System Software Statistics in the North of England

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Permanent Job Market Index
Description	Rank 6 Months to 1 Nov 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Salary	Median Salary YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
Active Directory	70	Down 25 places-25	£35,000	+7.69%	513 2.11%	114
Docker	85	Down 48 places-48	£65,000	-4.41%	427 1.76%	161
VMware Infrastructure	225	Down 43 places-43	£47,500	+48.43%	141 0.58%	50
Firmware	255	Down 1 place-1	£57,500	+23.65%	109 0.45%	67
Hyper-V	261	Down 194 places-194	£35,000	+9.37%	103 0.42%	23
Embedded Firmware	326	Down 61 places-61	£57,500	+25.00%	38 0.16%	17
Virtual Machines	334	Down 59 places-59	£47,500	-11.62%	30 0.12%	15
vSphere	335	Down 228 places-228	£50,000	-6.97%	29 0.12%	7
VMware ESXi	343	Down 65 places-65	£48,750	+2.63%	21 0.086%	9
VMware NSX	350	Down 236 places-236	£71,250	+5.55%	14 0.058%	9
Virtual Desktop	350	Down 63 places-63	£36,500	-39.16%	14 0.058%	6
BitLocker	353	New entry-	£35,500	-	11 0.045%
Time Sharing Option	357	Down 63 places-63	£74,000	-1.33%	7 0.029%
DFS Replication	358	New entry-	£44,250	-	6 0.025%	1
Ceph	360	New entry-	£52,500	-	4 0.017%	1
Terminal Services	361	New entry-	£29,000	-	3 0.012%	1
iptables	361	New entry-	£65,000	-	3 0.012%
UAG	362	New entry-	-	-	2 0.008%
Virtual Servers	362	Down 125 places-125	£68,750	+43.22%	2 0.008%	1
Citrix Hypervisor	363	New entry-	-	-	1 0.004%	2
XenDesktop	363	Down 69 places-69	£65,000	+100.00%	1 0.004%	2
Microsoft Virtual Server	363	New entry-	£65,000	-	1 0.004%
EMC RecoverPoint	363	New entry-	£57,500	-	1 0.004%
KVM	363	Down 71 places-71	£57,500	-30.30%	1 0.004%
NFS	363	New entry-	-	-	1 0.004%
MetaFrame	363	New entry-	£65,000	-	1 0.004%
HDFS	363	Down 72 places-72	-	-	1 0.004%