Backup Exec Jobs

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Backup Exec skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Backup Exec over the 3 months to 23 June 2017 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

Symantec Backup Exec UK
Location	3 months to 23 Jun 2017	Same period 2016	Same period 2015
Rank	612	651	654
Rank change year-on-year	+39	+3
Permanent jobs citing Backup Exec	266	266	351
As % of all permanent IT jobs advertised in the UK	0.30%	0.27%	0.32%
As % of the Systems Management category	3.38%	3.12%	4.17%
Number of salaries quoted	237	233	307
Median salary	£34,500	£32,500	£35,000
Median salary % change year-on-year	+6.15%	-7.14%
90% offered a salary of more than	£25,000	£22,500	£22,850
10% offered a salary of more than	£50,000	£46,260	£46,500
UK excluding London median salary	£32,500	£31,000	£35,000
% change year-on-year	+4.83%	-11.42%

Backup Exec is in the systems management skills category. The next table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills.

Systems Management Skills UK
Permanent job vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills	7868	8516	8409
As % of all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the UK	8.83%	8.66%	7.58%
Number of salaries quoted	6365	6923	6633
Median salary	£55,000	£52,500	£50,000
Median salary % change year-on-year	+4.76%	+5.00%
90% offered a salary of more than	£35,000	£34,000	£32,500
10% offered a salary of more than	£80,000	£70,000	£75,000
UK excluding London median salary	£46,000	£45,000	£44,750
% change year-on-year	+2.22%	+0.55%

Backup Exec
Job Vacancy Trend

The job posting trend of jobs advertised citing Backup Exec as a proportion of all permanent or contract IT jobs with a match in the Systems Management category.

Job vacancy trend for Backup Exec in the UK

Backup Exec
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Backup Exec.

Backup Exec
Salary Histogram

The salary distribution of IT jobs citing Backup Exec over the 3 months to 23 June 2017.

Salary histogram for Backup Exec in the UK

Backup Exec
Top 30 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Backup Exec within the UK over the 3 months to 23 June 2017. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Year	Matching Permanent IT Job Ads	Median Salary Last 3 Months	Median Salary % Change on Same Period Last Year	Live Job Vacancies
England	+46	250	£35,000	+7.69%	17
London	+27	102	£35,000	-6.66%	3
South East	+21	54	£37,500	+20.96%	3
West Midlands	+33	37	£32,500	-18.75%
Berkshire	+41	25	£45,000	+3.44%	1
Birmingham	+27	24	£31,000	-27.05%
East of England	+8	23	£32,500	+22.64%	1
City of London	+24	16	£52,500	+31.25%	1
Reading	+30	14	£45,000	-
South West	+10	14	£30,000	-21.05%
West Yorkshire	+9	13	£24,000	-7.69%	2
Yorkshire	+3	13	£24,000	-7.69%	5
Oxfordshire	+4	10	£33,750	+8.00%
Hertfordshire	-9	10	£33,750	+27.35%	1
Witney	-	9	£32,500	-
Wakefield	+18	7	£44,000	+95.55%	1
Essex	-2	7	£35,000	+32.07%
North West	-45	7	£30,500	+1.66%	4
Surrey	+16	6	£27,500	-2.65%
Bracknell	+28	5	£35,000	+52.17%	1
Borehamwood	-13	5	£25,000	-23.07%
Bristol	-23	5	£44,000	+10.00%
Worcester	-	5	£37,500	-
Worcestershire	-	5	£37,500	-
High Wycombe	+15	4	£32,500	+51.16%
Scotland	+14	4	£32,500	-	2
Hampshire	+7	4	£39,000	+105.26%	1
Wiltshire	+4	4	£37,500	+7.14%
Buckinghamshire	-1	4	£32,500	+51.16%	1
Maidenhead	-	4	£37,500	-

Backup Exec
Top 30 Co-occurring IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 June 2017, IT jobs citing Backup Exec also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number co-occurrences and its proportion to all job ads with a requirement for Backup Exec.

