Contract Operating System Statistics in the North West

Contract Job Market Index

Description	Rank 6 Months to 14 Jun 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Daily Rate	Median Daily Rate YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
Windows	23	Down -4 places-4	£350	-4.63%	248 7.16%	106
Linux	51	Down -19 places-19	£468	+10.05%	132 3.81%	55
Unix	79	Up 7 places+7	£479	+15.79%	89 2.57%	12
Windows 10	84	Down -3 places-3	£188	-3.84%	84 2.43%	19
Windows Server	110	Down -45 places-45	£448	-1.53%	56 1.62%	40
Solaris	116	Up 4 places+4	£481	-19.79%	49 1.42%	3
AIX	138	Down -14 places-14	£469	-	27 0.78%	2
Red Hat Enterprise Linux	139	Down -35 places-35	£459	+16.79%	26 0.75%	2
Apple iOS	151	Down -62 places-62	£444	+18.33%	14 0.40%	4
Windows 7	152	Down -33 places-33	£360	-22.66%	13 0.38%
Mac OS	155	Down -37 places-37	£550	+243.75%	10 0.29%	5
VMS	156	Down -43 places-43	£450	-14.28%	9 0.26%	1
Android	157	Down -78 places-78	£310	-17.26%	8 0.23%	4
Windows Server 2019	157	Down -49 places-49	£175	-50.00%	8 0.23%	2
Mac OS X	158	Down -36 places-36	£400	-	7 0.20%
Windows Server 2012	158	Down -46 places-46	£330	-5.71%	7 0.20%	1
Ubuntu	161	Down -37 places-37	£538	-	4 0.12%
SUSE	161	New entry-	£497	-	4 0.12%
HPUX	161	Down -39 places-39	£497	-33.73%	4 0.12%
Oracle Linux	161	New entry-	£497	-	4 0.12%
zOS	163	Down -41 places-41	£625	+55.47%	2 0.058%
Windows Server 2016	163	Down -57 places-57	-	-	2 0.058%	4
MVS	164	New entry-	£700	-	1 0.029%
Windows Server 2003	164	Down -47 places-47	£400	-	1 0.029%
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server	164	New entry-	-	-	1 0.029%
Windows Server 2008	164	Down -44 places-44	-	-	1 0.029%	1
CentOS	164	Down -42 places-42	£300	-29.41%	1 0.029%