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

6 months to
15 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 590 506 522
Rank change year-on-year -84 +16 +71
Contract jobs citing NetBackup 59 50 64
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.11% 0.15% 0.15%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.84% 0.98% 1.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 40 31 37
10th Percentile £364 £375 £418
25th Percentile £413 £400 £507
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £471 £564
Median % change year-on-year +6.16% -16.49% +17.50%
75th Percentile £553 £531 £608
90th Percentile £604 £588 -
UK excluding London median daily rate £519 £473 £575
% change year-on-year +9.84% -17.83% +24.32%
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 7,063 5,080 5,437
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 13.42% 15.65% 12.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,832 3,361 3,841
10th Percentile £325 £300 £300
25th Percentile £425 £408 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £505 £519
Median % change year-on-year +1.98% -2.60% -5.73%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £622
90th Percentile £688 £700 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £492 £500
% change year-on-year +1.63% -1.60% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 172 71 101
10th Percentile £18.25 £13.75 £16.79
25th Percentile £22.16 £20.25 £22.08
Median hourly rate £56.50 £37.50 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year +50.67% +15.38% -43.48%
75th Percentile £70.00 £63.58 £50.00
90th Percentile £77.00 £77.50 £71.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £52.50 £57.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year -7.89% +42.50% -13.21%

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 15 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 15 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 15 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 -108 44 £519 +15.33% 7
UK excluding London -100 39 £519 +9.84% 6
Work from Home -63 16 £500 +5.82% 3
North of England -69 13 £500 +11.11%
Yorkshire -47 12 £500 +19.05%
South West - 12 £525 - 1
London -68 11 £450 -4.46% 1
Scotland -13 7 £430 -11.57%
East of England - 6 £600 - 3
North West -47 1 £525 -
South East -75 1 £625 +32.28% 2

