Remote IT Employment Market Trends Analysis

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Permanent Job Market Index
Description	Rank 6 Months to 2 Nov 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Salary	Median Salary YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
Docker	80	Down 24 places-24	£65,000	-7.14%	785 3.07%	438
Active Directory	81	Up 15 places+15	£46,000	+16.45%	783 3.06%	276
Hyper-V	260	Down 123 places-123	£47,500	+31.94%	221 0.86%	53
VMware Infrastructure	261	Up 6 places+6	£60,000	+26.31%	219 0.86%	110
Firmware	325	Down 57 places-57	£60,000	+14.28%	142 0.56%	156
Virtual Machines	395	Down 56 places-56	£60,000	-7.69%	71 0.28%	46
Virtual Desktop	412	Down 52 places-52	£60,000	-6.94%	54 0.21%	27
vSphere	415	Down 250 places-250	£85,000	+25.92%	51 0.20%	18
Embedded Firmware	422	Down 87 places-87	£75,000	+36.36%	44 0.17%	51
VMware ESXi	436	Down 52 places-52	£67,500	+35.00%	30 0.12%	8
VMware NSX	447	Down 272 places-272	£97,500	+36.84%	19 0.074%	14
Virtual Servers	451	Down 56 places-56	£47,739	-16.97%	15 0.059%	4
Microsoft Virtual Server	455	New entry-	£47,739	-	11 0.043%	1
VMware Server	458	New entry-	£57,500	-	8 0.031%
Squid	460	New entry-	£67,500	-	6 0.024%	1
ClearTrust	461	New entry-	£24,750	-	5 0.020%
KVM	461	Down 59 places-59	£62,500	-10.71%	5 0.020%	5
iptables	462	New entry-	£65,000	-	4 0.016%
IAG	462	Down 60 places-60	£85,000	-13.26%	4 0.016%	3
BitLocker	462	Down 63 places-63	£48,750	+25.00%	4 0.016%	7
vCloud	462	Down 58 places-58	£87,500	-	4 0.016%
LXC	463	New entry-	£60,000	-	3 0.012%	1