Operating System Statistics in England

Permanent Job Market Index

Description	Rank 6 Months to 20 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%	3,364 4.34%	920
Linux	87	Down -53 places-53	£60,000	-	1,571 2.03%	745
Windows Server	117	Down -25 places-25	£40,000	-5.88%	1,262 1.63%	325
Windows 10	254	Down -61 places-61	£32,500	-9.72%	593 0.77%	100
Android	281	Down -145 places-145	£57,500	+15.00%	521 0.67%	162
Apple iOS	312	Down -26 places-26	£60,000	-	452 0.58%	126
Mac OS	430	Down -36 places-36	£34,252	-1.43%	271 0.35%	83
Unix	461	Down -125 places-125	£62,500	-3.84%	233 0.30%	88
Windows Server 2016	505	Down -65 places-65	£42,500	-	186 0.24%	34
Red Hat Enterprise Linux	546	Down -81 places-81	£60,000	-14.28%	144 0.19%	80
Windows Server 2019	581	Down -151 places-151	£42,000	-1.17%	108 0.14%	30
Ubuntu	597	Down -86 places-86	£55,000	+10.00%	92 0.12%	54
VMS	608	Down -42 places-42	£75,000	+15.38%	81 0.10%	28
CentOS	613	Down -70 places-70	£48,750	-18.75%	76 0.098%	25
Windows Server 2012	631	Down -127 places-127	£42,000	-6.66%	58 0.075%	18
Windows 7	645	Down -90 places-90	£32,500	+4.83%	44 0.057%	10
Debian	658	Down -90 places-90	£45,000	-25.61%	31 0.040%	9
Windows Server 2008	661	Down -84 places-84	£58,000	+37.27%	28 0.036%	6
FreeRTOS	664	Down -65 places-65	£61,500	+6.95%	25 0.032%	37
Solaris	667	Down -87 places-87	£58,000	-17.14%	22 0.028%	28
Embedded Linux	670	Down -83 places-83	£45,000	-20.00%	19 0.025%	59
Mac OS X	671	Down -128 places-128	£37,750	+7.85%	18 0.023%
HPUX	674	Down -65 places-65	£58,000	-	15 0.019%
Windows Server 2003	674	Down -68 places-68	£58,000	+10.47%	15 0.019%	1