Contract Operating System Statistics in England

Contract Job Market Index

Description	Rank 6 Months to 26 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 6.16%	822
Linux	54	Down -22 places-22	£515	-6.36%	1,595 3.99%	649
Windows Server	183	Down -60 places-60	£493	-8.45%	580 1.45%	282
Windows 10	202	Down -61 places-61	£200	-11.11%	493 1.23%	84
Unix	212	Down -53 places-53	£472	-5.60%	468 1.17%	78
Android	280	Down -28 places-28	£413	+10.00%	326 0.82%	128
Apple iOS	328	Down -84 places-84	£400	-	259 0.65%	93
Red Hat Enterprise Linux	362	Down -130 places-130	£500	-10.71%	216 0.54%	53
Mac OS	402	Down -52 places-52	£280	+1.81%	170 0.43%	75
VMS	456	Down -51 places-51	£500	-8.25%	116 0.29%	25
Ubuntu	499	Down -72 places-72	£525	+5.00%	73 0.18%	45
Windows Server 2016	508	Down -113 places-113	£463	+2.77%	64 0.16%	32
zOS	511	Down -64 places-64	£475	-5.00%	61 0.15%	9
AIX	513	Down -73 places-73	£415	-8.59%	59 0.15%	8
Solaris	517	Down -77 places-77	£479	-12.84%	55 0.14%	34
Windows Server 2019	519	Down -117 places-117	£488	-7.14%	53 0.13%	33
Windows 7	525	Down -100 places-100	£206	+2.86%	47 0.12%	13
CentOS	531	Down -124 places-124	£525	-19.23%	41 0.10%	17
Windows Server 2012	533	Down -112 places-112	£475	-	39 0.098%	16
Mac OS X	550	Down -98 places-98	£314	-21.95%	22 0.055%
Windows Server 2003	551	Down -102 places-102	£173	-67.99%	21 0.053%	1
Embedded Linux	553	Down -101 places-101	£440	-12.00%	19 0.048%	49
Debian	553	Down -84 places-84	£555	+0.90%	19 0.048%	7
Data ONTAP	554	Down -79 places-79	£510	+27.37%	18 0.045%	1
FreeRTOS	557	Down -85 places-85	£425	-32.00%	15 0.038%	24
Windows Server 2008	561	Down -98 places-98	£513	+28.12%	11 0.028%	6