Contract Operating System Statistics in England

Contract Job Market Index

Description	Rank 6 Months to 5 May 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Daily Rate	Median Daily Rate YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
Windows	27	Down -5 places-5	£415	-0.13%	2,461 6.06%	996
Linux	56	Down -25 places-25	£513	-6.81%	1,581 3.90%	801
Windows Server	185	Down -58 places-58	£489	-9.49%	578 1.42%	323
Windows 10	215	Down -69 places-69	£200	-11.11%	477 1.18%	98
Unix	223	Down -63 places-63	£469	-6.20%	463 1.14%	113
Android	293	Down -47 places-47	£425	+9.67%	324 0.80%	167
Apple iOS	337	Down -95 places-95	£400	-	264 0.65%	124
Red Hat Enterprise Linux	380	Down -148 places-148	£500	-9.99%	215 0.53%	67
Mac OS	418	Down -76 places-76	£278	-3.47%	173 0.43%	90
VMS	477	Down -70 places-70	£500	-7.14%	113 0.28%	36
Ubuntu	517	Down -94 places-94	£525	+5.00%	73 0.18%	51
Windows Server 2016	526	Down -132 places-132	£463	+2.77%	64 0.16%	34
zOS	527	Down -83 places-83	£475	+4.68%	63 0.16%	6
Solaris	528	Down -90 places-90	£481	-12.50%	62 0.15%	32
AIX	531	Down -94 places-94	£416	-7.96%	59 0.15%	10
Windows Server 2019	532	Down -131 places-131	£488	-7.14%	58 0.14%	33
Windows 7	544	Down -119 places-119	£231	+2.77%	46 0.11%	13
CentOS	550	Down -145 places-145	£525	-17.64%	40 0.099%	17
Windows Server 2012	555	Down -131 places-131	£500	-	35 0.086%	20
Mac OS X	568	Down -119 places-119	£314	-21.56%	22 0.054%	1
Embedded Linux	570	Down -118 places-118	£440	-12.00%	20 0.049%	61
Debian	570	Down -102 places-102	£555	+0.90%	20 0.049%	10
Data ONTAP	572	Down -98 places-98	£510	+27.37%	18 0.044%	2
FreeRTOS	573	Down -102 places-102	£425	-32.00%	17 0.042%	34
Windows Server 2003	573	Down -122 places-122	£173	-68.63%	17 0.042%	1