Contract Operating System Statistics

Contract Job Market Index

Description	Rank 6 Months to 9 Sep 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	+3.65%	3,252 5.97%	2,101
Linux	57	Down -23 places-23	£518	-1.42%	2,085 3.83%	2,416
Windows Server	173	Up 12 places+12	£488	-3.94%	899 1.65%	614
Unix	228	Down -64 places-64	£500	-	644 1.18%	408
Windows 10	256	Down -75 places-75	£215	-4.44%	563 1.03%	180
Android	331	Down -101 places-101	£455	+13.75%	405 0.74%	470
Apple iOS	356	Down -75 places-75	£402	+0.50%	362 0.66%	393
Red Hat Enterprise Linux	357	Down -36 places-36	£500	-1.96%	361 0.66%	176
Mac OS	459	Down -130 places-130	£230	-42.50%	234 0.43%	212
Solaris	569	Down -61 places-61	£500	-9.09%	116 0.21%	34
VMS	570	Down -106 places-106	£475	-	115 0.21%	95
zOS	575	Down -61 places-61	£514	+8.21%	110 0.20%	45
Ubuntu	575	Down -90 places-90	£500	+3.09%	110 0.20%	99
AIX	605	Down -89 places-89	£500	+15.58%	80 0.15%	17
Windows Server 2019	611	Down -156 places-156	£538	-2.27%	74 0.14%	40
CentOS	630	Down -136 places-136	£491	-10.68%	55 0.10%	57
Windows 7	630	Down -155 places-155	£340	+68.69%	55 0.10%	12
Windows Server 2016	636	Down -175 places-175	£450	-17.05%	49 0.090%	41
Windows Server 2012	643	Down -143 places-143	£475	+26.66%	42 0.077%	39
Embedded Linux	646	New entry-	£525	-	39 0.072%	135
SUSE	657	Down -114 places-114	£400	+9.58%	28 0.051%	4
Rocky	664	Down -114 places-114	£600	+20.00%	21 0.039%	13
Windows Server 2008	667	Down -132 places-132	£525	+10.52%	18 0.033%	13
Oracle Linux	667	Down -128 places-128	£600	+9.09%	18 0.033%	5
Debian	669	Down -127 places-127	£583	+10.21%	16 0.029%	37
FreeRTOS	669	Down -122 places-122	£600	+35.21%	16 0.029%	43
Data ONTAP	671	Down -122 places-122	£550	+16.52%	14 0.026%	7