Contract Operating System Statistics in London

Contract Job Market Index

Description	Rank 6 Months to 29 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	-	941 4.65%	453
Linux	89	Down -40 places-40	£539	-6.34%	675 3.34%	636
Windows Server	234	Down -2 places-2	£475	-5.00%	232 1.15%	106
Unix	252	Down -70 places-70	£550	+6.02%	210 1.04%	134
Apple iOS	288	Down -47 places-47	£420	+5.00%	168 0.83%	188
Android	297	Down -88 places-88	£475	+11.76%	157 0.78%	205
Windows 10	317	Down -91 places-91	£239	-4.50%	133 0.66%	44
Mac OS	325	Down -36 places-36	£223	-44.25%	125 0.62%	62
Red Hat Enterprise Linux	334	Down -23 places-23	£497	-9.63%	115 0.57%	44
Ubuntu	395	Down -46 places-46	£500	+8.10%	54 0.27%	34
VMS	400	Down -65 places-65	£475	+5.55%	49 0.24%	37
zOS	421	Down -63 places-63	£400	-20.98%	28 0.14%	13
Windows Server 2019	425	Down -62 places-62	£450	-5.26%	24 0.12%	11
Solaris	430	Down -67 places-67	£525	+14.75%	19 0.094%	10
Windows Server 2016	431	Down -69 places-69	£463	+37.03%	18 0.089%	10
Windows Server 2008	435	Down -67 places-67	£525	+36.80%	14 0.069%	6
Windows Server 2012	436	Down -67 places-67	£475	-7.76%	13 0.064%	4
Windows 7	437	Down -84 places-84	£269	+7.50%	12 0.059%	5
Amazon Linux	439	Down -77 places-77	£500	-9.09%	10 0.050%	2
AIX	440	Down -81 places-81	£575	+38.56%	9 0.045%	7
SUSE	442	Down -71 places-71	£500	-	7 0.035%
Windows Server 2003	445	Down -75 places-75	£625	+13.63%	4 0.020%	1
Embedded Linux	445	New entry-	£600	-	4 0.020%	19
CentOS	445	Down -97 places-97	£550	+2.32%	4 0.020%	12
Oracle Linux	445	Down -75 places-75	£494	-	4 0.020%
Alpine Linux	445	New entry-	£310	-	4 0.020%