Remote IT Employment Market Trends Analysis

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Permanent Job Market Index
Description	Rank 6 Months to 9 Nov 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Salary	Median Salary YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
Active Directory	81	Down 4 places-4	£46,000	+15.00%	782 3.06%	430
Docker	85	Down 25 places-25	£65,000	-7.14%	767 3.00%	1,012
Hyper-V	262	Down 138 places-138	£47,500	+29.25%	223 0.87%	97
VMware Infrastructure	268	Down 2 places-2	£60,000	+28.34%	217 0.85%	201
Firmware	330	Down 76 places-76	£60,000	+14.28%	146 0.57%	370
Virtual Machines	408	Down 69 places-69	£58,750	-16.07%	68 0.27%	100
Virtual Desktop	421	Down 76 places-76	£60,000	-6.94%	55 0.22%	46
vSphere	425	Down 271 places-271	£85,000	+23.63%	51 0.20%	45
Embedded Firmware	430	Down 109 places-109	£75,000	+36.36%	46 0.18%	93
VMware ESXi	444	Down 73 places-73	£67,500	+35.00%	32 0.13%	29
VMware NSX	457	Down 295 places-295	£105,000	+47.36%	19 0.074%	27
Virtual Servers	461	Down 81 places-81	£65,000	+13.04%	15 0.059%	13
Microsoft Virtual Server	467	New entry-	£70,000	-	9 0.035%	2
VMware Server	469	New entry-	£55,000	-	7 0.027%
Squid	470	New entry-	£67,500	-	6 0.024%	5
ClearTrust	471	New entry-	£24,750	-	5 0.020%
KVM	471	Down 84 places-84	£60,000	-14.28%	5 0.020%	18
iptables	472	Down 83 places-83	£65,000	-27.77%	4 0.016%	3
IAG	472	Down 85 places-85	£85,000	-13.26%	4 0.016%	12
BitLocker	472	Down 88 places-88	£48,750	+25.00%	4 0.016%	7
LXC	473	New entry-	£60,000	-	3 0.012%	6
Slurm Workload Manager	474	Down 88 places-88	£44,905	-60.95%	2 0.008%	25
Time Sharing Option	474	Down 85 places-85	£70,000	-	2 0.008%	2
Oracle RAC	474	Down 85 places-85	£70,000	+33.33%	2 0.008%	16
vCloud	474	Down 85 places-85	£87,500	-	2 0.008%
NFS	474	Down 93 places-93	-	-	2 0.008%	5
DFS Replication	474	New entry-	£47,500	-	2 0.008%