Contract Operating System Statistics in the UK excluding London

Job Market Index

Description	Rank 6 Months to 14 Apr 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Daily Rate	Median Daily Rate YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
Windows	18	Down -8 places-8	£375	-6.25%	1,898 8.22%	867
Linux	36	Down -10 places-10	£490	-8.79%	1,120 4.85%	648
Windows Server	122	Down -49 places-49	£500	-4.76%	443 1.92%	320
Windows 10	135	Down -55 places-55	£190	-11.62%	397 1.72%	96
Unix	186	Down -79 places-79	£442	-7.05%	283 1.23%	73
Android	230	Up 2 places+2	£350	-	213 0.92%	130
Red Hat Enterprise Linux	243	Down -78 places-78	£500	-9.09%	197 0.85%	51
Apple iOS	299	Down -64 places-64	£358	-10.50%	135 0.58%	108
Mac OS	333	Down -47 places-47	£225	-37.93%	101 0.44%	66
VMS	341	Down -47 places-47	£500	-9.09%	93 0.40%	20
Ubuntu	378	Down -90 places-90	£537	+7.40%	56 0.24%	32
AIX	386	Down -82 places-82	£397	-16.52%	48 0.21%	9
Windows Server 2016	389	Down -127 places-127	£450	+5.88%	45 0.19%	32
Windows 7	393	Down -118 places-118	£200	-43.00%	41 0.18%	8
Solaris	397	Down -83 places-83	£465	-21.05%	37 0.16%	28
Windows Server 2019	399	Down -124 places-124	£525	+23.52%	35 0.15%	32
CentOS	399	Down -108 places-108	£528	-18.84%	35 0.15%	15
Windows Server 2012	403	Down -140 places-140	£488	+21.72%	31 0.13%	13
Embedded Linux	407	Down -91 places-91	£425	-15.00%	27 0.12%	58
zOS	412	Down -87 places-87	£498	-2.78%	22 0.095%	13
Windows Server 2003	418	Down -105 places-105	£173	-67.75%	16 0.069%	1
Debian	419	Down -84 places-84	£555	+0.90%	15 0.065%	9
Data ONTAP	419	Down -81 places-81	£540	+8.00%	15 0.065%	4
Mac OS X	420	Down -87 places-87	£400	+150.00%	14 0.061%	2
FreeRTOS	424	Down -88 places-88	-	-	10 0.043%	28