6 2 (3.08%) PaaS
6 2 (3.08%) Serverless
6 2 (3.08%) Tessian
7 1 (1.54%) AWS CloudTrail
7 1 (1.54%) Azure Functions
7 1 (1.54%) Azure Logic Apps
7 1 (1.54%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 24 (36.92%) DNS
2 19 (29.23%) iSCSI
3 14 (21.54%) Fibre Channel
4 12 (18.46%) DHCP
5 11 (16.92%) Skype
6 10 (15.38%) VLAN
7 9 (13.85%) SAN
8 8 (12.31%) TCP/IP
9 7 (10.77%) Firewall
10 6 (9.23%) Unified Communications
10 6 (9.23%) VSAN
11 5 (7.69%) LAN
12 3 (4.62%) NAS
12 3 (4.62%) SSL
12 3 (4.62%) VPN
12 3 (4.62%) WAN
13 2 (3.08%) DMARC
13 2 (3.08%) Network Security
13 2 (3.08%) SMTP
13 2 (3.08%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (10.77%) SQL Server
2 1 (1.54%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (1.54%) Amazon Redshift
2 1 (1.54%) Data Vault
2 1 (1.54%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (1.54%) Metadata
2 1 (1.54%) Power BI
2 1 (1.54%) Redis
2 1 (1.54%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 4 (6.15%) Jenkins
1 4 (6.15%) JIRA
2 3 (4.62%) Bitbucket
2 3 (4.62%) Git
3 1 (1.54%) GitLab
General
1 15 (23.08%) Social Skills
2 14 (21.54%) Public Sector
3 10 (15.38%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (9.23%) Banking
4 6 (9.23%) Finance
5 5 (7.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (4.62%) Documentation Skills
6 3 (4.62%) International Banking
6 3 (4.62%) Legal
7 2 (3.08%) Law
8 1 (1.54%) Advertising
8 1 (1.54%) Aerospace
8 1 (1.54%) Local Government
8 1 (1.54%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (1.54%) Police
Job Titles
1 16 (24.62%) Architect
2 13 (20.00%) Infrastructure Architect
2 13 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 11 (16.92%) VMware Architect
4 7 (10.77%) Platform Engineer
5 6 (9.23%) Server Engineer
6 5 (7.69%) Storage Engineer
6 5 (7.69%) Wintel Engineer
7 4 (6.15%) Windows Engineer
8 3 (4.62%) Backup Engineer
8 3 (4.62%) IT Engineer
8 3 (4.62%) Lead
8 3 (4.62%) Senior
8 3 (4.62%) VMware Engineer
8 3 (4.62%) Windows Infrastructure Engineer
9 2 (3.08%) Automation Engineer
9 2 (3.08%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
9 2 (3.08%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
9 2 (3.08%) Team Leader
9 2 (3.08%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (3.08%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (1.54%) RabbitMQ
2 1 (1.54%) REST
2 1 (1.54%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 17 (26.15%) Replication
2 15 (23.08%) PKI
3 5 (7.69%) Data Centre
3 5 (7.69%) Hybrid Cloud
4 4 (6.15%) Private Cloud
5 2 (3.08%) Client/Server
5 2 (3.08%) Clustering
5 2 (3.08%) Public Cloud
6 1 (1.54%) Cloud Native
6 1 (1.54%) CMDB
6 1 (1.54%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.54%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.54%) Fat Client
6 1 (1.54%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (1.54%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.54%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 51 (78.46%) Windows
2 33 (50.77%) Windows Server
3 21 (32.31%) Linux
4 15 (23.08%) Windows Server 2019
5 8 (12.31%) Windows Server 2016
6 7 (10.77%) Windows 10
7 4 (6.15%) Ubuntu
8 2 (3.08%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (1.54%) Solaris
9 1 (1.54%) SUSE
