Contract Operating System Statistics in England

Contract Job Market Index

Description	Rank 6 Months to 12 Oct 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Daily Rate	Median Daily Rate YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
Windows	29	Down -8 places-8	£425	+6.25%	2,829 6.12%	2,179
Linux	58	Down -22 places-22	£525	+0.98%	1,759 3.80%	2,384
Windows Server	156	Up 25 places+25	£484	-3.30%	811 1.75%	650
Windows 10	231	Down -69 places-69	£235	+4.44%	516 1.12%	119
Unix	233	Down -63 places-63	£500	+1.62%	512 1.11%	357
Android	332	Down -128 places-128	£450	+12.50%	332 0.72%	575
Red Hat Enterprise Linux	334	Down -15 places-15	£513	-1.39%	329 0.71%	147
Apple iOS	354	Down -91 places-91	£375	-6.25%	307 0.66%	503
macOS	421	Down -161 places-161	£230	-42.50%	220 0.48%	265
Solaris	527	Down -48 places-48	£519	+3.85%	110 0.24%	24
Ubuntu	531	Down -105 places-105	£500	+5.26%	105 0.23%	108
VMS	546	Down -121 places-121	£475	-	90 0.19%	71
zOS	558	Down -82 places-82	£525	+10.52%	78 0.17%	39
Windows Server 2019	565	Down -135 places-135	£538	-2.27%	71 0.15%	50
CentOS	576	Down -126 places-126	£525	-4.54%	60 0.13%	35
AIX	580	Down -96 places-96	£525	+26.50%	56 0.12%	18
Windows 7	595	Down -151 places-151	£375	+116.76%	41 0.089%	12
Windows Server 2012	596	Down -120 places-120	£450	+28.57%	40 0.087%	21
Windows Server 2016	602	Down -171 places-171	£450	-16.66%	34 0.074%	40
Embedded Linux	608	New entry-	£525	-	28 0.061%	105
Rocky	613	Down -104 places-104	£600	+39.13%	23 0.050%	12
SUSE	620	Down -114 places-114	£475	+30.13%	16 0.035%	7
Windows Server 2008	621	Down -123 places-123	£513	-11.82%	15 0.032%	11
Oracle Linux	623	Down -117 places-117	£600	+26.31%	13 0.028%	8
FreeRTOS	623	Down -114 places-114	£600	+29.72%	13 0.028%	22
Debian	625	Down -125 places-125	£583	+10.21%	11 0.024%	36
Windows Server 2003	625	Down -148 places-148	£492	-10.52%	11 0.024%	3