Operating System Statistics in England

Permanent Job Market Index

Description	Rank 6 Months to 26 Apr 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Salary	Median Salary YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
Windows	44	Down -29 places-29	£39,000	-2.50%	3,319 4.20%	827
Linux	87	Down -50 places-50	£60,000	-	1,572 1.99%	687
Windows Server	123	Down -32 places-32	£40,000	-5.88%	1,235 1.56%	285
Windows 10	256	Down -67 places-67	£32,500	-7.14%	578 0.73%	84
Android	278	Down -141 places-141	£57,500	+15.00%	524 0.66%	130
Apple iOS	308	Down -19 places-19	£60,000	-	453 0.57%	95
Mac OS	433	Down -43 places-43	£34,003	-	262 0.33%	75
Unix	468	Down -120 places-120	£67,500	+1.88%	220 0.28%	83
Windows Server 2016	507	Down -69 places-69	£47,500	+11.11%	175 0.22%	33
Red Hat Enterprise Linux	534	Down -62 places-62	£60,000	-14.28%	147 0.19%	55
Windows Server 2019	578	Down -143 places-143	£42,000	-1.17%	103 0.13%	33
Ubuntu	589	Down -65 places-65	£55,000	+10.00%	92 0.12%	47
VMS	599	Down -26 places-26	£75,000	+15.38%	82 0.10%	26
CentOS	608	Down -54 places-54	£50,000	-9.09%	73 0.092%	18
Windows Server 2012	624	Down -114 places-114	£42,000	-6.66%	57 0.072%	16
Windows 7	646	Down -85 places-85	£27,000	-14.28%	35 0.044%	13
Debian	652	Down -73 places-73	£45,000	-26.22%	29 0.037%	7
FreeRTOS	653	Down -48 places-48	£59,500	+3.47%	28 0.035%	25
Windows Server 2008	659	Down -75 places-75	£58,000	+38.09%	22 0.028%	6
Embedded Linux	661	Down -69 places-69	£45,000	-21.73%	20 0.025%	48
Mac OS X	664	Down -115 places-115	£37,750	+7.85%	17 0.022%
Solaris	664	Down -77 places-77	£55,000	-21.42%	17 0.022%	30