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 31 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 616 509 531
Rank change year-on-year -107 +22 +32
Contract jobs citing NetBackup 58 55 42
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.11% 0.17% 0.11%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.98% 1.20% 0.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 36 29
10th Percentile £359 £375 £430
25th Percentile £409 £398 £484
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £472 £575
Median % change year-on-year +11.29% -17.96% +26.37%
75th Percentile £600 £520 £608
90th Percentile £679 £525 -
UK excluding London median daily rate £578 £467 £600
% change year-on-year +23.66% -22.17% +45.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 1 3
10th Percentile £46.00 - -
25th Percentile £46.50 £61.86 -
Median hourly rate £51.00 £63.72 £23.80
Median % change year-on-year -19.96% +167.71% -
75th Percentile - £65.57 -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £51.00 - -

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 5,903 4,570 4,619
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 10.98% 13.87% 11.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,930 2,964 3,185
10th Percentile £313 £281 £300
25th Percentile £418 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £500 £519
Median % change year-on-year +3.00% -3.57% -5.73%
75th Percentile £602 £600 £619
90th Percentile £688 £681 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £480 £500
% change year-on-year +4.17% -4.00% -2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 202 80 65
10th Percentile £18.25 £13.75 £20.00
25th Percentile £31.25 £18.87 £23.80
Median hourly rate £63.48 £30.00 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +111.60% -20.00% -28.57%
75th Percentile £71.32 £63.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £84.86 £78.83 £74.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £63.48 £55.00 £38.50
% change year-on-year +15.42% +42.86% -16.63%

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 31 August 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
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 31 August 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
England -113 46 £525 +10.99% 9
UK excluding London -82 40 £578 +23.66% 10
South West - 13 £525 - 2
London -77 12 £415 -17.00% 3
Work from Home -49 11 £510 +15.14% 6
East of England - 11 £600 - 3
Scotland -22 6 £540 +14.95% 3
Yorkshire -53 6 £519 +5.11%
North of England -79 6 £519 +5.11%
South East -72 4 £700 +86.67% 1

