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 22 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 562 480 513
Rank change year-on-year -82 +33 +160
Contract jobs citing NetBackup 48 38 75
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.11% 0.13% 0.17%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.75% 0.80% 1.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 25 51
10th Percentile £386 £403 £281
25th Percentile £413 £459 £423
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £514
Median % change year-on-year - -2.72% +3.84%
75th Percentile £530 £550 £564
90th Percentile £538 £588 £608
UK excluding London median daily rate £496 £538 £514
% change year-on-year -7.67% +4.57% +11.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 10
10th Percentile £46.00 - £22.00
25th Percentile £47.00 - -
Median hourly rate £50.50 - £40.00
75th Percentile £51.00 - -
90th Percentile £57.00 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £50.00 - £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 6,431 4,759 5,250
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 14.65% 16.12% 11.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,439 3,197 3,777
10th Percentile £315 £313 £258
25th Percentile £413 £414 £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £520
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +0.96% -9.57%
75th Percentile £600 £627 £625
90th Percentile £688 £738 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £495
% change year-on-year -2.00% +1.06% -5.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 144 50 138
10th Percentile £19.00 £17.84 £14.00
25th Percentile £22.03 £22.50 £20.00
Median hourly rate £55.00 £25.50 £31.75
Median % change year-on-year +115.69% -19.69% -42.27%
75th Percentile £68.75 £52.75 £57.88
90th Percentile £79.85 £70.75 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £55.00 £24.18 £40.00
% change year-on-year +127.46% -39.55% -13.04%

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

NetBackup
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 22 March 2026.

Daily rate histogram for NetBackup in the UK

NetBackup
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
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing NetBackup over the 6 months to 22 March 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for NetBackup in the UK

NetBackup
Top 10 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 22 March 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 -66 37 £496 -7.67% 11
England -108 34 £500 -6.98% 9
Work from Home -24 18 £500 -9.09% 3
North of England -74 16 £500 +11.11% 2
Yorkshire -48 15 £500 +26.58% 2
South West - 10 £525 - 6
Scotland -1 9 £425 -15.00% 2
London -46 5 £525 +7.69% 1
South East -52 2 £388 -35.42%
North West -33 1 £525 -

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 15 (31.25%) Confluence
2 2 (4.17%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (4.17%) SharePoint
3 1 (2.08%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 14 (29.17%) GitHub
2 11 (22.92%) CloudBees
2 11 (22.92%) OpenShift
3 4 (8.33%) Cohesity
3 4 (8.33%) Rubrik
4 2 (4.17%) AWS
4 2 (4.17%) Azure
4 2 (4.17%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (2.08%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (2.08%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (2.08%) Amazon S3
5 1 (2.08%) Azure AKS
5 1 (2.08%) Microsoft Purview
5 1 (2.08%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 15 (31.25%) SAN
2 12 (25.00%) NAS
3 4 (8.33%) Fibre Channel
4 1 (2.08%) iSCSI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (10.42%) NonStop SQL
2 2 (4.17%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 18 (37.50%) Jenkins
2 15 (31.25%) JIRA
3 7 (14.58%) Git
4 2 (4.17%) GitLab
General
1 16 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 9 (18.75%) Finance
3 8 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (10.42%) Banking
4 5 (10.42%) Public Sector
5 2 (4.17%) Legal
6 1 (2.08%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 16 (33.33%) Automation Engineer
2 6 (12.50%) Data Protection Engineer
3 5 (10.42%) Consultant
4 4 (8.33%) Data Engineer
4 4 (8.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 4 (8.33%) Senior
4 4 (8.33%) Site Engineer
4 4 (8.33%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 4 (8.33%) Storage Engineer
5 3 (6.25%) Backup Engineer
5 3 (6.25%) Platform Engineer
5 3 (6.25%) Python Engineer
6 2 (4.17%) DevOps Consultant
6 2 (4.17%) DevOps Engineer
6 2 (4.17%) Virtualisation Engineer
6 2 (4.17%) VMware Engineer
6 2 (4.17%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
7 1 (2.08%) Principal Engineer
7 1 (2.08%) SCM Engineer
7 1 (2.08%) VMware Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (25.00%) REST
2 6 (12.50%) Loki
3 2 (4.17%) Flash
Miscellaneous
1 8 (16.67%) Enterprise Storage
2 6 (12.50%) Legacy Systems
2 6 (12.50%) Product Ownership
2 6 (12.50%) Replication
3 4 (8.33%) Data Centre
4 2 (4.17%) Cloud Native
5 1 (2.08%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (2.08%) EMC VMAX
5 1 (2.08%) HP Storage
5 1 (2.08%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (2.08%) Mainframe
5 1 (2.08%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 11 (22.92%) Windows
2 8 (16.67%) Linux
3 7 (14.58%) Unix
3 7 (14.58%) Windows Server
4 3 (6.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (2.08%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (64.58%) Data Protection
2 18 (37.50%) CI/CD
3 16 (33.33%) DevOps
4 13 (27.08%) Configuration Management
4 13 (27.08%) Migration
4 13 (27.08%) Test Automation
5 10 (20.83%) Problem-Solving
6 8 (16.67%) Observability
7 7 (14.58%) Disaster Recovery
8 6 (12.50%) Analytical Thinking
8 6 (12.50%) Capacity Planning
8 6 (12.50%) Data Deduplication
8 6 (12.50%) Scrum
8 6 (12.50%) User Stories
9 5 (10.42%) Backlog Refinement
9 5 (10.42%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 5 (10.42%) ITIL
9 5 (10.42%) Sprint Retrospective
10 4 (8.33%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 4 (8.33%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 25 (52.08%) Python
2 13 (27.08%) Bash
3 11 (22.92%) PowerShell
4 7 (14.58%) Perl
5 1 (2.08%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 9 (18.75%) Security Cleared
2 5 (10.42%) SC Cleared
3 2 (4.17%) ITIL Certification
4 1 (2.08%) OCP
4 1 (2.08%) Oracle Certification
4 1 (2.08%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.08%) GRC
System Software
1 9 (18.75%) VMware ESXi
1 9 (18.75%) VMware NSX
2 8 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (12.50%) vSphere
4 2 (4.17%) Active Directory
5 1 (2.08%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 22 (45.83%) Ansible
2 14 (29.17%) Puppet
3 8 (16.67%) Kubernetes
4 7 (14.58%) Grafana
4 7 (14.58%) Prometheus
5 6 (12.50%) vRealize
6 5 (10.42%) vCenter Server
7 3 (6.25%) Avamar
7 3 (6.25%) EMC NetWorker
8 1 (2.08%) Terraform
Vendors
1 31 (64.58%) Veritas
2 25 (52.08%) Commvault
3 16 (33.33%) Red Hat
4 11 (22.92%) VMware
5 5 (10.42%) NetApp
5 5 (10.42%) Zerto
6 4 (8.33%) EMC
6 4 (8.33%) Microsoft
6 4 (8.33%) Pure Storage
7 3 (6.25%) 3PAR
7 3 (6.25%) Brocade
7 3 (6.25%) Dell
8 2 (4.17%) HP
8 2 (4.17%) Nimble Storage
9 1 (2.08%) F5
9 1 (2.08%) Isilon
9 1 (2.08%) SnapLogic
9 1 (2.08%) Veeam