Contract Operating System Statistics in England

Contract Job Market Index

Description	Rank 6 Months to 17 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	-0.01%	2,465 6.00%	960
Linux	55	Down -21 places-21	£513	-6.81%	1,588 3.86%	811
Windows Server	187	Down -56 places-56	£480	-12.72%	582 1.42%	320
Unix	216	Down -44 places-44	£473	-5.50%	482 1.17%	107
Windows 10	227	Down -84 places-84	£200	-11.11%	461 1.12%	96
Android	303	Down -50 places-50	£425	+14.86%	320 0.78%	142
Apple iOS	333	Down -78 places-78	£400	-	280 0.68%	117
Red Hat Enterprise Linux	377	Down -121 places-121	£500	-9.25%	223 0.54%	64
Mac OS	412	Down -78 places-78	£250	-14.52%	183 0.45%	93
VMS	493	Down -81 places-81	£500	-6.89%	102 0.25%	33
Ubuntu	520	Down -90 places-90	£525	+5.00%	75 0.18%	48
Solaris	521	Down -78 places-78	£484	-11.93%	74 0.18%	26
Windows Server 2016	534	Down -147 places-147	£475	-9.52%	61 0.15%	32
zOS	535	Down -87 places-87	£475	+4.68%	60 0.15%	5
Windows Server 2019	536	Down -146 places-146	£488	-11.36%	59 0.14%	42
AIX	537	Down -89 places-89	£426	-5.33%	58 0.14%	11
Windows 7	548	Down -119 places-119	£256	+2.50%	47 0.11%	12
CentOS	556	Down -127 places-127	£503	-8.63%	39 0.095%	23
Windows Server 2012	563	Down -136 places-136	£475	-5.00%	32 0.078%	11
Mac OS X	573	Down -118 places-118	£314	-21.75%	22 0.054%	1
Embedded Linux	574	Down -115 places-115	£508	+1.50%	21 0.051%	65
Debian	574	Down -102 places-102	£575	+4.54%	21 0.051%	15
Data ONTAP	577	Down -98 places-98	£510	+27.37%	18 0.044%
FreeRTOS	577	Down -100 places-100	£425	-	18 0.044%	27
Windows Server 2003	577	Down -123 places-123	£212	-60.74%	18 0.044%
Windows Server 2008	583	Down -112 places-112	£525	+49.78%	12 0.029%	3