Contract Operating System Statistics in the UK excluding London

Contract Job Market Index

Description	Rank 6 Months to 20 Jun 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	£415	+3.75%	1,951 7.54%	819
Linux	40	Down -16 places-16	£492	-1.60%	1,133 4.38%	511
Windows Server	129	Down -53 places-53	£475	-13.63%	478 1.85%	307
Windows 10	172	Down -80 places-80	£195	-9.30%	356 1.38%	92
Unix	173	Down -56 places-56	£459	-1.71%	352 1.36%	54
Red Hat Enterprise Linux	262	Down -60 places-60	£492	-8.88%	201 0.78%	34
Android	278	Down -85 places-85	£419	+11.66%	181 0.70%	75
Apple iOS	312	Down -95 places-95	£425	+6.25%	143 0.55%	49
Mac OS	360	Down -114 places-114	£300	-22.07%	94 0.36%	71
Solaris	380	Down -64 places-64	£481	-18.29%	74 0.29%	6
AIX	396	Down -74 places-74	£430	-9.47%	58 0.22%	9
Ubuntu	400	Down -112 places-112	£525	+6.59%	54 0.21%	17
Windows Server 2019	408	Down -146 places-146	£538	-2.27%	46 0.18%	24
VMS	410	Down -111 places-111	£500	-4.76%	44 0.17%	20
Windows 7	412	Down -123 places-123	£250	+25.00%	42 0.16%	6
zOS	413	Down -93 places-93	£525	+2.43%	41 0.16%	2
Windows Server 2016	416	Down -154 places-154	£450	-18.18%	38 0.15%	23
CentOS	418	Down -99 places-99	£500	-4.76%	36 0.14%	10
Embedded Linux	424	Down -94 places-94	£433	-19.53%	30 0.12%	48
Windows Server 2012	426	Down -125 places-125	£488	-7.14%	28 0.11%	13
Debian	438	Down -102 places-102	£610	+12.44%	16 0.062%	7
Data ONTAP	438	Down -95 places-95	£519	+6.79%	16 0.062%
Mac OS X	441	Down -99 places-99	£400	-	13 0.050%	2
FreeRTOS	442	Down -100 places-100	-	-	12 0.046%	24
Windows Server 2003	444	Down -129 places-129	£173	-68.63%	10 0.039%