Contract Operating System Statistics in the UK excluding London

Contract Job Market Index

Description	Rank 6 Months to 29 Aug 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Daily Rate	Median Daily Rate YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
Windows	24	Down -14 places-14	£402	+7.20%	2,047 7.39%	1,360
Linux	44	Down -20 places-20	£500	-	1,187 4.28%	1,190
Windows Server	115	Down -6 places-6	£485	-7.61%	576 2.08%	446
Windows 10	161	Down -49 places-49	£210	+1.81%	415 1.50%	138
Unix	192	Down -70 places-70	£473	-0.36%	334 1.21%	169
Red Hat Enterprise Linux	261	Down -21 places-21	£500	-	219 0.79%	96
Android	289	Down -95 places-95	£375	-	186 0.67%	207
Apple iOS	325	Down -107 places-107	£350	-6.66%	140 0.51%	146
Mac OS	371	Down -128 places-128	£273	-31.87%	94 0.34%	113
Solaris	383	Down -42 places-42	£500	-15.11%	82 0.30%	17
AIX	399	Down -47 places-47	£483	+7.33%	66 0.24%	9
Ubuntu	416	Down -94 places-94	£450	-7.21%	49 0.18%	37
Windows Server 2019	417	Down -126 places-126	£538	-2.27%	48 0.17%	36
CentOS	418	Down -73 places-73	£500	-9.09%	47 0.17%	30
zOS	419	Down -69 places-69	£600	+48.14%	46 0.17%	13
VMS	421	Down -97 places-97	£488	+2.63%	44 0.16%	53
Windows 7	422	Down -113 places-113	£349	+104.15%	43 0.16%	6
Embedded Linux	429	Down -59 places-59	£483	-10.23%	36 0.13%	107
Windows Server 2016	435	Down -138 places-138	£450	-18.18%	30 0.11%	40
Windows Server 2012	439	Down -114 places-114	£500	+42.85%	26 0.094%	13
Rocky	448	Down -78 places-78	£600	+65.51%	17 0.061%	10
SUSE	449	Down -80 places-80	£400	+9.58%	16 0.058%	3
Oracle Linux	450	Down -86 places-86	£615	+11.81%	15 0.054%
FreeRTOS	450	Down -83 places-83	-	-	15 0.054%	36
Debian	452	Down -86 places-86	£590	+10.95%	13 0.047%	21
Data ONTAP	452	Down -83 places-83	£550	+13.16%	13 0.047%	2