Operating System Statistics in England

Permanent Job Market Index

Description	Rank 6 Months to 27 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%	3,322 4.19%	826
Linux	87	Down -50 places-50	£60,000	-	1,572 1.98%	662
Windows Server	122	Down -32 places-32	£40,000	-5.88%	1,241 1.56%	287
Windows 10	253	Down -67 places-67	£32,500	-7.14%	580 0.73%	84
Android	276	Down -140 places-140	£57,500	+15.00%	527 0.66%	124
Apple iOS	307	Down -19 places-19	£60,000	-	456 0.57%	91
Mac OS	432	Down -45 places-45	£34,003	-	261 0.33%	74
Unix	467	Down -123 places-123	£67,500	-	219 0.28%	77
Windows Server 2016	509	Down -75 places-75	£47,500	+11.11%	176 0.22%	31
Red Hat Enterprise Linux	537	Down -70 places-70	£60,000	-14.28%	147 0.19%	52
Windows Server 2019	580	Down -149 places-149	£42,000	-1.17%	103 0.13%	33
Ubuntu	591	Down -72 places-72	£55,000	+10.00%	92 0.12%	44
VMS	601	Down -33 places-33	£75,000	+15.38%	82 0.10%	28
CentOS	610	Down -62 places-62	£50,000	-13.04%	73 0.092%	17
Windows Server 2012	624	Down -119 places-119	£42,000	-6.66%	59 0.074%	16
Windows 7	648	Down -92 places-92	£27,000	-14.28%	35 0.044%	13
Debian	654	Down -80 places-80	£45,000	-26.22%	29 0.037%	6
FreeRTOS	655	Down -55 places-55	£59,500	+3.47%	28 0.035%	24
Windows Server 2008	660	Down -81 places-81	£58,000	+38.09%	23 0.029%	6
Embedded Linux	663	Down -76 places-76	£45,000	-21.73%	20 0.025%	47
Solaris	666	Down -85 places-85	£55,000	-21.42%	17 0.021%	33
Mac OS X	666	Down -122 places-122	£37,750	+7.85%	17 0.021%