System Software Statistics in the Midlands

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Permanent Job Market Index
Description	Rank 6 Months to 30 Oct 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Salary	Median Salary YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
Active Directory	61	Down 28 places-28	£42,500	+21.42%	379 2.36%	46
Docker	155	Down 75 places-75	£60,000	-14.28%	137 0.85%	31
Hyper-V	159	Down 12 places-12	£45,000	+23.28%	133 0.83%	9
Firmware	161	Up 16 places+16	£55,000	+22.22%	131 0.82%	32
VMware Infrastructure	184	Down 61 places-61	£45,000	+5.88%	103 0.64%	18
Embedded Firmware	251	Down 42 places-42	£53,250	+1.42%	36 0.22%	16
vSphere	269	Down 67 places-67	£42,500	-12.82%	18 0.11%	5
Virtual Machines	269	Down 59 places-59	£39,194	-31.83%	18 0.11%	10
Virtual Desktop	269	Down 64 places-64	£40,000	-27.27%	18 0.11%	3
VMware ESXi	283	Down 79 places-79	£60,000	+4.34%	4 0.025%	4
Samba	285	New entry-	£22,500	-	2 0.013%
XenApp	285	Down 72 places-72	£37,500	-25.00%	2 0.013%
Citrix Hypervisor	285	New entry-	-	-	2 0.013%
Oracle RAC	285	New entry-	£70,000	-	2 0.013%
BitLocker	286	Down 75 places-75	£60,000	+60.00%	1 0.006%	1
FreeRADIUS	286	New entry-	£55,000	-	1 0.006%
VMware NSX	286	Down 74 places-74	-	-	1 0.006%	3
VMware Server	286	Down 67 places-67	£47,500	-	1 0.006%
Terminal Services	286	New entry-	£65,000	-	1 0.006%