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 (15.25%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 14 (23.73%) OpenShift
2 11 (18.64%) GitHub
3 9 (15.25%) CloudBees
4 7 (11.86%) Rubrik
5 4 (6.78%) Azure
6 2 (3.39%) AWS
6 2 (3.39%) Azure Storage
6 2 (3.39%) Datadog
6 2 (3.39%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (1.69%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (1.69%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 22 (37.29%) SAN
2 15 (25.42%) NAS
3 7 (11.86%) DNS
4 5 (8.47%) Firewall
5 4 (6.78%) Fibre Channel
5 4 (6.78%) VLAN
6 3 (5.08%) DHCP
7 2 (3.39%) Network Security
7 2 (3.39%) VSAN
8 1 (1.69%) iSCSI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (13.56%) NonStop SQL
Development Applications
1 14 (23.73%) Jenkins
2 9 (15.25%) JIRA
3 3 (5.08%) Git
4 1 (1.69%) PVCS
General
1 17 (28.81%) Social Skills
2 9 (15.25%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (11.86%) Documentation Skills
3 7 (11.86%) Finance
4 6 (10.17%) Banking
5 3 (5.08%) Public Sector
6 1 (1.69%) Legal
Job Titles
1 10 (16.95%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 9 (15.25%) Storage Engineer
3 8 (13.56%) Automation Engineer
3 8 (13.56%) Senior
4 7 (11.86%) Backup Engineer
4 7 (11.86%) Consultant
4 7 (11.86%) NetBackup Engineer
5 5 (8.47%) Python Engineer
6 4 (6.78%) Backup Specialist
6 4 (6.78%) Technical Consultant
6 4 (6.78%) VMware Consultant
6 4 (6.78%) VMware Technical Consultant
7 3 (5.08%) Architect
7 3 (5.08%) Data Protection Engineer
7 3 (5.08%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
7 3 (5.08%) Senior Technical Specialist
7 3 (5.08%) Senior Unix Technical Specialist
7 3 (5.08%) Storage Architect
7 3 (5.08%) Technical Specialist
7 3 (5.08%) Virtualisation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (16.95%) REST
2 3 (5.08%) Celery
2 3 (5.08%) Kafka
2 3 (5.08%) Loki
2 3 (5.08%) RabbitMQ
3 2 (3.39%) Flash
Miscellaneous
1 15 (25.42%) Replication
2 13 (22.03%) Data Centre
3 8 (13.56%) Enterprise Storage
4 4 (6.78%) EMC VMAX
5 3 (5.08%) Cloud Native
5 3 (5.08%) EMC VNX
5 3 (5.08%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (3.39%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (1.69%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (1.69%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (1.69%) Mainframe
7 1 (1.69%) Product Ownership
7 1 (1.69%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 17 (28.81%) Windows
2 16 (27.12%) Linux
3 10 (16.95%) Windows Server
4 9 (15.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 7 (11.86%) Unix
6 6 (10.17%) CentOS
6 6 (10.17%) Rocky
7 3 (5.08%) Data ONTAP
8 2 (3.39%) VMS
9 1 (1.69%) AIX
9 1 (1.69%) Solaris
9 1 (1.69%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (49.15%) Data Protection
2 20 (33.90%) Migration
3 15 (25.42%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 13 (22.03%) DevOps
5 12 (20.34%) CI/CD
6 11 (18.64%) Problem-Solving
7 10 (16.95%) Disaster Recovery
8 8 (13.56%) Test Automation
9 7 (11.86%) Capacity Planning
9 7 (11.86%) Configuration Management
10 6 (10.17%) Change Control
10 6 (10.17%) Infrastructure Monitoring
10 6 (10.17%) Observability
10 6 (10.17%) Runbook
10 6 (10.17%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 6 (10.17%) Technical Leadership
11 4 (6.78%) Knowledge Transfer
11 4 (6.78%) Platform Engineering
11 4 (6.78%) Project Delivery
11 4 (6.78%) RBAC
Programming Languages
1 19 (32.20%) Python
2 15 (25.42%) PowerShell
3 14 (23.73%) Bash
4 6 (10.17%) Perl
5 2 (3.39%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 14 (23.73%) Security Cleared
2 10 (16.95%) SC Cleared
3 2 (3.39%) Azure Certification
3 2 (3.39%) NCDA
3 2 (3.39%) NCIE
3 2 (3.39%) OCP
3 2 (3.39%) Oracle Certification
3 2 (3.39%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 1 (1.69%) Dell Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.69%) Disclosure Scotland
1 1 (1.69%) GRC
System Software
1 17 (28.81%) VMware ESXi
2 16 (27.12%) VMware Infrastructure
3 13 (22.03%) VMware NSX
4 12 (20.34%) vSphere
5 5 (8.47%) Hyper-V
6 3 (5.08%) Active Directory
6 3 (5.08%) Veritas Cluster Server
7 2 (3.39%) EMC RecoverPoint
7 2 (3.39%) NFS
7 2 (3.39%) SRDF
7 2 (3.39%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 20 (33.90%) Ansible
2 10 (16.95%) Kubernetes
3 9 (15.25%) Puppet
3 9 (15.25%) vCenter Server
3 9 (15.25%) vRealize
4 6 (10.17%) EMC NetWorker
5 5 (8.47%) Grafana
5 5 (8.47%) Prometheus
6 3 (5.08%) Avamar
6 3 (5.08%) EMC VPLEX
6 3 (5.08%) SCCM
6 3 (5.08%) SCOM
6 3 (5.08%) SnapMirror
6 3 (5.08%) SnapVault
7 2 (3.39%) Argo
7 2 (3.39%) Terraform
8 1 (1.69%) Backup Exec
8 1 (1.69%) Opsview
8 1 (1.69%) PureDisk
Vendors
1 37 (62.71%) Veritas
2 23 (38.98%) VMware
3 15 (25.42%) Commvault
4 13 (22.03%) NetApp
4 13 (22.03%) Red Hat
5 11 (18.64%) Veeam
6 9 (15.25%) Zerto
7 7 (11.86%) EMC
8 6 (10.17%) Brocade
8 6 (10.17%) Pure Storage
9 5 (8.47%) SolarWinds
10 4 (6.78%) 3PAR
10 4 (6.78%) Dell
11 3 (5.08%) Cisco
11 3 (5.08%) Citrix
11 3 (5.08%) CyberArk
11 3 (5.08%) Splunk
12 2 (3.39%) ServiceNow
13 1 (1.69%) IBM
13 1 (1.69%) Microsoft