System Software Statistics in the West Midlands

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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	63	Down 26 places-26	£42,500	-10.52%	201 2.19%	26
Docker	149	Down 72 places-72	£60,000	-17.24%	76 0.83%	14
VMware Infrastructure	150	Down 46 places-46	£46,000	+8.23%	75 0.82%	11
Hyper-V	167	Down 37 places-37	£46,000	+41.53%	58 0.63%	7
Firmware	170	Down 29 places-29	£65,000	+33.33%	55 0.60%	16
Embedded Firmware	208	Down 42 places-42	£70,000	+33.33%	17 0.19%	8
Virtual Machines	211	Down 44 places-44	£42,500	-	14 0.15%	6
vSphere	218	Down 51 places-51	£47,500	-5.00%	7 0.076%	2
Virtual Desktop	219	Down 53 places-53	£42,500	-22.72%	6 0.065%	3
VMware ESXi	223	Down 56 places-56	£65,000	+30.00%	2 0.022%	2
XenApp	223	Down 58 places-58	£37,500	-25.00%	2 0.022%
Citrix Hypervisor	223	New entry-	-	-	2 0.022%
Oracle RAC	223	New entry-	£70,000	-	2 0.022%
FreeRADIUS	224	New entry-	£55,000	-	1 0.011%
VMware Server	224	Down 54 places-54	£47,500	-	1 0.011%
BitLocker	224	Down 62 places-62	£60,000	+60.00%	1 0.011%	1