1	408 (90.27%)	Windows
2	347 (76.77%)	Microsoft
3	339 (75.00%)	Active Directory
4	301 (66.59%)	VMware
5	263 (58.19%)	VMware Infrastructure
6	259 (57.30%)	MS Exchange
7	258 (57.08%)	Windows Server
8	232 (51.33%)	Firewall
9	216 (47.79%)	Windows Server 2008
10	211 (46.68%)	Windows Server 2012
11	198 (43.81%)	Veeam
12	196 (43.36%)	Hyper-V
13	186 (41.15%)	Office 365
14	185 (40.93%)	Cisco
15	166 (36.73%)	Symantec

16	163 (36.06%)	DNS
17	158 (34.96%)	Citrix
18	147 (32.52%)	HP
19	140 (30.97%)	Exchange Server 2010
20	135 (29.87%)	SAN
21	132 (29.20%)	SQL
22	128 (28.32%)	DHCP
23	121 (26.77%)	Microsoft Certification
24	113 (25.00%)	Exchange Server 2013
24	113 (25.00%)	Windows 7
25	102 (22.57%)	Dell
26	99 (21.90%)	TCP/IP
27	98 (21.68%)	Microsoft Azure
28	96 (21.24%)	Linux
29	91 (20.13%)	VPN

Backup Exec
Co-occurring IT Skills by Category

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

Application Platforms
Applications
Business Applications
Cloud Services
Communications & Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
Development Applications
General
Job Titles
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
Miscellaneous
Operating Systems
Processes & Methodologies
Programming Languages
Qualifications
Quality Assurance & Compliance
System Software
Systems Management
Vendors

Application Platforms
1	259 (57.30%)	MS Exchange
2	140 (30.97%)	Exchange Server 2010
3	113 (25.00%)	Exchange Server 2013
4	73 (16.15%)	SharePoint
5	63 (13.94%)	IIS
6	53 (11.73%)	Exchange Server 2007
7	43 (9.51%)	Blackberry Enterprise Server
8	34 (7.52%)	Skype for Business
9	32 (7.08%)	Exchange Server 2003
10	16 (3.54%)	Apache
11	10 (2.21%)	WebSphere
12	9 (1.99%)	SAS
13	8 (1.77%)	Tomcat
14	6 (1.33%)	SharePoint 2013
15	5 (1.11%)	SharePoint Server
16	4 (0.88%)	IBM Notes
17	2 (0.44%)	OpenStack

Applications
1	83 (18.36%)	Microsoft Office
2	20 (4.42%)	Microsoft Excel
2	20 (4.42%)	Microsoft PowerPoint
3	19 (4.20%)	MS Visio
4	3 (0.66%)	Adobe Creative Suite
5	1 (0.22%)	Acrobat

Business Applications
1	8 (1.77%)	Oracle EBS
2	7 (1.55%)	Dynamics CRM
3	6 (1.33%)	Workfront
4	4 (0.88%)	Dynamics NAV
5	1 (0.22%)	Dynamics AX

Cloud Services
1	186 (41.15%)	Office 365
2	98 (21.68%)	Microsoft Azure
3	14 (3.10%)	Amazon AWS
4	10 (2.21%)	Cloud Computing
5	9 (1.99%)	Mimecast
6	8 (1.77%)	SaaS
7	5 (1.11%)	Azure Active Directory
8	4 (0.88%)	IaaS
9	2 (0.44%)	Akamai
9	2 (0.44%)	Amazon EC2
9	2 (0.44%)	Amazon S3
9	2 (0.44%)	OneDrive
9	2 (0.44%)	PaaS
9	2 (0.44%)	Yammer
10	1 (0.22%)	G Suite

Communications & Networking
1	232 (51.33%)	Firewall
2	163 (36.06%)	DNS
3	135 (29.87%)	SAN
4	128 (28.32%)	DHCP
5	99 (21.90%)	TCP/IP
6	91 (20.13%)	VPN
7	61 (13.50%)	VLAN
8	53 (11.73%)	WAN
9	52 (11.50%)	LAN
10	51 (11.28%)	Wireless
11	39 (8.63%)	Internet
11	39 (8.63%)	iSCSI
12	36 (7.96%)	NAS
13	35 (7.74%)	VoIP
14	26 (5.75%)	Cisco ASA
15	25 (5.53%)	SSL
16	14 (3.10%)	Skype
17	13 (2.88%)	Remote Desktop
17	13 (2.88%)	SMTP
18	11 (2.43%)	DMZ

Database & Business Intelligence
1	76 (16.81%)	SQL Server
2	23 (5.09%)	SQL Server 2012
3	22 (4.87%)	MySQL
4	17 (3.76%)	Amazon RDS
4	17 (3.76%)	SQL Server 2008
5	13 (2.88%)	SQL Server 2005
6	8 (1.77%)	SQL Server 2014
7	3 (0.66%)	Oracle Database
8	2 (0.44%)	DB2
8	2 (0.44%)	Informix
8	2 (0.44%)	SQL Server Integration Services
8	2 (0.44%)	SQL Server Reporting Services

