Contract Operating System Statistics in Manchester

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Contract Job Market Index
Description	Rank 6 Months to 28 Oct 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Daily Rate	Median Daily Rate YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
Windows	49	Down 19 places-19	£449	-4.77%	96 4.70%	30
Linux	69	Down 27 places-27	£475	-17.39%	65 3.18%	18
Windows Server	101	Down 28 places-28	£500	+5.26%	33 1.61%	13
Android	103	Down 36 places-36	£510	+88.88%	31 1.52%	5
Unix	104	Down 36 places-36	£450	-18.18%	30 1.47%
Windows 10	111	Down 37 places-37	£200	+11.11%	23 1.13%	2
Apple iOS	111	Down 34 places-34	£400	+1.78%	23 1.13%	6
Red Hat Enterprise Linux	116	Down 34 places-34	£475	-	18 0.88%	3
Solaris	121	New entry-	£435	-	13 0.64%
VMS	128	Down 49 places-49	£325	-	6 0.29%
zOS	130	Down 51 places-51	£600	+91.69%	4 0.20%
CentOS	130	New entry-	£480	-	4 0.20%
Windows Server 2012	131	New entry-	£400	-	3 0.15%
Windows Server 2016	131	Down 47 places-47	£500	-	3 0.15%	2
Windows Server 2019	131	Down 47 places-47	£500	-	3 0.15%	2
AIX	132	New entry-	£477	-	2 0.098%