Contract Operating System Statistics in London

Contract Job Market Index

Description	Rank 6 Months to 10 Sep 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	-	943 4.64%	394
Linux	87	Down -39 places-39	£539	-6.34%	679 3.34%	526
Windows Server	237	No change0	£481	-3.75%	232 1.14%	95
Unix	250	Down -77 places-77	£550	+4.76%	216 1.06%	114
Apple iOS	283	Down -30 places-30	£401	+0.31%	174 0.86%	137
Android	290	Down -73 places-73	£475	+7.95%	165 0.81%	157
Windows 10	319	Down -94 places-94	£239	-4.50%	133 0.65%	36
Mac OS	325	Down -37 places-37	£225	-43.68%	127 0.63%	57
Red Hat Enterprise Linux	335	Down -31 places-31	£500	-1.96%	117 0.58%	42
Ubuntu	399	Down -52 places-52	£500	+8.10%	53 0.26%	26
VMS	404	Down -69 places-69	£475	+1.87%	48 0.24%	26
zOS	421	Down -61 places-61	£381	-24.74%	31 0.15%	20
Windows Server 2019	427	Down -66 places-66	£450	-5.26%	25 0.12%	4
Solaris	433	Down -72 places-72	£525	+14.75%	19 0.094%	8
Windows Server 2016	435	Down -74 places-74	£450	+33.33%	17 0.084%	4
Windows Server 2012	438	Down -68 places-68	£475	-7.76%	14 0.069%	4
Windows Server 2008	438	Down -69 places-69	£525	+36.80%	14 0.069%	3
Windows 7	440	Down -86 places-86	£269	+7.50%	12 0.059%	3
Amazon Linux	442	Down -80 places-80	£500	-9.09%	10 0.049%	1
AIX	444	Down -84 places-84	£575	+38.56%	8 0.039%	7
SUSE	445	Down -73 places-73	£500	-	7 0.035%
CentOS	447	Down -101 places-101	£525	-4.54%	5 0.025%	7
Oracle Linux	448	Down -77 places-77	£494	-	4 0.020%
Alpine Linux	448	New entry-	£310	-	4 0.020%
Windows Server 2003	448	Down -77 places-77	£638	+15.90%	4 0.020%	1
Embedded Linux	448	New entry-	£600	-	4 0.020%	14