System Software Statistics in the North West

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Permanent Job Market Index
Description	Rank 6 Months to 27 Oct 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Salary	Median Salary YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
Active Directory	63	Up 50 places+50	£35,000	-	280 2.17%	43
Docker	92	Down 76 places-76	£65,000	-	210 1.63%	52
VMware Infrastructure	168	Up 19 places+19	£47,500	+52.00%	91 0.70%	21
Firmware	210	No change0	£57,500	+23.65%	49 0.38%	24
Hyper-V	211	Down 161 places-161	£40,000	+18.51%	48 0.37%	13
Virtual Machines	230	Down 20 places-20	£47,500	-11.62%	29 0.22%	7
VMware ESXi	240	Down 33 places-33	£47,500	-6.17%	19 0.15%	6
Embedded Firmware	245	Down 29 places-29	£57,500	+23.65%	14 0.11%	6
VMware NSX	248	Down 193 places-193	£71,250	+5.55%	11 0.085%	4
vSphere	248	Down 194 places-194	£41,250	-23.25%	11 0.085%	2
BitLocker	248	New entry-	£35,500	-	11 0.085%	1
Virtual Desktop	250	Down 34 places-34	£41,500	-30.83%	9 0.070%	2
DFS Replication	253	New entry-	£44,250	-	6 0.047%	2
Ceph	255	New entry-	£52,500	-	4 0.031%
UAG	257	New entry-	-	-	2 0.016%
NFS	258	New entry-	-	-	1 0.008%
Virtual Servers	258	New entry-	£65,000	-	1 0.008%	1
MetaFrame	258	New entry-	£65,000	-	1 0.008%
Citrix Hypervisor	258	New entry-	-	-	1 0.008%	1
XenDesktop	258	New entry-	£65,000	-	1 0.008%	1
Microsoft Virtual Server	258	New entry-	£65,000	-	1 0.008%
EMC RecoverPoint	258	New entry-	£57,500	-	1 0.008%
KVM	258	Down 38 places-38	£57,500	-30.30%	1 0.008%