Operating System Statistics in England

Permanent Job Market Index

Description	Rank 6 Months to 25 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%	4,021 4.18%	1,441
Linux	67	Down -30 places-30	£65,000	+8.33%	2,264 2.35%	1,587
Windows Server	117	Down -26 places-26	£42,000	+5.00%	1,559 1.62%	441
Windows 10	355	Down -123 places-123	£32,500	-0.38%	483 0.50%	117
Android	357	Down -227 places-227	£55,000	+37.50%	480 0.50%	273
Apple iOS	392	Down -35 places-35	£57,500	+27.77%	426 0.44%	224
Mac OS	454	Down -85 places-85	£37,500	+9.04%	328 0.34%	136
Unix	521	Down -145 places-145	£69,305	+2.57%	241 0.25%	273
Windows Server 2016	555	Down -60 places-60	£43,000	+6.17%	205 0.21%	49
Red Hat Enterprise Linux	569	Down -83 places-83	£67,500	-1.81%	189 0.20%	108
Windows Server 2019	622	Down -188 places-188	£41,000	-8.88%	135 0.14%	45
Ubuntu	639	Down -44 places-44	£60,000	-	118 0.12%	55
CentOS	658	Down -65 places-65	£85,000	+41.07%	99 0.10%	45
Embedded Linux	667	Down -77 places-77	£67,500	+22.72%	90 0.094%	100
VMS	668	Down -124 places-124	£52,500	-16.66%	89 0.093%	65
Debian	702	Down -86 places-86	£55,000	+7.57%	55 0.057%	28
Windows Server 2012	707	Down -133 places-133	£42,750	-12.30%	50 0.052%	25
FreeRTOS	716	Down -70 places-70	£57,500	+4.54%	41 0.043%	21
Windows 7	724	Down -115 places-115	£33,000	+4.76%	33 0.034%	10
AIX	730	Down -94 places-94	£75,000	+15.38%	27 0.028%	10
Rocky	733	Down -103 places-103	£82,500	+106.25%	24 0.025%	15
Solaris	738	Down -120 places-120	£57,000	-17.09%	19 0.020%	27
Windows 8	740	Down -95 places-95	£33,000	-17.50%	17 0.018%	6
Windows Server 2008	741	Down -112 places-112	£65,000	+68.83%	16 0.017%	13