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 16 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 571 496 513
Rank change year-on-year -75 +17 +208
Contract jobs citing NetBackup 38 32 80
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.095% 0.10% 0.18%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.62% 0.68% 1.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 19 51
10th Percentile £378 £497 £281
25th Percentile £405 £531 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £550 £475
Median % change year-on-year -15.91% +15.79% -5.00%
75th Percentile £514 £588 £550
90th Percentile £527 £665 £608
UK excluding London median daily rate £425 £550 £465
% change year-on-year -22.73% +18.28% -4.62%
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 - - -41.18%

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 6,154 4,704 5,530
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.43% 15.33% 12.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,268 3,057 3,965
10th Percentile £313 £313 £263
25th Percentile £413 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -8.70%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £635
90th Percentile £688 £738 £714
UK excluding London median daily rate £489 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.25% - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 130 55 159
10th Percentile £17.31 £16.38 £14.00
25th Percentile £20.34 £21.15 £21.25
Median hourly rate £52.50 £25.50 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +105.88% -44.78% -1.33%
75th Percentile £63.32 £54.25 £61.63
90th Percentile £80.20 £72.66 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £50.00 £24.00 £46.18
% change year-on-year +108.33% -48.03% +5.55%

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 16 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

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Top 11 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 16 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 -57 30 £425 -22.73% 10
England -53 27 £500 -13.04% 10
Yorkshire -46 16 £500 - 3
North of England -52 16 £500 - 4
Work from Home -13 11 £500 -13.04% 5
Scotland +10 8 £425 -22.73% 2
London -43 4 £513 -10.09% 1
South East -30 3 £388 -40.38% 1
South West - 2 - - 3
Midlands - 1 £500 -
West Midlands - 1 £500 -

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 11 (28.95%) Confluence
2 2 (5.26%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (5.26%) SAS
2 2 (5.26%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 10 (26.32%) GitHub
2 9 (23.68%) AWS
2 9 (23.68%) Azure
3 7 (18.42%) CloudBees
3 7 (18.42%) OpenShift
4 6 (15.79%) GCP
5 4 (10.53%) Cohesity
6 2 (5.26%) Amazon EC2
6 2 (5.26%) Amazon S3
6 2 (5.26%) Microsoft 365
6 2 (5.26%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 1 (2.63%) Amazon EKS
7 1 (2.63%) Azure AKS
7 1 (2.63%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 12 (31.58%) SAN
2 7 (18.42%) NAS
3 6 (15.79%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (21.05%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 13 (34.21%) Jenkins
2 11 (28.95%) JIRA
3 6 (15.79%) Git
4 3 (7.89%) GitLab
General
1 13 (34.21%) Social Skills
2 8 (21.05%) Banking
3 7 (18.42%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (18.42%) Finance
4 4 (10.53%) Public Sector
5 2 (5.26%) Legal
Job Titles
1 16 (42.11%) Automation Engineer
2 6 (15.79%) Data Protection Engineer
2 6 (15.79%) NetBackup Engineer
3 5 (13.16%) Data Engineer
4 3 (7.89%) Consultant
4 3 (7.89%) Platform Engineer
4 3 (7.89%) Site Engineer
4 3 (7.89%) Site Reliability Engineer
5 2 (5.26%) Administrator
5 2 (5.26%) Backup Engineer
5 2 (5.26%) DevOps Engineer
5 2 (5.26%) Python Engineer
5 2 (5.26%) Storage Engineer
5 2 (5.26%) Veritas Engineer
6 1 (2.63%) Backup Administrator
6 1 (2.63%) DevOps Automation Engineer
6 1 (2.63%) DevOps Consultant
6 1 (2.63%) HP Storage Administrator
6 1 (2.63%) Linux/Unix DevOps
6 1 (2.63%) NetBackup Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (21.05%) REST
2 5 (13.16%) Loki
Miscellaneous
1 6 (15.79%) Enterprise Storage
1 6 (15.79%) Product Ownership
2 5 (13.16%) Legacy Systems
3 3 (7.89%) Cloud Native
4 2 (5.26%) HP Storage
4 2 (5.26%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (2.63%) Data Centre
5 1 (2.63%) Management Information System
5 1 (2.63%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 12 (31.58%) Linux
2 10 (26.32%) Windows
3 7 (18.42%) Windows Server
4 6 (15.79%) Unix
5 2 (5.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (2.63%) AIX
6 1 (2.63%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (65.79%) Data Protection
2 14 (36.84%) CI/CD
3 11 (28.95%) Configuration Management
3 11 (28.95%) DevOps
4 10 (26.32%) Problem-Solving
4 10 (26.32%) Test Automation
5 9 (23.68%) Business Continuity
6 8 (21.05%) Disaster Recovery
6 8 (21.05%) Migration
7 7 (18.42%) Containerisation
7 7 (18.42%) Scrum
7 7 (18.42%) User Stories
8 6 (15.79%) Backlog Refinement
8 6 (15.79%) Business Strategy
8 6 (15.79%) Observability
8 6 (15.79%) RBAC
8 6 (15.79%) Security Monitoring
8 6 (15.79%) Sprint Retrospective
8 6 (15.79%) Task Automation
9 5 (13.16%) Analytical Thinking
Programming Languages
1 26 (68.42%) Python
2 16 (42.11%) PowerShell
3 15 (39.47%) Bash
4 6 (15.79%) Perl
5 1 (2.63%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 10 (26.32%) Security Cleared
2 7 (18.42%) SC Cleared
3 2 (5.26%) ITIL Certification
4 1 (2.63%) TOGAF Certification
System Software
1 6 (15.79%) Docker
1 6 (15.79%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (5.26%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 17 (44.74%) Ansible
2 10 (26.32%) Puppet
3 6 (15.79%) Grafana
3 6 (15.79%) Kubernetes
3 6 (15.79%) Oracle RMAN
3 6 (15.79%) Prometheus
4 2 (5.26%) Terraform
Vendors
1 25 (65.79%) Veritas
2 20 (52.63%) Commvault
3 12 (31.58%) Red Hat
4 6 (15.79%) CyberArk
4 6 (15.79%) Google
4 6 (15.79%) Oracle
4 6 (15.79%) VMware
5 4 (10.53%) HP
5 4 (10.53%) Microsoft
5 4 (10.53%) NetApp
6 3 (7.89%) 3PAR
6 3 (7.89%) Dell
6 3 (7.89%) Nimble Storage
7 2 (5.26%) SnapLogic
8 1 (2.63%) Brocade
8 1 (2.63%) EMC