Operating System Statistics in England

Permanent Job Market Index

Description	Rank 6 Months to 19 Apr 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Salary	Median Salary YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
Windows	43	Down -28 places-28	£39,000	-7.14%	3,353 4.34%	944
Linux	88	Down -54 places-54	£60,000	-	1,567 2.03%	807
Windows Server	116	Down -26 places-26	£40,000	-5.88%	1,257 1.63%	333
Windows 10	252	Down -67 places-67	£32,500	-9.72%	591 0.77%	92
Android	277	Down -146 places-146	£57,062	+14.12%	519 0.67%	151
Apple iOS	308	Down -33 places-33	£58,750	-2.08%	450 0.58%	113
Mac OS	421	Down -24 places-24	£34,252	-2.13%	269 0.35%	84
Unix	449	Down -117 places-117	£62,500	-3.84%	234 0.30%	93
Windows Server 2016	491	Down -51 places-51	£42,500	-	187 0.24%	31
Red Hat Enterprise Linux	533	Down -68 places-68	£58,750	-16.07%	143 0.19%	77
Windows Server 2019	568	Down -138 places-138	£42,000	-1.17%	108 0.14%	28
Ubuntu	585	Down -74 places-74	£55,000	+10.00%	91 0.12%	57
VMS	595	Down -29 places-29	£75,000	+15.38%	81 0.11%	32
CentOS	600	Down -57 places-57	£48,750	-18.75%	76 0.099%	24
Windows Server 2012	618	Down -114 places-114	£42,000	-6.66%	58 0.075%	15
Windows 7	631	Down -76 places-76	£32,500	+4.83%	45 0.058%	13
Debian	645	Down -77 places-77	£45,000	-25.61%	31 0.040%	11
Windows Server 2008	647	Down -70 places-70	£58,000	+37.27%	29 0.038%	6
FreeRTOS	651	Down -52 places-52	£61,500	+6.95%	25 0.032%	32
Solaris	653	Down -73 places-73	£58,000	-17.14%	23 0.030%	27
Mac OS X	657	Down -114 places-114	£37,750	+7.85%	19 0.025%
Embedded Linux	657	Down -70 places-70	£45,000	-20.00%	19 0.025%	57
Windows Server 2003	660	Down -54 places-54	£58,000	+10.47%	16 0.021%	1
HPUX	660	Down -51 places-51	£58,000	-	16 0.021%