Contract Operating System Statistics

Contract Job Market Index

Description	Rank 6 Months to 26 Apr 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Daily Rate	Median Daily Rate YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
Windows	26	Down -4 places-4	£415	-2.35%	2,831 6.06%	913
Linux	50	Down -18 places-18	£500	-9.09%	1,897 4.06%	732
Windows Server	187	Down -57 places-57	£490	-6.66%	663 1.42%	313
Unix	211	Down -63 places-63	£469	-6.20%	548 1.17%	86
Windows 10	223	Down -63 places-63	£200	-11.11%	520 1.11%	96
Android	289	Down -16 places-16	£425	+6.25%	384 0.82%	138
Apple iOS	340	Down -71 places-71	£450	+11.94%	303 0.65%	105
Red Hat Enterprise Linux	359	Down -120 places-120	£500	-9.09%	275 0.59%	53
Mac OS	421	Down -29 places-29	£251	-25.70%	203 0.43%	77
VMS	483	Down -30 places-30	£500	-7.40%	140 0.30%	31
Ubuntu	538	Down -70 places-70	£525	+5.00%	85 0.18%	52
zOS	544	Down -52 places-52	£493	-3.90%	79 0.17%	16
Windows Server 2016	547	Down -116 places-116	£481	+20.16%	76 0.16%	37
Windows Server 2019	554	Down -113 places-113	£500	+2.56%	69 0.15%	34
Solaris	557	Down -76 places-76	£476	-15.29%	66 0.14%	31
AIX	561	Down -87 places-87	£416	-13.66%	62 0.13%	9
Windows 7	573	Down -109 places-109	£200	-9.31%	50 0.11%	12
CentOS	581	Down -126 places-126	£525	-19.23%	42 0.090%	19
Windows Server 2012	582	Down -123 places-123	£488	+21.72%	41 0.088%	18
Embedded Linux	591	Down -86 places-86	£425	-15.00%	32 0.069%	57
Mac OS X	601	Down -95 places-95	£314	-21.95%	22 0.047%
Windows Server 2003	601	Down -99 places-99	£173	-67.93%	22 0.047%	2
Data ONTAP	604	Down -82 places-82	£510	+27.37%	19 0.041%	1
Debian	604	Down -81 places-81	£555	+0.90%	19 0.041%	9
FreeRTOS	608	Down -83 places-83	£425	-32.00%	15 0.032%	27
SUSE	609	Down -87 places-87	£500	-9.09%	14 0.030%	3
Windows Server 2008	609	Down -95 places-95	£513	+32.25%	14 0.030%	6