Contract Operating System Statistics in the North of England

Contract Job Market Index

Description	Rank 6 Months to 15 Sep 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Daily Rate	Median Daily Rate YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
Windows	28	Down -8 places-8	£325	-	505 6.65%	337
Linux	53	Down -21 places-21	£500	+5.04%	285 3.75%	255
Windows Server	127	Down -3 places-3	£450	+8.10%	132 1.74%	103
Windows 10	130	Down -4 places-4	£205	+5.80%	129 1.70%	21
Unix	137	Down -27 places-27	£475	-8.82%	121 1.59%	51
Red Hat Enterprise Linux	189	Down -47 places-47	£500	+6.15%	65 0.86%	30
Solaris	192	Down -17 places-17	£501	-25.85%	62 0.82%	4
Android	193	Down -77 places-77	£300	-25.00%	61 0.80%	66
Apple iOS	195	Down -81 places-81	£368	-5.16%	59 0.78%	67
zOS	223	Down -52 places-52	£566	+80.91%	31 0.41%	26
Mac OS	223	Down -92 places-92	£300	-40.00%	31 0.41%	34
AIX	226	Down -45 places-45	£497	-5.33%	28 0.37%	4
Windows 7	230	Down -49 places-49	£480	+174.28%	24 0.32%	1
VMS	231	Down -53 places-53	£450	+9.09%	23 0.30%	11
Ubuntu	246	Down -63 places-63	£538	+47.26%	8 0.11%	12
Windows Server 2019	247	Down -73 places-73	£425	+30.76%	7 0.092%	10
Windows Server 2003	247	Down -71 places-71	£492	-	7 0.092%	1
CentOS	247	Down -64 places-64	£491	+34.38%	7 0.092%	10
Oracle Linux	248	Down -65 places-65	£497	+36.16%	6 0.079%	1
HPUX	249	Down -69 places-69	£494	-31.86%	5 0.066%
Windows Server 2016	249	Down -72 places-72	£381	+17.30%	5 0.066%	8
Mac OS X	249	Down -84 places-84	£160	-75.38%	5 0.066%	3
Windows Server 2012	249	Down -74 places-74	£538	+119.38%	5 0.066%	2
SUSE	249	Down -66 places-66	£494	+35.34%	5 0.066%
Data ONTAP	250	New entry-	£525	-	4 0.053%
MVS	250	Down -69 places-69	£523	-4.95%	4 0.053%