Contract Operating System Statistics in England

Contract Job Market Index

Description	Rank 6 Months to 2 Aug 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	£425	+3.03%	2,700 5.93%	1,159
Linux	61	Down -26 places-26	£525	-0.56%	1,709 3.75%	1,068
Windows Server	190	Down -32 places-32	£483	-8.73%	684 1.50%	383
Unix	226	Down -39 places-39	£485	-0.15%	535 1.17%	130
Windows 10	250	Down -84 places-84	£220	-	469 1.03%	112
Android	324	Down -107 places-107	£475	+18.75%	333 0.73%	259
Red Hat Enterprise Linux	344	Down -42 places-42	£500	-6.89%	304 0.67%	68
Apple iOS	344	Down -75 places-75	£428	+6.87%	304 0.67%	219
Mac OS	416	Down -93 places-93	£250	-37.50%	210 0.46%	96
Solaris	509	Down -34 places-34	£494	-10.18%	109 0.24%	18
Ubuntu	520	Down -81 places-81	£500	-	98 0.22%	48
VMS	531	Down -106 places-106	£500	+5.26%	87 0.19%	54
AIX	534	Down -60 places-60	£477	+14.09%	84 0.18%	8
zOS	544	Down -81 places-81	£525	+26.50%	74 0.16%	17
Windows Server 2019	548	Down -132 places-132	£538	-2.27%	70 0.15%	32
CentOS	577	Down -127 places-127	£525	-4.54%	41 0.090%	27
Windows Server 2016	577	Down -157 places-157	£450	-18.18%	41 0.090%	28
Windows Server 2012	583	Down -126 places-126	£488	+2.63%	35 0.077%	8
Windows 7	585	Down -165 places-165	£314	+56.87%	33 0.073%	5
Embedded Linux	588	Down -89 places-89	£483	-10.23%	30 0.066%	85
Oracle Linux	599	Down -104 places-104	£600	+26.31%	19 0.042%	4
Windows Server 2008	599	Down -105 places-105	£525	+40.00%	19 0.042%	1
SUSE	599	Down -98 places-98	£475	+30.13%	19 0.042%	2
Data ONTAP	600	Down -95 places-95	£519	+29.75%	18 0.040%
Mac OS X	600	Down -105 places-105	£280	+27.27%	18 0.040%	3
Rocky	602	Down -104 places-104	£600	+18.81%	16 0.035%	16
Debian	604	Down -110 places-110	£583	+9.54%	14 0.031%	18