Contract Operating System Statistics in the North West

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Contract Job Market Index
Description	Rank 6 Months to 6 Nov 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Daily Rate	Median Daily Rate YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
Windows	25	Down 6 places-6	£364	+4.00%	272 6.77%	107
Linux	65	Down 22 places-22	£490	+14.28%	138 3.44%	51
Windows 10	98	Down 15 places-15	£250	+42.85%	82 2.04%	16
Unix	103	Down 9 places-9	£488	+7.61%	77 1.92%
Windows Server	111	Down 17 places-17	£425	-10.52%	68 1.69%	43
Android	130	Down 50 places-50	£400	+11.73%	49 1.22%	10
Solaris	131	New entry-	£520	-	48 1.20%	1
Apple iOS	139	Down 54 places-54	£393	+5.50%	40 1.00%	8
Red Hat Enterprise Linux	141	Down 26 places-26	£475	-13.63%	38 0.95%	6
AIX	159	New entry-	£625	-	20 0.50%
Windows 7	162	Down 34 places-34	£492	-17.31%	17 0.42%
macOS	166	Down 41 places-41	£175	-	13 0.32%	5
Windows Server 2003	172	New entry-	£492	-	7 0.17%
VMS	172	Down 46 places-46	£388	-3.12%	7 0.17%
CentOS	173	New entry-	£481	-	6 0.15%	1
zOS	175	Down 45 places-45	£600	+91.69%	4 0.100%
Windows Server 2019	175	Down 42 places-42	£475	+90.00%	4 0.100%	2
Windows Server 2012	176	Down 41 places-41	£400	+23.07%	3 0.075%
Windows Server 2016	176	Down 42 places-42	£500	+53.84%	3 0.075%	5
pSOS	177	New entry-	£606	-	2 0.050%