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 11 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 585 488 525
Rank change year-on-year -97 +37 +120
Contract jobs citing NetBackup 45 35 70
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.098% 0.12% 0.16%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.70% 0.75% 1.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 26 49
10th Percentile £381 £403 £279
25th Percentile £413 £459 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £525 £550 £588
90th Percentile £538 £588 £608
UK excluding London median daily rate £465 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -9.27% -2.38% +35.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 0 10
10th Percentile £46.00 - £22.00
25th Percentile £48.00 - -
Median hourly rate £51.00 - £40.00
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile £55.80 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £50.50 - £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 6,441 4,679 5,216
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 14.07% 16.01% 11.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,428 3,204 3,754
10th Percentile £318 £313 £259
25th Percentile £413 £415 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £518
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +1.35% -9.91%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £625
90th Percentile £688 £725 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £495
% change year-on-year - +1.01% -5.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 159 52 133
10th Percentile £20.09 £15.22 £14.00
25th Percentile £25.89 £22.14 £17.75
Median hourly rate £55.00 £26.45 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +107.94% -11.83% -47.83%
75th Percentile £69.38 £50.75 £55.00
90th Percentile £79.10 £72.25 £69.73
UK excluding London median hourly rate £55.00 £24.18 £30.00
% change year-on-year +127.46% -19.40% -34.86%

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 11 April 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 11 April 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 11 April 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 -85 33 £500 -4.76% 9
UK excluding London -94 32 £465 -9.27% 10
North of England -62 13 £500 +8.11% 2
Work from Home -34 12 £500 -9.09% 3
Yorkshire -43 12 £500 +11.11% 2
South West - 10 £525 - 6
Scotland -2 7 £425 -15.00% 1
London -70 7 £450 -7.69% 1
South East -56 2 £388 -35.42%
North West -32 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 10 (22.22%) Confluence
2 1 (2.22%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (2.22%) SAS
2 1 (2.22%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 13 (28.89%) OpenShift
2 11 (24.44%) GitHub
3 10 (22.22%) CloudBees
4 4 (8.89%) Azure
4 4 (8.89%) Rubrik
5 3 (6.67%) AWS
6 1 (2.22%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (2.22%) Amazon EKS
6 1 (2.22%) Amazon S3
6 1 (2.22%) Azure AKS
6 1 (2.22%) Azure Storage
6 1 (2.22%) Datadog
6 1 (2.22%) GCP
6 1 (2.22%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (2.22%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (2.22%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 17 (37.78%) SAN
2 14 (31.11%) NAS
3 4 (8.89%) Fibre Channel
4 1 (2.22%) Firewall
4 1 (2.22%) iSCSI
4 1 (2.22%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (13.33%) NonStop SQL
2 1 (2.22%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 18 (40.00%) Jenkins
2 10 (22.22%) JIRA
3 7 (15.56%) Git
4 1 (2.22%) GitLab
4 1 (2.22%) PVCS
General
1 14 (31.11%) Social Skills
2 8 (17.78%) Analytical Skills
2 8 (17.78%) Finance
3 5 (11.11%) Banking
4 4 (8.89%) Public Sector
