Contract Operating System Statistics

Contract Job Market Index

Description	Rank 6 Months to 22 Oct 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Daily Rate	Median Daily Rate YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
Windows	28	Down 7 places-7	£425	+6.25%	3,296 5.98%	738
Linux	56	Down 20 places-20	£525	+2.43%	2,105 3.82%	601
Windows Server	175	Up 14 places+14	£488	-2.50%	928 1.68%	240
Unix	248	Down 85 places-85	£501	+1.93%	617 1.12%	62
Windows 10	259	Down 91 places-91	£226	+0.22%	582 1.06%	70
Android	352	Down 125 places-125	£425	+9.67%	406 0.74%	88
Apple iOS	378	Down 92 places-92	£400	+0.88%	366 0.66%	70
Red Hat Enterprise Linux	379	Down 42 places-42	£513	-0.46%	365 0.66%	52
macOS	463	Down 170 places-170	£240	-40.00%	245 0.44%	50
VMS	590	Down 137 places-137	£475	-	112 0.20%	26
Ubuntu	591	Down 112 places-112	£500	+5.26%	111 0.20%	22
zOS	594	Down 66 places-66	£535	+18.88%	108 0.20%	7
Solaris	595	Down 71 places-71	£519	+3.70%	107 0.19%	15
AIX	626	Down 95 places-95	£613	+47.65%	76 0.14%	14
Windows Server 2019	631	Down 152 places-152	£538	-2.27%	71 0.13%	21
CentOS	638	Down 135 places-135	£563	+2.27%	64 0.12%	8
Windows 7	655	Down 158 places-158	£360	+110.29%	47 0.085%	4
Windows Server 2012	659	Down 138 places-138	£450	+20.00%	43 0.078%	4
Windows Server 2016	663	Down 188 places-188	£450	-16.27%	39 0.071%	19
Embedded Linux	670	New entry-	£525	-	32 0.058%	64
SUSE	678	Down 122 places-122	£400	+9.58%	24 0.044%	2
Rocky	678	Down 116 places-116	£600	+18.51%	24 0.044%	9
Windows Server 2008	687	Down 137 places-137	£550	-	15 0.027%	3
Data ONTAP	688	Down 125 places-125	£500	-	14 0.025%	5
FreeRTOS	690	Down 134 places-134	£600	+33.33%	12 0.022%	29
Oracle Linux	690	Down 133 places-133	£600	+26.31%	12 0.022%	4