Contract Operating System Statistics

Contract Job Market Index

Description	Rank 6 Months to 12 Aug 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	£430	+3.61%	3,119 5.84%	2,056
Linux	56	Down -21 places-21	£518	-1.42%	2,030 3.80%	2,530
Windows Server	182	Down -3 places-3	£488	-7.14%	811 1.52%	589
Unix	222	Down -51 places-51	£493	-1.50%	632 1.18%	436
Windows 10	256	Down -73 places-73	£210	-6.66%	525 0.98%	177
Android	316	Down -85 places-85	£475	+18.75%	401 0.75%	532
Apple iOS	344	Down -60 places-60	£450	+12.50%	356 0.67%	443
Red Hat Enterprise Linux	350	Down -50 places-50	£500	-4.76%	347 0.65%	145
Mac OS	453	Down -107 places-107	£245	-38.75%	221 0.41%	204
Solaris	553	Down -56 places-56	£497	-11.60%	116 0.22%	26
VMS	557	Down -92 places-92	£500	+5.26%	112 0.21%	104
Ubuntu	560	Down -84 places-84	£500	+2.56%	109 0.20%	99
zOS	565	Down -69 places-69	£550	+30.95%	104 0.19%	33
AIX	579	Down -80 places-80	£500	+11.11%	90 0.17%	14
Windows Server 2019	591	Down -141 places-141	£538	-2.27%	78 0.15%	53
Windows 7	613	Down -156 places-156	£340	+57.90%	56 0.10%	15
Windows Server 2016	620	Down -170 places-170	£475	-10.12%	49 0.092%	54
CentOS	625	Down -137 places-137	£525	-4.54%	44 0.082%	56
Windows Server 2012	630	Down -142 places-142	£488	+26.62%	39 0.073%	26
Embedded Linux	632	Down -90 places-90	£525	-2.32%	37 0.069%	146
SUSE	643	Down -107 places-107	£425	+16.43%	26 0.049%	5
Windows Server 2008	647	Down -117 places-117	£525	+31.25%	22 0.041%	12
Oracle Linux	650	Down -119 places-119	£600	+9.09%	19 0.036%	7
Data ONTAP	650	Down -108 places-108	£519	+9.95%	19 0.036%	2
Rocky	651	Down -112 places-112	£600	+18.81%	18 0.034%	18
Debian	654	Down -120 places-120	£583	+9.54%	15 0.028%	45
FreeRTOS	656	Down -115 places-115	£600	+37.14%	13 0.024%	38