Contract Operating System Statistics in England

Contract Job Market Index

Description	Rank 6 Months to 5 Oct 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Daily Rate	Median Daily Rate YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
Windows	29	Down -8 places-8	£425	+6.25%	2,827 6.13%	2,790
Linux	58	Down -21 places-21	£525	+0.47%	1,758 3.81%	3,163
Windows Server	158	Up 23 places+23	£480	-5.41%	812 1.76%	807
Unix	242	Down -78 places-78	£500	+1.31%	522 1.13%	474
Windows 10	245	Down -84 places-84	£230	+2.22%	509 1.10%	177
Red Hat Enterprise Linux	340	Down -10 places-10	£500	-2.91%	332 0.72%	180
Android	341	Down -134 places-134	£450	+12.50%	331 0.72%	710
Apple iOS	355	Down -85 places-85	£400	-	310 0.67%	611
Mac OS	426	Down -139 places-139	£228	-43.06%	219 0.48%	329
Solaris	523	Down -38 places-38	£519	+3.85%	117 0.25%	38
Ubuntu	536	Down -100 places-100	£500	+5.26%	104 0.23%	140
VMS	551	Down -111 places-111	£475	-	89 0.19%	112
zOS	559	Down -77 places-77	£525	+10.52%	81 0.18%	40
Windows Server 2019	573	Down -136 places-136	£538	-2.27%	67 0.15%	60
AIX	580	Down -88 places-88	£525	+26.45%	60 0.13%	19
CentOS	580	Down -122 places-122	£525	-4.54%	60 0.13%	52
Windows 7	595	Down -144 places-144	£365	+94.66%	45 0.098%	14
Windows Server 2012	602	Down -122 places-122	£450	+28.57%	38 0.082%	30
Windows Server 2016	605	Down -166 places-166	£450	-16.66%	35 0.076%	47
Embedded Linux	611	New entry-	£525	-	29 0.063%	169
Rocky	618	Down -103 places-103	£600	+39.13%	22 0.048%	14
SUSE	623	Down -111 places-111	£475	+30.13%	17 0.037%	9
Windows Server 2008	625	Down -121 places-121	£513	-11.82%	15 0.033%	16
Oracle Linux	626	Down -114 places-114	£553	+16.42%	14 0.030%	8
FreeRTOS	626	Down -111 places-111	£600	+29.72%	14 0.030%	61
Debian	628	Down -122 places-122	£575	+8.79%	12 0.026%	42
Data ONTAP	628	Down -112 places-112	£525	+31.12%	12 0.026%	10
Windows Server 2003	629	Down -143 places-143	£492	-14.41%	11 0.024%	4