Contract Operating System Statistics in London

Contract Job Market Index

Description	Rank 6 Months to 18 Aug 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Daily Rate	Median Daily Rate YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
Windows	48	Down -13 places-13	£425	-	927 4.61%	665
Linux	92	Down -42 places-42	£550	-4.34%	644 3.21%	926
Windows Server	234	Down -5 places-5	£475	-8.21%	222 1.10%	162
Unix	243	Down -68 places-68	£550	+7.31%	208 1.04%	200
Apple iOS	276	Down -29 places-29	£401	+0.12%	168 0.84%	157
Android	287	Down -79 places-79	£475	+15.15%	157 0.78%	164
Windows 10	311	Down -93 places-93	£239	-6.46%	130 0.65%	55
Mac OS	321	Down -33 places-33	£224	-44.00%	119 0.59%	77
Red Hat Enterprise Linux	332	Down -27 places-27	£500	-9.09%	108 0.54%	54
Ubuntu	389	Down -41 places-41	£500	+8.10%	51 0.25%	34
VMS	395	Down -60 places-60	£475	+7.04%	45 0.22%	40
zOS	412	Down -62 places-62	£438	+5.42%	28 0.14%	8
Windows Server 2019	414	Down -56 places-56	£463	-35.13%	26 0.13%	12
Solaris	419	Down -58 places-58	£525	+14.75%	21 0.10%	13
Windows Server 2016	422	Down -65 places-65	£475	+22.58%	18 0.090%	16
Windows Server 2008	423	Down -59 places-59	£525	+36.80%	17 0.085%	9
Windows 7	427	Down -77 places-77	£269	+7.50%	13 0.065%	7
Windows Server 2012	427	Down -62 places-62	£475	-7.76%	13 0.065%	15
AIX	431	Down -76 places-76	£575	+38.56%	9 0.045%	4
SUSE	433	Down -66 places-66	£500	-	7 0.035%	1
Amazon Linux	433	Down -72 places-72	£500	-9.09%	7 0.035%	1
CentOS	436	Down -90 places-90	£550	+2.32%	4 0.020%	29
Oracle Linux	436	Down -70 places-70	£494	-	4 0.020%	5
Alpine Linux	436	New entry-	£310	-	4 0.020%	1
Windows Server 2003	436	Down -70 places-70	£625	+13.63%	4 0.020%	2
Embedded Linux	436	New entry-	£600	-	4 0.020%	18