Contract Operating System Statistics in the UK excluding London

Contract Job Market Index

Description	Rank 6 Months to 16 Aug 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	£413	+4.43%	2,048 7.43%	982
Linux	42	Down -17 places-17	£500	-	1,215 4.41%	790
Windows Server	124	Down -15 places-15	£490	-7.54%	553 2.01%	346
Windows 10	168	Down -51 places-51	£200	-	398 1.44%	114
Unix	181	Down -40 places-40	£463	-2.63%	358 1.30%	102
Red Hat Enterprise Linux	260	Down -27 places-27	£500	-2.91%	218 0.79%	47
Android	279	Down -76 places-76	£375	+2.31%	196 0.71%	160
Apple iOS	326	Down -92 places-92	£400	+6.66%	143 0.52%	115
Mac OS	372	Down -114 places-114	£275	-31.25%	96 0.35%	82
Solaris	385	Down -45 places-45	£500	-15.11%	82 0.30%	10
AIX	397	Down -52 places-52	£477	+3.13%	70 0.25%	3
Windows Server 2019	418	Down -128 places-128	£538	-2.27%	49 0.18%	26
Ubuntu	418	Down -96 places-96	£500	-	49 0.18%	33
zOS	418	Down -69 places-69	£600	+24.67%	49 0.18%	7
VMS	424	Down -97 places-97	£500	+5.26%	43 0.16%	39
CentOS	424	Down -78 places-78	£513	-6.81%	43 0.16%	16
Windows 7	424	Down -120 places-120	£349	+104.15%	43 0.16%	5
Embedded Linux	432	Down -61 places-61	£525	-2.32%	35 0.13%	62
Windows Server 2016	438	Down -143 places-143	£450	-18.18%	29 0.11%	26
Windows Server 2012	442	Down -116 places-116	£500	+18.34%	25 0.091%	14
Rocky	450	Down -79 places-79	£600	+65.51%	17 0.062%	7
Oracle Linux	452	Down -86 places-86	£615	+11.81%	15 0.054%
Data ONTAP	453	Down -82 places-82	£530	+9.05%	14 0.051%	1
SUSE	453	Down -82 places-82	£400	+9.58%	14 0.051%	4
FreeRTOS	455	Down -86 places-86	-	-	12 0.044%	22
Debian	455	Down -88 places-88	£590	+10.28%	12 0.044%	18