Contract Operating System Statistics in the UK excluding London

Contract Job Market Index

Description	Rank 6 Months to 1 Aug 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Daily Rate	Median Daily Rate YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
Windows	24	Down -13 places-13	£420	+5.00%	2,007 7.37%	947
Linux	40	Down -15 places-15	£500	-	1,218 4.47%	739
Windows Server	128	Down -30 places-30	£488	-9.30%	523 1.92%	345
Windows 10	177	Down -70 places-70	£200	-	384 1.41%	101
Unix	179	Down -44 places-44	£460	-3.15%	375 1.38%	80
Red Hat Enterprise Linux	259	Down -32 places-32	£500	-3.79%	221 0.81%	42
Android	285	Down -79 places-79	£400	+6.66%	190 0.70%	156
Apple iOS	324	Down -92 places-92	£425	+6.25%	141 0.52%	120
Mac OS	367	Down -109 places-109	£300	-25.00%	97 0.36%	74
Solaris	377	Down -37 places-37	£481	-18.33%	87 0.32%	9
AIX	390	Down -45 places-45	£469	-1.26%	74 0.27%	2
zOS	415	Down -70 places-70	£566	+10.48%	49 0.18%	4
Windows Server 2019	415	Down -124 places-124	£538	-2.27%	49 0.18%	27
Ubuntu	418	Down -98 places-98	£500	-	46 0.17%	34
VMS	419	Down -99 places-99	£500	+5.26%	45 0.17%	34
CentOS	427	Down -82 places-82	£513	-6.81%	37 0.14%	21
Windows 7	434	Down -136 places-136	£318	+69.33%	30 0.11%	6
Windows Server 2016	434	Down -142 places-142	£450	-18.18%	30 0.11%	26
Embedded Linux	436	Down -71 places-71	£483	-10.23%	28 0.10%	66
Windows Server 2012	438	Down -116 places-116	£500	+18.34%	26 0.095%	8
Data ONTAP	448	Down -79 places-79	£519	+6.79%	16 0.059%
Rocky	448	Down -79 places-79	£600	+65.51%	16 0.059%	11
Oracle Linux	449	Down -87 places-87	£615	+11.81%	15 0.055%	3
Mac OS X	450	Down -81 places-81	£400	+77.77%	14 0.051%	4
FreeRTOS	452	Down -85 places-85	-	-	12 0.044%	19
SUSE	452	Down -83 places-83	£400	+9.58%	12 0.044%	3