Contract Operating System Statistics

Contract Job Market Index

Description	Rank 6 Months to 1 Jul 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Daily Rate	Median Daily Rate YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
Windows	27	Down -5 places-5	£425	-	3,003 5.84%	1,219
Linux	53	Down -21 places-21	£500	-4.76%	1,943 3.78%	1,065
Windows Server	194	Down -47 places-47	£480	-8.57%	723 1.41%	402
Unix	222	Down -56 places-56	£475	-2.21%	600 1.17%	132
Windows 10	258	Down -96 places-96	£200	-15.78%	490 0.95%	136
Android	321	Down -83 places-83	£475	+18.75%	375 0.73%	236
Apple iOS	342	Down -56 places-56	£453	+13.12%	345 0.67%	171
Red Hat Enterprise Linux	368	Down -87 places-87	£488	-7.14%	309 0.60%	71
Mac OS	439	Down -84 places-84	£240	-30.18%	220 0.43%	118
VMS	547	Down -93 places-93	£500	+5.26%	108 0.21%	56
Ubuntu	549	Down -91 places-91	£500	-	106 0.21%	40
Solaris	553	Down -65 places-65	£497	-14.27%	102 0.20%	23
zOS	561	Down -78 places-78	£525	+20.68%	94 0.18%	17
Windows Server 2019	577	Down -147 places-147	£500	-9.09%	78 0.15%	25
AIX	578	Down -86 places-86	£459	-3.36%	77 0.15%	21
Windows Server 2016	594	Down -161 places-161	£475	-9.52%	61 0.12%	29
Windows 7	604	Down -150 places-150	£263	+9.37%	51 0.099%	5
Windows Server 2012	614	Down -137 places-137	£488	-2.50%	41 0.080%	19
CentOS	616	Down -138 places-138	£525	-4.54%	39 0.076%	27
Embedded Linux	627	Down -109 places-109	£440	-18.13%	28 0.055%	91
Mac OS X	632	Down -104 places-104	£400	+74.86%	23 0.045%	4
SUSE	632	Down -110 places-110	£475	-13.63%	23 0.045%	6
Data ONTAP	634	Down -106 places-106	£510	+7.94%	21 0.041%
Windows Server 2008	638	Down -117 places-117	£525	+95.34%	17 0.033%	3
Windows Server 2003	639	Down -139 places-139	£192	-65.04%	16 0.031%
Debian	639	Down -120 places-120	£575	+7.47%	16 0.031%	16
FreeRTOS	641	Down -111 places-111	-	-	14 0.027%	46
Oracle Linux	641	Down -123 places-123	£506	+6.52%	14 0.027%	8