Contract System Software Statistics in the North of England

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Contract Job Market Index
Description	Rank 6 Months to 24 Oct 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Daily Rate	Median Daily Rate YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
Active Directory	50	Down 2 places-2	£325	-1.29%	342 4.44%	152
Docker	56	Down 20 places-20	£475	-	312 4.05%	262
VMware Infrastructure	116	Down 6 places-6	£490	+12.00%	168 2.18%	74
Virtual Machines	195	Down 14 places-14	£514	+14.93%	68 0.88%	38
Hyper-V	210	Down 18 places-18	£325	-16.12%	53 0.69%	40
Firmware	226	Down 35 places-35	£450	+5.88%	37 0.48%	93
Virtual Desktop	226	Down 47 places-47	£397	-24.47%	37 0.48%	11
vSphere	231	Down 54 places-54	£522	+12.25%	32 0.42%	13
Oracle RAC	233	Down 46 places-46	£539	-4.17%	30 0.39%	1
VMware ESXi	235	Down 43 places-43	£510	+35.86%	28 0.36%	12
BitLocker	242	Down 45 places-45	£349	+26.94%	21 0.27%	4
RACF	247	Down 50 places-50	£600	-	16 0.21%	1
KVM	248	Down 54 places-54	£560	-	15 0.19%	6
Citrix Hypervisor	249	New entry-	£300	-	14 0.18%	3
VMware NSX	253	Down 71 places-71	£600	+45.45%	10 0.13%	8
XenApp	254	Down 57 places-57	£300	-42.85%	9 0.12%	5
NFS	254	Down 57 places-57	£465	-	9 0.12%	2
XenDesktop	255	Down 58 places-58	£300	-42.85%	8 0.10%	3
Time Sharing Option	256	Down 68 places-68	£514	+64.21%	7 0.091%
Virtual Servers	257	Down 64 places-64	£680	+43.15%	6 0.078%	1
oVirt	257	New entry-	-	-	6 0.078%
Microsoft App-V	257	Down 61 places-61	£425	-	6 0.078%
Ceph	260	New entry-	-	-	3 0.039%
Microsoft Virtual Server	260	New entry-	£680	-	3 0.039%
ACF2	260	New entry-	£472	-	3 0.039%
NetIQ eDirectory	261	New entry-	-	-	2 0.026%
HDFS	261	Down 66 places-66	£413	-13.15%	2 0.026%	1
Apache ZooKeeper	261	New entry-	-	-	2 0.026%
GPFS	261	New entry-	£316	-	2 0.026%	1
Veritas Volume Manager	261	New entry-	£474	-	2 0.026%
SRDF	261	Down 64 places-64	£525	-	2 0.026%
EMC RecoverPoint	261	New entry-	£525	-	2 0.026%
NDS	261	New entry-	-	-	2 0.026%