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

6 months to
3 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 583 491 529
Rank change year-on-year -92 +38 +64
Contract jobs citing NetBackup 60 48 61
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.12% 0.15% 0.14%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.87% 0.97% 1.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 42 30 36
10th Percentile £368 £374 £466
25th Percentile £413 £400 £507
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £472 £570
Median % change year-on-year +5.99% -17.16% +18.65%
75th Percentile £547 £534 £608
90th Percentile £600 £588 -
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £473 £575
% change year-on-year +5.82% -17.83% +19.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 1 11
10th Percentile £46.00 - £23.80
25th Percentile £47.38 £61.86 £31.90
Median hourly rate £51.00 £63.72 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -19.96% +59.29% -39.39%
75th Percentile - £65.57 -
90th Percentile £52.20 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £51.00 - £40.00
% change year-on-year - - -36.78%

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 6,933 4,929 5,405
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 13.46% 15.76% 12.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,745 3,278 3,851
10th Percentile £325 £300 £300
25th Percentile £424 £410 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £510 £515
Median % change year-on-year +0.91% -0.97% -6.36%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £625
90th Percentile £688 £700 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £490 £500
% change year-on-year +2.04% -2.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 170 59 103
10th Percentile £18.25 £13.75 £16.05
25th Percentile £22.05 £20.25 £21.29
Median hourly rate £55.25 £32.77 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year +68.60% +0.83% -43.48%
75th Percentile £70.00 £63.33 £50.00
90th Percentile £75.10 £77.74 £71.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £51.00 £55.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year -7.27% +37.50% -8.57%

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 3 July 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
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing NetBackup over the 6 months to 3 July 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for NetBackup in the UK

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 3 July 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 -113 44 £510 +10.64% 7
UK excluding London -95 40 £500 +5.82% 6
Work from Home -48 16 £500 +5.82% 3
North of England -67 13 £500 +11.11%
Yorkshire -45 12 £500 +19.05%
South West - 12 £525 - 1
London -71 11 £450 -6.54% 2
Scotland -9 8 £428 -12.08% 1
East of England - 4 £600 - 3
South East -69 3 £388 -17.99% 1
North West -45 1 £525 -

