Contract Operating System Statistics in England

Contract Job Market Index

Description	Rank 6 Months to 25 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	-	2,461 6.17%	821
Linux	54	Down -22 places-22	£513	-6.81%	1,595 4.00%	672
Windows Server	181	Down -59 places-59	£493	-8.15%	580 1.45%	278
Windows 10	201	Down -62 places-62	£200	-11.11%	495 1.24%	85
Unix	211	Down -54 places-54	£472	-6.29%	468 1.17%	80
Android	286	Down -37 places-37	£411	+9.66%	327 0.82%	125
Apple iOS	333	Down -98 places-98	£388	-3.60%	260 0.65%	92
Red Hat Enterprise Linux	367	Down -142 places-142	£500	-10.71%	216 0.54%	57
Mac OS	406	Down -54 places-54	£280	+1.81%	170 0.43%	78
VMS	459	Down -55 places-55	£500	-7.40%	116 0.29%	26
Ubuntu	501	Down -76 places-76	£525	+5.00%	73 0.18%	44
Windows Server 2016	510	Down -115 places-115	£463	+2.77%	64 0.16%	31
zOS	513	Down -66 places-66	£475	-5.00%	61 0.15%	9
AIX	515	Down -75 places-75	£415	-8.59%	59 0.15%	10
Solaris	520	Down -80 places-80	£479	-12.84%	54 0.14%	30
Windows Server 2019	521	Down -119 places-119	£488	-7.14%	53 0.13%	33
Windows 7	527	Down -104 places-104	£206	-8.56%	47 0.12%	14
CentOS	533	Down -126 places-126	£525	-19.23%	41 0.10%	16
Windows Server 2012	535	Down -116 places-116	£475	-	39 0.098%	16
Mac OS X	552	Down -100 places-100	£314	-21.95%	22 0.055%
Windows Server 2003	553	Down -106 places-106	£173	-67.84%	21 0.053%	1
Embedded Linux	555	Down -103 places-103	£440	-12.00%	19 0.048%	45
Debian	555	Down -86 places-86	£555	+0.90%	19 0.048%	9
Data ONTAP	556	Down -82 places-82	£510	+10.16%	18 0.045%	1
FreeRTOS	559	Down -87 places-87	£425	-32.00%	15 0.038%	25
Windows Server 2008	563	Down -102 places-102	£513	+36.66%	11 0.028%	6