Contract Operating System Statistics in Manchester

Contract Job Market Index

Description	Rank 6 Months to 22 Oct 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Daily Rate	Median Daily Rate YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
Windows	45	Down 12 places-12	£449	-4.77%	97 4.72%	93
Linux	65	Down 22 places-22	£463	-19.56%	65 3.16%	89
Windows Server	96	Down 23 places-23	£500	+5.26%	33 1.60%	29
Unix	97	Down 29 places-29	£435	-20.90%	32 1.56%	10
Android	100	Down 34 places-34	£505	+87.73%	29 1.41%	33
Windows 10	105	Down 31 places-31	£200	+11.11%	24 1.17%	3
Apple iOS	106	Down 30 places-30	£400	+2.49%	23 1.12%	37
Red Hat Enterprise Linux	111	Down 29 places-29	£475	-	18 0.88%	9
Solaris	116	New entry-	£435	-	13 0.63%
VMS	123	Down 42 places-42	£325	-	6 0.29%	3
zOS	125	Down 46 places-46	£600	+91.69%	4 0.19%	1
CentOS	125	New entry-	£480	-	4 0.19%	1
Windows Server 2012	126	New entry-	£400	-	3 0.15%
Windows Server 2016	126	Down 42 places-42	£500	-	3 0.15%	3
Windows Server 2019	126	Down 42 places-42	£500	-	3 0.15%	3
AIX	127	New entry-	£477	-	2 0.097%