Contract Operating System Statistics in Cheshire

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Contract Job Market Index
Description	Rank 6 Months to 28 Oct 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Daily Rate	Median Daily Rate YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
Windows	11	Up 6 places+6	£325	-8.19%	84 11.10%	12
Linux	32	Up 2 places+2	£525	+46.23%	43 5.68%	8
Unix	59	Down 9 places-9	£425	-2.85%	16 2.11%	2
Red Hat Enterprise Linux	61	Up 7 places+7	£504	+30.14%	14 1.85%	1
Windows Server	64	Down 2 places-2	£344	-18.63%	11 1.45%	9
macOS	65	Up 9 places+9	£175	-	10 1.32%	1
Android	67	Down 8 places-8	£175	-53.33%	8 1.06%	1
Windows 10	67	No change0	£175	-61.11%	8 1.06%
Apple iOS	68	Down 13 places-13	£175	-53.33%	7 0.92%	1
AIX	71	New entry-	£465	-	4 0.53%
Solaris	73	New entry-	£425	-	2 0.26%	2
Ubuntu	74	New entry-	£644	-	1 0.13%
HPUX	74	New entry-	£425	-	1 0.13%
CentOS	74	New entry-	£644	-	1 0.13%
SUSE	74	New entry-	£425	-	1 0.13%	1
Windows 7	74	New entry-	-	-	1 0.13%
Oracle Linux	74	New entry-	£425	-	1 0.13%