Contract Operating System Statistics in London

Contract Job Market Index

Description	Rank 6 Months to 30 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%	485
Linux	89	Down -40 places-40	£539	-6.34%	675 3.33%	666
Windows Server	238	Down -6 places-6	£475	-5.00%	232 1.15%	113
Unix	256	Down -74 places-74	£550	+6.02%	210 1.04%	138
Apple iOS	289	Down -48 places-48	£420	+5.00%	168 0.83%	186
Android	298	Down -89 places-89	£475	+11.76%	157 0.78%	204
Windows 10	318	Down -92 places-92	£239	-4.50%	133 0.66%	43
Mac OS	326	Down -37 places-37	£223	-44.25%	125 0.62%	77
Red Hat Enterprise Linux	335	Down -24 places-24	£497	-9.63%	115 0.57%	47
Ubuntu	396	Down -47 places-47	£500	+8.10%	54 0.27%	37
VMS	401	Down -66 places-66	£475	+5.55%	49 0.24%	40
zOS	422	Down -64 places-64	£400	-20.98%	28 0.14%	15
Windows Server 2019	426	Down -63 places-63	£450	-5.26%	24 0.12%	11
Solaris	431	Down -68 places-68	£525	+14.75%	19 0.094%	11
Windows Server 2016	432	Down -70 places-70	£463	+37.03%	18 0.089%	10
Windows Server 2008	436	Down -68 places-68	£525	+36.80%	14 0.069%	8
Windows Server 2012	437	Down -68 places-68	£475	-7.76%	13 0.064%	6
Windows 7	438	Down -85 places-85	£269	+7.50%	12 0.059%	4
Amazon Linux	440	Down -78 places-78	£500	-9.09%	10 0.049%	3
AIX	441	Down -82 places-82	£575	+38.56%	9 0.045%	6
SUSE	443	Down -72 places-72	£500	-	7 0.035%
Embedded Linux	446	New entry-	£600	-	4 0.020%	20
CentOS	446	Down -98 places-98	£550	+2.32%	4 0.020%	15
Oracle Linux	446	Down -76 places-76	£494	-	4 0.020%	1
Alpine Linux	446	New entry-	£310	-	4 0.020%
Windows Server 2003	446	Down -76 places-76	£625	+13.63%	4 0.020%	1