Operating System Statistics in England

Permanent Job Market Index

Description	Rank 6 Months to 21 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	-7.14%	3,353 4.31%	928
Linux	88	Down -55 places-55	£60,000	-	1,566 2.01%	758
Windows Server	120	Down -29 places-29	£40,000	-5.88%	1,254 1.61%	323
Windows 10	257	Down -69 places-69	£32,500	-9.72%	588 0.76%	100
Android	282	Down -149 places-149	£57,500	+15.00%	520 0.67%	152
Apple iOS	311	Down -27 places-27	£60,000	-	451 0.58%	116
Mac OS	423	Down -27 places-27	£34,500	-0.36%	269 0.35%	82
Unix	451	Down -114 places-114	£62,500	-3.84%	234 0.30%	88
Windows Server 2016	493	Down -50 places-50	£43,750	+2.94%	186 0.24%	33
Red Hat Enterprise Linux	534	Down -67 places-67	£60,000	-14.28%	143 0.18%	78
Windows Server 2019	570	Down -137 places-137	£42,000	-1.17%	107 0.14%	29
Ubuntu	587	Down -73 places-73	£55,000	+10.00%	90 0.12%	49
VMS	595	Down -27 places-27	£75,000	+15.38%	82 0.11%	28
CentOS	604	Down -58 places-58	£48,750	-18.75%	73 0.094%	24
Windows Server 2012	619	Down -111 places-111	£42,000	-6.66%	58 0.075%	18
Windows 7	634	Down -76 places-76	£32,500	+4.83%	43 0.055%	9
Debian	647	Down -76 places-76	£45,000	-25.61%	30 0.039%	10
Windows Server 2008	649	Down -69 places-69	£58,000	+37.27%	28 0.036%	6
FreeRTOS	652	Down -50 places-50	£61,500	+6.95%	25 0.032%	33
Solaris	655	Down -72 places-72	£58,000	-17.14%	22 0.028%	23
Embedded Linux	657	Down -67 places-67	£45,000	-20.00%	20 0.026%	58
Mac OS X	659	Down -113 places-113	£37,750	+7.85%	18 0.023%
HPUX	662	Down -50 places-50	£58,000	-	15 0.019%
Windows Server 2003	662	Down -53 places-53	£58,000	+10.47%	15 0.019%	1