Contract System Software Statistics in the North West

Contract Job Market Index

Description	Rank 6 Months to 18 Aug 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Daily Rate	Median Daily Rate YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
Active Directory	37	Up 13 places+13	£312	-1.11%	195 5.05%	60
Docker	74	Down -41 places-41	£525	+7.96%	112 2.90%	75
VMware Infrastructure	93	Up 7 places+7	£480	+12.94%	86 2.23%	19
Firmware	144	Down -23 places-23	£410	-6.28%	33 0.85%	17
Virtual Machines	144	Down -18 places-18	£480	+42.22%	33 0.85%	4
vSphere	149	Down -26 places-26	£472	-	28 0.73%	1
VMware ESXi	151	Down -26 places-26	£482	+42.66%	26 0.67%	6
Oracle RAC	151	New entry-	£550	-	26 0.67%
Virtual Desktop	153	Down -30 places-30	£325	-33.33%	24 0.62%	9
BitLocker	159	Down -35 places-35	£365	-21.50%	18 0.47%	1
Hyper-V	160	Down -34 places-34	£325	-	17 0.44%	11
VMware NSX	162	Down -38 places-38	£565	+5.11%	15 0.39%	4
NFS	170	New entry-	£450	-	7 0.18%	1
Citrix Hypervisor	171	New entry-	£300	-	6 0.16%	3
RACF	173	New entry-	£600	-	4 0.10%
GPFS	173	New entry-	£316	-	4 0.10%
Microsoft App-V	174	New entry-	£285	-	3 0.078%
XenApp	174	New entry-	£275	-	3 0.078%	2
XenDesktop	174	New entry-	£275	-	3 0.078%	2
Veritas Volume Manager	174	New entry-	£465	-	3 0.078%
KVM	174	New entry-	-	-	3 0.078%	2
Ceph	174	New entry-	-	-	3 0.078%	1
Apache ZooKeeper	175	New entry-	-	-	2 0.052%
Snort	175	New entry-	£537	-	2 0.052%
Microsoft Virtual Server	176	New entry-	£325	-	1 0.026%
zsh	176	New entry-	£525	-	1 0.026%
Virtual Servers	176	Down -48 places-48	£325	-31.57%	1 0.026%
Squid	176	New entry-	£513	-	1 0.026%
ProxySG	176	New entry-	£653	-	1 0.026%