Contract System Software Statistics in the North of England

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Contract Job Market Index
Description	Rank 6 Months to 2 Nov 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Daily Rate	Median Daily Rate YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
Active Directory	49	Down 1 place-1	£350	+11.11%	339 4.46%	120
Docker	55	Down 23 places-23	£475	-	315 4.15%	141
VMware Infrastructure	119	Down 11 places-11	£490	+10.79%	168 2.21%	45
Virtual Machines	198	Down 12 places-12	£514	+14.93%	67 0.88%	14
Hyper-V	213	Down 16 places-16	£325	-16.12%	52 0.68%	22
Virtual Desktop	229	Down 45 places-45	£397	-24.47%	36 0.47%	9
Firmware	230	Down 35 places-35	£425	-	35 0.46%	54
Oracle RAC	233	Down 40 places-40	£566	+2.81%	32 0.42%	2
vSphere	233	Down 53 places-53	£525	+12.90%	32 0.42%	6
VMware ESXi	238	Down 42 places-42	£522	+39.20%	27 0.36%	7
BitLocker	248	Down 48 places-48	£365	-5.80%	17 0.22%
RACF	249	Down 48 places-48	£600	-	16 0.21%	2
Citrix Hypervisor	250	New entry-	£305	-	15 0.20%	3
KVM	251	Down 53 places-53	£560	-	14 0.18%
VMware NSX	255	Down 70 places-70	£600	+45.45%	10 0.13%	7
XenApp	255	Down 53 places-53	£300	-42.85%	10 0.13%	4
XenDesktop	256	Down 54 places-54	£300	-42.85%	9 0.12%	3
Virtual Servers	258	Down 60 places-60	£680	+43.15%	7 0.092%	1
NFS	258	Down 56 places-56	£474	-	7 0.092%
oVirt	259	New entry-	-	-	6 0.079%
Time Sharing Option	259	Down 67 places-67	£514	+64.21%	6 0.079%
Microsoft App-V	261	Down 60 places-60	£450	-	4 0.053%
Ceph	262	Down 60 places-60	-	-	3 0.040%
Microsoft Virtual Server	262	New entry-	£680	-	3 0.040%
ACF2	262	Down 60 places-60	£472	-	3 0.040%
NetIQ eDirectory	263	New entry-	-	-	2 0.026%
HDFS	263	Down 63 places-63	£413	-13.15%	2 0.026%	1
Apache ZooKeeper	263	New entry-	-	-	2 0.026%
Veritas Volume Manager	263	New entry-	£474	-	2 0.026%
SRDF	263	Down 61 places-61	£525	-	2 0.026%
EMC RecoverPoint	263	New entry-	£525	-	2 0.026%
NDS	263	New entry-	-	-	2 0.026%