Operating System Statistics in Manchester

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Permanent Job Market Index
Description	Rank 6 Months to 26 Oct 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Salary	Median Salary YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
Windows	55	Down 34 places-34	£40,000	+14.28%	201 2.58%	82
Linux	90	Down 63 places-63	£60,000	+11.62%	123 1.58%	78
Windows Server	128	Down 34 places-34	£45,750	+14.37%	80 1.03%	26
Android	172	Down 87 places-87	£55,000	+45.69%	35 0.45%	28
Windows 10	180	Down 53 places-53	£29,000	-4.13%	27 0.35%	3
macOS	180	Down 41 places-41	£40,000	+60.00%	27 0.35%	8
Apple iOS	185	Down 55 places-55	£70,000	+112.12%	22 0.28%	29
Red Hat Enterprise Linux	189	Down 43 places-43	£97,500	+62.50%	18 0.23%	9
CentOS	195	Down 52 places-52	£97,500	+62.50%	12 0.15%	1
VMS	196	Down 52 places-52	£35,500	-47.40%	11 0.14%	2
Windows Server 2019	197	Down 53 places-53	£47,500	+53.22%	10 0.13%	3
Unix	197	Down 55 places-55	£71,991	+43.98%	10 0.13%	9
Windows Server 2016	198	Down 52 places-52	£47,500	-20.83%	9 0.12%	3
Embedded Linux	200	New entry-	£60,000	-	7 0.090%	1
Ubuntu	203	Down 63 places-63	£57,500	-4.16%	4 0.051%	2
Solaris	204	New entry-	£51,522	-	3 0.039%
CoreOS	204	New entry-	-	-	3 0.039%
Debian	205	Down 69 places-69	-	-	2 0.026%	3
Windows 7	205	New entry-	-	-	2 0.026%	1
AIX	205	New entry-	£45,544	-	2 0.026%
SUSE	206	New entry-	£57,500	-	1 0.013%
Oracle Linux	206	New entry-	£57,500	-	1 0.013%	1
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server	206	New entry-	£57,500	-	1 0.013%