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 21 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 535 497 527
Rank change year-on-year -38 +30 +220
Contract jobs citing NetBackup 51 38 76
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.14% 0.11% 0.17%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.87% 0.76% 1.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 22 54
10th Percentile £376 £439 £263
25th Percentile £396 £472 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £538 £450
Median % change year-on-year -6.98% +19.44% -
75th Percentile £525 £556 £500
90th Percentile £530 £608 £550
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £550 £450
% change year-on-year -9.09% +22.22% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
Median hourly rate - - £22.00
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 5,893 5,008 6,057
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 16.04% 14.75% 13.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,024 3,202 4,279
10th Percentile £313 £313 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £509 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -3.05% -2.33% -6.52%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £650
90th Percentile £688 £731 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £488 £513
% change year-on-year +2.56% -4.88% -2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 125 66 171
10th Percentile £16.25 £15.36 £17.00
25th Percentile £20.18 £21.10 £23.19
Median hourly rate £42.69 £24.84 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +71.84% -46.21% +31.94%
75th Percentile £64.50 £56.56 £72.20
90th Percentile £81.20 £74.22 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £48.36 £24.18 £46.18
% change year-on-year +100.00% -47.64% +73.15%

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

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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 21 December 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 21 December 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 -8 47 £506 -5.86% 4
UK excluding London -18 34 £500 -9.09% 6
North of England -27 20 £516 -3.95%
Yorkshire -30 20 £516 -3.95%
London +4 16 £506 -8.21%
Work from Home -3 16 £513 +10.81% 2
South East -11 8 £375 -38.02% 1
Scotland +2 3 £425 -22.73% 2
South West -11 2 - - 3
West Midlands -30 1 £500 +8.11%
Midlands -36 1 £500 +8.11%

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 (27.45%) Confluence
2 4 (7.84%) SAS
3 2 (3.92%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (3.92%) SharePoint
4 1 (1.96%) OpenEdge
Business Applications
1 1 (1.96%) StreamServe
Cloud Services
1 16 (31.37%) Azure
2 15 (29.41%) AWS
3 10 (19.61%) CloudBees
3 10 (19.61%) GCP
4 8 (15.69%) GitHub
5 5 (9.80%) Cohesity
6 4 (7.84%) Amazon EC2
6 4 (7.84%) Amazon S3
6 4 (7.84%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 2 (3.92%) Microsoft 365
8 1 (1.96%) Amazon EKS
8 1 (1.96%) Azure AKS
8 1 (1.96%) Google Ads
8 1 (1.96%) Microsoft Purview
8 1 (1.96%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 13 (25.49%) SAN
2 9 (17.65%) Firewall
3 2 (3.92%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (21.57%) SQL Server
2 1 (1.96%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 14 (27.45%) JIRA
2 11 (21.57%) Jenkins
3 10 (19.61%) GitLab
4 1 (1.96%) Git
General
1 12 (23.53%) Banking
2 11 (21.57%) Social Skills
3 7 (13.73%) Finance
4 3 (5.88%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (5.88%) International Banking
5 2 (3.92%) Legal
5 2 (3.92%) Public Sector
6 1 (1.96%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 15 (29.41%) Automation Engineer
2 10 (19.61%) Data Protection Engineer
2 10 (19.61%) NetBackup Engineer
3 9 (17.65%) Administrator
3 9 (17.65%) Data Engineer
4 8 (15.69%) Backup Administrator
4 8 (15.69%) Storage Administrator
4 8 (15.69%) Storage and Backup Administrator
5 5 (9.80%) Backup Engineer
5 5 (9.80%) Platform Engineer
6 4 (7.84%) HP Storage Administrator
7 3 (5.88%) DevOps Engineer
7 3 (5.88%) Veritas Engineer
8 2 (3.92%) Consultant
8 2 (3.92%) DevOps Automation Engineer
8 2 (3.92%) Storage Engineer
9 1 (1.96%) JIRA Engineer
9 1 (1.96%) Linux/Unix DevOps
9 1 (1.96%) Python Engineer
9 1 (1.96%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (3.92%) REST
2 1 (1.96%) Loki
2 1 (1.96%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 13 (25.49%) Enterprise Storage
1 13 (25.49%) Product Ownership
2 5 (9.80%) Cloud Native
3 4 (7.84%) Hybrid Cloud
3 4 (7.84%) Replication
4 3 (5.88%) HP Storage
5 1 (1.96%) Data Centre
5 1 (1.96%) HACMP
5 1 (1.96%) Legacy Applications
5 1 (1.96%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.96%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 25 (49.02%) Linux
2 15 (29.41%) Windows
3 7 (13.73%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (9.80%) Windows Server
5 4 (7.84%) Windows Server 2012
5 4 (7.84%) Windows Server 2016
5 4 (7.84%) Windows Server 2019
6 2 (3.92%) AIX
6 2 (3.92%) Unix
7 1 (1.96%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (50.98%) Data Protection
2 17 (33.33%) Configuration Management
2 17 (33.33%) Disaster Recovery
3 14 (27.45%) Business Continuity
3 14 (27.45%) DevOps
3 14 (27.45%) Scrum
3 14 (27.45%) User Stories
4 13 (25.49%) Backlog Refinement
4 13 (25.49%) CI/CD
4 13 (25.49%) Sprint Retrospective
4 13 (25.49%) Test Automation
5 11 (21.57%) Containerisation
6 10 (19.61%) ITIL
6 10 (19.61%) RBAC
6 10 (19.61%) Security Monitoring
6 10 (19.61%) Task Automation
7 9 (17.65%) Business Strategy
7 9 (17.65%) Problem-Solving
8 6 (11.76%) Migration
8 6 (11.76%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 30 (58.82%) Python
2 23 (45.10%) Bash
3 17 (33.33%) PowerShell
4 6 (11.76%) Shell Script
5 1 (1.96%) Perl
Qualifications
1 12 (23.53%) Security Cleared
2 11 (21.57%) SC Cleared
3 2 (3.92%) ITIL Certification
4 1 (1.96%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.96%) GxP
System Software
1 10 (19.61%) Docker
1 10 (19.61%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (3.92%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.96%) Samba
3 1 (1.96%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 15 (29.41%) Ansible
2 9 (17.65%) Oracle RMAN
3 8 (15.69%) Puppet
4 4 (7.84%) Terraform
5 3 (5.88%) Tivoli Storage Manager
6 2 (3.92%) Kubernetes
7 1 (1.96%) Grafana
7 1 (1.96%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 34 (66.67%) Veritas
2 23 (45.10%) Commvault
3 20 (39.22%) Red Hat
4 10 (19.61%) Google
4 10 (19.61%) Oracle
4 10 (19.61%) VMware
5 9 (17.65%) CyberArk
5 9 (17.65%) HP
6 8 (15.69%) 3PAR
6 8 (15.69%) NetApp
7 7 (13.73%) Microsoft
7 7 (13.73%) Nimble Storage
8 6 (11.76%) Dell
9 4 (7.84%) SnapLogic
10 3 (5.88%) IBM
10 3 (5.88%) Veeam
11 2 (3.92%) EMC
11 2 (3.92%) Isilon
12 1 (1.96%) Brocade
12 1 (1.96%) Cisco