Operating System Statistics in England

Permanent Job Market Index

Description	Rank 6 Months to 22 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	-6.02%	3,342 4.29%	956
Linux	87	Down -53 places-53	£60,000	-	1,563 2.00%	797
Windows Server	119	Down -29 places-29	£40,000	-5.88%	1,244 1.60%	324
Windows 10	256	Down -73 places-73	£32,500	-7.14%	587 0.75%	102
Android	282	Down -146 places-146	£56,623	+13.24%	518 0.66%	156
Apple iOS	307	Down -31 places-31	£58,750	-2.08%	451 0.58%	117
Mac OS	419	Down -43 places-43	£34,252	-1.07%	267 0.34%	86
Unix	445	Down -119 places-119	£67,250	+3.46%	237 0.30%	107
Windows Server 2016	495	Down -68 places-68	£45,000	+5.88%	177 0.23%	37
Red Hat Enterprise Linux	526	Down -71 places-71	£60,000	-14.28%	144 0.18%	85
Windows Server 2019	561	Down -143 places-143	£42,000	-1.17%	106 0.14%	33
Ubuntu	577	Down -74 places-74	£55,000	+10.00%	90 0.12%	55
VMS	584	Down -28 places-28	£75,000	+15.38%	83 0.11%	31
CentOS	595	Down -60 places-60	£48,750	-18.75%	72 0.092%	24
Windows Server 2012	609	Down -113 places-113	£42,000	-6.66%	58 0.074%	17
Windows 7	626	Down -80 places-80	£30,000	-3.22%	41 0.053%	13
Debian	637	Down -77 places-77	£45,000	-25.61%	30 0.039%	14
Windows Server 2008	639	Down -70 places-70	£58,000	+37.27%	28 0.036%	5
FreeRTOS	642	Down -51 places-51	£61,500	+6.95%	25 0.032%	35
Solaris	646	Down -74 places-74	£58,000	-17.14%	21 0.027%	34
Embedded Linux	647	Down -69 places-69	£45,000	-21.73%	20 0.026%	65
Mac OS X	650	Down -116 places-116	£37,750	+7.85%	17 0.022%
AIX	653	Down -82 places-82	£75,000	+11.11%	14 0.018%	8
HPUX	653	Down -52 places-52	£58,000	-	14 0.018%
Windows Server 2003	653	Down -55 places-55	£58,000	+10.47%	14 0.018%	1