Contract Operating System Statistics in the UK excluding London

Contract Job Market Index

Description	Rank 6 Months to 16 May 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Daily Rate	Median Daily Rate YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
Windows	21	Down -11 places-11	£400	+1.26%	1,901 7.78%	902
Linux	39	Down -13 places-13	£490	-6.66%	1,142 4.67%	670
Windows Server	121	Down -42 places-42	£475	-11.87%	454 1.86%	295
Windows 10	157	Down -71 places-71	£190	-9.52%	359 1.47%	95
Unix	165	Down -42 places-42	£450	-3.12%	337 1.38%	78
Red Hat Enterprise Linux	258	Down -63 places-63	£500	-9.09%	194 0.79%	53
Android	262	Down -40 places-40	£400	+23.07%	190 0.78%	97
Apple iOS	303	Down -66 places-66	£400	-	145 0.59%	71
Mac OS	338	Down -79 places-79	£300	-23.07%	109 0.45%	80
Solaris	388	Down -75 places-75	£475	-19.35%	59 0.24%	21
Ubuntu	392	Down -97 places-97	£525	+5.00%	55 0.23%	42
AIX	395	Down -80 places-80	£426	-10.31%	52 0.21%	6
VMS	400	Down -98 places-98	£500	-9.09%	47 0.19%	20
Windows Server 2016	403	Down -148 places-148	£450	-	44 0.18%	26
Windows Server 2019	404	Down -142 places-142	£513	-6.81%	43 0.18%	37
Windows 7	408	Down -118 places-118	£212	+6.11%	39 0.16%	12
CentOS	414	Down -99 places-99	£500	-13.04%	33 0.14%	20
Embedded Linux	416	Down -92 places-92	£425	-20.93%	31 0.13%	61
zOS	421	Down -101 places-101	£500	-2.43%	26 0.11%	6
Windows Server 2012	422	Down -137 places-137	£450	+13.92%	25 0.10%	11
Debian	429	Down -91 places-91	£583	+5.90%	18 0.074%	13
Data ONTAP	431	Down -91 places-91	£530	+8.95%	16 0.065%	1
Mac OS X	433	Down -96 places-96	£400	+150.00%	14 0.057%	1
Windows Server 2003	436	Down -118 places-118	£173	-68.05%	11 0.045%
FreeRTOS	436	Down -97 places-97	-	-	11 0.045%	22