Operating System Statistics in England

Permanent Job Market Index

Description	Rank 6 Months to 1 Sep 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Salary	Median Salary YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
Windows	35	Down -22 places-22	£40,000	+4.37%	4,021 4.14%	1,986
Linux	65	Down -28 places-28	£65,000	+7.43%	2,286 2.35%	2,289
Windows Server	116	Down -27 places-27	£41,750	+4.37%	1,565 1.61%	568
Windows 10	362	Down -133 places-133	£32,500	-	471 0.49%	176
Android	364	Down -240 places-240	£57,500	+43.75%	467 0.48%	498
Apple iOS	394	Down -45 places-45	£57,500	+27.77%	419 0.43%	407
Mac OS	455	Down -93 places-93	£38,000	+10.31%	326 0.34%	211
Unix	518	Down -148 places-148	£65,576	+0.88%	249 0.26%	378
Windows Server 2016	560	Down -88 places-88	£43,000	+6.17%	202 0.21%	44
Red Hat Enterprise Linux	579	Down -97 places-97	£70,000	+3.70%	181 0.19%	150
Windows Server 2019	623	Down -191 places-191	£41,000	-8.88%	137 0.14%	42
Ubuntu	641	Down -51 places-51	£60,000	-	119 0.12%	84
CentOS	661	Down -73 places-73	£85,000	+40.49%	99 0.10%	53
VMS	667	Down -130 places-130	£52,500	-16.66%	93 0.096%	98
Embedded Linux	669	Down -86 places-86	£67,500	+22.72%	91 0.094%	121
Debian	705	Down -99 places-99	£55,000	-6.38%	55 0.057%	36
Windows Server 2012	711	Down -141 places-141	£43,000	-14.00%	49 0.051%	34
FreeRTOS	720	Down -81 places-81	£57,500	+4.54%	40 0.041%	41
Windows 7	729	Down -123 places-123	£33,000	+4.76%	31 0.032%	14
AIX	733	Down -104 places-104	£75,000	+30.43%	27 0.028%	17
Rocky	734	Down -110 places-110	£80,000	+100.00%	26 0.027%	15
Solaris	741	Down -130 places-130	£57,000	-17.09%	19 0.020%	28
Windows 8	743	Down -104 places-104	£33,000	-17.50%	17 0.018%	7
Windows Server 2008	744	Down -122 places-122	£65,000	+68.83%	16 0.017%	15