Contract Operating System Statistics in England

Contract Job Market Index

Description	Rank 6 Months to 10 May 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Daily Rate	Median Daily Rate YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
Windows	27	Down -6 places-6	£415	-1.19%	2,467 6.05%	973
Linux	57	Down -26 places-26	£513	-6.81%	1,583 3.88%	827
Windows Server	186	Down -58 places-58	£484	-9.62%	578 1.42%	323
Unix	217	Down -53 places-53	£469	-6.20%	475 1.16%	122
Windows 10	221	Down -81 places-81	£200	-13.51%	471 1.15%	89
Android	300	Down -56 places-56	£425	+9.67%	325 0.80%	129
Apple iOS	326	Down -82 places-82	£388	-3.12%	279 0.68%	96
Red Hat Enterprise Linux	375	Down -137 places-137	£500	-10.71%	220 0.54%	67
Mac OS	413	Down -81 places-81	£250	-13.79%	178 0.44%	95
VMS	483	Down -79 places-79	£500	-6.89%	106 0.26%	37
Ubuntu	514	Down -95 places-95	£525	+5.00%	75 0.18%	57
Solaris	518	Down -84 places-84	£481	-12.50%	71 0.17%	24
Windows Server 2016	526	Down -137 places-137	£475	-	63 0.15%	35
zOS	526	Down -86 places-86	£478	+5.23%	63 0.15%	7
AIX	529	Down -93 places-93	£421	-6.55%	60 0.15%	11
Windows Server 2019	530	Down -136 places-136	£488	-9.30%	59 0.14%	37
Windows 7	544	Down -124 places-124	£250	+11.11%	45 0.11%	13
CentOS	548	Down -140 places-140	£525	-8.69%	41 0.10%	19
Windows Server 2012	556	Down -135 places-135	£463	-7.50%	33 0.081%	14
Mac OS X	567	Down -120 places-120	£314	-21.75%	22 0.054%	1
Embedded Linux	568	Down -118 places-118	£440	-15.18%	21 0.052%	67
Debian	568	Down -104 places-104	£560	+1.81%	21 0.052%	13
Data ONTAP	571	Down -100 places-100	£510	+27.37%	18 0.044%	2
FreeRTOS	571	Down -102 places-102	£425	-	18 0.044%	27
Windows Server 2003	573	Down -126 places-126	£173	-68.34%	16 0.039%
Windows Server 2008	578	Down -115 places-115	£525	+49.78%	11 0.027%	2