Veeam Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Veeam
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 1 January 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
1 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 341 316 327
Rank change year-on-year -25 +11 +21
Contract jobs citing Veeam 57 32 78
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.31% 0.22% 0.40%
As % of the Vendors category 0.67% 0.48% 0.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 48 23 59
10th Percentile £343 £200 £263
25th Percentile £425 £313 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £375 £450
Median % change year-on-year +46.67% -16.67% +11.11%
75th Percentile £575 £488 £559
90th Percentile £650 £585 £608
UK median daily rate £550 £400 £425
% change year-on-year +37.50% -5.88% -5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 2
10th Percentile - - £17.43
25th Percentile £65.75 - £18.06
Median hourly rate £66.50 - £20.25
75th Percentile £67.25 - £22.56
90th Percentile - - £23.28
UK median hourly rate £66.50 £112.00 £20.25
% change year-on-year -40.63% +453.09% +6.58%

All Vendors
UK excluding London

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 the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 8,490 6,712 9,041
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 46.35% 46.13% 46.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,543 3,996 5,711
10th Percentile £220 £215 £209
25th Percentile £375 £375 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.60% - -
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 648 353 521
10th Percentile £14.60 £15.22 £14.16
25th Percentile £17.46 £16.92 £17.75
Median hourly rate £21.50 £25.00 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year -14.00% -45.86% +102.88%
75th Percentile £44.94 £57.62 £62.50
90th Percentile £74.26 £75.00 £74.38
UK median hourly rate £23.83 £27.24 £45.94
% change year-on-year -12.53% -40.71% +76.69%

Veeam
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Veeam relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Veeam job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Veeam
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Veeam.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Veeam

Veeam
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Veeam in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Veeam in the UK excluding London

Veeam
Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Veeam.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Veeam

Veeam
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Veeam within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 1 January 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 -1 17 £563 +73.08% 23
North of England -46 16 £450 -5.26% 13
South West -1 15 £550 -4.35% 14
North West -21 10 £398 -16.32% 4
Yorkshire -47 6 £450 - 6
East of England -13 4 £550 +57.14% 7
West Midlands -28 3 £320 +72.97% 7
Midlands -37 3 £320 -14.67% 11
Scotland +8 1 - - 2
Wales - 1 £550 - 2
Veeam
UK

