Contract Operating System Statistics

Contract Job Market Index

Description	Rank 6 Months to 17 Jun 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Daily Rate	Median Daily Rate YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
Windows	28	Down -6 places-6	£425	-	2,914 5.79%	1,510
Linux	54	Down -23 places-23	£500	-5.66%	1,887 3.75%	1,607
Windows Server	191	Down -53 places-53	£478	-9.09%	700 1.39%	435
Unix	216	Down -48 places-48	£470	-1.05%	584 1.16%	191
Windows 10	251	Down -92 places-92	£200	-13.04%	487 0.97%	158
Android	310	Down -63 places-63	£475	+18.75%	372 0.74%	464
Apple iOS	328	Down -36 places-36	£455	+13.75%	345 0.69%	377
Red Hat Enterprise Linux	364	Down -80 places-80	£500	-6.89%	294 0.58%	76
Mac OS	436	Down -75 places-75	£240	-27.54%	210 0.42%	171
VMS	531	Down -78 places-78	£500	-	114 0.23%	48
Ubuntu	539	Down -80 places-80	£500	-	105 0.21%	73
Solaris	541	Down -56 places-56	£494	-14.79%	103 0.20%	8
zOS	564	Down -69 places-69	£525	+7.69%	80 0.16%	8
Windows Server 2019	565	Down -130 places-130	£500	-9.09%	79 0.16%	38
AIX	573	Down -81 places-81	£453	-4.68%	71 0.14%	15
Windows Server 2016	580	Down -151 places-151	£475	-9.52%	64 0.13%	41
Windows 7	591	Down -131 places-131	£263	+15.38%	53 0.11%	7
CentOS	602	Down -118 places-118	£513	-6.81%	42 0.084%	22
Windows Server 2012	605	Down -127 places-127	£475	-5.00%	39 0.078%	27
Embedded Linux	611	Down -94 places-94	£433	-19.53%	33 0.066%	103
Data ONTAP	623	Down -96 places-96	£510	+7.94%	21 0.042%	1
Mac OS X	623	Down -101 places-101	£400	+60.00%	21 0.042%	13
SUSE	625	Down -102 places-102	£485	-11.90%	19 0.038%	5
Debian	625	Down -104 places-104	£600	+10.59%	19 0.038%	31
FreeRTOS	627	Down -97 places-97	£288	-	17 0.034%	29
Windows Server 2008	627	Down -106 places-106	£525	+162.50%	17 0.034%	3
Windows Server 2003	627	Down -125 places-125	£212	-60.67%	17 0.034%