Contract Operating System Statistics in the UK excluding London

Contract Job Market Index

Description	Rank 6 Months to 27 Sep 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Daily Rate	Median Daily Rate YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
Windows	23	Down -13 places-13	£405	+15.71%	2,115 7.49%	1,777
Linux	46	Down -20 places-20	£500	+1.62%	1,190 4.21%	1,548
Windows Server	116	Up 9 places+9	£488	-7.14%	608 2.15%	597
Windows 10	159	Down -58 places-58	£210	-2.32%	431 1.53%	143
Unix	195	Down -69 places-69	£475	+1.87%	344 1.22%	199
Red Hat Enterprise Linux	266	Down -2 places-2	£500	+2.61%	229 0.81%	111
Android	300	Down -106 places-106	£375	+1.35%	187 0.66%	302
Apple iOS	330	Down -97 places-97	£344	-7.09%	151 0.53%	242
Mac OS	380	Down -141 places-141	£250	-37.50%	101 0.36%	137
Solaris	381	Down -14 places-14	£506	-8.00%	100 0.35%	28
AIX	424	Down -54 places-54	£500	+17.64%	57 0.20%	7
CentOS	424	Down -67 places-67	£491	-10.68%	57 0.20%	28
Ubuntu	432	Down -105 places-105	£425	-10.52%	49 0.17%	59
VMS	434	Down -95 places-95	£475	-	47 0.17%	57
zOS	435	Down -69 places-69	£541	+33.64%	46 0.16%	28
Windows Server 2019	435	Down -118 places-118	£538	-2.27%	46 0.16%	39
Windows 7	437	Down -107 places-107	£354	+107.13%	44 0.16%	5
Embedded Linux	452	New entry-	£525	-	29 0.10%	118
Windows Server 2012	453	Down -106 places-106	£450	+33.33%	28 0.099%	21
Windows Server 2016	455	Down -133 places-133	£450	-18.18%	26 0.092%	29
Rocky	460	Down -76 places-76	£600	+65.51%	21 0.074%	6
SUSE	461	Down -78 places-78	£400	+9.58%	20 0.071%	6
FreeRTOS	466	Down -82 places-82	-	-	15 0.053%	39
Debian	470	Down -90 places-90	£583	+9.54%	11 0.039%	14
Data ONTAP	470	Down -86 places-86	£555	+17.58%	11 0.039%	8