Contract Operating System Statistics in England

Contract Job Market Index

Description	Rank 6 Months to 21 Sep 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Daily Rate	Median Daily Rate YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
Windows	28	Down -7 places-7	£416	+4.00%	2,837 6.15%	2,739
Linux	58	Down -22 places-22	£525	-	1,769 3.84%	3,406
Windows Server	159	Up 21 places+21	£483	-5.75%	801 1.74%	790
Unix	228	Down -56 places-56	£500	-	529 1.15%	572
Windows 10	237	Down -71 places-71	£226	+0.22%	510 1.11%	197
Red Hat Enterprise Linux	327	Up 5 places+5	£500	-2.91%	341 0.74%	219
Android	339	Down -119 places-119	£455	+13.75%	326 0.71%	695
Apple iOS	358	Down -92 places-92	£400	-	300 0.65%	601
Mac OS	425	Down -123 places-123	£230	-42.50%	217 0.47%	274
Solaris	525	Down -35 places-35	£509	+4.46%	112 0.24%	57
Ubuntu	531	Down -87 places-87	£500	+5.26%	106 0.23%	121
VMS	544	Down -102 places-102	£475	-	93 0.20%	126
zOS	559	Down -74 places-74	£514	+14.22%	78 0.17%	40
Windows Server 2019	570	Down -131 places-131	£538	-2.27%	67 0.15%	72
AIX	574	Down -80 places-80	£509	+22.66%	63 0.14%	23
CentOS	577	Down -118 places-118	£500	-9.09%	60 0.13%	68
Windows 7	591	Down -138 places-138	£360	+78.68%	46 0.100%	14
Windows Server 2012	600	Down -120 places-120	£450	+28.57%	37 0.080%	39
Windows Server 2016	601	Down -157 places-157	£450	-18.18%	36 0.078%	61
Embedded Linux	602	New entry-	£525	-	35 0.076%	178
Rocky	616	Down -98 places-98	£600	+39.13%	21 0.046%	18
SUSE	617	Down -102 places-102	£475	+30.13%	20 0.043%	7
Windows Server 2008	620	Down -111 places-111	£525	-14.63%	17 0.037%	19
FreeRTOS	621	Down -103 places-103	£600	+33.33%	16 0.035%	44
Debian	622	Down -113 places-113	£583	+10.21%	15 0.033%	42
Oracle Linux	622	Down -108 places-108	£553	+16.42%	15 0.033%	8
Data ONTAP	624	Down -105 places-105	£550	+37.50%	13 0.028%	8
Windows Server 2003	625	Down -142 places-142	£492	-14.41%	12 0.026%	6