Contract Operating System Statistics in Central London

Contract Job Market Index

Description	Rank 6 Months to 5 Sep 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Daily Rate	Median Daily Rate YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
Windows	37	Down -10 places-10	£384	-4.06%	136 5.46%	61
Linux	73	Down -34 places-34	£538	-14.00%	76 3.05%	63
Windows Server	104	Down -2 places-2	£525	+5.47%	43 1.73%	13
Unix	114	Down -31 places-31	£624	+13.36%	33 1.32%	14
Mac OS	121	Down -7 places-7	£200	-27.27%	26 1.04%	5
Windows 10	126	Down -24 places-24	£208	-29.36%	21 0.84%	9
Apple iOS	126	Down -14 places-14	£401	-15.90%	21 0.84%	14
Android	129	Down -14 places-14	£475	-2.06%	18 0.72%	28
VMS	134	Down -10 places-10	£550	-15.05%	13 0.52%	6
Ubuntu	138	New entry-	£500	-	9 0.36%	2
Red Hat Enterprise Linux	141	Down -23 places-23	£475	-24.00%	6 0.24%	9
Windows 7	141	Down -18 places-18	£150	-35.48%	6 0.24%	1
Windows Server 2012	142	Down -18 places-18	£420	-	5 0.20%	1
Solaris	143	Down -18 places-18	£635	-15.33%	4 0.16%	4
zOS	143	Down -20 places-20	-	-	4 0.16%
Windows Server 2008	144	Down -19 places-19	£415	-	3 0.12%	1
Windows Server 2019	144	Down -20 places-20	£415	-	3 0.12%	2
Embedded Linux	145	New entry-	-	-	2 0.080%
OpenVMS	145	New entry-	£415	-	2 0.080%
SUSE	145	New entry-	£475	-	2 0.080%
CentOS	145	Down -20 places-20	£430	-42.66%	2 0.080%	3
AIX	146	Down -24 places-24	£635	-15.33%	1 0.040%	4
Mac OS X	146	Down -22 places-22	£150	-36.17%	1 0.040%	1
MVS	146	New entry-	-	-	1 0.040%
Windows Server 2003	146	Down -21 places-21	£625	-	1 0.040%
Windows Server 2016	146	Down -23 places-23	-	-	1 0.040%	2
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server	146	New entry-	-	-	1 0.040%
Data ONTAP	146	New entry-	£465	-	1 0.040%	1