System Software Statistics in the North West

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Permanent Job Market Index
Description	Rank 6 Months to 2 Nov 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Salary	Median Salary YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
Active Directory	67	Up 36 places+36	£35,500	+5.18%	274 2.12%	67
Docker	98	Down 79 places-79	£65,000	-	207 1.60%	87
VMware Infrastructure	180	Up 2 places+2	£47,500	+50.79%	90 0.70%	24
Firmware	218	Down 12 places-12	£57,500	+23.65%	52 0.40%	34
Hyper-V	222	Down 175 places-175	£40,000	+18.51%	48 0.37%	12
Virtual Machines	243	Down 37 places-37	£47,500	-11.62%	27 0.21%	10
VMware ESXi	251	Down 46 places-46	£47,500	-	19 0.15%	6
Embedded Firmware	254	Down 41 places-41	£57,500	+23.65%	16 0.12%	10
vSphere	259	Down 207 places-207	£41,250	-23.25%	11 0.085%	2
BitLocker	259	New entry-	£35,500	-	11 0.085%
VMware NSX	259	Down 205 places-205	£71,250	+5.55%	11 0.085%	6
Virtual Desktop	262	Down 49 places-49	£36,500	-39.16%	8 0.062%	4
DFS Replication	264	New entry-	£44,250	-	6 0.046%
Ceph	266	New entry-	£52,500	-	4 0.031%
UAG	268	New entry-	-	-	2 0.016%
Virtual Servers	268	New entry-	£68,750	-	2 0.016%	1
Citrix Hypervisor	269	New entry-	-	-	1 0.008%	1
XenDesktop	269	New entry-	£65,000	-	1 0.008%	1
Microsoft Virtual Server	269	New entry-	£65,000	-	1 0.008%
EMC RecoverPoint	269	New entry-	£57,500	-	1 0.008%
KVM	269	Down 52 places-52	£57,500	-30.30%	1 0.008%
NFS	269	New entry-	-	-	1 0.008%
MetaFrame	269	New entry-	£65,000	-	1 0.008%