System Software Statistics in the South West

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Permanent Job Market Index
Description	Rank 6 Months to 6 Nov 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Salary	Median Salary YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
Active Directory	57	Down 40 places-40	£40,000	+23.07%	298 2.64%	74
Docker	84	Up 1 place+1	£65,000	+8.33%	216 1.91%	77
Hyper-V	133	Down 66 places-66	£37,500	-11.76%	132 1.17%	12
VMware Infrastructure	150	Down 42 places-42	£48,500	+21.25%	109 0.97%	29
Firmware	176	Down 19 places-19	£60,000	+14.28%	81 0.72%	44
Terminal Server	192	Down 79 places-79	-	-	63 0.56%
vSphere	227	Down 65 places-65	£60,500	+10.00%	28 0.25%	7
VMware NSX	235	Down 63 places-63	£85,000	+38.77%	20 0.18%	4
Virtual Desktop	237	Down 65 places-65	£70,000	+9.46%	18 0.16%
Virtual Machines	243	Down 89 places-89	£42,533	+37.20%	12 0.11%	4
Embedded Firmware	243	Down 71 places-71	£62,500	+25.00%	12 0.11%	17
VMware ESXi	244	Down 79 places-79	£85,000	+100.00%	11 0.097%	8
NDS	245	New entry-	£80,000	-	10 0.089%
Ceph	251	Down 77 places-77	-	-	4 0.035%
Squid	251	New entry-	£60,500	-	4 0.035%
BitLocker	252	Down 78 places-78	£38,000	+1.33%	3 0.027%	1
Microsoft Virtual Server	253	New entry-	-	-	2 0.018%
KVM	253	Down 79 places-79	£60,000	-14.28%	2 0.018%
Virtual Servers	253	Down 79 places-79	-	-	2 0.018%	2
XenApp	254	Down 81 places-81	-	-	1 0.009%
XenDesktop	254	New entry-	-	-	1 0.009%
Microsoft App-V	254	New entry-	£38,000	-	1 0.009%
GPFS	254	New entry-	£44,905	-	1 0.009%	1
Lustre	254	Down 80 places-80	£44,905	-65.45%	1 0.009%
Slurm Workload Manager	254	Down 80 places-80	£44,905	-65.45%	1 0.009%	3