System Software Statistics in the Thames Valley

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Permanent Job Market Index
Description	Rank 6 Months to 28 Oct 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Salary	Median Salary YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
Active Directory	76	Down 19 places-19	£45,000	+20.00%	161 2.07%	36
Docker	128	Down 38 places-38	£62,500	-13.79%	82 1.05%	22
VMware Infrastructure	135	Down 16 places-16	£60,000	+44.57%	74 0.95%	14
Hyper-V	150	Down 29 places-29	£47,166	+25.77%	57 0.73%	8
Firmware	154	Up 19 places+19	£52,500	-4.54%	53 0.68%	27
vSphere	183	Down 1 place-1	£66,250	+44.02%	24 0.31%	5
Virtual Machines	184	Down 8 places-8	£61,000	+35.55%	23 0.30%	5
Embedded Firmware	187	Down 8 places-8	£50,000	-9.09%	20 0.26%	9
VMware ESXi	191	Down 14 places-14	£67,500	+52.54%	16 0.21%	3
KVM	197	New entry-	£62,500	-	10 0.13%
Virtual Desktop	197	Down 7 places-7	£40,000	-	10 0.13%	5
VMware NSX	199	Down 9 places-9	£72,500	-	8 0.10%
ClearTrust	202	New entry-	£24,750	-	5 0.064%
Squid	202	New entry-	£67,500	-	5 0.064%
Virtual Servers	202	Down 19 places-19	£40,000	-4.76%	5 0.064%	1
LXC	203	New entry-	£60,000	-	4 0.051%
Oracle RAC	204	New entry-	-	-	3 0.039%
Microsoft Virtual Server	204	Down 15 places-15	£40,000	-8.04%	3 0.039%
iptables	205	New entry-	-	-	2 0.026%
Lustre	205	Down 17 places-17	-	-	2 0.026%