Contract Operating System Statistics in England

Contract Job Market Index

Description	Rank 6 Months to 24 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	+0.60%	2,466 6.21%	829
Linux	54	Down -21 places-21	£513	-6.81%	1,591 4.00%	649
Windows Server	181	Down -57 places-57	£492	-7.99%	578 1.45%	283
Windows 10	199	Down -57 places-57	£200	-11.11%	501 1.26%	80
Unix	209	Down -48 places-48	£472	-6.94%	469 1.18%	78
Android	289	Down -30 places-30	£410	+5.80%	332 0.84%	123
Apple iOS	337	Down -92 places-92	£388	-3.60%	263 0.66%	93
Red Hat Enterprise Linux	375	Down -142 places-142	£500	-10.71%	216 0.54%	58
Mac OS	414	Down -55 places-55	£275	-6.77%	170 0.43%	80
VMS	465	Down -55 places-55	£500	-7.40%	117 0.29%	27
Ubuntu	508	Down -77 places-77	£525	+5.00%	73 0.18%	44
Windows Server 2016	518	Down -117 places-117	£463	+2.77%	63 0.16%	32
zOS	520	Down -67 places-67	£475	-5.00%	61 0.15%	11
AIX	523	Down -75 places-75	£416	-12.52%	58 0.15%	8
Solaris	527	Down -81 places-81	£479	-12.84%	54 0.14%	36
Windows Server 2019	529	Down -118 places-118	£488	-7.14%	52 0.13%	30
Windows 7	534	Down -105 places-105	£206	-8.56%	47 0.12%	8
CentOS	540	Down -127 places-127	£525	-19.23%	41 0.10%	14
Windows Server 2012	542	Down -117 places-117	£475	-	39 0.098%	17
Mac OS X	559	Down -101 places-101	£314	-21.95%	22 0.055%
Windows Server 2003	559	Down -104 places-104	£173	-67.84%	22 0.055%	1
Debian	562	Down -87 places-87	£555	+0.90%	19 0.048%	9
Data ONTAP	563	Down -83 places-83	£510	+10.16%	18 0.045%	1
Embedded Linux	564	Down -106 places-106	£500	-	17 0.043%	50
FreeRTOS	566	Down -88 places-88	£425	-32.00%	15 0.038%	27
Windows Server 2008	570	Down -103 places-103	£513	+36.66%	11 0.028%	5