Contract Operating System Statistics in the UK excluding London

Contract Job Market Index

Description	Rank 6 Months to 18 Jul 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	£422	+5.37%	2,030 7.51%	778
Linux	41	Down -16 places-16	£500	-	1,211 4.48%	537
Windows Server	126	Down -32 places-32	£488	-8.87%	515 1.91%	298
Windows 10	174	Down -65 places-65	£200	-2.43%	377 1.39%	107
Unix	180	Down -50 places-50	£459	-3.11%	366 1.35%	50
Red Hat Enterprise Linux	265	Down -47 places-47	£497	-0.60%	222 0.82%	32
Android	298	Down -105 places-105	£400	+6.66%	181 0.67%	90
Apple iOS	331	Down -105 places-105	£425	+9.67%	143 0.53%	67
Mac OS	375	Down -127 places-127	£280	-30.00%	98 0.36%	63
Solaris	392	Down -62 places-62	£481	-18.33%	81 0.30%	7
AIX	401	Down -67 places-67	£459	-3.36%	72 0.27%	11
VMS	424	Down -116 places-116	£500	+5.26%	49 0.18%	22
Windows Server 2019	424	Down -152 places-152	£538	-2.27%	49 0.18%	18
zOS	427	Down -95 places-95	£600	+24.67%	46 0.17%	3
Ubuntu	427	Down -125 places-125	£513	+2.50%	46 0.17%	51
Windows Server 2016	437	Down -158 places-158	£450	-18.18%	36 0.13%	22
CentOS	439	Down -110 places-110	£525	-4.54%	34 0.13%	19
Windows 7	440	Down -147 places-147	£275	+37.50%	33 0.12%	12
Windows Server 2012	444	Down -135 places-135	£500	+5.26%	29 0.11%	8
Embedded Linux	444	Down -96 places-96	£433	-19.53%	29 0.11%	40
Data ONTAP	457	Down -100 places-100	£519	+6.79%	16 0.059%
Mac OS X	458	Down -100 places-100	£400	+166.66%	15 0.056%	2
Oracle Linux	461	Down -110 places-110	£506	+6.52%	12 0.044%	5
Rocky	461	Down -104 places-104	£600	+65.51%	12 0.044%	4
FreeRTOS	461	Down -106 places-106	-	-	12 0.044%	19
SUSE	462	Down -105 places-105	£413	+13.01%	11 0.041%	1
Debian	462	Down -112 places-112	£590	+8.75%	11 0.041%	17