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

6 months to
8 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 639 507 515
Rank change year-on-year -132 +8 +22
Contract jobs citing NetBackup 52 51 44
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.095% 0.15% 0.12%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.86% 1.07% 0.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 32 25
10th Percentile £406 £375 £414
25th Percentile £414 £391 £468
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £538
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -6.98% +15.59%
75th Percentile £609 £525 £608
90th Percentile £681 £530 -
UK excluding London median daily rate £600 £500 £550
% change year-on-year +20.00% -9.09% +18.28%
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 6,057 4,749 4,602
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.10% 14.37% 12.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,021 3,067 3,004
10th Percentile £315 £277 £300
25th Percentile £425 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £520
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -3.85% -5.45%
75th Percentile £613 £600 £625
90th Percentile £700 £682 £719
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £483 £494
% change year-on-year +3.63% -2.33% -1.30%
Number of hourly rates quoted 205 96 57
10th Percentile £18.25 £14.12 £20.61
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 £73.75 £63.29 £62.50
90th Percentile £88.43 £69.88 £80.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £63.31 £21.39 £38.00
% change year-on-year +195.97% -43.71% -21.02%

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 8 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 8 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
UK excluding London -100 34 £600 +20.00% 10
England -112 34 £575 +15.00% 17
Work from Home -74 14 £425 -17.07% 14
East of England - 12 £600 -
Scotland -8 11 £425 - 4
London -95 10 £415 -17.00% 8
South West -35 4 - - 1
South East -67 4 £700 +86.67% 1
West Midlands -43 2 £525 +5.00% 4
Midlands -48 2 £525 +5.00% 4
Yorkshire -50 1 £519 +1.27%
North of England -75 1 £519 +1.27%

