System Software Statistics in the North West

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Permanent Job Market Index
Description	Rank 6 Months to 8 Nov 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Salary	Median Salary YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
Active Directory	65	Up 28 places+28	£35,500	+5.18%	270 2.09%	67
Docker	93	Down 73 places-73	£65,000	-	205 1.59%	68
VMware Infrastructure	168	Up 4 places+4	£47,500	+53.22%	90 0.70%	21
Firmware	202	Down 7 places-7	£57,500	+23.65%	56 0.43%	27
Hyper-V	209	Down 163 places-163	£40,000	+20.75%	49 0.38%	22
Virtual Machines	231	Down 35 places-35	£47,500	-11.62%	27 0.21%	7
VMware ESXi	238	Down 40 places-40	£56,250	+11.11%	20 0.16%	4
Embedded Firmware	239	Down 36 places-36	£57,500	+23.65%	19 0.15%	11
VMware NSX	245	Down 187 places-187	£85,000	+25.92%	13 0.10%	4
vSphere	247	Down 191 places-191	£41,250	-23.25%	11 0.085%	1
BitLocker	249	New entry-	£35,500	-	9 0.070%	1
Virtual Desktop	252	Down 48 places-48	£36,500	-39.16%	6 0.047%	4
DFS Replication	252	New entry-	£44,250	-	6 0.047%
Virtual Servers	254	New entry-	£68,750	-	4 0.031%	1
Ceph	254	New entry-	£52,500	-	4 0.031%
UAG	256	New entry-	-	-	2 0.016%
MetaFrame	257	New entry-	£65,000	-	1 0.008%
Citrix Hypervisor	257	New entry-	-	-	1 0.008%	2
XenDesktop	257	New entry-	£65,000	-	1 0.008%	2
Microsoft Virtual Server	257	New entry-	£65,000	-	1 0.008%
EMC RecoverPoint	257	New entry-	£57,500	-	1 0.008%
KVM	257	Down 49 places-49	£57,500	-30.30%	1 0.008%
NFS	257	New entry-	-	-	1 0.008%