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 September 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 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 554 451 473
Rank change year-on-year -103 +22 +9
Contract jobs citing Veeam 74 63 54
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.16% 0.23% 0.16%
As % of the Vendors category 0.38% 0.47% 0.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 47 48 38
10th Percentile £350 £375 £309
25th Percentile £410 £400 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £419
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +31.34% -3.18%
75th Percentile £600 £641 £569
90th Percentile - £650 £608
UK median daily rate £500 £550 £419
% change year-on-year -9.09% +31.34% -1.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 2
Median hourly rate - £66.50 £112.00
Median % change year-on-year - -40.63% +180.00%
UK median hourly rate - £66.50 £112.00
% change year-on-year - -40.63% +180.00%

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 19,315 13,283 14,567
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 41.49% 47.54% 44.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,934 8,451 8,770
10th Percentile £309 £275 £300
25th Percentile £413 £403 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £514 £508 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.28% -3.33% -
75th Percentile £622 £621 £630
90th Percentile £713 £706 £732
UK median daily rate £513 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +2.50% -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,173 631 569
10th Percentile £14.01 £14.84 £14.50
25th Percentile £16.72 £18.00 £15.62
Median hourly rate £27.30 £25.15 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.55% -28.14% -20.16%
75th Percentile £63.75 £43.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £79.79 £69.65 £71.25
UK median hourly rate £25.75 £25.15 £32.50
% change year-on-year +2.39% -22.62% -25.87%

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 September 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 September 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
East of England -18 17 £600 - 6
London -75 16 £415 -14.87% 54
South East -79 16 £488 -18.75% 25
West Midlands -39 12 £463 +23.33% 3
Midlands -40 12 £463 +23.33% 5
North of England -72 12 £500 +21.21% 17
Yorkshire -37 5 £519 - 3
North East - 4 £213 - 6
North West -53 3 £450 +9.09% 8
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 (5.41%) Confluence
1 4 (5.41%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (4.05%) Apache
2 3 (4.05%) CloudStack
2 3 (4.05%) Exchange Server 2013
3 1 (1.35%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (2.70%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (5.41%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 24 (32.43%) Azure
2 7 (9.46%) AWS
2 7 (9.46%) Entra ID
3 6 (8.11%) Microsoft 365
4 5 (6.76%) IaaS
5 4 (5.41%) Rubrik
6 3 (4.05%) Azure Monitor
6 3 (4.05%) Cohesity
6 3 (4.05%) OpenShift
6 3 (4.05%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 2 (2.70%) Azure Storage
7 2 (2.70%) Datadog
7 2 (2.70%) GitHub
7 2 (2.70%) GitHub Actions
7 2 (2.70%) Google Workspace
7 2 (2.70%) PaaS
8 1 (1.35%) GCP
8 1 (1.35%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 31 (41.89%) SAN
2 24 (32.43%) DNS
3 23 (31.08%) Firewall
4 20 (27.03%) VLAN
5 10 (13.51%) DHCP
6 9 (12.16%) VPN
7 8 (10.81%) NAS
8 7 (9.46%) LAN
9 6 (8.11%) SD-WAN
9 6 (8.11%) WAN
9 6 (8.11%) Wi-Fi
10 4 (5.41%) VSAN
11 3 (4.05%) Fibre Channel
11 3 (4.05%) Structured Cabling
11 3 (4.05%) TCP/IP
12 2 (2.70%) Connectrix
13 1 (1.35%) Cisco ASA
13 1 (1.35%) Cisco Nexus
13 1 (1.35%) Remote Desktop
13 1 (1.35%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (2.70%) Azure SQL Database
1 2 (2.70%) Data Mining
1 2 (2.70%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (5.41%) JIRA
2 2 (2.70%) Jenkins
General
1 15 (20.27%) Social Skills
2 9 (12.16%) Documentation Skills
3 3 (4.05%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (2.70%) Banking
4 2 (2.70%) Finance
5 1 (1.35%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (1.35%) Law
5 1 (1.35%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (1.35%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 29 (39.19%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 16 (21.62%) Consultant
3 12 (16.22%) Storage Engineer
4 11 (14.86%) Senior
5 8 (10.81%) Data Centre Engineer
5 8 (10.81%) NetApp Engineer
6 6 (8.11%) Architect
