System Software Statistics in the UK excluding London

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Permanent Job Market Index
Description	Rank 6 Months to 29 Oct 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Salary	Median Salary YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
Active Directory	64	Down 31 places-31	£38,500	+10.00%	2,226 2.47%	320
Docker	112	Down 37 places-37	£65,000	-5.10%	1,324 1.47%	264
Firmware	229	Up 31 places+31	£60,000	+12.94%	714 0.79%	286
VMware Infrastructure	236	Down 68 places-68	£46,000	+8.87%	687 0.76%	150
Hyper-V	243	Down 109 places-109	£42,500	+14.86%	657 0.73%	68
Embedded Firmware	484	Down 99 places-99	£62,500	+13.63%	205 0.23%	101
Virtual Machines	544	Down 131 places-131	£47,500	-	141 0.16%	47
vSphere	546	Down 309 places-309	£55,000	+2.32%	139 0.15%	30
Virtual Desktop	586	Down 148 places-148	£45,000	-16.66%	99 0.11%	17
VMware ESXi	604	Down 159 places-159	£65,000	+30.00%	81 0.090%	25
Terminal Server	612	Down 154 places-154	£32,500	-29.34%	73 0.081%
VMware NSX	627	Down 350 places-350	£80,000	+37.93%	58 0.064%	29
Virtual Servers	651	Down 197 places-197	£37,500	-18.03%	34 0.038%	7
BitLocker	662	Down 146 places-146	£36,250	-3.33%	23 0.026%	5
Microsoft Virtual Server	665	Down 142 places-142	£32,500	-25.28%	20 0.022%	3
KVM	668	Down 148 places-148	£61,250	-2.00%	17 0.019%	5
VMware Server	672	Down 147 places-147	£55,000	-	13 0.014%	1
NDS	675	New entry-	£80,000	-	10 0.011%	2