Backup Exec Jobs

Symantec Backup Exec
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring Backup Exec skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Backup Exec over the 6 months leading up to 26 July 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 805 852 1196
Rank change year-on-year +47 +344 -236
Permanent jobs citing Backup Exec 37 35 79
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.041% 0.043% 0.045%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.45% 0.31% 0.25%
Number of salaries quoted 36 29 69
10th Percentile £29,000 £23,750 £25,750
25th Percentile £30,000 £32,000 £29,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £40,000 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year +37.50% - -
75th Percentile £57,125 £57,500 £50,000
90th Percentile £60,000 £74,500 £60,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £56,000 £32,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year +72.31% -7.14% +4.48%

All Systems Management Skills
UK

Backup Exec falls under the Systems Management category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring systems management skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 8,299 11,343 31,593
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 9.18% 14.06% 18.03%
Number of salaries quoted 5,668 8,161 14,111
10th Percentile £34,404 £35,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,719 £47,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £67,500 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.41% - +3.85%
75th Percentile £85,000 £86,250 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% +4.55%

Backup Exec
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Backup Exec in the UK

Backup Exec
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Backup Exec.

Salary trend for Backup Exec in the UK

Backup Exec
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Backup Exec over the 6 months to 26 July 2024.

Salary histogram for Backup Exec in the UK

Backup Exec
Top 11 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 6 months to 26 July 2024. 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +34 34 £55,000 +37.50% 6
UK excluding London -16 29 £56,000 +72.31% 8
South West +12 20 £56,000 +1.82% 3
Work from Home +48 13 £30,000 -39.70% 4
London +66 5 £36,000 -10.00%
South East +6 4 £54,500 +21.11% 1
Midlands -21 4 £60,000 +126.42%
West Midlands -5 3 £60,000 +126.42%
Yorkshire +58 1 £55,000 +15.79% 2
North of England +8 1 £55,000 +51.72% 3
East Midlands - 1 £60,000 -

Backup Exec
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 32 (86.49%) Microsoft Exchange
2 9 (24.32%) SharePoint
3 2 (5.41%) IIS
Applications
1 9 (24.32%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (2.70%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (2.70%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (2.70%) Sage 200
Cloud Services
1 22 (59.46%) Microsoft 365
2 7 (18.92%) Azure
3 6 (16.22%) OneDrive
4 4 (10.81%) Entra ID
5 1 (2.70%) Power Platform
5 1 (2.70%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 23 (62.16%) SAN
2 13 (35.14%) Firewall
3 8 (21.62%) Remote Desktop
4 6 (16.22%) DHCP
4 6 (16.22%) DNS
5 5 (13.51%) VPN
6 4 (10.81%) LAN
6 4 (10.81%) WAN
7 2 (5.41%) SD-WAN
8 1 (2.70%) NAS
8 1 (2.70%) Unified Communications
8 1 (2.70%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (16.22%) SQL Server
2 1 (2.70%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (2.70%) Crystal Reports
2 1 (2.70%) Power BI
General
1 16 (43.24%) Social Skills
2 15 (40.54%) Organisational Skills
3 12 (32.43%) Finance
4 3 (8.11%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (8.11%) Military
5 1 (2.70%) Retail
Job Titles
1 15 (40.54%) Support Engineer
2 9 (24.32%) Systems Engineer
3 5 (13.51%) Analyst
3 5 (13.51%) Service Analyst
3 5 (13.51%) Service Desk Analyst
3 5 (13.51%) Technical Analyst
3 5 (13.51%) Technical Services Analyst
4 4 (10.81%) Consultant
4 4 (10.81%) IT Support
4 4 (10.81%) Service Desk Engineer
4 4 (10.81%) Support Consultant
4 4 (10.81%) Technical Consultant
4 4 (10.81%) Technical Support
4 4 (10.81%) Technical Support Consultant
5 3 (8.11%) IT Consultant
5 3 (8.11%) Systems Support
5 3 (8.11%) Systems Support Engineer
6 1 (2.70%) Head of IT
6 1 (2.70%) Infrastructure Specialist
6 1 (2.70%) IT Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 16 (43.24%) Clustering
2 8 (21.62%) Driving Licence
2 8 (21.62%) Replication
3 6 (16.22%) Management Information System
4 2 (5.41%) Data Centre
5 1 (2.70%) Microsoft Licensing
Operating Systems
1 35 (94.59%) Windows
2 12 (32.43%) AIX
2 12 (32.43%) Windows Server
3 8 (21.62%) Android
3 8 (21.62%) Apple iOS
4 4 (10.81%) Windows Server 2008
5 3 (8.11%) Linux
5 3 (8.11%) Windows 10
6 2 (5.41%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (2.70%) Windows 8
7 1 (2.70%) Windows Server 2012
7 1 (2.70%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (64.86%) ITIL
2 12 (32.43%) Continuous Improvement
2 12 (32.43%) Customer Requirements
3 8 (21.62%) Customer Service
3 8 (21.62%) Remote Monitoring and Management
3 8 (21.62%) Ticket Management
4 4 (10.81%) Project Management
5 3 (8.11%) Artificial Intelligence
5 3 (8.11%) Collaborative Culture
5 3 (8.11%) Cybersecurity
5 3 (8.11%) Machine Learning
5 3 (8.11%) Model-Based Systems Engineering
5 3 (8.11%) Project Delivery
5 3 (8.11%) Server Management
5 3 (8.11%) Server Patching
5 3 (8.11%) Systems Engineering
6 1 (2.70%) Order Management
6 1 (2.70%) Proactive Monitoring
6 1 (2.70%) Problem-Solving
6 1 (2.70%) Server Building
Programming Languages
1 13 (35.14%) SQL
2 9 (24.32%) PowerShell
3 3 (8.11%) R
Qualifications
1 15 (40.54%) Security Cleared
2 12 (32.43%) ITIL Certification
2 12 (32.43%) SC Cleared
3 8 (21.62%) CCA
3 8 (21.62%) Citrix Certification
3 8 (21.62%) MCP
4 6 (16.22%) DV Cleared
5 2 (5.41%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (32.43%) SLA
2 4 (10.81%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 3 (8.11%) JSP 440
System Software
1 33 (89.19%) Active Directory
2 26 (70.27%) VMware Infrastructure
3 16 (43.24%) Hyper-V
4 8 (21.62%) XenApp
4 8 (21.62%) XenDesktop
5 1 (2.70%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (2.70%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 12 (32.43%) NetBackup
2 8 (21.62%) Symantec Endpoint Protection
3 6 (16.22%) Microsoft Intune
4 4 (10.81%) SCCM
5 1 (2.70%) FortiGate
5 1 (2.70%) vCenter Server
5 1 (2.70%) WSUS
Vendors
1 36 (97.30%) Microsoft
2 30 (81.08%) Veritas
3 29 (78.38%) VMware
4 13 (35.14%) NetApp
4 13 (35.14%) Veeam
5 12 (32.43%) Fortinet
5 12 (32.43%) Hitachi
5 12 (32.43%) Oracle
5 12 (32.43%) Snow
6 11 (29.73%) Dell
6 11 (29.73%) Symantec
7 9 (24.32%) Citrix
7 9 (24.32%) IBM
8 8 (21.62%) N-able
9 7 (18.92%) Cisco
10 4 (10.81%) Aruba
11 3 (8.11%) Red Hat
12 2 (5.41%) Commvault
12 2 (5.41%) EMC
13 1 (2.70%) Avaya