System Software Statistics in England

Permanent Job Market Index

Description	Rank 6 Months to 22 Apr 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Salary	Median Salary YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
Active Directory	66	Down -25 places-25	£37,500	-6.25%	2,190 2.81%	553
Docker	121	Down -79 places-79	£70,079	-9.57%	1,227 1.57%	643
VMware Infrastructure	254	Down -100 places-100	£50,930	+1.85%	592 0.76%	243
Hyper-V	312	Down -50 places-50	£41,222	-3.00%	443 0.57%	154
Firmware	403	Up 1 place+1	£58,000	+4.72%	290 0.37%	242
Virtual Machines	473	Down -62 places-62	£90,000	+55.61%	199 0.26%	56
vSphere	543	Down -87 places-87	£57,500	-4.16%	124 0.16%	58
Virtual Desktop	574	Down -155 places-155	£55,000	+19.56%	93 0.12%	38
Embedded Firmware	576	Down -41 places-41	£56,500	-9.60%	91 0.12%	85
VMware NSX	607	Down -100 places-100	£65,000	-16.12%	60 0.077%	41
VMware ESXi	611	Down -148 places-148	£50,000	-16.66%	56 0.072%	48
Terminal Server	615	Down -16 places-16	£47,500	-34.48%	52 0.067%	1
BitLocker	638	Down -58 places-58	£32,000	-44.34%	29 0.037%	6
IAG	641	Down -41 places-41	£100,000	+26.98%	26 0.033%	6
KVM	643	Down -48 places-48	£62,500	+6.65%	24 0.031%	8
Virtual Servers	647	Down -89 places-89	£44,000	-2.22%	20 0.026%	12
ProxySG	651	Down -50 places-50	-	-	16 0.021%
Terminal Services	652	Down -70 places-70	£42,000	-16.00%	15 0.019%	1
Slurm Workload Manager	653	Down -52 places-52	£70,000	-	14 0.018%	7
Oracle RAC	654	Down -53 places-53	£75,000	+7.14%	13 0.017%	4
Microsoft Virtual Server	655	Down -60 places-60	£44,000	+8.64%	12 0.015%	3
Citrix Hypervisor	657	Down -61 places-61	£70,000	+16.66%	10 0.013%	3
VMware Workstation	657	Down -59 places-59	£26,250	-30.00%	10 0.013%	1