Contract Operating System Statistics in England

Contract Job Market Index

Description	Rank 6 Months to 16 Aug 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	£425	+3.91%	2,764 6.03%	904
Linux	61	Down -24 places-24	£525	-	1,747 3.81%	611
Windows Server	175	Down -2 places-2	£483	-8.00%	724 1.58%	330
Unix	226	Down -36 places-36	£493	-1.35%	531 1.16%	83
Windows 10	242	Down -64 places-64	£225	+2.27%	485 1.06%	106
Android	327	Down -113 places-113	£465	+16.25%	331 0.72%	107
Red Hat Enterprise Linux	342	Down -28 places-28	£500	-4.76%	310 0.68%	46
Apple iOS	345	Down -78 places-78	£401	+0.12%	305 0.67%	83
Mac OS	418	Down -101 places-101	£240	-40.00%	211 0.46%	81
Solaris	523	Down -48 places-48	£500	-9.09%	103 0.22%	9
Ubuntu	525	Down -87 places-87	£500	+2.56%	101 0.22%	25
VMS	537	Down -106 places-106	£475	-	89 0.19%	40
AIX	547	Down -74 places-74	£494	+9.77%	79 0.17%	1
zOS	554	Down -92 places-92	£525	+25.00%	72 0.16%	5
Windows Server 2019	557	Down -143 places-143	£538	-2.27%	69 0.15%	31
CentOS	579	Down -128 places-128	£525	-4.54%	47 0.10%	19
Windows 7	579	Down -154 places-154	£349	+62.37%	47 0.10%	7
Windows Server 2016	585	Down -161 places-161	£450	-18.18%	41 0.089%	31
Embedded Linux	590	Down -86 places-86	£525	-2.32%	36 0.079%	50
Windows Server 2012	590	Down -130 places-130	£475	-	36 0.079%	11
Oracle Linux	607	Down -109 places-109	£600	+26.31%	19 0.041%	1
Windows Server 2008	607	Down -116 places-116	£506	-12.90%	19 0.041%	4
SUSE	608	Down -107 places-107	£475	+30.13%	18 0.039%	2
Rocky	609	Down -106 places-106	£600	+39.13%	17 0.037%	9
Data ONTAP	610	Down -105 places-105	£519	+29.75%	16 0.035%	2
Debian	611	Down -117 places-117	£583	+9.54%	15 0.033%	16
FreeRTOS	613	Down -110 places-110	£600	-	13 0.028%	21
Windows Server 2003	614	Down -147 places-147	£492	-14.41%	12 0.026%	1