Contract Operating System Statistics in England

Contract Job Market Index

Description	Rank 6 Months to 14 May 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Daily Rate	Median Daily Rate YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
Windows	27	Down -6 places-6	£415	-0.24%	2,434 5.99%	1,025
Linux	55	Down -23 places-23	£513	-6.81%	1,557 3.83%	832
Windows Server	187	Down -57 places-57	£484	-11.95%	574 1.41%	341
Unix	220	Down -50 places-50	£470	-6.00%	470 1.16%	119
Windows 10	224	Down -80 places-80	£200	-11.11%	461 1.13%	98
Android	297	Down -46 places-46	£425	+14.86%	317 0.78%	140
Apple iOS	328	Down -73 places-73	£400	+0.06%	276 0.68%	105
Red Hat Enterprise Linux	366	Down -118 places-118	£500	-9.25%	224 0.55%	74
Mac OS	399	Down -66 places-66	£250	-15.25%	183 0.45%	93
VMS	479	Down -66 places-66	£500	-6.89%	101 0.25%	32
Ubuntu	504	Down -78 places-78	£525	+5.00%	76 0.19%	48
Solaris	508	Down -69 places-69	£481	-12.50%	72 0.18%	30
Windows Server 2016	518	Down -130 places-130	£475	-5.00%	62 0.15%	33
zOS	520	Down -74 places-74	£475	+4.68%	60 0.15%	6
AIX	522	Down -79 places-79	£426	-5.33%	58 0.14%	13
Windows Server 2019	522	Down -130 places-130	£494	-10.22%	58 0.14%	46
Windows 7	534	Down -109 places-109	£250	-	46 0.11%	12
CentOS	538	Down -115 places-115	£515	-6.36%	42 0.10%	18
Windows Server 2012	548	Down -123 places-123	£475	-5.00%	32 0.079%	15
Mac OS X	558	Down -105 places-105	£314	-21.75%	22 0.054%	1
Embedded Linux	558	Down -101 places-101	£440	-12.00%	22 0.054%	58
Debian	559	Down -89 places-89	£560	+1.81%	21 0.052%	17
Data ONTAP	562	Down -85 places-85	£510	+27.37%	18 0.044%	2
FreeRTOS	562	Down -87 places-87	£425	-	18 0.044%	27
Windows Server 2003	563	Down -110 places-110	£192	-64.72%	17 0.042%
Windows Server 2008	569	Down -100 places-100	£525	+49.78%	11 0.027%	2