Contract Operating System Statistics in the West Midlands

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Contract Job Market Index
Description	Rank 6 Months to 29 Oct 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Daily Rate	Median Daily Rate YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
Windows	35	Down 16 places-16	£425	+6.25%	215 6.06%	48
Linux	75	Down 49 places-49	£477	-4.60%	102 2.87%	27
Unix	123	Down 31 places-31	£487	-5.50%	51 1.44%	3
Windows Server	132	Down 24 places-24	£425	-2.85%	42 1.18%	11
Windows 10	144	Down 40 places-40	£175	-	30 0.85%	3
AIX	158	Down 29 places-29	£525	+16.66%	16 0.45%	4
macOS	158	Down 32 places-32	£121	-39.50%	16 0.45%	3
Android	162	Down 41 places-41	£225	+28.57%	12 0.34%	6
Solaris	164	Down 35 places-35	£525	+16.66%	10 0.28%	5
Red Hat Enterprise Linux	165	Down 39 places-39	£525	-9.69%	9 0.25%
SUSE	167	Down 30 places-30	£400	+9.58%	7 0.20%
Ubuntu	167	Down 41 places-41	£425	-10.52%	7 0.20%
Apple iOS	168	Down 40 places-40	-	-	6 0.17%	5
VMS	170	Down 61 places-61	£537	+13.05%	4 0.11%	2
CentOS	170	New entry-	-	-	4 0.11%
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server	171	New entry-	£525	-	3 0.085%
Embedded Linux	171	New entry-	-	-	3 0.085%	3
FreeRTOS	172	New entry-	-	-	2 0.056%	3
Windows Server 2019	172	New entry-	£250	-	2 0.056%
zOS	172	Down 35 places-35	£375	-	2 0.056%
Windows 7	172	Down 35 places-35	£250	+33.33%	2 0.056%	1
HPUX	173	New entry-	-	-	1 0.028%
Windows Server 2012	173	New entry-	-	-	1 0.028%
Windows Server 2003	173	New entry-	-	-	1 0.028%