System Software Statistics in the North West

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Permanent Job Market Index
Description	Rank 6 Months to 30 Oct 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Salary	Median Salary YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
Active Directory	67	Up 40 places+40	£35,250	+2.54%	275 2.12%	38
Docker	98	Down 81 places-81	£65,000	-	205 1.58%	46
VMware Infrastructure	175	Up 10 places+10	£47,500	+52.00%	90 0.70%	20
Firmware	213	Down 4 places-4	£57,500	+23.65%	50 0.39%	27
Hyper-V	215	Down 166 places-166	£40,000	+20.75%	48 0.37%	11
Virtual Machines	235	Down 27 places-27	£47,500	-11.62%	28 0.22%	6
VMware ESXi	244	Down 38 places-38	£47,500	-6.17%	19 0.15%	4
Embedded Firmware	249	Down 34 places-34	£57,500	+23.65%	14 0.11%	8
vSphere	252	Down 200 places-200	£41,250	-23.25%	11 0.085%	1
BitLocker	252	New entry-	£35,500	-	11 0.085%
VMware NSX	252	Down 198 places-198	£71,250	+5.55%	11 0.085%	5
Virtual Desktop	255	Down 40 places-40	£36,500	-39.16%	8 0.062%	2
DFS Replication	257	New entry-	£44,250	-	6 0.046%	1
Ceph	259	New entry-	£52,500	-	4 0.031%
UAG	261	New entry-	-	-	2 0.015%
Citrix Hypervisor	262	New entry-	-	-	1 0.008%	1
XenDesktop	262	New entry-	£65,000	-	1 0.008%	1
Microsoft Virtual Server	262	New entry-	£65,000	-	1 0.008%
EMC RecoverPoint	262	New entry-	£57,500	-	1 0.008%
KVM	262	Down 43 places-43	£57,500	-30.30%	1 0.008%
NFS	262	New entry-	-	-	1 0.008%
MetaFrame	262	New entry-	£65,000	-	1 0.008%
Virtual Servers	262	New entry-	£65,000	-	1 0.008%	1