Contract Operating System Statistics in England

Contract Job Market Index

Description	Rank 6 Months to 28 Apr 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	-0.01%	2,462 6.13%	836
Linux	53	Down -21 places-21	£518	-5.90%	1,596 3.97%	656
Windows Server	183	Down -58 places-58	£490	-8.92%	582 1.45%	286
Windows 10	206	Down -61 places-61	£200	-11.11%	495 1.23%	79
Unix	218	Down -54 places-54	£471	-5.80%	468 1.17%	82
Android	287	Down -28 places-28	£413	+10.00%	328 0.82%	115
Apple iOS	335	Down -85 places-85	£388	-3.12%	262 0.65%	85
Red Hat Enterprise Linux	374	Down -137 places-137	£500	-10.71%	218 0.54%	54
Mac OS	416	Down -56 places-56	£280	+1.81%	170 0.42%	72
VMS	469	Down -54 places-54	£500	-8.25%	115 0.29%	27
Ubuntu	509	Down -72 places-72	£525	+5.00%	75 0.19%	46
Windows Server 2016	521	Down -116 places-116	£475	+5.55%	63 0.16%	27
zOS	523	Down -66 places-66	£475	-5.00%	61 0.15%	8
AIX	526	Down -76 places-76	£416	-8.48%	58 0.14%	9
Solaris	527	Down -77 places-77	£478	-13.18%	57 0.14%	27
Windows Server 2019	531	Down -119 places-119	£488	-7.14%	53 0.13%	32
Windows 7	537	Down -102 places-102	£212	+6.11%	47 0.12%	14
CentOS	543	Down -126 places-126	£525	-19.23%	41 0.10%	17
Windows Server 2012	544	Down -113 places-113	£475	-	40 0.100%	15
Mac OS X	562	Down -100 places-100	£314	-21.95%	22 0.055%	1
Windows Server 2003	564	Down -105 places-105	£173	-67.99%	20 0.050%	1
Debian	564	Down -85 places-85	£555	+0.90%	20 0.050%	7
Embedded Linux	565	Down -103 places-103	£440	-12.00%	19 0.047%	50
Data ONTAP	566	Down -81 places-81	£510	+27.37%	18 0.045%	1
FreeRTOS	569	Down -87 places-87	£425	-32.00%	15 0.037%	26
Windows Server 2008	573	Down -100 places-100	£513	+28.12%	11 0.027%	5