Contract Operating System Statistics in England

Contract Job Market Index

Description	Rank 6 Months to 8 May 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Daily Rate	Median Daily Rate YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
Windows	26	Down -4 places-4	£415	-1.19%	2,454 6.06%	1,003
Linux	55	Down -23 places-23	£513	-6.81%	1,576 3.89%	830
Windows Server	180	Down -46 places-46	£485	-9.55%	579 1.43%	333
Unix	211	Down -39 places-39	£469	-6.20%	472 1.17%	128
Windows 10	215	Down -65 places-65	£200	-11.11%	467 1.15%	109
Android	293	Down -46 places-46	£425	+13.33%	320 0.79%	133
Apple iOS	329	Down -85 places-85	£375	-6.25%	272 0.67%	98
Red Hat Enterprise Linux	371	Down -135 places-135	£500	-10.71%	219 0.54%	73
Mac OS	408	Down -73 places-73	£263	-9.09%	174 0.43%	99
VMS	476	Down -71 places-71	£500	-7.14%	105 0.26%	37
Ubuntu	506	Down -86 places-86	£525	+5.00%	75 0.19%	57
Solaris	513	Down -78 places-78	£481	-12.50%	68 0.17%	27
Windows Server 2016	517	Down -125 places-125	£463	+2.77%	64 0.16%	33
zOS	518	Down -76 places-76	£478	+5.23%	63 0.16%	6
AIX	520	Down -83 places-83	£416	-7.55%	61 0.15%	14
Windows Server 2019	522	Down -125 places-125	£488	-7.14%	59 0.15%	35
Windows 7	534	Down -110 places-110	£250	-	47 0.12%	15
CentOS	540	Down -134 places-134	£525	-12.50%	41 0.10%	23
Windows Server 2012	546	Down -124 places-124	£488	-2.50%	35 0.086%	14
Mac OS X	559	Down -111 places-111	£314	-21.75%	22 0.054%	2
Debian	560	Down -95 places-95	£560	+1.81%	21 0.052%	13
Embedded Linux	560	Down -109 places-109	£440	-15.18%	21 0.052%	62
FreeRTOS	563	Down -93 places-93	£425	-	18 0.044%	31
Data ONTAP	563	Down -91 places-91	£510	+27.37%	18 0.044%	2
Windows Server 2003	564	Down -116 places-116	£173	-68.34%	17 0.042%	1
Windows Server 2008	570	Down -106 places-106	£525	+49.78%	11 0.027%	2