Contract Operating System Statistics in London

Contract Job Market Index

Description	Rank 6 Months to 12 Aug 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Daily Rate	Median Daily Rate YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
Windows	49	Down -13 places-13	£425	-	904 4.49%	842
Linux	98	Down -49 places-49	£550	-5.17%	615 3.05%	1,367
Windows Server	240	Down -10 places-10	£475	-5.00%	218 1.08%	184
Unix	256	Down -81 places-81	£550	+8.64%	193 0.96%	289
Apple iOS	282	Down -33 places-33	£401	+0.12%	161 0.80%	312
Android	290	Down -78 places-78	£475	+17.28%	153 0.76%	320
Windows 10	317	Down -98 places-98	£250	-0.09%	124 0.62%	55
Mac OS	325	Down -34 places-34	£225	-43.75%	116 0.58%	102
Red Hat Enterprise Linux	337	Down -33 places-33	£500	-9.09%	104 0.52%	71
Ubuntu	390	Down -38 places-38	£500	+11.11%	50 0.25%	56
VMS	395	Down -55 places-55	£474	+8.34%	45 0.22%	51
zOS	412	Down -60 places-60	£475	+14.45%	28 0.14%	17
Windows Server 2019	414	Down -52 places-52	£481	-32.50%	26 0.13%	10
Solaris	418	Down -55 places-55	£525	+14.75%	22 0.11%	13
Windows Server 2008	422	Down -56 places-56	£506	+31.92%	18 0.089%	10
Windows Server 2016	423	Down -64 places-64	£475	+18.75%	17 0.084%	13
Windows Server 2012	427	Down -60 places-60	£475	-7.76%	13 0.065%	17
Windows 7	427	Down -75 places-75	£269	+7.50%	13 0.065%	8
AIX	431	Down -73 places-73	£575	+38.56%	9 0.045%	8
Amazon Linux	432	Down -67 places-67	£500	-9.09%	8 0.040%
SUSE	432	Down -63 places-63	£497	-	8 0.040%	1
Embedded Linux	436	New entry-	£600	-	4 0.020%	30
Oracle Linux	436	Down -68 places-68	£494	-	4 0.020%	5
Alpine Linux	436	New entry-	£310	-	4 0.020%	1
Windows Server 2003	436	Down -68 places-68	£625	+13.63%	4 0.020%	1