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 24 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 503 517 599
Rank change year-on-year +14 +82 +156
Contract jobs citing NetBackup 35 60 90
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.12% 0.14% 0.16%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.74% 1.13% 1.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 37 51
10th Percentile £401 £429 £381
25th Percentile £458 £507 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £564 £480
Median % change year-on-year -12.77% +17.50% +3.78%
75th Percentile £563 £608 £575
90th Percentile £588 - £650
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £575 £480
% change year-on-year -13.04% +19.79% +13.34%
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 4,740 5,311 8,577
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.75% 12.22% 15.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,170 3,824 6,110
10th Percentile £300 £300 £350
25th Percentile £413 £413 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £515 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.50% -6.35% -2.65%
75th Percentile £603 £625 £675
90th Percentile £700 £700 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £498 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -0.50% -4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 52 102 184
10th Percentile £13.75 £15.69 £18.65
25th Percentile £21.39 £20.50 £25.71
Median hourly rate £37.50 £32.00 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year +17.19% -44.35% +155.56%
75th Percentile £63.40 £49.69 £73.75
90th Percentile £78.58 £71.25 £84.63
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 24 June 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 24 June 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 +27 24 £492 -12.77% 39
UK excluding London +20 24 £500 -13.04% 14
Work from Home +35 13 £550 -2.48% 22
Scotland +12 11 £486 -
London +56 9 £482 -6.05% 27
North of England +18 8 £463 -10.97% 6
South East +35 5 £600 -0.83% 7
Yorkshire -10 4 £450 -13.38% 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 (8.57%) Confluence
1 3 (8.57%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (5.71%) SharePoint
3 1 (2.86%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 2 (5.71%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (5.71%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 15 (42.86%) Azure
2 7 (20.00%) Amazon S3
2 7 (20.00%) AWS
2 7 (20.00%) Cloud Computing
2 7 (20.00%) Cohesity
2 7 (20.00%) OpenShift
3 4 (11.43%) Rubrik
4 2 (5.71%) Entra ID
4 2 (5.71%) Lucidchart
4 2 (5.71%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (5.71%) Mimecast
4 2 (5.71%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 16 (45.71%) SAN
2 7 (20.00%) NAS
3 4 (11.43%) DHCP
3 4 (11.43%) DNS
3 4 (11.43%) TCP/IP
4 2 (5.71%) Internet
5 1 (2.86%) Spanning Tree
5 1 (2.86%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (5.71%) Power BI
1 2 (5.71%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 7 (20.00%) Git
1 7 (20.00%) Jenkins
2 3 (8.57%) JIRA
General
1 9 (25.71%) Social Skills
2 8 (22.86%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (17.14%) Finance
4 2 (5.71%) Banking
5 1 (2.86%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (2.86%) Public Sector
5 1 (2.86%) Retail
5 1 (2.86%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 7 (20.00%) NetBackup Engineer
2 6 (17.14%) Backup Engineer
2 6 (17.14%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 4 (11.43%) Lead
3 4 (11.43%) Storage Engineer
4 3 (8.57%) Data Protection Engineer
5 2 (5.71%) Analyst
5 2 (5.71%) Business Analyst
5 2 (5.71%) Senior
5 2 (5.71%) Storage and Backup Engineer
5 2 (5.71%) Systems Engineer
6 1 (2.86%) Administrator
6 1 (2.86%) Backup Infrastructure Engineer
6 1 (2.86%) Cybersecurity Engineer
6 1 (2.86%) Data Engineer
6 1 (2.86%) Microsoft Engineer
6 1 (2.86%) Project Manager
6 1 (2.86%) Security Engineer
6 1 (2.86%) Storage Technician
6 1 (2.86%) Veritas Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.86%) Flash
Miscellaneous
1 8 (22.86%) Enterprise Storage
2 4 (11.43%) Data Centre
3 2 (5.71%) Management Information System
3 2 (5.71%) Product Ownership
4 1 (2.86%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (2.86%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (2.86%) Mainframe
4 1 (2.86%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 16 (45.71%) Windows
2 14 (40.00%) Windows Server
3 10 (28.57%) Unix
4 8 (22.86%) Linux
5 5 (14.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (11.43%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (42.86%) Data Protection
2 13 (37.14%) Problem-Solving
3 12 (34.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 7 (20.00%) CI/CD
4 7 (20.00%) Data Deduplication
4 7 (20.00%) Decision-Making
5 6 (17.14%) Migration
5 6 (17.14%) Observability
5 6 (17.14%) Task Automation
6 5 (14.29%) Change Management
6 5 (14.29%) Disaster Recovery
6 5 (14.29%) Storage Management
7 4 (11.43%) DevSecOps
7 4 (11.43%) High Availability
7 4 (11.43%) ITIL
7 4 (11.43%) Performance Tuning
7 4 (11.43%) Technical Leadership
8 3 (8.57%) Agile
8 3 (8.57%) Customer Requirements
8 3 (8.57%) Security Hardening
Programming Languages
1 11 (31.43%) Python
2 3 (8.57%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 12 (34.29%) SC Cleared
1 12 (34.29%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.86%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 3 (8.57%) Firmware
2 2 (5.71%) Active Directory
2 2 (5.71%) Veritas Cluster Server
3 1 (2.86%) Hyper-V
3 1 (2.86%) Microsoft App-V
3 1 (2.86%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 8 (22.86%) Oracle RMAN
2 7 (20.00%) Kubernetes
3 4 (11.43%) HP Data Protector
4 3 (8.57%) Avamar
4 3 (8.57%) Tivoli Storage Manager
5 2 (5.71%) EMC NetWorker
5 2 (5.71%) Puppet
5 2 (5.71%) Terraform
6 1 (2.86%) Backup Exec
Vendors
1 26 (74.29%) Veritas
2 12 (34.29%) Dell
3 10 (28.57%) Cisco
4 8 (22.86%) HP
5 6 (17.14%) VMware
6 5 (14.29%) 3PAR
6 5 (14.29%) Isilon
6 5 (14.29%) Red Hat
7 4 (11.43%) Brocade
7 4 (11.43%) NetApp
8 3 (8.57%) EMC
9 2 (5.71%) Commvault
9 2 (5.71%) IBM
9 2 (5.71%) Proofpoint
9 2 (5.71%) Pure Storage
9 2 (5.71%) Zscaler
10 1 (2.86%) Citrix
10 1 (2.86%) Microsoft
10 1 (2.86%) Nimble Storage
10 1 (2.86%) Oracle