Contract Operating System Statistics in the UK excluding London

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Contract Job Market Index
Description	Rank 6 Months to 8 Nov 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Daily Rate	Median Daily Rate YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
Windows	23	Down 12 places-12	£420	+29.23%	2,095 7.32%	919
Linux	56	Down 30 places-30	£525	+9.37%	1,120 3.92%	587
Windows Server	124	Up 2 places+2	£500	-3.84%	595 2.08%	314
Windows 10	177	Down 85 places-85	£220	+2.56%	406 1.42%	102
Unix	258	Down 114 places-114	£500	+11.11%	262 0.92%	49
Red Hat Enterprise Linux	281	Down 26 places-26	£513	+2.50%	231 0.81%	54
Android	309	Down 126 places-126	£375	+36.36%	197 0.69%	94
Apple iOS	345	Down 103 places-103	£350	-	158 0.55%	85
macOS	410	Down 166 places-166	£230	-39.86%	89 0.31%	80
Solaris	420	Down 39 places-39	£525	+16.66%	79 0.28%	16
CentOS	444	Down 75 places-75	£575	+4.54%	55 0.19%	9
Ubuntu	444	Down 103 places-103	£500	+5.26%	55 0.19%	23
AIX	447	Down 72 places-72	£525	+207.01%	52 0.18%	16
Windows Server 2019	449	Down 109 places-109	£538	-2.27%	50 0.17%	20
VMS	451	Down 150 places-150	£463	-2.63%	48 0.17%	24
zOS	455	Down 69 places-69	£600	+91.69%	44 0.15%	3
Windows 7	469	Down 127 places-127	£490	+186.40%	30 0.10%	4
Windows Server 2016	471	Down 132 places-132	£450	-14.85%	28 0.098%	16
Embedded Linux	472	New entry-	£525	-	27 0.094%	60
Rocky	477	Down 79 places-79	£600	+65.51%	22 0.077%	6
Windows Server 2012	477	Down 114 places-114	£450	+28.57%	22 0.077%	4
SUSE	484	Down 89 places-89	£400	+9.58%	15 0.052%	1