Development Applications
1	5 (1.11%)	Visual Studio
2	2 (0.44%)	JIRA

General
1	71 (15.71%)	Finance
2	14 (3.10%)	Publishing
3	13 (2.88%)	Telecoms
4	6 (1.33%)	Retail
5	5 (1.11%)	Financial Institution
5	5 (1.11%)	Marketing
6	4 (0.88%)	Banking
7	3 (0.66%)	Manufacturing
8	2 (0.44%)	Advertising
8	2 (0.44%)	Games
9	1 (0.22%)	Automotive
9	1 (0.22%)	Legal
9	1 (0.22%)	Local Government

Job Titles
1	137 (30.31%)	Support Engineer
2	88 (19.47%)	3rd Line Engineer
3	79 (17.48%)	Infrastructure Engineer
4	68 (15.04%)	3rd Line Support
5	66 (14.60%)	Analyst
5	66 (14.60%)	Windows Engineer
6	63 (13.94%)	2nd Line Support
7	61 (13.50%)	Technical Support
8	57 (12.61%)	IT Support
9	53 (11.73%)	3rd Line Support Engineer
10	47 (10.40%)	Server Engineer
11	44 (9.73%)	IT Engineer
11	44 (9.73%)	Server Support
12	39 (8.63%)	Support Analyst
12	39 (8.63%)	Windows Support Engineer
13	36 (7.96%)	Desktop Support
14	34 (7.52%)	Systems Engineer
15	33 (7.30%)	Exchange Support
16	32 (7.08%)	2nd Line Engineer
16	32 (7.08%)	3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer

Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1	16 (3.54%)	Web Services
2	8 (1.77%)	LAMP
3	7 (1.55%)	XML
4	5 (1.11%)	.NET
4	5 (1.11%)	CGI
5	3 (0.66%)	COM
5	3 (0.66%)	EDI
5	3 (0.66%)	Software Packaging
6	2 (0.44%)	802.1X
6	2 (0.44%)	WAP
7	1 (0.22%)	CSS
7	1 (0.22%)	HTML
7	1 (0.22%)	MAPI

Miscellaneous
1	68 (15.04%)	Clustering
2	56 (12.39%)	Blackberry
3	42 (9.29%)	Data Centre
4	38 (8.41%)	Computer Science
5	31 (6.86%)	Driving Licence
6	30 (6.64%)	Management Information System
7	23 (5.09%)	Replication
8	17 (3.76%)	Analytical Skills
9	16 (3.54%)	Hybrid Cloud
10	14 (3.10%)	CMDB
11	11 (2.43%)	iPad
12	8 (1.77%)	EMC VNX
13	7 (1.55%)	Enterprise Software
13	7 (1.55%)	Social Media
14	6 (1.33%)	CCTV
15	5 (1.11%)	Linux Command Line
16	3 (0.66%)	Enterprise Storage
16	3 (0.66%)	HP Storage
16	3 (0.66%)	PDA
16	3 (0.66%)	Wiki

Operating Systems
1	408 (90.27%)	Windows
2	258 (57.08%)	Windows Server
3	216 (47.79%)	Windows Server 2008
4	211 (46.68%)	Windows Server 2012
5	113 (25.00%)	Windows 7
6	96 (21.24%)	Linux
7	78 (17.26%)	Windows 10
8	60 (13.27%)	Windows Server 2003
9	49 (10.84%)	Windows 8
10	24 (5.31%)	Windows Vista
11	23 (5.09%)	Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12	19 (4.20%)	Windows XP
13	18 (3.98%)	Mac OS
14	16 (3.54%)	Mac OS X
15	15 (3.32%)	Unix
16	13 (2.88%)	Apple iOS
17	11 (2.43%)	Ubuntu
18	10 (2.21%)	Windows 2000 Server
19	7 (1.55%)	Android
19	7 (1.55%)	SUSE

Processes & Methodologies
1	52 (11.50%)	ITIL
2	49 (10.84%)	Service Delivery
3	45 (9.96%)	Presales
4	42 (9.29%)	Migration
5	41 (9.07%)	Kalman Filter
6	29 (6.42%)	IT Strategy
7	28 (6.19%)	Project Management
8	25 (5.53%)	Disaster Recovery
9	24 (5.31%)	Line Management
9	24 (5.31%)	Web Filtering
10	23 (5.09%)	Change Management
11	22 (4.87%)	Business Continuity
11	22 (4.87%)	Virtual Environments
12	21 (4.65%)	Time Management
13	19 (4.20%)	Customer Requirements
13	19 (4.20%)	Desktop Virtualisation
14	18 (3.98%)	Server Building
15	17 (3.76%)	Data Management
16	16 (3.54%)	Network Monitoring
16	16 (3.54%)	Root Cause Analysis

