Remote IT Contracting Market Trends Analysis

Contract Job Market Index

Description	Rank 6 Months to 29 Jul 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Daily Rate	Median Daily Rate YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
Windows	48	Down -9 places-9	£475	+1.82%	630 4.71%	341
Linux	65	Down -30 places-30	£500	-4.76%	539 4.03%	346
Unix	205	Down -31 places-31	£500	+9.89%	179 1.34%	50
Windows Server	233	Down -48 places-48	£500	-4.76%	145 1.08%	142
Apple iOS	266	Down -24 places-24	£500	+25.00%	109 0.81%	53
Android	278	Down -56 places-56	£475	+7.95%	96 0.72%	57
Red Hat Enterprise Linux	290	Down -81 places-81	£488	-7.14%	83 0.62%	19
Windows 10	321	Down -80 places-80	£210	-16.00%	52 0.39%	22
VMS	329	Down -47 places-47	£540	+10.20%	44 0.33%	20
Mac OS	331	Down -58 places-58	£350	-35.18%	42 0.31%	26
Solaris	332	Down -30 places-30	£500	+1.62%	41 0.31%	3
zOS	337	Down -44 places-44	£525	+5.00%	36 0.27%	3
AIX	352	Down -60 places-60	£500	+11.11%	21 0.16%	2
Ubuntu	355	Down -68 places-68	£463	-9.75%	18 0.13%	24
Windows Server 2019	357	Down -62 places-62	£488	-2.50%	16 0.12%	7
Embedded Linux	360	Down -50 places-50	£525	-4.54%	13 0.097%	24
Windows Server 2016	362	Down -64 places-64	£450	-15.09%	11 0.082%	7
Data ONTAP	364	Down -55 places-55	£500	-	9 0.067%
CentOS	365	Down -66 places-66	£481	-3.80%	8 0.060%	12
Windows Server 2012	365	Down -70 places-70	£463	+23.33%	8 0.060%	1
CoreOS	367	New entry-	£500	-	6 0.045%
FreeRTOS	367	Down -58 places-58	-	-	6 0.045%	9
Windows Server 2008	368	Down -58 places-58	£575	+43.75%	5 0.037%
Debian	368	Down -64 places-64	£610	+15.09%	5 0.037%	6
MVS	369	Down -62 places-62	£563	+30.70%	4 0.030%
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server	369	New entry-	£425	-	4 0.030%	1
Oracle Linux	370	Down -68 places-68	-	-	3 0.022%	1
SUSE	370	Down -64 places-64	£463	-	3 0.022%	1