5 1 (2.22%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (2.22%) Legal
Job Titles
1 11 (24.44%) Automation Engineer
2 6 (13.33%) Storage Engineer
3 5 (11.11%) Consultant
4 4 (8.89%) Data Protection Engineer
4 4 (8.89%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 4 (8.89%) Senior
4 4 (8.89%) Site Engineer
4 4 (8.89%) Site Reliability Engineer
5 3 (6.67%) NetBackup Engineer
5 3 (6.67%) Platform Engineer
6 2 (4.44%) Backup Engineer
6 2 (4.44%) Data Engineer
6 2 (4.44%) DevOps Consultant
6 2 (4.44%) Python Engineer
6 2 (4.44%) Storage Architect
6 2 (4.44%) Virtualisation Engineer
6 2 (4.44%) VMware Consultant
6 2 (4.44%) VMware Engineer
6 2 (4.44%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
6 2 (4.44%) VMware Technical Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (24.44%) REST
2 6 (13.33%) Loki
3 2 (4.44%) Flash
Miscellaneous
1 10 (22.22%) Enterprise Storage
2 9 (20.00%) Data Centre
3 8 (17.78%) Replication
4 6 (13.33%) Legacy Systems
5 3 (6.67%) Cloud Native
5 3 (6.67%) EMC VMAX
6 2 (4.44%) EMC VNX
6 2 (4.44%) Hybrid Cloud
6 2 (4.44%) Product Ownership
7 1 (2.22%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (2.22%) HP Storage
7 1 (2.22%) Mainframe
7 1 (2.22%) Management Information System
7 1 (2.22%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 11 (24.44%) Windows
2 8 (17.78%) Linux
3 7 (15.56%) Unix
3 7 (15.56%) Windows Server
4 3 (6.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (4.44%) Data ONTAP
5 2 (4.44%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (60.00%) Data Protection
2 16 (35.56%) CI/CD
3 13 (28.89%) DevOps
3 13 (28.89%) Migration
4 9 (20.00%) Configuration Management
4 9 (20.00%) Observability
4 9 (20.00%) Test Automation
5 8 (17.78%) Disaster Recovery
5 8 (17.78%) Problem-Solving
6 7 (15.56%) Capacity Planning
7 6 (13.33%) Analytical Thinking
7 6 (13.33%) Data Deduplication
7 6 (13.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 5 (11.11%) Technical Leadership
9 4 (8.89%) ITIL
9 4 (8.89%) Platform Engineering
9 4 (8.89%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 3 (6.67%) Containerisation
10 3 (6.67%) Infrastructure as Code
10 3 (6.67%) RBAC
Programming Languages
1 21 (46.67%) Python
2 11 (24.44%) PowerShell
3 10 (22.22%) Bash
4 7 (15.56%) Perl
5 2 (4.44%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 8 (17.78%) Security Cleared
2 4 (8.89%) SC Cleared
3 2 (4.44%) OCP
3 2 (4.44%) Oracle Certification
4 1 (2.22%) Azure Certification
4 1 (2.22%) ITIL Certification
4 1 (2.22%) NCDA
4 1 (2.22%) NCIE
4 1 (2.22%) TOGAF Certification
4 1 (2.22%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.22%) GRC
System Software
1 12 (26.67%) VMware ESXi
2 10 (22.22%) VMware Infrastructure
2 10 (22.22%) VMware NSX
3 9 (20.00%) vSphere
4 2 (4.44%) Veritas Cluster Server
4 2 (4.44%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (2.22%) Active Directory
5 1 (2.22%) EMC RecoverPoint
5 1 (2.22%) Hyper-V
5 1 (2.22%) NFS
5 1 (2.22%) SRDF
Systems Management
1 18 (40.00%) Ansible
2 10 (22.22%) Kubernetes
2 10 (22.22%) Puppet
3 8 (17.78%) Grafana
3 8 (17.78%) Prometheus
4 7 (15.56%) vCenter Server
4 7 (15.56%) vRealize
5 5 (11.11%) EMC NetWorker
6 3 (6.67%) Avamar
7 2 (4.44%) EMC VPLEX
7 2 (4.44%) SnapMirror
7 2 (4.44%) SnapVault
7 2 (4.44%) Terraform
8 1 (2.22%) Argo
Vendors
1 34 (75.56%) Veritas
2 18 (40.00%) Commvault
3 14 (31.11%) VMware
4 13 (28.89%) Red Hat
5 7 (15.56%) NetApp
6 6 (13.33%) EMC
6 6 (13.33%) Zerto
7 5 (11.11%) 3PAR
7 5 (11.11%) Brocade
7 5 (11.11%) Pure Storage
8 4 (8.89%) Dell
9 3 (6.67%) Microsoft
9 3 (6.67%) Veeam
10 2 (4.44%) Cisco
10 2 (4.44%) HP
10 2 (4.44%) Nimble Storage
11 1 (2.22%) F5
11 1 (2.22%) Isilon
11 1 (2.22%) ServiceNow
11 1 (2.22%) SolarWinds