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 9 (15.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 15 (25.00%) OpenShift
2 11 (18.33%) GitHub
3 9 (15.00%) CloudBees
4 7 (11.67%) Rubrik
5 4 (6.67%) Azure
6 2 (3.33%) AWS
6 2 (3.33%) Azure Storage
6 2 (3.33%) Datadog
6 2 (3.33%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (1.67%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (1.67%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 23 (38.33%) SAN
2 16 (26.67%) NAS
3 6 (10.00%) DNS
4 4 (6.67%) Fibre Channel
4 4 (6.67%) Firewall
5 3 (5.00%) DHCP
5 3 (5.00%) VLAN
6 2 (3.33%) Network Security
6 2 (3.33%) VSAN
7 1 (1.67%) iSCSI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (13.33%) NonStop SQL
Development Applications
1 15 (25.00%) Jenkins
2 9 (15.00%) JIRA
3 4 (6.67%) Git
4 1 (1.67%) PVCS
General
1 18 (30.00%) Social Skills
2 10 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (11.67%) Finance
4 6 (10.00%) Banking
4 6 (10.00%) Documentation Skills
5 4 (6.67%) Public Sector
6 1 (1.67%) Legal
Job Titles
1 9 (15.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 8 (13.33%) Automation Engineer
2 8 (13.33%) Storage Engineer
3 7 (11.67%) Consultant
3 7 (11.67%) NetBackup Engineer
3 7 (11.67%) Senior
4 6 (10.00%) Backup Engineer
5 5 (8.33%) Python Engineer
6 4 (6.67%) Site Engineer
6 4 (6.67%) Site Reliability Engineer
6 4 (6.67%) Technical Consultant
6 4 (6.67%) VMware Consultant
6 4 (6.67%) VMware Technical Consultant
7 3 (5.00%) Architect
7 3 (5.00%) Backup Specialist
7 3 (5.00%) Data Protection Engineer
7 3 (5.00%) Storage Architect
7 3 (5.00%) Virtualisation Engineer
8 2 (3.33%) DevOps Consultant
8 2 (3.33%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (18.33%) REST
2 4 (6.67%) Loki
3 3 (5.00%) Celery
3 3 (5.00%) Kafka
3 3 (5.00%) RabbitMQ
4 2 (3.33%) Flash
Miscellaneous
1 13 (21.67%) Data Centre
1 13 (21.67%) Replication
2 10 (16.67%) Enterprise Storage
3 4 (6.67%) EMC VMAX
3 4 (6.67%) Legacy Systems
4 3 (5.00%) Cloud Native
4 3 (5.00%) EMC VNX
5 2 (3.33%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (1.67%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.67%) HP Storage
6 1 (1.67%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (1.67%) Mainframe
6 1 (1.67%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.67%) Product Ownership
6 1 (1.67%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 17 (28.33%) Windows
2 15 (25.00%) Linux
3 9 (15.00%) Windows Server
4 8 (13.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 8 (13.33%) Unix
5 4 (6.67%) CentOS
5 4 (6.67%) Rocky
6 3 (5.00%) Data ONTAP
7 2 (3.33%) VMS
8 1 (1.67%) AIX
8 1 (1.67%) Solaris
8 1 (1.67%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (50.00%) Data Protection
2 20 (33.33%) Migration
3 13 (21.67%) CI/CD
3 13 (21.67%) DevOps
3 13 (21.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 12 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
5 11 (18.33%) Disaster Recovery
6 8 (13.33%) Test Automation
7 7 (11.67%) Capacity Planning
7 7 (11.67%) Configuration Management
7 7 (11.67%) Observability
8 6 (10.00%) Change Control
8 6 (10.00%) Infrastructure Monitoring
8 6 (10.00%) Runbook
8 6 (10.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 6 (10.00%) Technical Leadership
9 5 (8.33%) Data Deduplication
10 4 (6.67%) Analytical Thinking
10 4 (6.67%) Data Migration
10 4 (6.67%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 20 (33.33%) Python
2 14 (23.33%) Bash
2 14 (23.33%) PowerShell
3 7 (11.67%) Perl
4 3 (5.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 14 (23.33%) Security Cleared
2 10 (16.67%) SC Cleared
3 2 (3.33%) Azure Certification
3 2 (3.33%) NCDA
3 2 (3.33%) NCIE
3 2 (3.33%) OCP
3 2 (3.33%) Oracle Certification
3 2 (3.33%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 1 (1.67%) Dell Certification
4 1 (1.67%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.67%) Disclosure Scotland
1 1 (1.67%) GRC
System Software
1 17 (28.33%) VMware ESXi
2 16 (26.67%) VMware Infrastructure
3 13 (21.67%) VMware NSX
4 12 (20.00%) vSphere
5 5 (8.33%) Hyper-V
6 3 (5.00%) Active Directory
6 3 (5.00%) Veritas Cluster Server
7 2 (3.33%) EMC RecoverPoint
7 2 (3.33%) NFS
7 2 (3.33%) SRDF
7 2 (3.33%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 19 (31.67%) Ansible
2 11 (18.33%) Kubernetes
3 9 (15.00%) Puppet
3 9 (15.00%) vCenter Server
3 9 (15.00%) vRealize
4 6 (10.00%) EMC NetWorker
4 6 (10.00%) Grafana
4 6 (10.00%) Prometheus
5 3 (5.00%) Avamar
5 3 (5.00%) EMC VPLEX
5 3 (5.00%) SCCM
5 3 (5.00%) SCOM
5 3 (5.00%) SnapMirror
5 3 (5.00%) SnapVault
6 2 (3.33%) Argo
6 2 (3.33%) Terraform
7 1 (1.67%) Backup Exec
7 1 (1.67%) Opsview
7 1 (1.67%) PureDisk
Vendors
1 40 (66.67%) Veritas
2 23 (38.33%) VMware
3 15 (25.00%) Commvault
4 14 (23.33%) Red Hat
5 13 (21.67%) NetApp
6 9 (15.00%) Veeam
6 9 (15.00%) Zerto
7 7 (11.67%) EMC
8 6 (10.00%) 3PAR
8 6 (10.00%) Brocade
8 6 (10.00%) Dell
8 6 (10.00%) Pure Storage
9 5 (8.33%) SolarWinds
10 3 (5.00%) Cisco
10 3 (5.00%) Citrix
10 3 (5.00%) CyberArk
10 3 (5.00%) HP
10 3 (5.00%) Splunk
11 2 (3.33%) Nimble Storage
11 2 (3.33%) ServiceNow