Contract System Software Statistics in the North of England

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Contract Job Market Index
Description	Rank 6 Months to 14 Nov 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Daily Rate	Median Daily Rate YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
Active Directory	47	Down 1 place-1	£356	+16.80%	359 4.65%	218
Docker	58	Down 28 places-28	£475	-0.10%	321 4.16%	263
VMware Infrastructure	123	Down 13 places-13	£490	+9.61%	168 2.18%	75
Virtual Machines	201	Down 9 places-9	£515	+11.71%	70 0.91%	29
Hyper-V	215	Down 12 places-12	£325	-23.52%	56 0.73%	54
Virtual Desktop	229	Down 39 places-39	£414	-21.14%	42 0.54%	18
Firmware	238	Down 40 places-40	£419	-1.47%	33 0.43%	120
Oracle RAC	239	Down 41 places-41	£566	+2.81%	32 0.41%	8
vSphere	241	Down 56 places-56	£525	+12.90%	30 0.39%	15
VMware ESXi	244	Down 41 places-41	£525	-2.32%	27 0.35%	10
BitLocker	255	Down 53 places-53	£365	-38.72%	16 0.21%	6
Citrix Hypervisor	255	New entry-	£310	-	16 0.21%	4
RACF	255	Down 54 places-54	£600	+77.77%	16 0.21%	2
KVM	257	Down 54 places-54	£560	-	14 0.18%	3
XenApp	259	Down 52 places-52	£300	-42.85%	12 0.16%	3
XenDesktop	261	Down 54 places-54	£300	-42.85%	10 0.13%	2
VMware NSX	261	Down 71 places-71	£600	+45.45%	10 0.13%	7
Virtual Servers	264	Down 60 places-60	£680	+61.32%	7 0.091%	2
Time Sharing Option	265	Down 73 places-73	£514	+58.15%	6 0.078%
NFS	265	Down 58 places-58	£483	-	6 0.078%	1
oVirt	265	New entry-	-	-	6 0.078%
Microsoft App-V	267	Down 61 places-61	£450	-	4 0.052%
Microsoft Virtual Server	268	New entry-	£680	-	3 0.039%
ACF2	268	Down 66 places-66	£472	+39.70%	3 0.039%	1
Ceph	268	Down 61 places-61	-	-	3 0.039%
Veritas Volume Manager	269	New entry-	£474	-	2 0.026%
SRDF	269	Down 62 places-62	£525	-	2 0.026%
EMC RecoverPoint	269	New entry-	£525	-	2 0.026%
NDS	269	New entry-	-	-	2 0.026%
NetIQ eDirectory	269	New entry-	-	-	2 0.026%
HDFS	269	Down 64 places-64	£413	-13.15%	2 0.026%	1
Apache ZooKeeper	269	New entry-	-	-	2 0.026%