Operating System Statistics in the Midlands

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Permanent Job Market Index
Description	Rank 6 Months to 27 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%	602 3.78%	87
Windows Server	102	Down 12 places-12	£41,000	+17.14%	232 1.46%	23
Linux	108	Down 35 places-35	£50,000	-9.09%	220 1.38%	50
Windows 10	206	Down 49 places-49	£30,000	-4.76%	89 0.56%	8
Android	232	Down 39 places-39	£38,500	+14.92%	63 0.40%	8
Apple iOS	245	Down 46 places-46	£37,500	+11.94%	50 0.31%	7
macOS	267	Down 81 places-81	£33,250	+14.65%	28 0.18%	6
Embedded Linux	276	Down 61 places-61	£67,500	+25.58%	19 0.12%	9
Unix	279	Down 82 places-82	£62,000	-15.99%	16 0.10%	6
Windows Server 2012	284	Down 65 places-65	£43,000	-6.52%	11 0.069%	1
Windows Server 2016	284	Down 79 places-79	£37,500	-16.66%	11 0.069%	1
Ubuntu	285	Down 73 places-73	£60,000	+50.00%	10 0.063%	1
VMS	286	Down 111 places-111	£44,250	-38.96%	9 0.057%	3
Debian	286	New entry-	£41,000	-	9 0.057%
Solaris	286	New entry-	£44,472	-	9 0.057%	3
Red Hat Enterprise Linux	287	Down 70 places-70	£75,000	+30.43%	8 0.050%	1
Windows Server 2019	289	Down 93 places-93	£43,000	-16.09%	6 0.038%	1
OpenVMS	290	Down 67 places-67	£75,000	-	5 0.031%
Windows 7	293	Down 71 places-71	£26,437	+5.74%	2 0.013%
AIX	293	Down 75 places-75	-	-	2 0.013%	2