Contract Operating System Statistics in London

Contract Job Market Index

Description	Rank 6 Months to 5 Sep 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	-	931 4.62%	795
Linux	88	Down -40 places-40	£537	-6.60%	675 3.35%	1,255
Windows Server	235	Down -8 places-8	£475	-5.00%	231 1.15%	181
Unix	248	Down -80 places-80	£550	+4.76%	216 1.07%	260
Apple iOS	286	Down -44 places-44	£420	+5.00%	170 0.84%	254
Android	293	Down -86 places-86	£475	+11.69%	160 0.79%	294
Windows 10	320	Down -103 places-103	£238	-5.00%	130 0.64%	57
Mac OS	325	Down -41 places-41	£225	-43.68%	125 0.62%	108
Red Hat Enterprise Linux	334	Down -32 places-32	£497	-2.54%	116 0.58%	78
Ubuntu	396	Down -53 places-53	£500	+8.10%	54 0.27%	54
VMS	402	Down -72 places-72	£475	+7.04%	48 0.24%	54
zOS	419	Down -65 places-65	£400	-20.98%	31 0.15%	25
Windows Server 2019	425	Down -69 places-69	£450	-5.26%	25 0.12%	11
Solaris	431	Down -76 places-76	£525	+14.75%	19 0.094%	19
Windows Server 2016	433	Down -78 places-78	£450	+33.33%	17 0.084%	13
Windows Server 2008	436	Down -73 places-73	£525	+36.80%	14 0.069%	11
Windows Server 2012	437	Down -73 places-73	£475	-7.76%	13 0.064%	19
Windows 7	438	Down -89 places-89	£269	+7.50%	12 0.060%	10
Amazon Linux	440	Down -84 places-84	£500	-9.09%	10 0.050%	2
AIX	442	Down -88 places-88	£575	+38.56%	8 0.040%	10
SUSE	443	Down -77 places-77	£500	-	7 0.035%	1
CentOS	445	Down -102 places-102	£525	-2.32%	5 0.025%	33
Oracle Linux	446	Down -81 places-81	£494	-	4 0.020%	4
Alpine Linux	446	New entry-	£310	-	4 0.020%	1
Embedded Linux	446	New entry-	£600	-	4 0.020%	26