Contract Operating System Statistics

Contract Job Market Index

Description	Rank 6 Months to 26 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	£425	+3.91%	3,167 5.90%	873
Linux	55	Down -19 places-19	£513	-2.38%	2,061 3.84%	649
Windows Server	179	Up 8 places+8	£485	-7.61%	846 1.58%	295
Unix	224	Down -50 places-50	£500	-	623 1.16%	91
Windows 10	252	Down -63 places-63	£220	-2.22%	554 1.03%	95
Android	330	Down -100 places-100	£463	+15.62%	400 0.75%	129
Apple iOS	353	Down -78 places-78	£423	+5.62%	356 0.66%	94
Red Hat Enterprise Linux	361	Down -35 places-35	£500	-3.79%	347 0.65%	56
Mac OS	455	Down -111 places-111	£240	-40.00%	227 0.42%	78
VMS	565	Down -89 places-89	£488	+2.63%	115 0.21%	39
Ubuntu	565	Down -74 places-74	£500	+4.16%	115 0.21%	18
Solaris	568	Down -53 places-53	£494	-13.25%	112 0.21%	13
zOS	579	Down -62 places-62	£541	+8.25%	101 0.19%	6
AIX	593	Down -73 places-73	£500	+11.11%	87 0.16%	5
Windows Server 2019	606	Down -141 places-141	£538	-2.27%	74 0.14%	23
Windows 7	625	Down -151 places-151	£340	+41.45%	55 0.10%	4
Windows Server 2016	628	Down -160 places-160	£450	-15.37%	52 0.097%	22
CentOS	629	Down -130 places-130	£513	-6.81%	51 0.095%	17
Windows Server 2012	639	Down -138 places-138	£488	+30.00%	41 0.076%	9
Embedded Linux	640	Down -82 places-82	£525	-2.32%	40 0.075%	54
SUSE	654	Down -105 places-105	£400	+9.58%	26 0.049%	2
Oracle Linux	661	Down -116 places-116	£600	+9.09%	19 0.035%
Rocky	662	Down -107 places-107	£600	+20.00%	18 0.034%	10
Windows Server 2008	662	Down -120 places-120	£525	+10.52%	18 0.034%	5
Data ONTAP	664	Down -109 places-109	£530	+12.28%	16 0.030%	3
Debian	664	Down -116 places-116	£583	+10.21%	16 0.030%	12
FreeRTOS	664	Down -111 places-111	£600	+35.21%	16 0.030%	19