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 25 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 519 523 561
Rank change year-on-year +4 +38 +179
Contract jobs citing NetBackup 55 41 89
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.16% 0.11% 0.19%
As % of the Systems Management category 1.00% 0.78% 1.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 24 58
10th Percentile £376 £410 -
25th Percentile £396 £465 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £531 £465
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% +14.25% -11.43%
75th Percentile £525 £608 £500
90th Percentile £530 - £575
UK excluding London median daily rate £506 £544 £465
% change year-on-year -6.90% +16.94% -1.59%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £61.86 - -
Median hourly rate £63.72 £23.80 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +167.71% +8.18% -
75th Percentile £65.57 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

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 5,504 5,242 6,997
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 16.37% 14.18% 14.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,616 3,409 4,956
10th Percentile £300 £313 £319
25th Percentile £412 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.67% -4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £600 £626 £650
90th Percentile £675 £725 £745
UK excluding London median daily rate £493 £500 £514
% change year-on-year -1.40% -2.63% -2.19%
Number of hourly rates quoted 105 56 176
10th Percentile £15.50 £19.79 £18.87
25th Percentile £18.87 £23.80 £29.31
Median hourly rate £28.50 £36.83 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -22.62% -29.84% +114.68%
75th Percentile £63.40 £60.63 £75.00
90th Percentile £76.20 £76.25 £78.46
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.42 £35.08 £46.18
% change year-on-year -36.09% -24.03% +110.96%

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 25 October 2025.

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 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 25 October 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 +21 52 £500 -6.98% 24
UK excluding London -13 34 £506 -6.90% 25
London +16 20 £500 -9.30% 11
Yorkshire -8 20 £516 -3.95% 1
North of England -19 20 £516 -3.95% 2
Work from Home +20 16 £513 +10.81% 28
South East +8 9 £375 -38.02% 12
South West +10 2 - - 3
Scotland -3 2 - -
West Midlands -25 1 £500 +8.11%
Midlands -33 1 £500 +8.11% 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 14 (25.45%) Confluence
2 3 (5.45%) SAS
3 2 (3.64%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (3.64%) SharePoint
4 1 (1.82%) OpenEdge
Business Applications
1 1 (1.82%) StreamServe
Cloud Services
1 20 (36.36%) Azure
2 14 (25.45%) AWS
3 10 (18.18%) CloudBees
3 10 (18.18%) GCP
4 7 (12.73%) GitHub
5 5 (9.09%) Cohesity
6 3 (5.45%) Amazon EC2
6 3 (5.45%) Amazon S3
6 3 (5.45%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 2 (3.64%) Microsoft 365
8 1 (1.82%) Google Ads
8 1 (1.82%) Microsoft Purview
8 1 (1.82%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 17 (30.91%) SAN
2 9 (16.36%) Firewall
3 1 (1.82%) NAS
3 1 (1.82%) Spanning Tree
3 1 (1.82%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (20.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (1.82%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 14 (25.45%) JIRA
2 10 (18.18%) GitLab
2 10 (18.18%) Jenkins
General
1 12 (21.82%) Banking
2 10 (18.18%) Social Skills
3 6 (10.91%) Finance
4 3 (5.45%) International Banking
4 3 (5.45%) Public Sector
5 2 (3.64%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (3.64%) Legal
6 1 (1.82%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (1.82%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 14 (25.45%) Automation Engineer
2 11 (20.00%) NetBackup Engineer
3 10 (18.18%) Data Protection Engineer
4 9 (16.36%) Administrator
4 9 (16.36%) Data Engineer
5 8 (14.55%) Backup Administrator
5 8 (14.55%) Storage Administrator
5 8 (14.55%) Storage and Backup Administrator
6 5 (9.09%) Backup Engineer
7 4 (7.27%) HP Storage Administrator
7 4 (7.27%) Platform Engineer
8 3 (5.45%) DevOps Engineer
8 3 (5.45%) Senior
8 3 (5.45%) Veritas Engineer
9 2 (3.64%) Consultant
9 2 (3.64%) DevOps Automation Engineer
9 2 (3.64%) Storage Engineer
10 1 (1.82%) Enterprise Consultant
10 1 (1.82%) Migration Consultant
10 1 (1.82%) Unix Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.82%) Flash
1 1 (1.82%) REST
1 1 (1.82%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 16 (29.09%) Enterprise Storage
2 13 (23.64%) Product Ownership
3 5 (9.09%) Replication
4 4 (7.27%) Cloud Native
4 4 (7.27%) Hybrid Cloud
5 3 (5.45%) HP Storage
6 1 (1.82%) Data Centre
6 1 (1.82%) HACMP
6 1 (1.82%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (1.82%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 24 (43.64%) Linux
2 13 (23.64%) Windows
3 7 (12.73%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (7.27%) Windows Server 2012
4 4 (7.27%) Windows Server 2016
4 4 (7.27%) Windows Server 2019
5 3 (5.45%) Windows Server
6 2 (3.64%) AIX
7 1 (1.82%) Solaris
7 1 (1.82%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (45.45%) Data Protection
2 18 (32.73%) Disaster Recovery
3 16 (29.09%) Configuration Management
4 14 (25.45%) DevOps
4 14 (25.45%) Scrum
4 14 (25.45%) User Stories
5 13 (23.64%) Backlog Refinement
5 13 (23.64%) Business Continuity
5 13 (23.64%) Sprint Retrospective
5 13 (23.64%) Test Automation
6 12 (21.82%) CI/CD
7 10 (18.18%) Containerisation
7 10 (18.18%) ITIL
7 10 (18.18%) RBAC
7 10 (18.18%) Security Monitoring
7 10 (18.18%) Task Automation
8 9 (16.36%) Business Strategy
9 8 (14.55%) Problem-Solving
10 7 (12.73%) Migration
11 6 (10.91%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 28 (50.91%) Python
2 23 (41.82%) Bash
3 15 (27.27%) PowerShell
4 6 (10.91%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 17 (30.91%) Security Cleared
2 16 (29.09%) SC Cleared
3 2 (3.64%) ITIL Certification
4 1 (1.82%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.82%) GxP
System Software
1 10 (18.18%) Docker
1 10 (18.18%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (3.64%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.82%) Samba
3 1 (1.82%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 14 (25.45%) Ansible
2 9 (16.36%) Oracle RMAN
3 7 (12.73%) Puppet
4 3 (5.45%) Terraform
4 3 (5.45%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 38 (69.09%) Veritas
2 22 (40.00%) Commvault
3 20 (36.36%) Red Hat
4 11 (20.00%) Dell
5 10 (18.18%) Google
5 10 (18.18%) Oracle
5 10 (18.18%) VMware
6 9 (16.36%) 3PAR
6 9 (16.36%) CyberArk
6 9 (16.36%) HP
7 8 (14.55%) NetApp
7 8 (14.55%) Nimble Storage
8 7 (12.73%) Isilon
8 7 (12.73%) Microsoft
9 6 (10.91%) Cisco
10 4 (7.27%) IBM
11 3 (5.45%) SnapLogic
11 3 (5.45%) Veeam
12 2 (3.64%) Brocade
12 2 (3.64%) EMC