Contract Operating System Statistics in London

Contract Job Market Index

Description	Rank 6 Months to 26 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	-	933 4.65%	595
Linux	90	Down -42 places-42	£545	-5.21%	664 3.31%	872
Windows Server	233	Down -1 place-1	£475	-5.00%	225 1.12%	142
Unix	246	Down -69 places-69	£550	+4.76%	208 1.04%	189
Apple iOS	278	Down -41 places-41	£411	+2.75%	169 0.84%	151
Android	285	Down -83 places-83	£475	+12.09%	160 0.80%	173
Windows 10	308	Down -88 places-88	£238	-5.09%	134 0.67%	45
Mac OS	320	Down -36 places-36	£222	-44.62%	121 0.60%	69
Red Hat Enterprise Linux	330	Down -27 places-27	£500	-9.09%	111 0.55%	54
Ubuntu	387	Down -44 places-44	£500	+8.10%	54 0.27%	35
VMS	392	Down -62 places-62	£475	+7.04%	49 0.24%	36
zOS	415	Down -65 places-65	£400	-20.98%	26 0.13%	12
Windows Server 2019	417	Down -60 places-60	£450	-	24 0.12%	13
Solaris	422	Down -66 places-66	£525	+14.75%	19 0.095%	19
Windows Server 2016	423	Down -68 places-68	£450	+33.33%	18 0.090%	17
Windows Server 2008	427	Down -67 places-67	£525	+36.80%	14 0.070%	9
Windows Server 2012	428	Down -67 places-67	£475	-7.76%	13 0.065%	15
Windows 7	429	Down -84 places-84	£269	+7.50%	12 0.060%	7
Amazon Linux	431	Down -75 places-75	£500	-9.09%	10 0.050%	1
AIX	432	Down -81 places-81	£575	+38.56%	9 0.045%	7
SUSE	434	Down -71 places-71	£500	-	7 0.035%	1
CentOS	437	Down -96 places-96	£550	+2.32%	4 0.020%	28
Oracle Linux	437	Down -75 places-75	£494	-	4 0.020%	5
Alpine Linux	437	New entry-	£310	-	4 0.020%	1
Windows Server 2003	437	Down -75 places-75	£625	+13.63%	4 0.020%	1
Embedded Linux	437	New entry-	£600	-	4 0.020%	19