Contract Operating System Statistics in England

Contract Job Market Index

Description	Rank 6 Months to 26 Jul 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	£422	+2.18%	2,704 5.98%	951
Linux	59	Down -25 places-25	£525	-2.05%	1,711 3.78%	819
Windows Server	194	Down -37 places-37	£483	-8.73%	662 1.46%	344
Unix	222	Down -30 places-30	£491	+3.42%	537 1.19%	94
Windows 10	246	Down -71 places-71	£210	-6.66%	467 1.03%	94
Android	330	Down -103 places-103	£475	+18.75%	328 0.73%	200
Apple iOS	346	Down -67 places-67	£450	+12.50%	305 0.67%	171
Red Hat Enterprise Linux	354	Down -46 places-46	£500	-4.76%	297 0.66%	51
Mac OS	415	Down -75 places-75	£240	-40.00%	217 0.48%	82
Solaris	523	Down -34 places-34	£497	-9.63%	105 0.23%	12
Ubuntu	532	Down -83 places-83	£500	-	96 0.21%	38
VMS	539	Down -99 places-99	£500	+5.26%	89 0.20%	39
AIX	542	Down -55 places-55	£476	+9.29%	86 0.19%	7
zOS	555	Down -78 places-78	£525	+16.66%	73 0.16%	7
Windows Server 2019	563	Down -143 places-143	£538	-2.27%	65 0.14%	29
Windows Server 2016	586	Down -157 places-157	£450	-15.88%	42 0.093%	29
CentOS	588	Down -127 places-127	£525	-4.54%	40 0.089%	24
Windows Server 2012	595	Down -129 places-129	£500	-	33 0.073%	10
Embedded Linux	598	Down -90 places-90	£483	-10.23%	30 0.066%	57
Windows 7	598	Down -162 places-162	£310	+49.39%	30 0.066%	5
Mac OS X	607	Down -100 places-100	£400	+81.81%	21 0.046%	1
SUSE	609	Down -96 places-96	£475	+30.13%	19 0.042%	1
Data ONTAP	610	Down -93 places-93	£519	+29.75%	18 0.040%
Oracle Linux	612	Down -106 places-106	£506	+26.50%	16 0.035%	6
Windows Server 2008	613	Down -106 places-106	£525	+100.00%	15 0.033%	1
Debian	614	Down -111 places-111	£583	+8.87%	14 0.031%	11
Rocky	614	Down -105 places-105	£600	+17.64%	14 0.031%	6