Contract System Software Statistics in Manchester

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Contract Job Market Index
Description	Rank 6 Months to 28 Oct 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Daily Rate	Median Daily Rate YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
Docker	42	Down 14 places-14	£500	-	110 5.38%	38
Active Directory	58	Up 3 places+3	£459	+13.27%	78 3.82%	22
VMware Infrastructure	118	Down 50 places-50	£500	-2.43%	16 0.78%	6
Firmware	122	Down 40 places-40	£313	-26.47%	12 0.59%	12
Virtual Machines	122	New entry-	£625	-	12 0.59%	2
Oracle RAC	125	New entry-	£435	-	9 0.44%
Virtual Desktop	127	Down 44 places-44	£393	-53.76%	7 0.34%	1
RACF	130	Down 46 places-46	£600	-	4 0.20%
Hyper-V	130	Down 46 places-46	£500	-	4 0.20%	4
Microsoft App-V	131	New entry-	£463	-	3 0.15%
BitLocker	132	New entry-	£450	-	2 0.098%
VMware NSX	132	Down 51 places-51	£500	-	2 0.098%	5
vSphere	132	Down 56 places-56	£316	-51.66%	2 0.098%	1
VMware ESXi	132	Down 48 places-48	£408	-41.71%	2 0.098%	3
Apache ZooKeeper	132	New entry-	-	-	2 0.098%
Squid	133	New entry-	£513	-	1 0.049%
NFS	133	New entry-	£316	-	1 0.049%
GPFS	133	New entry-	£316	-	1 0.049%