Programming Languages
1	132 (29.20%)	SQL
2	50 (11.06%)	PowerShell
3	14 (3.10%)	Bash Shell
4	11 (2.43%)	C
5	8 (1.77%)	AWK
5	8 (1.77%)	sed
5	8 (1.77%)	VBScript
6	5 (1.11%)	C#
6	5 (1.11%)	Java
6	5 (1.11%)	JavaScript
6	5 (1.11%)	Python
6	5 (1.11%)	VB
7	3 (0.66%)	PHP
8	1 (0.22%)	T-SQL

Qualifications
1	121 (26.77%)	Microsoft Certification
2	90 (19.91%)	MCSE
3	58 (12.83%)	MCSA
4	53 (11.73%)	VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5	43 (9.51%)	MCITP
6	38 (8.41%)	MCP
7	37 (8.19%)	Cisco Certification
8	35 (7.74%)	CCNA
9	31 (6.86%)	Degree
10	23 (5.09%)	Security Cleared
11	18 (3.98%)	Computer Science Degree
12	14 (3.10%)	BPSS Clearance
12	14 (3.10%)	ITIL Certification
12	14 (3.10%)	LPIC
13	10 (2.21%)	CISM
13	10 (2.21%)	CompTIA Security+
13	10 (2.21%)	Security+ Certification
13	10 (2.21%)	VERITAS Certified Professional (VCP)
14	9 (1.99%)	VTSP
15	6 (1.33%)	CCNP

Quality Assurance & Compliance
1	27 (5.97%)	SLA
2	14 (3.10%)	Disclosure Scotland
3	13 (2.88%)	ISO/IEC 27001
4	10 (2.21%)	PCI DSS
5	5 (1.11%)	ISO 22301
6	3 (0.66%)	QA
6	3 (0.66%)	Sarbanes-Oxley
7	2 (0.44%)	ISO/IEC 20000

System Software
1	339 (75.00%)	Active Directory
2	263 (58.19%)	VMware Infrastructure
3	196 (43.36%)	Hyper-V
4	89 (19.69%)	vSphere
5	59 (13.05%)	VMware ESXi
6	36 (7.96%)	XenApp
7	17 (3.76%)	XenDesktop
8	14 (3.10%)	Firmware
9	11 (2.43%)	Virtual Machines
10	10 (2.21%)	XenServer
11	9 (1.99%)	Terminal Services
12	8 (1.77%)	Virtual Servers
13	6 (1.33%)	NFS
13	6 (1.33%)	Virtual Desktop
13	6 (1.33%)	VMware Workstation
14	4 (0.88%)	Microsoft Virtual Server
14	4 (0.88%)	Terminal Server
15	2 (0.44%)	Postfix
15	2 (0.44%)	Squid
15	2 (0.44%)	VMware Server

Systems Management
1	89 (19.69%)	SCCM
2	79 (17.48%)	Norton AntiVirus
3	47 (10.40%)	NetBackup
4	39 (8.63%)	WSUS
5	26 (5.75%)	vCenter Server
6	25 (5.53%)	SCOM
7	23 (5.09%)	Symantec Enterprise Vault
8	19 (4.20%)	Microsoft Data Protection Manager
9	13 (2.88%)	McAfee ePO
10	11 (2.43%)	Microsoft Clustering
11	10 (2.21%)	HP Data Protector
12	9 (1.99%)	ServiceCenter
12	9 (1.99%)	SmoothWall
13	8 (1.77%)	AirWatch
13	8 (1.77%)	vMotion
14	7 (1.55%)	Symantec Endpoint Protection
14	7 (1.55%)	Tivoli Storage Manager
15	5 (1.11%)	FortiGate
16	4 (0.88%)	Nagios
16	4 (0.88%)	XenMobile

Vendors
1	347 (76.77%)	Microsoft
2	301 (66.59%)	VMware
3	198 (43.81%)	Veeam
4	185 (40.93%)	Cisco
5	166 (36.73%)	Symantec
6	158 (34.96%)	Citrix
7	147 (32.52%)	HP
8	102 (22.57%)	Dell
9	76 (16.81%)	NetApp
10	64 (14.16%)	Sophos
10	64 (14.16%)	Veritas
11	57 (12.61%)	EMC
12	43 (9.51%)	IBM
13	37 (8.19%)	CheckPoint
14	36 (7.96%)	McAfee
15	34 (7.52%)	Red Hat
16	27 (5.97%)	Oracle
17	25 (5.53%)	CommVault
18	23 (5.09%)	Juniper
18	23 (5.09%)	WatchGuard