Contract Operating System Statistics in England

Contract Job Market Index

Description	Rank 6 Months to 7 Sep 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Daily Rate	Median Daily Rate YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
Windows	28	Down -6 places-6	£425	+4.29%	2,795 6.07%	1,726
Linux	61	Down -26 places-26	£525	-	1,733 3.77%	1,957
Windows Server	163	Up 19 places+19	£483	-7.51%	783 1.70%	500
Unix	232	Down -51 places-51	£500	-	525 1.14%	311
Windows 10	243	Down -64 places-64	£225	-	499 1.08%	155
Android	333	Down -112 places-112	£455	+13.75%	322 0.70%	396
Red Hat Enterprise Linux	334	No change0	£500	-3.79%	321 0.70%	127
Apple iOS	347	Down -78 places-78	£400	+0.06%	301 0.65%	329
Mac OS	421	Down -104 places-104	£230	-42.50%	214 0.47%	171
Solaris	526	Down -36 places-36	£500	-4.76%	103 0.22%	24
Ubuntu	527	Down -67 places-67	£500	+3.09%	102 0.22%	79
VMS	536	Down -89 places-89	£475	-	93 0.20%	88
zOS	548	Down -59 places-59	£513	+14.05%	81 0.18%	32
Windows Server 2019	562	Down -128 places-128	£538	-2.27%	67 0.15%	34
AIX	564	Down -67 places-67	£500	+20.43%	65 0.14%	9
CentOS	576	Down -108 places-108	£491	-10.68%	53 0.12%	45
Windows 7	583	Down -131 places-131	£349	+73.46%	46 0.100%	12
Windows Server 2016	591	Down -147 places-147	£450	-18.18%	38 0.083%	39
Windows Server 2012	592	Down -112 places-112	£463	+24.16%	37 0.080%	28
Embedded Linux	593	New entry-	£525	-	36 0.078%	100
Rocky	608	Down -85 places-85	£600	+39.13%	21 0.046%	15
Oracle Linux	611	Down -94 places-94	£600	+26.31%	18 0.039%	3
SUSE	611	Down -91 places-91	£475	+30.13%	18 0.039%	2
Windows Server 2008	612	Down -103 places-103	£525	-9.67%	17 0.037%	14
FreeRTOS	613	Down -92 places-92	£600	+33.33%	16 0.035%	35
Debian	613	Down -99 places-99	£583	+10.21%	16 0.035%	32
Data ONTAP	617	Down -93 places-93	£553	+38.12%	12 0.026%	4
Windows Server 2003	618	Down -133 places-133	£492	-14.41%	11 0.024%	1