Contract Operating System Statistics in London

Contract Job Market Index

Description	Rank 6 Months to 27 Aug 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Daily Rate	Median Daily Rate YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
Windows	48	Down -14 places-14	£425	-	934 4.65%	820
Linux	83	Down -34 places-34	£537	-6.60%	675 3.36%	1,270
Windows Server	228	Down -3 places-3	£475	-5.00%	228 1.13%	197
Unix	241	Down -69 places-69	£550	+4.76%	212 1.05%	270
Apple iOS	270	Down -36 places-36	£411	+2.75%	169 0.84%	286
Android	278	Down -78 places-78	£475	+11.76%	158 0.79%	312
Windows 10	300	Down -85 places-85	£238	-5.00%	134 0.67%	68
Mac OS	312	Down -32 places-32	£222	-44.62%	122 0.61%	99
Red Hat Enterprise Linux	319	Down -19 places-19	£497	-9.63%	115 0.57%	82
Ubuntu	380	Down -40 places-40	£500	+8.10%	54 0.27%	62
VMS	385	Down -58 places-58	£475	+7.04%	49 0.24%	55
zOS	405	Down -58 places-58	£425	-16.04%	29 0.14%	17
Windows Server 2019	410	Down -58 places-58	£450	-5.26%	24 0.12%	16
Solaris	415	Down -62 places-62	£525	+14.75%	19 0.095%	23
Windows Server 2016	415	Down -64 places-64	£450	+33.33%	19 0.095%	19
Windows Server 2008	420	Down -63 places-63	£525	+36.80%	14 0.070%	12
Windows Server 2012	421	Down -63 places-63	£475	-7.76%	13 0.065%	17
Windows 7	422	Down -80 places-80	£269	+7.50%	12 0.060%	9
Amazon Linux	424	Down -71 places-71	£500	-9.09%	10 0.050%	2
AIX	425	Down -77 places-77	£575	+38.56%	9 0.045%	11
SUSE	427	Down -67 places-67	£500	-	7 0.035%	1
Oracle Linux	430	Down -71 places-71	£494	-	4 0.020%	5
Alpine Linux	430	New entry-	£310	-	4 0.020%	1
Windows Server 2003	430	Down -71 places-71	£625	+13.63%	4 0.020%	1
Embedded Linux	430	New entry-	£600	-	4 0.020%	32
CentOS	430	Down -92 places-92	£550	+2.32%	4 0.020%	36