Remote IT Contracting Market Trends Analysis

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Contract Job Market Index
Description	Rank 6 Months to 29 Oct 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Daily Rate	Median Daily Rate YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
Docker	50	Down 17 places-17	£525	+2.43%	669 4.91%	201
Active Directory	83	Down 9 places-9	£500	+5.26%	512 3.76%	146
VMware Infrastructure	208	Down 43 places-43	£515	+3.00%	191 1.40%	88
Virtual Machines	288	Down 37 places-37	£475	-	100 0.73%	30
VMware NSX	334	Down 56 places-56	£600	+8.10%	54 0.40%	12
Virtual Desktop	335	Down 53 places-53	£540	+25.58%	53 0.39%	11
vSphere	340	Down 82 places-82	£425	-10.52%	48 0.35%	15
VMware ESXi	346	Down 65 places-65	£519	-6.48%	42 0.31%	9
Hyper-V	346	Down 87 places-87	£450	+20.00%	42 0.31%	29
Firmware	352	Down 62 places-62	£450	+61.29%	36 0.26%	96
Oracle RAC	376	Down 78 places-78	£475	+2.70%	12 0.088%	7
NFS	378	Down 70 places-70	£510	-21.61%	10 0.073%	3
Time Sharing Option	380	Down 78 places-78	£514	+53.20%	8 0.059%
RACF	380	Down 81 places-81	£519	-3.44%	8 0.059%
Embedded Firmware	381	Down 74 places-74	-	-	7 0.051%	38
KVM	381	Down 76 places-76	£565	+3.00%	7 0.051%	2
BitLocker	382	Down 76 places-76	£300	+14.28%	6 0.044%	3
ACF2	383	New entry-	£545	-	5 0.037%
Ceph	383	New entry-	-	-	5 0.037%
Squid	384	Down 79 places-79	£538	+13.26%	4 0.029%
OpenAM	384	New entry-	-	-	4 0.029%
Virtual Servers	384	Down 81 places-81	£386	-6.36%	4 0.029%	1
Microsoft App-V	385	Down 82 places-82	£650	+36.84%	3 0.022%
Slurm Workload Manager	385	Down 84 places-84	£465	+12.72%	3 0.022%	3
Postfix	386	Down 84 places-84	£450	-10.00%	2 0.015%
OpenSSH	386	New entry-	£458	-	2 0.015%
SRDF	386	New entry-	£519	-	2 0.015%
EMC RecoverPoint	386	New entry-	£550	-	2 0.015%	1
VMware Workstation	386	Down 79 places-79	£650	+44.44%	2 0.015%
Varnish	386	New entry-	£400	-	2 0.015%
Dovecot	387	Down 82 places-82	£450	-14.83%	1 0.007%
Terminal Services	387	Down 83 places-83	£313	-41.42%	1 0.007%
XenApp	387	Down 79 places-79	£500	+66.66%	1 0.007%
ISA Server	387	Down 79 places-79	£650	-	1 0.007%
Citrix Hypervisor	387	New entry-	£290	-	1 0.007%
XenDesktop	387	New entry-	£500	-	1 0.007%
Veritas Volume Manager	387	New entry-	-	-	1 0.007%
Veritas Cluster Server	387	New entry-	-	-	1 0.007%
DFS Replication	387	Down 80 places-80	£425	-18.54%	1 0.007%
GPFS	387	Down 82 places-82	£500	-5.88%	1 0.007%	1
etcd	387	New entry-	-	-	1 0.007%
IAG	387	Down 79 places-79	-	-	1 0.007%