Contract System Software Statistics in the West Midlands

Contract Job Market Index

Description	Rank 6 Months to 24 Aug 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Daily Rate	Median Daily Rate YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
Docker	49	Down -18 places-18	£489	-5.09%	136 3.95%	31
Active Directory	67	Down -33 places-33	£306	-23.43%	104 3.02%	61
VMware Infrastructure	94	Down -16 places-16	£450	-21.39%	73 2.12%	17
Firmware	134	Down -25 places-25	£413	-28.26%	30 0.87%	28
vSphere	136	Down -26 places-26	£450	-18.18%	28 0.81%	4
VMware ESXi	139	Down -32 places-32	£450	-18.18%	25 0.73%	4
Hyper-V	145	Down -32 places-32	£475	-34.48%	19 0.55%	16
VMware NSX	151	Down -34 places-34	£487	+33.42%	13 0.38%	1
Virtual Machines	153	Down -51 places-51	£406	-18.96%	11 0.32%	8
NFS	156	Down -40 places-40	£411	-	8 0.23%
GPFS	157	Down -41 places-41	£371	-	7 0.20%
PowerHA	158	New entry-	£456	-	6 0.17%
Postfix	158	Down -60 places-60	-	-	6 0.17%
Ceph	159	New entry-	-	-	5 0.15%
XenApp	160	New entry-	£450	-	4 0.12%
XenDesktop	160	New entry-	£450	-	4 0.12%
Virtual Desktop	160	Down -46 places-46	£438	+59.09%	4 0.12%	5
Oracle RAC	161	Down -45 places-45	£550	-	3 0.087%	1
Embedded Firmware	161	New entry-	-	-	3 0.087%	10
FreeRADIUS	161	New entry-	£500	-	3 0.087%
HDFS	162	Down -48 places-48	£455	-10.35%	2 0.058%
etcd	162	New entry-	£514	-	2 0.058%
Microsoft App-V	162	Down -45 places-45	-	-	2 0.058%
BitLocker	163	Down -47 places-47	-	-	1 0.029%	1
Job Entry Subsystem	163	New entry-	£475	-	1 0.029%
KVM	163	New entry-	-	-	1 0.029%
Virtual Servers	163	Down -46 places-46	-	-	1 0.029%	1
IAG	163	Down -46 places-46	£488	-30.35%	1 0.029%	2