Contract System Software Statistics in the North of England

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Contract Job Market Index
Description	Rank 6 Months to 11 Nov 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Daily Rate	Median Daily Rate YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
Active Directory	48	Down 1 place-1	£350	+7.69%	355 4.62%	144
Docker	57	Down 27 places-27	£475	-	319 4.15%	258
VMware Infrastructure	119	Down 15 places-15	£490	+10.79%	169 2.20%	65
Virtual Machines	196	Down 14 places-14	£513	+14.65%	68 0.88%	30
Hyper-V	210	Down 17 places-17	£325	-16.12%	54 0.70%	42
Virtual Desktop	224	Down 42 places-42	£403	-23.28%	40 0.52%	16
Firmware	231	Down 42 places-42	£419	-1.47%	33 0.43%	101
Oracle RAC	232	Down 43 places-43	£566	+2.81%	32 0.42%	4
vSphere	233	Down 57 places-57	£522	+12.25%	31 0.40%	12
VMware ESXi	236	Down 44 places-44	£525	+40.00%	28 0.36%	9
BitLocker	248	Down 55 places-55	£365	-38.72%	16 0.21%	4
Citrix Hypervisor	248	New entry-	£310	-	16 0.21%	4
RACF	248	Down 51 places-51	£600	-	16 0.21%	2
KVM	250	Down 56 places-56	£560	-	14 0.18%	4
XenApp	252	Down 54 places-54	£300	-42.85%	12 0.16%	3
VMware NSX	254	Down 73 places-73	£600	+45.45%	10 0.13%	9
XenDesktop	254	Down 56 places-56	£300	-42.85%	10 0.13%	2
Virtual Servers	257	Down 62 places-62	£680	+61.32%	7 0.091%	2
NFS	257	Down 59 places-59	£474	-	7 0.091%	1
oVirt	258	New entry-	-	-	6 0.078%
Time Sharing Option	258	Down 70 places-70	£514	+64.21%	6 0.078%
Microsoft App-V	260	Down 63 places-63	£450	-	4 0.052%
Ceph	261	Down 63 places-63	-	-	3 0.039%
Microsoft Virtual Server	261	New entry-	£680	-	3 0.039%
ACF2	261	Down 63 places-63	£472	-	3 0.039%	1
HDFS	262	Down 66 places-66	£413	-13.15%	2 0.026%	1
Apache ZooKeeper	262	New entry-	-	-	2 0.026%
Veritas Volume Manager	262	New entry-	£474	-	2 0.026%
NDS	262	New entry-	-	-	2 0.026%
SRDF	262	Down 64 places-64	£525	-	2 0.026%
EMC RecoverPoint	262	New entry-	£525	-	2 0.026%
NetIQ eDirectory	262	New entry-	-	-	2 0.026%