Remote IT Employment Market Trends Analysis

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Permanent Job Market Index
Description	Rank 6 Months to 26 Oct 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Salary	Median Salary YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
Docker	82	Down 34 places-34	£65,000	-7.14%	788 3.09%	236
Active Directory	83	Up 17 places+17	£45,375	+16.34%	783 3.07%	165
Hyper-V	256	Down 115 places-115	£47,500	+31.94%	226 0.89%	33
VMware Infrastructure	258	Up 8 places+8	£62,500	+35.86%	224 0.88%	107
Firmware	332	Down 61 places-61	£60,000	+14.28%	140 0.55%	90
Virtual Machines	394	Down 49 places-49	£60,000	-14.28%	78 0.31%	36
vSphere	415	Down 246 places-246	£85,000	+25.92%	57 0.22%	20
Virtual Desktop	416	Down 54 places-54	£60,000	-6.17%	56 0.22%	18
Embedded Firmware	432	Down 93 places-93	£75,000	+41.50%	40 0.16%	28
VMware ESXi	442	Down 61 places-61	£67,500	+35.00%	30 0.12%	11
VMware NSX	449	Down 271 places-271	£90,000	+33.33%	23 0.090%	16
Virtual Servers	457	Down 59 places-59	£47,739	-16.97%	15 0.059%	3
Microsoft Virtual Server	461	New entry-	£47,739	-	11 0.043%	1
VMware Server	464	New entry-	£57,500	-	8 0.031%
vCloud	465	Down 59 places-59	£85,000	-	7 0.028%
KVM	466	Down 62 places-62	£62,500	-10.71%	6 0.024%	28
Squid	466	New entry-	£67,500	-	6 0.024%
ClearTrust	467	New entry-	£24,750	-	5 0.020%
BitLocker	467	Down 67 places-67	£60,000	+53.84%	5 0.020%	3
iptables	468	New entry-	£65,000	-	4 0.016%
IAG	468	Down 64 places-64	£85,000	-13.26%	4 0.016%
LXC	469	New entry-	£60,000	-	3 0.012%