Contract Operating System Statistics in the UK excluding London

Contract Job Market Index

Description	Rank 6 Months to 13 May 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Daily Rate	Median Daily Rate YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
Windows	21	Down -11 places-11	£400	-	1,870 7.78%	854
Linux	38	Down -12 places-12	£490	-6.66%	1,115 4.64%	682
Windows Server	121	Down -45 places-45	£475	-11.21%	450 1.87%	271
Windows 10	154	Down -73 places-73	£190	-10.05%	359 1.49%	86
Unix	167	Down -51 places-51	£450	-3.22%	325 1.35%	79
Red Hat Enterprise Linux	242	Down -64 places-64	£500	-9.09%	194 0.81%	52
Android	247	Down -32 places-32	£400	+23.07%	189 0.79%	91
Apple iOS	293	Down -63 places-63	£400	-	139 0.58%	63
Mac OS	325	Down -75 places-75	£298	-22.22%	106 0.44%	72
Solaris	372	Down -68 places-68	£475	-17.31%	58 0.24%	21
Ubuntu	373	Down -87 places-87	£525	+5.00%	57 0.24%	42
AIX	378	Down -73 places-73	£426	-10.31%	52 0.22%	8
VMS	383	Down -87 places-87	£500	-9.09%	47 0.20%	20
Windows Server 2016	384	Down -135 places-135	£475	+5.55%	46 0.19%	27
Windows Server 2019	386	Down -130 places-130	£525	-2.32%	44 0.18%	38
Windows 7	392	Down -111 places-111	£212	+5.98%	38 0.16%	11
CentOS	394	Down -90 places-90	£505	-10.22%	36 0.15%	16
Embedded Linux	398	Down -81 places-81	£425	-20.93%	32 0.13%	65
Windows Server 2012	403	Down -126 places-126	£475	+11.76%	27 0.11%	13
zOS	404	Down -91 places-91	£500	-2.43%	26 0.11%	4
Debian	413	Down -82 places-82	£560	+1.81%	17 0.071%	13
Data ONTAP	414	Down -81 places-81	£530	+8.95%	16 0.067%	3
Mac OS X	416	Down -86 places-86	£400	+150.00%	14 0.058%	1
FreeRTOS	419	Down -87 places-87	-	-	11 0.046%	27
Windows Server 2003	420	Down -108 places-108	£173	-68.34%	10 0.042%