Contract System Software Statistics in the South West

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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	39	Down 14 places-14	£525	+20.68%	163 4.37%	74
Docker	48	Up 1 place+1	£550	-11.11%	134 3.59%	76
VMware Infrastructure	69	Down 4 places-4	£638	+15.90%	96 2.58%	27
Hyper-V	105	Up 11 places+11	£575	+4.54%	49 1.31%	13
vSphere	115	Up 7 places+7	£638	+18.05%	39 1.05%	6
VMware NSX	118	Down 2 places-2	£697	+26.63%	36 0.97%	5
VMware ESXi	134	Down 25 places-25	£600	-	20 0.54%	7
Firmware	135	Down 15 places-15	£500	-	19 0.51%	42
Virtual Desktop	138	Down 25 places-25	£551	+29.70%	16 0.43%
Virtual Machines	140	Down 29 places-29	£588	+6.81%	14 0.38%	4
KVM	147	New entry-	£500	-	7 0.19%
VirtualBox	148	New entry-	£600	-	6 0.16%	1
Embedded Firmware	148	New entry-	-	-	6 0.16%	17
VMware Workstation	150	New entry-	-	-	4 0.11%	2
NFS	151	New entry-	-	-	3 0.081%
BitLocker	152	New entry-	£331	-	2 0.054%	1
Oracle RAC	152	Down 25 places-25	£450	-2.70%	2 0.054%	2
zsh	152	New entry-	£713	-	2 0.054%
Microsoft App-V	153	Down 32 places-32	-	-	1 0.027%
Microsoft Virtual Server	153	Down 29 places-29	£325	-40.90%	1 0.027%
Veritas Volume Manager	153	New entry-	-	-	1 0.027%
Veritas Cluster Server	153	New entry-	-	-	1 0.027%
Virtual Servers	153	Down 29 places-29	£325	-40.90%	1 0.027%	2