Operating System Statistics in England

Permanent Job Market Index

Description	Rank 6 Months to 11 Aug 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Salary	Median Salary YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
Windows	35	Down -23 places-23	£40,000	+4.37%	4,012 4.27%	1,189
Linux	67	Down -30 places-30	£65,000	+8.33%	2,227 2.37%	1,339
Windows Server	114	Down -22 places-22	£41,500	+3.75%	1,534 1.63%	374
Android	335	Down -206 places-206	£55,000	+32.83%	511 0.54%	315
Windows 10	342	Down -115 places-115	£32,500	-1.51%	500 0.53%	116
Apple iOS	366	Down -17 places-17	£60,000	+26.31%	446 0.47%	279
Mac OS	438	Down -64 places-64	£37,500	+7.14%	327 0.35%	113
Unix	512	Down -134 places-134	£69,306	+2.48%	228 0.24%	201
Windows Server 2016	538	Down -56 places-56	£45,250	+10.36%	201 0.21%	30
Red Hat Enterprise Linux	547	Down -76 places-76	£67,500	-3.57%	192 0.20%	78
Windows Server 2019	608	Down -183 places-183	£41,000	-8.88%	131 0.14%	30
Ubuntu	620	Down -38 places-38	£60,000	+14.28%	119 0.13%	49
CentOS	639	Down -59 places-59	£80,000	+33.33%	100 0.11%	32
VMS	650	Down -108 places-108	£60,000	-6.25%	89 0.095%	66
Embedded Linux	657	Down -77 places-77	£67,500	+22.72%	82 0.087%	86
Debian	687	Down -78 places-78	£52,500	-4.54%	52 0.055%	18
Windows Server 2012	693	Down -136 places-136	£44,000	-3.45%	46 0.049%	14
FreeRTOS	696	Down -57 places-57	£57,500	+4.54%	43 0.046%	23
Windows 7	702	Down -103 places-103	£33,000	+4.76%	37 0.039%	8
AIX	712	Down -84 places-84	£75,000	+15.38%	27 0.029%	6
Rocky	719	Down -99 places-99	£82,500	+106.25%	20 0.021%	12
Solaris	720	Down -106 places-106	£57,000	-25.73%	19 0.020%	13
Windows 8	721	Down -85 places-85	£33,000	-17.50%	18 0.019%	3
Windows Server 2008	723	Down -103 places-103	£65,000	+49.42%	16 0.017%	5