Contract Operating System Statistics in England

Contract Job Market Index

Description	Rank 6 Months to 24 May 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Daily Rate	Median Daily Rate YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
Windows	27	Down -7 places-7	£415	-0.24%	2,466 5.93%	946
Linux	55	Down -21 places-21	£513	-6.81%	1,590 3.83%	675
Windows Server	191	Down -59 places-59	£480	-12.72%	580 1.40%	320
Unix	222	Down -48 places-48	£470	-4.47%	483 1.16%	94
Windows 10	231	Down -86 places-86	£200	-11.11%	462 1.11%	94
Android	306	Down -56 places-56	£425	+6.25%	313 0.75%	127
Apple iOS	331	Down -65 places-65	£407	+1.81%	281 0.68%	106
Red Hat Enterprise Linux	370	Down -104 places-104	£500	-10.71%	228 0.55%	53
Mac OS	409	Down -72 places-72	£250	-13.79%	184 0.44%	87
VMS	495	Down -89 places-89	£500	-5.83%	97 0.23%	35
Solaris	511	Down -73 places-73	£488	-11.36%	81 0.19%	19
Ubuntu	514	Down -94 places-94	£513	+2.50%	78 0.19%	39
Windows Server 2019	528	Down -148 places-148	£500	-9.09%	64 0.15%	30
Windows Server 2016	531	Down -154 places-154	£463	-11.90%	61 0.15%	24
AIX	533	Down -86 places-86	£426	-5.33%	59 0.14%	10
zOS	535	Down -93 places-93	£475	+4.68%	57 0.14%	9
Windows 7	546	Down -126 places-126	£256	+2.50%	46 0.11%	9
CentOS	552	Down -129 places-129	£503	-8.63%	40 0.096%	15
Windows Server 2012	558	Down -135 places-135	£488	-2.50%	34 0.082%	13
Embedded Linux	569	Down -113 places-113	£508	-5.58%	23 0.055%	49
Debian	570	Down -105 places-105	£575	+4.54%	22 0.053%	16
Mac OS X	572	Down -111 places-111	£400	+42.85%	20 0.048%	2
Data ONTAP	574	Down -102 places-102	£510	+27.37%	18 0.043%	1
FreeRTOS	574	Down -104 places-104	£300	-	18 0.043%	19
Windows Server 2003	574	Down -129 places-129	£212	-60.60%	18 0.043%
Windows Server 2008	580	Down -117 places-117	£525	+49.78%	12 0.029%	2