System Software Statistics in the North West

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Permanent Job Market Index
Description	Rank 6 Months to 14 Nov 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Salary	Median Salary YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
Active Directory	65	Up 1 place+1	£35,500	+5.18%	277 2.16%	116
Docker	95	Down 22 places-22	£65,000	-	203 1.58%	164
VMware Infrastructure	171	Down 28 places-28	£47,500	+53.22%	89 0.69%	41
Firmware	203	Down 38 places-38	£57,500	+23.65%	56 0.44%	64
Hyper-V	208	Down 55 places-55	£40,000	+20.75%	51 0.40%	30
Virtual Machines	233	Down 64 places-64	£47,500	-11.62%	26 0.20%	16
VMware ESXi	240	Down 70 places-70	£65,000	+20.93%	19 0.15%	4
Embedded Firmware	240	Down 66 places-66	£57,500	+23.65%	19 0.15%	21
VMware NSX	246	Down 66 places-66	£85,000	+25.92%	13 0.10%	4
vSphere	248	Down 74 places-74	£41,250	-23.25%	11 0.086%	4
BitLocker	250	New entry-	£35,500	-	9 0.070%	4
Virtual Servers	251	New entry-	£72,500	-	8 0.062%	1
Virtual Desktop	251	Down 77 places-77	£36,500	-39.16%	8 0.062%	8
DFS Replication	253	New entry-	£44,250	-	6 0.047%
Ceph	255	New entry-	£52,500	-	4 0.031%
UAG	257	New entry-	-	-	2 0.016%
Microsoft Virtual Server	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
EMC RecoverPoint	258	New entry-	£57,500	-	1 0.008%
Oracle RAC	258	New entry-	£75,000	-	1 0.008%	4
NFS	258	New entry-	-	-	1 0.008%
MetaFrame	258	New entry-	£65,000	-	1 0.008%
KVM	258	Down 79 places-79	£57,500	-30.30%	1 0.008%