6 6 (8.11%) Data Centre Infrastructure Engineer
6 6 (8.11%) Lead
7 5 (6.76%) Backup Specialist
7 5 (6.76%) Infrastructure Services Engineer
7 5 (6.76%) NetApp Specialist
7 5 (6.76%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
7 5 (6.76%) Senior Technical Specialist
7 5 (6.76%) Senior Unix Technical Specialist
7 5 (6.76%) Support Engineer
7 5 (6.76%) Technical Specialist
7 5 (6.76%) VMware Consultant
8 4 (5.41%) Project Engineer
8 4 (5.41%) Storage Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (9.46%) Terraform
2 3 (4.05%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 28 (37.84%) Data Centre
1 28 (37.84%) Replication
2 6 (8.11%) Clustering
2 6 (8.11%) Enterprise Storage
3 5 (6.76%) Hybrid Cloud
4 4 (5.41%) EMC VMAX
4 4 (5.41%) EMC VNX
5 3 (4.05%) Public Cloud
6 2 (2.70%) Cloud Native
7 1 (1.35%) Celerra
7 1 (1.35%) Cyber Threat
7 1 (1.35%) Driving Licence
7 1 (1.35%) EMC Centera
7 1 (1.35%) IBM XIV
7 1 (1.35%) iSeries
7 1 (1.35%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (1.35%) Operational Technology
7 1 (1.35%) Private Cloud
7 1 (1.35%) Symmetrix
7 1 (1.35%) Symmetrix DMX
Operating Systems
1 32 (43.24%) Windows
2 29 (39.19%) Windows Server
3 24 (32.43%) Linux
4 13 (17.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 12 (16.22%) CentOS
5 12 (16.22%) Rocky
6 8 (10.81%) VMS
7 5 (6.76%) Windows Server 2019
8 4 (5.41%) AIX
8 4 (5.41%) Unix
9 3 (4.05%) Data ONTAP
9 3 (4.05%) OpenVMS
9 3 (4.05%) Ubuntu
9 3 (4.05%) Windows Server 2012
10 2 (2.70%) Mac OS
10 2 (2.70%) Windows 7
10 2 (2.70%) Windows Server 2008
11 1 (1.35%) CoreOS
11 1 (1.35%) Windows Server 2003
11 1 (1.35%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (55.41%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 21 (28.38%) Disaster Recovery
3 18 (24.32%) Migration
4 12 (16.22%) Capacity Planning
5 11 (14.86%) ITIL
6 10 (13.51%) Service Delivery
7 9 (12.16%) Security Hardening
8 8 (10.81%) Business Continuity
8 8 (10.81%) High Availability
8 8 (10.81%) Project Delivery
9 7 (9.46%) Data Centre Operations
9 7 (9.46%) Problem-Solving
10 6 (8.11%) DevOps
10 6 (8.11%) Infrastructure as Code
10 6 (8.11%) Observability
10 6 (8.11%) Root Cause Analysis
11 5 (6.76%) Collaborative Working
11 5 (6.76%) Continuous Improvement
11 5 (6.76%) Performance Tuning
11 5 (6.76%) Storage Management
Programming Languages
1 23 (31.08%) PowerShell
2 7 (9.46%) Python
3 6 (8.11%) SQL
4 4 (5.41%) Perl
5 3 (4.05%) Bash
6 1 (1.35%) Go
6 1 (1.35%) Java
Qualifications
1 31 (41.89%) Security Cleared
2 23 (31.08%) SC Cleared
3 7 (9.46%) Azure Certification
3 7 (9.46%) DV Cleared
4 5 (6.76%) Cisco Certification
4 5 (6.76%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 4 (5.41%) AWS Certification
5 4 (5.41%) Microsoft Certification
6 3 (4.05%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 3 (4.05%) CCNP
7 2 (2.70%) NCDA
7 2 (2.70%) NCIE
8 1 (1.35%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 1 (1.35%) CCNA
8 1 (1.35%) CISM
8 1 (1.35%) CISSP
8 1 (1.35%) Degree
8 1 (1.35%) MCSE
8 1 (1.35%) RHCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.35%) HIPAA
1 1 (1.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (1.35%) PCI DSS
1 1 (1.35%) SLA
1 1 (1.35%) SOC 2
System Software
1 36 (48.65%) VMware Infrastructure
2 25 (33.78%) vSphere
3 16 (21.62%) VMware ESXi
4 14 (18.92%) Active Directory
5 10 (13.51%) Virtual Machines
6 9 (12.16%) Hyper-V
7 5 (6.76%) Firmware
7 5 (6.76%) VMware NSX
8 4 (5.41%) PowerHA
9 3 (4.05%) EMC RecoverPoint
10 2 (2.70%) NFS
10 2 (2.70%) SRDF
11 1 (1.35%) Ceph
11 1 (1.35%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 19 (25.68%) NetBackup
2 17 (22.97%) Ansible
3 12 (16.22%) vCenter Server
4 9 (12.16%) Kubernetes
5 7 (9.46%) Grafana
5 7 (9.46%) Prometheus
6 4 (5.41%) EMC VPLEX
6 4 (5.41%) Microsoft Intune
6 4 (5.41%) Tivoli Storage Manager
7 3 (4.05%) Argo
7 3 (4.05%) Check_MK
7 3 (4.05%) EMC NetWorker
7 3 (4.05%) SCCM
7 3 (4.05%) SCOM
7 3 (4.05%) SnapMirror
7 3 (4.05%) SnapVault
8 2 (2.70%) Avamar
8 2 (2.70%) Dell DRAC
8 2 (2.70%) Failover Clustering
8 2 (2.70%) PowerCLI
Vendors
1 42 (56.76%) VMware
2 27 (36.49%) NetApp
3 26 (35.14%) Microsoft
4 19 (25.68%) Commvault
5 16 (21.62%) Cisco
6 12 (16.22%) Dell
7 11 (14.86%) SolarWinds
8 7 (9.46%) EMC
9 6 (8.11%) IBM
9 6 (8.11%) Meraki
10 5 (6.76%) BT
10 5 (6.76%) CheckPoint
10 5 (6.76%) Xerox
11 4 (5.41%) 3PAR
11 4 (5.41%) Brocade
11 4 (5.41%) Remedy
12 3 (4.05%) HP
12 3 (4.05%) Oracle
12 3 (4.05%) Red Hat
12 3 (4.05%) Veritas