System Software Statistics in the North West

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Permanent Job Market Index
Description	Rank 6 Months to 24 Oct 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Salary	Median Salary YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
Active Directory	58	Up 54 places+54	£35,000	-	284 2.19%	78
Docker	90	Down 72 places-72	£65,000	-	210 1.62%	149
VMware Infrastructure	170	Up 18 places+18	£47,500	+37.68%	90 0.69%	41
Firmware	210	Down 1 place-1	£57,500	+23.65%	49 0.38%	46
Hyper-V	211	Down 160 places-160	£40,000	+18.51%	48 0.37%	24
Virtual Machines	229	Down 19 places-19	£47,500	-11.62%	30 0.23%	19
VMware ESXi	241	Down 35 places-35	£47,500	-6.17%	18 0.14%	9
Embedded Firmware	245	Down 30 places-30	£57,500	+23.65%	14 0.11%	12
Virtual Desktop	247	Down 32 places-32	£36,500	-39.16%	12 0.093%	9
vSphere	248	Down 194 places-194	£41,250	-23.25%	11 0.085%	5
BitLocker	248	New entry-	£35,500	-	11 0.085%	2
VMware NSX	249	Down 194 places-194	£57,500	-14.81%	10 0.077%	7
DFS Replication	253	New entry-	£44,250	-	6 0.046%	2
Ceph	255	New entry-	£52,500	-	4 0.031%
UAG	257	New entry-	-	-	2 0.015%	1
MetaFrame	258	New entry-	£65,000	-	1 0.008%
Virtual Servers	258	New entry-	£65,000	-	1 0.008%	1
Citrix Hypervisor	258	New entry-	-	-	1 0.008%	2
XenDesktop	258	New entry-	£65,000	-	1 0.008%	2
Microsoft Virtual Server	258	New entry-	£65,000	-	1 0.008%
EMC RecoverPoint	258	New entry-	£57,500	-	1 0.008%
KVM	258	Down 39 places-39	£57,500	-30.30%	1 0.008%
NFS	258	New entry-	-	-	1 0.008%	1