Contract Operating System Statistics in the North West

Contract Job Market Index

Description	Rank 6 Months to 30 Jul 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Daily Rate	Median Daily Rate YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
Windows	25	Down -9 places-9	£344	-3.91%	254 6.78%	103
Linux	46	Down -10 places-10	£485	+20.82%	168 4.49%	82
Unix	82	Up 3 places+3	£475	+6.26%	97 2.59%	15
Windows 10	91	Down -1 place-1	£200	+2.56%	85 2.27%	10
Solaris	118	Up 3 places+3	£478	-20.33%	58 1.55%	3
Windows Server	124	Down -45 places-45	£450	-4.25%	52 1.39%	49
Red Hat Enterprise Linux	137	Down -36 places-36	£478	+21.50%	39 1.04%	8
AIX	141	New entry-	£477	-	35 0.93%	3
Android	161	Down -79 places-79	£300	-20.00%	15 0.40%	18
Apple iOS	162	Down -70 places-70	£550	+46.66%	14 0.37%	13
Mac OS	163	Down -42 places-42	£492	+207.50%	13 0.35%	11
VMS	166	Down -51 places-51	£426	-18.77%	10 0.27%	5
Windows 7	167	Down -49 places-49	£344	+7.50%	9 0.24%
Mac OS X	169	New entry-	£550	-	7 0.19%	2
HPUX	171	Down -48 places-48	£494	-34.13%	5 0.13%
Oracle Linux	171	New entry-	£494	-	5 0.13%	2
Windows Server 2012	171	Down -55 places-55	-	-	5 0.13%
SUSE	171	New entry-	£494	-	5 0.13%	1
CentOS	171	New entry-	£480	-	5 0.13%	3
zOS	172	Down -54 places-54	£600	+91.69%	4 0.11%
Ubuntu	172	New entry-	£538	-	4 0.11%	4
Windows Server 2019	173	Down -60 places-60	£400	+23.07%	3 0.080%	6
Windows Server 2016	174	Down -58 places-58	-	-	2 0.053%	7
MVS	175	Down -52 places-52	£700	+27.15%	1 0.027%
Windows Server 2003	175	Down -58 places-58	£400	-	1 0.027%
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server	175	New entry-	-	-	1 0.027%	1
Windows Server 2008	175	Down -55 places-55	-	-	1 0.027%