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 12 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 536 493 526
Rank change year-on-year -43 +33 +197
Contract jobs citing NetBackup 38 31 73
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.10% 0.098% 0.17%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.67% 0.66% 1.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 19 54
10th Percentile £393 £456 £263
25th Percentile £500 £492 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £538 £465
Median % change year-on-year -4.65% +15.59% +0.54%
75th Percentile £525 £553 £534
90th Percentile £532 £580 £598
UK excluding London median daily rate £513 £550 £465
% change year-on-year -6.82% +18.28% +8.77%
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 5,679 4,682 5,665
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.67% 14.86% 13.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,905 3,016 4,048
10th Percentile £313 £311 £285
25th Percentile £413 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% -2.33% -6.89%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £644
90th Percentile £688 £738 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £490 £500
% change year-on-year +2.04% -2.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 121 66 160
10th Percentile £17.75 £15.36 £16.25
25th Percentile £20.82 £21.10 £21.25
Median hourly rate £52.50 £24.84 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +111.35% -46.21% +31.94%
75th Percentile £63.32 £49.05 £68.97
90th Percentile £85.00 £74.22 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £55.00 £24.18 £46.18
% change year-on-year +127.46% -47.64% +23.15%

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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

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Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing NetBackup over the 6 months to 12 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for NetBackup in the UK

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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

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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 12 January 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 -52 32 £513 -2.38% 4
UK excluding London -36 28 £513 -6.82% 8
Yorkshire -25 19 £520 -3.26%
North of England -37 19 £520 -3.26%
Work from Home -6 13 £513 +5.89% 3
London -11 9 £519 -5.90%
Scotland +3 5 £425 -22.73% 4
South West - 2 - - 2
South East -16 1 £375 -22.68% 2
West Midlands -36 1 £500 +8.11%
Midlands -46 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 (36.84%) Confluence
2 4 (10.53%) SAS
3 2 (5.26%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (5.26%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 11 (28.95%) AWS
1 11 (28.95%) Azure
2 10 (26.32%) CloudBees
3 8 (21.05%) GitHub
4 6 (15.79%) GCP
5 5 (13.16%) Cohesity
6 4 (10.53%) Amazon EC2
6 4 (10.53%) Amazon S3
6 4 (10.53%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 2 (5.26%) Microsoft 365
7 2 (5.26%) OpenShift
8 1 (2.63%) Amazon EKS
8 1 (2.63%) Azure AKS
8 1 (2.63%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 6 (15.79%) Firewall
2 5 (13.16%) SAN
3 3 (7.89%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (21.05%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 14 (36.84%) JIRA
2 13 (34.21%) Jenkins
3 10 (26.32%) GitLab
4 3 (7.89%) Git
General
1 9 (23.68%) Social Skills
2 8 (21.05%) Finance
3 7 (18.42%) Banking
4 4 (10.53%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (5.26%) Legal
6 1 (2.63%) International Banking
6 1 (2.63%) Pharmaceutical
6 1 (2.63%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 17 (44.74%) Automation Engineer
2 10 (26.32%) Data Protection Engineer
3 9 (23.68%) Data Engineer
4 6 (15.79%) NetBackup Engineer
5 5 (13.16%) Platform Engineer
6 3 (7.89%) Backup Engineer
6 3 (7.89%) DevOps Engineer
7 2 (5.26%) Consultant
7 2 (5.26%) DevOps Automation Engineer
7 2 (5.26%) Storage Engineer
7 2 (5.26%) Veritas Engineer
8 1 (2.63%) Administrator
8 1 (2.63%) Backup Administrator
8 1 (2.63%) Enterprise Consultant
8 1 (2.63%) HP Storage Administrator
8 1 (2.63%) Linux/Unix DevOps
8 1 (2.63%) Migration Consultant
8 1 (2.63%) SCM Engineer
8 1 (2.63%) Storage Administrator
8 1 (2.63%) Storage and Backup Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (10.53%) REST
2 2 (5.26%) Loki
3 1 (2.63%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 13 (34.21%) Product Ownership
2 5 (13.16%) Cloud Native
2 5 (13.16%) Enterprise Storage
3 4 (10.53%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (5.26%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (2.63%) HP Storage
5 1 (2.63%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 13 (34.21%) Linux
2 9 (23.68%) Windows
3 6 (15.79%) Windows Server
4 3 (7.89%) Unix
5 1 (2.63%) AIX
5 1 (2.63%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (2.63%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (63.16%) Data Protection
2 17 (44.74%) Configuration Management
3 15 (39.47%) CI/CD
4 14 (36.84%) DevOps
4 14 (36.84%) Scrum
4 14 (36.84%) User Stories
5 13 (34.21%) Backlog Refinement
5 13 (34.21%) Sprint Retrospective
5 13 (34.21%) Test Automation
6 11 (28.95%) Business Continuity
7 7 (18.42%) Containerisation
7 7 (18.42%) Disaster Recovery
7 7 (18.42%) Problem-Solving
8 6 (15.79%) Business Strategy
8 6 (15.79%) Migration
8 6 (15.79%) RBAC
8 6 (15.79%) Security Monitoring
8 6 (15.79%) Task Automation
9 5 (13.16%) Business Continuity Planning
9 5 (13.16%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 28 (73.68%) Python
2 18 (47.37%) Bash
3 15 (39.47%) PowerShell
4 3 (7.89%) Perl
Qualifications
1 5 (13.16%) Security Cleared
2 4 (10.53%) SC Cleared
3 2 (5.26%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.63%) GxP
System Software
1 6 (15.79%) Docker
1 6 (15.79%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (5.26%) Active Directory
3 1 (2.63%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 17 (44.74%) Ansible
2 8 (21.05%) Puppet
3 6 (15.79%) Oracle RMAN
4 4 (10.53%) Terraform
5 3 (7.89%) Grafana
5 3 (7.89%) Kubernetes
5 3 (7.89%) Prometheus
6 1 (2.63%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 24 (63.16%) Veritas
2 23 (60.53%) Commvault
3 14 (36.84%) Red Hat
4 7 (18.42%) Microsoft
5 6 (15.79%) CyberArk
5 6 (15.79%) Google
5 6 (15.79%) Oracle
5 6 (15.79%) VMware
6 4 (10.53%) SnapLogic
7 2 (5.26%) EMC
7 2 (5.26%) HP
7 2 (5.26%) NetApp
8 1 (2.63%) 3PAR
8 1 (2.63%) Brocade
8 1 (2.63%) Dell
8 1 (2.63%) IBM
8 1 (2.63%) Isilon
8 1 (2.63%) Nimble Storage
8 1 (2.63%) Veeam