NetBackup Contract Job Trends

Veritas NetBackup
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring NetBackup skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 26 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 571 493 514
Rank change year-on-year -78 +21 +185
Contract jobs citing NetBackup 37 35 86
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.089% 0.11% 0.20%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.59% 0.73% 1.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 22 56
10th Percentile £380 £486 £321
25th Percentile £413 £513 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £482
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +14.23% -9.36%
75th Percentile £516 £575 £550
90th Percentile £527 £655 £604
UK excluding London median daily rate £425 £550 £480
% change year-on-year -22.73% +14.58% -1.54%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 10
10th Percentile - - £22.00
25th Percentile £61.00 - -
Median hourly rate £62.00 - £40.00
75th Percentile £63.00 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £40.00
% change year-on-year - - -39.39%

All Systems Management Skills
UK

NetBackup 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 6,312 4,785 5,357
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.23% 15.59% 12.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,379 3,118 3,846
10th Percentile £313 £313 £262
25th Percentile £413 £419 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -8.70%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £631
90th Percentile £688 £738 £713
UK excluding London median daily rate £492 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -1.60% - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 134 54 147
10th Percentile £18.33 £16.09 £14.00
25th Percentile £21.29 £21.56 £20.00
Median hourly rate £54.00 £25.50 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +111.76% -36.25% -21.57%
75th Percentile £64.20 £56.50 £60.00
90th Percentile £79.85 £73.11 £76.53
UK excluding London median hourly rate £54.00 £24.00 £46.18
% change year-on-year +125.00% -48.03% +0.16%

NetBackup
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing NetBackup relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

NetBackup job vacancy trend in the UK

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Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing NetBackup.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing NetBackup

NetBackup
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing NetBackup over the 6 months to 26 February 2026.

Daily rate histogram for NetBackup in the UK

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Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing NetBackup.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing NetBackup

NetBackup
Top 9 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing NetBackup within the UK over the 6 months to 26 February 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
UK excluding London -70 29 £425 -22.73% 7
England -90 25 £500 -11.50% 8
Yorkshire -53 15 £500 - 3
North of England -58 15 £500 -4.76% 3
Work from Home -9 14 £500 -11.11% 4
Scotland +12 9 £425 -22.73% 1
London -28 4 £500 -12.28% 3
South East -35 3 £388 -35.42%
South West - 2 - - 2

NetBackup
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 (35.14%) Confluence
2 2 (5.41%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (5.41%) SharePoint
3 1 (2.70%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 11 (29.73%) GitHub
2 9 (24.32%) CloudBees
2 9 (24.32%) OpenShift
3 6 (16.22%) AWS
3 6 (16.22%) Azure
4 4 (10.81%) Cohesity
5 3 (8.11%) GCP
6 2 (5.41%) Microsoft 365
7 1 (2.70%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (2.70%) Amazon EKS
7 1 (2.70%) Amazon S3
7 1 (2.70%) Azure AKS
7 1 (2.70%) Microsoft Purview
7 1 (2.70%) Rubrik
7 1 (2.70%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 12 (32.43%) SAN
2 8 (21.62%) NAS
3 3 (8.11%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (13.51%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 16 (43.24%) Jenkins
2 13 (35.14%) JIRA
3 7 (18.92%) Git
4 3 (8.11%) GitLab
General
1 14 (37.84%) Social Skills
2 8 (21.62%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (18.92%) Banking
3 7 (18.92%) Finance
4 4 (10.81%) Public Sector
5 2 (5.41%) Legal
6 1 (2.70%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 17 (45.95%) Automation Engineer
2 6 (16.22%) Data Protection Engineer
3 5 (13.51%) Data Engineer
4 4 (10.81%) Consultant
4 4 (10.81%) Site Engineer
4 4 (10.81%) Site Reliability Engineer
5 3 (8.11%) NetBackup Engineer
6 2 (5.41%) Administrator
6 2 (5.41%) Backup Engineer
6 2 (5.41%) DevOps Consultant
6 2 (5.41%) DevOps Engineer
6 2 (5.41%) Platform Engineer
6 2 (5.41%) Python Engineer
6 2 (5.41%) Senior
7 1 (2.70%) Enterprise Consultant
7 1 (2.70%) Migration Consultant
7 1 (2.70%) Service Desk Analyst
7 1 (2.70%) Storage Administrator
7 1 (2.70%) Storage Engineer
7 1 (2.70%) Veritas Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (27.03%) REST
2 6 (16.22%) Loki
Miscellaneous
1 6 (16.22%) Legacy Systems
1 6 (16.22%) Product Ownership
2 5 (13.51%) Enterprise Storage
3 2 (5.41%) Cloud Native
4 1 (2.70%) Data Centre
4 1 (2.70%) HP Storage
4 1 (2.70%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (2.70%) Management Information System
4 1 (2.70%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 9 (24.32%) Windows
2 7 (18.92%) Linux
2 7 (18.92%) Unix
2 7 (18.92%) Windows Server
3 2 (5.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (67.57%) Data Protection
2 17 (45.95%) CI/CD
3 13 (35.14%) DevOps
4 12 (32.43%) Configuration Management
4 12 (32.43%) Test Automation
5 10 (27.03%) Problem-Solving
6 7 (18.92%) Migration
6 7 (18.92%) Observability
6 7 (18.92%) Scrum
6 7 (18.92%) User Stories
7 6 (16.22%) Analytical Thinking
7 6 (16.22%) Backlog Refinement
7 6 (16.22%) Data Deduplication
7 6 (16.22%) Sprint Retrospective
8 5 (13.51%) Business Continuity
8 5 (13.51%) Capacity Planning
8 5 (13.51%) Disaster Recovery
9 4 (10.81%) Containerisation
9 4 (10.81%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 3 (8.11%) RBAC
Programming Languages
1 25 (67.57%) Python
2 14 (37.84%) Bash
2 14 (37.84%) PowerShell
3 7 (18.92%) Perl
4 1 (2.70%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 9 (24.32%) Security Cleared
2 6 (16.22%) SC Cleared
3 2 (5.41%) ITIL Certification
4 1 (2.70%) TOGAF Certification
System Software
1 4 (10.81%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (8.11%) Docker
3 2 (5.41%) Active Directory
4 1 (2.70%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (2.70%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 20 (54.05%) Ansible
2 11 (29.73%) Puppet
3 7 (18.92%) Grafana
3 7 (18.92%) Kubernetes
3 7 (18.92%) Prometheus
4 3 (8.11%) Oracle RMAN
5 1 (2.70%) Terraform
5 1 (2.70%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 24 (64.86%) Veritas
2 22 (59.46%) Commvault
3 14 (37.84%) Red Hat
4 4 (10.81%) Microsoft
4 4 (10.81%) VMware
5 3 (8.11%) 3PAR
5 3 (8.11%) CyberArk
5 3 (8.11%) Dell
5 3 (8.11%) Google
5 3 (8.11%) HP
5 3 (8.11%) NetApp
5 3 (8.11%) Nimble Storage
5 3 (8.11%) Oracle
6 1 (2.70%) SnapLogic
6 1 (2.70%) Zerto