Contract Operating System Statistics in the UK excluding London

Contract Job Market Index

Description	Rank 6 Months to 5 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	-	1,871 7.74%	892
Linux	38	Down -15 places-15	£490	-6.66%	1,130 4.68%	653
Windows Server	118	Down -37 places-37	£483	-8.86%	446 1.85%	283
Windows 10	151	Down -63 places-63	£190	-9.52%	359 1.49%	89
Unix	170	Down -64 places-64	£450	-4.86%	322 1.33%	86
Android	243	Down -26 places-26	£400	+14.28%	196 0.81%	114
Red Hat Enterprise Linux	248	Down -79 places-79	£500	-9.09%	189 0.78%	50
Apple iOS	291	Down -65 places-65	£400	-	137 0.57%	86
Mac OS	324	Down -66 places-66	£295	-24.35%	103 0.43%	73
VMS	365	Down -71 places-71	£500	-9.09%	61 0.25%	22
Ubuntu	371	Down -87 places-87	£525	+5.00%	55 0.23%	40
AIX	375	Down -77 places-77	£426	-10.42%	51 0.21%	9
Solaris	376	Down -72 places-72	£474	-17.49%	50 0.21%	32
Windows Server 2016	379	Down -122 places-122	£463	+8.82%	47 0.19%	28
Windows Server 2019	383	Down -118 places-118	£525	+13.51%	43 0.18%	23
Windows 7	387	Down -106 places-106	£200	-0.25%	39 0.16%	12
CentOS	392	Down -101 places-101	£525	-19.23%	34 0.14%	12
Embedded Linux	396	Down -83 places-83	£425	-20.93%	30 0.12%	63
Windows Server 2012	397	Down -120 places-120	£488	+14.70%	29 0.12%	19
zOS	399	Down -88 places-88	£500	-2.43%	27 0.11%	6
Debian	410	Down -81 places-81	£555	+0.90%	16 0.066%	7
Data ONTAP	411	Down -80 places-80	£540	+11.11%	15 0.062%	3
Mac OS X	412	Down -85 places-85	£400	+150.00%	14 0.058%	1
FreeRTOS	416	Down -86 places-86	-	-	10 0.041%	32
Windows Server 2003	416	Down -106 places-106	£173	-68.34%	10 0.041%	1