System Software Statistics in the South West

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Permanent Job Market Index
Description	Rank 6 Months to 13 Nov 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Salary	Median Salary YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
Active Directory	61	Down 43 places-43	£41,500	+25.75%	295 2.56%	92
Docker	84	Up 3 places+3	£65,000	+8.33%	218 1.89%	149
Hyper-V	135	Down 72 places-72	£37,500	-11.76%	122 1.06%	25
VMware Infrastructure	148	Down 34 places-34	£50,000	+25.00%	107 0.93%	45
Firmware	164	Down 5 places-5	£55,000	+4.76%	88 0.76%	88
Terminal Server	195	Down 85 places-85	-	-	56 0.49%
vSphere	223	Down 56 places-56	£60,500	+10.00%	28 0.24%	12
VMware NSX	231	Down 55 places-55	£85,000	+38.77%	20 0.17%	9
Virtual Desktop	233	Down 59 places-59	£70,000	+9.46%	18 0.16%	6
Embedded Firmware	234	Down 60 places-60	£50,000	-	17 0.15%	31
VMware ESXi	238	Down 70 places-70	£85,000	+100.00%	13 0.11%	10
Virtual Machines	239	Down 80 places-80	£42,533	+37.20%	12 0.10%	9
NDS	241	New entry-	£80,000	-	10 0.087%
Ceph	247	Down 70 places-70	-	-	4 0.035%
BitLocker	248	Down 71 places-71	£38,000	+1.33%	3 0.026%	2
Squid	248	New entry-	£60,500	-	3 0.026%
KVM	249	Down 72 places-72	£60,000	-14.28%	2 0.017%	6
XenApp	250	Down 74 places-74	-	-	1 0.009%
XenDesktop	250	New entry-	-	-	1 0.009%	1
Microsoft Virtual Server	250	New entry-	-	-	1 0.009%
Microsoft App-V	250	New entry-	£38,000	-	1 0.009%
Virtual Servers	250	Down 73 places-73	-	-	1 0.009%	3
GPFS	250	New entry-	£44,905	-	1 0.009%	1
Lustre	250	Down 73 places-73	£44,905	-65.45%	1 0.009%
Slurm Workload Manager	250	Down 73 places-73	£44,905	-65.45%	1 0.009%	5