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 3 (5.17%) Exchange Server 2013
1 3 (5.17%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (3.45%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 8 (13.79%) Azure
1 8 (13.79%) OpenShift
2 6 (10.34%) Rubrik
3 5 (8.62%) AWS
4 4 (6.90%) GitHub
5 2 (3.45%) Azure Storage
5 2 (3.45%) CloudBees
5 2 (3.45%) Datadog
5 2 (3.45%) GCP
5 2 (3.45%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (1.72%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (1.72%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 21 (36.21%) SAN
2 16 (27.59%) DNS
3 8 (13.79%) Firewall
4 7 (12.07%) NAS
5 6 (10.34%) DHCP
5 6 (10.34%) VLAN
6 3 (5.17%) Network Security
7 2 (3.45%) VSAN
8 1 (1.72%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (13.79%) NonStop SQL
2 1 (1.72%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (6.90%) Jenkins
2 3 (5.17%) JIRA
3 1 (1.72%) Git
3 1 (1.72%) PVCS
General
1 17 (29.31%) Social Skills
2 11 (18.97%) Documentation Skills
3 6 (10.34%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (5.17%) Finance
5 2 (3.45%) Banking
6 1 (1.72%) Legal
6 1 (1.72%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (1.72%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 17 (29.31%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 9 (15.52%) Senior
3 8 (13.79%) Storage Engineer
4 7 (12.07%) Backup Engineer
4 7 (12.07%) NetBackup Engineer
5 6 (10.34%) Architect
5 6 (10.34%) Backup Specialist
6 5 (8.62%) Consultant
6 5 (8.62%) NetApp Engineer
6 5 (8.62%) NetApp Specialist
6 5 (8.62%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
6 5 (8.62%) Senior Technical Specialist
6 5 (8.62%) Senior Unix Technical Specialist
6 5 (8.62%) Storage Architect
6 5 (8.62%) Technical Specialist
7 4 (6.90%) Technical Consultant
7 4 (6.90%) VMware Consultant
7 4 (6.90%) VMware Technical Consultant
8 3 (5.17%) Solutions Architect
8 3 (5.17%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (6.90%) REST
2 3 (5.17%) Celery
2 3 (5.17%) Kafka
2 3 (5.17%) RabbitMQ
3 2 (3.45%) Terraform
4 1 (1.72%) ADO
Miscellaneous
1 17 (29.31%) Replication
2 10 (17.24%) Data Centre
3 7 (12.07%) Enterprise Storage
4 3 (5.17%) Cloud Native
4 3 (5.17%) EMC VMAX
4 3 (5.17%) EMC VNX
5 2 (3.45%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (1.72%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (1.72%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 26 (44.83%) Windows
2 25 (43.10%) Linux
3 16 (27.59%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 16 (27.59%) Windows Server
4 12 (20.69%) CentOS
5 11 (18.97%) Rocky
6 5 (8.62%) Unix
6 5 (8.62%) VMS
7 4 (6.90%) AIX
7 4 (6.90%) Solaris
8 3 (5.17%) Data ONTAP
8 3 (5.17%) OpenVMS
8 3 (5.17%) Windows Server 2012
8 3 (5.17%) Windows Server 2019
9 2 (3.45%) HPUX
9 2 (3.45%) Windows 7
9 2 (3.45%) Windows Server 2008
10 1 (1.72%) SUSE
10 1 (1.72%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (41.38%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 18 (31.03%) Data Protection
3 16 (27.59%) Migration
4 12 (20.69%) Problem-Solving
5 11 (18.97%) Disaster Recovery
6 9 (15.52%) Infrastructure Monitoring
6 9 (15.52%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 7 (12.07%) DevOps
7 7 (12.07%) Project Delivery
7 7 (12.07%) Runbook
8 6 (10.34%) Change Control
8 6 (10.34%) Knowledge Transfer
8 6 (10.34%) Privileged Access Management
8 6 (10.34%) Service Delivery
9 5 (8.62%) Continuous Improvement
9 5 (8.62%) ITSM
9 5 (8.62%) Service Management
9 5 (8.62%) Technical Leadership
10 4 (6.90%) Capacity Planning
10 4 (6.90%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 20 (34.48%) PowerShell
2 10 (17.24%) Bash
2 10 (17.24%) Python
3 5 (8.62%) Shell Script
4 3 (5.17%) Perl
4 3 (5.17%) SQL
Qualifications
1 26 (44.83%) Security Cleared
2 18 (31.03%) SC Cleared
3 4 (6.90%) DV Cleared
4 2 (3.45%) Azure Certification
4 2 (3.45%) NCDA
4 2 (3.45%) NCIE
4 2 (3.45%) OCP
4 2 (3.45%) Oracle Certification
4 2 (3.45%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 1 (1.72%) Dell Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.72%) Disclosure Scotland
1 1 (1.72%) SLA
System Software
1 21 (36.21%) VMware Infrastructure
2 16 (27.59%) VMware ESXi
3 13 (22.41%) vSphere
4 12 (20.69%) VMware NSX
5 9 (15.52%) Active Directory
6 8 (13.79%) Hyper-V
7 4 (6.90%) Veritas Cluster Server
8 3 (5.17%) NFS
9 2 (3.45%) EMC RecoverPoint
9 2 (3.45%) SRDF
9 2 (3.45%) Virtual Machines
10 1 (1.72%) Docker
10 1 (1.72%) Oracle RAC
10 1 (1.72%) Veritas Volume Manager
Systems Management
1 19 (32.76%) Ansible
2 9 (15.52%) vRealize
3 8 (13.79%) vCenter Server
4 7 (12.07%) Kubernetes
5 6 (10.34%) SCCM
5 6 (10.34%) SCOM
6 4 (6.90%) EMC NetWorker
6 4 (6.90%) Puppet
7 3 (5.17%) EMC VPLEX
7 3 (5.17%) SnapMirror
7 3 (5.17%) SnapVault
8 2 (3.45%) Argo
8 2 (3.45%) Grafana
8 2 (3.45%) Prometheus
8 2 (3.45%) WSUS
9 1 (1.72%) Avamar
9 1 (1.72%) Backup Exec
9 1 (1.72%) Opsview
9 1 (1.72%) PureDisk
Vendors
1 34 (58.62%) Veritas
2 28 (48.28%) VMware
3 18 (31.03%) Veeam
4 17 (29.31%) NetApp
5 8 (13.79%) Red Hat
5 8 (13.79%) SolarWinds
5 8 (13.79%) Zerto
6 6 (10.34%) Citrix
6 6 (10.34%) CyberArk
6 6 (10.34%) Splunk
7 5 (8.62%) Commvault
7 5 (8.62%) Dell
7 5 (8.62%) Oracle
8 4 (6.90%) Microsoft
8 4 (6.90%) ServiceNow
9 3 (5.17%) 3PAR
9 3 (5.17%) Brocade
9 3 (5.17%) Cisco
9 3 (5.17%) EMC
9 3 (5.17%) HP