Contract Operating System Statistics in England

Contract Job Market Index

Description	Rank 6 Months to 28 Sep 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Daily Rate	Median Daily Rate YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
Windows	28	Down -7 places-7	£420	+4.93%	2,843 6.16%	2,093
Linux	58	Down -21 places-21	£525	-	1,760 3.81%	2,335
Windows Server	159	Up 33 places+33	£483	-4.82%	808 1.75%	646
Unix	232	Down -55 places-55	£500	-	536 1.16%	342
Windows 10	242	Down -73 places-73	£228	+1.33%	514 1.11%	125
Red Hat Enterprise Linux	333	Down -5 places-5	£500	-2.91%	333 0.72%	148
Android	337	Down -125 places-125	£455	+13.75%	325 0.70%	566
Apple iOS	351	Down -84 places-84	£400	-	306 0.66%	497
Mac OS	418	Down -121 places-121	£226	-43.62%	226 0.49%	227
Solaris	517	Down -32 places-32	£519	+3.70%	120 0.26%	35
Ubuntu	534	Down -95 places-95	£500	+5.26%	103 0.22%	101
VMS	549	Down -110 places-110	£475	-	88 0.19%	90
zOS	556	Down -74 places-74	£514	+8.21%	81 0.18%	31
Windows Server 2019	571	Down -134 places-134	£538	-2.27%	66 0.14%	47
AIX	574	Down -82 places-82	£525	+26.45%	63 0.14%	15
CentOS	575	Down -118 places-118	£500	-9.09%	62 0.13%	34
Windows 7	591	Down -143 places-143	£360	+78.68%	46 0.100%	9
Windows Server 2012	597	Down -119 places-119	£450	+28.57%	40 0.087%	14
Windows Server 2016	601	Down -159 places-159	£450	-18.18%	36 0.078%	33
Embedded Linux	609	New entry-	£525	-	28 0.061%	146
Rocky	616	Down -101 places-101	£600	+39.13%	21 0.046%	14
Windows Server 2008	620	Down -116 places-116	£525	-14.28%	17 0.037%	6
SUSE	621	Down -109 places-109	£475	+30.13%	16 0.035%	9
FreeRTOS	621	Down -105 places-105	£600	+33.33%	16 0.035%	49
Debian	623	Down -117 places-117	£575	+8.79%	14 0.030%	26
Oracle Linux	624	Down -112 places-112	£506	+6.52%	13 0.028%	5
Windows Server 2003	625	Down -141 places-141	£492	-12.51%	12 0.026%	3
Data ONTAP	626	Down -110 places-110	£530	+32.50%	11 0.024%	12