Contract Operating System Statistics in London

Contract Job Market Index

Description	Rank 6 Months to 22 Aug 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	+2.37%	925 4.59%	223
Linux	87	Down -40 places-40	£548	-4.78%	651 3.23%	167
Windows Server	239	Down -12 places-12	£475	-5.00%	222 1.10%	71
Unix	246	Down -76 places-76	£550	+7.31%	210 1.04%	38
Apple iOS	283	Down -45 places-45	£420	+5.00%	167 0.83%	42
Android	290	Down -87 places-87	£475	+12.09%	157 0.78%	44
Windows 10	318	Down -101 places-101	£240	-4.00%	128 0.63%	30
Mac OS	325	Down -40 places-40	£222	-44.62%	121 0.60%	36
Red Hat Enterprise Linux	337	Down -34 places-34	£500	-9.09%	108 0.54%	15
Ubuntu	393	Down -49 places-49	£500	+8.10%	51 0.25%	6
VMS	396	Down -65 places-65	£475	+7.04%	48 0.24%	17
zOS	417	Down -67 places-67	£475	-5.00%	27 0.13%	4
Windows Server 2019	420	Down -60 places-60	£450	-	24 0.12%	10
Solaris	425	Down -68 places-68	£525	+14.75%	19 0.094%	5
Windows Server 2016	426	Down -72 places-72	£450	+16.12%	18 0.089%	8
Windows Server 2008	430	Down -69 places-69	£525	+36.80%	14 0.069%	3
Windows Server 2012	431	Down -69 places-69	£475	-7.76%	13 0.065%	3
Windows 7	432	Down -86 places-86	£269	+7.50%	12 0.060%	1
AIX	435	Down -83 places-83	£575	+38.56%	9 0.045%	1
Amazon Linux	436	Down -79 places-79	£500	-9.09%	8 0.040%	1
SUSE	437	Down -73 places-73	£500	-	7 0.035%
CentOS	440	Down -98 places-98	£550	+2.32%	4 0.020%	5
Oracle Linux	440	Down -77 places-77	£494	-	4 0.020%
Alpine Linux	440	New entry-	£310	-	4 0.020%
Windows Server 2003	440	Down -77 places-77	£625	+13.63%	4 0.020%
Embedded Linux	440	New entry-	£600	-	4 0.020%	3