Contract Operating System Statistics in the UK excluding London

Job Market Index

Description	Rank 6 Months to 15 Apr 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Daily Rate	Median Daily Rate YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
Windows	19	Down -9 places-9	£375	-6.25%	1,900 8.20%	851
Linux	35	Down -10 places-10	£490	-8.75%	1,123 4.85%	630
Windows Server	121	Down -47 places-47	£500	-4.76%	442 1.91%	308
Windows 10	137	Down -54 places-54	£190	-11.62%	395 1.71%	93
Unix	185	Down -76 places-76	£442	-7.05%	282 1.22%	74
Android	230	Up 3 places+3	£350	-	214 0.92%	126
Red Hat Enterprise Linux	241	Down -72 places-72	£500	-9.09%	198 0.85%	53
Apple iOS	300	Down -62 places-62	£358	-10.50%	135 0.58%	106
Mac OS	332	Down -46 places-46	£219	-42.81%	103 0.44%	64
VMS	341	Down -45 places-45	£500	-9.09%	94 0.41%	18
Ubuntu	379	Down -88 places-88	£537	+7.40%	56 0.24%	35
AIX	387	Down -81 places-81	£397	-16.52%	48 0.21%	8
Windows Server 2016	390	Down -126 places-126	£450	+5.88%	45 0.19%	34
Windows 7	394	Down -113 places-113	£200	-24.00%	41 0.18%	9
Solaris	397	Down -82 places-82	£465	-20.06%	38 0.16%	26
CentOS	400	Down -106 places-106	£528	-18.84%	35 0.15%	14
Windows Server 2019	400	Down -123 places-123	£525	+23.52%	35 0.15%	31
Windows Server 2012	404	Down -139 places-139	£488	+21.79%	31 0.13%	13
Embedded Linux	408	Down -90 places-90	£425	-15.00%	27 0.12%	57
zOS	414	Down -87 places-87	£500	-2.43%	21 0.091%	11
Windows Server 2003	419	Down -104 places-104	£173	-67.75%	16 0.069%	1
Debian	420	Down -83 places-83	£555	+0.90%	15 0.065%	13
Data ONTAP	420	Down -81 places-81	£540	+11.11%	15 0.065%	4
Mac OS X	421	Down -86 places-86	£400	+150.00%	14 0.060%	2
FreeRTOS	425	Down -87 places-87	-	-	10 0.043%	29