Contract Operating System Statistics in the Midlands

Contract Job Market Index

Description	Rank 6 Months to 17 Jun 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Daily Rate	Median Daily Rate YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
Windows	29	Down -16 places-16	£325	+17.11%	276 6.26%	172
Linux	64	Down -20 places-20	£474	-5.25%	146 3.31%	143
Unix	107	Down -7 places-7	£459	-0.21%	83 1.88%	9
Windows Server	114	Down -16 places-16	£450	-	72 1.63%	55
Windows 10	118	Down -52 places-52	£190	-	68 1.54%	20
Android	164	Down -64 places-64	£500	+25.00%	22 0.50%	43
Apple iOS	172	Down -51 places-51	£270	-32.50%	14 0.32%	35
Red Hat Enterprise Linux	174	Down -60 places-60	£515	-4.58%	12 0.27%	6
Mac OS	174	Down -56 places-56	£186	-52.43%	12 0.27%	21
Windows Server 2016	176	Down -52 places-52	£450	+12.50%	10 0.23%	1
AIX	179	Down -57 places-57	£413	-13.15%	7 0.16%	1
Windows 7	179	Down -57 places-57	£200	-0.25%	7 0.16%
VMS	181	Down -70 places-70	£413	-25.13%	5 0.11%	6
Ubuntu	182	Down -61 places-61	£338	-38.63%	4 0.091%	6
Windows 8	182	New entry-	£200	-	4 0.091%
Windows Server 2012	182	Down -58 places-58	£450	-	4 0.091%	4
Windows Server 2019	182	Down -55 places-55	£450	+50.00%	4 0.091%	3
Embedded Linux	183	New entry-	-	-	3 0.068%	9
SUSE	183	New entry-	£400	-	3 0.068%	2
CentOS	183	Down -57 places-57	£530	-	3 0.068%	1
Solaris	183	New entry-	-	-	3 0.068%	1
zOS	184	New entry-	£488	-	2 0.045%
FreeRTOS	184	New entry-	-	-	2 0.045%	2
CatOS	184	New entry-	£445	-	2 0.045%
HPUX	184	New entry-	-	-	2 0.045%
MVS	185	New entry-	£500	-	1 0.023%
Tizen	185	New entry-	£425	-	1 0.023%
webOS	185	New entry-	£425	-	1 0.023%
Data ONTAP	185	New entry-	£540	-	1 0.023%
OpenVMS	185	New entry-	£550	-	1 0.023%	3
Kali Linux	185	New entry-	£550	-	1 0.023%