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 9 (17.31%) Azure
2 6 (11.54%) Rubrik
3 5 (9.62%) AWS
4 4 (7.69%) OpenShift
5 1 (1.92%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (1.92%) Azure Storage
5 1 (1.92%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (1.92%) Datadog
5 1 (1.92%) GCP
5 1 (1.92%) GitHub
5 1 (1.92%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (1.92%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 21 (40.38%) SAN
2 18 (34.62%) DNS
3 8 (15.38%) Firewall
4 6 (11.54%) DHCP
4 6 (11.54%) VLAN
5 4 (7.69%) NAS
6 3 (5.77%) Network Security
7 2 (3.85%) VSAN
8 1 (1.92%) TCP/IP
8 1 (1.92%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (3.85%) NonStop SQL
2 1 (1.92%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (1.92%) Git
1 1 (1.92%) Jenkins
1 1 (1.92%) JIRA
General
1 18 (34.62%) Social Skills
2 12 (23.08%) Documentation Skills
3 5 (9.62%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (5.77%) Finance
4 3 (5.77%) Public Sector
5 2 (3.85%) Legal
6 1 (1.92%) Banking
6 1 (1.92%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 16 (30.77%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 14 (26.92%) Storage Engineer
3 13 (25.00%) Backup Engineer
4 8 (15.38%) Senior
4 8 (15.38%) Storage and Backup Engineer
5 7 (13.46%) Backup Specialist
6 6 (11.54%) NetApp Engineer
7 5 (9.62%) Architect
7 5 (9.62%) NetApp Specialist
7 5 (9.62%) NetBackup Engineer
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%) Technical Specialist
8 3 (5.77%) Automation Specialist
8 3 (5.77%) Backup Infrastructure Engineer
8 3 (5.77%) Consultant
8 3 (5.77%) Python Engineer
8 3 (5.77%) Solutions Architect
8 3 (5.77%) Storage Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (11.54%) ADO
2 3 (5.77%) Celery
2 3 (5.77%) Kafka
2 3 (5.77%) RabbitMQ
2 3 (5.77%) REST
3 2 (3.85%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 14 (26.92%) Replication
2 11 (21.15%) Enterprise Storage
3 6 (11.54%) Data Centre
4 2 (3.85%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (1.92%) Cloud Native
5 1 (1.92%) EMC VMAX
5 1 (1.92%) EMC VNX
5 1 (1.92%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (1.92%) Management Information System
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 3 (5.77%) OpenVMS
9 3 (5.77%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
9 3 (5.77%) VMS
9 3 (5.77%) Windows Server 2012
9 3 (5.77%) Windows Server 2019
10 2 (3.85%) Data ONTAP
10 2 (3.85%) HPUX
10 2 (3.85%) Windows 7
10 2 (3.85%) Windows Server 2008
11 1 (1.92%) SUSE
11 1 (1.92%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (42.31%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 14 (26.92%) Migration
2 14 (26.92%) Problem-Solving
3 13 (25.00%) Data Protection
4 10 (19.23%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 9 (17.31%) Disaster Recovery
6 8 (15.38%) Project Delivery
6 8 (15.38%) Service Management
6 8 (15.38%) Storage Management
7 7 (13.46%) Change Management
7 7 (13.46%) Infrastructure Monitoring
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
10 4 (7.69%) Business Continuity
10 4 (7.69%) Continuous Improvement
10 4 (7.69%) Cyber Resilience
10 4 (7.69%) Runbook
Programming Languages
1 21 (40.38%) PowerShell
2 7 (13.46%) Bash
3 5 (9.62%) Python
4 4 (7.69%) Shell Script
5 3 (5.77%) Perl
5 3 (5.77%) SQL
6 1 (1.92%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 37 (71.15%) Security Cleared
2 29 (55.77%) SC Cleared
3 4 (7.69%) DV Cleared
4 2 (3.85%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 1 (1.92%) AWS Certification
5 1 (1.92%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (1.92%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.92%) CCA
5 1 (1.92%) Citrix Certification
5 1 (1.92%) Dell Certification
5 1 (1.92%) NCDA
5 1 (1.92%) NCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.92%) Disclosure Scotland
1 1 (1.92%) SLA
System Software
1 16 (30.77%) VMware Infrastructure
2 10 (19.23%) Active Directory
3 7 (13.46%) Hyper-V
4 6 (11.54%) VMware ESXi
5 5 (9.62%) vSphere
6 4 (7.69%) VMware NSX
7 2 (3.85%) NFS
7 2 (3.85%) Veritas Cluster Server
8 1 (1.92%) DFS Replication
8 1 (1.92%) Docker
8 1 (1.92%) EMC RecoverPoint
8 1 (1.92%) Firmware
8 1 (1.92%) Oracle RAC
8 1 (1.92%) SRDF
8 1 (1.92%) Veritas Volume Manager
8 1 (1.92%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 18 (34.62%) Ansible
2 7 (13.46%) Avamar
3 6 (11.54%) SCCM
3 6 (11.54%) SCOM
4 4 (7.69%) Kubernetes
5 3 (5.77%) vCenter Server
6 2 (3.85%) EMC NetWorker
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%) EMC VPLEX
7 1 (1.92%) Grafana
7 1 (1.92%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
7 1 (1.92%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (1.92%) Opsview
7 1 (1.92%) Prometheus
7 1 (1.92%) PureDisk
7 1 (1.92%) SnapMirror
7 1 (1.92%) SnapVault
Vendors
1 21 (40.38%) Veritas
2 20 (38.46%) VMware
3 18 (34.62%) NetApp
3 18 (34.62%) Veeam
4 7 (13.46%) Citrix
4 7 (13.46%) SolarWinds
5 6 (11.54%) CyberArk
5 6 (11.54%) Oracle
5 6 (11.54%) Splunk
6 5 (9.62%) Dell
6 5 (9.62%) Microsoft
7 4 (7.69%) EMC
7 4 (7.69%) HP
8 3 (5.77%) Red Hat
8 3 (5.77%) ServiceNow
8 3 (5.77%) Zerto
9 2 (3.85%) Broadcom
9 2 (3.85%) Brocade
9 2 (3.85%) Cisco
9 2 (3.85%) IBM