Operating System Statistics in England

Permanent Job Market Index

Description	Rank 6 Months to 18 Aug 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Salary	Median Salary YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
Windows	36	Down -24 places-24	£40,000	+4.37%	4,020 4.23%	1,553
Linux	64	Down -27 places-27	£65,000	+8.33%	2,254 2.37%	1,600
Windows Server	114	Down -22 places-22	£42,000	+5.00%	1,551 1.63%	479
Android	343	Down -212 places-212	£55,000	+37.50%	492 0.52%	281
Windows 10	345	Down -119 places-119	£32,500	-1.51%	488 0.51%	144
Apple iOS	378	Down -27 places-27	£60,000	+26.31%	428 0.45%	232
Mac OS	441	Down -71 places-71	£37,500	+7.91%	324 0.34%	155
Unix	503	Down -122 places-122	£69,306	+2.48%	237 0.25%	272
Windows Server 2016	531	Down -44 places-44	£43,000	+6.17%	207 0.22%	48
Red Hat Enterprise Linux	540	Down -55 places-55	£70,000	-	198 0.21%	103
Windows Server 2019	605	Down -173 places-173	£42,000	-6.66%	132 0.14%	42
Ubuntu	619	Down -30 places-30	£60,000	+14.28%	118 0.12%	58
CentOS	633	Down -45 places-45	£85,000	+41.66%	104 0.11%	48
VMS	648	Down -103 places-103	£56,250	-10.71%	89 0.094%	62
Embedded Linux	652	Down -66 places-66	£67,500	+22.72%	85 0.089%	97
Debian	684	Down -70 places-70	£56,250	+2.27%	53 0.056%	33
Windows Server 2012	689	Down -125 places-125	£42,750	-7.06%	48 0.051%	28
FreeRTOS	696	Down -53 places-53	£57,500	+4.54%	41 0.043%	29
Windows 7	702	Down -101 places-101	£33,000	+4.76%	35 0.037%	13
AIX	709	Down -76 places-76	£75,000	+15.38%	28 0.029%	7
Rocky	715	Down -88 places-88	£82,500	+106.25%	22 0.023%	17
Solaris	718	Down -98 places-98	£57,000	-24.00%	19 0.020%	20
Windows 8	720	Down -78 places-78	£33,000	-17.50%	17 0.018%	5
Windows Server 2008	721	Down -97 places-97	£65,000	+64.55%	16 0.017%	11