Contract Operating System Statistics in England

Contract Job Market Index

Description	Rank 6 Months to 9 Aug 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Daily Rate	Median Daily Rate YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
Windows	26	Down -5 places-5	£425	+3.65%	2,746 6.00%	1,167
Linux	59	Down -22 places-22	£525	-	1,735 3.79%	1,300
Windows Server	178	Down -9 places-9	£484	-9.79%	715 1.56%	375
Unix	227	Down -39 places-39	£487	-1.08%	542 1.18%	187
Windows 10	246	Down -73 places-73	£220	-	481 1.05%	122
Android	335	Down -118 places-118	£475	+18.75%	331 0.72%	300
Red Hat Enterprise Linux	346	Down -37 places-37	£500	-5.83%	310 0.68%	75
Apple iOS	347	Down -80 places-80	£425	+6.25%	307 0.67%	260
Mac OS	418	Down -97 places-97	£250	-37.50%	214 0.47%	107
Solaris	522	Down -48 places-48	£500	-9.09%	106 0.23%	15
Ubuntu	528	Down -85 places-85	£500	+2.56%	100 0.22%	44
VMS	540	Down -104 places-104	£475	-	88 0.19%	66
AIX	546	Down -71 places-71	£489	+16.03%	82 0.18%	6
zOS	554	Down -89 places-89	£525	+25.00%	74 0.16%	16
Windows Server 2019	557	Down -139 places-139	£538	-2.27%	71 0.16%	28
CentOS	585	Down -131 places-131	£525	-4.54%	43 0.094%	27
Windows Server 2016	586	Down -162 places-162	£450	-18.18%	42 0.092%	29
Windows Server 2012	590	Down -129 places-129	£475	-2.56%	38 0.083%	14
Windows 7	594	Down -168 places-168	£318	+53.01%	34 0.074%	18
Embedded Linux	595	Down -91 places-91	£525	-2.32%	33 0.072%	87
Windows Server 2008	607	Down -113 places-113	£506	-7.95%	21 0.046%	4
SUSE	609	Down -106 places-106	£475	+30.13%	19 0.042%	3
Oracle Linux	609	Down -110 places-110	£600	+9.09%	19 0.042%	4
Mac OS X	611	Down -115 places-115	£280	+19.14%	17 0.037%	10
Rocky	611	Down -110 places-110	£600	+20.00%	17 0.037%	10
Data ONTAP	612	Down -105 places-105	£519	+29.75%	16 0.035%	1
Debian	613	Down -117 places-117	£583	+9.54%	15 0.033%	15