System Software Statistics in the North West

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Permanent Job Market Index
Description	Rank 6 Months to 5 Nov 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Salary	Median Salary YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
Active Directory	69	Up 19 places+19	£35,500	+3.27%	269 2.10%	60
Docker	95	Down 79 places-79	£65,000	-	207 1.62%	68
VMware Infrastructure	182	Down 15 places-15	£47,500	+52.00%	91 0.71%	18
Firmware	219	Down 28 places-28	£57,500	+23.65%	53 0.41%	25
Hyper-V	224	Down 183 places-183	£40,000	+20.75%	48 0.37%	15
Virtual Machines	245	Down 55 places-55	£47,500	-11.62%	27 0.21%	7
VMware ESXi	252	Down 61 places-61	£56,250	+11.11%	20 0.16%	4
Embedded Firmware	255	Down 57 places-57	£57,500	+23.65%	17 0.13%	11
VMware NSX	259	Down 210 places-210	£85,000	+25.92%	13 0.10%	4
vSphere	261	Down 214 places-214	£41,250	-23.25%	11 0.086%
BitLocker	261	New entry-	£35,500	-	11 0.086%
Virtual Desktop	265	Down 67 places-67	£33,750	-43.75%	7 0.055%	4
DFS Replication	266	New entry-	£44,250	-	6 0.047%
Ceph	268	New entry-	£52,500	-	4 0.031%
Virtual Servers	269	New entry-	£72,500	-	3 0.023%	2
UAG	270	New entry-	-	-	2 0.016%
KVM	271	Down 69 places-69	£57,500	-30.30%	1 0.008%
Citrix Hypervisor	271	New entry-	-	-	1 0.008%	1
XenDesktop	271	New entry-	£65,000	-	1 0.008%	1
Microsoft Virtual Server	271	New entry-	£65,000	-	1 0.008%
EMC RecoverPoint	271	New entry-	£57,500	-	1 0.008%
NFS	271	New entry-	-	-	1 0.008%
MetaFrame	271	New entry-	£65,000	-	1 0.008%