Contract Operating System Statistics in London

Contract Job Market Index

Description	Rank 6 Months to 31 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	-	931 4.63%	388
Linux	86	Down -38 places-38	£537	-6.60%	670 3.33%	533
Windows Server	226	Up 3 places+3	£475	-5.00%	231 1.15%	88
Unix	242	Down -62 places-62	£550	+6.02%	210 1.04%	114
Apple iOS	273	Down -35 places-35	£411	+2.75%	169 0.84%	166
Android	283	Down -77 places-77	£475	+11.76%	158 0.79%	186
Windows 10	309	Down -86 places-86	£238	-5.00%	132 0.66%	41
Mac OS	317	Down -31 places-31	£223	-44.25%	124 0.62%	59
Red Hat Enterprise Linux	325	Down -17 places-17	£497	-9.63%	115 0.57%	41
Ubuntu	386	Down -40 places-40	£500	+8.10%	54 0.27%	29
VMS	390	Down -58 places-58	£474	+5.33%	50 0.25%	33
zOS	411	Down -56 places-56	£391	-22.86%	29 0.14%	9
Windows Server 2019	416	Down -56 places-56	£450	-5.26%	24 0.12%	10
Solaris	421	Down -61 places-61	£525	+14.75%	19 0.095%	7
Windows Server 2016	422	Down -63 places-63	£463	+37.03%	18 0.090%	8
Windows Server 2008	426	Down -61 places-61	£525	+36.80%	14 0.070%	5
Windows Server 2012	427	Down -61 places-61	£475	-7.76%	13 0.065%	4
Windows 7	428	Down -78 places-78	£269	+7.50%	12 0.060%	3
Amazon Linux	430	Down -71 places-71	£500	-9.09%	10 0.050%	2
AIX	431	Down -75 places-75	£575	+38.56%	9 0.045%	5
SUSE	433	Down -65 places-65	£500	-	7 0.035%
Oracle Linux	436	Down -69 places-69	£494	-	4 0.020%
Alpine Linux	436	New entry-	£310	-	4 0.020%
Windows Server 2003	436	Down -69 places-69	£625	+13.63%	4 0.020%
Embedded Linux	436	New entry-	£600	-	4 0.020%	16
CentOS	436	Down -91 places-91	£550	+2.32%	4 0.020%	11