Contract Operating System Statistics

Contract Job Market Index

Description	Rank 6 Months to 5 Oct 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	+6.25%	3,244 5.96%	3,199
Linux	57	Down -21 places-21	£520	+0.19%	2,086 3.84%	3,564
Windows Server	164	Up 33 places+33	£488	-3.94%	918 1.69%	906
Unix	230	Down -65 places-65	£500	+1.83%	633 1.16%	513
Windows 10	252	Down -72 places-72	£225	-	567 1.04%	205
Android	323	Down -100 places-100	£450	+12.50%	405 0.74%	816
Red Hat Enterprise Linux	347	Down -23 places-23	£500	-1.96%	365 0.67%	199
Apple iOS	348	Down -71 places-71	£401	+0.12%	364 0.67%	682
Mac OS	429	Down -126 places-126	£230	-42.50%	243 0.45%	371
Solaris	541	Down -29 places-29	£506	-3.61%	126 0.23%	41
Ubuntu	556	Down -87 places-87	£500	+5.26%	110 0.20%	188
VMS	558	Down -89 places-89	£475	-	108 0.20%	124
zOS	558	Down -48 places-48	£535	+12.63%	108 0.20%	52
AIX	589	Down -64 places-64	£539	+29.70%	77 0.14%	23
Windows Server 2019	594	Down -127 places-127	£538	-2.27%	72 0.13%	68
CentOS	603	Down -112 places-112	£530	-3.63%	63 0.12%	56
Windows 7	612	Down -128 places-128	£344	+89.79%	54 0.099%	15
Windows Server 2016	621	Down -159 places-159	£450	-16.66%	45 0.083%	52
Windows Server 2012	622	Down -116 places-116	£450	+20.00%	44 0.081%	34
Embedded Linux	634	New entry-	£525	-	32 0.059%	186
SUSE	639	Down -97 places-97	£400	+9.58%	27 0.050%	10
Rocky	643	Down -94 places-94	£600	+20.00%	23 0.042%	16
Windows Server 2008	650	Down -112 places-112	£550	-	16 0.029%	17
Data ONTAP	651	Down -103 places-103	£519	+19.03%	15 0.028%	12
Oracle Linux	652	Down -107 places-107	£553	+0.54%	14 0.026%	10
FreeRTOS	652	Down -104 places-104	£600	+33.33%	14 0.026%	73
Debian	654	Down -113 places-113	£575	+8.79%	12 0.022%	48