Contract Operating System Statistics in the UK excluding London

Contract Job Market Index

Description	Rank 6 Months to 6 Jun 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Daily Rate	Median Daily Rate YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
Windows	22	Down -12 places-12	£413	+3.12%	1,957 7.78%	918
Linux	40	Down -15 places-15	£491	-1.80%	1,135 4.51%	712
Windows Server	116	Down -34 places-34	£475	-11.71%	485 1.93%	299
Windows 10	158	Down -63 places-63	£195	-9.30%	368 1.46%	93
Unix	169	Down -47 places-47	£459	-1.29%	349 1.39%	59
Red Hat Enterprise Linux	251	Down -49 places-49	£500	-7.40%	203 0.81%	45
Android	265	Down -63 places-63	£400	+6.66%	187 0.74%	102
Apple iOS	295	Down -78 places-78	£413	+3.12%	149 0.59%	68
Mac OS	339	Down -83 places-83	£320	-14.66%	104 0.41%	84
Solaris	371	Down -59 places-59	£481	-18.29%	72 0.29%	7
AIX	387	Down -70 places-70	£428	-9.89%	56 0.22%	3
Ubuntu	389	Down -99 places-99	£525	+8.24%	54 0.21%	34
Windows Server 2019	394	Down -134 places-134	£538	-2.27%	49 0.19%	29
VMS	397	Down -98 places-98	£500	-7.40%	46 0.18%	24
Windows 7	399	Down -104 places-104	£250	+25.00%	44 0.17%	6
Windows Server 2016	399	Down -140 places-140	£475	-13.63%	44 0.17%	24
CentOS	406	Down -86 places-86	£500	-	37 0.15%	10
zOS	406	Down -85 places-85	£525	+2.43%	37 0.15%	2
Embedded Linux	411	Down -84 places-84	£433	-19.53%	32 0.13%	79
Windows Server 2012	413	Down -121 places-121	£463	-11.90%	30 0.12%	12
Data ONTAP	427	Down -86 places-86	£519	+6.79%	16 0.064%	1
Debian	427	Down -88 places-88	£610	+10.90%	16 0.064%	13
Mac OS X	431	Down -91 places-91	£400	-	12 0.048%	1
FreeRTOS	431	Down -91 places-91	-	-	12 0.048%	24
Windows Server 2003	432	Down -116 places-116	£173	-67.84%	11 0.044%