Contract Operating System Statistics

Contract Job Market Index

Description	Rank 6 Months to 23 Sep 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Daily Rate	Median Daily Rate YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
Windows	27	Down -6 places-6	£425	+6.25%	3,278 5.98%	2,961
Linux	56	Down -20 places-20	£518	-1.42%	2,125 3.87%	3,262
Windows Server	166	Up 20 places+20	£488	-3.94%	910 1.66%	904
Unix	222	Down -61 places-61	£500	+1.62%	655 1.19%	543
Windows 10	247	Down -74 places-74	£225	+2.27%	576 1.05%	198
Android	326	Down -104 places-104	£455	+13.75%	407 0.74%	715
Red Hat Enterprise Linux	346	Down -19 places-19	£500	-0.49%	377 0.69%	210
Apple iOS	356	Down -85 places-85	£401	+0.31%	361 0.66%	607
Mac OS	440	Down -122 places-122	£230	-42.50%	248 0.45%	322
Solaris	555	Down -43 places-43	£501	+0.22%	128 0.23%	51
VMS	567	Down -101 places-101	£475	-	116 0.21%	128
Ubuntu	570	Down -98 places-98	£500	+5.26%	113 0.21%	140
zOS	577	Down -67 places-67	£522	+16.00%	106 0.19%	51
AIX	603	Down -81 places-81	£525	+26.45%	80 0.15%	24
Windows Server 2019	610	Down -144 places-144	£538	-2.27%	73 0.13%	62
CentOS	619	Down -130 places-130	£525	-4.54%	64 0.12%	58
Windows 7	628	Down -147 places-147	£344	+70.93%	55 0.10%	14
Windows Server 2016	635	Down -170 places-170	£450	-16.66%	48 0.088%	50
Windows Server 2012	640	Down -138 places-138	£475	+26.66%	43 0.078%	32
Embedded Linux	644	New entry-	£525	-	39 0.071%	185
SUSE	653	Down -112 places-112	£400	+9.58%	30 0.055%	13
Rocky	662	Down -114 places-114	£600	+20.00%	21 0.038%	18
Windows Server 2008	664	Down -126 places-126	£525	-9.67%	19 0.035%	12
FreeRTOS	667	Down -120 places-120	£600	+35.21%	16 0.029%	61
Oracle Linux	668	Down -125 places-125	£553	+0.54%	15 0.027%	10
Data ONTAP	668	Down -120 places-120	£540	+23.85%	15 0.027%	11
Debian	668	Down -128 places-128	£583	+10.21%	15 0.027%	36
Windows Server 2003	671	Down -158 places-158	£492	-14.41%	12 0.022%	7