Contract Operating System Statistics in England

Contract Job Market Index

Description	Rank 6 Months to 23 Aug 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	£420	+3.00%	2,765 6.02%	973
Linux	59	Down -22 places-22	£525	-	1,741 3.79%	639
Windows Server	178	Down -7 places-7	£480	-8.57%	741 1.61%	349
Unix	241	Down -51 places-51	£500	-	520 1.13%	83
Windows 10	249	Down -79 places-79	£225	-	490 1.07%	105
Android	345	Down -132 places-132	£464	+15.93%	316 0.69%	109
Red Hat Enterprise Linux	348	Down -24 places-24	£500	-4.76%	312 0.68%	47
Apple iOS	361	Down -104 places-104	£401	+0.12%	296 0.64%	96
Mac OS	432	Down -112 places-112	£240	-40.00%	210 0.46%	87
Ubuntu	538	Down -92 places-92	£500	+3.09%	102 0.22%	25
Solaris	539	Down -58 places-58	£500	-9.09%	101 0.22%	10
VMS	547	Down -106 places-106	£475	-	93 0.20%	42
AIX	566	Down -80 places-80	£494	+18.99%	74 0.16%	4
zOS	568	Down -94 places-94	£525	+16.66%	72 0.16%	9
Windows Server 2019	573	Down -147 places-147	£538	-2.27%	67 0.15%	32
CentOS	591	Down -134 places-134	£525	-4.54%	49 0.11%	18
Windows 7	594	Down -160 places-160	£349	+39.64%	46 0.10%	6
Windows Server 2016	597	Down -164 places-164	£450	-17.05%	43 0.094%	32
Embedded Linux	602	Down -89 places-89	£525	-2.32%	38 0.083%	48
Windows Server 2012	603	Down -137 places-137	£475	+27.51%	37 0.081%	12
Oracle Linux	621	Down -115 places-115	£600	+26.31%	19 0.041%
SUSE	622	Down -113 places-113	£475	+30.13%	18 0.039%	2
Windows Server 2008	623	Down -124 places-124	£525	-9.67%	17 0.037%	5
Data ONTAP	624	Down -111 places-111	£525	+31.12%	16 0.035%	3
Rocky	624	Down -113 places-113	£600	+39.13%	16 0.035%	11
FreeRTOS	624	Down -114 places-114	£600	+33.33%	16 0.035%	17
Debian	625	Down -122 places-122	£583	+10.21%	15 0.033%	15