Operating System Statistics in the Midlands

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Permanent Job Market Index
Description	Rank 6 Months to 30 Oct 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Salary	Median Salary YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
Windows	34	Down 17 places-17	£40,000	+17.60%	618 3.85%	84
Windows Server	99	Down 5 places-5	£41,000	+17.14%	236 1.47%	23
Linux	106	Down 35 places-35	£51,250	-6.81%	215 1.34%	59
Windows 10	194	Down 40 places-40	£31,500	-	93 0.58%	6
Android	224	Down 35 places-35	£38,500	+14.92%	63 0.39%	7
Apple iOS	238	Down 41 places-41	£37,500	+11.94%	49 0.31%	5
macOS	258	Down 73 places-73	£33,250	+14.65%	29 0.18%	5
Embedded Linux	268	Down 57 places-57	£67,500	+25.58%	19 0.12%	10
Unix	271	Down 79 places-79	£62,000	-15.99%	16 0.100%	3
Windows Server 2012	276	Down 61 places-61	£43,000	-6.52%	11 0.069%
Windows Server 2016	276	Down 77 places-77	£37,500	-16.66%	11 0.069%
Ubuntu	277	Down 69 places-69	£60,000	+50.00%	10 0.062%	1
Debian	278	New entry-	£41,000	-	9 0.056%
Solaris	278	New entry-	£44,472	-	9 0.056%	6
VMS	278	Down 107 places-107	£44,250	-38.96%	9 0.056%	4
Red Hat Enterprise Linux	279	Down 66 places-66	£75,000	+30.43%	8 0.050%	1
Windows Server 2019	281	Down 91 places-91	£43,000	-16.09%	6 0.037%	2
OpenVMS	282	Down 63 places-63	£75,000	-	5 0.031%
AIX	285	Down 71 places-71	-	-	2 0.013%	5
Windows 7	285	Down 67 places-67	£26,437	+5.74%	2 0.013%