System Software Statistics in Manchester

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Permanent Job Market Index
Description	Rank 6 Months to 29 Oct 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Salary	Median Salary YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
Docker	71	Down 44 places-44	£70,000	+7.69%	164 2.10%	37
Active Directory	89	Down 8 places-8	£45,000	+33.33%	130 1.66%	20
VMware Infrastructure	146	Down 13 places-13	£47,500	+52.00%	63 0.81%	6
Hyper-V	181	Down 90 places-90	£40,000	+18.51%	28 0.36%	4
Virtual Machines	187	Down 45 places-45	£52,500	-8.69%	22 0.28%	2
Firmware	191	Down 51 places-51	£50,000	+7.52%	18 0.23%	17
VMware ESXi	198	Down 58 places-58	£75,000	+114.28%	11 0.14%	3
VMware NSX	201	Down 100 places-100	£85,000	+25.92%	8 0.10%	5
vSphere	202	Down 100 places-100	£45,500	-32.59%	7 0.090%	1
Virtual Desktop	203	Down 63 places-63	£46,500	-22.50%	6 0.077%	1
Ceph	206	New entry-	-	-	3 0.038%
DFS Replication	206	New entry-	£47,500	-	3 0.038%	1
UAG	207	New entry-	-	-	2 0.026%
Microsoft Virtual Server	208	New entry-	£65,000	-	1 0.013%
KVM	208	New entry-	£57,500	-	1 0.013%
NFS	208	New entry-	-	-	1 0.013%
MetaFrame	208	New entry-	£65,000	-	1 0.013%
Virtual Servers	208	New entry-	£65,000	-	1 0.013%
BitLocker	208	New entry-	-	-	1 0.013%
Citrix Hypervisor	208	New entry-	-	-	1 0.013%
XenDesktop	208	New entry-	£65,000	-	1 0.013%
EMC RecoverPoint	208	New entry-	£57,500	-	1 0.013%