Contract Operating System Statistics in the UK excluding London

Contract Job Market Index

Description	Rank 6 Months to 6 May 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Daily Rate	Median Daily Rate YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
Windows	21	Down -10 places-10	£400	-	1,876 7.74%	920
Linux	39	Down -15 places-15	£490	-6.66%	1,130 4.66%	674
Windows Server	122	Down -41 places-41	£480	-8.57%	447 1.84%	295
Windows 10	157	Down -69 places-69	£190	-10.05%	356 1.47%	102
Unix	169	Down -58 places-58	£450	-4.66%	327 1.35%	83
Android	253	Down -29 places-29	£400	+14.28%	195 0.80%	114
Red Hat Enterprise Linux	260	Down -85 places-85	£500	-9.09%	187 0.77%	58
Apple iOS	304	Down -72 places-72	£400	-	138 0.57%	93
Mac OS	338	Down -75 places-75	£298	-23.71%	104 0.43%	77
VMS	381	Down -84 places-84	£500	-9.09%	61 0.25%	24
Ubuntu	387	Down -102 places-102	£525	+5.00%	55 0.23%	39
AIX	391	Down -86 places-86	£426	-10.42%	51 0.21%	9
Solaris	391	Down -84 places-84	£475	-17.40%	51 0.21%	33
Windows Server 2016	395	Down -133 places-133	£463	+8.82%	47 0.19%	32
Windows Server 2019	399	Down -131 places-131	£525	+13.51%	43 0.18%	33
Windows 7	403	Down -118 places-118	£200	-0.25%	39 0.16%	13
CentOS	408	Down -115 places-115	£525	-19.23%	34 0.14%	18
Embedded Linux	412	Down -96 places-96	£425	-20.93%	30 0.12%	64
Windows Server 2012	413	Down -133 places-133	£488	+14.70%	29 0.12%	19
zOS	415	Down -101 places-101	£500	-2.43%	27 0.11%	8
Debian	426	Down -94 places-94	£555	+0.90%	16 0.066%	5
Data ONTAP	426	Down -92 places-92	£530	+8.95%	16 0.066%	3
Mac OS X	428	Down -98 places-98	£400	+150.00%	14 0.058%	1
FreeRTOS	432	Down -99 places-99	-	-	10 0.041%	32
Windows Server 2003	432	Down -119 places-119	£173	-68.34%	10 0.041%	1