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 3 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 576 493 511
Rank change year-on-year -83 +18 +185
Contract jobs citing NetBackup 40 33 86
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.096% 0.11% 0.19%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.63% 0.70% 1.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 20 56
10th Percentile £381 £498 £321
25th Percentile £413 £522 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £492
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +11.90% -7.48%
75th Percentile £525 £578 £550
90th Percentile £532 £664 £608
UK excluding London median daily rate £469 £550 £482
% change year-on-year -14.77% +14.23% -1.23%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 10
10th Percentile - - £22.00
25th Percentile £61.00 - -
Median hourly rate £62.00 - £40.00
75th Percentile £63.00 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £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 6,306 4,691 5,381
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.12% 15.71% 12.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,372 3,071 3,846
10th Percentile £313 £313 £261
25th Percentile £413 £420 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -8.70%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £634
90th Percentile £688 £745 £713
UK excluding London median daily rate £492 £500 £498
% change year-on-year -1.60% +0.50% -5.24%
Number of hourly rates quoted 137 53 151
10th Percentile £18.40 £15.80 £14.00
25th Percentile £21.29 £21.25 £20.00
Median hourly rate £54.00 £25.50 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +111.76% -36.25% -23.27%
75th Percentile £64.50 £49.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £79.70 £73.55 £76.53
UK excluding London median hourly rate £53.25 £24.00 £46.18
% change year-on-year +121.88% -48.03% -2.78%

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 3 March 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 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 3 March 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 -72 29 £469 -14.77% 9
England -82 27 £500 -12.28% 8
Work from Home -24 16 £500 -13.04% 4
North of England -54 16 £506 -3.57% 3
Yorkshire -51 15 £500 - 2
Scotland +13 9 £425 -22.73% 2
London -42 6 £513 -10.87% 2
South East -31 2 £388 -35.42%
South West - 2 - - 3
North West -42 1 £525 - 1

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 (35.00%) Confluence
2 2 (5.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (5.00%) SharePoint
3 1 (2.50%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 12 (30.00%) GitHub
2 10 (25.00%) CloudBees
3 9 (22.50%) OpenShift
4 5 (12.50%) AWS
4 5 (12.50%) Azure
5 4 (10.00%) Cohesity
5 4 (10.00%) Rubrik
6 2 (5.00%) GCP
6 2 (5.00%) Microsoft 365
7 1 (2.50%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (2.50%) Amazon EKS
7 1 (2.50%) Amazon S3
7 1 (2.50%) Azure AKS
7 1 (2.50%) Microsoft Purview
7 1 (2.50%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 15 (37.50%) SAN
2 12 (30.00%) NAS
3 4 (10.00%) Fibre Channel
4 2 (5.00%) Firewall
5 1 (2.50%) iSCSI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (10.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 17 (42.50%) Jenkins
2 14 (35.00%) JIRA
3 7 (17.50%) Git
4 3 (7.50%) GitLab
General
1 16 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 9 (22.50%) Finance
3 8 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (17.50%) Banking
5 4 (10.00%) Public Sector
6 2 (5.00%) Legal
7 1 (2.50%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 17 (42.50%) Automation Engineer
2 6 (15.00%) Data Protection Engineer
3 5 (12.50%) Data Engineer
4 4 (10.00%) Consultant
4 4 (10.00%) Site Engineer
4 4 (10.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 4 (10.00%) Storage Engineer
5 3 (7.50%) Python Engineer
6 2 (5.00%) Backup Engineer
6 2 (5.00%) DevOps Consultant
6 2 (5.00%) DevOps Engineer
6 2 (5.00%) NetBackup Engineer
6 2 (5.00%) Platform Engineer
6 2 (5.00%) Senior
7 1 (2.50%) Administrator
7 1 (2.50%) Linux/Unix DevOps
7 1 (2.50%) Migration Consultant
7 1 (2.50%) Principal Engineer
7 1 (2.50%) SCM Engineer
7 1 (2.50%) Service Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (27.50%) REST
2 6 (15.00%) Loki
3 2 (5.00%) Flash
Miscellaneous
1 8 (20.00%) Enterprise Storage
2 7 (17.50%) Product Ownership
3 6 (15.00%) Legacy Systems
4 4 (10.00%) Data Centre
4 4 (10.00%) Replication
5 2 (5.00%) Cloud Native
6 1 (2.50%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (2.50%) EMC VMAX
6 1 (2.50%) HP Storage
6 1 (2.50%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (2.50%) Mainframe
6 1 (2.50%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 11 (27.50%) Windows
2 8 (20.00%) Linux
3 7 (17.50%) Unix
3 7 (17.50%) Windows Server
4 2 (5.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (70.00%) Data Protection
2 17 (42.50%) CI/CD
3 14 (35.00%) DevOps
4 12 (30.00%) Configuration Management
4 12 (30.00%) Test Automation
5 10 (25.00%) Migration
5 10 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
6 8 (20.00%) Observability
7 7 (17.50%) Scrum
7 7 (17.50%) User Stories
8 6 (15.00%) Analytical Thinking
8 6 (15.00%) Backlog Refinement
8 6 (15.00%) Capacity Planning
8 6 (15.00%) Data Deduplication
8 6 (15.00%) Disaster Recovery
8 6 (15.00%) Sprint Retrospective
9 5 (12.50%) Business Continuity
9 5 (12.50%) ITIL
10 4 (10.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 3 (7.50%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 25 (62.50%) Python
2 14 (35.00%) Bash
3 13 (32.50%) PowerShell
4 7 (17.50%) Perl
5 1 (2.50%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 8 (20.00%) Security Cleared
2 5 (12.50%) SC Cleared
3 2 (5.00%) ITIL Certification
4 1 (2.50%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.50%) GRC
System Software
1 4 (10.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (5.00%) Active Directory
2 2 (5.00%) Docker
3 1 (2.50%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (2.50%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 21 (52.50%) Ansible
2 12 (30.00%) Puppet
3 7 (17.50%) Grafana
3 7 (17.50%) Kubernetes
3 7 (17.50%) Prometheus
4 3 (7.50%) Avamar
4 3 (7.50%) EMC NetWorker
5 2 (5.00%) Oracle RMAN
6 1 (2.50%) Terraform
6 1 (2.50%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 23 (57.50%) Commvault
1 23 (57.50%) Veritas
2 14 (35.00%) Red Hat
3 5 (12.50%) NetApp
3 5 (12.50%) VMware
4 4 (10.00%) EMC
4 4 (10.00%) Microsoft
4 4 (10.00%) Pure Storage
5 3 (7.50%) 3PAR
5 3 (7.50%) Brocade
5 3 (7.50%) Dell
6 2 (5.00%) CyberArk
6 2 (5.00%) Google
6 2 (5.00%) HP
6 2 (5.00%) Nimble Storage
6 2 (5.00%) Oracle
7 1 (2.50%) F5
7 1 (2.50%) Isilon
7 1 (2.50%) SnapLogic
7 1 (2.50%) Zerto