Contract Operating System Statistics in England

Contract Job Market Index

Description	Rank 6 Months to 19 Jul 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	£425	+2.40%	2,688 5.97%	865
Linux	60	Down -26 places-26	£520	-3.16%	1,701 3.78%	625
Windows Server	194	Down -48 places-48	£480	-9.30%	655 1.45%	323
Unix	223	Down -34 places-34	£483	+1.68%	536 1.19%	53
Windows 10	247	Down -84 places-84	£210	-6.66%	468 1.04%	100
Android	334	Down -109 places-109	£475	+18.75%	321 0.71%	138
Apple iOS	346	Down -75 places-75	£447	+11.62%	304 0.67%	115
Red Hat Enterprise Linux	357	Down -61 places-61	£497	-5.33%	289 0.64%	38
Mac OS	418	Down -92 places-92	£240	-33.79%	212 0.47%	69
Solaris	524	Down -48 places-48	£497	-9.63%	103 0.23%	7
VMS	536	Down -111 places-111	£500	+5.26%	91 0.20%	29
Ubuntu	536	Down -101 places-101	£500	-	91 0.20%	33
AIX	545	Down -71 places-71	£469	+11.40%	82 0.18%	11
zOS	555	Down -91 places-91	£525	+25.00%	72 0.16%	8
Windows Server 2019	561	Down -156 places-156	£525	-4.54%	66 0.15%	22
Windows Server 2016	582	Down -169 places-169	£450	-15.88%	45 0.100%	26
CentOS	588	Down -140 places-140	£525	-4.54%	39 0.087%	19
Windows Server 2012	591	Down -138 places-138	£475	-5.00%	36 0.080%	9
Windows 7	591	Down -169 places-169	£275	+37.50%	36 0.080%	10
Embedded Linux	598	Down -105 places-105	£440	-18.13%	29 0.064%	45
Mac OS X	605	Down -108 places-108	£400	+112.48%	22 0.049%	2
SUSE	608	Down -108 places-108	£475	+30.13%	19 0.042%	1
Data ONTAP	609	Down -105 places-105	£519	+29.75%	18 0.040%
Oracle Linux	611	Down -118 places-118	£506	+26.50%	16 0.036%	5
Windows Server 2008	613	Down -119 places-119	£525	+100.00%	14 0.031%	1
Debian	613	Down -124 places-124	£583	+8.87%	14 0.031%	12
Rocky	614	Down -122 places-122	£600	+17.07%	13 0.029%	4
FreeRTOS	614	Down -112 places-112	-	-	13 0.029%	20