Contract Operating System Statistics in the UK excluding London

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Contract Job Market Index
Description	Rank 6 Months to 25 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	+23.13%	2,102 7.45%	1,422
Linux	52	Down 27 places-27	£525	+8.80%	1,134 4.02%	1,429
Windows Server	119	No change0	£500	-4.76%	594 2.11%	458
Windows 10	168	Down 75 places-75	£225	+4.65%	422 1.50%	90
Unix	230	Down 89 places-89	£488	+7.97%	293 1.04%	157
Red Hat Enterprise Linux	271	Down 23 places-23	£506	+1.25%	227 0.80%	82
Android	300	Down 114 places-114	£345	+10.40%	189 0.67%	221
Apple iOS	334	Down 98 places-98	£325	-7.14%	153 0.54%	191
macOS	395	Down 164 places-164	£230	-42.50%	89 0.32%	134
Solaris	396	Down 30 places-30	£525	+10.52%	88 0.31%	21
CentOS	429	Down 74 places-74	£538	-2.27%	55 0.20%	18
Ubuntu	430	Down 107 places-107	£500	+5.26%	54 0.19%	64
AIX	431	Down 68 places-68	£526	+207.60%	53 0.19%	16
Windows Server 2019	435	Down 114 places-114	£538	-2.27%	49 0.17%	32
VMS	438	Down 137 places-137	£500	+5.26%	46 0.16%	47
zOS	438	Down 68 places-68	£581	+62.29%	46 0.16%	17
Windows 7	446	Down 112 places-112	£365	+113.45%	38 0.13%	4
Embedded Linux	457	New entry-	£525	-	27 0.096%	131
Windows Server 2012	460	Down 109 places-109	£450	+38.46%	24 0.085%	12
Windows Server 2016	461	Down 141 places-141	£450	-18.18%	23 0.082%	28
Rocky	461	Down 77 places-77	£600	+65.51%	23 0.082%	6
SUSE	468	Down 86 places-86	£400	+9.58%	16 0.057%	1
FreeRTOS	473	Down 94 places-94	-	-	11 0.039%	47