Contract Operating System Statistics in London

Contract Job Market Index

Description	Rank 6 Months to 17 Aug 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Daily Rate	Median Daily Rate YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
Windows	47	Down -12 places-12	£425	-	923 4.60%	642
Linux	88	Down -38 places-38	£550	-4.34%	637 3.17%	903
Windows Server	234	Down -10 places-10	£475	-6.63%	218 1.09%	161
Unix	242	Down -70 places-70	£550	+7.31%	206 1.03%	199
Apple iOS	273	Down -31 places-31	£401	+0.12%	169 0.84%	158
Android	283	Down -78 places-78	£475	+15.15%	158 0.79%	164
Windows 10	309	Down -94 places-94	£239	-6.46%	130 0.65%	54
Mac OS	317	Down -36 places-36	£225	-30.76%	121 0.60%	76
Red Hat Enterprise Linux	331	Down -31 places-31	£500	-9.09%	106 0.53%	52
Ubuntu	387	Down -44 places-44	£500	+8.10%	50 0.25%	32
VMS	392	Down -62 places-62	£475	+7.04%	45 0.22%	39
zOS	409	Down -64 places-64	£438	+5.42%	28 0.14%	8
Windows Server 2019	413	Down -60 places-60	£450	-36.88%	24 0.12%	13
Solaris	417	Down -61 places-61	£525	+14.75%	20 0.100%	10
Windows Server 2016	420	Down -68 places-68	£463	+19.35%	17 0.085%	17
Windows Server 2008	421	Down -62 places-62	£506	+31.92%	16 0.080%	9
Windows Server 2012	424	Down -64 places-64	£475	-7.76%	13 0.065%	15
Windows 7	424	Down -79 places-79	£269	+7.50%	13 0.065%	8
AIX	428	Down -78 places-78	£575	+38.56%	9 0.045%	4
SUSE	430	Down -68 places-68	£500	-	7 0.035%	1
Amazon Linux	430	Down -74 places-74	£500	-9.09%	7 0.035%
Oracle Linux	433	Down -72 places-72	£494	-	4 0.020%	5
Alpine Linux	433	New entry-	£310	-	4 0.020%	1
Windows Server 2003	433	Down -72 places-72	£625	+13.63%	4 0.020%	1
Embedded Linux	433	New entry-	£600	-	4 0.020%	18