Contract System Software Statistics in the North West

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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
Active Directory	42	Up 2 places+2	£350	-2.77%	194 4.86%	44
Docker	72	Down 35 places-35	£500	+11.11%	129 3.23%	49
VMware Infrastructure	109	Down 23 places-23	£450	-5.26%	75 1.88%	22
Firmware	154	Down 23 places-23	£450	+5.88%	29 0.73%	22
Virtual Machines	157	Down 21 places-21	£538	+48.27%	26 0.65%	6
Virtual Desktop	157	Down 24 places-24	£325	-35.00%	26 0.65%	2
Oracle RAC	158	New entry-	£625	-	25 0.63%
Hyper-V	159	Down 23 places-23	£310	-24.84%	24 0.60%	12
BitLocker	165	New entry-	£365	-	18 0.45%	1
Citrix Hypervisor	170	New entry-	£300	-	13 0.33%	1
VMware NSX	175	Down 46 places-46	£600	-	8 0.20%	5
XenApp	176	New entry-	£300	-	7 0.18%	1
XenDesktop	176	New entry-	£300	-	7 0.18%	1
vSphere	177	Down 51 places-51	£325	-50.28%	6 0.15%	2
Microsoft App-V	177	New entry-	£425	-	6 0.15%
RACF	179	Down 42 places-42	£600	-	4 0.10%
VMware ESXi	179	Down 43 places-43	£479	-6.63%	4 0.10%	6
NFS	179	New entry-	£465	-	4 0.10%
Ceph	180	New entry-	-	-	3 0.075%
KVM	180	New entry-	-	-	3 0.075%
Apache ZooKeeper	181	New entry-	-	-	2 0.050%
Virtual Servers	181	Down 47 places-47	£325	-22.89%	2 0.050%
Veritas Volume Manager	181	New entry-	£474	-	2 0.050%
GPFS	182	New entry-	£316	-	1 0.025%
Squid	182	New entry-	£513	-	1 0.025%
Microsoft Virtual Server	182	New entry-	£325	-	1 0.025%