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 1 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 633 506 520
Rank change year-on-year -127 +14 +32
Contract jobs citing NetBackup 52 51 42
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.095% 0.15% 0.11%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.86% 1.09% 0.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 30 26
10th Percentile £388 £375 £418
25th Percentile £415 £387 £472
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £496 £544
Median % change year-on-year +5.85% -8.78% +16.94%
75th Percentile £600 £519 £608
90th Percentile £680 £526 -
UK excluding London median daily rate £600 £467 £550
% change year-on-year +28.48% -15.09% +20.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 3
10th Percentile £47.40 - -
25th Percentile £48.75 £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 6,073 4,684 4,566
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.06% 14.17% 12.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,012 3,030 3,014
10th Percentile £313 £275 £299
25th Percentile £425 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 £500 £515
Median % change year-on-year +4.60% -2.91% -6.36%
75th Percentile £610 £600 £625
90th Percentile £694 £688 £713
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £476 £488
% change year-on-year +5.15% -2.46% -4.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 204 94 59
10th Percentile £18.25 £13.75 £19.88
25th Percentile £25.75 £18.87 £23.80
Median hourly rate £63.48 £25.50 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +148.94% -32.00% -31.82%
75th Percentile £73.81 £63.00 £63.50
90th Percentile £87.67 £67.18 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £63.48 £21.39 £37.08
% change year-on-year +196.77% -42.32% -22.47%

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 1 October 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 12 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 1 October 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 -110 38 £538 +7.50% 15
UK excluding London -98 32 £600 +28.48% 11
London -92 12 £415 -17.00% 7
East of England - 12 £600 - 1
Work from Home -67 11 £519 +1.27% 11
Scotland -20 7 £430 -7.92% 4
South East -64 4 £700 +86.67% 1
South West - 4 - - 2
Yorkshire -53 3 £519 +1.27%
North of England -86 3 £519 +1.27%
West Midlands -37 2 £525 +5.00% 4
Midlands -48 2 £525 +5.00% 4

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 (5.77%) Exchange Server 2013
1 3 (5.77%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 10 (19.23%) Azure
2 6 (11.54%) Rubrik
3 5 (9.62%) AWS
3 5 (9.62%) OpenShift
4 2 (3.85%) Azure Storage
4 2 (3.85%) Datadog
4 2 (3.85%) GitHub
4 2 (3.85%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (1.92%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (1.92%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (1.92%) GCP
5 1 (1.92%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 23 (44.23%) SAN
2 18 (34.62%) DNS
3 8 (15.38%) Firewall
4 6 (11.54%) DHCP
4 6 (11.54%) NAS
4 6 (11.54%) VLAN
5 3 (5.77%) Network Security
5 3 (5.77%) VSAN
6 1 (1.92%) TCP/IP
6 1 (1.92%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (3.85%) NonStop SQL
2 1 (1.92%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (3.85%) Jenkins
2 1 (1.92%) Git
2 1 (1.92%) JIRA
General
1 20 (38.46%) Social Skills
2 12 (23.08%) Documentation Skills
3 6 (11.54%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (5.77%) Finance
5 2 (3.85%) Banking
5 2 (3.85%) Legal
5 2 (3.85%) Public Sector
6 1 (1.92%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 16 (30.77%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 12 (23.08%) Storage Engineer
3 9 (17.31%) Backup Engineer
4 8 (15.38%) Senior
5 7 (13.46%) Architect
6 6 (11.54%) Backup Specialist
6 6 (11.54%) NetApp Engineer
6 6 (11.54%) NetBackup Engineer
7 5 (9.62%) NetApp Specialist
7 5 (9.62%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
7 5 (9.62%) Senior Technical Specialist
