Remote IT Contracting Market Trends Analysis

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Contract Job Market Index
DescriptionSort by Demand Rank 6 Months to 12 Sep 2026Rank
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Jobs Vacancies
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Jobs
Docker48Down -6 places-6£525+5.00%634 4.67%2,119
Active Directory83Down -8 places-8£500+5.26%473 3.48%395
VMware Infrastructure205Down -30 places-30£505-3.80%177 1.30%162
Virtual Machines289Down -43 places-43£500+5.82%83 0.61%128
VMware NSX301Down -16 places-16£600+8.10%71 0.52%20
VMware ESXi318Down -41 places-41£541-2.61%54 0.40%32
vSphere323Down -57 places-57£475+8.57%49 0.36%36
Virtual Desktop323Down -46 places-46£540+20.00%49 0.36%52
Hyper-V330Down -69 places-69£450+20.00%42 0.31%90
Firmware343Down -54 places-54£450+5.88%29 0.21%423
NFS360Down -52 places-52£519-20.15%12 0.088%13
Oracle RAC363Down -65 places-65£525+13.51%9 0.066%5
RACF364Down -66 places-66£530-11.75%8 0.059%9
Time Sharing Option364Down -61 places-61£501+59.98%8 0.059%66
Slurm Workload Manager365Down -61 places-61£465-10.57%7 0.052%14
ACF2366New entry-£530-6 0.044%9
Squid366Down -60 places-60£544+14.52%6 0.044%1
Embedded Firmware366Down -60 places-60--6 0.044%75
Ceph366Down -58 places-58--6 0.044%71
XenApp368Down -60 places-60£450-10.00%4 0.029%2
Varnish368New entry-£463-4 0.029%2
Postfix369Down -67 places-67£488-2.50%3 0.022%2
XenDesktop369Down -62 places-62£450-1.36%3 0.022%1
KVM369Down -65 places-65--3 0.022%184
HDFS369Down -68 places-68£438+6.70%3 0.022%5
Microsoft App-V369Down -68 places-68£650+57.57%3 0.022%6
Virtual Servers369Down -68 places-68£386-14.16%3 0.022%10
BitLocker369Down -63 places-63£445+69.52%3 0.022%4
OpenSSH370New entry-£458-2 0.015%
SRDF370New entry-£519-2 0.015%
EMC RecoverPoint370New entry-£550-2 0.015%
OpenAM370Down -62 places-62--2 0.015%
VMware Workstation370Down -63 places-63£650+44.44%2 0.015%2
GPFS370Down -63 places-63£425-41.37%2 0.015%2
etcd370New entry-£420-2 0.015%7
Apache Flume371New entry-£304-1 0.007%
Terminal Services371Down -66 places-66£313-41.42%1 0.007%1
Sendmail371New entry-£525-1 0.007%
Citrix Hypervisor371New entry-£290-1 0.007%
Veritas Volume Manager371New entry---1 0.007%
ISA Server371New entry-£650-1 0.007%
Veritas Cluster Server371New entry---1 0.007%
Lustre371Down -63 places-63--1 0.007%3
Corosync371New entry-£525-1 0.007%
GridGain371Down -65 places-65£725-3.33%1 0.007%
IAG371New entry---1 0.007%7
UAG371New entry-£750-1 0.007%2
iptables371New entry---1 0.007%4
Dovecot371Down -66 places-66£450-14.83%1 0.007%
Job Entry Subsystem371Down -65 places-65£475-32.14%1 0.007%2