NetBackup Contracts

Veritas NetBackup
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring NetBackup skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited NetBackup over the 6 months leading up to 3 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 491 529 592
Rank change year-on-year +38 +63 +179
Contract jobs citing NetBackup 48 61 93
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.15% 0.14% 0.17%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.97% 1.13% 1.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 36 53
10th Percentile £374 £466 £382
25th Percentile £400 £507 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £472 £570 £480
Median % change year-on-year -17.16% +18.65% +5.73%
75th Percentile £534 £608 £575
90th Percentile £588 - £650
UK excluding London median daily rate £473 £575 £480
% change year-on-year -17.83% +19.79% +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 11 3
10th Percentile - £23.80 £61.64
25th Percentile £61.86 £31.90 £63.28
Median hourly rate £63.72 £40.00 £66.00
Median % change year-on-year +59.29% -39.39% +46.67%
75th Percentile £65.57 - £74.25
90th Percentile - - £79.20
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £40.00 £63.28
% change year-on-year - -36.78% +40.61%

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 4,930 5,405 8,578
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.74% 12.43% 15.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,279 3,851 6,094
10th Percentile £300 £300 £350
25th Percentile £410 £413 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £515 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.97% -6.36% -3.51%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £675
90th Percentile £700 £700 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -2.00% -4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 59 103 185
10th Percentile £13.75 £16.05 £19.40
25th Percentile £20.25 £21.29 £25.71
Median hourly rate £32.77 £32.50 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year +0.83% -43.48% +155.56%
75th Percentile £63.33 £50.00 £73.75
90th Percentile £77.74 £71.25 £83.45
UK excluding London median hourly rate £55.00 £40.00 £43.75
% change year-on-year +37.50% -8.57% +118.75%

NetBackup
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing NetBackup as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for NetBackup in the UK

NetBackup
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing NetBackup.

Daily rate trend for NetBackup in the UK

NetBackup
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing NetBackup over the 6 months to 3 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for NetBackup in the UK

NetBackup
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing NetBackup.

Hourly rate trend for NetBackup in the UK

NetBackup
Top 9 Contract 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 July 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 +39 37 £461 -19.14% 49
UK excluding London +11 32 £473 -17.83% 25
Work from Home +37 16 £473 -16.22% 19
London +54 14 £482 -6.05% 26
South East +36 12 £473 -21.90% 12
Scotland +10 11 £486 -
North of England -1 9 £450 -13.38% 6
Yorkshire -7 5 £420 -19.15% 3
North West - 4 £525 - 3

