Contract Operating System Statistics in England

Contract Job Market Index

Description	Rank 6 Months to 11 May 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	-1.19%	2,451 6.03%	964
Linux	57	Down -25 places-25	£513	-6.81%	1,563 3.84%	835
Windows Server	187	Down -57 places-57	£485	-9.55%	576 1.42%	322
Unix	220	Down -58 places-58	£469	-6.20%	469 1.15%	122
Windows 10	221	Down -80 places-80	£200	-13.51%	466 1.15%	87
Android	295	Down -55 places-55	£425	+9.67%	320 0.79%	126
Apple iOS	323	Down -83 places-83	£400	-	277 0.68%	93
Red Hat Enterprise Linux	370	Down -135 places-135	£500	-10.71%	221 0.54%	68
Mac OS	411	Down -83 places-83	£263	-9.48%	173 0.43%	92
VMS	477	Down -77 places-77	£500	-6.89%	106 0.26%	38
Ubuntu	509	Down -94 places-94	£525	+5.00%	74 0.18%	57
Solaris	512	Down -82 places-82	£481	-12.50%	71 0.17%	24
Windows Server 2016	520	Down -136 places-136	£475	-5.00%	63 0.15%	34
zOS	520	Down -84 places-84	£478	+5.23%	63 0.15%	5
AIX	523	Down -90 places-90	£421	-6.55%	60 0.15%	12
Windows Server 2019	524	Down -135 places-135	£488	-11.36%	59 0.15%	40
Windows 7	538	Down -123 places-123	£250	+11.11%	45 0.11%	13
CentOS	542	Down -138 places-138	£525	-8.69%	41 0.10%	19
Windows Server 2012	551	Down -134 places-134	£475	-5.00%	32 0.079%	14
Mac OS X	561	Down -118 places-118	£314	-21.75%	22 0.054%	1
Embedded Linux	562	Down -116 places-116	£440	-15.18%	21 0.052%	68
Debian	562	Down -102 places-102	£560	+1.81%	21 0.052%	13
Data ONTAP	565	Down -98 places-98	£510	+27.37%	18 0.044%	2
FreeRTOS	565	Down -100 places-100	£425	-	18 0.044%	27
Windows Server 2003	567	Down -124 places-124	£173	-68.34%	16 0.039%
Windows Server 2008	572	Down -113 places-113	£525	+49.78%	11 0.027%	2