9 1 (1.54%) Unix
9 1 (1.54%) Windows Server 2003
9 1 (1.54%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (26.15%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 13 (20.00%) Service Management
3 12 (18.46%) Disaster Recovery
4 11 (16.92%) Data Protection
4 11 (16.92%) ITIL
4 11 (16.92%) Mentoring
5 8 (12.31%) Critical Thinking
5 8 (12.31%) System Testing
6 7 (10.77%) Customer Requirements
7 6 (9.23%) Computer Science
7 6 (9.23%) Edge Virtualization
7 6 (9.23%) Migration
7 6 (9.23%) Performance Analysis
7 6 (9.23%) Platform Engineering
8 5 (7.69%) Business Continuity
8 5 (7.69%) Server Management
9 4 (6.15%) Infrastructure Automation
9 4 (6.15%) Operational Stability
9 4 (6.15%) Project Delivery
9 4 (6.15%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 25 (38.46%) PowerShell
2 21 (32.31%) SQL
3 6 (9.23%) Python
4 2 (3.08%) Bash
5 1 (1.54%) Perl
5 1 (1.54%) VB
5 1 (1.54%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 35 (53.85%) Security Cleared
2 24 (36.92%) Microsoft Certification
3 21 (32.31%) MCSE
4 20 (30.77%) DV Cleared
5 16 (24.62%) SC Cleared
6 12 (18.46%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 11 (16.92%) Degree
8 7 (10.77%) Cisco Certification
8 7 (10.77%) VCP5
8 7 (10.77%) VCP6
9 6 (9.23%) CCNA
9 6 (9.23%) CCNP
9 6 (9.23%) Master's Degree
10 5 (7.69%) ITIL Certification
11 3 (4.62%) MCSA
11 3 (4.62%) OCA
11 3 (4.62%) Oracle Certification
12 2 (3.08%) Azure Certification
13 1 (1.54%) CISSP
13 1 (1.54%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (6.15%) GDPR
2 1 (1.54%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (1.54%) GRC
2 1 (1.54%) ISO 22301
2 1 (1.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (1.54%) MiFID
2 1 (1.54%) NCSC
2 1 (1.54%) NIST
2 1 (1.54%) NIST 800
2 1 (1.54%) PCI DSS
2 1 (1.54%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 42 (64.62%) VMware Infrastructure
2 30 (46.15%) Active Directory
3 17 (26.15%) vSphere
4 16 (24.62%) VMware ESXi
5 13 (20.00%) NFS
6 9 (13.85%) VMware NSX
7 8 (12.31%) Virtual Servers
8 6 (9.23%) Virtual Machines
9 5 (7.69%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 5 (7.69%) Virtual Desktop
10 4 (6.15%) Hyper-V
11 3 (4.62%) Docker
12 1 (1.54%) Firmware
12 1 (1.54%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 13 (20.00%) vCenter Server
2 11 (16.92%) SCCM
3 9 (13.85%) Ansible
4 8 (12.31%) Microsoft Intune
4 8 (12.31%) WSUS
5 7 (10.77%) Terraform
6 6 (9.23%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 3 (4.62%) NetBackup
7 3 (4.62%) PowerCLI
7 3 (4.62%) SCOM
7 3 (4.62%) Tivoli Storage Manager
7 3 (4.62%) VxRail
8 1 (1.54%) Avamar
8 1 (1.54%) FortiGate
8 1 (1.54%) Nessus
8 1 (1.54%) Prometheus
8 1 (1.54%) Red Hat Satellite
8 1 (1.54%) SCOrch
8 1 (1.54%) SolarWinds Orion
8 1 (1.54%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 51 (78.46%) VMware
2 40 (61.54%) Microsoft
3 21 (32.31%) SolarWinds
4 20 (30.77%) NetApp
5 19 (29.23%) Splunk
6 18 (27.69%) Cisco
7 13 (20.00%) Dell
8 6 (9.23%) IBM
9 4 (6.15%) Atlassian
10 3 (4.62%) Commvault
10 3 (4.62%) Oracle
11 2 (3.08%) Citrix
11 2 (3.08%) CrowdStrike
11 2 (3.08%) Meraki
11 2 (3.08%) Palo Alto
11 2 (3.08%) Zerto
12 1 (1.54%) Datto
12 1 (1.54%) NVIDIA
12 1 (1.54%) ServiceNow
12 1 (1.54%) Zscaler