7 5 (9.62%) Senior Unix Technical Specialist
7 5 (9.62%) Storage Architect
7 5 (9.62%) Technical Specialist
8 4 (7.69%) Storage and Backup Engineer
9 3 (5.77%) Automation Specialist
9 3 (5.77%) Backup Infrastructure Engineer
9 3 (5.77%) Consultant
9 3 (5.77%) Python Engineer
9 3 (5.77%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (5.77%) ADO
1 3 (5.77%) Celery
1 3 (5.77%) Kafka
1 3 (5.77%) RabbitMQ
1 3 (5.77%) REST
1 3 (5.77%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 16 (30.77%) Replication
2 10 (19.23%) Data Centre
2 10 (19.23%) Enterprise Storage
3 3 (5.77%) EMC VMAX
3 3 (5.77%) EMC VNX
4 2 (3.85%) Cloud Native
4 2 (3.85%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (1.92%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 32 (61.54%) Windows
2 26 (50.00%) Linux
3 19 (36.54%) Windows Server
4 18 (34.62%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 13 (25.00%) CentOS
6 12 (23.08%) Rocky
7 7 (13.46%) AIX
7 7 (13.46%) Solaris
8 5 (9.62%) Unix
9 4 (7.69%) Data ONTAP
10 3 (5.77%) OpenVMS
10 3 (5.77%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
10 3 (5.77%) VMS
10 3 (5.77%) Windows Server 2012
10 3 (5.77%) Windows Server 2019
11 2 (3.85%) HPUX
11 2 (3.85%) Windows 7
11 2 (3.85%) Windows Server 2008
12 1 (1.92%) SUSE
12 1 (1.92%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (42.31%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 17 (32.69%) Migration
3 15 (28.85%) Problem-Solving
4 12 (23.08%) Data Protection
5 10 (19.23%) Disaster Recovery
5 10 (19.23%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 8 (15.38%) Infrastructure Monitoring
6 8 (15.38%) Project Delivery
6 8 (15.38%) Service Management
7 7 (13.46%) Change Management
8 6 (11.54%) Change Control
8 6 (11.54%) Knowledge Transfer
8 6 (11.54%) Privileged Access Management
8 6 (11.54%) Service Delivery
9 5 (9.62%) ITSM
9 5 (9.62%) Runbook
9 5 (9.62%) Storage Management
10 4 (7.69%) Business Continuity
10 4 (7.69%) Capacity Planning
10 4 (7.69%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 22 (42.31%) PowerShell
2 8 (15.38%) Bash
3 6 (11.54%) Python
4 4 (7.69%) Shell Script
5 3 (5.77%) Perl
5 3 (5.77%) SQL
6 1 (1.92%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 34 (65.38%) Security Cleared
2 25 (48.08%) SC Cleared
3 4 (7.69%) DV Cleared
4 3 (5.77%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 2 (3.85%) Azure Certification
5 2 (3.85%) NCDA
5 2 (3.85%) NCIE
6 1 (1.92%) AWS Certification
6 1 (1.92%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (1.92%) CCA
6 1 (1.92%) Citrix Certification
6 1 (1.92%) Dell Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.92%) Disclosure Scotland
1 1 (1.92%) SLA
System Software
1 18 (34.62%) VMware Infrastructure
2 10 (19.23%) Active Directory
3 8 (15.38%) Hyper-V
3 8 (15.38%) VMware ESXi
4 7 (13.46%) vSphere
5 4 (7.69%) VMware NSX
6 3 (5.77%) NFS
6 3 (5.77%) Veritas Cluster Server
7 2 (3.85%) EMC RecoverPoint
7 2 (3.85%) SRDF
8 1 (1.92%) DFS Replication
8 1 (1.92%) Docker
8 1 (1.92%) Firmware
8 1 (1.92%) Oracle RAC
8 1 (1.92%) Veritas Volume Manager
8 1 (1.92%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 19 (36.54%) Ansible
2 6 (11.54%) SCCM
2 6 (11.54%) SCOM
3 5 (9.62%) Kubernetes
3 5 (9.62%) vCenter Server
4 4 (7.69%) EMC NetWorker
5 3 (5.77%) Avamar
5 3 (5.77%) EMC VPLEX
5 3 (5.77%) SnapMirror
5 3 (5.77%) SnapVault
6 2 (3.85%) Argo
6 2 (3.85%) Grafana
6 2 (3.85%) Prometheus
6 2 (3.85%) Puppet
6 2 (3.85%) vRealize
6 2 (3.85%) WSUS
7 1 (1.92%) Backup Exec
7 1 (1.92%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
7 1 (1.92%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (1.92%) PureDisk
Vendors
1 23 (44.23%) Veritas
2 22 (42.31%) VMware
3 20 (38.46%) NetApp
3 20 (38.46%) Veeam
4 8 (15.38%) SolarWinds
5 7 (13.46%) Citrix
6 6 (11.54%) CyberArk
6 6 (11.54%) Dell
6 6 (11.54%) Microsoft
6 6 (11.54%) Oracle
6 6 (11.54%) Splunk
7 5 (9.62%) EMC
8 4 (7.69%) Brocade
8 4 (7.69%) Cisco
8 4 (7.69%) HP
8 4 (7.69%) Red Hat
8 4 (7.69%) ServiceNow
9 3 (5.77%) 3PAR
9 3 (5.77%) Zerto
10 2 (3.85%) IBM