Contract Operating System Statistics in England

Contract Job Market Index

Description	Rank 6 Months to 22 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	-1.30%	2,479 6.25%	957
Linux	55	Down -23 places-23	£518	-5.90%	1,599 4.03%	798
Windows Server	180	Down -58 places-58	£500	-6.97%	584 1.47%	325
Windows 10	198	Down -58 places-58	£200	-11.11%	510 1.29%	103
Unix	223	Down -65 places-65	£473	-8.55%	463 1.17%	104
Android	292	Down -36 places-36	£400	+6.66%	334 0.84%	156
Apple iOS	341	Down -102 places-102	£375	-7.63%	264 0.67%	117
Red Hat Enterprise Linux	366	Down -143 places-143	£500	-10.71%	230 0.58%	85
Mac OS	417	Down -67 places-67	£251	-19.76%	173 0.44%	84
VMS	463	Down -64 places-64	£500	-7.40%	124 0.31%	33
Ubuntu	515	Down -98 places-98	£531	+6.20%	72 0.18%	55
Windows Server 2016	523	Down -133 places-133	£463	+5.71%	64 0.16%	38
zOS	527	Down -83 places-83	£475	-7.31%	60 0.15%	10
AIX	531	Down -92 places-92	£416	-12.42%	56 0.14%	8
Solaris	533	Down -97 places-97	£479	-12.84%	54 0.14%	33
Windows Server 2019	535	Down -134 places-134	£488	-7.14%	52 0.13%	33
Windows 7	540	Down -120 places-120	£206	-8.56%	47 0.12%	13
CentOS	548	Down -147 places-147	£525	-16.00%	39 0.098%	24
Windows Server 2012	548	Down -135 places-135	£475	-	39 0.098%	17
Mac OS X	564	Down -116 places-116	£285	-29.10%	23 0.058%
Windows Server 2003	565	Down -120 places-120	£173	-67.84%	22 0.056%	1
Debian	568	Down -103 places-103	£555	+0.90%	19 0.048%	14
Data ONTAP	569	Down -101 places-101	£510	+1.79%	18 0.045%	5
Embedded Linux	570	Down -123 places-123	£500	-	17 0.043%	65
FreeRTOS	572	Down -104 places-104	£425	-32.00%	15 0.038%	34
Windows Server 2008	576	Down -119 places-119	£513	+36.66%	11 0.028%	5