Contract Operating System Statistics in the UK excluding London

Contract Job Market Index

Description	Rank 6 Months to 12 Sep 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Daily Rate	Median Daily Rate YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
Windows	23	Down -13 places-13	£405	+8.00%	2,098 7.46%	1,233
Linux	45	Down -22 places-22	£500	-	1,203 4.28%	902
Windows Server	118	Down -7 places-7	£488	-7.14%	602 2.14%	396
Windows 10	167	Down -63 places-63	£210	-4.54%	423 1.50%	141
Unix	195	Down -76 places-76	£475	-	342 1.22%	112
Red Hat Enterprise Linux	260	Down -18 places-18	£500	-	226 0.80%	83
Android	291	Down -95 places-95	£375	-	193 0.69%	179
Apple iOS	331	Down -107 places-107	£344	-7.09%	149 0.53%	139
Mac OS	383	Down -144 places-144	£273	-31.87%	97 0.34%	106
Solaris	391	Down -45 places-45	£500	-16.66%	89 0.32%	10
AIX	422	Down -66 places-66	£494	+9.77%	58 0.21%	2
CentOS	428	Down -80 places-80	£483	-12.27%	52 0.18%	27
Ubuntu	430	Down -104 places-104	£438	-11.16%	50 0.18%	31
zOS	432	Down -78 places-78	£566	+39.81%	48 0.17%	14
Windows Server 2019	434	Down -139 places-139	£538	-2.27%	46 0.16%	26
VMS	435	Down -110 places-110	£500	+5.26%	45 0.16%	52
Windows 7	436	Down -119 places-119	£354	+107.13%	44 0.16%	4
Embedded Linux	445	New entry-	£483	-	35 0.12%	67
Windows Server 2012	454	Down -122 places-122	£450	+33.33%	26 0.092%	17
Windows Server 2016	454	Down -154 places-154	£450	-18.18%	26 0.092%	27
Rocky	458	Down -85 places-85	£600	+65.51%	22 0.078%	5
SUSE	462	Down -90 places-90	£400	+9.58%	18 0.064%	3
FreeRTOS	465	Down -95 places-95	-	-	15 0.053%	33
Debian	467	Down -98 places-98	£590	+10.95%	13 0.046%	10
Data ONTAP	468	Down -96 places-96	£553	+13.68%	12 0.043%	2
Oracle Linux	468	Down -101 places-101	£600	+9.09%	12 0.043%	1