Contract Operating System Statistics in London

Contract Job Market Index

Description	Rank 6 Months to 21 Aug 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Daily Rate	Median Daily Rate YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
Windows	48	Down -12 places-12	£425	+0.59%	918 4.57%	219
Linux	88	Down -38 places-38	£550	-4.34%	649 3.23%	164
Windows Server	239	Down -9 places-9	£475	-5.00%	220 1.10%	67
Unix	246	Down -66 places-66	£550	+7.31%	210 1.05%	40
Apple iOS	284	Down -42 places-42	£420	+5.00%	167 0.83%	42
Android	294	Down -85 places-85	£475	+12.09%	157 0.78%	45
Windows 10	321	Down -101 places-101	£240	-4.09%	128 0.64%	30
Mac OS	328	Down -43 places-43	£222	-44.62%	121 0.60%	33
Red Hat Enterprise Linux	341	Down -37 places-37	£500	-9.09%	108 0.54%	14
Ubuntu	397	Down -52 places-52	£500	+8.10%	51 0.25%	6
VMS	400	Down -68 places-68	£475	+7.04%	48 0.24%	18
zOS	421	Down -71 places-71	£475	-5.00%	27 0.13%	4
Windows Server 2019	424	Down -64 places-64	£450	-	24 0.12%	10
Solaris	429	Down -71 places-71	£525	+14.75%	19 0.095%	5
Windows Server 2016	430	Down -76 places-76	£450	+16.12%	18 0.090%	8
Windows Server 2008	434	Down -73 places-73	£525	+36.80%	14 0.070%	3
Windows Server 2012	435	Down -73 places-73	£475	-7.76%	13 0.065%	3
Windows 7	436	Down -90 places-90	£269	+7.50%	12 0.060%	1
AIX	439	Down -87 places-87	£575	+38.56%	9 0.045%	1
Amazon Linux	440	Down -82 places-82	£500	-9.09%	8 0.040%	1
SUSE	441	Down -77 places-77	£500	-	7 0.035%
Embedded Linux	444	New entry-	£600	-	4 0.020%	3
CentOS	444	Down -102 places-102	£550	+2.32%	4 0.020%	5
Oracle Linux	444	Down -81 places-81	£494	-	4 0.020%
Alpine Linux	444	New entry-	£310	-	4 0.020%
Windows Server 2003	444	Down -81 places-81	£625	+13.63%	4 0.020%