Contract Operating System Statistics in England

Contract Job Market Index

Description	Rank 6 Months to 19 Oct 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Daily Rate	Median Daily Rate YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
Windows	30	Down 9 places-9	£416	+5.31%	2,856 6.15%	2,122
Linux	58	Down 23 places-23	£525	+1.01%	1,774 3.82%	2,362
Windows Server	168	Up 18 places+18	£485	-3.00%	815 1.75%	617
Windows 10	241	Down 79 places-79	£236	+5.00%	526 1.13%	106
Unix	250	Down 73 places-73	£500	-	506 1.09%	355
Android	343	Down 130 places-130	£450	+14.50%	336 0.72%	557
Red Hat Enterprise Linux	345	Down 20 places-20	£518	-0.43%	334 0.72%	138
Apple iOS	359	Down 90 places-90	£375	-6.25%	313 0.67%	495
macOS	435	Down 165 places-165	£230	-42.50%	220 0.47%	251
Ubuntu	542	Down 111 places-111	£500	+5.26%	107 0.23%	111
Solaris	547	Down 61 places-61	£525	+5.00%	102 0.22%	24
VMS	561	Down 130 places-130	£475	-	88 0.19%	84
zOS	570	Down 82 places-82	£525	+29.62%	79 0.17%	33
Windows Server 2019	583	Down 146 places-146	£538	-2.27%	66 0.14%	43
CentOS	588	Down 132 places-132	£553	+0.45%	61 0.13%	29
AIX	594	Down 106 places-106	£527	+28.14%	55 0.12%	19
Windows 7	609	Down 157 places-157	£375	+116.76%	40 0.086%	9
Windows Server 2012	612	Down 128 places-128	£450	+28.57%	37 0.080%	15
Windows Server 2016	619	Down 181 places-181	£450	-16.66%	30 0.065%	37
Embedded Linux	620	New entry-	£525	-	29 0.062%	165
Rocky	626	Down 109 places-109	£600	+65.51%	23 0.050%	10
SUSE	634	Down 122 places-122	£450	+23.28%	15 0.032%	3
Windows Server 2008	635	Down 130 places-130	£550	-5.37%	14 0.030%	11
Oracle Linux	636	Down 123 places-123	£600	+50.00%	13 0.028%	11
FreeRTOS	636	Down 124 places-124	£600	+29.72%	13 0.028%	55
Windows Server 2003	638	Down 155 places-155	£492	-10.52%	11 0.024%	3
Debian	639	Down 132 places-132	£590	+11.63%	10 0.022%	34
Amazon Linux	639	Down 148 places-148	£500	+5.26%	10 0.022%
Data ONTAP	639	New entry-	£525	-	10 0.022%	8