Contract Operating System Statistics in the UK excluding London

Contract Job Market Index

Description	Rank 6 Months to 11 Oct 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	£413	+18.70%	2,084 7.40%	1,667
Linux	50	Down -26 places-26	£515	+4.67%	1,154 4.10%	1,676
Windows Server	119	Up 1 place+1	£488	-3.94%	594 2.11%	523
Windows 10	162	Down -65 places-65	£225	+4.65%	419 1.49%	102
Unix	214	Down -84 places-84	£481	+5.83%	311 1.10%	206
Red Hat Enterprise Linux	268	Down -11 places-11	£500	+2.35%	223 0.79%	121
Android	290	Down -102 places-102	£363	+3.57%	193 0.69%	262
Apple iOS	323	Down -88 places-88	£325	-9.21%	156 0.55%	201
Solaris	382	Down -15 places-15	£519	+3.70%	96 0.34%	22
macOS	382	Down -167 places-167	£230	-43.90%	96 0.34%	130
CentOS	423	Down -68 places-68	£491	-10.68%	55 0.20%	20
Ubuntu	426	Down -105 places-105	£450	-5.26%	52 0.18%	72
AIX	426	Down -60 places-60	£525	+83.88%	52 0.18%	15
Windows Server 2019	428	Down -113 places-113	£538	-2.27%	50 0.18%	47
VMS	430	Down -97 places-97	£475	-	48 0.17%	62
zOS	434	Down -71 places-71	£581	+43.45%	44 0.16%	41
Windows 7	438	Down -109 places-109	£365	+113.45%	40 0.14%	6
Embedded Linux	450	New entry-	£525	-	28 0.099%	150
Windows Server 2012	450	Down -103 places-103	£450	+33.33%	28 0.099%	13
Windows Server 2016	454	Down -139 places-139	£450	-18.18%	24 0.085%	44
Rocky	455	Down -73 places-73	£600	+65.51%	23 0.082%	6
SUSE	460	Down -79 places-79	£400	+9.58%	18 0.064%	5
FreeRTOS	466	Down -85 places-85	-	-	12 0.043%	58
Debian	468	Down -90 places-90	£590	+10.95%	10 0.036%	27
Oracle Linux	468	Down -92 places-92	£600	+9.09%	10 0.036%	6