Contract Operating System Statistics in England

Job Market Index

Description	Rank 6 Months to 15 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	£414	-2.64%	2,503 6.39%	883
Linux	54	Down -22 places-22	£518	-5.90%	1,611 4.11%	657
Windows Server	179	Down -59 places-59	£500	-4.76%	572 1.46%	330
Windows 10	194	Down -56 places-56	£200	-15.78%	522 1.33%	96
Unix	222	Down -66 places-66	£471	-10.28%	449 1.15%	82
Android	284	Down -27 places-27	£380	+4.25%	336 0.86%	158
Apple iOS	338	Down -101 places-101	£375	-11.76%	262 0.67%	129
Red Hat Enterprise Linux	374	Down -156 places-156	£520	-7.96%	222 0.57%	62
Mac OS	414	Down -63 places-63	£250	-20.00%	176 0.45%	80
VMS	455	Down -60 places-60	£500	-7.40%	134 0.34%	27
Ubuntu	514	Down -104 places-104	£537	+7.40%	74 0.19%	38
Windows Server 2016	530	Down -148 places-148	£450	-	58 0.15%	38
AIX	530	Down -98 places-98	£414	-12.89%	58 0.15%	8
zOS	531	Down -88 places-88	£475	-5.00%	57 0.15%	10
Windows 7	540	Down -127 places-127	£200	-24.00%	48 0.12%	10
Solaris	542	Down -114 places-114	£481	-12.50%	46 0.12%	19
Windows Server 2019	544	Down -149 places-149	£488	-7.14%	44 0.11%	37
CentOS	547	Down -153 places-153	£525	-19.23%	41 0.10%	16
Windows Server 2012	552	Down -152 places-152	£488	+2.63%	36 0.092%	14
Windows Server 2003	564	Down -125 places-125	£173	-67.93%	24 0.061%	1
Mac OS X	565	Down -125 places-125	£285	-29.10%	23 0.059%	1
Debian	570	Down -112 places-112	£560	+1.81%	18 0.046%	11
Data ONTAP	570	Down -108 places-108	£510	+1.79%	18 0.046%	3
FreeRTOS	571	Down -110 places-110	£425	-32.00%	17 0.043%	31
Embedded Linux	571	Down -132 places-132	£500	-	17 0.043%	45