Contract System Software Statistics in the North of England

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Contract Job Market Index
Description	Rank 6 Months to 8 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	£350	+14.75%	344 4.51%	119
Docker	56	Down 24 places-24	£475	-	310 4.07%	111
VMware Infrastructure	120	Down 18 places-18	£490	+10.79%	168 2.20%	40
Virtual Machines	199	Down 17 places-17	£513	+14.65%	68 0.89%	11
Hyper-V	214	Down 21 places-21	£325	-16.12%	53 0.70%	34
Virtual Desktop	230	Down 49 places-49	£401	-23.61%	37 0.49%	11
Firmware	234	Down 45 places-45	£419	-1.47%	33 0.43%	42
Oracle RAC	235	Down 46 places-46	£566	+2.81%	32 0.42%	3
vSphere	236	Down 60 places-60	£522	+12.25%	31 0.41%	4
VMware ESXi	239	Down 47 places-47	£525	+40.00%	28 0.37%	4
BitLocker	251	Down 58 places-58	£365	-38.72%	16 0.21%	2
Citrix Hypervisor	251	New entry-	£310	-	16 0.21%	3
RACF	251	Down 54 places-54	£600	-	16 0.21%
KVM	253	Down 59 places-59	£560	-	14 0.18%	1
XenApp	256	Down 58 places-58	£300	-42.85%	11 0.14%	4
XenDesktop	257	Down 59 places-59	£300	-42.85%	10 0.13%	3
VMware NSX	257	Down 76 places-76	£600	+45.45%	10 0.13%	5
NFS	260	Down 62 places-62	£474	-	7 0.092%
Virtual Servers	260	Down 65 places-65	£680	+61.32%	7 0.092%	1
Time Sharing Option	261	Down 73 places-73	£514	+64.21%	6 0.079%
oVirt	261	New entry-	-	-	6 0.079%
Microsoft App-V	263	Down 66 places-66	£450	-	4 0.053%
Microsoft Virtual Server	264	New entry-	£680	-	3 0.039%
ACF2	264	Down 66 places-66	£472	-	3 0.039%
Ceph	264	Down 66 places-66	-	-	3 0.039%
Veritas Volume Manager	265	New entry-	£474	-	2 0.026%
SRDF	265	Down 67 places-67	£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 69 places-69	£413	-13.15%	2 0.026%	1
Apache ZooKeeper	265	New entry-	-	-	2 0.026%