System Software Statistics in the North West

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Permanent Job Market Index
Description	Rank 6 Months to 11 Nov 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Salary	Median Salary YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
Active Directory	68	Up 17 places+17	£35,250	+2.54%	275 2.14%	74
Docker	100	Down 67 places-67	£65,000	-	204 1.59%	159
VMware Infrastructure	179	Down 8 places-8	£47,500	+53.22%	91 0.71%	32
Firmware	213	Down 20 places-20	£57,500	+23.65%	56 0.44%	56
Hyper-V	218	Down 158 places-158	£40,000	+18.51%	51 0.40%	25
Virtual Machines	243	Down 47 places-47	£47,500	-11.62%	26 0.20%	17
VMware ESXi	250	Down 53 places-53	£65,000	+20.93%	19 0.15%	4
Embedded Firmware	250	Down 49 places-49	£57,500	+23.65%	19 0.15%	19
VMware NSX	256	Down 185 places-185	£85,000	+25.92%	13 0.10%	6
vSphere	258	Down 191 places-191	£41,250	-23.25%	11 0.086%	3
BitLocker	260	New entry-	£35,500	-	9 0.070%	3
Virtual Desktop	261	Down 59 places-59	£36,500	-39.16%	8 0.062%	7
Virtual Servers	262	New entry-	£72,500	-	7 0.055%	2
DFS Replication	263	New entry-	£44,250	-	6 0.047%
Ceph	265	New entry-	£52,500	-	4 0.031%
UAG	267	New entry-	-	-	2 0.016%
Citrix Hypervisor	268	New entry-	-	-	1 0.008%	1
XenDesktop	268	New entry-	£65,000	-	1 0.008%	1
Microsoft Virtual Server	268	New entry-	£65,000	-	1 0.008%
EMC RecoverPoint	268	New entry-	£57,500	-	1 0.008%
KVM	268	Down 62 places-62	£57,500	-30.30%	1 0.008%
NFS	268	New entry-	-	-	1 0.008%
MetaFrame	268	New entry-	£65,000	-	1 0.008%