Contract Operating System Statistics in England

Contract Job Market Index

Description	Rank 6 Months to 14 Sep 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Daily Rate	Median Daily Rate YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
Windows	28	Down -7 places-7	£416	+4.00%	2,811 6.11%	2,257
Linux	58	Down -22 places-22	£525	-	1,754 3.81%	2,693
Windows Server	162	Up 13 places+13	£483	-7.95%	781 1.70%	656
Unix	224	Down -49 places-49	£500	-	527 1.15%	449
Windows 10	232	Down -65 places-65	£226	+0.22%	509 1.11%	191
Android	329	Down -117 places-117	£455	+13.75%	328 0.71%	529
Red Hat Enterprise Linux	329	Down -9 places-9	£500	-3.79%	328 0.71%	191
Apple iOS	342	Down -79 places-79	£388	-3.12%	307 0.67%	456
Mac OS	412	Down -111 places-111	£230	-42.50%	220 0.48%	241
Solaris	520	Down -43 places-43	£501	-4.57%	108 0.23%	33
Ubuntu	523	Down -81 places-81	£500	+3.09%	105 0.23%	102
VMS	539	Down -109 places-109	£475	-	89 0.19%	109
zOS	549	Down -75 places-75	£513	+13.88%	79 0.17%	53
Windows Server 2019	561	Down -144 places-144	£538	-2.27%	67 0.15%	49
AIX	565	Down -82 places-82	£500	+20.43%	63 0.14%	13
CentOS	571	Down -121 places-121	£491	-10.68%	57 0.12%	61
Windows 7	582	Down -141 places-141	£360	+78.68%	46 0.10%	13
Windows Server 2012	590	Down -124 places-124	£450	+28.57%	38 0.083%	38
Windows Server 2016	591	Down -163 places-163	£450	-18.18%	37 0.080%	48
Embedded Linux	592	New entry-	£525	-	36 0.078%	134
Rocky	605	Down -98 places-98	£600	+39.13%	23 0.050%	14
SUSE	610	Down -106 places-106	£475	+30.13%	18 0.039%	4
Windows Server 2008	611	Down -116 places-116	£525	-14.28%	17 0.037%	15
FreeRTOS	612	Down -107 places-107	£600	+33.33%	16 0.035%	40
Debian	612	Down -114 places-114	£583	+10.21%	16 0.035%	34
Oracle Linux	612	Down -109 places-109	£553	+16.42%	16 0.035%	4
Windows Server 2003	616	Down -147 places-147	£492	-14.41%	12 0.026%	4
Data ONTAP	616	Down -108 places-108	£553	+38.12%	12 0.026%	4