Backup Exec Contracts

Symantec Backup Exec
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Backup Exec skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Backup Exec over the 6 months to 9 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 598 685 837
Rank change year-on-year +87 +152 -127
Contract jobs citing Backup Exec 4 10 19
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.009% 0.018% 0.022%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.076% 0.11% 0.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 5 17
10th Percentile - £328 £205
25th Percentile - - £414
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £250 £350 £452
Median % change year-on-year -28.57% -22.57% +41.25%
75th Percentile £388 £490 £510
90th Percentile £470 £519 £525
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £350 £452
% change year-on-year +42.86% -22.57% +49.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £20.04
Median hourly rate - - £21.35
75th Percentile - - £22.67
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £21.35

All Systems Management Skills
UK

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

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 5,275 8,706 13,814
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 12.18% 15.67% 15.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,818 6,216 9,990
10th Percentile £288 £350 £363
25th Percentile £413 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £550 £565
Median % change year-on-year -6.82% -2.65% +10.78%
75th Percentile £625 £675 £675
90th Percentile £700 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £494 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -5.90% +5.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 97 195 179
10th Percentile £14.66 £17.79 £13.20
25th Percentile £20.50 £25.71 £15.50
Median hourly rate £31.50 £57.50 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year -45.22% +161.36% -44.30%
75th Percentile £50.25 £73.73 £42.75
90th Percentile £71.25 £83.45 £59.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% -13.83%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Backup Exec in the UK

Backup Exec
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Backup Exec over the 6 months to 9 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Backup Exec in the UK

Backup Exec
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Backup Exec in the UK

Backup Exec
Top 6 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Backup Exec within the UK over the 6 months to 9 June 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +92 4 £250 -28.57% 10
London +84 2 £250 -38.65% 1
UK excluding London +37 2 £500 +42.86% 9
Work from Home - 2 £500 - 2
South East +13 1 £500 +42.86% 2
South West - 1 - - 3

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 1 (25.00%) Exchange Server 2013
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (25.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) Azure
1 1 (25.00%) Azure Monitor
1 1 (25.00%) Azure Sentinel
1 1 (25.00%) Entra ID
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 3 (75.00%) SAN
2 2 (50.00%) NAS
3 1 (25.00%) Fibre Channel
3 1 (25.00%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (75.00%) SQL Server
2 2 (50.00%) MySQL
2 2 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Server Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Cloud Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Cloud Security Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Enterprise Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Enterprise Security Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Enterprise Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Security Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Senior
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Wintel Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Wintel Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 3 (75.00%) Replication
2 2 (50.00%) Clustering
2 2 (50.00%) PKI
3 1 (25.00%) Cyber Threat
3 1 (25.00%) Data Centre
3 1 (25.00%) Enterprise Cloud
3 1 (25.00%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 4 (100.00%) Windows
2 3 (75.00%) Linux
2 3 (75.00%) Windows Server
3 2 (50.00%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (25.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (25.00%) Windows Server 2012
4 1 (25.00%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 2 (50.00%) Security Hardening
2 2 (50.00%) Task Automation
3 1 (25.00%) Business Continuity
3 1 (25.00%) Cloud Security
3 1 (25.00%) Computer Science
3 1 (25.00%) Data Flow Diagram
3 1 (25.00%) Identity Management
3 1 (25.00%) Information Security
3 1 (25.00%) ITIL
3 1 (25.00%) Migration
3 1 (25.00%) Server Hardening
3 1 (25.00%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 3 (75.00%) MCSE
1 3 (75.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 2 (50.00%) Degree
3 1 (25.00%) ITIL Certification
3 1 (25.00%) VERITAS Certified Professional (VCP)
3 1 (25.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 3 (75.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (25.00%) Citrix Presentation Server
2 1 (25.00%) Hyper-V
2 1 (25.00%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) HP SIM
1 1 (25.00%) SCCM
1 1 (25.00%) SCDPM
1 1 (25.00%) SCVMM
1 1 (25.00%) Symantec Endpoint Protection
1 1 (25.00%) vCenter Server
1 1 (25.00%) WSUS
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) VMware
2 2 (50.00%) CA
2 2 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (50.00%) Veritas
3 1 (25.00%) Cisco
3 1 (25.00%) Citrix
3 1 (25.00%) Commvault
3 1 (25.00%) EMC
3 1 (25.00%) HP
3 1 (25.00%) McAfee
3 1 (25.00%) Okta
3 1 (25.00%) Oracle
3 1 (25.00%) Symantec