System Software Statistics in England

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Permanent Job Market Index
Description	Rank 6 Months to 22 Oct 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Salary	Median Salary YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
Active Directory	66	Down 28 places-28	£41,000	+9.33%	2,570 2.42%	1,042
Docker	110	Down 33 places-33	£67,500	-6.89%	1,806 1.70%	1,873
VMware Infrastructure	247	Down 53 places-53	£50,000	+11.11%	828 0.78%	495
Hyper-V	280	Down 108 places-108	£42,500	+13.33%	691 0.65%	228
Firmware	304	Up 57 places+57	£60,000	+14.28%	641 0.60%	916
Embedded Firmware	586	Down 89 places-89	£60,750	+18.53%	189 0.18%	258
vSphere	587	Down 276 places-276	£62,500	+13.63%	188 0.18%	120
Virtual Machines	590	Down 123 places-123	£52,500	-8.69%	184 0.17%	205
Virtual Desktop	644	Down 103 places-103	£50,000	-16.66%	130 0.12%	76
VMware ESXi	672	Down 162 places-162	£67,500	+25.58%	102 0.096%	88
VMware NSX	695	Down 336 places-336	£85,000	+25.92%	79 0.075%	64
Terminal Server	710	Down 149 places-149	£32,500	-29.34%	64 0.060%
Virtual Servers	723	Down 187 places-187	£41,250	-21.42%	51 0.048%	24
IAG	741	Down 120 places-120	£95,000	+341.86%	33 0.031%	13
BitLocker	744	Down 150 places-150	£38,000	+1.33%	30 0.028%	17
KVM	752	Down 141 places-141	£61,250	-12.50%	22 0.021%	33
Microsoft Virtual Server	755	Down 135 places-135	£40,000	-8.04%	19 0.018%	3
VMware Server	757	Down 134 places-134	£60,000	-	17 0.016%	3
Slurm Workload Manager	759	Down 138 places-138	£59,623	-48.15%	15 0.014%	63
Oracle RAC	760	Down 143 places-143	£75,000	-46.42%	14 0.013%	16
GPFS	762	Down 144 places-144	£44,905	-	12 0.011%	9
StorNext	763	New entry-	-	-	11 0.010%
NDS	764	New entry-	£80,000	-	10 0.009%	2
Squid	764	Down 152 places-152	£67,500	-	10 0.009%	13