System Software Statistics in England

Description	Rank 6 Months to 14 Feb 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Salary	Median Salary YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
Active Directory	54	-14	£37,500	-11.76%	2,202 3.72%	674
Docker	116	-66	£71,000	-8.38%	1,089 1.84%	613
VMware Infrastructure	225	-99	£45,000	-18.18%	549 0.93%	248
Hyper-V	246	-30	£37,500	-16.66%	499 0.84%	163
Firmware	406	-22	£55,000	-1.78%	232 0.39%	226
Virtual Machines	485	-26	£60,000	-	141 0.24%	53
Terminal Server	526	+142	£47,500	-	100 0.17%	1
vSphere	529	-75	£51,055	-29.57%	97 0.16%	60
Virtual Desktop	538	-52	£55,000	+10.00%	88 0.15%	46
Embedded Firmware	550	+8	£55,000	-9.83%	76 0.13%	52
VMware ESXi	563	-54	£50,000	-16.66%	63 0.11%	34
VMware NSX	575	-35	£58,000	-22.66%	51 0.086%	28
Virtual Servers	598	-9	£78,750	+57.50%	28 0.047%	14
KVM	605	+61	£56,250	-4.01%	21 0.036%	10
BitLocker	609	+52	£32,500	-38.09%	17 0.029%	5
Slurm Workload Manager	615	+57	£86,250	-	11 0.019%	12
ProxySG	616	+58	-	-	10 0.017%	1
Oracle RAC	616	+58	£140,000	-	10 0.017%	10
VMware Workstation	617	+43	£26,250	-46.70%	9 0.015%	3
XenDesktop	617	+28	£57,500	-1.70%	9 0.015%	1
HDFS	617	+42	£72,500	-36.95%	9 0.015%	3
Lustre	617	+57	£57,500	-	9 0.015%
XenApp	618	+14	£52,500	+5.00%	8 0.014%	6
Terminal Services	619	+50	£27,500	-8.33%	7 0.012%	3
vCloud	620	+51	£53,375	-39.00%	6 0.010%	1
iptables	621	-	£52,500	-	5 0.009%	2
Veritas Cluster Server	621	+44	£87,500	+22.80%	5 0.009%
Microsoft Virtual Server	621	+29	£45,000	-10.00%	5 0.009%	6
Postfix	621	+51	£122,500	+122.72%	5 0.009%	8
NFS	621	+43	£45,000	-8.16%	5 0.009%	15