Contract System Software Statistics in the UK excluding London

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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	39	Down 9 places-9	£425	+13.33%	1,339 4.76%	558
Docker	72	Down 26 places-26	£490	-2.00%	916 3.25%	513
VMware Infrastructure	110	Down 5 places-5	£525	-2.05%	651 2.31%	210
Hyper-V	277	Up 33 places+33	£475	+26.66%	215 0.76%	124
vSphere	291	Down 28 places-28	£513	-2.38%	197 0.70%	51
VMware ESXi	305	Down 8 places-8	£538	-3.15%	182 0.65%	43
Virtual Machines	312	Up 7 places+7	£490	-2.72%	175 0.62%	72
Firmware	315	Down 13 places-13	£403	+34.16%	170 0.60%	392
VMware NSX	342	Down 29 places-29	£610	+16.19%	143 0.51%	32
Virtual Desktop	384	Down 55 places-55	£450	+4.65%	99 0.35%	34
Oracle RAC	439	Down 70 places-70	£548	+9.50%	44 0.16%	9
KVM	449	Down 69 places-69	£600	+19.70%	34 0.12%	8
NFS	451	Down 90 places-90	£490	-23.13%	32 0.11%	12
Virtual Servers	454	Down 98 places-98	£525	-4.54%	29 0.10%	12
Embedded Firmware	457	Down 68 places-68	£325	-25.71%	26 0.092%	133
BitLocker	457	Down 85 places-85	£349	+18.33%	26 0.092%	7
vCloud	460	New entry-	£688	-	23 0.082%
RACF	462	Down 73 places-73	£600	-	21 0.075%	2
Citrix Hypervisor	466	New entry-	£305	-	17 0.060%	4
IAG	470	Down 80 places-80	£500	-28.57%	13 0.046%	4
XenApp	471	Down 89 places-89	£300	-22.58%	12 0.043%	4
XenDesktop	472	Down 87 places-87	£300	-45.45%	11 0.039%	3
zsh	473	New entry-	£538	-	10 0.036%	1
Microsoft Virtual Server	473	Down 106 places-106	£588	+6.81%	10 0.036%	3
Slurm Workload Manager	474	Down 93 places-93	£489	-2.25%	9 0.032%	19
GPFS	475	Down 98 places-98	£500	+21.21%	8 0.028%	9
Time Sharing Option	476	Down 96 places-96	£513	+63.97%	7 0.025%
Ceph	477	Down 89 places-89	-	-	6 0.021%	6
oVirt	477	New entry-	-	-	6 0.021%
VirtualBox	477	New entry-	£600	-	6 0.021%	2
VMware Server	478	Down 88 places-88	£513	-2.38%	5 0.018%	1
ISA Server	478	Down 98 places-98	£550	-8.33%	5 0.018%	2
Microsoft App-V	478	Down 102 places-102	£450	+30.43%	5 0.018%
FreeRADIUS	478	New entry-	£450	-	5 0.018%
Postfix	479	Down 109 places-109	£450	-10.00%	4 0.014%
Squid	479	Down 100 places-100	£456	+1.38%	4 0.014%
VMware Workstation	479	Down 90 places-90	£275	-	4 0.014%	2