NetBackup
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 3 (6.25%) Confluence
1 3 (6.25%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (4.17%) SharePoint
3 1 (2.08%) OpenEdge
3 1 (2.08%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 2 (4.17%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (4.17%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (2.08%) StreamServe
Cloud Services
1 20 (41.67%) Azure
2 11 (22.92%) AWS
3 7 (14.58%) Amazon S3
3 7 (14.58%) Cloud Computing
3 7 (14.58%) Cohesity
3 7 (14.58%) OpenShift
4 4 (8.33%) GCP
4 4 (8.33%) Rubrik
5 2 (4.17%) Entra ID
5 2 (4.17%) Lucidchart
5 2 (4.17%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (4.17%) Mimecast
5 2 (4.17%) Power Platform
6 1 (2.08%) Google Ads
Communications & Networking
1 25 (52.08%) SAN
2 7 (14.58%) NAS
3 4 (8.33%) DHCP
3 4 (8.33%) DNS
3 4 (8.33%) TCP/IP
4 3 (6.25%) Firewall
5 2 (4.17%) Internet
6 1 (2.08%) Spanning Tree
6 1 (2.08%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (6.25%) SQL Server
2 2 (4.17%) Power BI
2 2 (4.17%) Tableau
3 1 (2.08%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 7 (14.58%) Git
1 7 (14.58%) Jenkins
2 3 (6.25%) JIRA
General
1 13 (27.08%) Social Skills
2 8 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (12.50%) Finance
4 5 (10.42%) Banking
5 2 (4.17%) Public Sector
6 1 (2.08%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (2.08%) Retail
6 1 (2.08%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 11 (22.92%) NetBackup Engineer
2 9 (18.75%) Administrator
3 8 (16.67%) Backup Administrator
4 7 (14.58%) Storage Administrator
4 7 (14.58%) Storage and Backup Administrator
5 6 (12.50%) Backup Engineer
5 6 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 4 (8.33%) Lead
6 4 (8.33%) Storage Engineer
7 3 (6.25%) Data Protection Engineer
7 3 (6.25%) HP Storage Administrator
7 3 (6.25%) Senior
8 2 (4.17%) Analyst
8 2 (4.17%) Business Analyst
8 2 (4.17%) Storage and Backup Engineer
8 2 (4.17%) Systems Engineer
8 2 (4.17%) Veritas Engineer
9 1 (2.08%) Backup Infrastructure Engineer
9 1 (2.08%) Cybersecurity Engineer
9 1 (2.08%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.08%) Flash
Miscellaneous
1 16 (33.33%) Enterprise Storage
2 5 (10.42%) Data Centre
3 3 (6.25%) Management Information System
4 2 (4.17%) HP Storage
4 2 (4.17%) Product Ownership
4 2 (4.17%) Replication
5 1 (2.08%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (2.08%) HACMP
5 1 (2.08%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (2.08%) Legacy Applications
5 1 (2.08%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 22 (45.83%) Windows
2 18 (37.50%) Linux
3 14 (29.17%) Windows Server
4 11 (22.92%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 11 (22.92%) Unix
5 8 (16.67%) Windows Server 2019
6 4 (8.33%) Windows Server 2012
6 4 (8.33%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (2.08%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (39.58%) Data Protection
2 16 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 15 (31.25%) Disaster Recovery
4 12 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 10 (20.83%) ITIL
5 10 (20.83%) Task Automation
6 8 (16.67%) Decision-Making
7 7 (14.58%) CI/CD
7 7 (14.58%) Data Deduplication
8 6 (12.50%) Migration
8 6 (12.50%) Observability
8 6 (12.50%) Storage Management
9 5 (10.42%) Change Management
9 5 (10.42%) High Availability
9 5 (10.42%) Stakeholder Management
9 5 (10.42%) Technical Leadership
10 4 (8.33%) Containerisation
10 4 (8.33%) DevSecOps
10 4 (8.33%) RBAC
10 4 (8.33%) Security Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 15 (31.25%) Python
2 7 (14.58%) PowerShell
3 6 (12.50%) Shell Script
4 5 (10.42%) Bash
Qualifications
1 19 (39.58%) SC Cleared
1 19 (39.58%) Security Cleared
2 1 (2.08%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.08%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 4 (8.33%) Docker
1 4 (8.33%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (6.25%) Firmware
3 2 (4.17%) Active Directory
3 2 (4.17%) Veritas Cluster Server
4 1 (2.08%) Hyper-V
4 1 (2.08%) Microsoft App-V
4 1 (2.08%) Samba
4 1 (2.08%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 11 (22.92%) Oracle RMAN
2 7 (14.58%) Kubernetes
3 4 (8.33%) HP Data Protector
4 3 (6.25%) Avamar
4 3 (6.25%) Tivoli Storage Manager
5 2 (4.17%) EMC NetWorker
5 2 (4.17%) Puppet
5 2 (4.17%) Terraform
6 1 (2.08%) Backup Exec
Vendors
1 38 (79.17%) Veritas
2 17 (35.42%) Dell
3 15 (31.25%) HP
4 12 (25.00%) 3PAR
5 11 (22.92%) Cisco
5 11 (22.92%) Red Hat
6 10 (20.83%) NetApp
6 10 (20.83%) VMware
7 7 (14.58%) Nimble Storage
8 6 (12.50%) Isilon
9 5 (10.42%) Oracle
10 4 (8.33%) Brocade
10 4 (8.33%) Google
11 3 (6.25%) CyberArk
11 3 (6.25%) EMC
12 2 (4.17%) Commvault
12 2 (4.17%) IBM
12 2 (4.17%) Proofpoint
12 2 (4.17%) Pure Storage
12 2 (4.17%) Zscaler