Contract Operating System Statistics in England

Job Market Index

Description	Rank 6 Months to 14 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	-2.12%	2,509 6.42%	946
Linux	54	Down -22 places-22	£518	-5.90%	1,606 4.11%	755
Windows Server	183	Down -60 places-60	£500	-4.76%	575 1.47%	361
Windows 10	195	Down -55 places-55	£200	-11.11%	526 1.35%	102
Unix	227	Down -64 places-64	£470	-10.57%	446 1.14%	100
Android	280	Down -14 places-14	£384	+5.42%	337 0.86%	174
Apple iOS	330	Down -87 places-87	£375	-11.76%	263 0.67%	141
Red Hat Enterprise Linux	364	Down -140 places-140	£510	-9.85%	222 0.57%	72
Mac OS	405	Down -47 places-47	£250	-20.00%	174 0.45%	91
VMS	442	Down -39 places-39	£500	-7.40%	135 0.35%	32
Ubuntu	503	Down -87 places-87	£537	+7.40%	74 0.19%	44
Windows Server 2016	519	Down -130 places-130	£450	-	58 0.15%	37
AIX	519	Down -80 places-80	£414	-12.89%	58 0.15%	9
zOS	519	Down -69 places-69	£475	-5.00%	58 0.15%	13
Windows 7	529	Down -110 places-110	£200	-24.00%	48 0.12%	10
Solaris	532	Down -96 places-96	£481	-10.46%	45 0.12%	27
Windows Server 2019	533	Down -131 places-131	£488	-7.14%	44 0.11%	38
CentOS	536	Down -136 places-136	£525	-17.64%	41 0.10%	21
Windows Server 2012	541	Down -131 places-131	£488	+11.36%	36 0.092%	14
Windows Server 2003	553	Down -107 places-107	£173	-67.93%	24 0.061%	2
Mac OS X	554	Down -107 places-107	£285	-29.10%	23 0.059%	2
Debian	559	Down -94 places-94	£560	+1.81%	18 0.046%	11
Data ONTAP	559	Down -90 places-90	£510	+1.79%	18 0.046%	3
Embedded Linux	560	Down -114 places-114	£500	-	17 0.044%	51
FreeRTOS	560	Down -92 places-92	£425	-32.00%	17 0.044%	28