Contract Operating System Statistics in England

Contract Job Market Index

Description	Rank 6 Months to 27 Apr 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Daily Rate	Median Daily Rate YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
Windows	27	Down -5 places-5	£415	-0.01%	2,460 6.14%	931
Linux	54	Down -22 places-22	£518	-5.90%	1,597 3.99%	764
Windows Server	183	Down -60 places-60	£493	-8.45%	579 1.45%	315
Windows 10	205	Down -63 places-63	£200	-11.11%	492 1.23%	87
Unix	215	Down -55 places-55	£472	-5.60%	468 1.17%	96
Android	285	Down -31 places-31	£413	+10.00%	326 0.81%	136
Apple iOS	337	Down -92 places-92	£400	-	259 0.65%	113
Red Hat Enterprise Linux	376	Down -143 places-143	£500	-10.71%	216 0.54%	67
Mac OS	417	Down -64 places-64	£280	+1.81%	170 0.42%	86
VMS	471	Down -63 places-63	£500	-8.25%	116 0.29%	35
Ubuntu	514	Down -84 places-84	£525	+5.00%	73 0.18%	50
Windows Server 2016	524	Down -126 places-126	£475	+5.55%	63 0.16%	34
zOS	526	Down -76 places-76	£475	-5.00%	61 0.15%	12
AIX	529	Down -86 places-86	£416	-8.48%	58 0.14%	10
Solaris	532	Down -89 places-89	£479	-12.84%	55 0.14%	32
Windows Server 2019	534	Down -129 places-129	£488	-7.14%	53 0.13%	40
Windows 7	541	Down -113 places-113	£212	+5.98%	46 0.11%	15
CentOS	546	Down -136 places-136	£525	-19.23%	41 0.10%	24
Windows Server 2012	548	Down -124 places-124	£475	-	39 0.097%	16
Mac OS X	565	Down -110 places-110	£314	-21.95%	22 0.055%
Windows Server 2003	567	Down -115 places-115	£173	-67.99%	20 0.050%	1
Embedded Linux	568	Down -113 places-113	£440	-12.00%	19 0.048%	50
Debian	568	Down -96 places-96	£555	+0.90%	19 0.048%	8
Data ONTAP	569	Down -91 places-91	£510	+27.37%	18 0.045%	1
FreeRTOS	572	Down -97 places-97	£425	-32.00%	15 0.038%	26
Windows Server 2008	576	Down -110 places-110	£513	+28.12%	11 0.028%	5