Backup Exec Contracts

Symantec Backup Exec
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Backup Exec skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Backup Exec over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 516 580 710
Rank change year-on-year +64 +130 +126
Contract jobs citing Backup Exec 4 2 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.014% 0.005% 0.013%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.087% 0.039% 0.083%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 5
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £406 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £250 £350
Median % change year-on-year +65.00% -28.57% -18.04%
75th Percentile £419 - £490
90th Percentile - - £519
UK excluding London median daily rate - - £350
% change year-on-year - - -18.05%

All Systems Management Skills
UK

Backup Exec falls under the Systems Management category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring systems management skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 4,597 5,137 9,615
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.70% 11.79% 16.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,150 3,667 6,945
10th Percentile £313 £258 £356
25th Percentile £419 £413 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £515 £563
Median % change year-on-year +1.90% -8.41% -0.44%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £675
90th Percentile £725 £700 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 52 127 209
10th Percentile £13.75 £14.00 £16.48
25th Percentile £19.51 £17.77 £22.75
Median hourly rate £26.45 £30.00 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year -11.83% -47.83% +155.56%
75th Percentile £50.75 £54.38 £71.50
90th Percentile £69.88 £70.50 £82.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.34 £38.50 £43.75
% change year-on-year -34.18% -12.00% +118.75%

Backup Exec
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Backup Exec as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Backup Exec in the UK

Backup Exec
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Backup Exec.

Daily rate trend for Backup Exec in the UK

Backup Exec
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Backup Exec.

Hourly rate trend for Backup Exec in the UK

Backup Exec
Top 5 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Backup Exec within the UK over the 6 months to 1 May 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
England +59 4 £413 +65.00% 6
UK excluding London - 3 - - 6
North of England - 3 - - 1
North West - 3 - - 1
Work from Home - 1 £413 - 2

Backup Exec
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (25.00%) Skype for Business
Communications & Networking
1 4 (100.00%) SAN
2 3 (75.00%) LAN
2 3 (75.00%) Network Security
2 3 (75.00%) WLAN
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) 3rd Line Engineer
1 3 (75.00%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
1 3 (75.00%) Industrial Engineer
1 3 (75.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Systems Engineer
Operating Systems
1 4 (100.00%) Windows
1 4 (100.00%) Windows Server
2 3 (75.00%) Linux
2 3 (75.00%) Windows Server 2003
2 3 (75.00%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Asset Management
1 3 (75.00%) Business Continuity
1 3 (75.00%) Data Management
1 3 (75.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 3 (75.00%) ITIL
1 3 (75.00%) Proactive Maintenance
1 3 (75.00%) Roadmaps
1 3 (75.00%) Storage Management
1 3 (75.00%) Strategic Roadmap
2 1 (25.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (25.00%) Server Virtualisation
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 3 (75.00%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 3 (75.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (25.00%) Hyper-V
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft App-V
2 1 (25.00%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 3 (75.00%) vCenter Server
2 1 (25.00%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (75.00%) Cisco
2 3 (75.00%) Symantec
2 3 (75.00%) Veeam
2 3 (75.00%) VMware
3 1 (25.00%) Citrix
3 1 (25.00%) HP
3 1 (25.00%) IBM
3 1 (25.00%) NetApp