Contract System Software Statistics in the North of England

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Contract Job Market Index
Description	Rank 6 Months to 27 Oct 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Daily Rate	Median Daily Rate YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
Active Directory	49	Down 4 places-4	£338	+10.65%	338 4.41%	94
Docker	55	Down 20 places-20	£475	-	313 4.09%	89
VMware Infrastructure	120	Down 14 places-14	£490	+12.00%	166 2.17%	41
Virtual Machines	197	Down 20 places-20	£514	+14.93%	67 0.88%	9
Hyper-V	213	Down 25 places-25	£325	-16.12%	51 0.67%	22
Virtual Desktop	226	Down 51 places-51	£397	-24.47%	38 0.50%	2
Firmware	227	Down 40 places-40	£450	+5.88%	37 0.48%	39
Oracle RAC	232	Down 49 places-49	£566	+0.53%	32 0.42%	1
vSphere	232	Down 59 places-59	£525	+12.90%	32 0.42%	5
VMware ESXi	238	Down 50 places-50	£519	+38.40%	26 0.34%	7
BitLocker	243	Down 50 places-50	£349	+26.94%	21 0.27%	2
RACF	248	Down 55 places-55	£600	-	16 0.21%
Citrix Hypervisor	250	New entry-	£300	-	14 0.18%	2
KVM	250	Down 60 places-60	£560	-	14 0.18%
VMware NSX	254	Down 76 places-76	£600	+45.45%	10 0.13%	5
XenApp	255	Down 62 places-62	£300	-42.85%	9 0.12%	2
XenDesktop	256	Down 63 places-63	£300	-42.85%	8 0.10%	2
NFS	256	Down 63 places-63	£474	-	8 0.10%
Virtual Servers	257	Down 68 places-68	£680	+43.15%	7 0.091%	1
Time Sharing Option	257	Down 73 places-73	£514	+64.21%	7 0.091%
Microsoft App-V	258	Down 66 places-66	£425	-	6 0.078%
oVirt	258	New entry-	-	-	6 0.078%
Microsoft Virtual Server	261	New entry-	£680	-	3 0.039%
Ceph	261	New entry-	-	-	3 0.039%
ACF2	261	New entry-	£472	-	3 0.039%
HDFS	262	Down 71 places-71	£413	-13.15%	2 0.026%
Apache ZooKeeper	262	New entry-	-	-	2 0.026%
Veritas Volume Manager	262	New entry-	£474	-	2 0.026%
SRDF	262	Down 69 places-69	£525	-	2 0.026%
EMC RecoverPoint	262	New entry-	£525	-	2 0.026%
NDS	262	New entry-	-	-	2 0.026%
NetIQ eDirectory	262	New entry-	-	-	2 0.026%