Operating System Statistics in England

Permanent Job Market Index

Description	Rank 6 Months to 4 Aug 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Salary	Median Salary YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
Windows	34	Down -21 places-21	£40,000	+4.37%	3,981 4.33%	1,268
Linux	67	Down -31 places-31	£65,000	+8.33%	2,175 2.37%	1,340
Windows Server	114	Down -19 places-19	£41,500	+3.75%	1,532 1.67%	398
Android	325	Down -196 places-196	£55,000	+28.65%	517 0.56%	328
Windows 10	326	Down -99 places-99	£32,500	-1.51%	516 0.56%	125
Apple iOS	353	Down -6 places-6	£60,000	+26.31%	449 0.49%	279
Mac OS	429	Down -56 places-56	£37,500	+7.14%	325 0.35%	107
Unix	512	Down -125 places-125	£69,306	-0.11%	220 0.24%	177
Windows Server 2016	528	Down -36 places-36	£43,000	+1.77%	201 0.22%	33
Red Hat Enterprise Linux	537	Down -48 places-48	£67,500	-3.57%	191 0.21%	81
Windows Server 2019	595	Down -156 places-156	£41,000	-8.88%	132 0.14%	31
Ubuntu	610	Down -16 places-16	£60,000	+14.28%	117 0.13%	49
CentOS	629	Down -37 places-37	£80,000	+32.23%	98 0.11%	32
VMS	639	Down -79 places-79	£60,000	-7.69%	88 0.096%	65
Embedded Linux	650	Down -58 places-58	£67,500	+22.72%	77 0.084%	94
Debian	675	Down -53 places-53	£52,500	-8.69%	52 0.057%	15
Windows Server 2012	679	Down -115 places-115	£42,750	-5.30%	48 0.052%	10
FreeRTOS	684	Down -34 places-34	£57,500	+4.54%	43 0.047%	18
Windows 7	688	Down -79 places-79	£33,000	+4.76%	39 0.042%	15
AIX	700	Down -62 places-62	£75,000	+15.38%	27 0.029%	7
Windows 8	709	Down -62 places-62	£33,000	-17.50%	18 0.020%	3
Windows Server 2008	710	Down -78 places-78	£65,000	+49.42%	17 0.019%	1
Solaris	712	Down -87 places-87	£55,000	-28.33%	15 0.016%	17
Rocky	713	Down -82 places-82	£71,250	+78.12%	14 0.015%	13
Mac OS X	713	Down -110 places-110	£37,500	+20.96%	14 0.015%	5