Contract System Software Statistics in the North of England

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Contract Job Market Index
Description	Rank 6 Months to 30 Oct 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Daily Rate	Median Daily Rate YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
Active Directory	49	Down 2 places-2	£350	+14.75%	343 4.49%	76
Docker	55	Down 21 places-21	£475	-	312 4.08%	81
VMware Infrastructure	115	Down 5 places-5	£490	+10.79%	167 2.19%	34
Virtual Machines	192	Down 3 places-3	£513	+14.65%	68 0.89%	8
Hyper-V	208	Down 8 places-8	£325	-16.12%	52 0.68%	17
Virtual Desktop	224	Down 37 places-37	£401	-23.61%	36 0.47%	3
Firmware	225	Down 27 places-27	£425	-	35 0.46%	42
vSphere	228	Down 45 places-45	£525	+12.90%	32 0.42%	4
Oracle RAC	228	Down 33 places-33	£566	+0.53%	32 0.42%	1
VMware ESXi	233	Down 34 places-34	£522	+39.20%	27 0.35%	4
BitLocker	239	Down 34 places-34	£344	+25.09%	21 0.27%
RACF	244	Down 40 places-40	£600	-	16 0.21%	1
Citrix Hypervisor	245	New entry-	£305	-	15 0.20%	2
KVM	246	Down 45 places-45	£560	-	14 0.18%
VMware NSX	250	Down 62 places-62	£600	+45.45%	10 0.13%	6
XenApp	250	Down 45 places-45	£300	-42.85%	10 0.13%	2
XenDesktop	251	Down 46 places-46	£300	-42.85%	9 0.12%	2
Virtual Servers	253	Down 52 places-52	£680	+43.15%	7 0.092%	1
NFS	253	Down 48 places-48	£474	-	7 0.092%
oVirt	254	New entry-	-	-	6 0.079%
Time Sharing Option	254	Down 59 places-59	£514	+64.21%	6 0.079%
Microsoft App-V	256	Down 52 places-52	£450	-	4 0.052%
Ceph	257	Down 52 places-52	-	-	3 0.039%
Microsoft Virtual Server	257	New entry-	£680	-	3 0.039%
ACF2	257	Down 52 places-52	£472	-	3 0.039%
NetIQ eDirectory	258	New entry-	-	-	2 0.026%
HDFS	258	Down 55 places-55	£413	-13.15%	2 0.026%
Apache ZooKeeper	258	New entry-	-	-	2 0.026%
Veritas Volume Manager	258	New entry-	£474	-	2 0.026%
SRDF	258	Down 53 places-53	£525	-	2 0.026%
EMC RecoverPoint	258	New entry-	£525	-	2 0.026%
NDS	258	New entry-	-	-	2 0.026%