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 18 February 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Feb 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 720 786 971
Rank change year-on-year +66 +185 +96
Permanent jobs citing Backup Exec 18 24 59
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.030% 0.031% 0.053%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.30% 0.27% 0.35%
Number of salaries quoted 11 22 47
10th Percentile - £36,500 £29,750
25th Percentile £29,000 £45,000 £32,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £30,000 £55,000 £35,000
Median % change year-on-year -45.45% +57.14% -12.50%
75th Percentile £38,375 £61,188 £46,250
90th Percentile £43,000 £73,125 £57,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £30,000 £57,000 £32,000
% change year-on-year -47.37% +78.13% -14.67%

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 6,050 8,854 17,023
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.04% 11.46% 15.42%
Number of salaries quoted 3,561 6,985 10,478
10th Percentile £40,000 £32,750 £35,750
25th Percentile £51,250 £45,875 £48,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £62,500 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +12.00% -7.41% -0.74%
75th Percentile £90,000 £83,750 £88,283
90th Percentile £112,500 £102,500 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £56,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -2.65% -1.74%

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 18 February 2025.

Salary histogram for Backup Exec in the UK

Backup Exec
Top 12 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 18 February 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +73 18 £30,000 -45.45% 2
UK excluding London +80 16 £30,000 -47.37% 3
Work from Home +106 7 £32,500 -31.58% 2
North of England +36 7 £30,000 -50.00% 2
Yorkshire +54 6 £30,000 -50.00% 1
South East +50 4 £37,500 -21.05%
South West +59 2 £30,000 -47.37%
London +27 2 £37,750 -16.11%
Midlands +11 2 - -
East Midlands - 2 - -
North West - 1 £30,000 -
East of England - 1 £42,000 -

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 8 (44.44%) Microsoft Exchange
2 7 (38.89%) SharePoint
3 2 (11.11%) Site Server
Applications
1 6 (33.33%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (11.11%) SAP EHS
Cloud Services
1 17 (94.44%) Microsoft 365
2 9 (50.00%) Azure
3 8 (44.44%) OneDrive
4 5 (27.78%) Entra ID
5 1 (5.56%) Power Platform
5 1 (5.56%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 8 (44.44%) VPN
2 6 (33.33%) Firewall
3 5 (27.78%) LAN
3 5 (27.78%) WAN
4 4 (22.22%) SAN
5 3 (16.67%) Wi-Fi
6 2 (11.11%) DHCP
6 2 (11.11%) DNS
6 2 (11.11%) Network Security
6 2 (11.11%) Remote Desktop
7 1 (5.56%) Fibre Channel
7 1 (5.56%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.56%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (5.56%) BusinessObjects
1 1 (5.56%) Power BI
General
1 3 (16.67%) Law
1 3 (16.67%) Social Skills
2 2 (11.11%) Telecoms
3 1 (5.56%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (5.56%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (33.33%) Technical Support
2 4 (22.22%) IT Support
3 3 (16.67%) Analyst
3 3 (16.67%) Consultant
3 3 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 3 (16.67%) IT Consultant
3 3 (16.67%) Support Consultant
3 3 (16.67%) Technical Consultant
3 3 (16.67%) Technical Support Consultant
4 2 (11.11%) 2nd Line Engineer
4 2 (11.11%) Hardware Engineer
4 2 (11.11%) Service Analyst
4 2 (11.11%) Service Desk Analyst
4 2 (11.11%) Support Technician
4 2 (11.11%) Technical Analyst
4 2 (11.11%) Technical Services Analyst
5 1 (5.56%) 2nd Line Desktop Support Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) 3rd Line Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Infrastructure Support
Miscellaneous
1 2 (11.11%) Driving Licence
1 2 (11.11%) Replication
1 2 (11.11%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (5.56%) Onboarding
2 1 (5.56%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 14 (77.78%) Windows
2 7 (38.89%) Windows Server
3 4 (22.22%) Windows 10
3 4 (22.22%) Windows Server 2016
3 4 (22.22%) Windows Server 2019
4 2 (11.11%) Android
4 2 (11.11%) Apple iOS
5 1 (5.56%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (33.33%) ITIL
2 5 (27.78%) Customer Service
3 4 (22.22%) Migration
4 3 (16.67%) Disaster Recovery
4 3 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 3 (16.67%) Mentoring
5 2 (11.11%) Deployment Automation
5 2 (11.11%) Inventory Control
5 2 (11.11%) Inventory Management
5 2 (11.11%) Line Management
5 2 (11.11%) Order Management
5 2 (11.11%) Remote Monitoring and Management
5 2 (11.11%) Server Building
5 2 (11.11%) Ticket Management
6 1 (5.56%) ITSM
6 1 (5.56%) Patch Management
6 1 (5.56%) Proactive Monitoring
6 1 (5.56%) Security Patching
6 1 (5.56%) Server Management
6 1 (5.56%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 2 (11.11%) PowerShell
2 1 (5.56%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (11.11%) CCA
1 2 (11.11%) Citrix Certification
1 2 (11.11%) Degree
1 2 (11.11%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.56%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 15 (83.33%) Active Directory
2 5 (27.78%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (22.22%) Hyper-V
4 3 (16.67%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (11.11%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (11.11%) VMware Workstation
5 2 (11.11%) XenApp
5 2 (11.11%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 6 (33.33%) SCCM
2 5 (27.78%) Microsoft Intune
3 3 (16.67%) vCenter Server
4 2 (11.11%) Symantec Endpoint Protection
4 2 (11.11%) WSUS
5 1 (5.56%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 14 (77.78%) Microsoft
1 14 (77.78%) Veritas
2 10 (55.56%) VMware
3 9 (50.00%) Veeam
4 4 (22.22%) Citrix
4 4 (22.22%) Dell
5 3 (16.67%) Aruba
5 3 (16.67%) Fortinet
5 3 (16.67%) SAP
6 2 (11.11%) Cisco
6 2 (11.11%) N-able
6 2 (11.11%) Symantec
7 1 (5.56%) Apple
7 1 (5.56%) HP
7 1 (5.56%) Kaspersky
7 1 (5.56%) Mitel
7 1 (5.56%) Sage
7 1 (5.56%) Sophos
7 1 (5.56%) Ubiquiti
7 1 (5.56%) WatchGuard