Contract Operating System Statistics

Contract Job Market Index

Description	Rank 6 Months to 15 Jul 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	-	3,065 5.83%	1,186
Linux	52	Down -20 places-20	£500	-4.76%	2,001 3.80%	1,053
Windows Server	188	Down -37 places-37	£486	-7.38%	746 1.42%	426
Unix	212	Down -34 places-34	£478	-0.72%	629 1.20%	138
Windows 10	250	Down -76 places-76	£200	-13.04%	503 0.96%	124
Android	316	Down -77 places-77	£475	+18.75%	385 0.73%	306
Apple iOS	332	Down -37 places-37	£455	+13.75%	357 0.68%	249
Red Hat Enterprise Linux	350	Down -65 places-65	£494	-5.90%	331 0.63%	48
Mac OS	427	Down -64 places-64	£240	-36.00%	228 0.43%	105
Solaris	536	Down -24 places-24	£491	-16.68%	113 0.21%	11
VMS	539	Down -71 places-71	£500	+5.26%	110 0.21%	57
Ubuntu	546	Down -71 places-71	£500	-	103 0.20%	75
zOS	548	Down -42 places-42	£533	+22.41%	101 0.19%	20
AIX	563	Down -53 places-53	£467	-1.68%	86 0.16%	21
Windows Server 2019	568	Down -122 places-122	£538	-2.27%	81 0.15%	29
Windows Server 2016	590	Down -142 places-142	£450	-14.28%	59 0.11%	32
Windows 7	605	Down -134 places-134	£275	+27.90%	44 0.084%	8
CentOS	609	Down -115 places-115	£525	-4.54%	40 0.076%	18
Windows Server 2012	609	Down -117 places-117	£500	+5.26%	40 0.076%	16
Embedded Linux	618	Down -78 places-78	£425	-20.93%	31 0.059%	64
SUSE	625	Down -79 places-79	£475	+30.13%	24 0.046%	1
Mac OS X	626	Down -78 places-78	£400	+112.48%	23 0.044%	8
Data ONTAP	628	Down -78 places-78	£510	+7.94%	21 0.040%	1
Windows Server 2008	631	Down -88 places-88	£525	+95.34%	18 0.034%	2
Oracle Linux	634	Down -96 places-96	£503	+25.75%	15 0.029%	7
Debian	635	Down -95 places-95	£583	+8.87%	14 0.027%	23
Rocky	636	Down -95 places-95	£600	+17.07%	13 0.025%	6
FreeRTOS	636	Down -85 places-85	-	-	13 0.025%	24