Veeam
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 13 (22.81%) Microsoft Exchange
2 12 (21.05%) SharePoint
3 6 (10.53%) Skype for Business
4 4 (7.02%) SharePoint Server
5 3 (5.26%) Confluence
Applications
1 6 (10.53%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (8.77%) Acrobat
3 1 (1.75%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 19 (33.33%) Azure
2 12 (21.05%) Microsoft 365
3 8 (14.04%) SaaS
4 4 (7.02%) Entra ID
4 4 (7.02%) Nutanix
5 3 (5.26%) AWS
6 2 (3.51%) Cohesity
6 2 (3.51%) IaaS
6 2 (3.51%) PaaS
6 2 (3.51%) Rubrik
7 1 (1.75%) Azure Functions
7 1 (1.75%) Azure Logic Apps
7 1 (1.75%) GCP
7 1 (1.75%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 23 (40.35%) DNS
2 13 (22.81%) Firewall
2 13 (22.81%) TCP/IP
3 12 (21.05%) DHCP
4 11 (19.30%) iSCSI
4 11 (19.30%) VLAN
5 10 (17.54%) Skype
6 7 (12.28%) Fibre Channel
6 7 (12.28%) SAN
7 6 (10.53%) LAN
8 5 (8.77%) Unified Communications
8 5 (8.77%) WAN
8 5 (8.77%) Wi-Fi
9 3 (5.26%) VSAN
10 2 (3.51%) NAS
10 2 (3.51%) NetScaler
10 2 (3.51%) SSL
11 1 (1.75%) Intrusion Detection
11 1 (1.75%) Network Security
11 1 (1.75%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (8.77%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (7.02%) Jenkins
2 3 (5.26%) Bitbucket
2 3 (5.26%) Git
2 3 (5.26%) JIRA
General
1 19 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 11 (19.30%) Analytical Skills
2 11 (19.30%) Public Sector
3 3 (5.26%) Aerospace
3 3 (5.26%) Documentation Skills
4 2 (3.51%) Finance
4 2 (3.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (1.75%) Advertising
5 1 (1.75%) Legal
5 1 (1.75%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 12 (21.05%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 9 (15.79%) Platform Engineer
3 6 (10.53%) Architect
3 6 (10.53%) Infrastructure Architect
3 6 (10.53%) Senior
3 6 (10.53%) Server Engineer
4 5 (8.77%) Coordinator
4 5 (8.77%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 5 (8.77%) Storage Engineer
4 5 (8.77%) VMware Architect
4 5 (8.77%) Wintel Engineer
5 3 (5.26%) Lead
6 2 (3.51%) Administrator
6 2 (3.51%) Automation Engineer
6 2 (3.51%) Disaster Recovery Specialist
6 2 (3.51%) Infrastructure Services Engineer
6 2 (3.51%) IT Engineer
6 2 (3.51%) Systems Administrator
6 2 (3.51%) Systems Engineer
6 2 (3.51%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.75%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (1.75%) REST
1 1 (1.75%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 12 (21.05%) PKI
2 10 (17.54%) Replication
3 5 (8.77%) CMDB
3 5 (8.77%) Enterprise Software
3 5 (8.77%) Onboarding
4 4 (7.02%) Private Cloud
5 3 (5.26%) Data Centre
5 3 (5.26%) Hybrid Cloud
5 3 (5.26%) Public Cloud
6 2 (3.51%) Clustering
7 1 (1.75%) Cyber Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 40 (70.18%) Windows
2 26 (45.61%) Windows Server
3 13 (22.81%) Linux
4 11 (19.30%) Windows Server 2019
5 7 (12.28%) Windows Server 2016
6 6 (10.53%) Windows 10
7 2 (3.51%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (3.51%) Windows Server 2012
8 1 (1.75%) Solaris
8 1 (1.75%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (31.58%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 13 (22.81%) ITIL
2 13 (22.81%) Service Management
3 10 (17.54%) Mentoring
4 9 (15.79%) Problem-Solving
5 8 (14.04%) Critical Thinking
5 8 (14.04%) Disaster Recovery
5 8 (14.04%) System Testing
6 7 (12.28%) Continuous Improvement
6 7 (12.28%) Cybersecurity
7 6 (10.53%) Business Continuity
7 6 (10.53%) Change Management
7 6 (10.53%) Customer Service
7 6 (10.53%) Platform Engineering
7 6 (10.53%) Root Cause Analysis
8 5 (8.77%) Computer Science
8 5 (8.77%) Data Protection
8 5 (8.77%) ITSM
8 5 (8.77%) Service Delivery
8 5 (8.77%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 23 (40.35%) PowerShell
2 12 (21.05%) SQL
3 5 (8.77%) Python
4 2 (3.51%) Bash
5 1 (1.75%) Perl
5 1 (1.75%) VB
5 1 (1.75%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 29 (50.88%) Security Cleared
2 20 (35.09%) SC Cleared
3 19 (33.33%) Microsoft Certification
4 15 (26.32%) MCSE
5 11 (19.30%) DV Cleared
6 8 (14.04%) Degree
7 7 (12.28%) Cisco Certification
8 6 (10.53%) CCNA
8 6 (10.53%) CCNP
9 5 (8.77%) ITIL Certification
9 5 (8.77%) Master's Degree
9 5 (8.77%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 3 (5.26%) CompTIA Security+
10 3 (5.26%) MCSA
10 3 (5.26%) OCA
10 3 (5.26%) Oracle Certification
11 2 (3.51%) VCP5
11 2 (3.51%) VCP6
12 1 (1.75%) CISSP
12 1 (1.75%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.51%) GDPR
1 2 (3.51%) ISO 22301
2 1 (1.75%) PCI DSS
2 1 (1.75%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 32 (56.14%) VMware Infrastructure
2 27 (47.37%) Active Directory
3 15 (26.32%) vSphere
4 12 (21.05%) VMware ESXi
5 7 (12.28%) Virtual Servers
5 7 (12.28%) VMware NSX
6 6 (10.53%) Hyper-V
6 6 (10.53%) NFS
7 5 (8.77%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 5 (8.77%) Virtual Machines
8 4 (7.02%) Virtual Desktop
9 2 (3.51%) Docker
10 1 (1.75%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 16 (28.07%) vCenter Server
2 10 (17.54%) Microsoft Intune
2 10 (17.54%) SCCM
3 8 (14.04%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 8 (14.04%) WSUS
4 7 (12.28%) Ansible
5 6 (10.53%) VxRail
6 5 (8.77%) Terraform
7 3 (5.26%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
8 2 (3.51%) Kubernetes
8 2 (3.51%) PowerCLI
9 1 (1.75%) Avamar
9 1 (1.75%) EMC NetWorker
9 1 (1.75%) Host Intrusion Detection System
9 1 (1.75%) Nagios
9 1 (1.75%) Nessus
9 1 (1.75%) Red Hat Satellite
9 1 (1.75%) SCOM
9 1 (1.75%) SCOrch
9 1 (1.75%) SolarWinds Orion
Vendors
1 39 (68.42%) VMware
2 33 (57.89%) Microsoft
3 22 (38.60%) SolarWinds
4 21 (36.84%) Cisco
5 14 (24.56%) Dell
6 12 (21.05%) NetApp
7 11 (19.30%) Splunk
8 6 (10.53%) Meraki
9 5 (8.77%) Adobe
10 4 (7.02%) Atlassian
11 3 (5.26%) Commvault
11 3 (5.26%) Oracle
11 3 (5.26%) ServiceNow
12 2 (3.51%) Citrix
12 2 (3.51%) F5
12 2 (3.51%) Fortinet
12 2 (3.51%) Zerto
13 1 (1.75%) Barracuda Networks
13 1 (1.75%) Google
13 1 (1.75%) HP