Contract System Software Statistics in the North of England

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Contract Job Market Index
Description	Rank 6 Months to 5 Nov 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Daily Rate	Median Daily Rate YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
Active Directory	48	Down 6 places-6	£350	+11.11%	341 4.49%	107
Docker	54	Down 23 places-23	£475	-	314 4.14%	116
VMware Infrastructure	118	Down 14 places-14	£490	+10.79%	166 2.19%	35
Virtual Machines	199	Down 18 places-18	£513	+14.65%	68 0.90%	12
Hyper-V	215	Down 23 places-23	£325	-16.12%	52 0.69%	24
Virtual Desktop	230	Down 51 places-51	£401	-23.61%	37 0.49%	9
Firmware	233	Down 44 places-44	£425	-	34 0.45%	43
Oracle RAC	235	Down 47 places-47	£566	+2.81%	32 0.42%	3
vSphere	236	Down 61 places-61	£522	+12.25%	31 0.41%	3
VMware ESXi	240	Down 49 places-49	£522	+39.20%	27 0.36%	4
BitLocker	251	Down 59 places-59	£365	-38.72%	16 0.21%
Citrix Hypervisor	252	New entry-	£305	-	15 0.20%	2
RACF	252	Down 56 places-56	£600	-	15 0.20%
KVM	253	Down 60 places-60	£560	-	14 0.18%	1
XenApp	257	Down 60 places-60	£300	-42.85%	10 0.13%	3
VMware NSX	257	Down 77 places-77	£600	+45.45%	10 0.13%	5
XenDesktop	258	Down 61 places-61	£300	-42.85%	9 0.12%	2
NFS	260	Down 63 places-63	£474	-	7 0.092%
Virtual Servers	260	Down 66 places-66	£680	+61.32%	7 0.092%	2
Time Sharing Option	261	Down 74 places-74	£514	+64.21%	6 0.079%
oVirt	261	New entry-	-	-	6 0.079%
Microsoft App-V	263	Down 67 places-67	£450	-	4 0.053%
Microsoft Virtual Server	264	New entry-	£680	-	3 0.040%
ACF2	264	Down 67 places-67	£472	-	3 0.040%
Ceph	264	Down 67 places-67	-	-	3 0.040%
Veritas Volume Manager	265	New entry-	£474	-	2 0.026%
SRDF	265	Down 68 places-68	£525	-	2 0.026%
EMC RecoverPoint	265	New entry-	£525	-	2 0.026%
NDS	265	New entry-	-	-	2 0.026%
NetIQ eDirectory	265	New entry-	-	-	2 0.026%
HDFS	265	Down 70 places-70	£413	-13.15%	2 0.026%	1
Apache ZooKeeper	265	New entry-	-	-	2 0.026%